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Lol, the trick is to just destroy the red towers.. then he just seems to auto-die and it goes to end-game cutscene.

Hell yeah I should put a spoiler.. but who the hell couldn't work it out in the first place?

The Last Stand mode will be receiving a free update featuring twelve new Steam achievements.

All the info is here.

Noice. I like my achievements, me.



Edit: Any idea what these new wargear items will be?

Better be a thunder hammer for the captain.

Well, you never know.. but hopefully, yes. Or maybe even Terminator armor!? *hopes*

But.. you never know. During the campaign, just before the last level, I got the final gift of the artificer.. which for the FC, was a 50 damage Lightning Claw.. I already had a 200+ damage TH!

termie armor would be cool too, but he better be a massive tank in that stuff, since he'd have very little mobility.

I'd personally rather have the TH though.

As long as it isn't the Thunderslapper 3000.. that model sucked. "Slap those xenos out of existance! AA Batteries not included.."


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TLS wargear/dlc stuff

Thunder Hammer for the captain, yes!

http://community.dawnofwar2.com/blog-post/new-last-stand-wargear-preview

I am pleased at this news. Must. Play. More. Last. Stand. Rawrg.


Edit: Do we have any idea how these achievements are.. achieved?

You'd have to hunt around, I think i saw all of them somewhere, can't remember where though.

I should conceivably get the thunder hammer as soon as the achievements go live, since the achievement is to get like 2500 kills at the captain, and I am almost at 4000 now.

Daedalus, how do you feel about some TLS right now? Tried messaging you on steam earlier.. but you never respond.. ever. :/

You always invite me to a chat and I'm usually not at my pc, but I am always on steam :p just send me a message, you can do that right?, and I'll respond to it when I get back.

I'm actually at work, that's probably why I didn't respond. And you're in England, so I imagine we have a bit of a time difference, lol! I'll be home in like, an hour and a half though, I would play some then.

Well, NY is about -5-7 hours behind me.. 'fraid I can't do a game in an hour and half though. Weekend it is .

I'm liking the look of the new TLS wargear, thunder hammer atlast A reason to play the commander at close quaters weeee!

Eh I already play the captain as melee, but he could definitely be better.

Should be interesting to see the capabilities of these new weapons.

For sure, I find the captain to be better at ranged tbh, but then again I haven't touched the captain for a while in TLS, mainly the Lord general and the sorc.

I don't know, I've spent a lot of time with the plasma gun as well, but I tend to prefer the playstyle with knockbacks and mass disruption of melee, and I can tank pretty well with artificer+chainsword to drain life.

However, I hope there is someone with ranged to take out stuff like wraithlords. the thunderhammer should be an interesting dynamic.

There certainly is for that job, The lord general his sniper rifle is the best ranged weapon available in TLS in my opinion. Talking of all this TLS makes me want to play it, fancy a couple o' rounds ?

maybe if I wasn't at work, lol

and yea, the sniper rifle is nuts.

Ahhh damn at work huh how long for sir ?

Not too much longer, are you in the dakka group on steam?

Yes, he is. As "Wolf". Also, the Power Axe is beast for taking down Wraithlords.. that's what the power Captain is for - taking out big threats.

Darkvoidof40k wrote:Yes, he is. As "Wolf". Also, the Power Axe is beast for taking down Wraithlords.. that's what the power Captain is for - taking out big threats.

its fine as long as they are chasing someone else big targets I can knock down are much easier to take out.

His name is Wolf? I don't see that name on the dakka list.

3.14 Patchnotes: http://community.dawnofwar2.com/blog-post/update-314-preview

Time to work on my Hive Tyrant again in TLS. I, uh. . .accidentally reset it to level one last weekend.

Just bought this game last night, very dissapointed.

The enemies never engage you, the just run around and capture points you haven't parked a unit on.

The ridiculously low population cap is just plain game breaking for me. I had 4 IG squads, 1 heavy weapons squad, 2 chimeras and I was at the population cap. That's not 40k.

Griever wrote:Just bought this game last night, very dissapointed.

The enemies never engage you, the just run around and capture points you haven't parked a unit on.

The ridiculously low population cap is just plain game breaking for me. I had 4 IG squads, 1 heavy weapons squad, 2 chimeras and I was at the population cap. That's not 40k.

Are you playing against the computer? That might explain the ninja capping. If you're playing against real opponents then they are just outplaying you, when you turtle up somehwere the best counter is to start capping points.

Also the population is low by design, it's a differnt style of game. Less dudes on the field, but each squad is far more valuable.

asimo77 wrote:

Griever wrote:Just bought this game last night, very dissapointed.

The enemies never engage you, the just run around and capture points you haven't parked a unit on.

The ridiculously low population cap is just plain game breaking for me. I had 4 IG squads, 1 heavy weapons squad, 2 chimeras and I was at the population cap. That's not 40k.

Are you playing against the computer? That might explain the ninja capping. If you're playing against real opponents then they are just outplaying you, when you turtle up somehwere the best counter is to start capping points.

Also the population is low by design, it's a differnt style of game. Less dudes on the field, but each squad is far more valuable.

Yes, I am playing against the computer.

I understand it's by design, but that design sucks. I wonder if I can get my money back.

Trying to play this game with close combat units is incredibly hard, enemy units can just run away from you and there's nothing you can do to catch them.

Yeah the computer AI is a bit wonky, I highly recommend playing real opponents, it'll be far more interesting.

I guess to each his own on the scale issue. I like the large scale battles from DOW1 as much as the small skirmish stuff here.

As for melee you usually don't just charge, you lure units to them then jump out. Another use for melee is to catch retreating units since they take more melee damage than normal. (simulating Sweeping Advance perhaps?). And of course suppression makes it easier to catch guys.

Problem for me at least was that in DoW1, the computer was too easy, but players were often experienced (or clans) and were more often than not able to streamroll me; certainly in team games I just felt like the fifth wheel.

Of course, training yourself is going to make you better, but when CPUs are a pushover but real players are unshiftable, you often don't learn much due to the CPUs lacking the ability to think on their feet and the players simply metaphorically kicking you to the metaphorical floor and metaphorically kicking the metaphroically snot out of your metaphorical self.

You can't learn to fight if it takes a single punch to knock you out.