Dawn of War 3 announced! Trailer inside + Steam info

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**unmercifulconker**

https://twitter.com/DawnOfWar/status/727135823540318208

My brothers and sisters, is it finally time? Hype engines set to warp speed.

Update: https://www.twitch.tv/vigiliamortis come and join the twitch stream and get ya hype on!

Update:

The steam page also lists some very nice looking features:

Spoiler:

**Bull0**

Ohhhhh myyyyy god. I'm going to lose my gak if this is true. I love Dawn of War, both 1 and 2.

**unmercifulconker**

I swear to the Emperor if its massive scale and more akin to DoW 1 again, I will lose my

**Alpharius**

An announcement on May 2nd that there will be an announcement on May 3rd?

OK...

**Brother SRM**

Alpharius wrote:
An announcement on May 2nd that there will be an announcement on May 3rd?

OK...

You're obviously new to the GW online marketing game

I'm not getting too hyped because I don't want to just have it end up being DLC again, but if it's actually DoW3, then I'm all aboard the hype train.

**Baron Klatz**

I'm so torn! Between this and Warhammer total war I'll have absolutely no social activity.

It'll be Skyrim all over again!

**Bull0**

Brother SRM wrote:
Alpharius wrote:
An announcement on May 2nd that there will be an announcement on May 3rd?

OK...

You're obviously new to the GW online marketing game

I'm not getting too hyped because I don't want to just have it end up being DLC again, but if it's actually DoW3, then I'm all aboard the hype train.

Pretty much just the online marketing game, GW do not have a patent on announcing announcements. They're pretty much the done thing nowadays. And why not? You want your message to reach more people, not fewer.

**mazik765**

I know I'm damn near alone in this, but I hope they keep the hero-centric campaign from DoW2

**ironicsilence**

Alpharius wrote:
An announcement on May 2nd that there will be an announcement on May 3rd?

OK...

yo dawg I heard you like announcements....

**Vankraken**

Please Gork and Mork don't let this be some Tzeentch level fethery. I can only take so much hype/disappointment.

Ere We Go! Ere We Go! Ere We Go!

Edit:

mazik765 wrote:
I know I'm damn near alone in this, but I hope they keep the hero-centric campaign from DoW2

I really like the hero focused gameplay of 2 as well. I mean I love bigger battles so I hope there is more units on the field than what there in 2 but not go back to full on 1 style.

**His Master's Voice**

Imagine if it's the Epic incarnation of DoW, releasing in step with the new Epic from GW.

Could the world handle that much win?

**infinite_array**

His Master's Voice wrote:
Imagine if it's the Epic incarnation of DoW, releasing in step with the new Epic from GW.

Could the world handle that much win?

There was a mod for the older version:

**CthuluIsSpy**

His Master's Voice wrote:
Imagine if it's the Epic incarnation of DoW, releasing in step with the new Epic from GW.

Could the world handle that much win?

Where is the new Epic from GW? I haven't seen anything about it since the announcement that they were making a specialist games studio.

**MadMuzza**

Made a video on my reaction, is it me that think the 3's in this video are more than just dates and times?

hahaha

**Brother SRM**

mazik765 wrote:
I know I'm damn near alone in this, but I hope they keep the hero-centric campaign from DoW2

I actually preferred DoW2 to DoW1, in both single and multiplayer, but if it was somewhere between the two in how it plays, I'll be ecstatic. That being said I still love DoW1, but it's a very different game.

**CthuluIsSpy**

I prefered DoW1 to 2. I didn't like the tiny squad sizes.

**angelofvengeance**

CthuluIsSpy wrote:
I prefered DoW1 to 2. I didn't like the tiny squad sizes.

Yeah, same. Actually felt like Astartes at war. Not just a surgical strike force. Though the 2nd one felt like the fluff in that, Astartes are usually, vastly outnumbered. Which made it a lot more heroic.

**CthuluIsSpy**

Well, the campaign in DoW2 was fine. I didn't mind the small squad size in that. It was when you started building things in DoW2 Retribution and the multiplayer that I begin to find it tiresome, as there was a greater emphasis on micromanagement.

I never liked micromanagement in my RTS games; I always found it tedious.

**MadCowCrazy**

Thing I hated about DoW1 was rebuilding squads on the battlefield.
Thing I hated about DoW2 was "Oh noes, one SM has died, better retreat!!".
Thing I hated in both games were that models had no health bars so you had no idea on the state of your unit other than as a whole. Oh, unit is down to 50% hp but it's still a full squad? Oh damn, down to 49% and all but 1 model is dead...

Soulstorm was best because it had Sisters of Battle, anyone who disagrees is a filthy witch, heretic or mutant!

I don't like the squad system in RTS games and I don't think the way Starcraft does it would be fun either.
If there was one RTS that I would truly love to see DoW copy it'd be that really old game Myth by Bungie.

It was really awesome when it came out and there has been nothing quite like it since Myth and Myth 2.
You could control your units like squads but each model were their own individual you could control if you wanted to. Myth gameplay and unit structure with DoW2 graphics (well, whatever uber graphics we can get nowdays).

**VictorVonTzeentch**

I liked both, but preferred 2. The small squads were a little bothersome, but I enjoyed the customization of the Sgts and the Squads.

I'd prefer DoW3 have bigger squads, but keep the "hero" leader type of thing with customization and progression of them squads. I'd also like it to keep with DoW2's not having base building, base building is always the least fun in an RTS for me.

**Commodus Leitdorf**

Yeah I could never get in DoW 2. I preferred the gameplay in 1....and not just because it has SoB...although mostly because of that.

**NewTruthNeomaxim**

mazik765 wrote:
I know I'm damn near alone in this, but I hope they keep the hero-centric campaign from DoW2

You're not. I thought it was characterful and did a better job of conveying a lot of why the 40k universe is interesting. I'm not a huge RTS gamer, and appreciated that level of focus a lot.

**Sinful Hero**

As long as Tyranids are involved I'll be on board.

**Da Boss**

Sounds cool! Played the originals to death, but never could get into DOW2 despite having all of them in my steam library.

**Nvs**

I'd prefer it go back to the RTS style games and have base building like in DOW1 or SC2 and WC3. I'm also fine with hero units as they add an extra element to the game and have an impact at different stages of the game.

The one thing I don't like about RTS games though is all the micromanagement. I'd honestly prefer the DOW2 style approach to squads where I'd rather retreat the squad than simply micro an individual guy to the back like you have to do in WC3 and SC2.

**Kap'n Krump**

Remember your old pal Isador:

"Hope is the first step on the road to disappointment."

Watch it be a mobile tower defense game with microtransactions.

**Yodhrin**

It's odd actually, I love classic RTS and I have really fond memories of DoW1 and its first few expansions...but when I get the urge to play 40K games I always fire up DoW2. I think perhaps because it feels more like how I always imagined Space Marines - small bands of hugely outnumbered badarses growling their way around the galaxy like chainsmoking superheroes.

Trad RTS gameplay feels more "right" for IG or Orks. My ideal for DoW3 would be a Blood Ravens DoW2-style main campaign, and then have the first expansion go back more towards the first game in style(moreso than Retribution) and have a couple of the Blood Raven characters working with the IG. Best of both worlds.

**NewTruthNeomaxim**

My sources tell me the scope is somewhere in between DoW 1 and 2, and micro-transactions do feature heavily as a cosmetic thing... namely in multiplayer you should want your army to be entirely unique to you as a player..

Supposedly single-player mode has some kind of end-game "random mission generator" with army progression and a never-ending campaign to help keep up player investment.

My source does say the last time he saw the game was during the fall of THQ, but has heard that Relic didn't fundamentally change direction since.

**CthuluIsSpy**

Necrons or no deal.

**Slayer-Fan123**

Soulstorm was a fething mess, but outside a few imbalances I've liked what the games have offered as a whole.

NOW if they add Necrons as a starting race in DoW3 I'll literally buy a new computer just so I can play it. Ya know, assuming the announcement is for DoW3.