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Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II

post #1 of 11
2/21/09 at 6:46am
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Anyone else playing this addicting game? Brings me back to the playthroughs of Company of Heroes.

The rpg element does so much to suck me into the game and getting invested with the squad leaders added to my team.

This is the kind of rts I can get behind - without having to worry about stupid base building and churning out hundreds of soulless units to send out to their doom.
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post #2 of 11
2/21/09 at 6:17pm
I haven't gotten DOW2 yet, but I heard that you cannot import badges and banners like you can in DOW1, and imo that just ain't right.
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post #3 of 11
2/21/09 at 6:53pm
I really only use my laptop now, which couldn't run this game, nor could the desktop I have. That said, i'd get it if I could since i'm a big fan of the original. I hear it's very combat-oriented, which is good.
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post #4 of 11
2/21/09 at 9:54pm
The Co-op campaign has been alot of fun so far. Its a completely different kind of game when you each only have two squads to work with.
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post #5 of 11
2/21/09 at 9:58pm
I'm getting it after I move. Loved the first and I think I'll love the second.
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post #6 of 11
2/22/09 at 8:30pm
Loving the game so far. The RPG elements do pull me into the game a lot more, and narrowing the focus pulls it much close in line with the established backstory of the universe. Something about zerg rushing in DOW1 with space marines (who only number 1000 per chapter) or Eldar who are all but extinct never sat well with me.

Haven't tried multiplayer yet and I'm waiting on a friend to have the available cash to pick up copy and try co-op. If anyone wants to give it a whirl my Games for Windows Live and Steam ID's are the same... Phreakdoubt.

One minor quibble for me is DOW2's necessity to use Steam and G4WL at the same time. Is that really necessary? I came home with DOW2 and GTA4 Lost and Damned at the same time. Plugged in my code on the 360 and settled in to play DOW2 while I waited... only to find that I need to sign into G4WL to even play singleplayer and that this knocks me offline on the 360. Is it really so unlikely that people using the Live service might have a 360 and a PC and want to use them both at the same time?
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post #7 of 11
2/23/09 at 1:36am
I could be wrong but I think you can set it to not automatically sign in to Live on DOW's live interface and I believe their may be a sign off button too. I have no idea what that means for achievements though, I dont have a 360 so Im no expert on the subject.
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post #8 of 11
2/23/09 at 3:18am
You could always create a seperate G4WL account. They're free, you know.
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post #9 of 11
2/23/09 at 2:06pm
I could sure, but I'm a huge whore for gamer points and getting them on my PC is awesome. I don't want to give the impression that I'm ragging on the game. I love the game. It just seems weird and unnecessary to me to make you sign into 2 different matchmaking backends to play one game.

I've now gotten to the point where I have unlocked the final mission in single player, but I'm procrastinating trying to level up. My squads range from level 16 to level 18, and I really want to cap them out before I take on whatever that last mission has to throw at me. Chalk that up to getting utterly humiliated when I went to take on the Eldar Avatar. That dude is nuts. Has an almost zero-charge time area attack that kills most normal marines dead in one hit and knocks squad commanders pretty far down. He squashed my force commander, my dreadnaught, and my tac squad, leaving poor Avitus to run back and forth from the Avatar to the respawn point in a vain attempt to revive fallen squads before he gets killed. Didn't work out so good for him.
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post #10 of 11
9/30/09 at 2:36pm
Playing through this on Co-Op, and it's fantastic fun. The RPG elements seem to take Blizzard's ideas and rip them off whole sale (which is only fair, I suppose, considering the massive IP infringement that is Starcraft). I'm particularly fond of Cyrus and the massive Death Touch sniper rifle. One shot kills are extremely amusing, especially when the physX kicks in and send little Space Elf corpses flipping over bridges into the abyss.
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post #11 of 11
10/21/09 at 12:19am
Bumping this. If anyone has yet to try out Last Stand, it is really entertaining. Sort of like Geometry Wars meets Smash TV except DoW2. Topped out at Wave 13 the other night, and balancing trying to survive against trying to keep the multipliers up is intense.
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