With real game footage! Cor, imagine a trailer that actually showed you what the game engine looked like as someone played it. I know, it’s a radical idea, but Relic have gone and done it. It also reveals one of the other races that will come with the game, and let’s just say that they’re not exactly shattering the mould with this one.
I give this trailer a pat on the back, but explain to its parents that it could do better.
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If they’re putting the same SecuROM shit that we have to suffer in Opposing Fronts, I’m not buying it, thank you.
Judging from the voices, the ancient all-powerful Space Elves now hail from Bugfuck, Kansas.
Time to get some professional VOs for the trailers, guys.
That is exactly what that should look like.
I never played DoW (If I want to build a base, you can bet I’m harvesting Spice at the same time!), so keeping this as a low-# of squads tabletop simulator is FINE with me.
Anything to keep my mind off my unpainted mini’s…
On the subject of “It looks the same”:
Of course it looks the same! It’s
1. A real-time strategy game
2. that is set in the Warhammer 40k universe!
There’s simply no way they could have made the game look incredibly different without either changing genres or reinventing the look of the WH40k universe, and obviously they can’t do THAT without a major outcry from fans.
That aside, it does look much different from the original Dawn of War. For example, the character models are less “deformed”, with bodies that are properly proportioned as opposed to caraciturized. The battlefield is littered with many more objects than in the original. Structures are now garrisonable and destructible. The environment is also destructible ala CoH. We’ve seen no base buildings, which is a major difference from the original.
I just don’t see how you could say it all looks exactly the same – unless you never played the original.
what how can you say it hasn’t changed! all new graphics, new ways to play and new tactics to use!
Also maby Tau, Necrons, Dark eldar ect. will still be there but just expansion packs. as for Tyranids they have to be reliesed just to stop people raiding relic.
bring on dawn of war II- WAAAAAAGH!!!!
In the new Eldar trailer, here are a bunch of flesh colored clouds in the sky at the end. That implies Tyranids, because the Nids would have millions of gargoyles (flying nids) in the sky in the initial invasion.
I don’t believe they are just eldar. There are 3 categories of eldar in the warhammer universe: Eldar, Dark Eldar, and Harlequins. I believe we got to see a death jester in the trailer
Care to say which second you see a Death Jester, Sphilk? I can’t.
KG
As for the flesh colored sky i think thats the eye of terror
From what I can gather at the Relicnews forums, it seems like a limited form of basebuilding is still in/considered for multiplayer.
no no tryradis are in the game but it not provent in the trailer the farseer say its the swarm in the sky the tryraid spores the reles tranides and eat the planet
Sphilk: You did know that Harlequins are now a unit in the new standard Eldar codex, right?
I forget what fluff justifies this, it’s just nice knowing they’re there. And Harlequins were also included in DoW Dark Crusade as a singular Eldar unit, so yes, you can be reasonably sure you’re just looking at the plain old Eldar faction.
NO BILDING whats that all about. they took a part COH and put 40k in it. they have &*%$ed up on this one. i dont even get why theres 3 races now. well i do iam just AAAAA!! mad about it
^ I think you got turned round somewhere, illiterate screeching forum is LEFT at google.
It’s a nice, huge site with “YouTube” plastered all over the front. You can’t miss it.
No bases?!!?!??!?! How will i ever swarm my opponents with chaos marines?!
-I want bases :(
i hope necrons will be on it a huge monolith floating past nd the lord skinnin eldar alive
Just a theory but at the end of the cgi trailer you see two moons and a cloud (possibly a spore cloud I know) but if you look closely at the cloud it looks like a wolf…maybe that along with the moons is a hint that they’re putting in some luna wolves? Also possibly some post heresy Horus’ children giving chaos a new look as we haven’t seen them yet?
Also they’re not “space elves”…and don’t you think Adeptus Astartes sounds much cooler than “space marines” or is that just the american influence…soon we’ll have Borraca The Emperor Barma…probably misspelt lol but still you get my point…they aren’t marines.
Ok
I have been saving up this rant for over a month of looking through DOW forums so here goes.
Point number one THE PLURAL OF ELDAR IS NOT ‘ELDARS’, I MEAN COME ON!!!!
Secondly, eldar suck at open combat. It’s not what they do. They ambush you. And despite what the new trailer would have you believe they are supremely good at it. Unfortunately Relic can’t afford to offend Space marine fans by suggesting that they can be beaten in combat so they make a half hearted attempt at evening the casualties in the video. I’m not one of those people that think that a certain race is/should be unbeatable so don’t take this the wrong way. I am just defending a race that very few people seem to understand. It seems that everytime eldar are portrayed in game terms they are arrogant poncey snobs with no forsight. Yes they are arrogant and effeminate but the one thing they do not lack is forsight. ‘Farseer’ is not just an honourific term.
There we go. rant over. Now I’m just going to sit in the corner and cry myself to sleep.
still dawn of war is getting better and although there is no base building apparently you can still upgrade stuff, and i love the idea of the rpg style menu where you get armor. this game looks great
hey everyone big news!!! new video, actually HAS tyranid lictor in it, definitely tyranids
the imperial guard i think was the best out of all the races and i hope they put them in, no, noone does understand the stupidity of eldar, seriously chaos and necrons were the best, stuff eldar and bring back Imperial guard