Comments on: Dawn of War 2 Beta Early Access (And Impressions)

By: zednet

zednet — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 20:38:30 +0000

well, no wonder its a beta. Their intentions are good, but the controls are totally shut. The interface is kinda messy and overly plotty, and the unit grouping has a really weird feeling. I like their idea, and hope they do some serious changes b4 launch, and we have a game again ! Yay!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:04:04 +0000

Sorry, that was unhelpful.

Get Steam, and download the Beta, it’s free and available to anyone now. You need a computer. Follow the link on my name and you can find the specs. Other than that, you also need resilience to deal with the bugs that are throughout the beta. After all that, it’s incredibly fun but vastly different than DoW or CoH, keep that in mind and don’t expect DoW 2 to actually be a spiritual successor and you’ll have fun. Think FPS paced RTS.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:57:30 +0000

A goat, a jagged obsidian blade and a large stone to complete the ritual.

By: josh

josh — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:53:24 +0000

what do you need to run beta

By: ExitJudas

ExitJudas — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 06:56:16 +0000

@Zyrusticae

Yes! Amazing game. a couple of 2 v 2′ with a mate against 3 AI’s, hard, hard, easy, was great fun. Mechanics-wise it is very much CoH in space, which is all good. One thing that is even better in dow 2 though, is that it seems like movement orders now are just as important as other orders! you can royally screw up your squad with a single bad move order, with now chance of rectifying it with a counter move order, because movement is so slow and cover so important. Anti-dance functionality FTW!

By: Zyrusticae

Zyrusticae — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 03:44:40 +0000

I love this game. It’s everything the original should have been, and then some. And I haven’t even sampled the campaign yet. Truly epic stuff. Shame about the victory screen crash, but hopefully that will be fixed by release (which I have little doubt it will be, if they’re using this time wisely).

Strangely, despite its micro-intensiveness (it seriously rewards keeping every single one of your squads alive for as long as possible), I’m having a total blast. Probably helps that all of my CoH skills transfer over virtually 1:1. Fun times.

By: Sunjammer

Sunjammer — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 00:29:48 +0000

Dr. Quincy, enable the in-game steam community features. That solved it for me. For some reason.

By: Gorgeras

Gorgeras — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:27:02 +0000

Games for Windows LIVE was designed on the back of a fag packet. I haven’t yet managed to summon the patience to play this because Microsoft don’t seem to give a shit about buttons that refuse to be clicked and account information clarity.

By: Dr. Quincy

Dr. Quincy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 18:34:58 +0000

I shall head there at once, ExitJudas. Thanks!

By: ExitJudas

ExitJudas — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:35:04 +0000

Dr Q. make sure you are logged into steam. also check the beta forum for tips. this is a known issue..

By: Dr. Quincy

Dr. Quincy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:30:26 +0000

And now, after a DivX and nVidia driver update, I’ve restarted to be presented with “Failed to connect to key server” error dialog when trying to run the game from within Steam.

I give up. Its not worth this kind of hassle.

By: Dr. Quincy

Dr. Quincy — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:15:05 +0000

Argh. I can’t get this to work. I’m on a beast of a quad core machine, but the developer movies and the intro run at one frame every 5 seconds and the front end is so slow I can’t navigate it. Has anybody experienced similar?