Sinds een tijdje is de beta van de multiplayer van Dawn of War II in volle gang en inmiddels hebben er al zo’n 250.000 gamers aan meegedaan. Naar aanleiding van deze beta zal ontwikkelaar Relic volgende week een grote patch uitbrengen, die onder andere enkele bugfixes, nieuwe maps en een wat andere balans met zich mee zal brengen.
- New Content
• Two new Multiplayer maps are being added – one 1v1 and one 3v3
Multiplayer Gameplay
• Fixed a bug where ability effects were permanent on burrowed units.
• Fixed several population capacity bugs.
• Fixed problem with retreating to allied HQ when player’s HQ is destroyed.
• Fixed attack ground to allow firing into the Fog of War.
• Prevented Waaagh/Zeal/Biomass/Psychic might “double dipping” when own units are killed by friendly fire, and remove reward for allied friendly fire.
• Prevented non-attacking commanders from getting a share of XP for incomplete construction.
• Added cool down timers to construction abilities.
• Prevented anti-suppression from being modified into the positive.
• Prevented area of effect suppression originating from target entities inside of buildings from spreading to units outside a building.
• Increased the suppression and damage on suppression weapons at distant range
• Fixed a bug where units that had been completely replaced via reinforcement would lose their control groups.
• Removed Ravener tunnel impass to prevent several blocking exploits.
• Requisition resource rates are now reduced depending on game size.
• Requisition points now increase by +5 requisition every 20 seconds (up from 15), up to a maximum of +30 (down from 35).
• Fixed an issue with grenades not harming the squad that throws them.
• Fixed an issue with the Apothecary’s Heal ability that prevented it from properly healing infantry.
• Reduced damage of Kommando hero’s Remote Bomb against HQ’s.
• Kommando hero’s Kaboom! now properly deals 500 damage to the Kommando, but does not kill him.
• Tyranid Warrior Adrenal Gland melee damage reduced to 52, from 60.
• Reduced firing rate of Hive Tyrant Venom Cannon to match the other versions. Damage reduced to 60, from 85. Area of effect damage modifier reduced at outermost radius to 0.3, from 0.4.
• Spore Mine blast radius increased to 10, from 8.
• Increased accuracy of small arms against Ripper Swarm to 0.3, from 0.2.
• Ripper Swarm cost increased to 240, from 200.
• Suppression is too easily neutralized by melee based opponents because once a suppression unit is attacked in melee, that unit is rendered completely ineffective. To play an effective role on the DOWII battlefield, suppression is now more effective against melee units at short ranges.
• Suppression units are quickly overwhelmed by groups of standard ranged units. To prevent this, suppression has been made more effective against ranged units who choose to enter their firing range.
• Units in cover are too vulnerable to suppression. As a result, cover has been made more effective at dissipating suppression.
Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War 2 speelt zich wederom af in de grimmige, door oorlog verscheurde wereld van Warhammer 40.000. Legers van verschillende technologisch versterkte rassen strijden om hun plek in de wereld te veroveren. De Space Marines en de Orks zullen onder andere terugkeren om het tegen elkaar op te nemen. Dawn of War II wordt weer door Relic ontwikkeld, ditmaal met de vernieuwde Essence Engine 2.0. Het spel belooft intense melee gevechten en geweldige actie op lange afstand, met volledig verwoestbare omgevingen. De game komt met een uitgebreide non-lineaire singleplayer campaign en volledig ondersteunde co-op multiplayer.
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Warhammer 40.000: Dawn of War II zal 20 februari exclusief voor de PC verschijnen.