[Casual]

Dawn of War soulstorm has finally made it to the UK so I thought I would find out if I'm the only one here who's interested.

[Chyld]

As both a gamer and a Warhammer geek, methinks its pointless. Both Dark Eldar and Sisters of Battle are made of complete and utter fail. Too much similarity to Eldar and Space Marines to run them as is, hence the sould and faith and other crap.

Now, making Tyranids a playable race would be ten times more awesome. Tyranids are awesome.
That, and updating the Dark Eldar in 40k itself.

This post has been edited by Chyld: 08 March 2008 - 08:06 PM

[SimeSublime]

I agree on the Tyranids. As it is, the sides are too unbalanced. You have the Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Tau, Eldar and Sisters of Battle on the sides of order, and only Orks, Chaos Marines, Dark Eldar and Necrons for disorder. Using Tyranids rather then Sisters would have evened it up a bit. Add to that, the balance is too human-centric. We now have a third of the armies representing the Imperium of Man, making the reasons for their fighting each other in the midst of all the Xenos rather a stretch. As for the actual gameplay, I've picked up my copy but won't have a chance to really play around with it much. Though from what I've gathered from the manual, I'll probably stick to playing Tau or Space Marines over the newcomers.

Short overview: Pro - I like the way the stuck to the large campaign map style from Dark Crusade.
Con - Capturing Critical Points is once again a win condition in the single player game. It should be conquest or nothing, IMHO.

This post has been edited by SimeSublime: 08 March 2008 - 11:27 PM

[Casual]

I'll agree with you about the dark eldar I just don’t think they're a substantial force and their vehicles are rubbish but having played as the sisters of battle for a few hours I have to say they're great. They do bear some similarities to space marines but not so much to make them pointless and their faith abilities are both powerful and interesting. Tyranids would have been good but the official line is they were left out for technical reasons though its obvious THQ's marketing department wanted to give people a good reason to buy DoW 2 next year.

Yes the sides are in favour of the Imperium but this is the case in the TT version of the game as well so in that sense they are just remaining faithful to the source material, and I agree with slime that the reason for the Imperium fighting each other this time around are somewhat unconvincing.

I can't say I know what you're talking about with the strategic points in single player slime in my copy conquest is the win condition in single player.

Having said all that though this is a great game anyone here play it online?

This post has been edited by Casual: 09 March 2008 - 11:11 AM

[SimeSublime]

I can't say I know what you're talking about with the strategic points in single player slime in my copy conquest is the win condition in single player.

I haven't installed it yet, but my friend started up his copy and spent the first mission dicking around with the units, only to lose it when they captured half the critical points. Oh, and it's Sime, not slime

[Casual]

I haven't installed it yet, but my friend started up his copy and spent the first mission dicking around with the units, only to lose it when they captured half the critical points. Oh, and it's Sime, not slime

What? Awwww I've been makin an idiot outta myself!

Well that might be the case in skirmish but that’s easy to turn off in the options at the start of the game as for the campaign it was always conquest as far as I could see.

[SimeSublime]

That was definitely the campaign. I wouldn't be debating this if I didn't see it first hand. Mayhap his copy was defective? I probably should install my game and test it.

Edit: Ok, after installing it and playing for a bit, I realised that only the webway gate maps have strategic points.

This post has been edited by SimeSublime: 12 March 2008 - 08:00 AM

[Casual]

Man I really want to play the single player more but right on que my hard drive packed in, managed to get another one but now I can’t track down the driver for my sound card so I have no sound whatsoever. I can still play online but I really want to immerse myself in the single player campaign and I don’t think I can do that with no sound. Long story short this sucks.