Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War: Soulstorm Demo :)

apparently has the full dark eldar race 1.2 gb tho mine should be done in about 3 hours, enjoy tho for anyone who shares interest in it like it do.

link: http://games.internode.on.net/filelist.php?filedetails=14523

 

wow, the next dow expansion's already here, huh? that was fast

 

Yep, it does have the full Dark Eldar race. The Sisters of Battle show up in the intro too - haven't checked if they're playable in the demo yet though. New races are always a good thing!

The Dark Eldar race seems at first glance (i.e. 10 min of playthrough), to be pretty good against infantry but a bit weaker against vehicles and mechs...though there were some EMP-type abilities...
Their own vehicles are incredibly fast though.

Is it just me, or maybe when I last played this I was on my desktop, but does the playable screen seem to be even smaller than before? (or maybe I've just gotten used to Supreme Commander)...

The menu bars at the top, combined with the huge unit interface taking up the bottom 1/3 of the screen, really means you only have 1/2 your screen to actually see the action (1440x900)... Then, I seem to recall you could unzoom a bit more than you could here too... but that may just be my faulty memory. It's not quite as bad as Universe at War, where all you could see on your screen was the head of your huge walker and nothing else, but there are times where it comes close (i.e. some of those Dark Eldar buildings are really BIG)...

Still loads of fun though!

 

I have bought the past Game and 2 expansions.

It's seriously time for the second game.

Tyranids?

At least the games dont cost 3000$ to play like the tabletop.

Thank god I don't tabletop. :O!

 

Won't bother getting it, hated Dark Crusade. Only play Winter Assault online now, nice small community and you get to know everyone.

 

I like small communites. Everyone's just so much more nicer.

 

no tyranids

the current game engine cannot "do justice" to the tyranids since its only meant to do arms and legs, not 2 pairs of arms and legs. full dark eldar race tho, they are very dark and hellish, i like them. just dont have alot of unit choices i found.

 

whens the full thing coming out>?

 

in think may or june, i was not expecting a demo this early though, complete suprise

 

They like the 50$ they make for stand alone expansion packs.

It's sad that I may end up getting that game.

They are so fun...

 

I don't understand why they don't launch the Tyranids race. Since Dawn of War every warhammer 40K fan is begging for them. Maybe they are being kept for Dawn of War II.

 

i explained that in my earlier post, they said the engine wouldnt allow it, alhtough i think they are lieing and just dont want to put the effort in.

 

They'd actually have to give some thought to a single player campaign and a plot if they're going to include the Tyranids...

How would they balance the race against the others anyway?

 

If we should believe them, what are all the Tyranid mods out there? mirages?

 

Wow this post made my day, I love Dawn of War

 

WOo!!! I'm almost done with Winter Assault and soon will finish Dark Crusade.

For some reason, the game doesn't properly support widescreen resolutions for me. Whenever I run the game at 1440x900 the UI is all jacked up and shifted improperly.

As a result, I just run the game at a 4:3 resolution like 1024x768 and live with the stretchyness.

Dawn of War!! WOO!

 

Woo.. can't wait to try it out ! I love all the DOW 40K games, so I know i'm going to love this one, but that's if it'll ever DL!!

 

They are lying - the Tyranid race has been done by the modding community, it's a work in progress but is 90% finished afaik. Take a trip over to http://forums.relicnews.com/forumdisplay.php?f=96 to see all the work the mod community have put in and then tell me that Soul Storm is in anyway an improvement?

Even the Dark Eldar and Sisters of Battle are being worked on by the mod community so really there is nothing new in Soul Storm.

 

i have mod installed, its kinda iffy, we know is relic was to do it the models and animations would be phenomenal, dont get me wrong the modders are doing an awesome job, but it will not be on par with what relic could do, for obvious reasons.

the sisters of battle models fro that mod look awesome, the textures are the most detailed ive ever seemed, my comp sh1ts its pants when i set texture to high on that demo.

 

No, they're just not Tyranids like Relic would do them.

They didn't say Tyranids couldn't be done in the DoW engine, they said they couldn't be done as well as Relic wanted to.
There's a difference.

That said, it should be pretty obvious that they're *also* saving them for DoW2 just to have something new to offer.


As for Soulstorm, I'm not a huge fan of Dark Eldar... They seem like they're annoying to play (require insane micromanagement, and fragile as hell, with hardly any good anti-vehicle units), and equally annoying to play against.

SoB could be interesting though.