Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Game of the Year Edition
Dawn of War Trading Cards
Prepare yourself for the grim, dark future of the 41st millennium, where alien races battle mankind for galactic domination in a universe of unending war.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War has been updated to include Steam Trading Cards to enhance your experience! As players explore through the campaign and multiplayer modes they’ll unlock Trading Cards along with new badges, chat emoticons, and Steam profile backgrounds! To celebrate, Dawn of War will be 75% off until July 13th at 10AM PST.
Space Marine Trading Cards
Warhammer fans, good news!
The Space Marine Collection is on sale for 75% off on Steam from April 27-May 4.
The game has also been updated to now include Steam Trading Cards! Collect cards, earn badges, and do it all FOR THE EMPEROR!
Server Maintenance - Today at 3 pm PDT
A quick notice for all of our players: our Dawn of War servers will be down for maintenance from 3 pm PDT until 3:30 pm PDT. This downtime is for maintenance only, and does not include new content or a patch. As always, we have specifically scheduled this maintenance to fall outside of our peak player hours. We thank everyone for their patience during this time!
Patch Notes and a Quick Community Update
Hello, fans! I wanted to take a quick moment to address our Dawn of War community and provide an update for you all!
First off, I'm very happy to announce that a minor patch that will be going out today. This update addresses a few technical issues, corrects some statistical anomalies and adds minor button functionality to our automatch completed game page.
In addition to this update, we also wanted to let everyone know that we will be building out our community team this year. We've shrunk in size here at Relic - from three people to one - and recognize that we need more assistance to better serve our Dawn of War community! We ask our fans for patience during this time, and are looking forward to introducing you to new staff as they come on!
Patch notes for today's update are as follows:
Dawn of War 2 Titles
Updated build:
ver. 2.6.10236 Dawn of War 2
ver. 2.6.10236 Dawn of War 2 Chaos Rising
ver. 3.19.1.10235 Dawn of War 2 Retribution
1. WorldBuilder <*> Resolved crash issues with the Worldbuilder when creating user generated maps.
2. Automatch
<*> Can now click “continue” after a ranked game is complete.
3. Statistics
<*> Corrected issue where stats were only being recorded when a player conceded or ended a game.
4. Statistics
<*> Corrected issue where some achievements would not unlock.
• i.e. Primarch and other difficulty achievements.
• i.e. Unlocking Last Stand war gear progression items.
5. Pause
<*> Pause/Break Key now functions for Single Player.
<*> Pause/Break Key during Replays now function.
6. Lobby/Chat
<*> Some behavior with Party Chat and General Chat have been adjusted.
• i.e. Party Chat isn't automatically selected when entering a party/lobby if the general chat is already open.
Dawn of War 1 Titles
Updated build:
ver. 197807 Dawn of War Game of The Year / Winter Assault
ver. 197806 Dawn of War Dark Crusade
ver. 452 Dawn of War Soulstorm
1. Misc.
<*> Resolved some server exception issues.
This update will go live at approximately 11am pacific standard time.
We look forward to a bright year for both the Dawn of War 1 and Dawn of War 2 communities!
Dawn of War Server Maintenance
We will be performing maintenance on the Dawn of War servers on September 29th at 10:45 pm PDT (5:45 am GMT). The servers will be offline for approximately one hour and players will be unable to access online features during that time. Thank you for your understanding and support.
The new Dawn of War site & forums
We're excited to announce the launch of a new website and community forums for the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War series. The site will be the home for all things DoW, including an all new set of forums.
The Relic community team and members of the development team here at Relic who have been working on the recent updates to the Dawn of War franchise will be active on the forums providing support and taking your feedback.
The forums will be where our primary focus is for technical issues and feedback, so please head on over. We will however continue to monitor the Steam communities, though not as much as we have been.
Thank you for your continued support of the Dawn of War series and we hope to see you at the official site soon!
Dawn of War Letter from the Designer
Hello all –
On May 22nd, the original Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War and its expansions underwent a major update in order to preserve multiplayer gameplay for all these titles.
Since their launch, Dawn of War and its expansions (Winter Assault, Dark Crusade and Soulstorm) have relied on the GameSpy service for multiplayer matchmaking. Since they are about to shut down their services for good it would otherwise leave these games without any way to play multiplayer. That is not an outcome anyone at Relic would want to see.
Dawn of War II and its first expansion (Chaos Rising) also rely on other external servers so we also intend to take this opportunity to migrate them over to Steam in order for a consistent multiplayer experience across the entire portfolio. This migration is in progress and we’ll have more details soon.
So, all titles in the franchise are being updated to use the same matchmaking and backend developed for Company of Heroes 2. This will not only mean multiplayer can continue on these titles, but the matchmaking experience will be improved. Matchmaking/login and so on will thus all be through Steam.
In the short term, there are likely to be some technical issues with the new setup. Recreating the multiplayer infrastructure for seven titles is no small feat, and there will be bugs. Ultimately, we felt that it would be better to get the update out in a slightly imperfect state in time to prevent an outright interruption in multiplayer play. So, bugs.
We are committed to tackling these bugs and getting all titles to be fully Steam enabled.
This update – and continued further support for DoW and DoW2 – is a big step for us at Relic. It’s a concrete signal of support for the Dawn of War franchise from us and from SEGA as a whole. Ever since SEGA acquired Relic we’ve been working on continued support for the Dawn of War back catalogue. It’s great for some of this to see the light of day at last.
I came to Relic in 2005 to work on the product that became Dark Crusade and went on to run narrative and campaign on both Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising. To be working on these titles again is a joy, and on behalf of all of us, I’d like to thank the fans who have continued to keep DoW in their hearts. You guys rock.
For the Emperor!
Philippe Boulle
Design Lead, Dawn of War Franchise
Company of Heroes 2 Steam Free Weekend
This weekend new troops are being sent to the Eastern Front as Company of Heroes 2 is having its first ever Steam Free Weekend.
Starting today and running until Sunday January 19th all Steam members will be able to play Company of Heroes 2 for free. No conditions, no catches, it’s the full Company of Heroes 2 experience and it’s a click away for all Steam members. Players will be able to experience the full single-player campaign, the single player and co-op Theater of War experience in Operation Barbarossa and of course the CoH2 multiplayer.
Veterans of CoH2 will not only have new allies and enemies to faceoff with in multiplayer this weekend, but as an additional bonus we are unlocking all of the game’s paid DLC commanders for four days of play. So if there’s been a Commander you’ve wanted to try on the battlefield then this is your chance.
As an additional bonus multiplayer automatch games will be awarding ten times the experience all weekend. Yup, that’s right 10x XP all weekend long for any automatch game.
Have a friend who you think would love Company of Heroes 2? This is the weekend to get them playing the game. And as an added bonus the game will be 66% off on Steam, allowing everyone who loves playing it for free to keep it for a very low price.
Welcome to Company of Heroes 2, we’ll see you on the front lines.
