dawn of war thread - /vst/

Anonymous09/23/26, 14:10No.2493718Dawn of War thread

This game looks like shit. I'm sticking to DoW1.

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Anon09/23/26, 14:21No.2493723

it looks good tho, arguably 10x better than total war CA has presented

Anon09/23/26, 14:22No.2493724

I’m willing to give DoW4 a chance. But I still think DoW1 was peak, specifically vanilla/WA (DC ruined the balance and I never played Soulstorm)

Anon09/23/26, 15:07No.2493752

This UI is a bit overbearing.

Anon09/23/26, 15:11No.2493754

the unit scale is completely fucked in DoW4, and the maps are fuckhuge and empty. I don't think it'll be a success bros...

Anon09/23/26, 15:16No.2493759

The battlefield reports show it is clearer when you don't have these CRAM AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE FOR HYPE screenshots https://youtu.be/VEpODv4qmLk https://youtu.be/-1wLXolX4CQ https://youtu.be/yvhL7ben1Wc https://youtu.be/Ansr816Iujk The floating icons are a sign of the times but not too bad for unit purpose and identity, like DoW2 or CoH

Anon09/25/26, 00:57No.2494637

I'm autistic how should I place my gens so they look nice or have some sort of tactical sense? It's not often I get to encircle them around a Listening Post.

Anon09/26/26, 04:04No.2495146

retard

Anon09/26/26, 18:55No.2495327

These maps look like dogshit. Why is every single one just a collection of rooms and doorways? You watch each battle report and there's no flanking or interacting with the terrain. Each guy just marches his dudes directly into a chokepoint until one person uses their bombing run ability.

Anon09/26/26, 19:22No.2495334

it looks fine the main thing dow1 has over it is moddability which no modern game is ever going to surpass i'll play dow4 because i want new games and a fresh canvas without established meta

Anon09/27/26, 14:36No.2495642

Does Dawn of War 1 have any soulful Easter Eggs since it's so much like Warcraft III or is it only out-of-the-way optional objectives and leftover weird shit in the maps?In fact does any game after the first have anything at all?

Anon09/27/26, 18:07No.2495714

i really don't like the unit portraits, they are not discernible enough homm olden era had a similar problem, but they fixed it by making the units bigger on their icons

Anon09/29/26, 02:40No.2496412

Anyone have alpha gameplay footage and screenshots for DOW4 ?

Anon10/01/26, 02:56No.2497549

What can/can't be shift queued? Why do people not actually mod this game to fix its bullshit and make everything able to be shift queued?

Anon10/05/26, 19:36No.2500224

THIS is what happens when you aren't careful with Plasma Generators. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxKXPmjsclA

Anon10/05/26, 22:43No.2500288

It looks so bad compared to Total War, yet it steals the total war UI for some reason. Then to release them both in competition with each other. I don't know maybe it's some 5 head marketing strat.

Anon10/09/26, 20:44No.2502112

New trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy8qn3VqYiE) reminds us that the game takes place on Kronus yet still has only four races, out of the eight that Dark Crusade had when we first went there.But I am a 40k gentile so I can't wait to pay tens more United States Dollars for each new individual race as it comes out! Maybe they'll sell them in pairs to own the chuds with their generosity!

Anon10/11/26, 21:13No.2503212

Looks AI, unironically.

Anon10/19/26, 12:45No.2507225

I think Dark Mechanicum, following the new and corpo-favorite Vashtorr is pretty likely, but what about Xenarites? Any bets they'll even be acknowledged in any way? Necrons are right there just like in Mechanicus.By the way the DLC sucked ass lmao its gear was bugged and destroyed the game and the writing didn't acknowledge an openly Xenarite player at *all* and pretended they were 100% kosher.

Anon10/19/26, 12:52No.2507229

It looks like the mobile base-builder shovelwares from the 2010s. This genre of gaming is joever.Perhaps the OmnissiAIh can save us from this Slopalypse.

Anon10/22/26, 00:38No.2508202

https://youtu.be/YVmXDMM48zg Advanced unit painter can go by individual parts

Anon10/22/26, 12:45No.2508354

i got into the beta and i cant fucking believe the controls are worse than games from the 2000, legit theres not even keybinds.

Anon10/22/26, 14:07No.2508375

>Press R to retreat with bonus armor and speed >We HAVE to have this over simply right-clicking your dudes out of combat Dawn of War II really ruined everything for all of time didn't it

Anon10/22/26, 15:43No.2508406

There's no need for the floating icons, they look terrible and get in the way of the view. Also the buildings are too big compared to the units, the units are so tiny you can barely see them. Also I hate the faction choice. We should have space marines, orkz, eldar, and chaos as a BARE MINIMUM. Not fucking engineers as a faction. And necrons should be a DLC.

Anon10/22/26, 22:21No.2508688

i'm probably never gonna play another 40k game with space marines in the spotlight (read: all of them) anymore desu, i just hate primaris too much. it's too dumb. i used to love this shit

Anon10/24/26, 03:02No.2509240

Why does every piece of marketing material for this game make it look like it's a lane-based autobattler?

Anon10/25/26, 12:02No.2509766

If I liked dawn of war 1 because my tiny brain didn't have to think about the base building parts as much as in most RTS will I like 4?

Anon10/25/26, 12:35No.2509780

I've played a lot of the DoW4 betas, you may choose to believe me or not, I don't give a shit. Here's the good and the bad:>The Good:-The graphics are real nice, units looks good (at least on max settings) and particle effects are varied and well done-The animations are well made (when they work, more on this later) and there is a great variety of them-The maps look good, some even featuring some degree of destruction-Some of the music is nice-Necrons and Space marines are well done and fit well thematically with their faction identitiesContinued for the bad

Anon10/25/26, 14:12No.2509821

Disorder campaign fucking sucks doggy dick dude holy shit

Anon10/25/26, 17:33No.2509929

WHAT IN THE EVER-LOVING FUCK DID THEY DO TO GORGUTZ AND WHY DOES HE LOOK LIKE DUNGEON KEEPER

Anon10/25/26, 23:35No.2510105

This game runs worse than mhwilds, shan't be buying

Anon10/26/26, 11:05No.2510309

After playing it a bit more, I really see no future for it. It's RTS, which makes it unappealing inherently. The only hope for survival RTS games have is by developing a competitive MP community. DoW4 has no chance for this. It's very, very dumbed down, casual and simplistic, even compared to DoW1. It doesn't even have morale, no strafing for vehicles, no directional armor?, research is free and only takes time, base building is as simple as in dow (arguably simpler even), but 2 factions don't even need builders, abilities are fewer (and you just autocast them), less unit upgrades, heroes are less customizable than in DoW2, cover is even more sparse than in DoW1 and not working like CoH/DoW2 obviously again and balance is an utter mess with Orks raping everyoneThere are only 3 potential features it has going on for it >Melee combat animations being pretty to look at (this fucks over gameplay naturally and competitive environment, locking units in place etc). Really, no wonder they are focusing on them so hard. This is really the best feature game has >Potentially campaign, since for the first time it's actually cinematic with proper cutscenes (even though we can see they suck with absurd direction) >Coop wave defense and the Last Stand (we haven't even seen them yet I think) And yeah, battles are bigger than previously. But does it even matter? TW40k will have them even biggerVoice Acting sucks, music is only cool in menu And to top it off it looks like majority of game is ad explicitly for shit that doesn't sell >Nobody likes and buys snaggas - they are half of orks in game >Nobody likes and buys Phobos - they are half of marine roster in game >Nobody buys Lion - he is in game >Admech is famously not popular - it's in game etc I'm surprised nuCoteaz isn't in game at this pointRealistically people will beat campaign once and then uninstall the game Absolute best use for this game will be asking Claude sama to rip sync animations from it and port them to TW40K

Anon10/26/26, 15:29No.2510420

Anon10/26/26, 15:40No.2510428

DAngels and Dwayne Johnson entrance is almost cool. But I can't get over how they just can't animate shielded units like those lychguard. They don't even use their shields while backtracking? I'm not even asking for a shield wall, which would be fitting here

Anon10/26/26, 16:16No.2510441

Anon10/26/26, 16:17No.2510442

it all looks off and way too cartoony

Anon10/26/26, 16:18No.2510444

Anon10/26/26, 17:10No.2510469

I wish all tabletop cattle a very stabbed by a migrant

Anon10/26/26, 23:12No.2510728

>2/3 Space Marine characters are niggers Into the trash it goes

Anon10/27/26, 14:10No.2511091

Guy living under a rock here Just learned yesterday GW is retiring “firstborn marines” and everything is primaris garbage going forward It’s extremely over

Anon10/27/26, 18:41No.2511251

I've been watching the early YouTube videos from players who got in and it looks good. The models and animations are very impressive and it def looks like it plays good.

Anon10/28/26, 18:01No.2511974

damn, might get this just for the army painter/customiser.

Anon10/30/26, 17:07No.2513409

>animejeet That explains everything

Anon10/30/26, 18:10No.2513443

>Defective Edition Mission 6 >Sergeants' Rally ability is now on S instead of Z/X >Attack Ground for Guardsmen/Cultists grenade launchers is still on S >Instead of moving Rally back to Z/X, Attack Ground just completely overrides it >Colonel Brom is now useless and cannot quickly attach to any broken squad to instantly Rally them >Still doesn't even get a Plasma Pistol from the Armory research I really hope Relic goes under