Quick Look: Warhammer 40K: DoW II: Chaos Rising

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One word: Loot.

CHAOS is in fact Rising! Awesome game! Best expansion of 2010!

Vinny, Mike AND Dave! Oh man, these guys make RTS quick looks the best!
EDIT: Hmm, Librarian looks like a a mix between DoW 1 Librarian & Psyker [the Imperial Guard fellow].

Infested ship? Isn't that a space hulk?

man dave vinny and mike things could get crazy lol

Cyrus can also one shot ANY enemy that's not a boss unit. I thought he was the best guy ingame, however I know a buddy who didn't use him at all, and he used Thaddeus, who I thought was the WORST person ingame, he went down like a sack of shit!

SPACE HULK

I know y'all don't have any reason to accept my recommendation over anyone else's, but if you want to read a W40k book read Eisenhorn by Dan Abnett.  It's about an imperial inquisitor and deals a lot with the Empire and its ways of fighting the immortal enemy that don't have so much to do with space marines.  Much better written than your average franchise fiction.  Just my two cents.

" It's food time. "

Cyrus is my favourite guy too. The corruption modifies your traits.

Wow, the indoor levels remind me a lot of the indoor Starcraft levels. This is a good thing.

If I were to get into a game in this universe, it would probably be along the lines of Dark Heresy or Rogue Trader (the new pen-and-paper incarnations).  Would like to have a rag-tag group of mercs with different backgrounds and personalities (and forbidden loot!).

Mad props to Mike playin this on Primarch (hardest difficulty), without Cyrus and/or Avitus, mike'd up during a quicklook and playin co-op with a non-communicating partner and explaining aspects of the game. Quite the feat. Great job guys!

DoW 2 is indeed a great intro to RTS games.

AH DoWII
 
The thinking man's Diablo 2.

Give that Force Commander a teleporter!  :D
 
I love DOW2.  I think I have put in around 140 hours so far.  I need to play through campaign again to see how it differs when you are corrupt and last stand is always fun.  I just wish they would add some new last stand maps.
 
And that FC on wave 4 is a great unit to clone.  He is a beast and can last until wave 16 pretty easily.

Yep, Looks exactly like a game I wouldn't like at all. Witty banter ho.

I've attempted RTS games many times. Never took. Should I jump back in one more time with this? Looks pretty fun. hmm... 

Wooo, a good PC QL for my Saturday! 

Standalone Expension - confirmed. 
 
Awesome game!
 
Awesome Quick Look! (well played Mike + friend)
 
Heroes.

I've had some interest in the first game.  Maybe I should check it out some time soon.

If you want to read Warhammer 40k novels I recommend anything by Dan Abnett. Horus Heresy is the bomb. Also, Dave and Vinny, mentioning Starcraft is considered heresy and you just made a lot of Warhammer fans angry.
Vinny I sent you a friend invite on Steam like two days ago so if you have any questions feel free to ask.

Hehe, Dave said "witty banter"
 
Dave being the home of witty banter in the uk...for the record i hate the "Dave" channel's name and tagline, but it plays my fav shows quite regularly...i digress! sorry.

YES! Thank you!

God damn I love the Dawn of War  series (2 especially) :D 
 
Regarding the books I can definitely recommend the Horus Heresy books, i'm currently reading them for the first time and they are very enjoyable.

Wow, it looks like they really toned down Primarch difficulty for Chaos Rising. In the original, your space marines had wet tissue paper for armor.

Im a huge fan of Warhammer 40k and this is an awesome game!!!!!!!!!!!!!

" I know y'all don't have any reason to accept my recommendation over anyone else's, but if you want to read a W40k book read Eisenhorn by Dan Abnett.  It's about an imperial inquisitor and deals a lot with the Empire and its ways of fighting the immortal enemy that don't have so much to do with space marines.  Much better written than your average franchise fiction.  Just my two cents. "

Looks great, definitely interested in checking this out.

yay Dave quicklook

The White Scars would not only wear all white but almost all of them would ride huge white motorbikes or tanks.
The Emperors Children original scheme was the best though; Pinky Purple and Gold trim.

" @Veektarius said:

" I know y'all don't have any reason to accept my recommendation over anyone else's, but if you want to read a W40k book read Eisenhorn by Dan Abnett.  It's about an imperial inquisitor and deals a lot with the Empire and its ways of fighting the immortal enemy that don't have so much to do with space marines.  Much better written than your average franchise fiction.  Just my two cents. "

Can't go wrong with Abnett as he is about the best proper writer doing 40k - so many are just pay-per-word hacks.  Didn't like Eisenhorn much - I would go for a Gaunt's Ghosts book - you can get the first 3 in a omnibus for about £6 - I found the perspective on the 40k universe from the POV of a common grunt much more accessible. "

So, If your the most corrupt you can invoke the power of Matt Damon.

this looks pretty sweet!!! i tend to drift in and out of warhammer but this looks fuking sweeet!!!

Really good quick look guys, was never really interested in the DoW games because i'm an oldschool RTS lover, love making a base and flooding the field with about a billion units, however, this quick look changed my mind and I want to play this now.

I loved me the first Dawn of War games but i absolutely hate Dawn of War 2. The game became all about twitch fighting and who can click between each unit and fire off their abilities the fastest, and less about strategy or fun. Two hero units in the single player CO-OP is fine, but as soon as you add more then that the game becomes exponentially less fun. 
 
It's unfortunate because i love me the 40k universe, and i love me some RTS'ing, but i hate the way relic is making their games these days.

 Wow this is not at all like the Primarch difficulty in the original.
I remember in the first game mele was not viable at all on that difficulty as your dudes got ripped to shreds if you tried to mele on Primarch and were basically forced to use ranged only squads.
Not sure I dig the decrease in difficulty :(
But at the same time the fact that mele was useless on Primarch last time around was wrong also.

whos mike?

great as always :)

Nice!  Good quick look for a great game!  :)

Skirmish in vanilla Company of Heroes with the Infantry [only] Mod is glorious.  Very pure form of RTT which typically plays out as a continous pitched battle from one side of the map to the other.  Play co-op skirmish with a friend against 2 or 3 of the hardest AI and it's brilliant.
 
I'm surprised we haven't seen Company of Heroes: Modern Warfare yet.  If they can pitch the gameplay half way between CoH and DoW2, I think it would be awesome.

You don't level up in Last Stand, not in the traditional sense. Your hero doesn't get more hp/mp/attack/defense when you level up. It's more like COD4. When you gain new levels, you unlock more stuff but you're guy are still limited to the equipment slots you start with. However, you don't start with any "accessory item" so in a sense you do get better. 
 
Also, you have to level up each hero individually and you have to be 3 players to start Last Stand. 
 
I played some Last Stand when it came out. It's pretty fun but I got tired the map pretty fast and it has only one map. Would play it more if they added more maps. (Maybe they did, haven't checked out the expansions yet or what features it has.)