In WarHammer 40k there are quotes like "We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge. In the fealty of the God-Emperor and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I hereby sign the death warrant for this entire world and consign a million souls to oblivion. May the Imperial justice account in all balance. The Emperor protects." And then there are quotes like these “It’s amazing how much paperwork an act of heroism requires.” “If all else fails: duck. As a defensive stratagem it’s unreliable, but incredibly reassuring for a moment or two.”
Wish this game had taken off more as an Esport than it did. Gameplay wise its objectively the best RTS out there in my opinion, or atleast up there with AoE2/4 and Starcraft. I never got to play it much in competetive multiplayer as I was just a child when it was released, and by the time I had gotten that RTS competetive spirit, I could barely find people to play with. Had so high hopes for DoW2/3, to become THAT game. Crushed dreams all of it.
Dawn of War 1 are the best RTSs ever. Dark Crusade is perfect, even if I miss the freedom of vanilla+WA. I like 2 alot but it's.. different, and 3 never happened. Ultimate Apocalypse & Unification filled the hole 3 left imo. DoW also ruined the Eldar for me forever. Purge them Impossible Creatures is a banger too, same game engine as DoW 1. I think Tellurian is essential for it
Man I need to go try impossible creatures... i think it might be in my library somewhere....? Totally agree with you re DOW1 and DOW2 ie Love DOW1, DOW2 is cool but just didn't hold me as much as 1. DOW3.... I've actually never played but I should at least try it so I can offer an educated opinion when it comes up ;-)
IC has an addicting loop of optimizing/tweaking your army, then playing skirmish matches to test out your changes. It was the game that got me into RTS games as a kid, just cuz the box looked cool. It doesn't play as tight as Dawn of War, but it's still overall very fun, and I think the core of Dawn of War can be felt
You don't need the mass of mods recommended here. The first two campaigns in in Soulstorm is good, but otherwise playing vanilla is fine, especially for Dark Crusade and Soulstorm. You can zoom out the camera manually, and set 1920x1080 by modifying the text file. Backspace helpfully resets the camera. Frey seems to have his preference for low-detail games in the Total Annihilation vein.
Yep. Solid agree. I wouldn't go cramming the game with a tonne of mods. There were a lot I mentioned more as a directory of stuff that is possible to do. I'd still probably recommend the camera mod (personally) - but good point about DC and SS and their resolution either natively or via text file manipulation. Backspace is a good call - I use it frequently. Yeah, you've got my number on the viewpoint - Total annihilation is my jam baby! Planetary Annihilation too is a mainstay. Nice one.
for every video i see glossing DOW im donating money to that channel
Thank you for this. Lots of nostalgia for this and you've listed the optimisations.
Glad you liked it! There were so many optimisations and mods, but these were the ones that I thought were definitely worth mentioning.
In WarHammer 40k there are quotes like
"We have arrived, and it is now that we perform our charge. In the fealty of the God-Emperor and by the grace of the Golden Throne, I hereby sign the death warrant for this entire world and consign a million souls to oblivion. May the Imperial justice account in all balance. The Emperor protects."
And then there are quotes like these
“It’s amazing how much paperwork an act of heroism requires.”
“If all else fails: duck. As a defensive stratagem it’s unreliable, but incredibly reassuring for a moment or two.”
Warhammer eh? Gotta love it.
I only play multiplayer on very slow.
Well you're doing better than me. Hardly every play PvP... I'm most playing compstomps with friends. Maybe I should get into 1v1 someday...
I’ll play with you :P
It’s admittedly hard to find people that will play on very slow.
Wish this game had taken off more as an Esport than it did. Gameplay wise its objectively the best RTS out there in my opinion, or atleast up there with AoE2/4 and Starcraft.
I never got to play it much in competetive multiplayer as I was just a child when it was released, and by the time I had gotten that RTS competetive spirit, I could barely find people to play with.
Had so high hopes for DoW2/3, to become THAT game. Crushed dreams all of it.
Dawn of War 1 are the best RTSs ever. Dark Crusade is perfect, even if I miss the freedom of vanilla+WA. I like 2 alot but it's.. different, and 3 never happened. Ultimate Apocalypse & Unification filled the hole 3 left imo. DoW also ruined the Eldar for me forever. Purge them
Impossible Creatures is a banger too, same game engine as DoW 1. I think Tellurian is essential for it
Man I need to go try impossible creatures... i think it might be in my library somewhere....?
Totally agree with you re DOW1 and DOW2 ie Love DOW1, DOW2 is cool but just didn't hold me as much as 1. DOW3.... I've actually never played but I should at least try it so I can offer an educated opinion when it comes up ;-)
IC has an addicting loop of optimizing/tweaking your army, then playing skirmish matches to test out your changes. It was the game that got me into RTS games as a kid, just cuz the box looked cool. It doesn't play as tight as Dawn of War, but it's still overall very fun, and I think the core of Dawn of War can be felt
You don't need the mass of mods recommended here. The first two campaigns in in Soulstorm is good, but otherwise playing vanilla is fine, especially for Dark Crusade and Soulstorm. You can zoom out the camera manually, and set 1920x1080 by modifying the text file.
Backspace helpfully resets the camera. Frey seems to have his preference for low-detail games in the Total Annihilation vein.
Yep. Solid agree. I wouldn't go cramming the game with a tonne of mods. There were a lot I mentioned more as a directory of stuff that is possible to do. I'd still probably recommend the camera mod (personally) - but good point about DC and SS and their resolution either natively or via text file manipulation. Backspace is a good call - I use it frequently. Yeah, you've got my number on the viewpoint - Total annihilation is my jam baby! Planetary Annihilation too is a mainstay. Nice one.
just finished replaying the soulstorm campaign yesterday haha, great timing
Nice one! Do you play that over the dark crusade campaign? I must look at getting the mods to improve soulstorms campaign to keep bases etc...