Hot! Im geting excited just next week, the beta.

The beta is live now I believe. Let's hear some impressions!

I played 3 games so far, all with marines. I like it really much so far.

I am not sure what to tell about it. Firstly it seems to run smoother than CoH on DX10 mode for me. Smaller squads with more tactics involved than in the first game. Force commander can get some nice upgrades like terminator armor and assault gun. Tanks and walkers drive through walls. Some hero units can build turrets.

Then there is special powers that require some resource you get by killing enemies. Orbital bomb, Terminator squad and more that I don't remember. Different heroes have a bit different special powers. Also only tech hero can repair vehicles.

Btw seems like Soulstorm price is dropped to 3.75€ on Steam... hmm I wonder why :p

I was kinda waiting for Xfire to add the support so I could easily take screens and upload those then. Hmm but I could upload some pictures to elsewhere too with fraps. Let's see if I can get any cool action to screens next time I play it.

Pretty boring screens :/ and forgot to take some awesome pictures from the swamp map. Also what I heard game is running on DX9 mode and DX10 is only in retail or coming with patch. jpg ruined my pictures, I need Xfire support.

Dreadnought and some heavy infantry.


Dreadnought uses special ability, fires some exploding shells.


Predator VS Killacan


Terminator squad capturing victory point. One of them have missile pods and can do missile barrage.


Leader unit with upgraded Terminator suit and assault cannon. Terminators can also walk trough walls :D


Orc Leader is taking a nap.

Hmm graphics kills as in the melee moves? I haven't paid attention to that but I saw couple orcs exploding with hands, legs and heads flying around :P

Hero units have quite many options for upgrades but predator tank for example doesn't have anything. Scouts can get sniper rifles and dreadnought can have the basic flamer or upgrade to assault gun. Terminators had the missile, flamer and assault gun options if I remembered right. I don't know about other factions yet.

Im really enjoying it. But really when people try this, dont try compare to any game you played, its just diffrent.

And so far i like how it is. No base building, all about control map/capture points.
Way UI is done, you dont even need go to base anytime, all can be done while fighting.

I tried to take a picture, but didnt end up very well :P I hope xfire support comes soon, then pictures will be better.



Heres some pictures people took from beta, at relic forums:
http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?t=21202...

After playing more there is one thing that really irritates me. Retreat. I mean I start to shoot and other player presses retreat and I can't run and kill him. Not much melee moves as other players just runs away all the time.

I mean this is W40K, you know bad ass. Then these cowards retreat all the time. Doesn't fit to the universe I think it actually ruins the feeling. I mean in DoW intro there was this one man all alone and still he ran to capture the strategic point, he didn't even think about retreating and gave his life so the Marines got the area. What happened to the for the emperor thing.. That's what I want from this game.

Fucking retreat button...

The bad ass DoW intro what I was talking about: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwVH5rzbFX4

I don't think I have played against Tyranids with space marines yet but space marines heavy infantry is really slow. They have lots of fire power so it's okay.

I really like the game so far with the exception of retreat. It's great fun with friends.

Well retreat is a must. If you dont units will die, and so far the requisitions points give quite few points so would be hard to replace the army.

And units get XP, get stronger specially as space marines, its a must retreat the squads since they are quite expensive.

But i agree the fights are quite fast, you either kill, or you either have to retreat.I have been playing the tyranids, they have cool speed, besides hero tank Hive tyrant. Hes slow, soo slow, and for his speed he should be a better tank. Like Space marines force commander in terminator armor, can have 3500 HP, My hive tyrant can have like 1500HP, quite a diffrence :)

Other races Space marines/Ork heroes are good tanks, with hive tyrant i dont last very much in battle have to retreat :P and since hes slow, well he cant really retreat far and die.

But besides that tyranids seem a very cool race, mostly melee based, and so important have mix of units, since the basic ones are quite weak. Need Hive tyrant/Warrior squad near them to give synapse buff, that makes them stronger.

I need quite flank lot as tyranids. Specially vs techmarines(can build turrets). But maps arent that big to give us space to move that much.

So far im enjoying, no base building is great. I only think they should give some sort of listening post to requisition nodes, that enemy has to kill before capture. Game is like cat mouse, you capture node, go somewhere, enemy capture node you capture back, quite dancing.

Would fix if they would work like CoH, where nodes are like territory connected, as now you can capture/decapture anythig quite easy.

But impressed so far, and oh i hate that Space marine in the background in the menus :D

Today we played many good games with Uruk (won all of them). So be afraid if you have to face us ;) Especially Uruk... those tiny dudes are all over the map taking all the points...

Latest match was great, we almost lost, points were like 40 vs 400 but after luck and skill we managed to capture one point. We got our points running and after a loooong battle we won. Sweat, blood and body parts were flying both sides of the screen. Yeah it was that intense ;)

I think this game has a lot more strategies than I thought first. I have been using assault squads now and man I love them, they are so fast that others can't really retreat. Also they can destroy vehicles if ambushed so that there is only one at the time.. otherwise it's massacre.

Hey if you haven't played CoH or DoW don't worry. This game is pretty different from both games. Only thing you could get from the first DoW is to know units a bit better but fighting and "base" is completely different. You can also play against AI on 1vs1 to learn units. There is four difficulties that are all pretty easy, but yeah easy is great for just getting to know on the units.

Also next week if you DL the beta you can play with me and Uruk against the AI or other humans so don't worry we'll try to help as much as we can. Pretty cool you can play ranked matches with friends too.

I tried to update the games section on Xfire but it didn't seem to add it. I checked the list manually too and I didn't see it. Maybe there was another update later.

Heheh leader doesn't even have a helmet :P


Techmarine hero can drop special melee Dreadnought to the battlefield. Just watch that your own troops aren't in the drop zone...


Ya! Finally the Xfire support :D

i just got the beta, im really impressed, 1st day purchase for me.

im gonna play vs AI for a few hours until i get the hang of it, then would be cool to see you guys online, ill post next msg when i get the basics down.

Just add me to that friend list in GFWL/Xbox thing and/or Steam. Better way to find out when other is playing or wants to play then.

Gamertag: Isomac
Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/Isomac

Also others that have a PC that can run the game, go DL the beta from Steam. It's free and you can't lose anything (except some matches) by trying it out. It's good fun but it has "some" lag issues. Oh well it's beta.