So its confirmed no GFWL? On Steam it states only Steam account needed

Thanks man . Was thinking of getting the game just for Imperial Guard XD

i think the witch hunter is more to the sisters of battle

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. January 17, 2011 – THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced that a multiplayer beta for its upcoming real time strategy game, Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War® II - Retribution™, is scheduled to launch in late January.

Featuring all six multiplayer races including the new Imperial Guard faction, this beta is expected to run from the end of January throughthe end of February to test the new Steamworks networking and matchmaking features and to help balance the multiplayer mode. All new units for each race will be available in the beta along with the new multiplayer maps which ship with Retribution.

The beta is scheduled to go live on Monday,January 31st when global press and key Dawn of War® community members will be given access. It will then broaden to include everyone who has pre-ordered Dawn of War® II – Retribution™ on STEAM to date on February 1st. Finally, anyone who has bought a Dawn of War game through STEAM or has registered a Dawn of War II product on their STEAM account will automatically receive an invite onFebruary 8th. There will be no open registration phase to this beta.

The Dawn of War II - Retribution multiplayer beta is currently planned to run until midnight on February 24th, at which point the developers will take all feedback into account to create a day-zero balancing patch.

Retribution is still a P2P game. We do have a nice new tech out of Steamworks which is their NAT reflection server. If a connection to a player fails, then we will route through Valve's servers.

We've done tests internally where we start a match between two players, then block the IP connection between the two and the game continues gracefully. In theory it should mean any two people who can connect to Steam can connect to each other. I say in theory because there are certain problems which will require us to be in beta to truly test.

This should go a long way to improving connections between players. NAT problems are one of the contributing factors to poor connections and skill mismatches.

We're happy to announce that registered users of our community site will be getting access to our Dawn of War II: Retribution beta.  Below are the dates and details on who gets granted access to the beta:

January 31 – Beta access granted to select members of press, key community managers, and the THQ team.

February 1 – Access given to all DOW II Community site members that registered on our site before January 25 and to users who have pre-ordered the game on Steam.

February 8 – Access given to all Steam users who have bought a Dawn of War game through Steam.

We hope this clears up any confusion, and we look forward to your feedback during our beta.

CE is the box set rite? Not similar to the ones sold at Steam?

Spoiler are plenty in the trailers
I dont think that's spoiler.

I think it will be so cool to be in an exterminus.

Too bad the IG wont be using much fortifications this time either. Like Cheesenium said before, its the Cadian regiment.

So this DoW2 is a steamwork only game or otherwise?

Deciding whether to go for the CE set or steam copy

so by what cheese dude say, The IGs regiments are like so:

Cadians - More to like Swat Teams or so
Elysians - are the airborne troops
??? - are the main army

what else are there in the IG army

http://wh40k.lexicanum.com/wiki/Armageddon_Steel_Legion

Armageddon is a Hive World, not a Forge World. (Forge Worlds tend to be controlled by cogboys.)

Heh, "The Ancient" is probably our Force Commander. Or is it Tarkus? Gonna have to wait to find out.

Cant wait to try the Ogryns

....and it seems Gabriel Angelos wont be in the campaign. So no showdown with daemon prince then. Boo

THQ Community Day Details!

    Hey guys,
    I'm sort of live from the THQ community event. Heres some details for you
    - We've been shown an exclusive plastic wax trailer in which Gabriel is standing against the armies of Chaos with two terminators, and features him charging a very large an familiar looking face of a daemon!
    - The campaign is indeed some of the same maps, but the way they play out is fundamentally different and scripted differently. We've seen very little of the campaign, but it's very enjoyable and the new campaign system means that all the heroes got a load of new skills. The amount of work put in is staggering - 15 skills for each of the four heroes for all 6 races. Lots of new art icons!
    - There are two new maps; Ashes of Typhon, which scales according to player size and White walls, which has been redesigned and moved into another game mode (3v3 I think?)
    - The music is definately more imperial sounding.
    - The new last stand map is infinately more difficult, its intended to be a "level up" from the original. I haven't played it myself, but Gorb, SwordMonkey and Bowkers have been putting in plenty of play time so they can report well.
    - Chat lobbies are definately in. They can have channels, and private channels for your steam group (DOES NOT MESH WITH THE ACTUAL STEAM GROUPS CHAT). The chat lobby appears in campaign and multiplayer menus, in the bottom left corner, and can be expanded to cover the whole screen.
    - Load screen has been redesigned
    - The automatcher now is based on ELO, and uses both placement matches and a "bonus point pool", which is "Rest". You can inflate your points very fast, but if you idle on the leaderboard, people can overtake you. The leaderboards themselves are similar to what they used to be.
    - There are approximately 50 steam achievements
    - There are two multiplayer hero skin changes - first, Diomoedes replaces Vanilla Ice. Second, the Warlock will now permenantly have horns to differentiate him from other warlocks.
    - Custom Badges are in.
    - The front end does not update with last played commander - it is the inquisitor. Time was limited, and this feature was discounted in favour of the huge campaign.
    - The army painter changes are limited to seeing a number of infantry models, but not vehicles; they clip off the army painter screen edge. On the subject of rank unlocks, when asked it was stated that the amount of time would of reduced other content (singleplayer). It is possible it may be added in future.
    - Guard and SM details: Baneblade has 4200 HP, costs 1000/200 and does not level. The Land raider has 3500 HP, costs 700/180. Leman Russ has exterminator and Vanquisher upgrades. I will udpate this with more explicit army details later!

    Feel free to ask questions - I'll update this post, and post up the answers to the questions I collected when I'm hope (and gotten the answers! ). I'm aware some of those are answered above.

I see. Thanks for the info!

"Warlock will now permanently have horns to differentiate him from other warlocks" is probably the weirdest update for DoW2 yet

i woke up today to realise i have a sudden rage to play DoW2....
glad to see there is a forum here.

U guys active every nite??

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i did hate it but that was from my DoW2 experience when i was like 15.
i also used to stop tf2, but now i balls love and who knows, maybe i would balls love this too.
since im all grown up now, can understand DoW2 better.

no, IM 18 NOW!! gosh, its like u dont even know me
owh really??

isnt retribution just the same thing but with more units/factions??

BTW, when the f*** are they gonna add necrons to dow2!!! NOM NOM
NEEED NECRONS NOA!!!

why wont essence engine work with necron? we will see cool gauss lighting up the battlefield