The DoWPro Team is happy to announce that Dawn of War Professional: Dark Crusade Edition (herein referred to as "DCPro") is ready to move into the public beta testing stage of production. After long hours, hard work, and dedication, the DoWPro Team has put together a wonderful redesign and rebalance of Dark Crusade.
To download DCPro, you can download it from either of these links:
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http://jadedgamers.com/downloads/dowpro/DoWpro-2-0-0.exe,
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http://dow.lerp.com/mods/DoWpro200.exe, or
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http://files.filefront.com//;7924508;;/Please carefully read through the "Read-me" file bundled with the installer for installation instructions; it has important information that will help you avoid common problems that people have encountered. More sites will be available to download from over time. If you have any questions or issues, please join us at the "#dowpro" IRC chat channel on the "quakenet" server. More information and links regarding IRC are available below.
As for what you can expect from DCPro, here is a brief list of some of the major design, unit, and game-play changes that you will encounter:
1. Fully implemented Wargear for each factions' commanders.
2. Racial and Game-Play redesign.
3. Improved Balance
4. Automatch compatibility with customized map pool. All DoWPro players should use a DoWPro| tag.
5. Enhanced models and GFX
6. Enhanced Skirmish AI that will continually be updated for your enjoyment.
7. A host and assortment of other goodies.
We are happy to provide you with gameplay support at DoWPro. Please Game-Play VoDs available for you to peruse before trying out DCPro here (we are working on other languages, if you have a specific request for a language, please just ask):
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=061BJQ4A (English)
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http://dow.lerp.com/maps/VOD_TrueVsWho.rar (French)
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http://dow.lerp.com/mods/Tutorial_Part_I_Chaos.zip (French)
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http://dow.lerp.com/mods/Tutorial_Part_II_GI.zip (French)
5. Manuals for each specific race will be made available soon.
If you would prefer a textual description of DCPro and the changes from DC to DCPro, you can find that here:
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http://dow.lerp.com/mods/DCPRO_GENERAL_CHANGE_LIST.docYou can also reference our forums at www.dowpro.org for other articles, strategies, explanations, etc. Moreover, if you have any technical issues, please visit us on our IRC channel for immediate help, or post your technical problem in our forums.
About us and the community:
1. You can find our homepage here at www.dowpro.org.
2. We generally meet in the IRC chat channel " #dowpro" on the "quakenet server" , you can link to this by going here:
http://88.198.39.149/~dowpro/index.php?opt...ask=click&bid=43. Additionally, you can download the mIRC client by going here:
http://mirc.com/ircintro.html and here:
http://88.198.39.149/~dowpro/index.php?opt...id=24&Itemid=254. Our current player base includes a range of player skill and game play types.
5. The DoWpro Forums, along IRC, allow you to directly interact with the dev team, just give it a try. We're listening to our community and discuss issues and ideas continually, as we want to provide you with the best gaming experience we can achieve.
6. Mod and content creator friendly! If you're interested in creating new content or modding, DoWpro has opportunities available to you. Just check the credits list if you have any doubt - it's a big team and we are closely involved with much of the mod community.
7. Most importantly it's about FUN with great people who love the game and love to enjoy DoWpro. No lame droppers. No cheat hackers. Just grass roots community fun and spirit.
We hope you enjoy the DCPro public beta. We encourage you to post your replays on Dow-Sanctuary and post balance/bug/other information regarding DCPro in our forums. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to PM/EMAIL/MSN me whenever you would like. Thank you for choosing DCPro.
Cheesenium a.k.a cheeseman,AI tester for DoWPro