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The Last Stand

-Fixed issue that could result in the loss of Last Stand profile data, and added a means to recover lost data based on Leaderboards and Player Statistics
-Fixed fatal scar that can occur on wave 20 of Last Stand if players had previously left the game
-Fixed Last Stand impasse exploit
-Fixed issue where a player couldn’t join a Last Stand party if another member had quit the party
General

-Fixed an issue where if the game was set to remember your Multiplayer hero, it would show the selected race as Imperial Guard and then crash
-Fixed an issue where the World Builder crashed if a new map was created on a computer that didn’t have Perforce installed

Multiplayer Balance Updates
General

-Sniper Damage no longer does 125% damage to heavy armour
-Predator Extra Armour upgrade no longer increases its speed
-Kommando Nob’s Rokkit Launcha damage has been reduced to 65 from 72
Balance Bug Fixes

-Hive Tyrant’s improved synapse no longer applies to the Carnifex or Screamer Killer
-Ranger’s kinetic shot now does weapon knock back instead of medium weapon knockback
-Lictor damage increased from 51 to 75
-Scout Sergeant’s melee skill has been increased to 71 (Same as scouts)
-Warlock commander’s melee skill leveling table has been fixed and properly increases his skill when he levels
-Warlock commander leap knockback distance has been changed to 3.5m from 8m and now does weapon knockback with a domino strength of 35 instead of 50
-Seer Council can now be affected by debuffs using ‘wargear equips’
-Warrior barbed strangler radius properly reduced to 6m
-Hormagaunts and Termagants grant 55 XP per entity down from 75 and 70 respectively
-Scout knockback ability now suppresses consistently against units in light and heavy cover
-Lictor Alpha’s Leap ability no longer knocks back retreating units
-The Fire Prism’s Focused Blast ability no longer knocks back retreating units
-The Hive Tyrant’s Seismic Roar ability no longer knocks back retreating units

I’m quite interested to see what they’re going to do with the Space Hulk.

Whereas Dawn of War II allowed players to develop characters from level one to level twenty, Chaos Rising will up the level cap to level thirty providing new items, characters and abilities while adding the newest chapter in the Blood Ravens saga. Players that have their customized soldiers will be able to bring their stats and abilities that they chose forward into the expansion pack if they don’t choose to re-spec their warriors, taking advantage of larger redesigned skill trees. However, all gear acquired from the first game has been lost, forcing your soldiers to reacquire new equipment in the field and as rewards for their missions. For example, Thaddeus had a new lightning claw that provided significant melee damage, and players could pickup meltaguns to destroy vehicles. Fortunately, the number of items that you can acquire in missions has also grown, and players will discover that the supplies your troops acquire are now unique to particular units as well, being assigned instantly to those squads when you pick them up.

They outline a lot of the details of how the influence of Chaos will affect your characters as well. Be warned, there’s quite a few spoilers in this article.

You can go here if you’re interested in signing it.

Thanks Bluesnews.

v2.601
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where mines could be used to destroy newly spawned enemy tanks and prevent further respawn
- Fixed a couple of issues to make COH easier to mod


To further explain the changes that we made to support modding, we added a SCAR query so that modders could find out what products a player owns, allowing them to know if players have access to Tales of Valor units etc. Secondly, some modders that were working on adding new factions for the game found that they were locked out by one of our in-game product checks. We have changed this check so that modders can add new factions to the game.

Surprise! You have a patch!

Edit: Patch Mirror at Worthplaying

Dawn of War 2 is running for 19.99 US. Now would be a good time to pick it up especially since the Last Stand was just released.

Steam Powered

It started with the two new maps.

Then came three features about the Last Stand Heroes, the first being the Space Marine Captain, followed by the Ork Mekboy and finally the Eldar Farseer.

Today they posted the patch release notes.

Finally, there’s the Final Wave contest! Be the first to complete the Final Wave in the last stand and post it online and you can win a prize!

Someguy
Edit: There is also a short video from Relic designers, Blake Gilroy and Chris Becker, talking about The Last Stand.

Quest’s Heresy (2 Player)

Designed by Stefan Haines, Quest’s Heresy is a 2P map set deep in the Calderis Desert. This imperial mining facility is relatively new but has been exposed to the harsh open desert environment.

and

Hydris Chasm (4 player)

Hydris Chasm is a 4P map designed by Clint Tasker. Originally it was intended to be a jungle map that had multiple water elements including waterfalls and rivers. The artists had other plans though and decided to stretch the jungle tileset to the max, creating a volcanic theme that doesn’t exist on any other multiplayer map. Needless to say after seeing the final result Clint had no issue with this change in style.

Check out the link for pictures of the maps.

…it seems like only yesterday me and Rob Cunningham were poring over spaceship drawings in his warehouse-loft over Hastings Street trying to figure out what the thread was that tied it all together while junkies howled and gibbered in the alley beneath us and we contemplated endless galactic suns.

Check out his website for more.

Check this out!

We wanted to share something else special with Homeworld fans this week in celebration of the 10th anniversary of the game. Homeworld continues to be great creative fuel for us, and members of our team will occasionally return to the universe when looking for inspiration, as a way to sharpen their skills, or just to revisit the past. This new desktop wallpaper was created by Senior Artist Dave Cheong and features a scene inspired by the game. Even though we have our hands full with Space Marine, Dawn of War II: Chaos Rising, and Company of Heroes Online, Homeworld is where it all began for us. We hope you enjoy it.

Those aren’t ships from any of the released Homeworld games!

(They’re a re-imagining of Kushan Interceptor/HW2 Interceptor. Nice work Dave!)