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Patch Notes: July 20 2017
1 year ago
Kat_RE
Hey, everyone!
In addition to a new map, we’ve been hard at work on a ton of new skins to provide better customization options for the Elites you bring onto the battlefield. Some of these we announced last week, but there are a couple new skins as well! Four additional Custom skins have been added, as well as the new Chaplain Venerable Dreadnought skin.
Patch Overview
New
- New map: Manufactorum (2v2) and (3v3)
- New Custom skins: Gabriel Angelos, Jonah Orion, Chaplain Diomedes,
- Imperial Knight Solaria, Macha, Jain Zar, Ranger Ronahn, Wraithknight Taldeer, Warp Spiders, Striking Scorpions, Warboss Gorgutz, and Beauty da Morkanaut
- New skin: Chaplain Venerable Dreadnought
Improved
- Added campaign completion rewards: Kustom Stormboyz skin and player portrait (Mission 1), Helmeted Jonah Orion skin and player portrait (Mission 4), Codex Macha skin and player portrait (Mission 8), Tartaros Gabriel Angelos skin and player portrait (Mission 17)
- Updated the visuals of the Imperial Knight Paladin mastery skin
General Changes
Maps
- Manufactorum (2v2) has been added into the Custom match and Quick-Match map lists
- Manufactorum (3v3) has been added into the Custom match and Quick-Match map lists
Campaign
- Various health packs were added in Mission 2 to decrease difficulty
- Amount of scrap generated in Mission 2 increased
- Encounters tuned in Mission 2 for Normal and Hard difficulties
- The maximum population cap in Mission 2 has been decreased from 270 to 160
- Final encounter in Mission 2 tweaked to reduce enemy spawn timers, increase the amount of melee units faced, and lessened the time it takes to progress in this encounter
- Resource rates and starting resources increased in Mission 3 based on difficulty
- Removed some Tankbustas on Easy and Normal difficulty for Mission 3
- In Mission 3, only 4 of the 5 towers need to be destroyed in order to complete an objective
Bug Fixes
Campaign
- Fixed a bug in Mission 6 where you could no longer progress if the communication array was recaptured by enemy units
- Fixed a bug in Mission 12 where using the Tireless doctrine caused Tactical Marines acquired through mission objectives to move unusually fast
User Interface
- Fixed a bug where changing Image Quality settings would affect Texture Detail as well
- Fixed a bug where changes to Window Settings were not reverted when changes were canceled
- Fixed a bug that occurred when the Use Suggested function increased the Image Quality, causing the Texture Detail boz to become blank and limit the available options
- The Surrender option is now disabled in Tutorial missions
- Fixed a bug where the Surrender button was locked in the Pause menu while playing Campaign
- Fixed a display bug where Skulls are shown in two different places when using an ultra-wide screen
- Fixed a bug where creating a Relic Account for the first time would not complete correctly
- Fixed a bug where Manufactorum (Nocturne’s Anvil?) was missing the minimap icon in the Match History tab
- Fixed a bug where match times in the Match History tab were not displayed correctly
- Fixed a bug where hovering over the player portrait on the Collection tab of the player profile could cause various portraits to pop in and out
- Fixed a bug where using the Stormboyz’ Kamakazee doctrine would cause the location of the Big Trakk’s artillery mode and self-destruct ability icons to switch places
Multiplayer
- Fixed a bug where loading a save that was created after opening the gate on Mortis Vale caused the gate to appear closed
- Fixed a bug where the Wraithknight would start to shoot extremely fast if Jump was canceled in the first second of the ability
- Fixed a bug where Jain Zar’s Dash visual effects would become permanently stuck on enemy heavy cover
Gameplay
- Fixed a bug where on Casual difficulty, the AI was not attacking a second HQ
- Fixed a bug where allied AI was not building resource generators or resource upgrades on resource points captured by the player
- Fixed a bug where the AI was not continuing or rebuilding a structure if the worker was killed mid-construction and the in-progress structure was not destroyed
We’d love to hear your feedback on the new Elite colour customization, so please be sure to comment and share your opinions!
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Comments
Deathmaw
The colour customization looks good, Taldeer especially looks really nice! However I have only received the Tartaros Gabe skin from finishing campaign. The other three haven't been awarded to me. I completed the campaign on Normal weeks ago.
Kat_RE
@Deathmaw Since we're rolling out the items to all players, the skins and portraits will be unlocked throughout the day. It's not uncommon to have some unlocked and some still unlocked as the server catches up in granting rewards to everyone.
Renner
Just checked, got 'em all:
Direct link: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=nq8fig&s=9#.WXD1KbqkrAQ
WarpSpiders achievement still not fixed, sadly. looking forward to it in the future.
RedDevilCG
@Kat_RE any word on the following two bugs?
1) Tactical marines with Plasma gun upgrades cannot throw Frag grenades while the plasma gun is on cooldown.
2) Imperial Knight Elite's Long Shot ability is doing double damage to Fire Prisms; killing them in one shot.
LowTone
Loving the new skins, but I do have one minor issue...
Macha's cloak doesn't show exotic paints correctly - for example if I use Rokkit Burna Orange for my secondary colour, then Macha's cloak shows as the red base colour without the orange tint. It's a shame because for a lot of colours she doesn't match the rest of the army, and also that particular paint is the only really vivid orange.
@Kat_RE do you know if this is intentional or a bug?
Ace40k
really really great patch! thanks a lot, Kat! but i need to ask this: i thought the new skins were all fully color customizable. but Jonah's elite skin looks like this?
in my eyes, that's a bit underwhelming. apart from that, i love all new skins. my favs are probably Custom Macha and new elite Venerable Dreadnough
Draconix
I think Librarian lore-wise is supposed to be mostly blue, just like Chaplain is supposed to be black. But what who likes after all.
CANNED_F3TUS
It could be intentional because cloaks are made of wool or textiles if its shiny you are lookin for i dont think they put that in consideration and wanted cloaks to look realistic.
Mrjenkins44
I logged in after the patch and all my saves are gone.
DmonBlu
@Ace40k Dude its a FREE skin of course its underwhelming... If u want sth like arcana skins u will need to PAY for it they aint giving good contents out for free u know? Expect the DLC to bring some insane skins like Pool Party Macha for 30k skulls but now, plzz stop complaining and just enjoy the FREE content they r giving
jonoliveira12
Can't wait for bikini Jayn Zar!
Keep the mask on...
LowTone
Sure, I understand why it happening, but my issue is that the colour doesn't match the rest of the army. I don't necessarily want the cloak to be shiny, but the difference in colour means that if you want Macha to match the rest of your army's colour scheme, then you are much more limited in your options and in my case have to change your entire colour scheme. I get that this is a minor issue and probably not important to a lot of players, but it still kind of sucks.
Jazz_Sandwich
Skins look great! In particular loving the chaplain venerable dreadnought!
I do have one thing to report though - the UI changes (while greatly appreciated) have resulted in a slight irksome issue with the campaign. With characters that are preselected in levels, such as Gabe, you don't seem to be able to change the elite doctrines without going back to the elites tab and changing it, then going back through the mission briefing to reach the pre-mission screen again.
Stoner
What I don't understand for the life of me is how GW allows complete repainting of such units as Chaplain, Librarian and Jain Zar but forbid repainting of Aspect Warriors, this doesn't make even a slightest sense to me... That being said, I'm in no way against being able to repaint ANY unit (more customization - the marrier), but their policy here is strange at best.
Gorb
Maybe this will help, @Stoner. It's not a comprehensive answer but it's a good insight into how Relic and GW work on this together.
https://community.dawnofwar.com/discussion/comment/63872#Comment_63872
SykA
Has anyone noticed that the Kustom StormBoyz are always random? Random heads, weapons, rokkits and armor. Every time they spawn even in the Elite menu they're always random. GOOD JOB RELIC!!
RedDevilCG
I did not notice that. I gotta check it out when I'm home.
gshadow186
Relic Shame on you for steadily ruining Dawn of War...
Dawn of War 1 with expansions is amazing all you had to do was improve it...
instead you strip content down to the bones and tac on little pieces of crap... T_T
why did you ruin Dawn of War? I don't understand...
It just makes me so sad :''''(
each game you just make it worse...
why couldn't you just do the right thing...
Dawn of War 1 with expansions is so good and you keep deciding shaders are more important then gameplay T_T </3 x_x
HARRYY
RELIC,
DONT FORGET TO APPLY THE SCOUT DOCTRINE (SCOUT STRIKE) TO SCALE PROPERLY WHEN YOU CHANGE SCOUTS RANGED DAMAGE
ORKS ARE OP NOW, DONT TRIPPLE NERF !
deadman
It's not that simple; the maps were designed with a locked camera angle and so certain assets are not fully textured on all sides. If they decided to allow 360' camera rotation, a lot of map work would need doing.