warhammer 40000 : Dawn of War

[Noxis]

Played this game all weekend instead of doing what I intended to (work). Bloody brilliant!

Only just discovered what happens if you hold down ALT and move your mouse lol

[wedge22]

I wish I could play this online but the login will not allow me to enter my full email addyas there is not enough space.

[Lee H]

great team balance as well

I'm starting to like the orcs more and more now ... and the voices/speech are excellent.

[Devilbod]

I love this, summoning a Bloodthirster is very cool.

[Flibb]

Is there a list of keyboard shortcuts for it? Had a quick look yesterday but couldnt find any instructions
Is a good game very enjoyable, will buy when it comes out.

[Devilbod]

DAWN OF WAR Beta Keys (patch verson 1.3)

Left mouse = Select troops
Right mouse = Issue commands
Scroll wheel = Zoom in/out
Alt + mouse = Rotate view
Delete = Kill own unit or building (be careful there is no confirmation request)(can be used to free-up infantry and vehicle caps)
Backspace = Restore view
Home = Focus back on base
. (fullstop) = Next Worker
, (comma) = Next Unit
Ctrl+R = Next research/Addon
PageUp = Zoom up
PageDwn = Zoom down
Arrows = Scroll view
PrtScr = Screenshoot
Ctrl + 1…0 = Assign unit to key
1…0 = Recall unit
Pause = Pause game (tutorial only)

Unit Stances
F1 = Hold Ground
F2 = Stand Ground
F3 = Burn Stance
F4 = Cease Fire Stance
F5 = Attack Stance

Unit Strategy
F6 = Assault
F7 = Versatile Stance
F8 = Ranged Stance


[ADD] Console ON/OFF
This seems to differ from keyboard to keyboard. Try all of them to see which works on yours. The position on the keyboards also vary.

Console= '
Console= `
Console= ~


[ADD] Clear screen
Clear screen 100%
Bring down the console (see above)
to hide: taskbar_hide
to show: taskbar_show (from PIKE)

Minimise HUD - Ctrl+H (from Uberjumper)


[ADD] Overwatch Right-click on/off (works on reinforce, troop and vehicle build icons)

What is overwatch? If you right-click on unit reinforce icons or unit and vehicle build icons the clicked unit will automatically reinforce or build when enough requisition and power is available.

When a unit of troops enters battle you right-click the reinforce icon, it then starts to flash, this means as long as you have enough req and power the unit will auto-reinforce itself. You cant set it to stop at a certain number but it will stop automatically at max unit size, if they take any losses they automatically start to reinforce. One change in patch 1.3 is that the auto-reinforce takes longer when the units are in combat.

Vehicles can be queued with the overwatch as well. If you do not have the required points to build a vehicle right-click on the unit and as soon as the points are avaiable the unit will build. If your under attack you can overwatch some vehicles to build while you concentrate on the battle saving you switrching from base to battle. With the overwatch on the vehicle it will keep building more units until you stop overwatch by right-clicking the unit icon again.

There are also two buttons on the UI for overwatch use on the far left of the screen just to the right of the mini-map. The round green button pauses overwatch and the round red button cancels all overwatch.

Overwatch is helpful to quickly max out a single unit size guarding a listening post while you are building and moveing other units, but you have to be careful that the overwatch units dont spend all you resource and power points. If you need a large amount of points for building upgrades etc then just pause or cancel the overwatch.

You cannot overwatch buildings.

[wedge22]

Anyone know how i can login with my long email addy so i can play one of you lot online?

[Apex]

you carn't

[Grey M@a]

been on this for a while, not noticed to many bugs apart from the jerky graphics once you start adding more and more to your army, common bug and they know of the problem, only other one I have had are the disappearing gretchin's for the orcs that fall through the maps and lost for good. Otherwise not a bad game at all

great team balance as well

I'm starting to like the orcs more and more now ... and the voices/speech are excellent.

The advantage of the orcs is that they can have 2 or 3 times more characters than the other armies, the downside being they aren't as accurate as the other armies, but the numbers makes up for that due to their 100 cap limit for troops and 60 for vehicles, just build war banner after war banner and watch the cap fly up

[wedge22]

Well they need to make that section longer so I can play it then, as I am sure I am not the only one with a long email addy.

[Mugato]

try using www.mailinator.com for a quick n easy email address

[G4Z]

any1 else playing this and fancy a game tomorrow?

my MSN is gaz_13@hotmail.com if anybody is up for it.

[Apex]

i do m8 am normally in the beginer room

[Apex]

apex180@hotmail.com

[Skii]

I used to paint these buggers for shops

wanna play

[Aaron]

I'm on the beta and I've been very impressed by the game. There's a few minor issues but overal the quality of the game is very good and the balance of the units/armies is also very good.

My main concern is the annoying way the Chaos heretics say things.