Just picked this up from my local EB Games this morning, threw it in, fired it up...and nothing!
Activation for this is through steam, it's then I notice the little message on the steam window telling me activation will be permitted in 13 hours!
Damm tease, what's the good of getting a game early if you can't play it?

Haha that is so lame. I would definitely take it back. That is so not the standard experience you should expect when buying a video game; if it's on the shelf and they don't have a massive sticker or something saying its not playable for 2 weeks, its a reasonable expectation that it should work out of the box.

Cant wait to get this been playing the beta like crazy, awesome game :)

hope they dont nerf the nids in the first patch, all those nancy fgts crying because of the roflcannon l2p nubs

How much did you pay for it?

Haha I read about that. It is the shops fault for selling copies before they are supposed to.

Also will be purchasing this game. tyranids are f*****s.

I picked up my copy this morning as well before work... at least I know I can't play it :) otherwise I would def be feeling sick.. cough cough.
I think the deal is they want everyone on a level playing field starting at the same time... pretty weird that we can't play single player though. I wonder if I put the date forward on my PC and disconnected the net... *oh right steam activation! damn them!!!

I just grabbed a copy of it too, waiting for steam to unlock it now. I heard it will be unlocked 12am perth time

I thought this was common knowledge? The game isn't supposed to be released in AUS until tomorrow, probably for this exact reason.

just crack it and stfu ?

Dawn Of War 2 what game is relate to... is like warcraft 3?

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its like dota with coh mechanics, warcraft 3 battles and kick ass animations/graphics

Dawn Of War 2 what game is relate to... is like warcraft 3?

It's more like Company of Heroes with even less base building. Very fun though.

Ok, I'm having an issue that's preventing me from playing and was looking for some advice. For starters, when I was finally able to install the game, it took over 3 hours to do so from one DVD, I've never had this happen to me. Anyways, the game is fully installed, and starting it up (through steam), it tells me that there is a problem with my local games files and will be now re-acquired from the steam servers, then it just sits there doing nothing. Now I'll admitt this is the first time I've used steam, but seriously WTF!

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I'm picking it up today. Apparently Game has it for $73.

Turns out I just had a dodgy copy. Went down to EB Underwood, swapped it over and now I'm enjoying the goodness that is DoW2

i'll be getting this soon. can't wait!

Juts got it, $79 from Game. JB had it for $89. Didn't bother checking EB.

$51 CDWOW BAM

add me to windows live if you want to be schooled (or help me school)

name - friendlypoobot

be good to play with some decent team mates every once in a while


nids 4 lyfe

Was going to get it from CDWOW but I'm impatient.

co-op campaign is pretty good so far

Add me too if you want, although based upon my performance in the beta I do really really suck. Name - Commander Pants

beware if your game crashes it can corrupt your save game and you will have no missions which i've unfortunately discovered for myself =(

http://community.dawnofwar2.com/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=10653

fark, i still cant connect to live!! i just got the full game and am copping the same problems as i was in the beta. i have a hotmail account, and when i try to connect with it in the game it gets stuck at the downloading profile screen.
then after a while i get an error:
Cannot connect to live
Error: 0x80151911

im pretty sure all my firewalls/antivirus s*** is off.
anybody out there who is wiser?

Do you use a router for your internet or does it come straight into your PC? Cos if you use a router, you might need to open some ports for Live to work properly, I had to on my router.

i made my pc the default DMZ on the router and still no go, and now tried plugging the modem straight into my computer, without the router... no go

ffs this is getting annoying, i have avg/adaware but disabled them, and no windows firewall, hamachi uninstalled, wtf else could this be?

Jabroney, Look for a setting in your router that says MTU. In order for Live to work this has to have a value higher than 1365 if it's lower than that change it to like 1500 and try again

also check this thread out too check this thread out too http://forums.gamesforwindows.com/t/1860.aspx

windows default is 1400 afaik - try opening dos prompt and going

ping www.google.com -f -l 1400

it should reply ok other it will give you packet fragment error; post results

Do stats from the beta reset?

nick: alexc1

ok that was intense, finally got it working, had to go into registry and change the max MTU on my adapter from 1300 to 1500, bingo

hm.. so tempted to pick this up tomorrow from eb @ queens plaza so i can play over weekend.

then again.. i only bought left 4 dead last weekend and havent finished it..

still plowing through gta4...

still havent finished company of heroes..

still havent finished world in conflict..

DAMN WORK CHEWING UP COMPUTER TIME :(

was tempted then read this reviews.... http://games.on.net/article/5005/Warhammer_40000_Dawn_of_War_II_PC_Review

I dont think any game will come close the TA Springs until Starcraft 2 comes out

LOL that douche spent the whole review talking about single player. If you even click on the single player exe you should not be allowed to have an opinion on this game.

CoH and Dow series are easily the best RTS games ever made.

CoH and Dow series are easily the best RTS games ever made.

Just bought this last night.

Nick: Protius6

CoH is easily the best RTS game ever made.

1 person wrote 1 review so now im not going to play guys.

Anyone know how big the update on the 20th was? I'm on capped internets and the f***er will not download. I downloaded the entire client from steam. f*** steam.