DOW2 Retribution ditching GFWL

[Worgen]

its official, with the next expansion of dow2, relic will be using steam works for match making and completely ditching gfwl

"The official announcement. That's right, no Games For Windows Live for Retribution:
We are excited to announce that Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War II ® - Retribution? will use Valve?s Steamworks networking and matchmaking to provide co-operative and competitive online play. This new back end will allow players to invite friends into matches from their Steam friends lists, and take advantage of the full set of Steam community features including groups, achievements, and Steam overlay chat channels. We are also going to include an all new matchmaking and ranking set up, built specifically for Dawn of War II ? Retribution.
The move to Steamworks will also allow us to provide features like guest passes, free multiplayer weekends, pre-loading and the ability to provide fast turn-around on future patches and updates.
To accomplish this transition, Dawn of War II - Retribution will be a completely stand alone title in the series and will provide multiple campaigns to play, as well as all six multiplayer races, with new units for each of the existing five races and one new unannounced one. In a change from our previous strategies with expansion packs, we will not be patching this content back into Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising.
Owners of Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising will get the chance to try out the full set of Retribution?s Steam features in a multiplayer beta that will take place in the new year. More details on the beta will be announced at a later date.
Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising will continue to operate on Games for Windows LIVE, in order to preserve the owners of those titles ability to earn LIVE achievements as well as their established friends lists.
We are going to have more exciting announcements in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.
Thanks for playing!"

http://community.dawnofwar2.com/

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

Damn. Now they just have to move it over to Men of War's engine and I'll buy it.
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No. I'll end up buying it all the same.

 

[Worgen]

Damn. Now they just have to move it over to Men of War's engine and I'll buy it.
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No. I'll end up buying it all the same.

I didnt think men of war had that great an engine, I mean the game was great but it seemed to be kinda buggy to me

 

[The Amazing Tea Alligator]

Damn. Now they just have to move it over to Men of War's engine and I'll buy it.
...
No. I'll end up buying it all the same.

I didnt think men of war had that great an engine, I mean the game was great but it seemed to be kinda buggy to me

Besides the odd car exploding for no apparent reason (at first I thought it was a feature - it sure livened things up) and some very occasional driving wierdness, I found it fairly bug free. That being said, I play with GSM and maybe that makes a difference.

Men of War has a fantastic engine because of what it entails:
- realistic cover
- realistic (well I mean fairly, it's an RTS) environmental destruction
- each unit has an inventory
- fucking awesome tank combat
- far more dynamic infantry combat

All that would need to be added is a better melee combat system.

 

[Worgen]

Damn. Now they just have to move it over to Men of War's engine and I'll buy it.
...
No. I'll end up buying it all the same.

I didnt think men of war had that great an engine, I mean the game was great but it seemed to be kinda buggy to me

Besides the odd car exploding for no apparent reason (at first I thought it was a feature - it sure livened things up) and some very occasional driving wierdness, I found it fairly bug free. That being said, I play with GSM and maybe that makes a difference.

Men of War has a fantastic engine because of what it entails:
- realistic cover
- realistic (well I mean fairly, it's an RTS) environmental destruction
- each unit has an inventory
- fucking awesome tank combat
- far more dynamic infantry combat

All that would need to be added is a better melee combat system.

that stuff is more gameplay then engine, altho the controls for the tanks were pretty badass, I didnt like the inventory tho, running out and having to look around in bodies was annoying, and putting more shells in your tanks was really annoying since you would have to get a guy to go pick up the shells then run over to the tank and he could only carry one or 2 at a time (if I remember right)