Tacit

Relic Announcement – Patch 1.20 Released

Hello all,

We’re happy to announce the release of Patch 1.20 for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War. This patch includes the following fixes to some of the most common bugs:

Seer Council ‘Conceal’ ability fix – It now only applies to individual members of the Seer Council.

Chaos ‘Taint’ ability fix – It now only heals in the second tier, but applies to Chaos Commander units as well as infantry.

2-minute Drop fix – Now players cannot drop out of games before the 2-minute mark without it counting as a loss.

Lobby Spamming fix – Fixed some issues with the lobby system which should decrease/eliminate spamming in the lobby.

The patch also includes 2 new multiplayer maps, as an extra bonus from Relic in light of the holiday season!

Railway (2P) – “Thats right, it's the 'One Way Railway'. Called that by the Guardsmen who were stationed here when I was younger. They say if you got on a path in this here piece of jungle, you never came back.” – Anonymous

Crossroads (6P) – Once a major driver of the Imperium's commercial engine, all was changed when Warboss Orkamungus and his warband ravaged the area. These days, the Crossroads are hotly contested as a supply route, with all takers hoping control will give them an edge in their greater conflicts on this planet.

We have also added some clearer error strings to the patching tool, to hopefully help you (and us) diagnose any issues that might arise as people attempt to patch.

You can get the patch one of two ways:

1) Enter the Online lobby of Dawn of War. Once you log in to GameSpy, the patch should automatically download and be applied to your game.
2) Download the patch from one of the following links and apply it manually:

http://dlx.gamespot.com/pc/wh40kdaw...fo_6115207.html

http://www.fileplanet.com/files/140000/148642.shtml

Please keep in mind the following about Patch 1.2:

- You need to have Patch 1.1 applied before you can install Patch 1.2. This shouldn’t be an issue for people autopatching through the Online lobby, but it could be confusing for people who are applying the patch manually.

- If you have changed data in your game (due to modding efforts, for example), you may have to reinstall Dawn of War and reapply all the patches.

We hope the fixes enhance your enjoyment of the game, and that the new maps provide you with hours of entertainment online!

Regards,

Raphael van Lierop
Assistant Producer
Relic Entertainment Inc.

Remmington

Nice one fella

WordBearer

thanks relic, =]

Domineus

Awesome! It is funny, when GS was down a lot of people were saying that the last time it happened on a big level like that the 1.10 patch came out. Interesting it happened again before 1.20 came out LOL.

Noir

Omg...A week ahead of schedule eh?

Sps

ROFL

found it BEFORE announcement on file planet. Was just gonna go post WTF.... but the announcement was here....

Are those the ONLY fixes? It's a 5MB patch with maps taking most of it.

Given, lua fixes which affect balance/bugs are not that large in size....

here's hoping

Anim

considering the games fairly balanced as is, its fixed a few bugs and added a few maps. what more do you want ??

hopefully some people will stop being whiney <expletive>s

Mr Tyranny

WoOt!!

2-minute Drop fix – Now players cannot drop out of games before the 2-minute mark without it counting as a loss.

Lobby Spamming fix – Fixed some issues with the lobby system which should decrease/eliminate spamming in the lobby.

I'll say again..

WoOt!!

Noir

Not gonna happen

Shadow_MosesX

it wouldve been nice to fix the ork mob and buff the damn rangers!

Mr Tyranny

What was that you were saying Unknown<ID>?

Alendor

or mabye do something about the damn warp spiders vs ork

Noir

eh?

Stepsongrapes

Anim,

Not adding "balance fixes" are understandable, if slightly disappointing. But every consumer has the right to ask for blatant bug fixes such as the numerous LUA file errors (i.e. no damage values resulting in minimum damage in a lot of units).

Hopefully, some of those fixes are actually in, just not listed. But there's absolutely nothing wrong with asking for changes that frankly would take around 5 minutes for a programmer once they got around to it and are clearly bad code rather than design decisions.

3DHouseOfBeef

Finally Chaos will be competative in the top ranks of the 1v1 ladder! We can finally huddle our expensive units around our expensive buildings while our enemies control the map! Finally as we fall back to our start and die in droves, it will take marginally longer for us to accept out fate and get out of the ladder ranks where Chaos does not belong!

All good natured sarcasm aside, thank you and good work. I am happy to see any improvements as long as I know that improvments are being made.

Any chance of some kinda post telling us once a week or so what you guys are working on? We only need a little scrap of knowledge to pin our hopes on and keep us playing between patches.

Cheers

fld|U2k

plz stay on patching... we (UR COMMUNITY, UR FANS) want to have fun with ur great game... plz fix some hard balance issues... me as an eldar player, i want a light-bonesong back! and fix the damage from warpspiders to orks... plz... that wud be so great...

guchi

just about to look for the ork stormboy bug now, it was only a typo, so it "should" be fixed

Noir

These things take time...we still have to see if those fixes to the fixes actually fix for now

Of course for now there's no shame in asking

Silent_Nomad

Ran headlong into this in the online lobby, before it was on fileplanet.

THANKYOU RELIC!

:hugs relic:

y_Y

thank you relic, i enjoy it =) !

ThE|MaFiA

We love Relic!

Sps

Relic - after my initial spam needing fixing rant in closed beta - I can only say - FINALLY. Thank you.

I too am checking luas prior to playing.

Remmington

I think anim has a point (from what he said in irc)



nuff said really

Stilgar

If someone wants to email it to me, I'd be more then happy to host the patch on my server.

stilgar AT marz.org

Thanks Relic!

evilhippo

Has the f2 problem now been *properly* fixed? As in, units engaged in close combat are forced into close combat, rather than just lowering their gun fire values?

Galdred

thanks relic. Stop complaining about the lack of balance fix(Well, I cannot try the patch as my motherboard is braindead :/), it is not because they have not included these in the patch that they have not been working on it:
They only felt that it would be better to have a patch with the changes they had already completed now, than wait one more month for a bigger one.
My only concern is the lack of announcement
I mean, it was a nice surprise, but many people there would prefer to know what is going on, wether the next patch will be a major one like the 1.10, or a minor one and such stuff.
At least, there are only changes everyone will agree upon in this patch.
(But I would have prefered an arranged team ladder over channel spam control a hundred times :/)

Mac_Bug

Isn't it possible at all to release patches for the retail vanilla version instead of requiring 1.1? Half of the issues with the patch is people's inability to install it...

Noir

Surprise factor...

Gaia_Hunter

The best fix was the 2 minute drop-very good. Now u can think about adding a decay to high rating players, so they need to play.

But some bugs (FC stun on FS) and the like need to be fixed.

Also LP spamming fix (plz make ppl lose req for canceled buildings) is missing.

And then WS vs ork, Scouts vs Eldar and weak Cultist (compared to Scouts the difference, for a basic unit, is huge) need some work.

Anyways good work and keep coming.

Sps

Surprise factor...

or an attempt at making it seem bigger than it is. But it is nice to know even with the time of year major distractions they are working on it. For that i am grateful.

Anyway I am inclined to agree with ani...once the majority of bugs have been fixed. frankly as is there are too many.

I like the patch listed changes, albeit its sparse. Guess we'll see another come end of january, and I was right eventho relic tried to dismiss my "friend of a friend of relic told me patch is coming near xmass" :P

Off to play. (btw no lua changes I could see in a short quick scan so my guess is list is pretty much it)

Cheers and thanx

Noir

I heard those rumors on portent myself,part of the reason why I said one would come out Christmas eve .

Glad to know I overestimated

Sps

meh - the new map's sky is assugly btw lol yellow blue with fog all messed up. Am i seeing a bug or is this how its designed? - plays very nicely tho.

Nm - fixed - settings have reset to low.

Domineus

For those of you who do not want to wait in a half an hour line, I decided to host the patch on my online storage <(^.^)>
Here is the download link: Patch 1.20 English

Stilgar

I too have hosted it. Even if it is only 5MB.

DoW Patch 1.20 English

Snidely

Here's to more surprise small patches, fixing small bugs so we don't have to wait months for The Big Patch. Cheers.

White_Pointer

Does anyone have the complete list of patch changes? Or is what is listed pretty much it?

Still no relief for Orks vs Eldar I see :/ And no Ork Mob Morale or Stormboy bug fix? Nothing to justify the insane cost of the Leman Russ?

I guess it's a good thing Relic is still working on it...so for that I'm grateful. We really need some important things sorted out though, and sooner rather than later.

White_Pointer

Korbah

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Replays from previous versions do not work any more --> sync errors.

As to the 2min drop change......does this mean that if you drop, even within 2mins it still counts as a loss?? I could accept it being shortened from 3mins (since plenty could happen in 3mins) but I still felt that there should be some leeway ie. sometimes automatch gives me the wrong race, sometimes ppl's internet/computer could stuff up.

I know dropping is annoying but there should be at least some leniency period for genuine problems even if its only 1 and 1/2 minutes.

White_Pointer

As I understand it, the period of time where people can drop from games without penalty has been reduced from 3 minutes to 2 minutes. That's all. Still exactly the same as it's always been except that time period is a minute shorter.

White_Pointer

Sgt Tyr

Honestly, I think it's great that Relic shows they're supporting the game still by releasing patches for fixes as soon as they have them. It keeps me thinking that they will be taking care of this game for a long time.

This is the type of customer service that generates brand name loyalty.

I think I'll be checking out the other things Relic has out on the market, and looking forward to their next releases.







You know, if Relic continues to give this game the same attention it has so far for the next few months, soon the final major tweaks that this game needs will be finished. If that happens, I can see DoW eventually becoming as popular as some of the more well known RTS games out there today.... I remember when Blizzard was a tiny company itself, and that this is how the StarCraft game and community started out also.... It's cool to see it happening again.


Thanks to all the people at Relic!

Tacit

You're welcome!

Lone Canadian

Yay... thanks Relic! w00t!!

opheliagrimm

great work and great game.

It just hurts to lose the ability to view the 100+ save games I've massed over these months. First with 1.1 and now again with 1.2.

I can understand the difficulties in playing them with the new math/code...but where there is a will there is a way.

Is there plans to have some sort of backward compatibility in future patches?

.42.

Awsome! Thank you for the early Christmass present.

haha now the Chaos Lord can benefit from the taint he's been spreading. The taint seems to double their healing rate.

CommisarYarrick

Yeah, and this game pretty much raises the bar for how an RTS should look. I even run a crappy system and its still looks freakin greaty. Mmm...eye candy. Not too much stuff left on the list for other things to update, glad to see relic is still keepin up with the game.

*Ping displays for people in game/game lobby*
*Stats viewed in game lobby*

mmm, that sure would help me with the frequent problem I've been running into while playing dow, not its not glitches. More than half of my games have ended with teamates dropping. I'm not sure about you guys, maybe I just have bad luck.

Albi

All I can say is;

"Thx Relic for your support and good work."

Unfortunatly you will always have these 'Doomsday' people, but I know that you guys are doing your best and will always support your work.

**Enough butt kissing**

I love the game but I am bias.

Fable

Kudos on giving us a small patch to shut us up. I hope the small patches relatively often continues as opposed to the not so often fricken 'uge patches.

radioDead

A patch! A patch!

I wish everyone would just shut up about not seeing their most wished for 'fix.'

A patch! YAY!

Not every unit needs a 1:1 counter... I'm a chaos player and I dont care that cultists suck (w/o gren), I got PSM...

YAY! A patch!

-radioDead
:bandit:
Yo quiero more patchez.

White_Pointer

Hmm, I just noticed this:



Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't this fixed in 1.10?

From the 1.1 patch log file:



Can someone from Relic shed some light on this?

White_Pointer

Aetherfox

White_Pointer : they ATTEMPTED to fix it, failed, and now they're commin for annuver go. =Þ i honestly hope the stormboyz damage values are fixed, as well as ork mob values. and being able to build exarches while my aspects squads are walking around would be nice.