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Is anyone else going to qualify for the closed/open beta? Ie registered at DoWII forums and has bought the game already?? Would be kewl to have a few beta games in February.

Wizard, on 30 Jan 2011, 13:30, said:

You have to register at the forums? I thought that you'd get access to it through Steam when the Beta was launched

AGOURA HILLS, Calif. January 17, 2011 – THQ Inc. (NASDAQ: THQI) today announced that a multiplayer beta for its upcoming real time strategy game, Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War® II - Retribution™, is scheduled to launch in late January.

Featuring all six multiplayer races including the new Imperial Guard faction, this beta is expected to run from the end of January throughthe end of February to test the new Steamworks networking and matchmaking features and to help balance the multiplayer mode. All new units for each race will be available in the beta along with the new multiplayer maps which ship with Retribution.

The beta is scheduled to go live on MondayJanuary 31st when global press and key Dawn of War® community members will be given access. It will then broaden to include everyone who has pre-ordered Dawn of War® II – Retribution™ on STEAM to date on February 1st. Finally, anyone who has bought a Dawn of War game through STEAM or has registered a Dawn of War II product on their STEAM account will automatically receive an invite on February 8th. There will be no open registration phase to this beta.

The Dawn of War II - Retribution multiplayer beta is currently planned to run until midnight on February 24th, at which point the developers will take all feedback into account to create a day-zero balancing patch.

You should get access to the beta, but at a delayed date iirc. I have been a member there for ages, but I don't know who else is etc.

How much HDD space does it take up? Untill my new rig arrives, I am very limited on space, and I'd like to know before I get access so I can clear up some for it

Beta Update 3.7
Bug Fixes

Fixed numerous IG abilities that were using other races hotkeys. They have had unique hotkeys created for them.
Fixed an issue that could cause certain maps to have longer than expected loading times
Fixed an issue on 4P & 6P Ashes of Typhon that could prevent some players from building power generators at certain points
Fixed an issue that could cause the Baneblade turret to twitch
Fixed an issue that could cause players who quit to receive a win and their opponent to receive a disconnect
Fixed an issue that prevented the Rank Level up widget from displaying
Added a timestamp to the player stats screen
Fixed an issue that caused the menu to be displayed whenever the user paused a replay
Fixed an issue that caused the Chat Channel User List to scroll to the bottom every time a user joined
Push to Talk for voice chat now defaults to On in the option menu
Fixed an issue that could cause the Force Commander to play his Carnifex sync when killing a Tyrant Guard
Fixed an issue that could cause squads to play their repair animation on destroyed power nodes



Balance changes

Land Raider

The assault cannon and heavy flamers no longer suppress infantry
Multi-melta damage reduced from 100 to 80
Heal aura now increases a units regeneration by 100%, down from 150%
Health reduced from 3500 to 3000

Inquisitor

Cooldown of Judgement increased to 20 seconds
Time between Judgement and Judge increased to 20 seconds
Judge can now target vehicles, carnifexs, tyrant guard, swarmlord etc.
Judgement damage against vehicles, carnifexs, tyrant guard, swarmlord etc reduce by 50%

Catachan Devils

Explosive shot now properly costs 40 energy
Smoke Grenade can no longer be interrupted

Imperial Guard Heavy Weapons Lascannon

Slow effect now applies to the Carnifex, Swarmlord and Tyrant Guard to bring in line with Havoc and Space Marine Devastator Lascannons

Banewolf

Hit point increase per level reduced from 15% to 10%

Baneblade

Left and right lascannon damage reduced from 65 to 55
Health decreased from 4200 to 3750

Termagants

Crippling Poison no longer applies a damage modifier to the affected unit

Warriors

Barbed Strangler damage increased from 25 to 35

Spore Mines

Spore mine speed reduced from 6 to 5
Spore mine damage reduced from 50 to 45

Swarmlord

Speed synapse now increases a unit’s speed by 1.5 rather than multiplying it by 1.5
Speed synapse radius lowered from 32 to 27
Melee resistance damage reduction reduced from 0.45 to 0.6

Also, why does Gabriel look like Duke Nukem now?

Actually looking at it in 720, the pauldron does bear a resemblance to a DP. Also, why does Gabriel look like Duke Nukem now?

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