Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War — Patch 1.3 Release Notes
New Features
Added an Observer Mode to the game to support the professional games circuit.
Added a Friends List feature to support the growth of the Online community.
Added an Arranged Teams Automatch feature to simplify the process of automatching games with Friends.
Added Mod Manager to facilitate switching mod versions from the Main Menu. Mods are now also listed in the Join Game screens.
Added support for Lobby News messages in non-Latin character fonts (full unicode support).
Improvements
Game performance has been improved through the use of the Intel Performance Primitives library
Enemy detection code has been improved for better performance in the late game on large maps.
Selection focus key (') has been added to the defaul keybindings. NOTE: The keybindings file has been changed and is no longer compatible with previous versions.
Improved the targeting priority system for vehicles and units with multiple weapons.
Major update to game camera system, including fixing many bugs.
General Fixes
Fixed several bugs with the Automatch system.
Thorough overhaul of the Stance system which fixed many bugs with the Melee and Ranged stances. Overhaul includes the removal of Versatile Stance.
Fixed several minor issues with the game camera, including increasing the default range for the limited camera so it matches the distance of the free camera.
Fixed several minor issues with save games and playback files. NOTE: The save game format has been changed and will no longer be compatible with previous versions.
Fixed several minor issues with the playback mode.
Fixed several infrequent crash bugs in Online screens.
Fixed rendering issues with the Intel 915 IGMA.
Fixed Mission 4 bug where third Whirlwind disappears.
Fixed bug where Toth was damaging himself with special attacks.
Fixed occasional SCAR crash in Mission 7 when capturing bridge.
Fixed NIS cameras for all missions.
Fixed various bugs in game chat system.
Fixed various bugs in Army Painter.
Fixed bug where NIS speech wouldn't play under Windows 98.
Fixed various bugs in Multiplayer Game setup system.
Various cosmetic fixes to various screens.
Fixed bug where the Ork Wartrack Twin Rokkit Launcher upgrades will get stuck in an infinite loop when overwatching the upgrade.
Fixed bug where a Shroud button which has no function would appear in the build-menu of a Webway Gate while it is being built.
Ability Fixes
Fixed bug where Word of the Emperor ability would not function.
Fixed bug where Bad Doc Healing Aura ability did not heal commander units.
Fixed bug where Bad Doc Healing Aura ability only affected the Mad Doc and attached squad.
Fixed bug where Exarchs could not be added to Aspect Sqauds while the squad was moving.
Fixed bug where Exarchs could be built while the squad was moving.
Fixed bug where Howling Banshee War Shout ability would affect friendly units.
Fixed bug where Eldar Plasma Grenade was inheriting incorrect attributes.
Fixed bug where Stormboyz speed research effects only the Stormboyz leader.
Fixed a range of bugs where abilities were incorrectly affecting friendly units as well as enemy units.
Fixed bug where Grav Falcon Brightlance was invisible.
Balance Changes
Ork Changes
Reduced damage of Trukk Big Shoota.
Increased population requirement for Trukk/Mekshop from 31 to 46.
Increased population requirement for Wartrakk from 46 to 61.
Wartrakk build time increased.
Decreased damage of Wartrakk Rokkit against all infantry significantly.
Increased build time of Wartrakk Rokkit and Mortar from 9 to 20 seconds.
Put a 46 population requirement on Ork Rokkit Launchers.
Reduced Big Mek's Mega Blaster damage.
Increased build time of Bad Doc to 15 seconds.
Increased cost of Bad Doc by 10 requisition.
Increased damage output of Nob Leader Power Klaws.
Decreased build time of Ork Nob Power Klaws from 15 to 12 seconds.
Increased damage of Ork Nob Leader Power Klaws.
Big Mek now takes longer to build after researching Custom Tellyporta.
Big Mek now takes longer to build after researching Custom Force Field.
Big Mek now takes longer to build after researching Tank Bustin' Kit.
Reduced range on Ork Listening Posts that have the first Listening Post upgrade.
Eldar Changes
Reduced damage of Fire Prisms Shuriken Catapult against Heavy Infantry (Medium). Also reduced damage against Medium Vehicles.
Reduced damage of fire prism Prism Cannon vs. all buildings, all vehicles (slight), reduced morale damage, reduced minimum damage, reduced area of effect from 10–8.
Reduced morale damage on Eldar D-Cannon Turret.
Reduced damage of Vyper Missile Launcher against all infantry types.
Increased time cost of Vyper Missile Launcher weapon upgrade.
Increased vertical aiming ability of Brightlance platforms (slight).
Increased range of Ranger Long Rifle from 32 to 35.
Increased morale damage output of Ranger long rifle from 40 to 60 per hit.
Removed charge modifiers from Howling Banshees.
Created dependencies on Vyper/Wraithlord aspect stones before Fire Prism can be researched.
Decreased time cost of Seer Council Witchblade weapon upgrade.
Dark Reaper Exarch now does more damage to Heavy Infantry .
Dark Reaper weapon upgrade now has the same range as its original weapon.
Increased Time cost of Warp Spider Aspect Stone
Increased Power cost of Warp Spider Aspect Stone.
Chaos Changes
Reduced cost of tier 3 to 400/150 and 100 seconds. From 500/200 and 125 seconds
Chaos Aspiring Champions and Space Marine Sergeants now benefit from the bionics upgrades (+20% health)
Furious charge should now be giving +15% damage bonus to chaos_knife_cultist and chaos_knife_tactical.
Chaos Heretic costs 0 supply cap, however there is a limit of 5 Heretics at any given time.
Increased cost of Cultist, increased hit points, increased build time, decreased to starting with 4 units. Increased base weapon damages by 30%. Decreased min damage on Cultist Laspistol from 2.5 to 1.5.
Increased time cost of Cultist Aspiring Champion.
Reduced Cultist Grenade Launcher damage by 35%. Increased build time of Grenade Launcher.
Increased damage output of cultist plasma gun, slightly increased cost.
Defiler hitpoints increased from 2300 to 2700.
Defiler now costs 2 Support cap.
Reduced cost of Possessed marines, decreased attack/hp/build time accordingly.
Reduced cost of Horrors, decreased attack/hp/build time accordingly.
Reduced melee damage of Raptors against building low.
Rhino now costs 1 Support cap.
Smoke Grenade research time/cost reduced.
Space Marines Changes
Reduced cost of tier 3 to 400/150 and 100 seconds, from 500/200 and 125 seconds.
Reduced stun time of SM Force Commander from 4 to 2 seconds.
Scouts do less ranged damage to infantry_low, infantry_med, and infantry_high.
Reduced Scout accuracy while moving from .55 to .35. Reduced Scout morale damage.
Reduced melee damage of Assault Marines against building low.
Rhino now costs 1 Support cap.
Smoke Grenade research time/cost reduced.
Cultist reinforce time when in combat set to 12 seconds.
Updated help text to reflect balance changes.
Mod Support
Mods can now disable tutorials by leaving a blank field in the FEDefaults.lua file.
Multiple fixes in the Attribute Editor.
Game now validates more fields from the attribute files. Also validation of starting units and buildings has been removed.
New binary file format for all attribute files.
Added support for exclusive win conditions.
Several unused attribute fields have been removed.
Added flag for weapon line-of-sight being blocked by entities. We recommend not using it, as it is terribly slow.
Added multiple flags to Scenario files in the Mission Editor, including being able to turn off sky, terrain and water rendering.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War — Patch 1.20 Release Notes
Maps
Railway
1 new 1v1 multiplayer map.
Crossroads
1 new 3v3 multiplayer map.
Gameplay
Seer Council Conceal Ability
Fixed Conceal ability so that it now only applies to individual members of the Seer Council.
Chaos Taint Ability
Now only heals in the 2nd tier but now applies to Chaos Commander units as well as infantry.
Online
Online Stats
Removed the 2-minute drop window, where a player could abort a game within 2 minutes of starting and not receive a loss.
Lobby Spamming
Fixed issues with lobby system to reduce/control spamming.
Savegame
Fixed multiple issues with savegame code.
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Patch 1.10 Release Notes
Maps
Valley of Khorne
Critical Objectives have been moved to ensure each player has a point closer to their base. Center CO remains in same location.
Dead Man’s Crossing
Removed cover from entrances to player's base from water.
Tainted Pair, Blood River
2 new 1v1 MP Maps
Mountain Trail, Tainted Place, Tainted Soul
3 new 2v2 MP Maps – Using the 2 1v1 maps as a base these maps provide variety on the same/similar terrain layouts.
Gameplay
F2 Tactic
Squads that are being attacked by melee units now have their ranged weapon accuracy reduced to 1%. Modifier applies to all members of the squad being attacked, not just the members being hit.
Balance
Eldar
Seer Council
Fixed Conceal ability so that it now only applies to individual members of the Seer Council.
Reduced ranged attack.
Increased power cost.
Farseer
Fixed the Farseer health upgrade which was causing the Farseer’s health. regeneration rate to be decreased instead of increased.
Brightlance
Introduced a 2 second setup time for the Brightlance.
Fire Prism
Decreased how often Fire Prism’s can warp; they can now warp once every 90 seconds .
Ranger Squad
Decreased reload time.
Decreased attack power.
Decreased morale damage.
Bonesinger
Reduced attack by 25%.
Reduced health regeneration rate by 50%.
Entanglement Ability
Increased power cost from 20 to 60.
Increased recharge rate from 120 seconds to 150.
Increased research time from 45 seconds to 90 seconds.
No longer works against Bloodthirster and Avatar.
Plasma Grenades
Decreased number of grenades that were thrown; now only fires 1 at a time.
Plasma grenade research is now reliant upon a Soul Shrine.
Bonesong Ability
Temporarily been disabled due to exploit, will be re-enabled at a later date.
Ork
Slugga Boyz
Big Shoota weapon, brought in line with Shoota Boyz’ Big Shoota.
Slugga Boyz now benefit from the upgrade “More Choppy”.
Ork Boyz
Slightly decreased Ork Boyz accuracy while moving.
Decreased range at which Ork Boyz receive charge modifiers.
Space Marines
Assault Terminators
Fixed a data error which caused Terminators to not benefit from health upgrades.
Chaos Marines
Chaos Sorcerer
Chain of Torment spell now does 90 damage.
Taint Ability
Now only heals in the 2nd tier but now applies to Chaos Commander units as well as infantry.
Frag Grenade
Reduced frag grenades radius to 4 from 5.
Chaos Horrors
Hit point upgrade now applies to Horrors.
Berserk Fury Ability
Previously increased squad’s max weapon damage twice instead of buffing min and max damage independently. The result is pretty much the same but the variance is now reduced.
Crashes and Stability
Fixed frequent crash in AI.
Fixed frequent crash in loading saved games.
Fixed bug in Korean build where in-game chat would not be displayed.
Fixed bug in German and Korean builds where in-game options would not be set properly.
Fixed bug that would cause unit statistic and ability modifiers to not be removed. properly. This addresses issues with broken Chaos units retaining negative accuracy, Big Mek Teleport ability not being removed, and a variety of other similar issues.
Fixed name of post game states from Captured VO's to Captured CL's.
Fixed refresh rate of “0” in Graphics Configuration tool.
Fixed twitchy Repair bug.
Fixed crash bug when selecting next research/add-on in mission 4 or 6 before the HQ is flown in.
Cheats
Fixed multiplayer setup cheats option for multiplayer games. Cheats can now be enabled by whoever is setting up the game. Note that cheats cannot be enabled for Automatched games.
Cheats are enabled in the single-player game, but are disabled by default.
The cheats include:
cheat_revealall – reveal all FOW
cheat_killself – kill yourself
cheat_power( n ) – give yourself “n” units of power
cheat_requisition( n ) – give yourself “n” units of requisition
Art
Fixed Aspiring Champion’s Power Fist upgrade.
Fixed Cultist’s weapon upgrade.
Fixed Eldar Grav Falcon so that it no long displays incorrect weapon in the Army Painter and icon.
Fixed Killa Kan Rokkit upgrade.
Fixed the Force Commander’s single player weapon during Bloodthirster sync kill
Fixed Terminator flamer upgrade.
Fixed Plasma Gun upgrade for the Imperial Guard.
Fixed incorrect texture on the Raptor Aspiring Champion Power Fist.
