Dawn of War II: Elite is a multiplayer mod for Dawn of War II: Retribution. Originally envisioned by Caeltos (a competitive player with a wealth of experience spanning through vanilla to Retribution) as an experimental balance mod for high-level players, Elite evolved into making bolder changes as THQ cut the official support of DOW 2 in their dive toward bankruptcy. The addition of new abilities and units became commonplace, from Space Marine Sternguard Veterans, Eldar Fire Dragons, Chaos Raptors to the Ork Flash Gitz, finalising in the introduction of an entirely new faction - the Grey Knights, based on Bloodravage’s Destroyer 40k mod – all designed from a competitive PvP angle. Coupled with continuous development and an active community dedicated to casts, coverage and regular events, the Elite mod continues to preserve and enrich the de facto Warhammer 40K RTS to this day.

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Here we are with our first acutal news. Today we gonna show you some new maps that will be part of the upcoming patch for the Elite as well as some other new stuff.

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Hello I'm Megametzelfleischer (also known as Max Power in the DoW 2 Elite community) and today I wanted to show you some of the new additions that will be part of the next Elite Patch.

First of all, we are not talking about balance changes yet, because we are still working on them for the time being. So please be patient and wait until we can show you some of those changes.

And now to the stuff we can actually talk about, first of all the new two maps.

The first map is Indrids "Avensa Stronghold", it is a very fast paced 3on3 urban map.

The second map is called "Tharsis Forge" and was created by Max Power. Thematically it's like one of those abandoned factories, with lush green scenery and rotten industrial tools. It is a 2on2 map in the vain of "Medean Cliff Mines" with some changes to the acutal point layout and the graphics.

Wise Windu, one of our modders, also added some new indicators for certain abilites like the:

  • The "Eldritch Storm"
  • "Singularity" of the Eldar "d-cannon"
  • The Warlock pull
  • And he changed some effects of the Empyreal Abyss to better fit the actual chaos factions (Nurgle/Tzeentch/Khorne [default Abyss])

And he created a new "Lamenters" themed skin which will also be part of the upcoming patch.

That's all for now. We really hope that you like those little changes and additions to the mod and we are looking forward to actually talk about some of the upcoming balance tweaks in the forseable future.

Questions or balance ideas? visit us @ Dawnofwar.info

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madeOfClay
madeOfClay - - 83 comments

Looks great. Any additions for the Orks?

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WWindu
WWindu - - 141 comments

The only one for now is a new visual effect for the Mekboy global More Dakka: Youtube.com

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