Dawn of War II - Eternal: Public Beta Launched! news

You can expect the previously mentioned list of features in this initial beta. This includes:

• Playable Space Marines, Imperial Guard, and Eldar in mostly feature-complete states.
• A proper feeling of the gameplay style and feel we are going for in Eternal, with fast-paced, epic battles and long-term decision making on top of the wonderful core that is Dawn of War II.
• Five new maps
  • High City Assault - Based on the Capital Spire map, but utilizing the much larger campaign variant. 2 players.
  • Imperial Bridge - Based on a design given to us by Kharos of the Codex Mod. A long, narrow, open bridge for 4 players.
  • Kasyr Lutien - A classic Dawn of War 1 map re-imagined long ago for Dawn of War 2's community as the well-known Kasyr Lutien Redux in mods such as Elite and Codex, here converted to be much closer to its original DoW 1 design allowing more space for big urban battles to occur.
  • Siege of Vraks - Based on a design given to us by Swift from the Elite mod, a dark Imperial battleground with lots of close-quarters combat over a large quantity of Requisition points.
  • Harkus - Also given to us by Kharos of the Codex Mod, this map is as big as the map editor allows and contains a massive urban fortress for Team 2 overlooking a wide open desert for Team 1. Victory point mode highly recommended due to the sheer size of this map.
• Eight "Eternalized" two-player vanilla maps, consisting of additional points and cleared out starting areas.
  • Ashes of Typhon
  • Calderis Refinery
  • Hive City
  • Judgement of Carrion
  • Legis High Stratum
  • Leviathan Hive
  • Outer Reaches
  • Siwal Frontier
• A (hopefully) improved battle AI that should be more aggressive and properly utilizes the new aspects of Eternal, such as base building and research.

Of course there are bugs as well. I outlined a couple of them in the download, and I would greatly appreciate your assistance in finding as many as possible!

I really hope you enjoy this mod that we've spent the last 2-ish years working on so far! I'll keep you updated as we work on bringing Eternal to a proper 1.0 in the future!