DOW II: Codex Edition v1.2 file

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+++V1.2 CHANGELOG+++

- Added Conscripts to IG - a less versiatile, less expensive, less powerful fodder unit for the guard

- Added Leman Russ Punisher to provide an anti infantry alternative to the Russ variants

- Added Banesword superheavy to the IG

- Added squad leader to slaaneshi champions (Exalted Champion of Slaanesh)

- Added t3 terminators to slaanesh CSM

- Added new icons to make it easier to distinguish some units

- Added chaos lord of chaos undivided to the chaos space marines roster and its accompanying wargear, abilities, and global abilities - this contains differences such as cultists and mutants who are cheaper than god-specific ones, a new chaos renegade grenadiers t2 unit, the mark of undivided which is now exclusive to undivided units and can no longer be equipped on god-specific commanders' units, and all-around worship/shrine abilities that take minor benefits from all chaos gods

- Added Honor Guard t2 global spawn unit to LSM force commander, replacing the Primaris Intercessors (which will be their own faction at some point)

- Implemented fully reworked AI that is less prone to getting stuck in their base and generally acts more intelligently (and doesn't cheat as hard)

- Moved the .dll injections and other performance, stability, and crash fixes that were previously packaged with the mod to its own, separate mod, the DOW II: Performance and Stability Mod

- Further adjusted camera zoom settings to be more flexible and responsive

- Added working lobby functionality for 8 player maps (with the exception of FFA and Team-FFA which are still limited a 6 player maximum due to some hard-coded functions, currently unknown if they will ever work)

- Added 8 player versions of five maps - naturally they are placed at the very bottom of the map list with suffix (8p); more to come in the future

- Changed game lobby background

- Altered squad icons and other indicators to behave similarly to Dawn of War 1 - they only appear when a squad is selected

- Added back the Local Area Network (LAN) button - it works and the match is hosted on the local machine, but had mixed results for joining functionality, may not work

- Added Siege of Vraks - a new 6p and FFA map

- Fixed Rhino transport and Razorback transport being able to fire at the enemy without turning their weapons

- changed the range of some of the IG commander abilities to be more reasonable (largely around the same range as his sight range)

- Fixed guardsmen formation to accomodate for more models

- Slightly buffed mark of slaanesh upgrade and clarified its description

- Doubled chaos lord of slaanesh armor upgrade's health regeneration increase

- Tuned the cost of posessed marines relative to the god-specific marines (such as rubrics) - the possessed slightly more expensive than them, mostly in power cost

- Made slaanesh champions cost as much as the other god-specific marines

- Reduced mark of slaanesh upgrade time to 5 seconds as another benefit of using slaanesh

- Removed cultists' ability for building turrets (that's what the warpsmith is for)

- Fixed an issue where the slaaneshi visual for units buffed by worship wasn't appearing

- changed certain UI elements to be slightly smaller to make the scene more readable

- changed the lord selection icon of the chaos lord of khorne

- Slaanesh lord's global speed buff now requires a level 2 stronghold

- Further cleaned up the main menu buttons

- Removed unnecessary DOW2.ucs replacement and DOW2CodexEdition.ucs

- Fixed blessing of the omnissiah IG techpriest ability not working

- Moved IG techpriests to tier 2

- Correctly named the IG Kasrkins to Kasrkin Squad instead of Stormtroopers

- Changed LSM and CSM Terminator squads to default 4 members instead of 3

- Reduced requisition cost of Leman Russ variants from 600 to 400

- Changed slaaneshi champions' melee skill to be higher, but have about 10% less health

- Buffed chaos sorceror doombolt damage by 2.25x

- Increased cost of manticore shot ability for the IG commander - now costs 50 power and 50 red resource; previously 40 power and 10 red resource

- Increased cost of nuke abilities to 900 for every faction except for guard and tyranids (who have it at 750 and 500 respectively)

- Fixed kasrkin squad leader being unable to reinforce

- Fixed cultists using the wrong animator (they now have the worship animation again and their feet are no longer messed up)

- Made the eldar dark reapers units' weapon more responsive and increased its damage

- Further reduced the price of ork sluggas and shootas from 22.5 per model to 15 per model

- Increased ork shootas damage by 30%

- Reduced price of ork Looted Tank by 25%

- Increased ork health, 40% extra for sluggas/shootas, 20% for the rest of infantry

- Lowered slugga and shoota squad limit (was 8 and 5 respectively, now 4 and 4)

- Slightly increased bolter damage against buildings and heavy infantry

- Removed misleading global ability information from the hero selection - since there is also more to heroes than just unique abilities (such as unique units), I'm looking to find a better system for representing their uniqueness rather than just global abilities

- Fixed eldar storm guardians floating kneepads and pauldrons

- Fixed smoothing issues on wraithguards and wraithblades (same smoothing issue that appears on ultramar auxilia and tyranid units, but those and others will be fixed later as I need to rework parts of those models first)

- Fixed floating laser sight on IG lord general

- Fixed floating tusks on ork Goffs clan warboss

- Decreased the amount of terrain decals and deformations in order to improve performance in longer matches

- Removed certain visually intrusive buff and debuff effects to improve on performance and make the scene easier to read (dawn of war 1 style)

- Increased speed of hive tyrant, swarmlord, and carnifex by 15-20%

- Tyranid carnifexes can now retreat

- Tyranid warriors are now limited to 3 squads instead of 2

- Doubled courage of tyranid gaunts

- Nerfed autocannon damage against infantry by 15%

- Increased melta damage to vehicles by 30%