Today's hot fix addresses two legacy campaign crashes and addresses an issue introduced with a previous fix that prevented diplomacy options from working correctly. 

• Diplomacy – fixed an error that prevented the Diplomacy menu from working correctly when Resource Tributing Requisition and Power to an ally 
• Smart App Control – updated unsigned .dll files that would be blocked when using Smart App Control in Windows 
• Winter Assault – fixed a fatal scar error that could trigger in the intro cutscene of Disorder Mission 4  
• Soulstorm – fixed a fatal scar error that could trigger at various points during the Tau Stronghold mission

 

 

Please continue to send reports and feedback to help.relic.com so that we can prioritize issues in any subsequent updates. 

Today's Hot Fix primarily fixes an exploit with artillery units and adds logging to help us identify and troubleshoot fixes for crashes.

• Fixed an issue that allowed certain artillery units to barrage consistently without a cooldown
  • If players still discover rare instances of this occurring after this hot fix, please report it at https://help.relic.com/ with reproduction steps
• Added additional logging to identify fixes for crashes
• Updating from 2.5.3 to 2.5.5 due to cross platform compatibility constraints

Today's hot fix addresses a legacy exploit, and a bug introduced that impacts the ability to complete the Soulstorm campaign. 

• Exploit – fixed the root cause of a 12-year-old exploit that could allow one player to issue commands to another player’s buildings  
• Soulstorm – fixed an error that caused Imperial Guard and Dark Eldar Commanders to not allow two leaders of the same type

 

Please continue to send reports and feedback to help.relic.com so that we can prioritize issues in any subsequent updates.

We’re celebrating one year of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition.

Thank you to everyone who has played, shared feedback, and supported the game over the past year. Your enthusiasm has given us the opportunity to keep making the Definitive Edition the best experience it can be ​and helped us hit the incredible milestone of 750,000 copies sold!

It has been amazing to see new players discover Dawn of War for the first time and have longtime players there to welcome and support them by sharing strategies, tips, and advice.

We want to give an extra shout out to our modding community, tool makers, creators, and event organizers. We appreciate your creativity, dedication, and countless hours of work over the past 20 years. Thank your for continuing to bring the community together.

Here's to another 20 years of Dawn of War. For the Emperor!

-from the team at Relic

Today's hot fix addresses the most common crash introduced in Patch 2.10.0. 

 

• Texture Detail – fixed a crash that could occur when playing Dark Crusade, Soulstorm, and certain mods with Texture Detail set to any value below High

 

 

Please continue to send reports and feedback to help.relic.com so that we can prioritize issues in any subsequent updates. 

The Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition 2.10.0 Update is out. This update aims to improve underused units and research, while also improving faction matchups.

Read the full patch notes here 🔗 https://steamcommunity.com/games/3556750/announcements/detail/676254354515165507

Today's Hot Fix for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition addresses a crash and fixes some tuning changes that were introduced in the 2.9.0 Update. Thank you to those that reported these issues and shared your save files & replays to help.relic.com to help us diagnose and fix them. 

Gameplay

• Fixed a crash that could occur when a unit that used an ability that applies root (ex. Chaos Sorcerer using Chains of Torment) is killed while the victim unit is attempting to execute a move

Fixed tuning changes that were errantly introduced in patch 2.9.0: 

Imperial Guard 

• Plasma Gun: Decreased armor-piercing damage against light vehicles and medium vehicles, light and medium structures to restore previous balance 
• Grenade Launcher (Kasrkin): Increased knockback and armor-piercing damage against light and medium structures to restore previous balance

 

Orks 

• Super 'Eavy Boy Armor Research: Bonus to Stormboy maximum health restored to +33%. Power cost restored to 25 Power.

 

Today's Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition 2.9.0 Update aims to improve multiplayer balance in the latter stages of a match while continuing to refine previously made changes.

🔗Read the full patch notes here!

💀For the Emperor! Today's Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition 2.8.0 Update is the first community-driven patch focused on multiplayer balance.

🔗Read the full patch notes here!