Dawn of War 2 Beta Ends Today, Stats Released

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With Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II officially releasing on Thursday, developer Relic Entertainment has revealed that the multiplayer beta test will end in a few hours.

The beta will shut down at 12:01am GMT on February 18, which translates to 7:01pm EST / 6:01pm CST / 4:01pm PST on February 17, better known as today.

"We would like to thank everyone for participating in Relic's most successful Beta ever," the developer wrote on the game's community site. "We've identified and fixed a tremendous number of bugs and balance tweaks that will make the game considerably better when it ships to stores this week. We literally couldn't have done it without you."

A number of statistics from the nearly month-long beta of the action-RTS were provided, such as the most popular heroes and most successful races, viewable here.

Chris Faylor was previously a games journalist creating content at Shacknews.

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    February 17, 2009 9:33 AM

    I tried to put time into playing the beta but the multiplayer games always took 6+ minutes to do a matchmaking then I got bored and gave up. Plus because I had no clue how to play the game also didn't help.

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      February 17, 2009 10:40 AM

      How can you not have a clue how to play this game? I understand if people don't have a clue how to play backgammon for the first time, but here, you click a unit and move it across the map and click on enemies to kill them.

      You might sucks and die a lot, but still you play the game. Skill and tactics develop/are learned through playing the game, nobody was born a champion.

      But not knowing how to move or order units is something I don't get (not saying you don't know that), but I've come across few examples like that, and well for those I guess popcap games are ideal.


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      February 17, 2009 10:59 AM

      i learned to play by hosing a custom game and playing the easy AI a few times

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