Are you going through in narrative order (Prologue>Orks>Ad Mech>Necrons>Space Marines), or just jumping ahead to your favs?

Personally, I'm going through in narrative order. Possibly even every time I play the game if choices from earlier campaigns impact later ones.

Rlly excited for DoW4 to come out, and decided to play definitive before it comes out. Fairly new to the game, played a bit of necrons campaign in dark crusade before. Is there anything I should practice or know or look out for?

So I've honestly never played a single RTS but DoW4 had piqued my interest. I want to know if I even really care for the genre before dropping $80 on a game that I'm not sure will even click with me. What are some game suggestions to test the waters first? I suppose the obvious choice would be DoW1, but I've also heard mixed reviews on Iron Harvest. Thoughts?

Question in title. Is there a mod for this? Its ridiculous its not in the game by default!

Has anyone seen any DoW4 creator footage of people using the eradicators? I just want to see eradicators in action c:

edit: Oh jeez seems like there's a reason I'm not seeing them fielded 🥲

I come from other strategies game, and I don't like how in DOW4 seems like everyone is shooting a tons of missiles but doing 25% of a units health.

Is playing low HP (skirmish settings) viable or makes the game too unbalanced because it is not designed like that?

So I was playing against a very dug in admech as orks and I had 70% of the map but absolutely could not do anything about their defenses. Everything you build can still be shot at by their defenses it seems.

And it got me thinking that with the exception of that one admech tank none of the factions seem to have along range artillery capable of taking down really dug in defenses so annihilation mode seems like it’ll be miserable to play

I have succesfully installed the Unification mod. And i've been advised to create separate mod folders, one for each.

I put all the files of Unification in a folder called "Unification" and they worked

Issue is that the Ultimate Apocalypse mod has an installer and it's asking specifically for the directory with the .exe of the game in, instead of letting me installed in the mod folder separately. How do i do it?

I'm playing the Orks

To everyone who participated in the closed beta test, I wanted to ask you about the game's performance. I have a computer with an i5-12400F, a 4060 Ti with 8 GB of VRAM, and 32 GB of RAM. How well will the game run for me? It would be great if you could share your PC specs and let me know what graphics settings and frame rates you were running the game at.

With how powerful some of the strategem, i think an Audio Warning should be added, like StarCraft "nuclear launch detected"

King Art has added new visual warning, but i am juggling between controlling multiple armies, building units and expanding base. I might miss those visual warning.

By the time i hear the strategem actual attack sound, my units are already dead (if i hear a warning first before the actual attack, i might be able to retreat and save some of them)

I have been watching lots of games from people that are in the beta right now. I never saw any key mapping to quick select buildings or units?

For example on StarCraft I would always put my hatchery on 4 and even now I still have the instinct of pressing 4-S-D to produce drones, it's engrained.

Is DOW4 gonna have these by default or do we have to set them up ourselves?

Got to play Custodes today and wondered how can a space marine realistically kill a custodian

Did anyone play Dawn of War 4 on the Steam Machine?
Can you share your experience with the performance?

Just really curious but the promotional teaser for the Aftermath DLC expansion shows industrial landscape with dark metal with yellow hazard stripes, which after all strongly resembles the iconic color scheme of the Iron Warriors Chaos Space Marine Legion.

Iron Warriors are siege warfare specialists with 10.000 years experience. I think for strategy game they would fit perfect as DLC race plus from lore point of view Perturabo has been returned to the real space.

i duuno how to explain it, but looking and playing, just doesnt feel or looks like warhammer, units are to small or scale of things are too spread out and you need to zoom out to see which even loses the looks of 40k even more. its all smooth and reactive and works perfectly, the game works amazingly, but i dont feel like im playing a warhammer 40k game.

this is not nostalgia this is 10 times better 40k visuals, everything is chucky, they keep yelling while fighting, each recoil is noticble, you see wat is a bolter fire and wat is a bazooka or plasma rifle, each squad member has their own hp and his own gun, each unit stands out, its zoomed and you still see all the action in 1 pic.

i think im more excited for total war warhammer 40k - dow4 uses the 40k settings, but total war 40k Is the 40k settings

Just finished a game to get lvl 15as necrons, really wanted to see the voice lines they had for the lych guard, as soon as i finished the game i put my level down to 12 lmao, i dunno if its a bug or because they didnt have above lvl 14 ready but yeah this happened and im fairly sad about it. Wanted to hear the lych guard talk

Chronomancer + Resurection gallery and you are --golden-- blackstone on medium AI. Those machine lovers wouldn't turn up again on my yard

Bugs

So i have played a lot, a lot of most factions apart from the admech as their aesthetic and gameplay didnt appeal to me in the slightest. game has a ton of bugs right now but they will be fixed i assume, my units getting stuck behind a structure and not moving anymore, my terminators or sentry pylons just being invisible but this shouldnt be taken into account as they SHOULD be fixed.

Reinforce mechanic

From what i can tell the reinforce mechanic makes many armies sometimes just not die and i honestly cant ever see a moment where i wont auto reinforce what i have, space marines become so tanky with it as every time you lose a marine they gain a shield. So i think auto reinforce is too strong, for maybe the orkz and necrons it should be a constant thing, orks having fairly cheap fast reinforce and necrons having the permenant reinforce that is free makes sense. But space marines and admech feel as though their reinforce makes them far tankier than they should be, espeically admech who should probably be made a bit tankier with worse reinforcement. BUT i do like having the reinforce, having these interactions with the armour of contempt, but it does slow down a lot of engagements.

Skirmish AI

The ai in skirmish so far seems good, i struggled in my first match as i learnt the game then was able to do medium reliably as someone who has played RTS games in the past but was never too good. Then with enough time i managed to do some Hard matchs and now i can win almost ever hard match but they are often close, so hard is infact hard and insane i imagine is insane for me.

Faction identity and unit Variety

I feel as though certain factions could do with maybe a bit more, i mean this in terms of buildings and unit variety. It feels so lack of variation per game when for example, the necrons i will make the choice of my two characters, and that essentially decides what i build throughout the game, destroyer tomb or canoptek tomb and spam skorpek and lochust or spam wraiths and spyders to summon scarabs. In the orks i found myself naturally gravitating to the beast snagga squig hog boys and eventually the gun wagon but i dont feel like i should build anything else on their roster (maybe sometimes flash gitz). And then for space marines with their high cost, if its a close game you pretty much pick one production building and focus on what it produces with the high cost of the models and constant reinforcement costs. Just overall i feel as though the building variety is also very low especially for the necrons but i feel like they need a lot more units in general to feel more full while somehow avoiding homogenisation. But some core is missing like trukks for orks, and for many units id gladly take simply a skin change for something like the squig hog boys into warbikers.

Maps and cover

Another part adding to the variation issue is the lack of maps and i will also say, the lack of meaningful cover and decisions on cover is just appalling for a DOW game, some maps have a few square buildings that allows them to shoot even if my melee attacks them, and then the rest is just random rocks in a curve. There simply isnt enough of either maps and cover but im hoping there will atleast be more maps on release when we get access to 2 v 2 and 3 v 3 maps and hopefully not just the same maps but stretched for more players.

Voice acting and Voice lines

Other than those issues i put, aesthetically it seems dead on for warhammer and thats good, and most of the voice lines are pretty fitting too BUT i do have huge issues i said in another post about the voice lines and acting. Please king art redo all the voice acting, i dont think any apart from maybe the skorpek lord has good voice acting that is fitting them and some of the space marines. I think the space marines need more boom in their voices to sound superhuman, admech needs more binaric and mechanical affects, necrons need to sound less like "human with an echo" and more like an alien speaking english with a deep background echo that is being projected rather than being spoke, and orks really need more aggression and personality please. I would personally start over with almost all of it and take a look at the other DOW games for some of the inspiration as they are much more memorable. memorability is important but so is the variety, there just isnt enough voice acting, hearing the same things over and over and over atleast with the current subpar voice acting is just soul sucking. For context, the flame tank from command and conquer kanes wrath has atleast a full minute of back to back voice lines for one single unit, and that is one vehicle unit out of like 13 for that one faction alone, yet i hear "convergence of dominion rising" and "necron warriors engaged but responding as the only things i remember.

These are most of my input i think, hopefully a lot of it gets seen to as the game does seem promising and i still had fun testing it but there is some glaring issues. And i know that not everyone will agree so dont worry please share your opinion too id love to see what everyone else thinks.

Ofc we talking abot DoW4.

I don't see people talking about it much, but it feels really important. And I'm talking here about...

Unit voice lines.

They are totally lacjluster. No energy. Hard to distinguished between units. Nothing really memorable. It feels like big part of dow1/2 were great, distinguishable unit voices. Who doesn't remember DoW1 culstists. Or classic "Drive me closer! I want to hit them with my sword"

Compared to them DoW4 are... Totally without energy. Even orks doesn't sound orky. Where that energy to fight and screening waagh?

Only ad mech is ok, but even there they could be more mechanical...

Work on the Tartaros and Cataphract terminators is ongoing. The textures for Tartaros have been improved — no AI, just manual work. High‑resolution materials were initially used. New armor elements have been added, and an alternative version of the Missle Luncher has been created. The weapons have been replaced for testing purposes, but the topology is too complex. It’s likely that the weapons will be completely redesigned in the future, based on the examples I already have. The number of textures used has changed from 1 × 1024 to 2 × 1024. The increase isn’t significant, considering that in some mods, models can use up to 20 textures of size 1024. The same changes will affect Terminator Indomitus and Cataphract. If I can completely rework the topology, I’ll add Saturn as well.