THQ have announced the Chaos Rising standalone expansion for Dawn of War II.

Continue the single player campaign from the original Dawn of War II with all new Wargear and a level cap raise from 20 to 30 for your Blood Raven squad. Veterans of the Dawn of War II single player campaign can use their existing squads’ accumulated wargear, abilities and experience to battle the traitorous Chaos Space Marines of the Black Legion throughout 20 new missions. Powerful new Chaos-tainted wargear can also be equipped and used against your enemy, but doing so could lead to dreadful consequences.

It's actually pretty fun co-op

That sounds pretty sweet if your guys can actually fall to chaos

Oh man i have been waiting for the chaos this will be AWESOME! But atm i love the Tyranids coolest race ever.

Sounds like an interesting addition to the series, any news about additional races?

Seems like they're focusing the expansion on Chaos, so I'm assuming we probably wont see any other races. Might be a more diverse selection of chaos than in DoW1 though, maybe they'll be chaos marines and chaos demons as two separate armies or something.

i got sick of DOW2 pretty quick. it was fun but COH is 100x better rts.

especially the metagame.... yeah... metagame.

i nearly have an aneurysm everytime i play that game its SO STRESSFUL

Infi you my G c***. COH is 100 times better. They should've just skinned the COH units to scifi stuff. Now that's a game I could've gotten into.

Kind of not related/offtopic:
I'm looking forward to starcraft2 for what will probably be a really well made and professional RTS experience. Talking about online ladders/matchmaking, no smurfs, no connection errors or drophax etc.

IMO relic has evolved and massively improved the RTS genre with the DOW and COH series. Simple gameplay stuff like the unit cover systems, squads and reinforcement, retreat system, side and rear armour hit bonuses, 'scissors, paper, rock' style of unit balancing.

I hope starcraft2 doesn't turn out to be blob spam versus blob spam.

edit: Oh and Capture Points > Resource Gathering

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Starcraft 2 will just be like Starcraft 1, there hasn't really been anything in the gameplay videos I've watched that give any indication that, gameplay-wise, its evolved at all.

You must be watching different videos to me, then, or have a different perspective on what contributes to gameplay. There's s***loads of mechanics changes and new abilities etc?

Adding some new units with some new abilities isn't really evolving the series though, I mean, expansion packs do that all the time. Look at DoW2 compared to DoW1, whether people like where DoW2 went or not, its definitely not the same game as DoW1 with some new units. Starcraft 2 on the other hand just looks to me like Starcraft 1 with a new coat of paint and some new units.

Yeah I have watched a few of those battle reports and it looks essentially the same. Probably wont grab me like the relic style rts games have.