https://www.deepsilver.com/games/dawn-of-war-iv
KING Art wrote:AT LAST
BACK TO WAR!
Return to the RTS series' roots with deeply satisfying strategy gameplay. Take command of four unique Warhammer 40,000 factions, including the Adeptus Mechanicus in their series debut! Fight through 70+ epic campaign missions, as well as the replayable Last Stand, Skirmish and multiplayer modes.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2272 ... _of_War_IV
It's a new developer for the series. It's not Relic, it's the guys that did Iron Harvest [ > ], if you remember that. We played its demo in 3v3 PVP, all 6 players ours, and streamed it [ > ]. It was okay, but nothing spectacular.
Official Announce Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXbGvpQ ... XVyolQO3wj
"Back to War" In-Engine Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EPli8w ... XVyolQO3wj
Check the in-engine trailer, it looks great. Tons of detail in the models, hectic battlefields, you can even see the drop pods I reported on recently in the 40k thread [ > ]. Of course you know what my issue is: the scale is too small, and you can't zoom out much, even though the promo illustrations show an entire planet. If only someone who's a genius coder would code an engine that renders entire planets at even greater scale and detail than PA and added all 40k factions in it instead of just 4. If only he would then allow full-planetary 4X wars in order to put the war in Warhammer, instead of the Battlehammer we now basically have. And if only his code allowed for infinite units, players, planets and solar systems for wars raging over days, weeks and months. And since Dawn of War IV features "the battle for planet Kronus", if only the first four players to stream and finish the campaign fought each other in a versus tournament so that the victor in that DoW4 tournament received Kronus as the prize in that other 4X game. And if only all that was just days away from being released by an unknown studio that's about to take the gaming world by storm and rise to its very top.
If only.
TBA 2026. For DoW4, that is.
