Dawn of War 2 Retribution : dites au revoir à Windows Live et bonjour aux eldars

Voici une rapide bande-annonce qui vous permettra d’avoir un avant-goût de Retribution, la prochaine extension pour Dawn of War 2. Cet add-on de type stand alone mettra en avant les eldars, qui auront donc comme les orcs leur propre campagne, et marquera l’abandon par Relic du système Games for Windows Live de Microsoft au profit de l’unique utilisation de Steam, la plateforme de Valve Steamworks. Au sujet de la réorientation du matchmaking dans Dawn of War 2, vous trouverez quelques explications supplémentaires dans cet interview sur PC Gamer.

Sortie prévue en mars 2011. Pour plus d’infos sur le jeu, voyez le site officiel VF, ou le site communautaire US.

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Dawn of War II Retribution – Eldar Trailer
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Communiqué

We are excited to announce that Warhammer® 40,000®: Dawn of War II ® – Retribution™ will use Valve’s Steamworks networking and matchmaking to provide co-operative and competitive online play. This new back end will allow players to invite friends into matches from their Steam friends lists, and take advantage of the full set of Steam community features including groups, achievements, and Steam overlay chat channels. We are also going to include an all new matchmaking and ranking set up, built specifically for Dawn of War II – Retribution.

The move to Steamworks will also allow us to provide features like guest passes, free multiplayer weekends, pre-loading and the ability to provide fast turn-around on future patches and updates.

To accomplish this transition, Dawn of War II – Retribution will be a completely stand alone title in the series and will provide multiple campaigns to play, as well as all six multiplayer races, with new units for each of the existing five races and one new unannounced one. In a change from our previous strategies with expansion packs, we will not be patching this content back into Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising.

Owners of Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising will get the chance to try out the full set of Retribution’s Steam features in a multiplayer beta that will take place in the new year. More details on the beta will be announced at a later date.

Dawn of War II and Chaos Rising will continue to operate on Games for Windows LIVE, in order to preserve the owners of those titles ability to earn LIVE achievements as well as their established friends lists.

We are going to have more exciting announcements in the coming weeks, so stay tuned.