Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War delivers a level of visual detail never before seen in an RTS. Hundreds of units clash on the battlefields of the dark future, unleashing massive destruction through a stunning battery of long-range weaponry before closing in for the finish. Incredible kill animations bring science fiction combat to life like never before, and the gritty future-gothic Warhammer 40,000 setting provides a striking tableau for the chaos and carnage of this grim, dark future, where there is only war!
As you can guess from the title, we are pleased to announce that 7.0 is finally released!
Against all odds and difficulties, we have persevered and overcome any obstacles. Something we would never achieve without your continuous support!
There are no words to describe this moment and emotions we feel right now, aside that we wish from the deepest of our hearts that you will enjoy our work as much as we did making it!
Some helpful general advice before we move to the download link:
- If you are doing a clean installation of Soulstorm through Steam, please make sure LAA is enabled successfully. Steam has a tendency to disable it. If yes, do a restart of your PC and either enable through the Mod Manager anew or manually using the NTCore Patch.
- When launching a first match with the new version, there is a chance you will get a CTD at the start of the loading process. That is normal. The game profile still wants to load the SCAR files from the old version. A simple restart of the game(not the PC) will fix this and the game will load fine.
- Thanks to optimizations in packaging and ModDB raising the upload cap, we can have one single archive required only to be downloaded. In addition, the Unification_Bugfix and Unification_Bugfix_New_Races module files are discontinued as all semi-supported race mods are now complete and in. The mod is now called simply Unification.
- Do not use the Discord App when playing Dawn of War in genera.
As you may have read before, we have done many tests and confirmed that the Discord App messes with the DirectX9 DOW uses as it injects itself for the Overlay.
That has as a result to mess up the memory usage of the game and result in many RAM crashes. Disabling the app has showed a huge increased in stability.
Using the Browser is safe.
That is a bug with Discord itself that Discord does not bother to fix because old dlls. This is the same reason why you may get corrupted menus in the campaign which are only fixed if you close the app.
- Our tests have been very positive so far but as always, the public is the true stress test. Should there be any major bug that we have missed, like the last times, we will observe and release a Hotfix as soon as possible should it be needed.
- Regarding the addons, like the Campaign Addon and the Unlimited Addon. These will be uploaded in the coming days following the release. We will inform you on our Discord server and edit this article to include them when up. Likewise for fan made addons that we host on our server, there will be announcements by their creators once their updates are up. So keep an eye for them.
- Mirrors as usually are available on the first post of our FAQ. They will be updated in the coming days.
- Lastly, our Wikia will slowly update itself to the new information. As is a momentous work, please hang in tight until the job is complete.
Instructions for using the installer:
- Download the Unification package and the Unification Installer. Thanks to optimizations in packaging and ModDB raising the upload cap, we can have one single archive required only to be downloaded.
- Have the archive file in the same location(usually,it should be your default downloads folder) with where the installer is.
- Run the Installer exe and follow the instructions on screen. (Please mind the installer also counts as an uninstaller for any old version of Unification and the race mods as well as allows for installing the DOW Mod Launcher.)
- Enjoy!
Instructions for manual installation (intended for Mac and Linux OS users as well as for whoever does not wish to use or can't for whatever reason use the installer):
- Manually delete any old version of Unification and race mods that you may have installed.
- Only download the Unification package.
- Unzip it directly inside your Dawn of War Soulstorm directory.
- Download the Mod Launcher from the downloads section here and paste inside your Soulstorm folder.
- Make a shortcut of the Unification Campaign Configurator which is inside the extracted Unification folder.
- Copy the Movies folder from the DXP2 folder inside the Unification folder if you wish cutscenes in the campaign to be played(the installer copies them automatically).
- Enjoy!
And that is all. We deeply thank every single one of you who have been supporting us and enjoying Unification! You all make all of the hardships and work be worth the while!
So, with no other delays, we hope to see you on the battlefield!
Have fun everyone!
- Team Unification
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Hey guys i was thinking how about making race mods of other games?
Like starcraft, C&C, quake strogg saga, battlefront 2 classic and halo?
I have a question, will you add more variation of the rules of the game by the type of Commander Reinforcement, where only commanders get more hp and morale? And how to develop for the race 13 company HQ?
Im looking for a mod that is like FoK but has a campaign, any ideas? I don't care if it has titans, extra superheavies or new races, but I want 10 man space marine squads, lore-friendly things, that kinda stuff.
Maybe try Advanced Campaign? It isn't a straight adaption of tabletop (it uses 5-man marine squads rather than 10-man, for instance), but it does feel very lore-friendly.
well there is the ultimate apolocypse mod
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tbh 10-man space marine squads arent lore-friendly lol, mods with 4-5 marines are more lore-friendly
I am having troubles with using Corsix. Whenever I open a mod I do not see the modded assets, only the default unmodded files of the base game. For example when I was trying to change the stats of imperial guard artillery in UA, I cannot see
the weapon files for guard_heavy_mortar in Corsix even though the rdg files are located in steamapps\common\Dawn of War Soulstorm\UltimateApocalypse_THB\data\attrib\weapon. Is there a way so I could see the files in Corsix?
steamapps\common\ looks wrong I think. I have been trying to figure out modding myself. As far as I can tell these modding tools are VERY sensitive to file location and pipeline. I tink you have to put the game files in C Drive. File order should look like C:\Program Files (x86)\THQ\Dawn of War - Soulstorm. Do not try to mod the game in the Steam game file order. That is why most modders use the Disk version of the game NOT the steam version.
Will we ever see a Custodes mod for this great game?!
Yes they are coming. They will be fighting alongside the Sisters of Silence.