Dawn of War 2 Open beta

[Spino]

Ugh, I don't like receiving all these negative waves about a game I am positively moist in anticipation over.

As if the low unit cap and complete lack of base building was bad enough hearing about poor skirmish AI really really ticks me off. Recently I've been playing skirmish matches vs. the AI in CoH:OF and I immediately noticed how poor it was compared to DoW's AI. I also noticed that the CoH AI is absolutely obsessed with capturing points, which is particularly annoying since I always play using Annihilation victory conditions! I'm hoping decent modders eventually release a quality skirmish AI mod for CoH because so far the ones that are available right now are lacking and/or seriously buggy.

Based on what I'm hearing I think it's safe to say it's going to be awhile before Relic irons out the problems with DoW2 and (hopefully) improves the AI to the point where it doesn't suck. I know they're in the middle of testing an open beta right now but if the game is getting this much flak so close to release then it's almost guaranteed that it, at best, ship in only slightly better condition.

I guess i'll stick to playing skirmish maps vs. the AI in DoW. The spectacular Skirmish AI & DoWXP mods make playing the AI incredibly fun, epic and challenging.