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Today's hot fix addresses two legacy campaign crashes and addresses an issue introduced with a previous fix that prevented diplomacy options from working correctly. 

• Diplomacy – fixed an error that prevented the Diplomacy menu from working correctly when Resource Tributing Requisition and Power to an ally 

• Smart App Control – updated unsigned .dll files that would be blocked when using Smart App Control in Windows 

• Winter Assault – fixed a fatal scar error that could trigger in the intro cutscene of Disorder Mission 4  

• Soulstorm – fixed a fatal scar error that could trigger at various points during the Tau Stronghold mission 

Please continue to send reports and feedback to help.relic.com so that we can prioritize issues in any subsequent updates. 

Today's hot fix addresses a legacy exploit, and a bug introduced that impacts the ability to complete the Soulstorm campaign. 

• Exploit – fixed the root cause of a 12-year-old exploit that could allow one player to issue commands to another player’s buildings  

• Soulstorm – fixed an error that caused Imperial Guard and Dark Eldar Commanders to not allow two leaders of the same type 

Please continue to send reports and feedback to help.relic.com so that we can prioritize issues in any subsequent updates.

One year ago, the battle began... again! 💀

We’re celebrating one year of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition.

Thank you to everyone who has played, shared feedback, and supported the game over the past year. Your enthusiasm has given us the opportunity to keep making the Definitive Edition the best experience it can be ​and helped us hit the incredible milestone of 750,000 copies sold!

It has been amazing to see new players discover Dawn of War for the first time and have longtime players there to welcome and support them by sharing strategies, tips, and advice.

We want to give an extra shout out to our modding community, tool makers, creators, and event organizers. We appreciate your creativity, dedication, and countless hours of work over the past 20 years. Thank your for continuing to bring the community together.

Here's to another 20 years of Dawn of War. For the Emperor!

Today's hot fix addresses the most common crash introduced in Patch 2.10.0. 

• Texture Detail – fixed a crash that could occur when playing Dark Crusade, Soulstorm, and certain mods with Texture Detail set to any value below High 

Please continue to send reports and feedback to help.relic.com so that we can prioritize issues in any subsequent updates. 

Today's update marks a full year of support for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. Thank you to all the fans, modders, tournament organizers, and balance testers that have kept the community active and engaged – you have given us the opportunity to keep supporting a game that means so much to all of us here at Relic.

Going forward, after any required hot fixes or balance adjustments, the cadence of updates is likely going to slow and scale down as we allow the multiplayer meta to settle and generate more definitive data. Additionally, this will allow our team to spend time on some larger initiatives. The team will still be here, watching for ways to support the community.

As always, please continue to report any issues at https://help.relic.com/ to help us prioritize any new or existing issues.

Multiplayer Balance

General

This update looks to improve underused units, heavy weapons, and research, while also fixing some unit inconsistencies and improving some of the worst multiplayer matchups.

Chaos

Chaos are getting a cost increase to Khorne Berzerkers to reduce the effectiveness of some strategies where they were rushed together with the Chaos Sorcerer and could perform well even at a severe economic disadvantage.

Cultists are seeing a buff to their Plasma Guns and a minor buff to Grenade Launchers as well. Defilers are getting back some of their damage against Air units and the Chaos Lord is getting a targeted buff against some factions.

Cultist Squad

• Plasma Gun accuracy increased from 40% to 50%, accuracy when moving remains at 30%

• Grenade Launcher damage increased by 5%

Khorne Berzerkers

• Squad cost increased from 200/20 to 220/20

• Reinforce cost increased from 50/5 to 55/5

Defiler

• Battle Cannon damage against Air units increased by 20%

Chaos Lord

• Bolt Pistol damage against infantry high increased by 20%

Dark Eldar

Dark Eldar are getting an increase in the ranged damage reduction of the Energy Field for the Dais of Destruction to help them perform better in late game scenarios. At the same time we are removing Building High from being affected by Corrosion to prevent the Headquarters from being destroyed too easily by Dark Eldar in the later stages of a match.

Wyches are a bit too costly for what they can do after their previous nerfs and are getting a reduction in their reinforcement cost. Raiders are overperforming in the early stages of Tier 2 and are getting a reduction in their health. Finally, the Reaver Jetbike is getting some of its damage against builders back since it was reduced too much in previous patches.

Reaver Jetbike

• Ranged damage against Infantry Low increased by 10% on all weapons

Raider

• Health decreased from 1600 to 1500

Wych Squad

• Reinforcement cost decreased from 60/15 to 55/15

Dais of Destruction

• Energy field ranged damage reduction improved from 70% damage taken to 60% damage taken

Corrosion

• Armor reduction effect can no longer affect Building High (Mostly HQ buildings)

Eldar

The Eldar are getting a targeted buff to the Warlock to help it survive a bit better with the goal of improving the Eldar vs Tau matchup where they are needed to detect and kill Stealth Suits in the early game. Mysticism is getting a slight cost decrease to make it more affordable and further improve Guardians early on.

The Eldar health research are getting a reduction to time cost which will help them come online earlier considering the long research time for all upgrades in the Soul Shrine. We are also fixing the second health upgrade so that it properly changes the armor type of the Banshee Exarch so it matches the armor type change of the rest of the squad.

Guardian Squad

• Warlock health increased from 250 to 300

Webway Assembly

• Mysticism cost decreased from 125/65 to 125/55

Soul Shrine

• Wargear: Reinforced Armor research time decreased from 60s to 45s

• Wargear: Enhanced Reinforced Armor research time decreased from 60s to 45

Wargear: Enhanced Reinforced Armor

• New: Banshee Exarch now changes armor type from Infantry High to Infantry Heavy Medium to match the change in armor type of the normal Banshee squad members.

Imperial Guard

The Imperial Guards have been overperforming and are getting several small adjustments to their strength. Curse of the Machine Spirit is getting a reduction in duration and an increase in cooldown to make it harder to continually stun vehicles in the early stages of Tier 2 and Dauntless Valor is now moved to Tier 3 to reduce the amount of Psykers that can be put in the Command Squad earlier on.

The Guardsmen Plasma Gun, Chimera, and some of the Baneblade weapons are getting small damage reductions to reduce Imperial Guards strength in different stages of the game.

And finally, the Marauder is seeing some improvements to its Heavy Bolters to make them fire more frequently and to deal more damage.

Marauder

• Both Heavy Bolters fire on the move accuracy increased from 5% to 15%

• Heavy Bolters Horizontal/Vertical traverse speed increased from 45/20 to 90/40

• Heavy Bolters damage increased by 20%

Curse of the Machine Spirit

• Cooldown increased from 55s to 70s

• Duration reduced from 12s to 10s

Guardsmen

• Plasma gun damage reduced by 10%, this includes the minimum damage value

Tactica Command

• Dauntless Valor now requires Regimental Command instead of Battle Command

Chimera

• Damage reduced by 10% on all weapons, this includes the minimum damage value

Baneblade

• Battle Cannon and Demolisher Cannon damage reduced by 10%

Necrons

Necrons are receiving small reductions to ranged damage for the Wraith and Necron Lord after researching Wraith Flight and Phylactery. This aims to improve some matchups where Wraiths were spammed together with a strong Necron Lord and were almost unkillable.

Chronometron is getting its cost reduced to make it more affordable in some matchups where Necrons struggle. Veil of Darkness is also getting its cost reduced since it is the least used out of the Necron Lords artifacts. Solar Pulse has gotten a further increase in its cooldown because of how well it can shut down ranged armies.

The Nightbringer is getting a speed increase to help it better engage and deal damage before it reverts into the Necron Lord again. Both the Necron Lord and the Lord Destroyer are getting increased damage to late game Relic units and the Krootox, which Necrons struggle to counter.

Wraith

• Ranged damage reduction after Wraith Flight is researched reduced from 80% to 76%

Nightbringer

• Max speed increased from 20 to 24

Necron Lord and Lord Destroyer

• Melee damage against Daemon High and Vehicle High increased by 50%

• Melee damage against Daemon Medium increased by 400%

Necron Lord

• Phylactery ranged damage reduction lowered from 60% to 55%

• Solar Pulse cooldown increased from 80s to 90s

Forbidden Archive

• Chronometron cost reduced from 100 power to 75 power

• Veil of Darkness cost reduced from 325 power to 275 power

Orks

Orks are having a bit of a hard time in the current meta and are getting some minor buffs to help them out.

Stormboyz are getting back some of the health buff from ‘Eavy Boy Armor that they lost in a previous p…

Localization 

• Updated a small number of text strings that were appearing as “No Key” errors in the Gameplay Options menu and ability descriptions in languages other than English

Thank you to those that reported these issues to help.relic.com to help us diagnose and fix them. 

Gameplay 

• Fixed a crash that could occur when a unit that used an ability that applies root (ex. Chaos Sorcerer using Chains of Torment) is killed while the victim unit is attempting to execute a move

Fixed tuning changes that were errantly introduced in patch 2.9.0: 

Imperial Guard 

• Plasma Gun: Decreased armor-piercing damage against light vehicles and medium vehicles, light and medium structures to restore previous balance 

• Grenade Launcher(Kasrkin): Increased knockback and armor-piercing damage against light and medium structures to restore previous balance 

Orks 

• Super 'Eavy Boy Armor Research: Bonus to Stormboy maximum health restored to +33%. Power cost restored to 25 Power. 

Thank you to those that reported these issues and shared your save files & replays to help.relic.com to help us diagnose and fix them.

Today’s update aims to improve multiplayer balance in the latter stages of a match while continuing to refine the changes we made previously for the early and mid-game in update 2.8.0. 

As part of this, we’re moving the second global research for Requisition and Power for Eldar and Tau to Tier 3. These factions could previously research them at Tier 2.5, which allowed them to easily get further ahead in games if they were already winning. 

The team will continue to monitor the state of the multiplayer meta after this update, with a focus on additional adjustments for update 2.10.0 in the months ahead. 

Thank you to all our players for your ongoing feedback and bug reports! Your passion has been instrumental in our ongoing support of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. 

Automatch & Modding 

  A Fair Multiplayer Experience 

Thanks to the passion and dedication of this community, we have been able to re-invest in creating a more balanced and stable Multiplayer experience in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. Updates 2.8.0 and 2.9.0 both contain balance changes as well as enhanced detection and reporting on mod (and cheat) usage in Automatch. Going forward from the release of update 2.9.0, there are new policies being enforced to create a more even playing field for all players. 

Behaviors we are detecting and punishing from this day forward include but are not limited to: 

• Fog of War Removal / Map Hacks – mods that reveal units that would otherwise be obscured from the camera / on the minimap 

• Maximum Camera Distance – mods that allow for a much larger overview of the map than intended. Starting in 2.9.0, loose file mods will no longer impact the camera when playing Automatch. These mods will continue to work in all other modes. 

• Atmospheric Fog Removal – mods typically paired with camera distance mods intended to reveal more of the battlefield than intended 

The above behaviors all run counter to the intended mulitplayer experience as designed by the team at Relic (both past and present). 

Note: These policies apply to the base Automatch pool for the game – those playing Automatch with large scale multiplayer mods are placed into their own matchmaking queues that do not enforce these policies. Those playing custom games or watching replays are also not restricted. 

Those reported or detected using mods (cheats) that violate the spirit of fair competition will receive suspensions that start with 48h bans from Automatch and escalate to permanent suspension for repeat of flagrant offenders. 

Multiplayer Balance  

Chaos 

For Chaos, we’re making some minor tweaks to vehicles as well as buffing the Daemon Prince so that it can have more impact in the late game. 

The Defiler changes in update 2.8.0 were too harsh. It will get back its Area of Effect but will have reduced damage, morale damage, and knockback force. 

We’re also making the Chaos Space Marines take less time to recover from the morale break status to improve their performance in some matchups. 

Chaos Space Marines 

• Morale required to remove morale break status reduced from 150 to 100 

Chaos Vehicles 

• Now have the same bonus from heavy cover as the vehicles from all other factions 

• Ranged damage received while in heavy cover reduced from 80% to 75% 

Defiler 

• Battlecannon Area of Effect increased from 3 to 4 

• Battlecannon damage, morale damage and knockback force decreased by 25% 

Daemon Prince 

• Base regeneration rate increased from 4hp/s to 6hp/s 

• Damage against Vehicle High (Relic Vehicles and a few heavily armored vehicles like the Killa Kan, Baneblade and the Dais of Destruction) and Daemon High (Relic units other than vehicles and the Daemon Prince) increased by 50% 

• Daemon Roar ability radius increased from 10 to 15 

• Daemon Roar ability cooldown increased from 60s to 100s 

• Daemonic Strength ability cooldown reduced from 200s to 150s (This ability is the same for the Chaos Lord which is also affected) 

Sacrificial Circle 

• Symbol of chaos research time reduced from 70s to 60s 

• Daemonic Strength research time reduced from 80s to 50s 

Obliterators 

• Teleport time reduced from 5s/5s to 2.5s/2.5s to teleport/become mobile again 

Chaos Energies 

• New: Now gives +1500 health to the Daemon Prince 

• Chaos Predator health bonus from +1000 to +1300 

Possessed Space Marines 

• Reinforce cost reduced from 65/30 to 60/25 

• Squad Cost reduced from 260/120 to 240/100 

• Daemonic Fire morale dps decreased from 30 to 20 

Chaos Predator 

• Base damage of starting weapons (autocannon and heavy bolters) increased by 10% 

Dark Eldar 

Dark Eldar have been very strong since the last update and are receiving several adjustments to their early game as a result.  

We’ve also added two new T3 research items to allow for some scaling of infantry damage and health in the latter stages of the game. 

Reaver Jetbike 

• Damage decreased by 10% for all weapons 

• Armor Piercing against Commanders increased by 25% for all weapons 

• Damage against Infantry Low (all builders except Techpriest Enginseer) further decreased by 20% for all weapons 

Warrior Squad 

• Health Decreased from 300 to 275 

Hellion Squad 

• Damage against Infantry Low (all builders except Techpriest Enginseer) decreased by 30% on all weapons for both Hellions and their squad leader 

• Damage decreased by 10% on all ranged weapons for both Hellions and their squad leader 

Animus Vitae 

• Refresh Time increased from 1s to 1.5s (this affects how often the lifesteal damage triggers) 

Crucible of Malediction 

• Duration decreased from 6s to 5s 

• Cooldown increased from 120s to 150s 

Incubus 

• Reinforce rate increased from 10s to 15s 

Wych Squad 

• Ranged damage decreased by 20% 

• Wych Succubus ranged damage decreased by 20% 

• Combat Drugs ability duration decreased from 15s to 12s 

Warp Beast Pack 

• Beastmaster Tame Warp Beasts ability cooldown decreased from 180s to 120s 

• Damage against Building Low (mostly Listening Points, Generators, Turrets and Mine Fields) decreased by 30% 

Ravager 

• Horrorfex Bomb ability area of effect decreased from 10 to 6 

• Horrorfex Bomb ability duration decreased from 15s to 8s 

NEW: Improved Wraithbone Battlesuits 

• Requirements: Planetary Strike Add-on (T3 HQ), Wraithbone Woven Battlesuits (same slot in Haemonculus’ Laboratory) 

• Cost: 100/50, 30 seconds research time 

• Scourges health increased by 75 

• Wyches health increased by 150 

• Warriors health increased by 75 

NEW: Improved Soulseeker Ammunition 

• Requirements: Planetary Strike Add-on (T3 HQ), Soulseeker Ammunition (same slot in Haemonculus’ Laboratory) 

• Cost: 100/50, 40 seconds research time 

• Scourge squad Splinter Cannon damage increased by 25% 

• Warrior squad Splinter Rifle damage increased by 25%, this includes the Splinter Rifle on the Raider when Warriors are embarked on it. 

• Wyches ranged damage increased by 25% 

Eldar 

We’re continuing to adjust the early game for Eldar with some small nerfs to Rangers and Dark Reapers. We have a…

Today’s update is the first community driven patch focused on multiplayer balance in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. This work was only made possible by your continued support, feedback, and passion for this game. We want to thank the community members that have been driving, testing, and validating this work to get it ready for all of you today. 

Balancing any RTS game, especially one with nine factions, is complicated and time-consuming work. As such, today’s update will not solve or address every single friction point in the multiplayer experience. Update 2.8.0 is only the first of several planned multiplayer balance patches coming in 2026. This work will be incremental, and it will adapt based on feedback from players in the coming weeks. As such, we encourage all our multiplayer fans to play as many matchups and game modes as they can to get a feel for these new changes and then provide feedback and suggestions for future updates. 

Additionally, with the release of this update, we will be enforcing escalating suspensions and bans for any players using mods or other software to remove the fog-of-war and/or atmospheric fog in automatch modes. This does not include custom games or singleplayer/skirmish. We know that these options exist in some historically popular mods, however, they run counter to the intended player experience - especially in automatch. This first round of suspensions will only last 48-hours and will act as a warning. In the coming weeks, player accounts detected removing fog-of-war or atmospheric fog will receive suspensions of a week (or more) and subsequent detection will culminate in permanent bans. Appeal requests can be opened at https://help.relic.com/.

Thank you again for your ongoing support and good luck in your multiplayer games! Stay tuned for the next part of this balance work in the months ahead. 

General  

Today’s multiplayer balance update aims to improve the balance between factions in the early and mid game. We want to decrease the effectiveness of area-of-effect units, as they became stronger with the changes to pathfinding and collision in the Definitive Edition. 

This update also mitigates the ability to sell early game buildings to prevent refunding them for resources. Though this was already true for Headquarters, Barracks, and Generators, we’ve expanded this restriction to cover the Tier 1 Armory buildings and the Forbidden Archive to avoid current and future strategies that exploited this. We exempted the Armory style buildings which double up as Tier 2 research, such as the Soul Shrine and the Path to Enlightenment. 

• Deleting completed Armory buildings (Space Marines, Sisters of Battle, Chaos, Imperial Guards, Dark Eldar and Orks) and Forbidden Archive (Necrons) now returns 10% of the resources to the player  

Finally, Artillery style units and grenade style abilities are receiving changes to compensate for the new pathing and collision systems. 

Chaos 

The Cultist Grenade Launcher opener has been overpowered; we have adjusted this to encourage more variety in opening play. 

Raptors health has been slightly increased, and they will receive an increased boost from Jetpack Booster Research to help them to be more useful in the mid-game. 

Berzerkers movement speed and Health has been increased to improve their usability. 

Vehicles have been adjusted to encourage a selection of vehicles other than Defilers. 

Cultist Squad 

• Grenade Launcher Area of Effect decreased from 4 to 3 

• Grenade Launcher damage decreased 20% (including the value for minimum damage dealt) 

• Grenade Launcher damage against Commander armour decreased by 15% instead of 20% 

Khorne Berzerker Squad 

• Speed increased from 20 to 24 

• Health increased from 610 to 670 

Hell Talon 

• Autocannon and Incendiary Bomb damage to commander armor decreased by 20% 

Chaos Predator  

• Heavy bolters range increased from 30 to 35 

• Cost decreased from 150/330 to 150/300 

Defiler  

• Battlecannon damage to aircraft decreased by 30% 

• Battlecannon area of effect decreased from 4 to 3 

Chaos Space Marine Squad  

• Frag Grenades damage decreased by 15% 

Raptor Squad 

• Health increased from 405 to 425 

Jetpack Booster Research   

• New: Now gives passive move speed of +20% to Raptors and Raptors Aspiring Champion 

Speed Fiends ability 

• Duration increased from 7s to 10s 

• Movement speed increase from 40% to 30%  

Dark Eldar 

Adjustments have been made to the Dark Eldar with the aim of decreasing the dominance of Reaver Jetbikes. We will continue to monitor these changes with a view to future updates. We are also adjusting the survivability of Warriors along with their lethality.  

Anti-vehicle options in the Scourge Squad and the Raider have been adjusted so they are better able to fend off early vehicles from other factions. We’re hoping this improves Dark Eldar performance in early Tier 2.  

Finally, the Talos has been adjusted so that it can perform better at melee range. 

Warrior Squad 

• Splinter Rifle damage against Infantry Low (All builders except Techpriest Enginseer) and Infantry Heavy Medium (Space Marines, Fire Warriors, Battle Sisters and similarly armoured units) reduced by 10% 

• Splinter Rifle damage against Infantry Medium (Starting units like Guardsmen, Cultists and Guardians), Infantry High (Mostly early game units from Orks, Eldar and Dark Eldar like Sluggas, Dark Reapers and Warriors) and Commanders reduced by 15% 

• Health increased from 250 to 300 

Reaver Jetbike 

• Build time increased from 21s to 25s 

• Splinter Cannon damage to Commander armor type decreased by 33% 

• Splinter Cannon with targeting module damage to Commander armor type decreased by 33% 

Scourge Squad 

• Dark Lance setup time decreased from 1.5s to 1.0s 

Wraithbone Woven Battlesuits  

• New: Scourges now gain 55 health from this upgrade 

• New: Scourge Sybarites now gain 100 health from this upgrade 

Raider 

• Health increased from 1400 to 1600 

• Dark Lance damage increased by 15% 

• Cost increased from 100/125 to 125/150 

• Build time increased from 25s to 30s 

• Raider Splinter Rifle damage adjusted to match the changes to Warrior Squad Splinter Rifle. These weapons are used when Warriors embark on a Raider

Talos 

• Deceleration time decreased from 1s to 0.2s 

• Acceleration time decreased from 2s to 1s 

• Time cost decreased from 45s to 30s 

• Max speed increased from 18s to 21s 

Wargear: Power Blades  

• Cost decreased from 75/75 to 50/50 

Wargear: Agonizers  

• Cost decreased from 100/100 to 75/75 

Archon 

• Power Claw and Agonizer damage reduced by 20%  

Wych Succubus 

• Damage from Wargear: Power Blades and Wargear: Agonizer decreased by 20% (not cumulative) 

Warrior Sybarite 

• Damage from Wargear: Power Blades and Wargear: Agonizer upgrade increased by 40% (not cumulative) 

Scourge Sybarite  

• Damage from Wargear: Power Blades and Wargear: Agonizer upgrade increased by 40% (not cumulative) 

Eldar 

We have made adjustments to many of the Eldar spells. Bonesingers Wraithtomb should now be less oppressive in shutting down buildings, the Farseer is less of a menace against factions like Imperial Guards, and the Harlequin is less effective at wiping out armies by herself.  

Banshee’s are getting some slight buffs to acce…

Gameplay 

• Melee Combat – Re-applied a fix for revived units such as Necron Warriors and the Living Saints to prevent them from endlessly pursuing their last melee attacker 

Audio

• Speech – Updated how intel speech priority is handled (for example, scripted character dialogue during a cutscene) to address cases where story dialogue could be skipped because all audio channels are full during heavy combat 

Please be sure to report any bugs or technical issues by submitting a new request at help.relic.com. 

Today’s update for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition includes several quality-of-life and bug fixes to improve gameplay, the user interface, art & animation, and modding capabilities. Notably, this update should address frustrations with melee unit behavior and should also resolve an economy exploit. 

In the coming months, the team will continue working to resolve any high priority bugs or issues that arise, so please be sure to report those by submitting a new request at help.relic.com.

One of our goals when we first began working on the Definitive Edition was to empower and support the community that has kept the fires lit for 20 years. To that end, we are in early discussions to support community-driven multiplayer balance patches. What shape that takes, who will be involved, and when official balance updates might be released are still being determined and will be at Relic’s discretion. We hope to share more information with the community as these plans begin to take shape. For now, just know that multiplayer balance is top of mind, and we’ll have more news later this year. 

  General 

• Crash – fixed a crash on launch where the display device was not detected correctly on first boot. Please submit BugSplat reports and add information about if it was your first time booting the game or happening repeatedly if you continue to see an issue 

• Match Reporting – fixed some instances of match results being sent incorrectly or at the wrong time. This resulted in some matches not being recorded correctly in player stats 

• Audio – added audio treatment to numerous pieces of Russian unit dialogue to be more consistent with other languages. Examples include faction-appropriate helmet reverb on many Space Marine, Chaos, and Eldar units, faction-appropriate radio effects on many vehicles, and the Eldar Avatar of Khaine sounding far more godlike 

• Audio – added support to restart ambient background music when loading a save file in the Dawn of War and Winter Assault campaigns.  Note: If the music was triggered by a scripted objective change it will not reload / update until the next objective update 

• Shadows – disabled shadows on numerous small objects placed in maps (ex. stones, grass) to reduce the appearance of floating when on uneven terrain 

• Rendering – disabled manual window resizing when playing in Windowed Mode to prevent a mismatch between game and window resolution 

Gameplay 

• Melee Combat – updated the pathfinding system to allow melee attacks on fleeing opponents to be successful more frequently instead of stopping or switching to ranged combat.  The intention is to more closely match Soulstorm’s legacy behavior 

• Melee Combat – Fixed a case where revived units such as Necron Warriors and the Living Saints would endlessly pursue their last melee attacker 

• Economy – fixed an exploit where research could be unlocked earlier than designed by deleting a required building, getting a refund, and buying the upgrade before the requirement updated 

• Pathfinding – fixed several cases where units could become stuck inside each other – for example when hit by a knockback attack or when melee attacking a larger vehicle. Enemy units in these overlapping cases will now be able to phase through each other to disengage 

• Save/Load - units that had an order active when the game was saved now resume the order when loading. Applies to actions such as: move, using an ability, construction, repair, capturing, and more. Note: Capture action will resume but capture progress will be lost 

• Chaos – fixed a tuning issue that caused the Dark Crusade & Soulstorm campaign Chaos Lords to become weaker when ascending to Daemon Princes through Wargear unlocks 

• Chaos – fixed a case where the cooldown on the Chaos Raptors Speed Fiends ability would reset immediately after spawning the Aspiring Champion 

• Chaos – updated the Aspiring Champion’s Berzerk Fury gridkey & command card button to the bottom row to avoid conflict with Attack Ground when attached to Cultists with a Grenade Launcher. See Known Issues list at the bottom of this post for additional details 

• Chaos – added missing Russian dialogue that caused the Aspiring Champion to respond in English 

• Dark Eldar – updated the Terrorfex Grenade ability gridkey and command card button to the third position to avoid conflict with Haemonculus abilities 

• Imperial Guard – added hotkey support for the Assassin Infiltration research in the Dark Crusade campaign 

• Necron – updated the limit on the number of harvestable bodies in the world at a given time to be per Necron player value (75) rather than a global one for matches with more than 1 Necron player  

• Orks – increased the attack range of the Slugga Boyz to fix cases where they would not attack while within weapon range 

• Orks – updated Mine Field to use the correct hotkey binding ork_mine_field 

• Sisters of Battle – fixed a case where the cooldown on the Angelic Visage ability cooldown would instantly reset when adding the Seraphim Sergeant 

• Sisters of Battle – fixed an unintentional cooldown reset by removing a duplicate ability on the Veteran Superiors for the Celestian and Seraphim squads 

• Space Marines – update the Librarian to correct default to ranged combat instead of melee 

• Space Marines – updated Skull Probe’s sabotage ability to prevent enemy vehicles from Jumping 

• Space Marines – added hotkey support for Librarian research in the original campaign and moved it to S for all campaigns to prevent overlapping 

• Space Marines – updated the Champion Select screen to load the correct face model when selecting Space Marines 

• Tau – increased the Fire Warrior Bodyguard line of sight to 25 to prevent issues where it would stop attacking while still in weapon range 

• Winter Assault Campaign – fixed a bug with squad reinforcement that could result in new units using the incorrect team colors 

• Winter Assault Order Mission 4 – fixed a script error that caused the incorrect Eldar color scheme to be used in the closing cutscene 

• Dark Crusade – fixed a fatal scar error that could occur in the Chaos Stronghold mission during the ending cutscene when a Necron unit dies right before the cutscene starts 

• Dark Crusade – updated the Eldar Stronghold script to correctly trigger the intro dialogue when playing in Russian 

• Soulstorm – updated the camera for the Chaos Stronghold closing cutscene to avoid situations where units would clip through the camera 

User Interface 

• Japanese – fixed translations for Diplomacy and Objectives on the HUD buttons 

• Lighting – updated lighting on the Dark Crusade and Soulstorm Commander and Wargear screens to load consistently and be rendered from the correct direction 

• Army Painter – tuned lighting used on the Army Painter screen 

• Army Painter – adjusted positioning of several units to appear more grounded in the scene 

• Cover – fixed description of Cover to better reflect in-game behavior 

• Chaos – fixed description of the Heavy Weapon Increase upgrade to better reflect in-game behavior 

• Eldar – fixed a data error that caused incorrect Eldar unit portraits to be displayed for the Bonesinger, Guardian, Seer Council, and Fire Dragon 

• Eldar – updated several upgrade icons that were displaying lower resolution versions 

• Imperial Guard – fixed missing icon that caused a Space Marine skull icon to be shown when hovering over the HUD minimize button 

• Imperial Guard – updated description for the Psyker Soul Strip ability to correctly reflect in-game behavior 

• Imperial Guard – updated several upgrade icons that were displaying lower resolution versions 

• Space Marines – updated Skull Probe Sabotage ability tooltip to correct reflect disabling enemy vehicles 

• Winter Assault – updated text spacing on loading screens to fix text tha…

Today’s hot fix addresses a small number of issues raised by the community after Tuesday’s 2.6.0 update. Thank you to those that reported the errors, and helped us troubleshoot the root causes. Please continue to report any issues at help.relic.com.

General 

• Fixed crash in the FX Editor when attempting to save a new FX 

• Fixed a crash when loading the Skirmish menu when modded map names or descriptions contained an unsupported number of characters 

• Community Maps – renamed the version of Community Maps released in 2.6.0 to avoid conflicts between these maps and the legacy modded versions.  The maps have been re-added to the Automatch pool

UPDATE - We have temporarily rolled back the changes to the Automatch map pool until we can resolve the conflicts between the Automatch maps and legacy mod maps. The new community maps will continue to be available in Skirmish and Multiplayer. You may still encounter issues playing the new maps in multiplayer if only some players have the legacy mod maps.

We’re excited to reveal that today’s update will bring five community-made maps into the official map pool. Additionally, we have improved our translations for Japanese, Russian, and Polish. We have also done a tuning pass of flamer weapons after their recent visual and behavior improvements in update 2.5.0. You can find more details and the list of other fixes and changes below. 

As we approach the end of 2025, we want to thank all the players who have supported Relic and our games. The response to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition has been fantastic, and we are so pleased to have you all on this journey with us. What started as a small project to refresh this beloved game has taken on a life of its own, and that’s all thanks to your support. 

The team will be taking a break for the holidays, but we are working on our plans for 2026 and hope to share more with you later next year. In the meantime, we will be working through our backlog of work items and player-submitted issues. 

We have recently updated and improved our support and bug reporting process - notably by bringing on additional full-time Customer Support representatives. As we review and close older reports, please continue to share any new or unresolved issues with us at help.relic.com. We will use these reports to help shape our priorities for 2026. As such, we have not included a “High Priority Known Issues” list with these patch notes as we work to complete this new review. 

General

• Community Maps – added 5 new maps created by community members to the pool of maps available in Skirmish & Multiplayer. The team at Relic has made some minor updates to these maps for their official inclusion in the game.

  • Deadly Archeology (2)

    • As the Necrons wake across the Galaxy, more and more worlds have found ancient basalt structures spewing forth pitiless, death-dealing machines. Deadly Archeology is a 1vs1 map created by TranspersonalPsy

  • Fata Morga Remastered (2)

    • Site of the climactic battle between the Blood Ravens and the Chaos witch Morga. A remastered version of the classic 1vs1 Fata Morga map, created by TranspersonalPsy

  • Sandstorm (2)

    • Sandstorm is a 1vs1 map created by monorail and Eranthis. The Blood Ravens recruiting world of Calderis features endless tracks of desert and massive sandstorms

  • Refinery (4)

    • Promethium refineries dot the landscapes of countless human worlds, belching smoke and producing the power that drives the Imperium. Created by MC Warhammer and Eranthis

  • Forsaken Canals (7)

    • Forsaken Canals is a 7-player map created by Eranthis. Once a lush city cut by broad canals, Eran was abandoned when an axial shift rendered the planet an arid wasteland

• Japanese – added official support for Japanese by completing missing translations, updating legacy translations, and updating fonts to support Japanese characters

• Russian – reviewed & updated legacy translations to improve quality and consistency

• Polish – reviewed & updated legacy translations to improve quality and consistency

• Achievements – removed earning score-based achievements from Campaign missions, as this was not an intended behavior 

• BugSplat – upgraded the game’s BugSplat version to improve error logging and to catch crashes that were not previously logged 

• Save / Load – fixed Cloud Save functionality to correctly back-up & transfer profile information to fix errors 

• Save / Load – updated Original Campaign save functionality to correctly save difficulty setting when loading or restarting a game 

• Lighting - FX lights now light the terrain  

• Game Launch – improved handling of cases where two (or more) copies of the game are launched to prevent cases where DirectX error messages were displayed 

• Game Launch – added additional error logging to help diagnose rare cases where the video card is not correctly detected on game launch 

• Load Times – improved loading functionality to prevent cases where Windows would trigger Application Not Responding errors when loading large games 

Gameplay

• Flamer Changes – Today's update re-tunes several flamer weapons both to function correctly as area effect weapons and to match their effectiveness more closely to update 2.4.0 or their legacy Soulstorm equivalent. Note that in most cases, these new values don't match Soulstorm one-to-one because they were not working properly as area of effect weapons during that game’s lifetime

  • Imperial Guard Hellhound (inferno cannon): area of effect restored to 10 meters; visual FX increased to better match damage area. In this case, gameplay should match 2.4.0/Soulstorm very closely

  • Tau Crisis Suit Flamer: reduced flamer angle from 60 to 30 degrees and damage from 50-70 to 15-25. Effectiveness vs basic infantry groups should be close to 2.4.0/Soulstorm, although single-target damage is much lower. In 2.4.0/Soulstorm this weapon had no cone and was doing damage only in a line 

  • Tau Commander Flamer: reduced flamer angle from 60 to 20 degrees. Effectiveness vs basic infantry groups should be close to 2.4.0/Soulstorm, where this weapon had a very short cone so was mostly doing single target damage 

  • Sisters of Battle Penitent Engine Flamers: reduced damage from 42-50 to 10-15 on each flamer. Effectiveness vs basic infantry groups should be close to 2.4.0/Soulstorm, although single-target damage is much lower. In 2.4.0/Soulstorm these weapons had wide and short cones so did damage over a smaller area 

• Winter Assault - updated Eldar to correctly fire at the Assassin during the Order Mission 3 cutscene 

• Soulstorm – fixed a bug with the Space Marine factional campaign map power (Deep Strike) in which it was linked to an incorrect data table – causing units to immediately die instead of correctly spawning 

• Movement – fixed an error where charge modifiers would be applied multiple times, most reported with Chaos Cultists moving much faster than intended 

• Multiplayer – updated the Faith (Sisters of Battle) and Soul (Dark Eldar) resources to not share with factions that cannot use them in Multiplayer games with Resource Sharing enabled 

• Audio – updated Space Marine servitors to fix using English dialogue while playing in Russian 

User Interface

• Front End – updated lighting in the front end to render as intended and to load consistently when switching between campaigns / mods 

• Save/Load– updated Save / Load screen background to correctly support widescreen resolutions in Dark Crusade & Soulstorm 

• Archive – fixed the aspect ratio of images on the Archive screen in Dark Crusade & Soulstorm 

• Dark Crusade – fixed a typo in the Manreaper wargear description 

• Soulstorm – updated campaign victory flow to correctly trigger conquest victory cinematics 

• Soulstorm – fixed cases where the menus would display in 4:3 aspect ratio when the Attack tutorial pop-up was triggered 

• Soulstorm – updated incorrect mission speech portraits in Necron & Dark Eldar Stronghold missions 

• Soulstorm – updated Defeated screen backgrounds to be the correct resolution and to be images from Soulstorm campaign 

• Soulstorm – updated victory screen to align the tooltip box correctly on all resolutions 

• Soulstorm – fixed cases where Reinforcement unit images would be displayed at the incorrect size 

• Soulstorm – increased resolution on icons used on the Campaign map 

• Loading Screens – removed legal text when loading between mods / campaigns 

• HUD – removed camera edge panning functionality when the Objective or Diplomacy HUD overlays are open 

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Today’s hot fix addresses a handful of issues leftover from last week’s 2.5.0 update, including a fix that inadvertently reverted an old balance change. We know that as we continue to support, update, and fix issues in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition, it may have knock-ons to the multiplayer meta, which has essentially been untouched for the last 10 years. Your love for this game and your continued support has gotten us this far, and we intend to go further. We remain dedicated to improving the game and making it the best way to play Dawn of War. Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks. 

Thank you for your continued feedback. Please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com. 

Gameplay 

• Chaos – reverted a hot fix that was actually an ancient balance change. Cultist Squad Aspiring Champion will no longer receive a plasma pistol or power sword upgrade 

• Jump Movement – fixed two additional error cases where squads with a jump movement ability could fail to perform the jump action

User Interface 

• Multiplayer – updated the end of match flow to fix an issue that caused the results screen to not appear 

Art & Animation 

• Vehicles – fixed an issue where tank tracks would display missing decals in the original campaign 

Today’s update includes our top-requested feature – Achievements for both Steam and GoG. You can find a full list of the Achievements and their descriptions below. Additionally, this patch improves the Mission Editor for modders and addresses several gameplay bugs and issues for our more competitively minded players. This includes fixes for jump movement, grenades, Necron generators, and several flame weapons and flame FX such as the Immolator. 

Many of the fixes included in today’s patch are thanks to your feedback, so please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com. 

Achievements! 

Our team is excited to release 109 new achievements for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. These achievements were inspired in part by requests from the Community, in addition to some fun ones we have come up with ourselves. We hope you enjoy unlocking all of them! 

Please note: to bring achievements to Dawn of War - Definitive Edition, we needed to dig in and track progress across the game. With a 20-year-old game as our starting point, we did not have much in the way of existing stat tracking to use, so we had to add that in this latest patch to support Achievements. Any previous play time will not contribute to earning achievements - you are largely starting fresh with this update. 

One partial exception is campaign-completion achievements, which are awarded when you finish the campaign, not working through the entirety of it. You do not need to replay the entire campaign to gain its completion achievement. If you have an existing save or have the final mission unlocked, you can simply replay that mission to earn it. 

Achievement Name 

Description 

Play a match of any type 

Death, War and Blood 

Win a match of any type 

Our Prey Is Near 

Win a skirmish match as Chaos 

We are the Lords of Despair 

Win a skirmish match as Dark Eldar 

Victory is Our Fate 

Win a skirmish match as Eldar 

Glory For The First Man To Die! 

Win a skirmish match as Imperial Guard 

The Galaxy is Ours 

Win a skirmish match as Necrons 

Orks is da biggest and da strongest! 

Win a skirmish match as Orks 

A Small Mind Is Easily Filled With Faith 

Win a skirmish match as Sisters of Battle 

For the Emperor! 

Win a skirmish match as Space Marines 

Victory is the Reward of Unity 

Win a skirmish match as Tau Empire 

Do you hear the voices too?? 

Win a multiplayer match as Chaos 

Power From Pain 

Win a multiplayer match as Dark Eldar 

I Have Already Seen Our Victory 

Win a multiplayer match as Eldar 

Only in Death Does Duty End 

Win a multiplayer match as Imperial Guard 

We Awaken Once More 

Win a multiplayer match as Necrons 

If We Win, We Win. If We Die, We Die Fightin’ 

Win a multiplayer match as Orks 

Faith Without Deeds is Worthless 

Win a multiplayer match as Sisters of Battle 

Victory Needs No Explanation, Defeat Allows None 

Win a multiplayer match as Space Marines 

For The Greater Good 

Win a multiplayer match as Tau Empire 

Purity of Purpose 

Achieve an Annihilate victory 

Identify and Eliminate 

Achieve an Assassinate victory 

We Claim This World as Our Own 

Achieve a Control Area victory 

We Stand. They Do Not. 

Achieve a Destroy HQ victory 

Raising the Tithe 

Achieve an Economic victory 

They Stood No Chance 

Achieve a Take and Hold victory 

We Alone Will Remain 

Achieve a Sudden Death victory 

All Out War 

Complete the Dawn of War campaign 

Blood and Frost 

Complete the Winter Assault Order campaign as Imperial Guard 

The Cold Means Nothing 

Complete the Winter Assault Order campaign as Eldar 

WAAAGH! 

Complete the Winter Assault Chaos campaign as Orks. 

We Revel in Their Defeat 

Complete the Winter Assault Chaos campaign as Chaos 

Heresy. Purged. 

Capture the Chaos Stronghold in Dark Crusade 

Break the Xenos 

Capture the Eldar Stronghold in Dark Crusade 

Fools Blinded by a Dead God 

Capture the Imperial Stronghold in Dark Crusade 

Entombed Once More 

Capture the Necron Stronghold in Dark Crusade 

Nothing but Rubble 

Capture the Ork Stronghold in Dark Crusade 

Gates Unbarred and Unguarded 

Capture the Marine Stronghold in Dark Crusade 

Diplomacy is Temporary. War is Not. 

Capture the Tau Stronghold in Dark Crusade 

Chaos Undivided 

Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Chaos 

Do Not Pity the Mon-Keigh 

Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Eldar 

The Emperor Protects 

Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Imperial Guard 

Rejoice, For We Have Returned 

Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Necron 

Ere We Go, Boyz! 

Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Orks 

My Armour is Contempt 

Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Marines 

The Patient Hunter Gets the Prey 

Complete the Dark Crusade Campaign as Tau 

Crazed Fanatics 

Capture the Chaos Stronghold in Soulstorm 

You Shall Cause Suffering No Longer 

Capture the Dark Eldar Stronghold in Soulstorm 

Soul Black Shadows of Death 

Capture the Eldar Stronghold in Soulstorm 

Witness Your Doom! 

Capture the Imperial Stronghold in Soulstorm 

Scrap Metal 

Capture the Necron Stronghold in Soulstorm 

Not Kunnin’ Enough 

Capture the Ork Stronghold in Soulstorm 

Death to the Corpse God and His Servants 

Capture the Sisters Stronghold in Soulstorm 

The Road to Disappointment 

Capture the Marine Stronghold in Soulstorm 

Not So Great Anymore 

Capture the Tau Stronghold in Soulstorm 

An Offering to the Dark Gods 

Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Chaos 

Raise our standard! Let it strike fear! 

Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Dark Eldar 

I Taldeer you so! 

Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Eldar 

Live to Fight Another Day 

Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Imperial Guard 

We Are Legion 

Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Necrons 

Clobber Da Whole Lot Of Them! 

Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Orks 

Our Emperor, Deliver Us 

Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Sisters of Battle 

Eternal Service 

Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Space Marines 

We Will Deliver the Killing Blow 

Complete the Soulstorm Campaign as Tau 

Let the Galaxy Burn! 

Kill 666 Space Marines as Chaos 

Lesser Kin 

Kill 1000 Eldar as Dark Eldar 

The War in Heaven 

Kill 1000 Necrons as Eldar 

Breakdown in Negotiations 

Kill 1000 Tau as Imperial Guard 

Ancient Slaughter 

Kill 1000 Eldar as Necrons 

Armageddon 

Kill 1000 Imperial Guard as Orks 

Purifying Flame 

Kill 1000 Chaos as Sisters of Battle 

Suffer Not The Xenos To Live 

Kill 1000 Orks as Space Marines 

Fire Superiority 

Kill 1000 Imperial Guard as Tau 

The Grim Darkness Of The Far Future 

Kill 40,000 enemy units 

Neophyte 

Defeat the easy AI in skirmish 

Battle-Brother 

Defeat the standard AI in skirmish 

Lieutenant 

Defeat the hard AI in skirmish 

Captain 

Defeat the harder AI in skirmish 

Chapter Master 

Defeat the insane AI in skirmish 

Yes, Yes! We Will Work Faster! 

Build all structures as Chaos in a single match 

The Dark City 

Build all structures as Dark Eldar in a single match 

Craft World 

Build all structures as Eldar in a single match 

Sanctum Manufactorum 

Build all structures as Imperial Guard in a single match 

Tomb World 

Build all structures as Necrons in a single match 

Build It Right Up For You! 

Build all structures as Orks in a single match 

Sanctum Sororitas 

Build all structures as Sisters of Battle in a single match 

Chapter Planet 

Build all structures as Space Marines in a single match 

Spheres of Expansion 

Build the Tau Coalition Center 

Master of the Forge 

Add 50 special weapons to squads 

One Amongst Untold Billions 

Reinforce 100 units 

Complete Annihilation 

Achieve Total Score of 40000 

Praise the Machine God 

Achieve Technology Score of 1000 

Death Be Thy Compass 

Achieve Military Score o…

Today’s update for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition includes several modding fixes, including the infiltration shader, a new Mod Assistant tool, the long-requested “No Flyers” option for Custom Games and Skirmish, plus a new optimized renderer which should significantly improve the performance of shadows and visual effects. 

Our next update (2.5.0) in November will include the rollout of Steam Achievements for Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. 

Many of the fixes included in today’s patch are thanks to your feedback, so please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com.

General 

• Performance – today’s patch includes a new optimized renderer designed to significantly improve rendering performance. This is done through a combination of improved GPU scheduling and multi-core processing

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when numerous units were built at the same time 

• Fixed a very rare crash when attempting to select a commander when starting a Dark Crusade or Soulstorm campaign 

Gameplay 

• Orks – Warboss no longer kills friendly units when using the Big Horns Wargear 

• Camera – fixed an issue where the camera could continue to move when the Pause Menu is open 

• Winter Assault – fixed a fatal scar error that could occur in Disorder Mission 4 

Multiplayer 

• No Flyers – added an option in Custom Multiplayer and Skirmish to disable all flying units. This toggle disables the functionality of building flying units and enables the Necron Tomb Spyder to spawn non-flying versions of the Attack Scarabs. Please keep in mind that using this option may impact faction balance. Modded armies may be able to bypass the No Flyers setting.

User Interface 

• Videos – video playback now pauses when the application is not in focus to avoid desyncs between video, subtitles, and audio 

• Videos – updated video decoding to play more smoothly on lower spec hardware that has vsync disabled to prevent video from lagging behind the audio & subtitles 

• Sign-In Errors – moved the “Failed to Connect” error pop-up to be a tooltip to avoid the error being spammed to players that prefer to play offline.  If you are playing online and see Multiplayer greyed out – the tooltip when hovering over Multiplayer will give some information about the error causing it to be disabled

• Multiplayer – fixed several errors that could cause the incorrect user or incorrect stats to be displayed when viewing a player profile in the multiplayer lobby 

• Loading Screens – added additional variety to the loading screens when entering multiplayer 

• HUD – updated squad health bars to correctly display when multiple squads are selected 

• Custom Badges – added an option to disable usage of custom badges, the game will use default badges when this toggle is set to off 

• Unit Portraits – added commander portraits used in Soulstorm campaign 

• Wargear – updated camera placement for all Wargear to better frame the item being added to each commander 

Art & Animation 

• Team Colors – updated the default team colors for all factions in all four campaigns to avoid situations where it would default to the first alphabetical name 

• Team Colors – updated models shown in the Army Painter where overlapping team color areas created artifacts where incorrect colors would be shown 

• Dark Eldar – Hellion models no longer flicker when completing a movement and switching to the idle animation 

• Eldar – Farseer model updated to user higher resolution textures and correctly show Wargear 

• Eldar – Commander eyes updated to show the correct team color 

• Eldar – Guardians now have recoil animations when shooting 

• Space Marines – Sergeant animations updated to only hold one weapon at a time when moving and shooting 

• Necron – Deceiver facial animations updated to fix distorted mouth positions 

• Necron – updated the Reaping Blade Wargear to correctly update the model when applied 

• Orks – In Dark Crusade the Orks now use the correct banner art 

• Orks – update Tankbustaz mask to be correctly aligned 

• Orks – greatly reduced the number of animations that cause the Mega Armored Nobz head to clip through the armor 

• Maps – fixed impasse and terrain issues causing vehicle pathing issues on the Fata Morgana map 

• Maps – fixed a wall with misaligned collision allowing units to move through it on the Temple of Cyrene map 

• Winter Assault – fixed flickering wall textures in Disorder Mission 2 

Modding 

• Mod Assistant – a new tool called the Mod Assistant is now available to aid new modders in being able to launch modding tools without needing to perform additional set-up steps

• Replays – fixed a crash that could occur when attempting to save a replay while playing a modded game 

• Infiltration – fixed an error that was preventing legacy mod units from correctly applying the infiltration shader 

• Object Editor – fixed a crash when attempting to open a model with more than 255 bones 

• Mission Editor – fixed a crash that could occur when opening Dawn of War Mission 5 or Mission 6 

• Mission Editor – added a toggle to switch to “Game Camera” to match the typical view from the game and lock the camera to the playable area 

• Mission Editor – fixed an issue where the game would freeze when unlocking windows while the mission editor was running 

• Logging – updated logging functionality to allow logs to write out info and to be opened while the game is still running 

High Priority Known Issues 

The team at Relic is constantly reviewing issues reported by the community and adjusting priorities to address the most frequently occurring issues.  These are some of the higher priority issues we are currently tracking.  Thank you for all your submissions to help.relic.com! 

General 

• Profiles – Cloud saves do not contain profile data when switching between devices which blocks the ability to create a new profile without an error message 

• Due to a startup crash with the GoG Galaxy overlay, we have had it disabled. Since multiplayer game invites are done through the game overlay, game invites will not be possible on GoG until we resolve this issue

• Switching rooms during matchmaking may cause the game to become stuck or frozen in the "cancel" state. You may need to force the game to close and restart to resolve this issue while we work on it

• When there are a large number of multiplayer games available to join, there may be a small pause on the Multiplayer Join Game screen when it refreshes

• Map preview and description not displayed in the Multiplayer “Join Game” menu

Gameplay 

• Units with a Jump ability can appear to start/complete the jump then teleport back to the starting location 

• Disembarking a squad from a transport vehicle in narrow space can cause units to be spawned out of bounds and become stuck 

• Ork Gretchins can fail to move to complete their next build order when shift-queuing after building a mine field 

• Faction-specific resources are split among all allies when Resource Sharing is enabled when the ally is a different faction that cannot use that resource 

• Using the Deep Strike feature in the Soulstorm campaign can result in the units silently dying when summoned 

Today’s hot fix for Dawn of War – Definitive Edition resolves a gameplay issue introduced with yesterday’s 2.3.0 release.  Thank you for all your reports, please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com to help set priorities for upcoming patches. 

Gameplay 

• Imperial Guard – Heavy Weapons team now entrenches and engages in combat correctly 

Additional High Priority Known Issues 

These items are in addition to the high priorty Known Issues we released yesterday. 

• We are investigating reports that stats are appearing as reset, or displaying incorrect values. 

• We are aware that some unit portraits have not been updated. Please send us bug reports with any you find, and please let us know which game mode or campaign you found them in. 

• Infiltration shaders are not correctly applied to units in modded games.  

• Loading a Replay from a match that is using mods will lead to a crash 

“Only in death does duty end.” 

To revisit Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, a game we love, and to see the warm reception from players has meant so much to us here at Relic. We want to thank all of you for your continued support and passion for the game. We have therefore extended our support plans for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition beyond September and will continue updating the game for the rest of 2025. The next patch is currently targeting late October 2025. You can find a small preview of exciting, and highly requested features coming this year listed below today’s patch notes.   

Today’s update for Dawn of War – Definitive Edition includes a complete overhaul of Unit Portraits, improvements to the Automatch experience, Art and Animation fixes, HUD improvements, and fixes for several high priority crashes. Many of the fixes included in today’s patch are thanks to your feedback, so please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com. 

General

• Unit Portraits – all faction units and buildings have been updated to use portraits built from captures of the updated Definitive Edition models with hand touch-ups to improve clarity and consistency.  These can be seen in the HUD in all modes as well as on the Dark Crusade & Soulstorm campaign maps. Note: With the volume of icons updated, it is possible that some may have been missed or mis-implemented. Please report any issues you find, and we will prioritize fixing them in a subsequent patch 

• Fixed a crash that could occur when exiting a multiplayer match 

• Fixed a crash that could occur when transferring badges in multiplayer lobbies 

• Fixed a crash that would occasionally occur when deleting a unit during multiplayer gameplay 

• Fixed a crash when a unit would attempt to perform a jump attack near the map border in multiplayer gameplay 

• Fixed a crash that would occur when loading an autosave file that was saved right as a building was updating to the next unit in the production queue 

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur after the skirmish or multiplayer game was complete and players were viewing the map 

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when loading Dark Crusade or Soulstorm campaign missions 

• Fixed two rare crashes that could occur when a player uses a Possession ability in a multiplayer game 

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur in Dawn of War campaign missions when defending against large hordes of Orks 

• Fixed a rare crash when loading save files created on a modded Soulstorm campaign 

• Fixed a rare crash when using the Tyranid mod in multiplayer 

• Fixed a rare crash that could occur on attempting to join a custom game 

• Fixed a crash that could occur when playing Multiplayer using Parallels on Mac 

Gameplay 

• Camera - updated edge panning functionality to correctly work while Lock Cursor to Game is disabled 

• Audio – updated unit speech to correctly respect the 3D placement of the camera when Sisters of Battle, Tau, and Dark Eldar units enter combat, take damage, or die. 

• A.I. – updated a scripting error that would cause Insane difficulty A.I. to default to Easy in the final Dawn of War mission 

• Eldar – enabled an Avatar sync kill that was disabled in Soulstorm 

• Orks – Ork Warboss range attack upgrades now function correctly in Dark Crusade 

Multiplayer 

• Match Statistics – fixed an error where match results / statistics would not be correctly reported when spectating after being eliminated from a match 

• Automatch – removed Unranked Automatch as an option to prevent confusion. All Automatch matches have always been and will continue to be ranked 

• Automatch – Added messaging about the number of players found during an automatch search 

• Automatch – added messaging when cancelling automatch to prevent attempting 2 overlapping automatch requests.  This prevents issues where automatch would appear to be immediately cancelled after pressing the button 

• Team Automatch – fixed an error where after the host changed their own faction it would change the faction of other players 

• Skirmish – added an error message when players attempt to start a match with unbalanced teams with auto/random teams enabled. Previously this would automatically add an A.I. player to a Closed slot 

• Observers - updated logic used to add Observers to prevent situations where observers would take the spot of a required player. Closed slots now default to Open for Observer and Observers cannot join in Open slots  

• Player Statistics – updated the player stats UI to always show the correct player statistics and updated several statistics that were not tracking correctly  

User Interface 

• HUD – unit portraits and action icons no longer blur when choosing Low Texture Quality 

• HUD – updated Dark Eldar HUD to not block mouse input when clicking on the hotkey area of each button 

• Automatch – updated team automatch screen to correctly display in widescreen 

• Dark Crusade & Soulstorm campaign intro videos now play correctly for all factions when starting a new campaign 

• Dark Crusade & Soulstorm – fixed several cases in campaign missions where the help text incorrectly referred to the name of the army from another campaign 

• Dark Crusade & Soulstorm – updated Victory and Loss screens with new background images and with better support for ultrawide aspect ratios 

• Dark Crusade – the strength value shown when the A.I. is attacking the player now shows the correct value instead of 0 

• Soulstorm – updated the units portraits shown during dialogue to use the correct Soulstorm commanders on Tau & Chaos stronghold missions 

Art & Animation 

• Terrain – reduced specular values on terrain that should not be reflective 

• Terrain – updated footstep FX to reduce brightness that was causing it to look like units were walking on snow when on grass 

• Buildings – updated textures on building rooftops covered with snow in Winter Assault to avoid seams 

• Wrecks – updated tank wrecks that could appear to be squashed  

• Tau – added thruster glow FX to the XV8 Crisis Battlesuit 

• Tau – updated Fire Warriors running animations to position their gun correctly 

• Space Marines – fixed a graphical error on the force commander’s chainsword that made it appear in multiple pieces 

• Space Marines – fixed an error causing ground decals around turrets to respawn constantly while it is alive 

• Chaos – fixed animation error that caused Chaos Cultists to shoot in the air on their first shot 

• Chaos – fixed the Horror’s firing animation  

• Chaos – updated the Daemonic Ascension Dark Crusade wargear to correctly display the FX in wargear menu 

• Orks – added animations to the wheels on the Trukk 

• Orks – added muzzle flash to the Big Mek pistol 

• Orks – fixed an animation issue where the Warboss would appear to fire their first shot into the ground 

• Orks – added recoil animations for the Shoota Boyz  

• Orks – fixed the animations of Orks on the Waaagh! Banner to prevent their feet from clipping 

• Imperial Guard – updated Commander to use the correct color scheme in Dark Crusade missions 

• Winter Assault – added a gate closing animation to the gates used in Winter Assault Disorder Mission 4 

• Winter Assault - updated Winter Assault Order missions to correctly use the Ultramarines color scheme where appropriate 

• Sync Kills – fixed an animation issue where units thrown by a sync kill (ex. Killed by Dreadnaughts) would freeze …

Update 2.2.1 fixes several issues that could interrupt multiplayer games and adds additional logging to help diagnose an issue causing some players to disconnect unexpectedly. The fixes included in today’s patch are thanks to your feedback, so please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com. 

General 

• Fixed an issue preventing players from creating matches when launching from GOG Galaxy  

• Fixed an error that would lead to a crash when transferring badges in Multiplayer 

• Added additional logging to better diagnose the following rare issue. If you continue to encounter this issue, please submit a new support request at help.relic.com

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Update 2.2.0 resolves issues across several categories including gameplay, multiplayer, U.I., art and animation, modding, and hotkeys. We have also included additional logging to provide our team with better data as we work to improve stability and automatch. Many of the fixes included in today’s patch are thanks to your feedback, so please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com.  

General 

• Added additional logging to better diagnose the following rare issues. If you continue to encounter these issues, please submit a new support request at help.relic.com :

  • Crashes during badge transfer when starting a Multiplayer match 

  • The game video output freezing before, during, or immediately following the intro videos 

  • Desync errors during multiplayer gameplay 

  • Audio being played through the incorrect device or not playing at all  

  • Automatch immediately cancelling when attempting to find a game 

  • Multiplayer is greyed out and unavailable 

• Fixed a font issue that was preventing some Polish alphabet characters from correctly displaying in Dark Crusade 

• Windowed Mode – Windowed mode now correctly displays the window borders when the game resolution matches the monitor’s resolution setting 

• Save/Load - Updated Autosave to remove noticeable hitch 

• Audio – Updated audio initialization to fix several cases where players did not receive audio output from the game 

Gameplay 

• In Dark Crusade and Soul Storm campaigns, Honor Guard units are no longer counted as lost if they joined a squad during a scripted mission

• Skirmish A.I. – updated the A.I. build logic to improve cases where the A.I. would stop creating new buildings and updated worker logic to reduce how many builders are sent to under construction resource buildings 

• Sisters of Battle – Updated squad cap increase for the final research step from 3 to 4 and removed Repentia Mistress and Imagifier squad cap modifiers 

• Dawn of War – Fixed terrain in Mission 1 that allows enemy units to spawn inside cranes 

• Dawn of War – Fixed scripting issues in Mission 2 that could cause the objectives to not be cleared correctly and prevent the mission from ending  

• Winter Assault – Fixed a scripting error that could cause the mission to not end without completing all sub-objectives in Order Mission 2 

• Winter Assault – Updated terrain that was blocking troops from leaving the Field Command building without a rally point in Order Mission 2 

• Winter Assault – Fixed terrain with incorrect impasse that could cause the Squiggoth to become stuck 

• Winter Assault – Fixed sky rotation in Disorder Mission 4 

• Dark Crusade – Updated Imperial Guard Governor Raiment’s Wargear to correctly allow popcap to increase beyond 20 

• Soulstorm – Updated dialogue in Tau & Space Marine stronghold missions to avoid missing English dialogue 

• Capture Points – Updated capture points to be match legacy behavior of visibility in the shroud (dark black undiscovered territory in scripted missions) and fog of war 

Multiplayer 

• Fixed a configuration issue in Automatch that changed all player colors and banners to the default settings. Players will now be able to use their custom Army Painter designs in Automatch as intended, as long as they have been set in the Army Painter.  

• Removed the ability for Hosts to kick players during the countdown  

• Added a warning when attempting to use Auto Teams with a closed slot – this was resulting in unwanted A.I. being added to balance player counts 

• Updated the Dawn of War - Definitive Edition API to show automatch rankings for players.

User Interface 

• Multiplayer – Join Game page now correctly displays game info when selecting a game to join 

• Multiplayer – Fixed font error causing missing text when viewing the map name for Custom games 

• Multiplayer – Updated player statistics to correctly show game count and properly display ratings 

• Soulstorm – Territory icons now display at the correct resolution 

• Soulstorm – Updated unit icons to be the correct size 

• Army Painter – Fixed an issue that was causing custom badges & banners to appear as pink squares 

• Loading Screens – Updated Dark Crusade & Soulstorm loading screen text to be more legible 

• Loading Screens – Winter Assault loading screen art updated to support widescreen  

• Simplified Chinese – Fixed several punctuation errors that caused English characters to be displayed in narrative text 

Art & Animation 

• All – Force Commanders badges now display at the correct scale and resolution 

• All – Updated all capture point banners to display at the correct resolution 

• All – Fixed artifacting on the Relic capture points 

• Space Marines – Sacred Artifact building no longer shows construction FX after completion 

• Space Marines – Armory doors correctly animate when performing research 

• Space Marines – Updated Librarian walk animations to be in sync with movement speed 

• Space Marines – Eye lens color updated to be consistent in Dark Crusade & Soulstorm 

• Space Marines – Fixed placement of glowing skull on upgraded Assault Marines 

• Eldar – Ulthwe now use the same team color values in Winter Assault as in later games 

• Chaos – Fixed an animation issue causing Raptors flamethrower weapons FX to shoot at an angle 

• Chaos – Fixed Aspiring Champion’s banner that was mirrored 

• Chaos – Daemon Prince now uses correct team colors in Skirmish / Multiplayer 

• Chaos – Sorcerer animations updated to fire correctly when moving and shooting 

• Imperial Guard – Updated General Sturnn’s lightning claws to be correctly attached and oriented 

• Imperial Guard – Updated Commander’s sync kill animation to correctly attach guns to his hands 

• Imperial Guard – Updated animations for Heavy Weapons team to correctly rotate and trigger death animations 

• Sisters of Battle – Fixed a naming error with the Veteran Superior that prevented the whole model from rendering 

• Dark Eldar – Fixed a texture error making the Tower of Loathing appear black when upgraded 

• Dark Eldar – Fixed a Wych animation bug that would cause units to appear stun-locked when melee attacked by a unit that does not typically apply a stun effect 

• Dark Eldar – Soulstorm campaign now uses the correct team colors by default 

• Orks – Updated Waaagh! Banner gunner animations to be correctly animated 

• Tau – Updated FX on Crisis Suit missiles to be correctly synced 

• Tau – Fixed an error on the Commander that caused tracers to fire straight up in Dark Crusade 

• Tau – Fixed an issue causing Tau Commander’s missiles to appear facing backwards 

• Tau – Fixed a case where the Dark Crusade commander would use Soulstorm Wargear 

• Necrons – Updated materials on Necron Immortals to appear more metallic 

• Necrons – Updated base buildings to have higher resolution terrain detail 

• Tutorial – Terrain updated to improve clarity on which areas are walkable and which are out of bounds 

Modding 

• Audio – Fixed a crash that occurred when the game tried to read a modded audio file with a ‘.’ character in the file name 

• Mission Editor – fixed an issue that would prevent Undo from functioning dragging to paint 

• Mission Editor – updated Heightmap Editor to regenerate and align decals after modifying terrain heights 

• Water – Legacy modded maps that used the old…

Today’s 2.1.1 Hot Fix addresses a crash that occurred when booting Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition via Steam in Offline mode introduced in this week’s 2.1.0 update. 

After this update, if you are still seeing crashes on start-up, please take the time to submit your information to BugSplat and, after submitting, wait a moment for the BugSplat website to load and review any troubleshooting steps that may be available.  These are targeted responses that can include more information and workarounds related to the issue encountered. 

A huge thank you to all our players that have been diligently reporting issues via our help portal as this is an essential tool for helping the team at Relic set priorities as we continue to support the game – please continue to do so at https://help.relic.com/

General 

• Fixed a login error that would lead to a crash on start-up when launching the game in Offline mode on Steam 

Today’s 2.1.0 Update addresses issues including cases where the cursor would fail to stay locked to the game, unit pathing issues where large vehicles, such as Dreadnoughts, could become stuck, and brings improvements to hotkey modding and WASD camera controls. Please refer to the help article "Customizing Hotkeys in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition" for a step-by-step guide to customizing hotkeys.

Additionally, this patch continues to address some of the highest occurring crashes, progression blockers and multiplayer issues, along with other art, animation, UI, and gameplay issues.  

A huge thank you to all our players that have been diligently reporting issues via our help portal – please continue to do so at https://help.relic.com/

General 

• Fixed numerous cases where Lock Cursor to Game would fail to stay locked (for example, when receiving platform notifications or after Alt+Tabbing) 

• Fixed several crashes that could occur while custom badges were transferring while loading into a Multiplayer game 

• Fixed an error where Windows could detect the game was unresponsive during longer loading times for large scale Multiplayer games 

• Fixed two rare crashes that could occur when loading a menu screen 

• Fixed several errors that would prevent Automatch from correctly finding matches 

• Fixed several causes of desync errors in Multiplayer that could lead to a crash when leaving the match or on match end 

• Fixed rare cases where certain players would be able to load into the game without a player profile – this would lead to errors when attempting to play Multiplayer or when saving the game 

• Character speech now correctly plays when the game language is set to Russian 

• Added new troubleshooting steps to BugSplat for those that crash on launch. If you are still having issues, please follow the links in the BugSplat window 

• Added additional messaging & logging to help diagnose certain players being unable to connect to the RLink servers and seeing the Multiplayer option greyed out. After the update, if you are still seeing this issue, please submit a new request at help.relic.com 

Multiplayer 

• Disabled Resource Sharing by default during Automatch 

• Removed Fortress (3 Player) from the Automatch map pool 

Gameplay 

• Fixed an exploit where too many resources are refunded when cancelling buildings under construction

• Fixed cases where large vehicles, such as Dreadnoughts, could become stuck in cliffs when multiple units were pathing at the same time and stopped in the same location 

• Fixed pathing issues when units with a melee charge attack, such as Kroot Carnivores, could become stuck when attempting to charge an enemy unit above them 

• Fixed an issue where infantry units would be frozen in place for several seconds when pathing alongside friendly vehicles 

• Fixed a data error that was causing Space Marine Force Commander and Imperial General to use voices that did not match their unit 

• Fixed an error that could cause mission dialogue to not correctly trigger or to skip lines during scripted sequences 

• Fixed a frequently playing sound effect for Tau Barracudas 

• Fixed several issues where keybindings overlapped, such as Ecclesiarchal Chapel, Haemonculus’ Laboratory, and Techpriests 

• Updated Winter Assault Order Mission 2 to prevent hidden Chaos units from triggering a fail condition while the player is focused on the Eldar segment of the mission 

• Fixed an issue in Winter Assault Order Mission 2 that prevented units from spawning from the Field Command building without a rally point being set 

• Updated melee-killed infantry corpses to match the persistence of ranged-killed units 

• Added unit occlusion to the Sisters of Battle and Dark Eldar buildings 

User Interface 

• On ultrawide monitors, fixed the alignment of the error popup when attempting to perform an action without the required resources 

• Fixed several cases that would cause hotkeys to not be displayed on the HUD 

WASD Camera & Controls 

• Set secondary camera move to SHIFT+WASD on all keybind sets (except AZERTY grid where it is the equivalent, SHIFT+ZQSD); arrow keys continue to also work 

• Copies of the keybind lua files are now copied to the user's /Profile/Profile\[#]/ directory for easier modding without unpacking an archive 

• Added AZERTY and QWERTZ versions of Gridkeys (these are selectable by any player who wishes to, regardless of region) 

• Added new keybindings for Sniper Rifle Research (Space Marines) and command squad versions of Commissar, Psyker and Priest (IG) and bound those to proper grid positions; in non-grid keybinds these are generally duplicates of the previous bindings. 

• In gridkeys, set melee stance to F (its grid position) and combat stance to F1 (which is off the grid but near at hand) -- this key appears in different positions based on if a squad or building is selected so can't have a proper grid position 

• In gridkeys, shifted the advanced stance buttons along the function keys to make room for F1 use 

• In gridkeys, changed the Dark Eldar global abilities to be on Alt+\ to free up Shift+WASD for camera movement 

• In gridkeys, moved options menu to Escape 

Art & Animation 

• Fixed alignment of glowing eyes on Necron Warriors 

• Fixed alignment of the glowing skull on Space Marines & Assault Marines when the Bionic Upgrade is applied 

• Updated Space Marine Dreadnought and Terminator so assault cannon barrels correctly rotate when firing 

• Fixed the Space Marine Force Commander not aiming correctly at enemy targets 

• Fixed cases where Thunderhawk engine lights were still visible in the sky at certain angles after constructing Space Marine buildings 

• Updated the Veteran Superior Sister of Battle to correctly load the entire model 

• Fixed animation stutters/pauses that could occur when spamming movement commands to units (ex. Dark Eldar Hellion Squad) 

• Fixed flickering on the Space Marine Stronghold building 

• Fixed stuttering animations on units with melee charge attacks when the path to attack is blocked 

• Fixed animation of the Kroot Hounds to prevent them from appearing to teleport 

• Fixed occasional T-Pose on idle animation for Chaos Aspiring Champion 

• Fixed posing for Orks that are in cover but out of combat 

• Fixed the Ork Pile O Gunz turret to correctly aim at targets 

• Fixed several issues across maps where there were noticeable seams between terrain textures 

Modding 

• Mods that have legacy UI images (ex. Unit Portraits) will now be able to correctly replace the Definitive Edition updated assets 

• Added support to access linear campaigns with mods based on Dark Crusade or Soulstorm if the mod’s .module file includes “DXP2”-like sub-module. 

• Example mods: “Ultimate Apocalypse”, “Tartarus, Lorn V, Kronus and Kaurava Campaigns for Soulstorm”, and others built in the same manner 

• Updated the Army Painter to not have misaligned text when using legacy mods that reskinned the screen 

• Mods that are packaged with additional mods inside of them will no longer fail to open if the secondary mod is marked as having a dependency that is not included 

• Fixed a rare crash in the MissionEditor when attempting to save a modded map 

• Fixed an error when the ObjectEditor was unable to open EBP files because it could not find the BurnerImp executable 

• Note: ObjectEditor needs to be launched in the mod directory (where your pipeline.ini files is), but with the command line -appDir <installdir> so it can find the BurnerImp. 

High Priority Known Issues – Targeting September 

While the issues below are not fixed in today’s update, we will be aiming to resolve these in the upcoming September patches. This list is not exhaustive; however, it is provided to highlight the major issues that the team will be targeting to improve. Thanks again to everyone who has submitted reports and feedback as we work to improve the game. 

General 

• Occasional network error that can lead to a crash when post-game results are being calculated 

• Game settings are not displayed when browsing Custom Games 

• Map names are displayed as missing symbols when playing in Russian / Chinese while the host is in another language 

• Gridkeys do not correctly load when playing in Automatch 

• Army Painter colors are not used when playing Automatch 

• Squads with a jump or teleport attack can appear to partially complete, then teleport back to the starting location 

• For some players the game audio does not correctly play from the default audio device 

• Capture points (ex. Strategic Points) are not visible in the shroud 

• Units do not correctly unload from the Dark Eldar Raider 

• testStats.lua is not correctly being written on match end 

Additional Patches 

This is an overview of our next two patches. However, please note that overall stability for the game is our priority and that may delay some of these items. …

Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition released recently and it works great on Linux, even better now the online works properly too.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/08/warhammer-40000-dawn-of-war-definitive-edition-fixes-desyncs-between-windows-and-linux-steamos/

Today’s hot fix aims to resolve some of the highest occurring crashes, progression blockers and multiplayer issues affecting players in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. 

We will be releasing another patch next week with additional high-priority fixes. The fixes coming in next week’s patch required a bit more time to test and validate, so we appreciate everyone’s patience as we work on them. Thank you to all our players that have been diligently reporting issues via our help portal – please continue to do so at https://help.relic.com/

General 

• Fixed an issue where players could not see Multiplayer game lobbies hosted by a player using a different audio language (English, German, French, and Russian) 

• Fixed an issue that prevented the game from loading the correct language using the GOG Galaxy launcher for those using Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. 

• Fixed a desync that led to a crash in Multiplayer games where players on Windows & Linux (SteamDeck / Proton) were playing together  

• Fixed two crashes that could occur during singleplayer or multiplayer when numerous enemy units were starting to move while the player is also moving the camera 

• Fixed two crashes that could occur when pre-rendered movies started for players using older operating systems. 

• Fixed a crash that could occur during loading screens or while saving the game 

Gameplay 

• Fixed a fatal scar error in Winter Assault Disorder Mission 1 when Gorgutz was killed immediately before a cut-scene triggered 

• Fixed a scripting error that prevented Listening Posts from being buildable in Dawn of War Mission 1 when two strategic points were captured at the same time 

• Fixed an issue that could sometimes prevent objective locations from being correctly highlighted by arrow FX in Campaign missions 

• Updated Gridkeys controls to fix a keybind conflict on Orks, Space Marines, and Imperial Guard 

High Priority Issues – Aiming to Resolve August 26th 

The below issues are not fixed in today's patch. We aim to resolve these in next week's patch which should release on Tuesday, August 26th. We feel it is important to share these details so that players are aware of our goals for the coming week. Thanks again for your patience and continued reports as we work to improve the game.

• Two possible crashes when custom badge transfer fails while loading into Multiplayer matches. The crash can lead to all other players having an infinite loading screen that will eventually crash 

• Rare error where new players are not able to create / load a profile name and receive errors when attempting to start missions / multiplayer 

• Rare crash that can occur on a loading screen when entering Campaign Missions 

• Rare crash at the end of Multiplayer matches when the Results screen is shown 

• Additional error logging for players who cannot start or consistently time out when trying to connect to Multiplayer – this will provide us with more data as we work to resolve this issue 

• Dialogue occasionally does not trigger in the correct sequence during campaign missions – some lines can be skipped 

• Large units – such a Dreadnoughts - can get stuck when navigating near other large units beside cliffs 

• Infantry units can become stunned for too long of a period when pathfinding near vehicles 

• Infantry with a charge attack can get stuck pathfinding when attempting to charge on an elevated position 

• Cursor lock functionality does not stay locked when the game loses focus (using Windows key, Alt+Tab, getting Steam/GOG notifications) 

• Camera movement keys cannot be remapped by modders 

• Keybinds are not easily accessible for modders without having to unpack an archive 

• Update loading order to allow mods to overwrite unit portraits 

• Rare crash in the Mission Editor when attempting to save changes to a map 

• Mods that package multiple mods fail to load if a secondary mod is marked as having a dependency that is not included 

Additional Patches

Patch 2 – Modding – Target: Early September

• Update file load order to allow for additional customization of the User Interface

• Improved modding documentation based on frequently asked questions and a sample mod

• Additional support to ensure stability of mod usage

Patch 3 – Additional Reported Issues – Target: Late September

• Gameplay exploits – targeted fixes for issues affecting Multiplayer

• Unit Portraits – newly recaptured unit portraits using the Definitive Edition models for all units