2.6.0 Update Patch Notes

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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