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Espy posted a recap of the German April PC Games issue.

Text: - Game will have a pause mode in which you can issue orders.
- Races: Marines, Orks, Chaos + one secret faction
- Single player campaings for all 4 races
- 20 multiplayer maps
- game will have seizable objectives just like the tabletop
- morale factors in battle, units will perform worse if morale is low
- 2 resources: energy and “requisition” (probably like reputation in the Panzer General series) gained by securing objectives
- Buildable immobile turrets
- new units bought with reputation are not built, but flown in
- Unit upgrades can be programmed in advance and are applied automatically as soon as they become availiable

Check it out here.

Some of you may be happy to know that Relic has given the ok to release the RDN tools to mirror sites. Some of the packages have also been re-released as executables (and now include a license agreement). Relic News has mirrored all RDN tools here.

Oh, and just a note, if you’re planning to mirror the files, be sure to mirror the executable HW2 files, not the zip files that can be grabbed off RDN.

I’ll update this post (or someone else will) as soon as more mirrors become available.

As Spanish, French, German and Italian HW2 players may know, the HW2 1.1 patch was released by Sierra with a problem in the SP game. Basically, that the speech did not play during the cutscenes.

To fix this problem, Relic’s done up some < language >.big files to sort out the problem. The 1.1 patch for those languages should eventually be updated to contain these new files.

Download your language file here:

Spanish.
Italian.
German.
French.

Files should be saved to your homeworld2data directory.

The Polish, Russian, and Korean patches are still in localisation.

We had previously posted links to the HW and HW2 Concept art provided by Relic. Troff’s taken that art, and gallery-ized it.

Here is the HW1 Stuff.

Here is the HW2 Stuff.

Drop a thanks to Troff here.

Homeworld2 is up for the PC Strategy Game of the Year award from the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences (AIAS).

Computer Strategy Game of the Year

• Rise of Nations™, published by Microsoft, developed by Big Huge Games
• Command & Conquer™: Generals, published by Electronic Arts, developed by Electronic Arts
• Homeworld® 2, published by Vivendi Universal, developed by Relic Entertainment
• Empires: Dawn of the Modern World™, published by Activision, developed by Stainless Steel Studios
• Praetorians, published by Eidos, developed by Pyro Studios
  

Check out the full list on bluesnews.

Spanish Players should redownload the patch and try out the 1.1 version of HW2. Sierra has indicated that they have figured out the problem and fixed it.

thesamonthemoon reports that his latest issue of PC Gamer has this to say about Dawn of War.

Our intrepid editors will go the the ends of the earth to see a good looking game - and we’ve got the scoop on at least two of them. We’ll give you the full inside story on Thief III, with never-before-revealed details and screenshotsof this sneaky sequel. We’ve also got sizzlingly exclusive info on Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, the next great RTS game from the masters at Relic Entertainment. [etc…]

I hear good things about this article. Make sure you get that issue!

Homeworld took 6th place in Gamespy’s “Top-Ten Real-Time Strategy Games of All Time” article. For those of you who are curious, first place went to Total Annihilation. Thanks to Sam Kim for the tip.