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 https://help.relic.com. 

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. 

• Fixed a rare crash on startup – potentially seen when running a virtual machine 

• Jump Movement – updated all squads with a jump movement or attack to fix cases where some of the units would successfully jump then teleport back to the starting location or some units in the squad would not jump at all 

• Jump Movement – units in the middle of a jump movement can now take damage correctly 

• Grenades – updated functionality of grenade-like abilities to be fire-and-forget – now if the projectile is mid-air when the initiator is killed or given another command the grenade will still land and activate correctly 

• Sisters of Battle – updated the Immolator to correctly start the area of effect from the weapon and use a pie shape (was previously spawning a circle on the main target of the opponent’s squad).  Units now correctly play the “caught-on-fire" effects 

• Sisters of Battle – adjusted heavy flamer weapons on Immolator and Penitent engine to better match visuals.  Pie angles set to –15/+15 (from –20/+20) and pie radius to 25 (was 14) 

• Tau – updated the Tau Commander and Crisis Battlesuit to correctly spawn the area of effect from the weapon (was previously spawning on the main target), correctly hit all targets within the area of effect, and updated the “caught-on-fire" effect to correctly play without blood VFX 

• Tau – adjusted the flamer weapons for the Tau Commander and Crisis Battlesuit to better match the visuals.  Pie angles set to –30/+30 and pie radius set to match the max range 

• Imperial Guard – updated Hellhound area of effect to better match the visuals.  Radius set to 5 (previously 10) and updated to correctly trigger the “caught-on-fire" effects 

• Chaos – fixed an issue causing the Cultist Squad Aspiring champion to not receive plasma pistol and power sword upgrades 

• Necrons – fixed an issue causing generators to build more slowly than expected 

• Automatch – automatically restart the automatch process when a player is dropped during the “Game Start” phase 

• Join Game – fixed an error that prevented the online join game screen from correctly showing the map preview information 

• Join Game – improved response time when refreshing the match list 

• Dark Crusade – game now shows the correct text when losing your stronghold in the Dark Crusade campaign 

• Loading Screens – fixed instances where selection lines were visible on loading screen background art 

• Vehicles – added terrain decals for all tracked vehicle movement on snow maps 

• Environment – removed spec from Crater_00 and darkened it to remove shine and updated all faction structures that use a spawn decal 

• Environment – updated all maps to correctly handle the difference between snow & grass when creating footprints 

• 5P Red Jungle – updated map to use DirtSand coloring for the textures around buildings 

• 6P Tristram Plains – fixed flickering walls and terrain in several locations 

• 6P Crossroads – fixed an issue allowing units to pass through the Ork walls 

• Imperial Guard – updated Baneblade to correctly spawn track marks in snow 

• Sisters of Battle – fixed animation issues where multiple units would flicker when planting the flag on a capture point 

• Space Marines – updated Apothecary animations to remove flickering when moving and fixed the chainsword teeth to animate correctly 

• Space Marines – fixed the geometry that was animating incorrectly on the Soulstorm campaign commander 

• Space Marines – fixed the barrel rotation animations on the upgraded Listening Post 

• Chaos – updated VFX on buildings in the construction queue to not turn invisible after a short time 

• Chaos – fixed decals that could overlap and flicker when buildings were built close together 

• Chaos – added barrel rotation animations to Obliterator 

• Chaos – fixed the barrel rotation animations on the upgraded Listening Post. 

• Tau – updated Vehicle Beacon animations to correctly handle when unit production is cancelled 

• Tau – fixed an animation issue where the Tau commander’s cannon would stop rotating after upgrading to the flamer on the opposite hand 

• Eldar – fixed a flickering animation when the Dark Reaper and Fire Dragon units would stop/start moving 

• Ork – Tankbustas animations fixed to remove flicker when switching from fire on the move to stationary 

• Soulstorm – update reflections on water planets to reflect the sky instead of horizon 

• Mission Editor – Fixed a potential crash when undoing a command that could not be performed (such as placing a decal or object outside of the playable area) 

• Mission Editor – You can now export and import the terrain type (a.k.a. footfall) map, as you could previously for the height and impasse maps. These are found under the menus: File > Export/Import > Export/Import Terrain Type Map 
  Known Issue: The Terrain Type Overlay display may shift after importing. Change the Overlay to a different mode (e.g. Impass Edit Mode) then back to Terrain Type 

• Mission Editor – The Game Camera setting is now preserved between sessions, and when switching maps 

• Mission Editor – Added an option to hide or show all placed objects: Edit > Options > Show Objects 

• Mission Editor – All options, overlay actions and render modes now have hotkeys. (Some operations already had hotkeys; these have not changed.) 

  • Options: 

    • Show Objects: Ctrl+E 

    • Show Fog: Ctrl+F 

    • Show Sky: Ctrl+K 

    • Show Terrain: Ctrl+T 

    • Show Water: Ctrl+W 

    • Show Decals: Ctrl+D 

    • Show Marker Proximity: Ctrl+M 

    • Show FX: Ctrl+Alt+X 

    • Show Occlusion: Ctrl+Alt+O 

    • Show Bounding Boxes: Ctrl+Alt+B 

    • Game Camera: Ctrl+Shift+G 

  • Overlay actions: 

    • No Overlay: Ctrl+Alt+L 

    • Grid: Ctrl+Alt+G 

    • Impasse Edit Map: Ctrl+Alt+I 

    • Terrain Type: Ctrl+Alt+T 

  • Render options:

    • Texture Mode: Ctrl+Alt+E 

    • Mip-Map Mode: Ctrl-Alt+M 

    • X-Ray Mode: Ctrl+Alt+R 

    • Wireframe: Ctrl+Alt+W 

    • Mip-Map & X-Ray modes have been moved to a top-level Render menu 

• Mission Editor – Object Placement - A new rotation mode allows you to rotate selected objects as a group rather than rotating each object individually. To use, select multiple objects and, while holding Tab, click a selected object with the RMB and drag to rotate 
  Known Issue: Object rotation and height adjustment now only measures right/left mouse input, whereas formerly up/down input was also used 

• Mission Editor – When performing a copy/paste, the pasted objects are now positioned slightly offset from the objects that were copied 

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 https://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 

• On some systems, loading into campaigns can take long enough for the application to appear unresponsive in Windows. Loading is still happening, please do not close the application 

Gameplay 

• Chaos Cultists can accelerate and run unusually quickly when moving in combat 

• 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 

• Speech audio may not trigger correctly if too many sound channels are currently occupied 

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 https://help.relic.com.

• 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 

• 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 

• 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.

• 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 

• 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 

• Mod Assistant – a new tool called the Mod Assistant[help.relic.com] 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 

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 https://help.relic.com! 

• 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

• 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