Problems with game,bugs,errors and general problems

[Superhooper01]

The point of this discussion is to list problems that can happen with dawn of war elite or steam. These problems are factors that affect me or people i know which affect my ability to play games or host lobbies or enjoy the game. I will start with steam problems or bugs with the game.

Steam:

1) Steam drops or maintenance or unknown.

Steam seems to enjoy trolling people on dawn of war elite, the amount of times people i know can be disconnected, dropped or simply removed from the game are often and certain people get it more than often but even i have had problems at some point due to steams ability to piss u off by closing games or kicking people for no reason.

The most frequent are when a person will be kicked from the game and they respond when u ask what happened "steam trolled me" this happens when people get messages saying it is doing maintenance but if thats the case why im i fine and still online and why are they back online after 2 mins or less? if u check the steam website it does have a timetable saying when this occurs but its rare to say the least.

It also says we apologize if u were in ranked game... well a warning 10mins ago would of been nice?or some sort of future ability so 25mins into a epic 3v3 are not wasted as some 1 is kicked meaning game over as the AI is useless on dawn of war:/

When people ask what can i do to stop lagging or causing games to crash i often say lower Ur graphics as people are kicked in game due to settings being to high or i say make sure u have no downloads on in background or make sure u dont have browsers up as this will affect the quality of the game and affects EVERY 1 not just u.

I understand people have very good computers some 1 i know just spend £1000 on graphics or whatever. I wanted to say it wouldn't make a bloody bit of good if people u play with are on graphics that are to high for this game:/. If any1 knows ways to reduce lag or help the game run better or reduce lag grace right it in the comment section to help people and my understanding.

2) Evil bugs that piss me off

I have come across strange bugs on dawn of war 2 with my least favorite involving the sound to cause the game to crash?. What would happen is a affect will causes the sound to go but the music to play with it crashing the game 5-10mins later. I fixed this by lowering graphics and testing it to make sure this would not happen again but i know people who will say "oh sound glitch got to restart my game" or my sounds gone and in several mins are dropped from the game. This can be stressful as i suffered from it as well hopefully solution can be found. I actually had this a few days ago as was told it often happens when tics doom-blast but i was a sm tech-marine and the only thing i can say that happened was a engagement happened and then i couldn't hear what my units were saying. it then crashed 5mins later without warning...

Chat bug

This is a new problem for me and a few people. What happens is u are unable to use chat in game to either team mates or to offer abuse,banter or jokes to the enemy team. this also causes the game to crash if u tab out as u are unable to tab back in...very annoying. it is also like a plague from Nurgle often affecting 1 player then another after that game. Once u restart the game it is fine but can affect Ur ability to launch attacks or simply discuss things in game so if any 1 know about this enlighten me.

Unable to cap

I had this few days ago were i could not cap the middle point in Caladaris refinery or cap the top vp of arena which seeing as i was the top player made us have to resign as i could not get the vp. A mate said u need to restart the game is this true? and why did i get it, i mean i couldn't even click on units in the mid to attack them i had to use attack move which can be a handicap to say the least.

Retreat bug is it real or just me drinking to much or not paying attention?

I often have people say when they have lost units that they didnt retreat even if they hit the X key or retreat on the unit. I've had units be knocked down by certain abilities or weapons causing them to die as they wouldn't run as they stand up (banshee SA=Death in that situation) but i assume this is the way its always been. the warp-spider death spinner had a bug were units didnt retreat but i thing thats been fixed?. I personally dont feel i have this bug but i see it often in replays or games-were players say it happened or i would say why didnt they retreat?.

Units stop working or moving

Now this one is tricky as i haven't had it but in a game recently a mates wartruck stopped moving which made no sense and had his whole ork mob inside so he was unable to exit it meaning no army...we warped it out with sorc global and tryed firing on it with AOE weapons but no luck. when it was finally destroyed we could crack on but still whatever commands were given nothing worked any 1 else had this on units?

Frozen game

Had games were a big explosion has caused the game to stop with the sound still working not common but still a pain as u have to tab out and start again. Also happened were units voices froze the game or certain affects, abilities had the same affect. Haven't had this for a year but was a pain at one point. May of been something to do with hard-drive or amount of memory?

Well thats the big ones i can list of, if any1 has ideas or help to offer please share as it may improve the game in general, help new players and reduce my stress levels and allow me to crush my foes (insert evil laugh)

P.S this is not me bitching or having a go just things that have been brought to my attention by problems i have encountered or have been draw attention to by people i know.

[Ace of Swords]

Retreat bug is it real or just me drinking to much or not paying attention?

This is starting happen often and I mostly notice it with SM, because of their clear retreating line, I press X, the unit (scouts/tacts) say "no glory in pointless defeat" and then they are still here, not retreating, doing what they were doing before.

Happens with all the races, but I can confirm it 100% with sm because of that line.

[Superhooper01]

Hmm i often get it when lets say if a unit like dire avengers are hit by plasma cannon or are jumped on by asm if u hit retreat x or on the icon when they are in mid air or being disrupted etc then they wouldn't u have to wait for them to get to their feet which is why i felt it was meant to be on the game? as for sm i dont play them enough to notice but at least with a player of ur experience saying its there is reliable

[BaptismByLoli]

Closing ELITE via Task Manager will usually make Retri force open again and again unless I specifically close it from the Main Menu of Retri

[Dark Riku]

All long known bugs ^^

Steam is just Steam...

The evil bugs you mentioned were there from retail. Nothing that the Elite team can do about it to my knowledge. Pretty much Relic: Dawn of Bugs.

• Soundbug
  Nothing you can do but inform the others that you have it. After a couple of minutes you will crash. Don't know what causes it. Pretty rare though.
• Chatbug
  Nothing you can do to fix it. Just don't tab out. Restart your game after the game is over. You can go to task manager and force close Steam overlay. Sometimes that makes you able to tab in again. I usually attack ping (the red one) multiple times on or behind my own base hoping that my team mates will get that I have the chatbug.
• Unable to target
  Not much you can do. Relic: Dawn of Bugs. Changing your camera angle or zooming in can make you able to cap etc. Restart after the game is over.
• Retreatbug
  Not sure about this one. As mentioned before, some game mechanics make you unable to retreat when knocked back. Just hit X a couple of times to be sure. I had instances where I thought I retreated certain units too, almost always in the heat of battle though so I always assumed I miss clicked or something. Have to pay a little bit more attention ^^
• Frozen game
  Someone's computer couldn't handle everything that was going on. Nothing that can fix it. Even after said player leaves, the game will be stuck. Don't play on settings that are too high for your pc to handle, especially in 3v3 games.
• Units stop working or moving
  Never saw this one. Unless it's the interceptor bug.

[BaptismByLoli]

Units stop working or moving

This happens due to pathing or KB's
Basically, your unit gets knockbacked or derps into a certain area in which their pathfinding simply stops working as they weren't programmed to be there as they are unable to generate a path.

An example would be something like getting a model being shotgun blasted in between 2 narrow pillar in which they were never supposed to be in. As a result, they just stand there enjoying the view. Retreating them won't even fix it as they are quite literally, stuck in place.

Happened to me before a few times whenever I get KB'ed into a wonky place or purchased a leader and have him spawn inside an enclosed area such as a square fountain with no exits at all.

[Dark Riku]

Ah, like that. That's something else ^^ Like the old sigil into unplayable areas -.-
Happens when you get out of transports too or use CDB on some maps.
CDB should really stop coming out from terrain and just come from the hero imo.
Would fix that particular issue anyway.

[Superhooper01]

Cheers Riku part of me is sad to see these problems as it seems relic did a poor job with alot of things that should of been addressed before it came out, but at least they are rare and can be fixed with a relaunch. just annoying when u have game that is epic or tense and is ended suddenly due to a bug

[Nuclear Arbitor]

relic had a lot of issues with time due to THQ. it's showing in coh2 as well.

[BaptismByLoli]

relic had a lot of issues with time due to THQ. it's showing in coh2 as well.

Relic has pretty much said screw you DoW cause IIRC in a Relic panel, they showcased a new CoH2 DLC(Despite alr havig hundreds of skin and commander DLC) and during QnA, a guy asked what about the future DoW and the dude from Relic simply avoided the question with something like, 'Yea, we love the series but let's stick to CoH2' or something.

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[Nuclear Arbitor]

they can't do anything unless SEGA gives them leave to spend time on it and i'm not sure how solid SEGA is on legally anyway. they're not going to put any time into a game that doesn't sell well though.