Dawn of War Codex

Hello and welcome to the first ever (or not) thread of "Forgotten Emerald" (Steam Group http://steamcommunity.com/groups/ForgottenEmerald) - the mod that finaly brings something really new to the Last Stand in DoW2: Retribution.

The mod is currently in alpha state and WIP. But you can help us whether you are a tester or a modder - the contacts are below at the bottom of the post along with the screenshots.

Assuming that this is basically the very first announcement of this mod - you dont know what does it really do and I'm sure you dont want to read a lot of useless and boring words - so here are the features!

Features:
- Heroes are being overhauled.
- New Wargear.
- New Abilities.
- Existing Wargear and Abilities are being balanced with new ones and between each oher.
- Redundant or Useless Wargear and Abilities are being ether Re-rolled, Balanced or Removed.
- Enemy waves are changed in order to bring more interest to the existing gameplay.

Progress:

Done:
- Space Marine.
- Lord General.

In Progress:
- Chaos Space Marine.
- Tau Commander.
- Enemy waves.

To do:
- All other Heroes.
- And more content for Last Stand, if you will help us.



Contacts

Vitmerc
http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197988831264
Fleur
http://steamcommunity.com/id/FleurDeLaMer

Screenshots







Special thanks to Gabriel Gorgutz and all the people whose resources are used in Codex Edition mod.
And thanks to God Emperor of Mankind, of course.

Now, this was something I have long waited for. Bring it on!

Dumb question, but how do I go about testing and such for this mod? And is it compatible with Elite?

A reason to get back into last stand eh? Sounds promising.

How do you make matchmaking work? Will we have to create private lobbies all of the time? I say this as matchmaking does not work on Elite so I can't see it working on modded Last Stand.

Atlas wrote:Dumb question, but how do I go about testing and such for this mod? And is it compatible with Elite?

As long as the mod doesn't break your game files anything is compatible, likelyhood is a command line be used, and since Elite is launched separately I shouldn't think this is an issue.

Steam group link added!

Swiftsabre wrote:A reason to get back into last stand eh? Sounds promising.

How do you make matchmaking work? Will we have to create private lobbies all of the time? I say this as matchmaking does not work on Elite so I can't see it working on modded Last Stand.

Atlas wrote:Dumb question, but how do I go about testing and such for this mod? And is it compatible with Elite?

As long as the mod doesn't break your game files anything is compatible, likelyhood is a command line be used, and since Elite is launched separately I shouldn't think this is an issue.

Matchmaking works fine. We dont use -dev.

wait whut, I'm confuseld.
How can this matchmaking work but not for Elite? °_O

Dark Riku wrote:wait whut, I'm confuseld.
How can this matchmaking work but not for Elite? °_O

Elite uses "-dev" mode and it forbids matchmaking. Forgotten Emerald doesnt use "-dev" - so matchmaking works.

I would like to test tau commander when it comes out

Interested in Plague Champion, Chaos Lord, and Inquisitor. But, SM Captain can act like an Apo, you changed his wargears right?

Fleur wrote:Elite uses "-dev" mode and it forbids matchmaking. Forgotten Emerald doesnt use "-dev" - so matchmaking works.

Okaaay? °_O So why can't Elite just not use "-dev" then?

firatwithin wrote:Interested in Plague Champion, Chaos Lord, and Inquisitor. But, SM Captain can act like an Apo, you changed his wargears right?

Yes - just read the Features.

Dark Riku wrote:

Fleur wrote:Elite uses "-dev" mode and it forbids matchmaking. Forgotten Emerald doesnt use "-dev" - so matchmaking works.

Okaaay? °_O So why can't Elite just not use "-dev" then?

Because they use "-dev" to get more possibilities for modding. (I dont know what exactly they get from it)

Modders, care to share some light on this?

Fleur wrote:
Yes - just read the Features.

I have read them before the post, but I think I forgot them untill I came down and post a comment. :/

Group is now open. We welcome new people who can help us with testing, ideas or modding.