There will be bugs, Boulle warned: "Ultimately, we felt that it would be better to get the update out in a slightly imperfect state in time to prevent an outright interruption in multiplayer play. While great news for players, the migration will cause some technical issues in the short term. "Matchmaking/login and so on will thus all be through Steam." "This will not only mean multiplayer can continue on these titles, but the matchmaking experience will be improved," Boulle said. Both are in the process of migrating over to Steam.Īs a result all titles in the franchise are being updated to use the same matchmaking and backend developed for Relic's World War 2 strategy title Company of Heroes 2. The game had relied on the GameSpy service, due to shutdown soon, for multiplayer matchmaking, and Dawn of War 2 is a Games for Windows Live title. The original Dawn of War game and its expansions recently underwent a major update to preserve multiplayer, Dawn of War franchise design lead Philippe Boulle wrote on the Steam forum.
Relic Entertainment will move its Warhammer 40K strategy games over to Steam in a bid to keep their multiplayer portions alive.
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