THQ Announce New Dawn Of War Patch News

THQ has today announced the release of patch 1.4 for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War on Thursday 8th September. The patch, which will be available to download via the online section of the game, comes just weeks before the expansion pack Winter Assault arrives in stores. THQ has also advised that shortly after the release of the patch the Ladder Stats will be reset to account for the re-balancing. The full list of amendments are:

Balance Changes
• Increased Defiler cost to 190 requisition 400 power
• Increased Defiler build time to 60 seconds
• Increased the cost of the Chaos Sorcerer to 200 requisition 100 power
• Chaos Sorcerer build time is now 60 seconds (up from 20)
• Cost and build time of Chaos Marine Tactical Bolters reduced by 5%
• Reduced the cost of the Chaos Temple by 10%
• Reinforce time of Chaos Marine Tactical Bolters reduced by 10%
• Warp Spider damage against infantry has been reduced by 15%
• Guardian damage reduced by 5%
• Ork Stormboyz armor changed from Infantry High to Heavy Medium.
• Ork Stormboyz should now be a much better counter to Warp Spiders.
• Reduced the cost of the Space Marine Dreadnought to 170 requisition 350 power
• Reduced the train time of the Space Marine Dreadnought to 50 seconds
• Cost and build time of Space Marine Tactical Bolters reduced by 5%
• Reinforce time of Space Marine Tactical Bolters reduced by 10%
• Reduced the cost of the Chapel Barracks by 10%
• Scouts were inadvertently given an accuracy penalty while moving in the 1.3 patch. This penalty has been removed. Scouts should now be more effective at dealing damage.
• The recharge for Battle Cry was reduced to 96 seconds (down from 120)
• The recharge for Orbital Bombardment was reduced to 195 seconds (down from 240)
• The recharge for Smite was reduced to 100 seconds (down from 120)
• The recharge for Weaken Resolve was reduced to 45 seconds (down from 60)
• The build time for the Predator Lascannon upgrade was reduced to 20 seconds (down from 25)

  Code & Performance Changes

• Many small optimizations for low-end systems
• Full front-end now reloaded after switching mods (games)
• 2 new graphics options: Persistent Bodies, Persistent Decals
• Improved system performance detection capabilities of Graphics Options utility, resulting in more accurate settings. As a result, the Graphics Options utility will automatically run next time you start the game, post-patch/update.

You can catch up with TVGâ??s UK exclusive coverage of Dawn of War: Winter Assault here, and weâ??ll have a closer look on the expansion pack shortlyâ?¦