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Subject: Halo Mod for Dawn of War
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Hi guys,
Im the leader of a mod team working on a mod for Dawn of War to make it in the Halo universe. I thought since all the fans of Halo are here you guys might want to know and take a look. Its on here: halo mod team Hope you guys can support us!!!

  • 01.31.2005 9:55 AM PDT
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Wow, awesome idea! Halo was originally going to be an RTS anyway wasn't it? Warhammer 40K's graphics engine would make a Halo RTS look amazing. Good luck with the mod.

  • 01.31.2005 10:21 AM PDT
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Yes it was gonna be an RTS.

  • 02.01.2005 8:15 AM PDT
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OK, were getting a new site up and running and it should be up be about March, which I know its a while but its necessary, but our forum is staying exactly how it is but maybe with updated skins.

  • 02.08.2005 11:59 PM PDT
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Why aren't here more people excited about this? I've completed Warhammer 40K and it's AWESOME, the perfect candidate for a Halo RTS mod. I've read your forums and there's some really good ideas coming up.

  • 02.09.2005 8:55 AM PDT
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I haven't played Dawn of War yet, but it's a Relic game, so it's probably pretty good. Do they have a mod kit or SDK available? Sure would make things easier.

What can the Dawn of War engine do? Can it transit between out door/in door environments on the fly? Since Halo takes place in both such places- and there are flying units to consider, but I guess they're already in place in the Warhammer 40K universe.

How are you going to go about designing missions, or is it just going to be multiplayer death matches?

I think a good place to start would be to copy some of the Halo 1 & 2 missions and use them as a template. Maybe do hero missions like in StartCraft, that way you can focus on people like the Master Chief, the Arbiter, Johnson, etc. Heck, you could even have a hacking mission where Cortana must overcome a Covenant AI and it's defenses- that'd be cool. The terrain for that could be done like electron pathways and computer bits, sort of like Tron 2.0.

In fact, you could probably just do an entire campaign on one of the other Halo rings, and have the Covenant and UNSC battle for control of it. Heck, you could even introduce a 3rd race also vying for control.

  • 02.09.2005 11:39 AM PDT
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Dawn of War is the best game ever, good luck

  • 02.09.2005 5:11 PM PDT
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If you guys have read the books of halo maybe they would offer the best starting place for missions because people wont want to do the same missions twice if you know wat i mean.

  • 02.10.2005 9:43 AM PDT
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Heyyo,

Sounds like a nice idea. I've never been a huge fan of warhammer series, but I might buy dawn of war if this mod turns out nice, so keep us informed. ;)

  • 02.10.2005 10:06 AM PDT
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Why not Red alert style?

  • 02.10.2005 11:16 AM PDT
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Dawn of War doesnt let you put units in things like civilain buildings but we will have maps that put you in the middle of citys like maybe New Mombassa.

We are still taking ideas for the stroy line so join in!!! Most of us in the forums have read the books and we help out if we find something that doesnt fit in the halo universe.

Were using DoW's engine because we thought with all the death animations and the way units fly when something hits them would look really cool, like when an elite slashes a marine with its sword, can you picture it??? Awsome...

And as for Red Alert 2.. I dunno why people say use it, I personally didnt find red alert 2 that good but i do find things in RA2 that should have been in Generals.

Anyway as an update we are upgrading the website in about a month, and trust me it wont look as crap as it does now... finally.

[Edited on 2/10/2005 1:19:39 PM]

  • 02.10.2005 1:17 PM PDT
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We have our first model completed, this unt needs no introduction... the scorpian tank!!!!!!!!

  • 02.15.2005 8:05 AM PDT
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Funny story actually mate, I started out like that for this mod... until Bongo decided to run away and never return... that was when i was votd to be mod leader!!! Sweet!!!
We are looking for people to help us, sound guys, modelers, texture artists and coders. just mail me if you wanna help out.

  • 02.17.2005 4:25 AM PDT
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Taking the piss??? you dont know half of it, it was hard enough with all the legal issues GW was spitting out at mod teams, basically they said that we can only make mods within the warhammer universe or completely outside of it, and there were gonna be some really funny mods too...

  • 02.17.2005 2:19 PM PDT
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You should have seen the arguements people had on the relic forums lol!!!!!!!

  • 02.18.2005 4:37 AM PDT
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scorpian tank looks sweet keep it up and good luck.

  • 02.18.2005 6:36 PM PDT
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Cheers!!! Will do.

  • 02.20.2005 7:02 AM PDT
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We goes on and we hope to bring you a model of the pelican were working on, but we got some bad news this week, Hraefn our coder had been missing for a while and we didnt know why, so I asked his other mod team (Thousand Sons) and they told us that he hadnt been heard from since the Tsunami. Like them we assume the worst but we do hope for the best.

  • 02.23.2005 8:29 AM PDT
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Well he lived in Sweden not asia, so we dont know if hes helping the relief effort or if he is dead

  • 02.24.2005 8:40 AM PDT
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UPDATE TIME!!!!!!

OK we have a new guy on board, say hi to DarkWraith72.

  • 03.10.2005 11:45 PM PDT
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BIGGER UPDATE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Some very good news for all of you guys. On the relic forums there was another mod running in compition with us, well we've merged to make one big 'uber' mod. We have a new forum
and our website will be up in two weeks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • 03.27.2005 12:45 PM PDT

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