@@BioClone that's true, RTS as a genre is struggling rn, but I think Dawn of War could make a solid comeback as long as they take to Apocalypse approach to really stand out. Space Marine and DoW both have that mythic, fandom classic quality
@@benmccarroll117 I really wish, really, but I no longer get hope. Thats the step to dissapointment xD *Sadly we can expect more than 4y to ever have a possible announcement since Relic is busy with AoE4 and CoH3 (this last one also scares the shit out of me)
Haha! Thanks for the little free promotion of my work. And thanks for all the appreciation you put towards the work done by the entire Unification mod's team. It was a true work of passion made for players to enjoy. A great adventure that is not over yet!
@@PonchaYT As a matter of fact, I'm a professional voice actor indeed. Besides, other voice actors who worked on this mod such as George Exley (Trazyn), Cari Scholtens (Xun'Bakyr) and Ki McKenzie (Ghostkeel) are also professionals.
I think what i love most here is that unification isn't trying to compete with ultimate apocalypse, they are doing their own thing and giving us more great mods to choose from.
@@tmdiz4579 definitely. half the unification dev team is former UA members, who left and took their art rights with them too (fucked over UA for a while)
This mod revives the campaign for soulstorm, I am playing it so much now, I actually lose fights from time to time now instead of steam rolling everything, I have to use air support, interrupt enemy elites with melee units, no more just sending everything to kill and winning the game. I am loving it! If you are thinking about getting this mod, stop thinking and just DO IT! I am not even someone who uses mods all that often, just follow the instructions and it will work! Enjoy brothers, the Emperor and the mod community protects!
I like how the various mod factions will actually acknowledge each other when first encountered, and if you check the sound files, they recorded a bunch of voice lines for every conceivable faction that could be added to the game, whether they actually exist or not. The Thousand Sons have some interesting lines if they happen to run into the Blood Ravens...
@@kilop206 The origin of the blood ravens is completely unknown. The one that fans have latched onto is the thousand sons due to the prevalence of psykers, and their seeking of knowledge.
I actually recognize the sound at 35:20 during the Necron Titan spawning. It’s used in another RTS game, Planetary Annihilation, as the sound effect for a doomsday weapon. Pretty neat to see it here
Fun fact when playing the Imperial Fists: If you team up with a Black Templar, Rogal Dorn changes his Hammer for the Sword of Sigismund to honor the firt Templar
@@Bonkman83 and plus theres an option in the Skirmish mode to summon a high tier building that increases morale in a big radius (I wont tell what the building is but its pretty funny)
So far this mod has done soooo much so that it's like it's own game entirely and they're still making more! Bless the team behind this , my beloved game not revived, not kept on a life support, but Flourished with life and lit up a grimdark galaxy of RTS games! Thanks Poncha for the video! Time to dive in!
I keep watching this video over and over despite it being made 3-4 months ago. This is such a good video. Glad I found a TH-camr like you. Love the edits and you’re one of the few youtubers who actually put in work. Keep up the good work
An Emperor powered thanks for this insanely wonderful video. Covering the entirety of the Mod was no easy task and even going so far as to stop and thank all the many, many awesome people who sat down and made this for the DoW fans, bravo. Major credit where its due even throwing in an added installation bonus along with the links underneath the video. Nice and easy to figure out and I'm a lad who has ZILCH in terms of experience with utilizing mods in games. What a massive delight this video was to find today and cheers to you Poncha for showing such dedication to the DoW content and even throwing some good laughs to boot. May the Glorious Emperor smile upon you with your continued work. *salutes*
You know, If I didn't watch "The Emperor has a Text-to-Speech" , I wouldn't of gotten the Rogal Dorn joke. I have much to learn still, or as Magnus would say, "Craving for some luscious knowledge"
Errrrm.... The Deciever was in the original game, it was broken as fuck in pvp games because the fake monolith would constantly draw aggro and amke you re-target your units all the time. Also, if oyu stole a squad wirth a comander, you could get that commander for free if you detached him, which was probably a bug. Yea, fuck that unit, one of the reasons you should never go into a late game vs the Necron unless you are playing IG or DE.
Never understood why those 'bugs' were never fixed... It doesn't seem so hard? I have a thread on the Soulstorm forum about similar 'bugs' and their possible abuse. I'm "Valiant" there, most of the time ;)
I know Fragjacker. He also makes mods for Stellaris. One of his, Acquisition of Technology allows for the supermods Ancient Cache of Technology and Zenith of Fallen Empires to be combined seamlessly. It also adds Fallen Empire versions of Habitats and Juggernauts.
The fact that "make it bun dem" (a.k.a. the Far Cry 3 flamethrower mission music) plays as a Salamanders BGM makes me lose my sanity because of laughter. But oh well, SANITY IS FOR THE WEAK.
Im a 40+yr guy and played a lot of W40K and Apocalypse years ago. I always watch the Luetin channel and because of the TV series/animations, I'm back in this game. I was looking for texture mods and addons and to my great and happy surprise I found this. Jesus guys, you are amazing people. The amount of time and work you spend to make these mods is simply epic!!! Sound design much better than the Angels of Death series, way way better. I salute and thank you all immensely for your incredible and passionate work. Thank you very much, cheers from Brazil!!! HAVE FUN :D o/
I did not even know about existence of this mod. Here I was playing plain old apocalypse mod and here I see everything I ever wished for and even more.
Time to get back to this comment since things changed a lot from those times. I played a lot of Unification since then and I must say, it was fun ride, but for me who prefers single-player campaign, it became kinda boring. Great strength Unification has over UA is that feels quite balanced. Your T1 units have little chance to rush-crush oponent base. All but the lightest vehicles are almost invulnerable unless you have anti-vehicle units. And you do not unlock armored vehicles, anti-vehicle and anti-structure tools untill you are T2. Problem is, that this applies to all races and there is very little you can do to deviate from this. Every battle was going exactly like clockwork. Do some inf vs inf combat. And then just delay untill you can spawn vehicles to be able to kill enemy fort. Even if you would push him back and have horde of infantry bashing his fort, it would take so long to kill it that you would still have plenty of time to get to T2 and get vehicles that would actualy do the kill. And it became boring after while. On other side Ult. Apocalypse changed quite a bit. It now also has increase campaign squad/support caps (iirc it did not before) and the difference between races are much larger, with myriad of options on how to fight your enemy even from the very first tier. At this point Ult.Apocalypse is doing everything that I wanted from Unification and feels different enough to bring plenty of new enjoyment. Only crucial difference (if you ignore all the super super ultra late game upgrades for Ult.Apoc.) is that you do not have persistent bases on conquered territories. Other than that, Unification mod seems to be bit more polished, but UA offers way more variety in how you can aproach the combat and does not shy from giving huge amount of power to higher tier units.
Let's go, unification mod review. I'm so happy to see this mod going far here on youtube, it really is wonderful. The team is great, and I loved being there to see it in development and all the hype up to release.
Unification mod is when the fans say when no new dawn of war comes out: "Fine then, we do it ourselves." And on a personal note, it warms my old heart from the day when I for the first time got "Rough Trader" and see what fans made out of love for the franchise throughout the years.
Ooooh Together to the Stars music clip at 3:20 excellent choice, I'm currently working through Dawn of War 1 and all it's official expansions looking forward to trying the mods as the capstone to my conquest, I've always tended to avoid mods with games but Dawn of War has been a game of many firsts and breaking a lot of my bad habits so I see no reason my mod aversion shouldn't be the next to fall.
if anyone wants to try the campaign with the other races, give the stronghold mod a try. it lets you pick each stronghold mission from DC and SS and play it like a skirmish mission, so you can play any mission with any faction, vanilla or new with custom army paints too.
I was sold on the mod when I played the Emperor's Children. Noise marines? Cool. Can get fallen Sisters of Battle? Odd but I'm not opposed. Can summon Doomrider? Neat. Spoiler by Hyper can play as battle music? Fuck being lore friendly, this is fandom friendly!
DATS NOT A PROPPA BATT’UL CRY, ITZ WWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
The World Eaters had me absolutely gushing! It's time to go back and play some DoW. For Chaos! Also, nice touch on playing that awesome soundtrack from Mechanicus when talking about the Necrons and Adeptus Mechanicus 😁
I wish the mod creators would focus more on polishing the main races rather than adding tons of minor unfinished factions. that, and I wish they just stuck to canon rather than feeling the need to add dumb easter eggs and anime girls to every army. edit: 7.0 released and they've dialled all the pop culture references and coomer weeb shit up to 11. they've even added their own anime fanfiction race and get pissy if anyone dares to question it. why do successful mod makers always have to go and sour things with their egos?
@@Athidius your reply got me to go and take another look at the current state of the mod, and wow was I embarrassed and disappointed. the first thing I see is that they've added a guard regiment of Japanese samurai and magical anime girls, which is all just pure fanfiction based on Genshin Impact and a slither of ancient 40k lore, and that many of the units are just stolen from Red Alert 3. the faction features a Star Wars Mandalorian, multiple Genshin Impact girls, 2B and YorHa androids from Nier Automata, a Russian sniper girl from Black Lagoon, goth girl assassins, space Benedict Arnold, and Wolf from Sekiro. this is absurd.
@@iMoD190 Really? me and my friends played UA a lot, and thought about trying out Unification. Thanks to your comment we wont waste our time setting it up.
@@thechazz3230 No, it’s really not. Joking about 6 million innocent people dying for the sake of being edgy on a youtube video isn’t something to be proud of.
The amount of work you put into these videos is impressive, and such an awesome love letter to the Warhammer 40k universe. I'm finishing up Saturnine from the Solar Wars series and just met Erda in the book when I noticed this video and put the book down to watch it. Good stuff!
It does make some sense. Kinda bizarre to think that when Dark Crusade released we were still in oldcrons, but we've not only had newcrons, but we've cranked the Newcrons so hard they've become the posterboy villains twirling mustaches skipping over the Silent King's angst phase. Necron lore's honestly been some of the most changing faction lore in the setting. It's just also sorta crazy Unification went full-tilt to add in as much Newcron stuff as they have.
Necrons realy did not get the most love. He says SM did not get much love...while they have 7 playable factions He says CSM did not get much love... while they have 5 playable factions Meanwhile necrons: 1 playable faction this almost mirrows GWs priorities
the community mirrows GWs media, thus Imperium fanboys heaviliy outnumber everyone else... which is the obvious consequence of having such a lobsided ip
I remember when I first downloaded this mod. I was completely overwhelmed by the amount of content it has and I’m still playing through the new races with the Emps Children and Imperial fists being some of my favorite factions to play. Though I did make the Imperial Fist into Iron Warriors in the army painter before I started playing them. Also when you play emperors children and go fallen sisters you get special HQ units depending on what enemy your fighting.
All of this and the combat scale of Dawn of War 1 with a newer engine (like Dawn of War 2 or even 3)... it would be glorious. Kudos for this great video, true work of passion.
I have always thought that if there is any sequel to the original dawn of war game that the sequel would just be a graphics update. There could be some new factions and gameplay adjustments but overall it doesn't need to change at all. I am happy unification mod exists and I hope some people will make a campaign out of it. That would be great.
I had such a weird introduction to this game. First it was AI presidents making a 40K faction tier list, followed by me looking up these factions cause they sounded like the coolest thing, followed by me discovering dawn of war, followed by me discovering this video, followed by me spending 40 dollars on this game and all its expansions, followed by me watching this video entirely and single handedly wanted me to give this game a shot. Especially chaos and necrons. Great video !
Lost 4 years of my life playing vanilla DoW to Soulstorm back in 2004-2008. Used to troll DoWSanctuary on a regular basis which I think is now rts-sanctuary. Some of the best DoW players ever came from there. Good times. Might have to try this mod. Great deep dive on this BTW.
For anyone getting this or any other mod that uses the improved camera mod that lets you zoom out a sane distance: The DoW Mod Manager has a launch option that disables the fog effect so you can actually see what's going on on the ground.
The mod devs: Its not apocalypse Me: *looks at the world eaters and emperors children* John Cena: are you sure about that? Me: thanks John Cena Honestly though love the mod and think it's a great alternative to apocalypse. I find it really refreshing and will probably play this more often and go to apocalypse when I want my power fantasy
Are we deserving of their work? My Emperor, these people earned whatever they are getting and a hundredfold more. This game made my teenager years, I will ,by my soul, save some cash to donate, this honestly deserves it.
@@MatthewVanston will you add (if it ins't in the game already) the adeptus mechanicus(not explorators), and will you add more factions like the custodians
I LOVE this mod. The Necrons have the Pylons too but only in survival! And you can use Apocalypse with Unification BUT the Tyranid mods are the Problem. But the Makrer of these mods show you how you can make that (For me it is too much - I wanna play with nice Units and Unification has that..)
This mod is insane, can't wait till every factions have their titans. Seriously what they are doing is everything I ever dreamed of back when Dawn of War was released. I literally bought the game again 16 years later on steam to play this!
One hour in great detail that really draws you into the mod The apocalypse mod was good but balancing was men but seeing this mod it looks promising from visual, audio and game design
Royal dorn lore wise was not in centurion armor, that was done by Emperors TTS…… I miss it. Anyway, just wanted to point that small detail out. I really need to get out more.
I’m happy that you acknowledge Apocalypse as a good mod without bashing it. It was the first mod I got for Soulstorm and remains my favorite to this day.
Dawn of War 1 is like a Dreadnought
'Even in death I still serve'
And faithfully so
"It is better to die for the fans than live for the profit"
Borealum
@@elizabest4246 Fucking epic
Not any Dreadnought but frickin Rylanor! The ancient of Rites
Why did you erase me, Poncha. This makes me very displeased.
Legit, I fell of my chair when I saw your comment.
@@PonchaYT that chair wasn’t properly fortified
Grandpapa?
Holy shit! Rogal has a youtube channel?!
FORTY FORTY FORTY FORTY
Relic: abandon Dawn of War
Modders: "Can't expect God to do all the work."
Can't expect the Emperor to do all the work!
otherwise, it wouldn't be needed the Inquisition!
I would have also accepted "Fine I'll do it myself ..."
.:.
Modders lead the way
well there is no heresy without some fires
If Space-marine can rise from the dead 10 years later, surely Dawn of War could do the same
TBH Space marine had it easier, Third person shooter for years have been safer than go into RTS.
@@BioClone that's true, RTS as a genre is struggling rn, but I think Dawn of War could make a solid comeback as long as they take to Apocalypse approach to really stand out. Space Marine and DoW both have that mythic, fandom classic quality
@@benmccarroll117 I really wish, really, but I no longer get hope.
Thats the step to dissapointment xD
*Sadly we can expect more than 4y to ever have a possible announcement since Relic is busy with AoE4 and CoH3 (this last one also scares the shit out of me)
@@BioClone yeah I've not given up yet but I'm 👌 this close to calling it quits 😂
@@benmccarroll117 RTS was struggling because nothing good was released since SC2.
Until AOE4, it's been a good hit so far
The fact that Dorn's model is just TTS Dorn with weapons and a few changes always gets me XD The mod team has humour and talent indeed :D
Rip tts
You also have Karamazov interacting with the scribe on his throne, a.k.a “Dominique”
TTS has become probably one of the most influential pieces of Warhammer media to date. It's affected pretty much the entire fan-made scene
@@TNTspaz GW probably added Adeptus Custodes because of TTS popularity
@@indrickboreale7381 So true Boreale!
Haha! Thanks for the little free promotion of my work. And thanks for all the appreciation you put towards the work done by the entire Unification mod's team. It was a true work of passion made for players to enjoy. A great adventure that is not over yet!
Haha, your voice acting is incredible. Do you do it for a job? I’m surprised if not.
amassing work dude
@@PonchaYT As a matter of fact, I'm a professional voice actor indeed. Besides, other voice actors who worked on this mod such as George Exley (Trazyn), Cari Scholtens (Xun'Bakyr) and Ki McKenzie (Ghostkeel) are also professionals.
@@fast1nakus Thanks!
May the Emperors light shine upon you Brother
I think what i love most here is that unification isn't trying to compete with ultimate apocalypse, they are doing their own thing and giving us more great mods to choose from.
I'm glad you get to choose also. If you want the big battles go for APOC, choice Uni.
They are competing lol.
@@PonchaYT to be fair, Uni has the Unlimited mod which helps make things better on the whole...not feeling like 40K
@@tmdiz4579 definitely. half the unification dev team is former UA members, who left and took their art rights with them too (fucked over UA for a while)
@@tmdiz4579 They're not.
It's ironic that Soulstorm, the brokenest most hilariously wonk game in the entire franchise, ends up being the savior of the series.
I KNEW I WAS RIGHT TO PURCHASE IT INSTEAD OF DARK CRUSADE
@@CrystallizedBlackSkull why not both? Dark Crusade campaign is really cool, and fun, plus it should still be on the Skulls sale for very cheap.
@@CrystallizedBlackSkull i got them all as they came out
@@NoTLucas Cuz i'm broke and could only buy one of the expansions of DoW
@@ka0z699 Lucky :c
Sale?
This mod revives the campaign for soulstorm, I am playing it so much now, I actually lose fights from time to time now instead of steam rolling everything, I have to use air support, interrupt enemy elites with melee units, no more just sending everything to kill and winning the game. I am loving it! If you are thinking about getting this mod, stop thinking and just DO IT! I am not even someone who uses mods all that often, just follow the instructions and it will work! Enjoy brothers, the Emperor and the mod community protects!
Makes sense for the Kriegers being reskins of Steel Legion: They did after all *begin* as Steel Legion conversions.
Really?!?
"To locate Soulstorm just look above where you uninstalled DoW 3" I didnt even know I could choke from nothing but thank you for this experience .
That's really funny. I honestly like dow3. I think I was the only one. The multiplayer was shit though
@@magicmanscott40k praise to you cause honestly I tried like many times and never get past the first 40 mins in the game
@@magicmanscott40k I like it, too.
@@magicmanscott40k it was okay but compared to the other DoW games its hot garbagio
The modders are like guardsmen, doing all the hard work to keep the community alive and going.
"The game died before the modders did"
Have any modders been executed?
@@barm9919 The cowards who abandon their mods have.
They will ho#d the line. #owever long it t@kes for me t? be able to rise fro% my throne.
@@barm9919"Modders do not die, they Just get a millenia length ban"
I like how the various mod factions will actually acknowledge each other when first encountered, and if you check the sound files, they recorded a bunch of voice lines for every conceivable faction that could be added to the game, whether they actually exist or not. The Thousand Sons have some interesting lines if they happen to run into the Blood Ravens...
I noticed that as well. You can see how far they went for the voice lines. Little details make the difference.
"Bloody magpies"
@@trazyntheinfinite9895 Cease your heresy, xenos
What for? Blood Ravens come from the Word Bearers, not the Thousand Sons
@@kilop206 The origin of the blood ravens is completely unknown. The one that fans have latched onto is the thousand sons due to the prevalence of psykers, and their seeking of knowledge.
...I kind of preferred quiet Necrons in the base game. Just like how the Mechanicus had their own language in..well, Mechanicus.
I actually recognize the sound at 35:20 during the Necron Titan spawning. It’s used in another RTS game, Planetary Annihilation, as the sound effect for a doomsday weapon. Pretty neat to see it here
Fun fact when playing the Imperial Fists: If you team up with a Black Templar, Rogal Dorn changes his Hammer for the Sword of Sigismund to honor the firt Templar
holy shit i didn't know that, when i get unification again imma try that out
@@Bonkman83 and plus theres an option in the Skirmish mode to summon a high tier building that increases morale in a big radius (I wont tell what the building is but its pretty funny)
But isn't dorn weapon a chainsword?
Kinda weird since Dorn hates Sigismund.
@@zenoblues7787 kinda does, but hey atleast in the game he doesn't hate us XD
DoW fans : *"Gaze upon this"*
Relic : **laughs* *_"I cannot see a thing"_*
GW: *WEEEEEEEEEEEEZE*
Why are you everywhere?
Meanwhile the lol finals, relic: "WIRTE THAT DOWN, WIRTHE THAT DOWN!"
So far this mod has done soooo much so that it's like it's own game entirely and they're still making more!
Bless the team behind this , my beloved game not revived, not kept on a life support, but Flourished with life and lit up a grimdark galaxy of RTS games!
Thanks Poncha for the video!
Time to dive in!
it really has done a lot
I love how the fortify icon for the imperial fists is just a custom emblem from For Honor
I keep watching this video over and over despite it being made 3-4 months ago. This is such a good video. Glad I found a TH-camr like you. Love the edits and you’re one of the few youtubers who actually put in work. Keep up the good work
This next one will be a good one.
"...back when I painted like I was blind, and made up my own rules for the game"
so literally the orks
Dorn is wearing the centurion armor from TTS xD i love it
I am fortifying this comment.
@@XXLPIakat i shall fetch you your Tools....and 10 000 Laborers
i hope kitten will be in this mod
edit: also kinda dissapointed they didn't use the TTS voice actor for Dorn.
@@vladyslavponomarchuk2692 this is true.
@@halo129830 what is true?
I'm so happy that dawn of war is getting all the support from modders.
damn, here we go again.
*installs DoW soulstorm*
They have taken my red dwarf clip away, BBC are pure heretics.
F
yes bbc is gross
#DefundtheBBC
Aww I loved that clip lol that sucks
@@iconthe7324 well it’s on second channel and they’ve not done it there hopefully.
Only in death does duty end.
But the death of DOW fan base never has came.
our duty is unending!
even in death I still serve
Remember Relic fell before the modders did
The RTS genre is kept alive basically by the modding communities.
It almost came with the death of DoW3. Fortunately, mods turned us into a dreadnought.
FOR THE EMPEROR
An Emperor powered thanks for this insanely wonderful video. Covering the entirety of the Mod was no easy task and even going so far as to stop and thank all the many, many awesome people who sat down and made this for the DoW fans, bravo. Major credit where its due even throwing in an added installation bonus along with the links underneath the video. Nice and easy to figure out and I'm a lad who has ZILCH in terms of experience with utilizing mods in games. What a massive delight this video was to find today and cheers to you Poncha for showing such dedication to the DoW content and even throwing some good laughs to boot. May the Glorious Emperor smile upon you with your continued work. *salutes*
Thanks brother, hired gun is getting a review next which will be a big one.
You know, If I didn't watch "The Emperor has a Text-to-Speech" , I wouldn't of gotten the Rogal Dorn joke.
I have much to learn still, or as Magnus would say, "Craving for some luscious knowledge"
Errrrm.... The Deciever was in the original game, it was broken as fuck in pvp games because the fake monolith would constantly draw aggro and amke you re-target your units all the time. Also, if oyu stole a squad wirth a comander, you could get that commander for free if you detached him, which was probably a bug. Yea, fuck that unit, one of the reasons you should never go into a late game vs the Necron unless you are playing IG or DE.
yeah that was a mistake. Been so long since I jumped into soul storm.
Never understood why those 'bugs' were never fixed... It doesn't seem so hard? I have a thread on the Soulstorm forum about similar 'bugs' and their possible abuse. I'm "Valiant" there, most of the time ;)
Seeing Rogal Dorn stand besides his fists behind defences just about a tear to my eye.
I know Fragjacker. He also makes mods for Stellaris. One of his, Acquisition of Technology allows for the supermods Ancient Cache of Technology and Zenith of Fallen Empires to be combined seamlessly. It also adds Fallen Empire versions of Habitats and Juggernauts.
The fact that "make it bun dem" (a.k.a. the Far Cry 3 flamethrower mission music) plays as a Salamanders BGM makes me lose my sanity because of laughter. But oh well, SANITY IS FOR THE WEAK.
Holy shit, really?!
No no, for eversor it's not "Kill the target, and nothing else." Its "Kill the target, and everything else."
then explode ;3
I think he meant it as "They kill their target, they don't do anything else" (no debuffs, disables or fancy shenanigans).
Im a 40+yr guy and played a lot of W40K and Apocalypse years ago. I always watch the Luetin channel and because of the TV series/animations, I'm back in this game. I was looking for texture mods and addons and to my great and happy surprise I found this. Jesus guys, you are amazing people. The amount of time and work you spend to make these mods is simply epic!!! Sound design much better than the Angels of Death series, way way better. I salute and thank you all immensely for your incredible and passionate work. Thank you very much, cheers from Brazil!!! HAVE FUN :D o/
I did not even know about existence of this mod. Here I was playing plain old apocalypse mod and here I see everything I ever wished for and even more.
I see people say that alot old apocalypse all I can imagine is a old horse who served you well but it's time to put it down
Tf is old apocalypse xD I know the masterpiece that’s ultimate but what’s old?
Time to get back to this comment since things changed a lot from those times. I played a lot of Unification since then and I must say, it was fun ride, but for me who prefers single-player campaign, it became kinda boring.
Great strength Unification has over UA is that feels quite balanced. Your T1 units have little chance to rush-crush oponent base. All but the lightest vehicles are almost invulnerable unless you have anti-vehicle units. And you do not unlock armored vehicles, anti-vehicle and anti-structure tools untill you are T2.
Problem is, that this applies to all races and there is very little you can do to deviate from this. Every battle was going exactly like clockwork. Do some inf vs inf combat. And then just delay untill you can spawn vehicles to be able to kill enemy fort. Even if you would push him back and have horde of infantry bashing his fort, it would take so long to kill it that you would still have plenty of time to get to T2 and get vehicles that would actualy do the kill.
And it became boring after while. On other side Ult. Apocalypse changed quite a bit. It now also has increase campaign squad/support caps (iirc it did not before) and the difference between races are much larger, with myriad of options on how to fight your enemy even from the very first tier.
At this point Ult.Apocalypse is doing everything that I wanted from Unification and feels different enough to bring plenty of new enjoyment.
Only crucial difference (if you ignore all the super super ultra late game upgrades for Ult.Apoc.) is that you do not have persistent bases on conquered territories. Other than that, Unification mod seems to be bit more polished, but UA offers way more variety in how you can aproach the combat and does not shy from giving huge amount of power to higher tier units.
Let's go, unification mod review. I'm so happy to see this mod going far here on youtube, it really is wonderful. The team is great, and I loved being there to see it in development and all the hype up to release.
As someone who lives in London your impersonation was on point
It’s all too true. Warp stone bruh?
Unification mod is when the fans say when no new dawn of war comes out: "Fine then, we do it ourselves."
And on a personal note, it warms my old heart from the day when I for the first time got "Rough Trader" and see what fans made out of love for the franchise throughout the years.
Ooooh Together to the Stars music clip at 3:20 excellent choice, I'm currently working through Dawn of War 1 and all it's official expansions looking forward to trying the mods as the capstone to my conquest, I've always tended to avoid mods with games but Dawn of War has been a game of many firsts and breaking a lot of my bad habits so I see no reason my mod aversion shouldn't be the next to fall.
if anyone wants to try the campaign with the other races, give the stronghold mod a try. it lets you pick each stronghold mission from DC and SS and play it like a skirmish mission, so you can play any mission with any faction, vanilla or new with custom army paints too.
Modding is the best part of gaming. This looks incredible and will keep the game fresh for many more years.
*T H E E N G I N E O F P L E A S U R E H A S A R R I V E D*
Nobody else like this comment. Just don't. It's perfect.
*F r e e l y.*
Ew.
Shit and awkward. Someone released his fuck machine 🤖
I found this video on Christmas and it's like Santa came to me! I installed the mod and I'm having a blast on Christmas Eve! Cheers!
Just got the mod installed and honestly. I'm in LOVE. I have only played as 4 races but can't wait to explore EVERYTHING the Soulstorm mod offers!
I was sold on the mod when I played the Emperor's Children. Noise marines? Cool. Can get fallen Sisters of Battle? Odd but I'm not opposed. Can summon Doomrider? Neat. Spoiler by Hyper can play as battle music? Fuck being lore friendly, this is fandom friendly!
Ere We GO Ladz.....waaaagh
DATS NOT A PROPPA BATT’UL CRY, ITZ WWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!
I read that I’m very enthusiastically. Until the waagh.
@@aydengartenlaub ahem Iz, Gud, but needs moar DAKKA
WATS DIS MORLA... MOARL? WATS DIS LACK OF SCREAMIN YOU LOT?
GIMME A GOOD PROPA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH
WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!
46:15 "Since Dante can't kill all of them", won't stop him from trying tho.
The World Eaters had me absolutely gushing! It's time to go back and play some DoW. For Chaos!
Also, nice touch on playing that awesome soundtrack from Mechanicus when talking about the Necrons and Adeptus Mechanicus 😁
I wish the mod creators would focus more on polishing the main races rather than adding tons of minor unfinished factions. that, and I wish they just stuck to canon rather than feeling the need to add dumb easter eggs and anime girls to every army.
edit: 7.0 released and they've dialled all the pop culture references and coomer weeb shit up to 11. they've even added their own anime fanfiction race and get pissy if anyone dares to question it. why do successful mod makers always have to go and sour things with their egos?
Preach, ive gone back to ultimate apocalypse after the 7.0 update for unification.
yeah the anime shit ruined the mod for me
@@Athidius your reply got me to go and take another look at the current state of the mod, and wow was I embarrassed and disappointed.
the first thing I see is that they've added a guard regiment of Japanese samurai and magical anime girls, which is all just pure fanfiction based on Genshin Impact and a slither of ancient 40k lore, and that many of the units are just stolen from Red Alert 3. the faction features a Star Wars Mandalorian, multiple Genshin Impact girls, 2B and YorHa androids from Nier Automata, a Russian sniper girl from Black Lagoon, goth girl assassins, space Benedict Arnold, and Wolf from Sekiro.
this is absurd.
@@iMoD190 Really? me and my friends played UA a lot, and thought about trying out Unification. Thanks to your comment we wont waste our time setting it up.
"Actually why do I care. Most people here probably say worst shit in real life."
The man knows his audience.
Not really something to be proud of lol
@@samuelmcl.9474 No. It's certainly something to be proud of.
@@thechazz3230 No, it’s really not. Joking about 6 million innocent people dying for the sake of being edgy on a youtube video isn’t something to be proud of.
@@samuelmcl.9474 sounds like something pretty cool to joke about pal
The amount of work you put into these videos is impressive, and such an awesome love letter to the Warhammer 40k universe. I'm finishing up Saturnine from the Solar Wars series and just met Erda in the book when I noticed this video and put the book down to watch it. Good stuff!
Thanks mate, next video is on hired gun which is going to be a fun one.
@@PonchaYT I just got the game, so definitely looking forward to that.
That Rhino driver has some serious "Hello, my name's Ninoooo" energy
It's a pity that such extensive and ambitious mods don't exist for DoW II.
Modding in DoW II is much harder.
Thanks to developers ;-)
The space Marines getting less new models than the xenos feels like poetic justice.
"necrons got the most love" OH YEAH!
Good, as befits the Best race.
Especially the voice acting it fits them so much more then the beeps and blops from the vanilla
very pog yes
It does make some sense. Kinda bizarre to think that when Dark Crusade released we were still in oldcrons, but we've not only had newcrons, but we've cranked the Newcrons so hard they've become the posterboy villains twirling mustaches skipping over the Silent King's angst phase. Necron lore's honestly been some of the most changing faction lore in the setting. It's just also sorta crazy Unification went full-tilt to add in as much Newcron stuff as they have.
Necrons realy did not get the most love.
He says SM did not get much love...while they have 7 playable factions
He says CSM did not get much love... while they have 5 playable factions
Meanwhile necrons: 1 playable faction
this almost mirrows GWs priorities
any Xenos in 40k: We want meaningful subfactions
Everyone: Best i can do Is Monke
the community mirrows GWs media, thus Imperium fanboys heaviliy outnumber everyone else... which is the obvious consequence of having such a lobsided ip
@@galling2052 GW thinks we're still in the 50s and racism is called "xenophobia" wich makes it okay.
@@zlosov5817 both are in fact ok, even good.
@@zlosov5817 so you are saying orks humans and tau are all the same species just slightly different then?
What are you referring to by "monke"? The human factions?
im just waiting to see the update of the Mechanicus and then i will lost all my free time playing with them
Glad to have been given the opportunity to work on this a little over the last couple years. Thud's a top bloke.
This just shows the power and appreciation for a franchise that a community can hold it brings a smile to my heart and it is truly inspirational
It is sad seeing my childhood franchise getting forsaken by its own creator.
I remember when I first downloaded this mod. I was completely overwhelmed by the amount of content it has and I’m still playing through the new races with the Emps Children and Imperial fists being some of my favorite factions to play.
Though I did make the Imperial Fist into Iron Warriors in the army painter before I started playing them.
Also when you play emperors children and go fallen sisters you get special HQ units depending on what enemy your fighting.
All of this and the combat scale of Dawn of War 1 with a newer engine (like Dawn of War 2 or even 3)... it would be glorious.
Kudos for this great video, true work of passion.
This is love. Love of the game. Love of art. Love of the lore. Love, art, devotion. I think a little dark magic, as well. Wow!
Modding/Gaming communities keep some fantastic gems alive! Forever grateful to them and you!
I have always thought that if there is any sequel to the original dawn of war game that the sequel would just be a graphics update. There could be some new factions and gameplay adjustments but overall it doesn't need to change at all.
I am happy unification mod exists and I hope some people will make a campaign out of it. That would be great.
""How does it feel beeing a modder of a dead game?"
- " E U P H O R I C "
Just wanted to point out the fact that regular Space Wolves do exist as a mod that is compatible with the Unification Mod.
There's also other IG factions (namely the Praetorians, and the Vostroyans).
Was confused about the Space wolves part, I enjoy fighting them in my space marine chapters battle royales.
I had such a weird introduction to this game. First it was AI presidents making a 40K faction tier list, followed by me looking up these factions cause they sounded like the coolest thing, followed by me discovering dawn of war, followed by me discovering this video, followed by me spending 40 dollars on this game and all its expansions, followed by me watching this video entirely and single handedly wanted me to give this game a shot. Especially chaos and necrons.
Great video !
I like how the voices were edited to sound deeper, rather than them putting on a deep voice like the warhound titan *cringe*
RETURN OF THE KING
Dude that opening should be a trailer for this mod, absolutely incredible
An amazing video.You really did the mod justice.
And,you were the most accurate.
It is a huge expansion.
Really? what have other people said? Also thanks!
Lost 4 years of my life playing vanilla DoW to Soulstorm back in 2004-2008. Used to troll DoWSanctuary on a regular basis which I think is now rts-sanctuary. Some of the best DoW players ever came from there. Good times. Might have to try this mod. Great deep dive on this BTW.
For anyone getting this or any other mod that uses the improved camera mod that lets you zoom out a sane distance:
The DoW Mod Manager has a launch option that disables the fog effect so you can actually see what's going on on the ground.
FACE MY LEGION 52:16 ( im so proud for them)
That is?
Edit: sorry i did a research and it is the thousand sons
@@luangomes2431 XD
The mod devs: Its not apocalypse
Me: *looks at the world eaters and emperors children*
John Cena: are you sure about that?
Me: thanks John Cena
Honestly though love the mod and think it's a great alternative to apocalypse. I find it really refreshing and will probably play this more often and go to apocalypse when I want my power fantasy
Don't forget that Emperor's Children was made by one of Uni's devs.
Are we deserving of their work? My Emperor, these people earned whatever they are getting and a hundredfold more. This game made my teenager years, I will ,by my soul, save some cash to donate, this honestly deserves it.
The work was made for players to enjoy. Why think you don't deserve it?
@@MatthewVanston will you add (if it ins't in the game already) the adeptus mechanicus(not explorators), and will you add more factions like the custodians
@@luangomes2431 Eventually, they will.
“Termagants” shows some hormegaunts “hormegaunts” shows termagants
I'll take the mistake with pride. At that point in the video I was about to fall off my desk.
It's a 1h22 vid, whoopsies are bound to happen and thus are easily forgivable lol
looking back, the community saved this series man
I LOVE this mod. The Necrons have the Pylons too but only in survival! And you can use Apocalypse with Unification BUT the Tyranid mods are the Problem. But the Makrer of these mods show you how you can make that (For me it is too much - I wanna play with nice Units and Unification has that..)
"These paladins shoot kids"
Thats what they usually do in history too
Another Day in 40k
You forgot to add, whisper "Cypher" for the Dark Angels
The updates continue and it's pretty amazing the love of the team for this project
I really hope they add in the death guard as it’s own faction because then we have nearly all different chaos factions
We also get Eldrad Ulthran himself, I could just imagine the looks on Taldeer & Macha when their father shows up
6:48 I seriously wouldn't worry too much about butchering the lore, GW already went down that alley.
Fantastic video, I loved the detailed description, research put in and the references(they were SO good)
ultimate apocalypse mod: finally, a true opponent, OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY
The Blood Ravens approve of this. This is some good stuff........it would be a shame if someone.....gifted it to the chapter reliquary......
I will bolt this in the ground so you wont trazyn(steal) this video or mod
This mod is insane, can't wait till every factions have their titans. Seriously what they are doing is everything I ever dreamed of back when Dawn of War was released. I literally bought the game again 16 years later on steam to play this!
The gay chaos marine driving the Rhino sold this mod to me immediately
You won't like the angry marine mod where the vehicles explode immediately after they spawn.
I cannot express how happy this mod and this video made me happy, you made my day good sir!
One hour in great detail that really draws you into the mod
The apocalypse mod was good but balancing was men but seeing this mod it looks promising from visual, audio and game design
fun fact; DoW2 disappointed me so much it motivated me to improve DoW1 with this absolute beauty of a mod, great video
Someone on the mod team is a Nier Fan- there's a chance for 2B to be seen chillin on the IG's shadow sword.
Royal dorn lore wise was not in centurion armor, that was done by Emperors TTS…… I miss it. Anyway, just wanted to point that small detail out. I really need to get out more.
That was…. Fast m8.
I’m happy that you acknowledge Apocalypse as a good mod without bashing it. It was the first mod I got for Soulstorm and remains my favorite to this day.
It lives on as the crucible now. Has official support from the unification team.
This video is amazing. (Great job)
Must've taken forever. Superb video indeed, I installed the mod because I thought it just had a few nice units for every faction. Boy was I wrong!
Thanks mate , makes it worth it.
Last time I was this early, AI was on our side.
Wow, what an awesome video. Thanks so much for all the work it took to compile and edit all that. Got a sub out of me!
Wait till the next video comes out....