- 2.10.3 Hot Fix - 17 September 2026
Today's hot fix addresses two legacy campaign crashes and addresses an issue introduced with a previous fix that prevented diplomacy options from working correctly. Diplomacy – fixed an error that prevented the Diplomacy menu from working correctly when Resource Tributing Requisition and Power to an ally Smart App Control – updated unsigned .dll files that would be blocked when using Smart App Control in Windows Winter Assault – fixed a fatal scar error that could trigger in the intro cutscene of Disorder Mission 4 Soulstorm – fixed a fatal scar error that could trigger at various points during the Tau Stronghold mission Please continue to send reports and feedback to help.relic.com so that we can prioritize issues in any subsequent updates.
- 2.10.2 Hot Fix - 25 August 2026
Today's hot fix addresses a legacy exploit, and a bug introduced that impacts the ability to complete the Soulstorm campaign. Exploit – fixed the root cause of a 12-year-old exploit that could allow one player to issue commands to another player’s buildings Soulstorm – fixed an error that caused Imperial Guard and Dark Eldar Commanders to not allow two leaders of the same type Please continue to send reports and feedback to help.relic.com so that we can prioritize issues in any subsequent updates.
- Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition One Year Anniversary - 14 August 2026
One year ago, the battle began... again! 💀We’re celebrating one year of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. Thank you to everyone who has played, shared feedback, and supported the game over the past year. Your enthusiasm has given us the opportunity to keep making the Definitive Edition the best experience it can be and helped us hit the incredible milestone of 750,000 copies sold!It has been amazing to see new players discover Dawn of War for the first time and have longtime players there to welcome and support them by sharing strategies, tips, and advice.We want to give an extra shout out to our modding community, tool makers, creators, and event organizers. We appreciate your creativity, dedication, and countless hours of work over the past 20 years. Thank your for continuing to bring the community together.Here's to another 20 years of Dawn of War. For the Emperor!
- 2.10.1 Hot Fix - 13 August 2026
Today's hot fix addresses the most common crash introduced in Patch 2.10.0. Texture Detail – fixed a crash that could occur when playing Dark Crusade, Soulstorm, and certain mods with Texture Detail set to any value below High Please continue to send reports and feedback to help.relic.com so that we can prioritize issues in any subsequent updates.
- 2.10.0 Update Patch Notes - 11 August 2026
Today's update marks a full year of support for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. Thank you to all the fans, modders, tournament organizers, and balance testers that have kept the community active and engaged – you have given us the opportunity to keep supporting a game that means so much to all of us here at Relic. Going forward, after any required hot fixes or balance adjustments, the cadence of updates is likely going to slow and scale down as we allow the multiplayer meta to settle and generate more definitive data. Additionally, this will allow our team to spend time on some larger initiatives. The team will still be here, watching for ways to support the community. As always, please continue to report any issues at https://help.relic.com/ to help us prioritize any new or existing issues. Multiplayer BalanceGeneral This update looks to improve underused units, hea…
- 2.9.2 Hot Fix - 7 July 2026
Localization Updated a small number of text strings that were appearing as “No Key” errors in the Gameplay Options menu and ability descriptions in languages other than EnglishThank you to those that reported these issues to help.relic.com to help us diagnose and fix them.
- 2.9.1 Hot Fix - 25 June 2026
Gameplay Fixed a crash that could occur when a unit that used an ability that applies root (ex. Chaos Sorcerer using Chains of Torment) is killed while the victim unit is attempting to execute a moveFixed tuning changes that were errantly introduced in patch 2.9.0: Imperial Guard Plasma Gun: Decreased armor-piercing damage against light vehicles and medium vehicles, light and medium structures to restore previous balance Grenade Launcher(Kasrkin): Increased knockback and armor-piercing damage against light and medium structures to restore previous balance Orks Super 'Eavy Boy Armor Research: Bonus to Stormboy maximum health restored to +33%. Power cost restored to 25 Power. Thank you to those that reported these issues and shared your save files & replays to help.relic.com to help us diagnose and fix them.
- 2.9.0 Update Patch Notes - 23 June 2026
Today’s update aims to improve multiplayer balance in the latter stages of a match while continuing to refine the changes we made previously for the early and mid-game in update 2.8.0. As part of this, we’re moving the second global research for Requisition and Power for Eldar and Tau to Tier 3. These factions could previously research them at Tier 2.5, which allowed them to easily get further ahead in games if they were already winning. The team will continue to monitor the state of the multiplayer meta after this update, with a focus on additional adjustments for update 2.10.0 in the months ahead. Thank you to all our players for your ongoing feedback and bug reports! Your passion has been instrumental in our ongoing support of Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. Automatch & Modding A Fair Multiplayer Experience Thanks to the passion and dedication of this community, w…
- 2.8.0 Update Patch Notes - 27 April 2026
Today’s update is the first community driven patch focused on multiplayer balance in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. This work was only made possible by your continued support, feedback, and passion for this game. We want to thank the community members that have been driving, testing, and validating this work to get it ready for all of you today. Balancing any RTS game, especially one with nine factions, is complicated and time-consuming work. As such, today’s update will not solve or address every single friction point in the multiplayer experience. Update 2.8.0 is only the first of several planned multiplayer balance patches coming in 2026. This work will be incremental, and it will adapt based on feedback from players in the coming weeks. As such, we encourage all our multiplayer fans to play as many matchups and game modes as they can to get a feel for these new…
- 2.7.1 Hot Fix - 11 March 2026
Gameplay Melee Combat – Re-applied a fix for revived units such as Necron Warriors and the Living Saints to prevent them from endlessly pursuing their last melee attacker AudioSpeech – Updated how intel speech priority is handled (for example, scripted character dialogue during a cutscene) to address cases where story dialogue could be skipped because all audio channels are full during heavy combat Please be sure to report any bugs or technical issues by submitting a new request at help.relic.com.
- 2.7.0 Update Patch Notes - 17 February 2026
Today’s update for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition includes several quality-of-life and bug fixes to improve gameplay, the user interface, art & animation, and modding capabilities. Notably, this update should address frustrations with melee unit behavior and should also resolve an economy exploit. In the coming months, the team will continue working to resolve any high priority bugs or issues that arise, so please be sure to report those by submitting a new request at help.relic.com.One of our goals when we first began working on the Definitive Edition was to empower and support the community that has kept the fires lit for 20 years. To that end, we are in early discussions to support community-driven multiplayer balance patches. What shape that takes, who will be involved, and when official balance updates might be released are still being determined and will be at…
- 2.6.1 Hot Fix - 18 December 2025
Today’s hot fix addresses a small number of issues raised by the community after Tuesday’s 2.6.0 update. Thank you to those that reported the errors, and helped us troubleshoot the root causes. Please continue to report any issues at help.relic.com. General Fixed crash in the FX Editor when attempting to save a new FX Fixed a crash when loading the Skirmish menu when modded map names or descriptions contained an unsupported number of characters Community Maps – renamed the version of Community Maps released in 2.6.0 to avoid conflicts between these maps and the legacy modded versions. The maps have been re-added to the Automatch pool
- 2.6.0 Update Patch Notes - 16 December 2025
UPDATE - We have temporarily rolled back the changes to the Automatch map pool until we can resolve the conflicts between the Automatch maps and legacy mod maps. The new community maps will continue to be available in Skirmish and Multiplayer. You may still encounter issues playing the new maps in multiplayer if only some players have the legacy mod maps.We’re excited to reveal that today’s update will bring five community-made maps into the official map pool. Additionally, we have improved our translations for Japanese, Russian, and Polish. We have also done a tuning pass of flamer weapons after their recent visual and behavior improvements in update 2.5.0. You can find more details and the list of other fixes and changes below. As we approach the end of 2025, we want to thank all the players who have supported Relic and our games. The response to Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Defini…
- New Warhammer 40k: Dawn of War 4 trailer reveals playable Dark Angels and their fricking Primarch, Lion El'Jonson - 4 December 2025
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- 2.5.1 Hot Fix - 25 November 2025
Today’s hot fix addresses a handful of issues leftover from last week’s 2.5.0 update, including a fix that inadvertently reverted an old balance change. We know that as we continue to support, update, and fix issues in Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition, it may have knock-ons to the multiplayer meta, which has essentially been untouched for the last 10 years. Your love for this game and your continued support has gotten us this far, and we intend to go further. We remain dedicated to improving the game and making it the best way to play Dawn of War. Stay tuned for more in the coming weeks. Thank you for your continued feedback. Please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com. Gameplay Chaos – reverted a hot fix that was actually an ancient balance change. Cultist Squad Aspiring Champion will no longer receive a plasma pistol or power sword upgrade Jump Movem…
- 2.5.0 Update Patch Notes - 20 November 2025
Today’s update includes our top-requested feature – Achievements for both Steam and GoG. You can find a full list of the Achievements and their descriptions below. Additionally, this patch improves the Mission Editor for modders and addresses several gameplay bugs and issues for our more competitively minded players. This includes fixes for jump movement, grenades, Necron generators, and several flame weapons and flame FX such as the Immolator. Many of the fixes included in today’s patch are thanks to your feedback, so please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com. Achievements! Our team is excited to release 109 new achievements for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. These achievements were inspired in part by requests from the Community, in addition to some fun ones we have come up with ourselves. We hope you enjoy unlocking all of them! Please note: to…
- 2.4.0 Update Patch Notes - 21 October 2025
Today’s update for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition includes several modding fixes, including the infiltration shader, a new Mod Assistant tool, the long-requested “No Flyers” option for Custom Games and Skirmish, plus a new optimized renderer which should significantly improve the performance of shadows and visual effects. Our next update (2.5.0) in November will include the rollout of Steam Achievements for Dawn of War – Definitive Edition. Many of the fixes included in today’s patch are thanks to your feedback, so please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com. General Performance – today’s patch includes a new optimized renderer designed to significantly improve rendering performance. This is done through a combination of improved GPU scheduling and multi-core processingFixed a rare crash that could occur when numerous units were built at the same tim…
- 2.3.1 Hot Fix - 3 October 2025
Today’s hot fix for Dawn of War – Definitive Edition resolves a gameplay issue introduced with yesterday’s 2.3.0 release. Thank you for all your reports, please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com to help set priorities for upcoming patches. Gameplay Imperial Guard – Heavy Weapons team now entrenches and engages in combat correctly Additional High Priority Known Issues These items are in addition to the high priorty Known Issues we released yesterday. We are investigating reports that stats are appearing as reset, or displaying incorrect values. We are aware that some unit portraits have not been updated. Please send us bug reports with any you find, and please let us know which game mode or campaign you found them in. Infiltration shaders are not correctly applied to units in modded games. Loading a Replay from a match that is using mods will lead to a crash
- 2.3.0 Update Patch Notes - 2 October 2025
“Only in death does duty end.” To revisit Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, a game we love, and to see the warm reception from players has meant so much to us here at Relic. We want to thank all of you for your continued support and passion for the game. We have therefore extended our support plans for Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition beyond September and will continue updating the game for the rest of 2025. The next patch is currently targeting late October 2025. You can find a small preview of exciting, and highly requested features coming this year listed below today’s patch notes. Today’s update for Dawn of War – Definitive Edition includes a complete overhaul of Unit Portraits, improvements to the Automatch experience, Art and Animation fixes, HUD improvements, and fixes for several high priority crashes. Many of the fixes included in today’s patch are thanks to your…
- 2.2.1 Hot Fix - 16 September 2025
Update 2.2.1 fixes several issues that could interrupt multiplayer games and adds additional logging to help diagnose an issue causing some players to disconnect unexpectedly. The fixes included in today’s patch are thanks to your feedback, so please continue to report any issues to us at help.relic.com. General Fixed an issue preventing players from creating matches when launching from GOG Galaxy Fixed an error that would lead to a crash when transferring badges in Multiplayer Added additional logging to better diagnose the following rare issue. If you continue to encounter this issue, please submit a new support request at help.relic.com>Multiplayer sessions disconnect seconds after loading is complete
