Dawn of War 2 Beta Ends Today, Stats Released

"However, more skilled players with higher TrueSkill rankings see a precipitous drop in Space Marine success and by the looks of it, learn to use the Tyranids more effectively. This shouldn't be that surprising though, since the Tyranids require a deeper understanding of the game mechanics to play really effectively."

Why in earth would they make it so asymmetrical? Shouldn't each race have the same learning curve /
ceiling AND maintain effectiveness? Hopefully, its just a miscommunication error. Can anyone clarify
things? Are Space Marines really so much easier to use? Or is this just a reflection of the game being
only 3 weeks old?

I would like to note to all the NAYsayers out there:

I know of 8 people who were playing DOW2 MP Beta till the end. Five of them have it preordered already, the other ones are just getting it off of steam. Half of them didn't get the notice that it was down last night and were horribly depressed when I told them it was over. Aside from that, we outlawed Tyranids because the Synapse was unstoppable. Hopefully they fix that.

Also, I never played a "ranked" game the entire time because it was just quicker to join custom games. If they improve the ranked game finder I might start using it, but currently I don't plan on using it at all.

Games for Windows Live sucks. Lets put the message notice over the X to close this pull down??!! Seriously who designed this POS. Also I had to make a gamer tag just for PC because you can't be logged into your xbox and your PC on GFW. GFW is the only part of DOW2 I dislike.

Dang, no love for the Ravener Alpha?

I love statistics like this. Mad props to relic for doing it!


Now if only they released stats on how long a documented IP played the game before they got bored with it. I'm pretty sure they'd find the majority lost interest in three days.

Hopefully DoW3 will go back to the originals if it doesn't get canned first from poor sales of DoW2.

They should really break the stats into pre/post patch.

Pre-patch eldar + warp spyder hero dominated. Post-patch it was tyranids + hive tyrant. Post-patch also saw a significant reduction in Eldar players (I think there were 4), which caused them to maintain their high win/loss ratio from pre-patch.

So, hero success is reverse alphabetic? Wow, a hero with a name starting in "Zz" would just about dominate everything.

I wish to God they'd release a demo to see if I like the new gameplay

I tried to put time into playing the beta but the multiplayer games always took 6+ minutes to do a matchmaking then I got bored and gave up. Plus because I had no clue how to play the game also didn't help.

Stupid Tech Marine and Mekboy, ranked 4 and 6.

I wish more companies released this kind of information; this is awesome.