Ultimate Apocalypse: The Hunt Begins (with all factions) [v1.86.3]

This is a guide to give anyone a helping hand to install Ultimate Apocalypse: The Hunt Begins Mod including all factions on latest patch version 1.86.3. Following this guide you will be able to play UA: THB with all the of the existing race mods (Tyranids, Chaos Daemons, Inquisitons Daemon Hunters).
There are also other guides for this Mod, but they are out of date and will let you not play the Mod with all factions on the latest patch. It is not any fault by the people who created the guides, it is only because of issues with the latest version. Also consider this guide can get outdated too, when a new patch will be released. I have done it in March 2016 and the patch 1.86.3 itself is also from March 2016.
It is very simple, you just must watch the order of installing all files. Links to the files will be included in this guide.

UA: THB Information

Ultimate Apocalypse: The Hunt Begins is an awesome mod for Dawn of War Soulstorm turning an old game into giant game with a lot of new content, new game mechanics and even graphic and camera improvements. It adds many new units, bigger squads and breaks former unit restrictions. Also everything is very well balanced. Thankfully the new mechanics are easy to understand and don't need a tutorial. In one sentence: DOW SS gets way bigger and better.
Also you will get three new factions: Tyranids, Inquisition Daemon Hunters and Chaos Daemons. Giving you overall 12 different factions to play. The battles in the game will get much more epic than in the vanilla version of Soulstorm.

Download Content

It shouldn't need to be said, but you need to have DoW: Soulstorm installed and if you want the races from the other DoW titles, you need those games in your Steam library.

The full version of Ultimate Apocalypse - THB [v1.86]
http://www.moddb.com/mods/ultimate-apocalypse-mod/downloads/ultimate-apocalypse-thb-full-install-v-186

Ultimate Apocalypse - THB Patch v1.86.3
http://www.moddb.com/mods/ultimate-apocalypse-mod/downloads/ultimate-apocalypse-thb-patch-v1863

Inquisition Daemon Hunters Mod for DOW SS
{LINK REMOVED}http://www.mediafire.com/download/e2qse03674hdx7e/idh_beta2_ss.rar

NTCore_2.0
http://www.moddb.com/mods/ultimate-apocalypse-mod/downloads/nt-core-20

Installation

1. You click The full version of Ultimate Apocalypse - THB [v1.86] which is UA-THB-v1.86.16-FULL and install it simply in the Dawn of War Soulstorm directory. Normaly this would be in:
X:\Programs (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Dawn of War Soulstorm

Important: The Installer will ask you which mods you want to install. You take all, but one you will not take at this step. Don't install the Inquisition Mod now. If you install with this mod, the whole mod will not work afterwards.



2. Now you open the idh_beta2_ss archieve with winrar. Put all from the package into your main Soulstorm directory. When ask if you want to overwrite all files in your Soulstorm directory, you cofirm it with yes.

3. Just run the Ultimate_Apocalypse_-_THB_v1.86.3 which is the patch for the latest version released in March 2016.

4. Open the NTCore_2.0 archieve and place all of it into the the main directory of Soulstorm and confirm to overwrite the old Soulstorm.exe. You might want to make a backup of the original Soulstorm.exe before.
NTCore is no needed to play, but I highly recommand to use it. Vanilla Soulstorm uses 2gb ram for temporary game data, but as UA: THB uses much more ram, when you play bigger matches, for all what is happening in those giants battles and the 2gb will not be enough. NTCore makes the potential ram use much higher and this prevents the game from crashing.
It has nothing to do with hardware or how highend your computer is. If you don't want your game to crash in middle of the match, you will need it 100%.

So if you done all in this order you can start Dawn of War Soulstorm and in the main menue you go to the game manager and select UA: THB - New Factions. Soulstorm will restart and you will have the mod activated. Have fun!

Screenshots

UA: THB Main Menue


Camera Improvements


Light effects


Textures

Special Thanks

Special thanks goes out to the genius people who created this mod and still improve it today at the ModDB Community for Dawn of War [http://www.moddb.com/mods/ultimate-apocalypse-mod] and anyone who keeps Dawn of War alive, 12 years after release of the first game.

[silverronin]

This is very much out of date, current version is 1.89.5XD which you can get from Moddb or their Discord, plus there is an update, 1.89.52XD which you can get fro the Discord. There's Discord link on their Moddb page

[arytom04]

what is idh_beta2_ss? I can't seem to find it.

[Bedlam]

Inquisitor Drachenrache, Thank you for the link save's folk alot of time

[..hexenschuss...]

@tjaden 91 This Guide was for version [1.86.3] as the title says, and its not a guide for the actual patch of UA. But, here is a link where u can get the latest IDH Mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/daemonhunters-mod/downloads/inquisition-daemonhunters-35

[Pvt. Johnny]

i have problems with step 3.where can i find it?

[Inquisitor Drachenrache]

Pls change the links for the content they are outdated here is the new one at least for Ultimate Apocalypse: https://www.moddb.com/mods/ultimate-apocalypse-mod/downloads/ua-thb-v1885-full

[Lousy Pube]

im trying to run the installer and it keeps saying "download failed: sever did not specify content length

[..hexenschuss...]

lol... Sure I will add you and you can tell me. But I am just saying, this guide was for v1.86.3 and was never the ultimate guide for every upcoming patched version of the mod in close future till eternity. Maybe my description in the introduction wasn't clear enough. Today this guide is outdated, since the last soulstorm vanilla update, and along with that all single mods have run out. For example there is one guide in Steam for a newer version, which is maybe also the latest.

[JayJay]

@hexenschuss: Hey, there have been some recent changes, and i wrote a LOT until i noticed i can only comment a thousand words. And i realized it would be rude to comment so much without giving you the chance to change it yourself. myself. Could i ask you to add me, so i can share my research with you? Falls du ,wie ich annehme, deutsch sprichst, was ich von deinem namen ableite, würde dass das natürlich einfacher machen.^^

[Krom]

Is anyone experiencing a sticky unit select bug, I had my servitors selected then when I clicked on my spesh marinshe my servitors were still selected along with my space marines. It's really beginning to piss me off as trying to equip my marines with weapons I'm continually having to individually select them, same goes in the heat of battle. Any help would be much appreciated