Which version should I play for singleplayer?

[Vantezzle]

And does the game work on Windows 10?How's the resolution?

[Nova Solarius]

That depends on what you want, really. The original and Winter Assault have actual story-based campaigns. Soulstorm and (reportedly) Dark Crusade have metagame campaigns. If you just want to play skirmish games, get whichever version has the factions you want. If you want to play mods, you'll probably want to get Soulstorm.

[Vantezzle]

Originally posted by Nova Solarius:

That depends on what you want, really. The original and Winter Assault have actual story-based campaigns. Soulstorm and (reportedly) Dark Crusade have metagame campaigns. If you just want to play skirmish games, get whichever version has the factions you want. If you want to play mods, you'll probably want to get Soulstorm.

I have all the games(Bought the master collection thing)I'm just unsure which should I install for the most fun, replayable singleplayer :)

[Nova Solarius]

Originally posted by Tezzle:

Originally posted by Nova Solarius:

That depends on what you want, really. The original and Winter Assault have actual story-based campaigns. Soulstorm and (reportedly) Dark Crusade have metagame campaigns. If you just want to play skirmish games, get whichever version has the factions you want. If you want to play mods, you'll probably want to get Soulstorm.

I have all the games(Bought the master collection thing)I'm just unsure which should I install for the most fun, replayable singleplayer :)

Just install all four. You'll generally be running Soulstorm unless you want to play one of the other campaigns.

[Vantezzle]

Originally posted by Nova Solarius:

Originally posted by Tezzle:

I have all the games(Bought the master collection thing)I'm just unsure which should I install for the most fun, replayable singleplayer :)

Just install all four. You'll generally be running Soulstorm unless you want to play one of the other campaigns.

Right! Mind telling me more about the meta campaign?

[Nova Solarius]

Originally posted by Tezzle:

Originally posted by Nova Solarius:

Just install all four. You'll generally be running Soulstorm unless you want to play one of the other campaigns.

Right! Mind telling me more about the meta campaign?

It's a fairly standard meta campaign. Nine factions, each with a faction bonus. It's probably easier for you to search on Youtube if you want to know exactly how it plays. Alternatively, you can fire up Soulstorm and try it out yourself.

[Vantezzle]

Originally posted by Nova Solarius:

Originally posted by Tezzle:

Right! Mind telling me more about the meta campaign?

It's a fairly standard meta campaign. Nine factions, each with a faction bonus. It's probably easier for you to search on Youtube if you want to know exactly how it plays. Alternatively, you can fire up Soulstorm and try it out yourself.

Guess it should have decent replayability?

[CalaisianMindthief]

The original has the best campaign, very cinematic and balanced, it is a joy to play however it focuses on a single faction, the Space Marines. Winter Assault's campaign is interesting, but it's very unbalanced and it may become frustrating--here you can choose between the Order (Imperial Guard, Eldar) and the Chaos (Orks, Chaos Marines) factions.

The story in Dark Crusade and Soulstorm's campaigns is a bit more barebones, they basically just give you enough reasons to bash the other races. On the plus side you get to choose between 7 races in Dark Crusade (Space Marines, Orks, Chaos Marines, Eldar, Imperial Guard, Tau and Necrons) and 9 in Soulstorm (+ Sisters of Battle and Dark Eldar). Both campaigns also introduce a novelty, the Global Map where you get to choose which province to attack like you do in a game of Risk during your turn, plus some other cool features. They are both very nice but most maps feel like simple Skirmish maps, there is only more story involved when attacking the Stronghold provinces, also the difficulty is higher than in the original.

If you're in it for the campaigns and a decent introduction into the Warhammer 40,000 universe, I would recommend starting with the original. If Skirmish is what interests you then the others can say more, as I've no interest in Skirmish myself.

[K84]

Your best bet would be to play through the campaigns in order (DoW>WA>DC>SS) then stick with Soulstorm for skirmish/multiplayer and mods.

[Uglavir]

IMO Dark Crusade's campaign is better than Soulstorm's. The map and it's buffs are a little more digestable and still interesting, story is a bit better, and the adjacent armies in DC campaign also just feel better.

In DC you are completely free to just attack anyone's province near you (usually 3 different factions) and if you get the starport, boom, literally can go anywhere on the campaign map and fight whoever you want instead of grinding against the same army over and over again like in Soulstorm.

In Soulstorm I just found myself getting frustrated with the convoluted story line and the map just not being as interesting to conquer, as well as more limiting. The whole solar system setup kinda busted the flow of play because you need the webway to get to whatever planet it connects to. So you are constantly fighting off the same faction for use of the damn gate. Also, having access to the gate on the planet you're on only gives you access to two other specific planetsand their gates, not the whole network, so you have to leap to one specific planet to get to the next, and the next, and so on. Again, limiting.

[thenottakenname]

As for resolution and the like, there's a plugin sorta thing out there that increases zoom distance, otherwise it's really close up all the time. Unless that's changed, I've just had soulstorm installed with it for so long I don't know otherwise. Makes the game infinitely better by being able to see whats going on!

[Nova Solarius]

Originally posted by thenottakenname:

As for resolution and the like, there's a plugin sorta thing out there that increases zoom distance, otherwise it's really close up all the time. Unless that's changed, I've just had soulstorm installed with it for so long I don't know otherwise. Makes the game infinitely better by being able to see whats going on!

Pretty sure it's also included in Ultimate Apocalypse.

[Arii]

Original Dawn of War and Winter Assault for campaign. Soulstorm or Dark Crusade for skirmishes.

[BotZero]

in Dark crusade every thing you build on a map and then you win and keep the map stays there so if you build a ton and get attacked again it is super easy to defend it. Each enemy base has unique objectives and challenges to overcome.

In soulstorm all the enemy bases are kind of the same with the most unique being the Sister's of battle and you do not keep structures built on maps you win so I personally Find Dark Crusade to be much better campaign than Soulstorm. The Campaign of Dawn of War and winter assault is a good story but you can only play Blood Ravens marines in original dawn of war for the campaign and some Imperial Guard support and ally at certain intervals. In Winter Assault there is a good campaign and evil campaign Chaos / Orks and Imperial Guard/ Eldar. I hate playing Eldar so that is the downfall of the Winter assault campaign for me but it was still very good and I love Imperial Guard. I really like the general of the imperial guard in Winter assault vs the other games.

I have all the games picked them up cheap. I have seen every single player campaign once multiple times for Winter Assault and Dark Crusade. I first owned Winter assault and the original dawn of war and dark crusade on physical PC DVD roms before I had ever used steam. Strangely the last campaign I ever bothered to complete was the original lol and I enjoyed it.

[K84]

Originally posted by D-503:

Original Dawn of War and Winter Assault for campaign. Soulstorm or Dark Crusade for skirmishes.

Or just download this mod for Soulstorm and don't bother with the original or Winter Assault at all: https://www.moddb.com/mods/tartarus-and-lorn-v-campaigns-for-soulstorm

[temrozela]

I strongly recomend that you play through each campaign, up to dark crusade. After that install the UA mod for soulstorm and play that

https://www.moddb.com/mods/ultimate-apocalypse-mod