Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War - Definitive Edition – 2.9.0 Update Patch Notes

What’s in this update

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, we have been able to re-invest in creating a more balanced and stable Multiplayer experience in *Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War – Definitive Edition*. Updates 2.8.0 and 2.9.0 both contain balance changes as well as enhanced detection and reporting on mod (and cheat) usage in Automatch. Going forward from the release of update 2.9.0, there are new policies being enforced to create a more even playing field for all players.
Behaviors we are detecting and punishing from this day forward include but are not limited to:
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