April Fools came a few weeks early yesterday evening for Dawn of War 2 players greeted by a new 130 mb patch when connecting to Steam. Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, the community lit up like a Christmas tree with curious speculation over what potential changes might be included with such a hefty update.

Unfortunately, it turns out the large patch was just a mistake. As Relic explains on the official forums, the fix was only intended to be 10 mb, but an error caused the update to redownload another 120 mb of redundant data, none of which is expected to impact game performance or stability of previously existing installations.

So what was the patch for? A simple fix for garbled text appearing in the “News” tab on the game’s main screen. Rad.

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