Inventive Meeting has printed a brand new video detailing a prolonged listing of updates coming to Complete Struggle: Warhammer 3 (opens in new tab) tomorrow, because the studio gears up for launch of its Champions of Chaos (opens in new tab) DLC and beta entry to the huge Immortal Empires (opens in new tab) marketing campaign. Titled “Patch Notes 2.0”, the video charts numerous additions and adjustments coming to the bottom sport, all of which shall be free.
First off, the replace introduces a number of new sport mechanics to Warhammer 3. This embody “Items of Chaos” which give “god-given boosts” to your chosen faction. These can vary from enhanced skills for particular unit-types, to extra passive bonuses like additional ammunition for ranged items. There’s additionally a brand new settlement construction for vassals, and warband recruitment, letting you recruit mercenary items from all through the realms.
A significant replace has additionally been made to the Realm of Chaos map, with 4 new provinces obtainable to overcome. You may additionally find a way sq. off towards the brand new Champions of Chaos on the map, though the video factors out these characters will not themselves take part within the race to say Ursun’s energy.
Alongside these mechanical adjustments, Warhammer 3 has additionally obtained some visible touch-ups. The choices for occupying cities are actually accompanied by faction-specific illustrations, whereas the war-coordination interface has been refined. Extra broadly, the sport’s UI has been tweaked to make it extra vibrant, which hopefully may also make it extra readable.
The second half of the video is devoted to smaller tweaks and bug fixes, similar to making certain that battle reinforcement countdowns are at all times correct, and the power for allied outposts to be constructed outdoors their province capitals. There’s one different notable announcement towards the top of the video although, which is that for gamers who’ve entry to the Immortal Empires marketing campaign (i.e., those that personal all three Complete Struggle: Warhammer video games) “all legacy battle content material” from the earlier two video games shall be ported to Warhammer 3.
Whereas the variety of updates talked about within the video is intensive, it would not symbolize the entire listing of adjustments that shall be made by the approaching patch. Within the video decription, Inventive Meeting talked about {that a} “large” changelog is “on the way in which”, which can present a whole overview of how the sport is being up to date in preparation for Champions of Chaos and Immortal Empires.
With regards to Immortal Empires, Fraser not too long ago gave Warhammer 3’s mega-campaign a whirl, and was totally enthralled (opens in new tab) by it. ” It needs to be too massive, too unwieldy, and it is definitely very messy and arduous to wrap your head round,” he wrote in his preview of the beta. “However it’s all simply sensible.” Any individual higher hurry up and add an additional two days into the week, in any other case it seems like there are a number of late evening forward of me.