Plus add Workshop support
At the heart ofTotal War: Warhammer 3is an extremely relatable struggle to murder four members of the monarchy, claim their souls, and cash them in so you can meet a really big bear. I would like to meet a big bear. I’m willing to do a lot to meet a really big bear. But many players have felt that this ‘Souls race’ forces the game into an unpleasant and uninteresting shape. Thankfully, the devs have plans for the next patch which they say should “make the Souls race less urgent”.
Ina blog posttoday, Creative Assembly laid out their plans for Update 1.1. Expected to launch in “early” April, it’ll make some changes to the shape of the game as well as fixing a few bits and fiddling with balance.
The blog post also gabs about faction balance in multiplayer (thedelightful Ogre Kingdomsare “overperforming heavily” while Grand Cathay are faring the worst), improving AI responsiveness during battle, fixing bugs, releasing the mod manager and enabling Workshop support, and more. They talk vaguely about longterm plans too, though don’t say anything new about Immortal Empires or the usual Blood Pack DLC.
They say their present goal is to “iron out the technical wrinkles, improve the stability and performance of the game, and adjust the balance and gameplay based on ongoing commentary from the community” to create a “strong baseline” for future additions. Eventually, they hope to break from Twarhammer 2’s pattern of pairing the big patches with DLC releases, and start releasing “major” updates with balance tweaks and bug fixes between DLCs “on a quicker cadence than previous games”.
I’ll be curious to see what the game becomes down the line, as the end of a trilogy and grand unification.
“Though best considered as the final part of an excessive strategy megagame,Total War: Warhammer3 is a heavyweight in its own right,” Nate said in ourTotal Warhammer 3 reviewin February. “A little too much RTS grind in the midgame is easily outweighed by transformative changes to multiplayer, sieges, diplomacy and more.”
What he was really waiting for is the upcoming Immortal Empires campaign which will roll the lands and factions of the entire trilogy into one giant war.
Disclosure: RPS co-founder Alec Meer (RPS in peace) wrote on Twarhammer 3.
