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[sambojin]

Do you know what Fimir do to people after they defeat them? It might take a few of them, but that's what happens to Kolek too.

Imagine the beautiful little halfbreeds they'll make......

[Tack]

Fimir aren't a Chaos unit though.

[Mech#4]

The Norsca hotfix has been released with several changes to skill trees, fixing abilities that weren't working and so on.

Spoiler: List of Changes (click to show/hide)

PATCH NOTES

-Fixed some inappropriate text in the Russian localisation.
-Improved the flow of Monster Hunt chains, so players progress will no longer be blocked. This will take affect from new saves.
-Assembly Kit – fixed some errors in TERRY, which were preventing maps from being exported.
-All the Norsca agents will now give off the correct passive Chaos Corruption.
-When an ally kills a Challengers of Chaos army in the Norsca end game, the mission chain will no longer be broken, and the player will not be blocked.
-During the narration at the start of some of the Monster Hunt battles, the VO will no longer stop prematurely in German.
In the main menu, the “(modded)” notification will now only display when mods are being used.
-Fixed a rare bug where Archaon wouldn’t appear in Legendary Difficulty, when the player saved after the Campaign victory, then re-loaded.
-Fixed a Multiplayer Campaign Crash caused by 1 player selecting “Retreat” on the pre-battle screen when another player is reinforcing them.
-Fixed a rare bug where the Challengers of Chaos army in the Norsca end game would become completely stationary if the player asks another faction to Join War against them.
-Fixed a bug where in rare cases, the Waywatchers’ Hawkish Precision ability would be replaced with Unbinding.
-Corrected an inconsistency between the audio and text in Spanish when the player aligned with the Serpent god during a Norsca Campaign.
-The “In Progress” and “Completed” notifications in the Monster Arcanum book in the Norsca Campaign are will now display correctly in Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese and Korean.
-Fixed some gaps in the Sons of Ghorros, and Butchers of Kalkengard models’ necks on low or medium unit details.
-Chaos replenishment bonuses from technologies will now work outside of allied regions.
-Norscan Marauder Chieftains are no longer missing items in custom battle mode.
-The Apocalyptic Charge ability of the Swords of Chaos Regiments of Renown has been fixed.
-Game Guide – When using the Comparison Tool to compare units in the Game Guide, the “Race” field, which shows the race icon will no longer appear blank.
-Game Guide – Fixed some placeholder icons in the Game Guide for Occupied buildings of Norsca’s special settlement which is linked with technology.
-Game Guide – The “Controlled Faction” field will no longer always remain empty on the Maps page.
-Game Guide – In Portuguese-Brazil language, the “Wintertooth” faction name will no longer have letters clipped / cut off in the “Races” list.

BALANCING CHANGES

• Increase Mammoth (all) attack interval from 3 to 3.8
• Increase cost of Marauder Hunters (Javelins) by 100
• Reduce Ammunition of Marauder Hunters (Javelins) from 16 to 12
• Increase cost of Daemonspew by 100
• Reduce cost of Mirror Guard by 100
• Increase Soul Devourer intercept range from 100m to 200m
• Reduce Werekin Melee Attack by 5
• Reduce Werekin Melee Defence by 5
• Increase Werekin cost by 100
• Increase Maws of Savagery by 200
• Increase cost of Skinwolves by 100
• Increase cost of Skinwolves Armoured by 100
• Increase cost of Companions of Quenelles by 150
• Decrease weapon damage by 2 and armour-piercing weapon damage of Battle Pilgrims by 1
• Apocalyptic Charge ability now triggered once enemy is within 70m for two seconds
• Added level cap to Krell Skills / Reduced Franz XP boost skill from 2 to 1

SKILL TREE CHANGES

– Agent cap bonus from LL chain is capped at 1, affecting following skills:
• Archaon: Distinguished Champions;
• Thorgrim: Elite Enforcer, Fire Support, Advanced Forging;
• Gelt: Renowned Scholar;
• Karl Franz: Heroic Knightly Band;
• Azhag: Insane Visions.

– Added a level requirement to LL chains for Karl Franz, Gelt, Thorgrim, Grimgor, Azhag, Archaon, Sigvald and Kholek. Now they can only be unlocked after lv12. Affecting following skills:
• A Moving Mountain
• The Grand Marshal of Chaos
• Egomaniacal
• Ancient Bloodline
• Golden Face Mask
• Best of the Empire
• Imbued by Madness
• Nevva Second Best!

– Added a progressive level requirement to Kemmler’s krell chain. Also, Kemmler starts with 1 points in “Thrall Master” and “Lord of the Scourge”.

– Removed secondary levels for Thorgrim’s skill chain.

– Removed secondary level for Gelt’s “Stronger than Steel”, now the skill has only 1 point and +9 armor army-wide.

LAUNCHER

– The launcher has been localized to Chinese (standard and traditional).
– Optimized the launcher, so it will perform better with more mods.

With some of the changes to skills for lords, you may lose points you had allocated in current games. In my current game, Kemmlar lost the points he had in the skills for Krell. Not a big deal but, eh.

[Persus13]

They also released a video showing the Total War Warhammer map and starting faction locations. Apparently there will be a video on the Dark Elves campaign tomorrow.

[Micro102]

I hope they improve the maps. The field maps were either a few tiny slopes and forests, maybe a rock, or a massive cliff face that the enemy gets to practically start on. The fort maps were all "here are the same 2-3 gates on completely flat land. Do the thing you always do".

[Persus13]

I hope they improve the maps. The field maps were either a few tiny slopes and forests, maybe a rock, or a massive cliff face that the enemy gets to practically start on. The fort maps were all "here are the same 2-3 gates on completely flat land. Do the thing you always do".

Someone mentioned earlier in the thread that there was more map variation.

[Mech#4]

Some of the maps we've seen from the Skaven campaign vs a High Elf army had a map with some cliffs and terrain variation. Whether this is indicative of the majority of maps or not is unknown but it does speak positively towards such a change.
Some of the siege maps have had different maps added. There was a Lizardmen city with a different wall and interior layout, can't find the image right now.


Some things people have noted from the campaign map video; you can see a Black Arc at one point and the word "currently" is used in regards to Bretonnia occupying Araby. I really like the new designs for the cities. They look much more expansive and detailed than in Warhammer 1, I noted the Vampire Coast had a new port city design.

[umiman]

The maps are more or less the same honestly.

You can see some for yourself throughout this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pJbChcaX4

The only interesting one I saw so far was a lizardman siege, which was basically one straight line. It's in that video as well.

[Mech#4]

A video showcasing a few turns of the Dark Elf campaign has been uploaded by Creative Assembly. It shows Black Arks, sea loot, slave mechanics, rites and the ritual. Black Arks are created through a rite and the sacrificing of slaves.

Some interesting points are the ability to change what is focused on during the turn over, how advanced a particular trait is on your lord as well as a title system for Dark Elf lords that can give them different bonuses depending on their role.

The map really is very big. travelling from one continent to another will be a major undertaking what with storms, reefs and what-have-you about the place. A second part of the above video is planned to be uploaded tomorrow.

[ArchAIngel]

Oh thank god the patch makes Chaos replenishment not awful.


I can get my units back!

[Mech#4]

The next video featuring Dark Elf gameplay is up. A battle between the Dark Elves and High Elves it shows off the various units of the Dark Elves as well as the bombardment abilities granted by the nearby Black Ark on the campaign map (Like bombardments in Fall of the Samurai) and a few spells of the lore of Dark Magic from Malekith.


Another thing of note is you can now angle where wind blast-type spells go. Currently their angle is determined by the position of the caster, being a straight line away. Certainly this'll make these spells easier to use though I did like getting flying mounts for casters so they were easier to target.

[Tack]

Whaaat? Perfect endilading no flying mount required?
That's just rude.

[umiman]

Whaaat? Perfect endilading no flying mount required?
That's just rude.

They could have just saved that ability for Mazdamundi.

Like, I'd have been satisfied if that was the only thing making him a superior wizard to everything else.

"He has the ability... to cast line vortexes any direction he wants"

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Tack]

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[Persus13]

The next video featuring Dark Elf gameplay is up. A battle between the Dark Elves and High Elves it shows off the various units of the Dark Elves as well as the bombardment abilities granted by the nearby Black Ark on the campaign map (Like bombardments in Fall of the Samurai) and a few spells of the lore of Dark Magic from Malekith.

Did they mention that they have dynamic terrain now? That high elf camp got flattened once the armies started running through it.