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[Cruxador]

It’s refreshing to see a big dev team go into this kind of detail on why things aren’t working out. Wonder what the ’experimental free game mode’ is going to be.

Ork Boys, I'm sure. Remember how well that worked for Eternal Crusade?

[ArchAIngel]

>2 way battles make very little sense, both pragmatically and from a historical perspective.  Why on earth would someone choose to fight two armies instead of getting in some relaxation and fighting one (now weakened) army with your own well rested one.

WAAAAGHHHH?


Or favor of the gods, in the case of Chaos.


Can't think of any other factions, but there's probably some reason. 's not like this game is SUPER ULTRA LORE HARD after all.

[umiman]

Total Warhammer 2: Laboratory Mode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLSezK6_N5w

Holy frigging shit.

[Puzzlemaker]

That trailer put my sides into orbit.  Looking forward to it.

[Digital Hellhound]

Okay, very unexpected. Looks like a fun little gimmick, nothing more - but hey, it’s free, so I can’t complain.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

If only I had a computer than could run the massive unit sizes... Id only ever play one 1000+ man regiments.

[Mech#4]

The Laboratory battle mode is now available as well as a small patch, called the Reprisal Update, that came along with it.

Spoiler: Patch Notes (click to show/hide)

Bugfixes added to Reprisal Update:

– Added more colour-blind support to UI elements.

– Vampire Counts can now raise dead in the New World.

– Improved artillery ability to target siege walls in certain cases in battle.

– The Campaign victory objective Ensure ‘Archaon is in a wounded state’ while playing as the Bloody Handz no longer reverts to incomplete if a save file is loaded.

– Rogue armies now spawn correctly while playing on Legendary Difficulty.

– Fixed a bug where any number of heroes could be recruited after unlocking the Engineer’s Workshop, Gromril Forge or Mustering hall as Ungrim.

– Added an effect to Lord Skrolk’s Plaguelord skill at tier 2 to allow recruitment of Plague Priests in all provinces.

– In Multiplayer Campaign, the defeat screen will now show correctly when the other player wins the campaign.

– The Thirteenth Scheme Rite now correctly gives Heroes 13% increased success chance.

– The Cloud save option is now greyed out in Multiplayer Campaign save menu, because they are not supported there.

– Wood Elves can now Confederate in Multiplayer Campaign with other Elf factions.

– The Runefang Quest Battle for Karl Franz has been fixed in Multiplayer Campaign.

– Beastmen siege equipment no longer shows as Empire Siege equipment on their unit cards.

– Fixed a progression blocker caused by the “Life in the Lagoon” dilemma.

– Fixed a progression blocker / soft lock during the AI’s turn in Campaign.

– Improved how water on the battlefield is handled when changing the resolution scale. Water will now not appear as incorrectly opaque at lower scales.

– The Engineering Student Ancillary is no longer removed from the lords’ inventory list once unassigned (applies to new playthroughs).

– Dilemmas will no longer appear abruptly alongside advice (conflicting with each other).

– Fixed a bug where moving the camera on the far-right side of the Mortal Empires camping map would cause the screen to render as black, until the camera is moved away from – that location.

– Cold One Chariots now have blood when in prolonged combat.

– Fixed an audio bug where the explosion sound of a bombardment impact wouldn’t trigger in some cases.

– Settlement defence tower levels will now be affective in battle.

– Improvement to Campaign AI to capture more settlements being targeted.

– Improved the Death Wind Globadiers unit texture.

– More variation to the music when fighting rogue armies in battle (previously only Chaos music was playing).

– The Cold One mount on the campaign map will no longer make death vocalization sounds while idle.

– Improved the Def Bolt Thrower destruction animation.

– When entering the final Vortex battle as Morathi, the correct voice will now play (Morathi’s instead of Malekith’s).

– Improved a clipping issue on one of the Chaos Chosen shoulder armour variants.

– Improved the audio when a Skink Cohort javelin unit engages in melee combat.

– Improved the audio on the Saurus spear and shield jumping attack.

– Added more campaign selection vocalizations.

– Brayherds no longer suffer attrition at all times due to not owning a home region (they are a Horde which cannot own a home region).

– Heinrich Kemmler’s Cloak of Mists & Shadows quest will now trigger correctly.

– Grombrindal’s event effects have been fixed.

– Added a button to access the Total War Academy to the games main menu (top left).

– Fixed a bug where the player could incorrectly construct 2 gate defences at the Dwarven settlement Wurtbad.

From a brief look over things, it appears that people are having better performance in the Laboratory than in normal battles or campaign battles. I've only fiddled with it a little bit but, what with the working with Intel over this, it seems like it might be utilizing cpu usage more effectively.

[dennislp3]

The Laboratory battle mode is now available as well as a small patch, called the Reprisal Update, that came along with it.

Spoiler: Patch Notes (click to show/hide)

Bugfixes added to Reprisal Update:

– Added more colour-blind support to UI elements.

– Vampire Counts can now raise dead in the New World.

– Improved artillery ability to target siege walls in certain cases in battle.

– The Campaign victory objective Ensure ‘Archaon is in a wounded state’ while playing as the Bloody Handz no longer reverts to incomplete if a save file is loaded.

– Rogue armies now spawn correctly while playing on Legendary Difficulty.

– Fixed a bug where any number of heroes could be recruited after unlocking the Engineer’s Workshop, Gromril Forge or Mustering hall as Ungrim.

– Added an effect to Lord Skrolk’s Plaguelord skill at tier 2 to allow recruitment of Plague Priests in all provinces.

– In Multiplayer Campaign, the defeat screen will now show correctly when the other player wins the campaign.

– The Thirteenth Scheme Rite now correctly gives Heroes 13% increased success chance.

– The Cloud save option is now greyed out in Multiplayer Campaign save menu, because they are not supported there.

– Wood Elves can now Confederate in Multiplayer Campaign with other Elf factions.

– The Runefang Quest Battle for Karl Franz has been fixed in Multiplayer Campaign.

– Beastmen siege equipment no longer shows as Empire Siege equipment on their unit cards.

– Fixed a progression blocker caused by the “Life in the Lagoon” dilemma.

– Fixed a progression blocker / soft lock during the AI’s turn in Campaign.

– Improved how water on the battlefield is handled when changing the resolution scale. Water will now not appear as incorrectly opaque at lower scales.

– The Engineering Student Ancillary is no longer removed from the lords’ inventory list once unassigned (applies to new playthroughs).

– Dilemmas will no longer appear abruptly alongside advice (conflicting with each other).

– Fixed a bug where moving the camera on the far-right side of the Mortal Empires camping map would cause the screen to render as black, until the camera is moved away from – that location.

– Cold One Chariots now have blood when in prolonged combat.

– Fixed an audio bug where the explosion sound of a bombardment impact wouldn’t trigger in some cases.

– Settlement defence tower levels will now be affective in battle.

– Improvement to Campaign AI to capture more settlements being targeted.

– Improved the Death Wind Globadiers unit texture.

– More variation to the music when fighting rogue armies in battle (previously only Chaos music was playing).

– The Cold One mount on the campaign map will no longer make death vocalization sounds while idle.

– Improved the Def Bolt Thrower destruction animation.

– When entering the final Vortex battle as Morathi, the correct voice will now play (Morathi’s instead of Malekith’s).

– Improved a clipping issue on one of the Chaos Chosen shoulder armour variants.

– Improved the audio when a Skink Cohort javelin unit engages in melee combat.

– Improved the audio on the Saurus spear and shield jumping attack.

– Added more campaign selection vocalizations.

– Brayherds no longer suffer attrition at all times due to not owning a home region (they are a Horde which cannot own a home region).

– Heinrich Kemmler’s Cloak of Mists & Shadows quest will now trigger correctly.

– Grombrindal’s event effects have been fixed.

– Added a button to access the Total War Academy to the games main menu (top left).

– Fixed a bug where the player could incorrectly construct 2 gate defences at the Dwarven settlement Wurtbad.

From a brief look over things, it appears that people are having better performance in the Laboratory than in normal battles or campaign battles. I've only fiddled with it a little bit but, what with the working with Intel over this, it seems like it might be utilizing cpu usage more effectively.

I am not sure what type or how much data they gather but I am guessing the labratory was an experiment all it's own for their benefit...they handed us a clip board and told us to fiddle with stuff and see what happens, meanwhile they have their own clip boards and are watching us behind a 2 way mirror.

That's not to accuse them of using us or dishonesty or anything...but it seems like a smart way to handle it...almost like machine learning...except instead of AI they just use tons of humans runnings large amounts of different iterations testing limits.

[umiman]

Intel accidentally leaked the most obvious DLC race:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Teneb]

At least they confirmed Ushabti are going to be an unit.

[Mech#4]

I'm happy about Ushabti, they're one of my favorite looking units in Warhammer Fantasy.


I do wonder what they're going to do about Lamia. I can't decide whether they would implement Neferata as a Vampire Count or Tomb King character, or perhaps implement her as her own faction. She's a Vampire Counts character but I feel she should have a Tomb Kings theme to her army.

I suspect Tomb Kings will be split between two major factions with 2 lords each. Settra the Imperishable and Queen Kalida on one side and Arkhan the Black and, I don't know, Prince Apophas (Undead guy made out of beetles) on the other perhaps?

[Teneb]

I'm happy about Ushabti, they're one of my favorite looking units in Warhammer Fantasy.


I do wonder what they're going to do about Lamia. I can't decide whether they would implement Neferata as a Vampire Count or Tomb King character, or perhaps implement her as her own faction. She's a Vampire Counts character but I feel she should have a Tomb Kings theme to her army.

I suspect Tomb Kings will be split between two major factions with 2 lords each. Settra the Imperishable and Queen Kalida on one side and Arkhan the Black and, I don't know, Prince Apophas (Undead guy made out of beetles) on the other perhaps?

CA did mention that 4 LLs would be the norm since the mini-campaigns are not making a return. Settra and Khalida are obvious picks, as you said, though I don't know if they should be on the same side. Dunno about Arkhan, but I'll like it if we have him (however it will be silly if Settra can confederate with him).

Decided to take a look at the rest of their named characters and we got the previously mentioned beetle-man Prince Apophas; there's also the necrotect Ramhotep the Visionary; Grand Hierophant Khatep to fill that caster lord slot if Arkhan doesn't make it; finally there's Settra's BFF/Bodyguard, Herald Nekaph. Not a lot of memorable skulls in that lot.

[Tack]

To;dr on why those two are anathema?

[Teneb]

To;dr on why those two are anathema?

Arkhan is Nagash's only friend and apprentice. Nagash is responsible for turning Nehekara from super-prosperous, best WHF human realm, fantasy egypt into spoopy skeleton desert.

SETTRA! was pissed off because, when he was alive, the priests promised he'd return to life as a golden god-king, and not as a skeletor. Also because Nagash's pretty much destroyed his kingdom, considering he pretty much united and turned it into what it used to be.

[Mech#4]

I'm not sure who you're talking about as for the second, Apophas isn't particuarly anathema. He was a cruel leader who was cursed with undying until he killed a soul equal to his own (an impossible task). Perhaps Arkhan could tempt him with death in return for service in the short term.

Grand Hierophant Khatep was banished from Kemri by the awakened Settra the Imperishable to not return until he knew how to undo Nagash's undead spell and give the Tomb Kings the immortality they had been searching for (living immortality, not undead).
A bit more: In the End Times, Khatep returned to warn Settra about the resurrection of Nagash. Settra thanked him for the warning but then killed Khatep for breaking his banishment.


Ramhotep the Visionary is probably the most likely above Apophas. He has a focus on animated constructs which make up a good portion of the Tomb Kings armies. Ushabti, Necrosphynx and, I think, Bone Giants.