A look at the next 12 months of Total War: WARHAMMER III!
Greetings Total War fans!
Today, we’re sharing our Spring Roadmap: a high-level overview of the major updates and key features coming to Total War: WARHAMMER III over the next 12 months.
Drum roll please... 🥁
UP NEXT: UPDATE 3.1
As has become the standard, our interim patches will follow each major release with bug fixes, gameplay and balance changes (largely based on your feedback), and notable features that will continue to evolve and improve the game. Here are some of the highlights of Update 3.1:
Chaos Dwarfs arrive as an End Game Scenario in Immortal Empires. Now that you can spread the flame of Hashut, can you also weather the late-game molten tide…?
Regiments of Renown: Seven new units join the line-up of the base WARHAMMER III races! Can you guess which seven?
New Legendary Hero: Discover the latest Legendary Hero to join the fray. Look forward to a special reveal later this month for an official introduction!
Multiple crash and performance fixes, bug fixes, gameplay tweaks, and more!
Look for Update 3.1 in the final week of May, including more details and news as we get closer to the end of the month!
UPDATE 4.0
Following the release of Update 3.1, the team is all-in on the summer release! Update 4.0 will not only be accompanied by our fourth DLC—SHADOWS OF CHANGE—but will include a bunch of new additions to the game:
SHADOWS OF CHANGE: Our fourth official DLC explores the ongoing story of three races—Tzeentch, Cathay, and Kislev—while introducing three new Legendary Lords, a new Legendary Hero, a ton of new units, and more!
Free Legendary Hero: Another Legendary Hero joins the roster…a front-line fighter twisted by the Lord of Change!
Immortal Empires Achievements: A popular request, the time has come; complete a swath of new achievements for all the different races on the biggest battlefield ever.
Race Updates: The three races cast into the spotlight by the DLC will also be the benefactors of a base-race update. So, for all you Tzeentch, Cathay, and Kislev commanders, this could be a great place to start some conversations with your fellow players.
AI Updates: Expect tweaks and fixes to the player bias and campaign AI as the world and threats therein continues to evolve.
Settlement Battle Improvements: Another ongoing project, expect the latest adjustments, bug fixes, and AI improvements to settlement battles.
…and, as always, more fixes and features to come in Update 4.0!
We dive into more details on these changes in the weeks leading up to 4.0, so stay tuned for more information, preview videos, and a first look at SHADOWS OF CHANGE later this summer.
UPDATE 5.0
The final release of the year ushers in another major update and the next DLC—THRONES OF DECAY—to expand the WARHAMMER III battlefield:
THRONES OF DECAY: Nurgle, the Empire, and the Dwarfs take the spotlight with their own Legendary Lords and new campaigns to expand the TW: WH universe. This, in addition to a new Legendary Hero, new units, and other perks we’ll share about the latest DLC.
Free Legendary Hero: Another Legendary Hero joins the toolbox. No hints on this one… (you already have all the clues you need!)
The Nemesis Crown: A new legendary artefact (akin to the Sword of Khaine) appears on the battlefield. We’ll dive into what it offers before its addition in 5.0…
Race Updates: Nurgle, the Empire, and the Dwarfs are under the microscope, which makes for a great opportunity to prioritize your ideas and complaints before the end of the year!
…and, of course, more, more, more!
We’re nowhere near close enough to dig into the intricate details of what’s on the way in 5.0, but the important thing is that it’s on the way! And that give you plenty of time to not only speculate on what three Lords will be appearing this winter, but what changes you’d like to see to the three races in the spotlight.
UPDATE 6.0
And finally, to round out the 12-month calendar, we can also confirm that Update 6.0 will drop in the spring of 2024: another opportunity to expand three of the game’s races, introduce new Legendary Lords, a new Legendary Hero, and game improvements galore with the major release.
LOOKING FURTHER AHEAD
There’s plenty more in the works that we haven’t even begun to touch on—ongoing performance, optimization, gameplay and mechanics improvements, the ideas we already have churning for our 2024 releases, and more—and we can’t wait to share more details as we get closer to each game update. And with all this in mind, your feedback continues to be key to the growth of the game, as well as what gets included in every single future release. We’re building a game for you, so absolutely do keep the conversation flowing (in a respectful and constructive manner).
As for right now, we’d love to hear what questions are still lingering in your head following today’s reveal, as we’ll be looking for the most pressing questions that pop up to answer:
We've just released patch 3.0.1 which addresses various performance issues that have come to light since 3.0 launched, as well as some missing localisation strings we were made aware of. Thank you all for your patience and reports while we investigated!
— The Total War Team
📃 PATCH 3.0.1
We've released a small patch to address a few problems that have arisen in the wake of Update 3.0.
The fixes are as follows:
Replaced missing text strings in Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs.
Addressed significant FPS drops when panning across the campaign map with 3D UI enabled.
Fixed performance stuttering on 12th and 13th Gen Intel Hybrid-CPUs.
Issued a potential fix to a rare crash with sticky tooltips when assigning skill points.
Please do keep talking to us about the game’s performance post-patch, and of your ongoing Update 3.0 experiences. We’ll be back with Update 3.1 arriving later this month.
⚠ IMPORTANT
If you experience any issues after downloading the update, please take a moment to Verify the integrity of the game files first to ensure there were no issues when downloading. A step-by-step guide can be found in this article.
If the issues persist, please visit our support site for additional troubleshooting steps and assistance.
🧱 MOD WARNING
Please note that user-generated mods may have compatibility issues with new game updates. If you are encountering performance or stability issues following a release, is recommended that you disable any mods you're running. If you continue to experience issues, please visit our support site for additional troubleshooting steps and assistance.
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Prepare yourselves, because this one's a bit of a monster.
Update 3.0 is here, and it is one of the densest updates we've ever released. There's so much to cover today that we'll keep the intro short so we can get into the real meat and/or potatoes of all this goodness. We hope you're hungry!
Here are some of the highlights of what's to come:
This will come as little surprise - Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs has arrived in WARHAMMER III!
This might, however - battle through time in a series of challenging trials to unlock unique Daemon Prince gear and bend reality to your will. Mirror of Madness releases TODAY, for FREE, for all players!
Bolster The Empire and Kislev with our newest free Legendary Hero, Ulrika Magdova!
Mix things up in your campaigns with our new randomisation feature. Roll the dice on which race and Legendary Lord you're going to begin a new adventure with.
Stay informed with some new additions to tooltips, letting you inspect certain items and details with ease.
Aim true with new line of sight adjustments along with a variety of AI tweaks and battle map improvements to enhance the responsiveness of your armies.
Try out a new sweep of balance changes to Bretonnia, Dark Elves, Grand Cathay, Greenskins, and more!
Get yourself a cup of tea, make yourself comfortable, and dive into the full patch notes:
The Total War: WARHAMMER III Spring Championship is approaching!
The forges are lit and the horns of battle sound once again.
In celebration of the upcoming Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs DLC, we have partnered with Intel to bring you the Total War: WARHAMMER III Spring Championship on April 12th-13th, a clash of some of the greatest and biggest names in the multiplayer community!
For the first time ever, we've partnered up with Intel for this Championship! Their support has allowed us to make the Spring Championship bigger and better than ever before - that means not only more prizes for the competitors but also new ways for you, the viewer, to win Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs Steam keys across both days.
Here's a peek at the competitors:
We'll share more news about that on the day itself, but a big thanks to Intel for everything they've done to help us make this Championship the most exciting we've ever held!
You can find out how to tune in and what to expect in our full blog post.
—The Total War Team
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Well, fancy seeing you here! We may have wrapped up our look at Forge of Chaos Dwarfs' third and final Legendary Lord last week, but we're back once again with yet more hot drops arriving alongside Update 3.0 on April 13th! First teased in the autumn, the latest collaboration between Intel® and Creative Assembly features two brand new game modes and is completely free for all Total War: WARHAMMER III owners. Introducing... Mirror of Madness! ( 中文版请在我们的Bilibili专栏查看 )
WHAT IS MIRROR OF MADNESS?
Mirror of Madness is a free addition to Total War: WARHAMMER III, releasing alongside Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs in Update 3.0 on April 13th 2023. It includes two new game modes: The Trials of Fate and The Infinite Portal.
HOW DO I ACCESS MIRROR OF MADNESS?
As free DLC, Mirror of Madness will be automatically added to your game with Update 3.0 and can be found on the Battle tab in the Main Menu.
WHAT ARE 'THE TRIALS OF FATE'?
The Trials of Fate are a series of intense survival challenges where players assume the role of a newly ascended Daemon Prince of Tzeentch. Reaching back through time itself, you will fight for survival in four infamous battles from the past, before breaking through into the Realm of Tzeentch and taking the fight to Kairos Fateweaver in an intense final showdown.
Endless waves of enemy combatants will grow in strength the longer you hold out, until at last the masses overwhelm you. To help, players have access to some unique spells and abilities that could just tip the balance in their favour.
The goal is to defend a capture point called the 'Shard'. Doing so grants access to Forbidden Knowledge, which in turn can be used to upgrade the aforementioned spells and abilities. Take advantage of cataclysmic powers and mighty vortexes to send your enemies ragdolling across the Realms in crazy physics-based chaos.
The damage dealt and kills secured contribute towards your score. Do well enough and you'll unlock unique Tzeentch-themed Daemon Prince Parts for your Daemon Prince that, as well as looking dead swanky, can be used in both the Realm of Chaos and Immortal Empires campaigns. Daniel has never looked better.
WHAT IS 'THE INFINITE PORTAL'?
The Infinite Portal grants access to reality-bending features and settings, letting you tweak many aspects of battle as you please, including:
Unit Size: Increases the number of soldiers per unit and their health
Damage: Increases the damage dealt by attacks, spells, etc
Impact Force: Increases collision impact, attack force and detonation force to send units flying
Leadership: Increases base morale
Winds of Magic: Increases the availability of Winds of Magic for spellcasting
Explosions: Increases the size of explosions and vortex spells, improving their radius and detonation speed
Vigour Cost Reduction: Increases the duration that units stay fresh, lowering the fatigue cost of actions
Reload Time: Reduces the time it takes to reload ranged weapons
Ammunition: Increases the total number of shots per ranged unit
Projectile Penetration: Increases the distance projectiles can travel through enemies
Gravity: Decreases the effect of gravity on units who are knocked into the air
Ability Radius: Increase the effect radius of abilities
Ability Recharge: Reduces ability recharge time
Charge Duration: Increases the duration of the charge bonus
Entity Scale: Increases or decreases the size of single unit entities like Lords and Monsters
Blood Quantity: Increases or decreases the amount of blood emitted by entities emit
Have fun, go wild, and become the Lord of Change.
DO I NEED TO PURCHASE FORGE OF THE CHAOS DWARFS TO PLAY MIRROR OF MADNESS?
No. While they are launching at the same time, Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs and Mirror of Madness are separate pieces of content. Mirror of Madness is completely free to all owners of WARHAMMER III, regardless of any previous Total War: WARHAMMER titles or DLC they have purchased.
DO I NEED AN INTEL 13th-GEN PROCESSOR TO PLAY MIRROR OF MADNESS?
No. Mirror of Madness in and of itself makes no difference to WARHAMMER III's performance. However, should you crank up The Infinite Portal's more intensive settings (such as entity scale or unit size) you may begin to notice some performance drop-off, depending on the power of your PC.
The Infinite Portal can be best seen as... an experiment. It's a fresh, isolated environment with the chance... should you so choose... to push your PC’s hardware to the limit.
The Trials of Fate will also maintain a similar performance to the main game, though players who survive for a long time may find that the sheer number of units on screen at once in later waves may stretch their system resources. Should you notice a drop in frames, you can opt to lower some settings.
UP NEXT
And that’s Mirror of Madness! For a full breakdown of this latest addition to WARHAMMER III, check out our Mirror of Madness Showcase on the Total War YouTube channel! Otherwise, when the time comes please do hop in, try it out yourself and share some of your mightiest screenshots with us on our socials!
We'll be back next week, should we survive, with the absolutely gargantuan monster of an article that is the Update 3.0 Patch Notes. Seriously... there's so much. It's so big. So many words. More like UPDATE THREE POINT WHOA amirite?
Introducing our third and final Legendary Lord, Zhatan the Black!
Introducing Zhatan the Black!
Greetings!
We hope you enjoyed last week’s introduction to Drazhoath the Ashen from our upcoming Forge of Chaos Dwarfs DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER III. This week we talk about our third and final (and definitely cruellest) Legendary Lord: Zhatan the Black!
Zhatan the Black, the Commander of the Tower of Zharr, is a servant to Ghorth the Cruel, providing bountiful labour and sacrifice. But don’t let that distract you from his own propensity for unending violence and suffering.
Zhatan’s high weaponry demand means the workshops can barely keep up with his bloody expeditions. There is method in his madness, however – for the fiercest fires forge the hardest steel...
As a melee-first Lord, Zhatan can smash bones to bits on foot, soar through the skies mounted atop a Lammasu, scorch the lands from a Great Taurus or pin prospective new labourers with his Sadistic Snare net. Alternatively he can utilise an intensifying aura of Boundless Cruelty to strike fear into the hearts of those who oppose him. After all, the only thing louder than the screams of his broken foes is Zhatan's gloating laughter.
Armed with The Obsidian Axe, the Armour of Gazrakh and the Chaos Rune Shield to enhance his combat abilities yet further, Zhatan is one cruel customer.
Now it's time to see how Zhatan's Warhost of Zharr handle things on the battlefield!
Expect lots of fire, lots of factories and lots of very unfortunate skeletons... 💀
And that’s a wrap on our trilogy of introductions to the Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs campaign pack!
We’ll of course have a full suite of patch notes dropping alongside Update 3.0 and Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs, as well as another maddening surprise or two to go with it. Keep a close eye on all our official channels for further details, and we’ll see you on the battlefield!
— The Total War Team
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Total War: WARHAMMER III - AMA with Rich Aldridge and Sean Macdonald
Join us on Discord this Friday 31st March at 2PM for an exclusive AMA with Total War: WARHAMMER III Game Director Rich Aldridge and Lead Designer Sean Macdonald, where they'll be answering your burning questions about Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs! 🔥
Meet our second Legendary Lord, Drazhoath the Ashen!
Introducing Drazhoath the Ashen!
Greetings loyal followers of Hashut!
We hope you enjoyed last week’s deep dive into the first Legendary Lord, Astragoth Ironhand, from our upcoming Forge of Chaos Dwarfs DLC for Total War: WARHAMMER III. This week we turn to our next cunning combatant: Drazhoath the Ashen!
Drazhoath the Ashen, the Sorcerer Prophet of Hashut, is the Lord of the Black Fortress and the commander of the fell Legion of Azgorh. His mastery of magic and engineering grew stronger throughout his time in exile at the hands of Astragoth Ironhand, and now he seeks a return to the fold of Zharr-Naggrund.
Being equally as proficient with his axe as with sorcery, Drazhoath is a formidable presence on the battlefield, be he on foot or atop his trusty Bale Taurus, Cinderbreath.
He’s equally as daunting outside of battle, too, being an industrial juggernaut and the best in class when it comes to generating armaments and developing settlements.
Now you've met Drazhoath it's time to see the Legion of Azgorh in action in our second Gameplay Showcase!
Also starring a disturbingly cheerful Hobgoblin, a fired-up Bale Taurus, and the gargantuan K'daai Destroyer. 🔥⚙️
Next week, we’ll be showcasing the final Legendary Lord arriving with Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs – Zhatan the Black. To call him a nasty is underselling it! Keep a close eye on the official Total War channels for further details.
See you on the battlefield!
— The Total War Team
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Save up to 75% on the Total War: WARHAMMER franchise in the Steam Spring Sale!
STEAM SPRING SALE NOW ON!
The Steam Spring Sale is on now until March 23rd! Pick up Total War: WARHAMMER III for 33% off during the sale, or get up to 75% off other Total War titles over on the official franchise page!
Whether you're a Total War: WARHAMMER veteran or you've just picked up the game after the free weekend, now's the perfect opportunity to complete your collection and bolster your Immortal Empires roster!
🕙 Sale ends Thursday, March 23rd @ 10AM PT/5PM GMT
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The rumours are true! Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs is coming April 13th!
Hashut the front door, the rumours are true!
*laughs in Khazalid*
We can finally confirm that Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs will be arriving in Total War: WARHAMMER III as part of Update 3.0 on April 13th! 🔥
You can pre-order Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs today - and if you do so before release, you'll get 10% off the launch price!
Legendary characters
Three ferocious and foul Legendary Lords are included: Astragoth Ironhand, High Priest of Hashut; Drazhoath the Ashen, Sorcerer Prophet of Hashut; and Zhatan the Black, commander of the Tower of Zharr. They are joined by the one and only Legendary Hobgoblin Hero himself, Gorduz Backstabber. This maniacal group intend to construct the Great Drill of Hashut, with which they will burrow through the very fabric of reality itself to conquer both the known world and perhaps also far more.
👀 Read the full details - and meet the first of our Legendary Lords, Astragoth Ironhand - in our announcement blog post here: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/tww3_thechaosdwarfs_astragoth/
Up next...
We’ll be sharing a more in-depth look at Astragoth Ironhand's gameplay alongside some of Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs' features in an upcoming showcase, so keep an eye on the official Total War channels for further info.
Beyond that, we’ve got more blogs and videos on the way very soon showcasing our other two Legendary Lords from Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs, and we'll of course have a full set of Patch Notes when the Chaos Dwarfs arrive in Update 3.0 on April 13th.
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