MAGIC ITEMS BALANCING

Idol of Zak-Alooog

• Reduced the movement range penalty from -50% to -20%.
  
• Removed the fatigue penalty effect.
  

Helm of Draesca

• Added a 2% chance per end turn for the helm to grant a powerful unique trait, ‘Power of Draesca.’
  
• ‘Power of Draesca’: +20% HP, +20% character experience, +10% ward save, +10% research rate.
  

Deathsinger/Doomsinger

• Added a 5% chance per end turn for characters with these swords equipped to gain a unique trait when both are in the same region.
  
• Sister Swords: +10 melee attack, +10 melee defence, charge reflect attribute.
  

PERFORMANCE 

• Fixed a crash that occurred when attempting to exchange units with a camp that was being abandoned during the campaign.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred while loading a battle with AI Control selected and Control Large Army toggled off in siege battles with large garrison armies.
  

CAMPAIGN

GENERAL/GAMEPLAY

• Fixed a rare end-turn prompt for an idle character when that character already has a destination.
  
• Fixed an issue where players using the Orcs & Goblins faction could enter Tunnelling Stance when the army's movement points were below 100% while the Waaagh! Army View was selected.
  

SETTLEMENTS/BUILDINGS

• ​Fixed an issue where the Daemon Prince could not properly access the Harbour port building when occupying Erengrad.
  
• Fixed an issue in the Orcs & Goblins campaign where players were unable to target discovered Skaven settlements for a Waaagh! unless their capital was also revealed.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Waaagh's target settlement model would disappear after being razed. The model now remains visible without the need for a save reload.
  

TECHNOLOGY TREE

• ​Added 'Fire While Moving' for Gyrocopters and Gyrobombers to the 'Improved Gyrocopter Engines' technology on the Dwarf tech tree.

SKILL TREE

• Fixed an issue in Drycha's skill tree where the ‘Indoctrinator’ skill displayed an excessive number of character unit card variants.
  

ANCILLARIES

• ​Fixed an issue where certain effects that increased recruit rank for Nurgle units would not work when playing as the Daemon Prince.
  

BOUNTIES

• ​Adjusted how the monetary reward for Bounties is calculated. Previously, the amount was based on the issuer's Treasury, which could fluctuate significantly regardless of their strength and had no relevance to the selected target. The new calculation considers the player's distance to the target, with higher rewards for immortal targets or province capitals. Additionally, distance is now measured from the nearest settlement owned by the player rather than just the faction leader's army. This change should generally result in Bounty targets being closer to the player.
  
• Adjusted the Bounty rewards system to ensure a balanced distribution of additional rewards. Players will now receive a consistent cycle through meat, camp growth, and rare ancillaries, reducing randomness and enhancing reward variety.
  
• Players can now decline a Bounty, triggering a new one to be issued on the following turn.
  

ZHAO MING'S MERCENARIES

• Faction Trait
  
  
  
  • Added +10 Melee Attack and Defense to all Ogre Mercenaries.

• Skill Tree
  
  
  
  • Removed -25% recruitment cost for Ogre Mercenaries.
    
  • Added Guardian for all Ogre Mercenaries faction-wide.
    
  • Added +20% Weapon and Missile Damage for all Ogre Mercenaries faction-wide.
    

UI/UX

• ​Fixed a bug where hovering over the Ogre Bounties panel link in the help pages while the Bounties were open would cause the panel to flash extremely brightly.
  
• Improved the visual quality of the Worldroots Forest Health numbers when playing as the Wood Elves.
  
• Fixed an issue where lords, including Legendary Lords, would lose their last names in the UI when they were wounded. This issue affected both player-controlled and AI-controlled lords.
  

BATTLE

GENERAL/GAMEPLAY

• ​Fixed an issue where defeating the Nemesis Crown-wielder, Knobber da Bossy Git, did not properly complete the quest objectives, preventing the battle from ending as intended.
  

UNITS

• Resolved an issue where the Empire's Steam Tank would fail to fire its main cannon after engaging in melee combat. Now, after exiting melee, the cannon will resume firing as intended, aligning with expected gameplay.
  
• Fixed an issue where Grave Guard Halberds mistakenly had Expert Charge Defence instead of Charge Defence vs. Large, reinforcing their role as dedicated monster hunters rather than generalist frontline defenders.
  
• Fixed a bug where ranged units were sometimes assigned targets just outside of their range, causing them to sit idle instead of firing.
  

ABILITIES

• Fixed an issue where the "Howl of The Great Beast" ability incorrectly triggered a jumping animation for enemy Marauders.
  

ANIMATION

• ​Fixed a bug where the Zombie Pirate Deckhands Mob was missing an animation.
  
• Resolved a visual issue where Skeleton Archers would snap to different positions and move back and forth excessively during the ‘shoot ready’ and combat idle animations.
  
• Fixed an issue where the weapon of Eternal Guards would disappear while under ranged fire.
  
• Resolved an issue with the twisted left arm of Blessed Kroxigors during their running animation.
  
• Fixed an issue where Skarsnik was missing his death animation in the post-battle screen.
  

ENVIRONMENT

• The Prologue's first Land Battle map had a ludicrous parallax setting on a single decal. The parallax setting has since been adjusted for a more pleasing viewing experience.
  

MULTIPLAYER

• Resolved an issue in multiplayer campaigns where the Ogre Kingdoms could receive bounties that targeted their teammates.
  

⚠ IMPORTANT

🧱 MOD WARNING

• Tackle your monsters head on with the Grave Guard (Halberds) free unit for vampire counts.
  
• Ogre camps now offer more varied units for hire depending on their tier.
  
• Find 16 new Magic Items for ranged characters and 6 new zesty unique ancillaries for everyone else!
  

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🧱 MOD WARNING

PERFORMANCE

• A cleanup procedure has been implemented to automatically remove crash dump files older than one month from users' machines, helping manage disk space without affecting recent diagnostic data; this process is triggered only when a crash occurs.
  

CAMPAIGN

GENERAL

• Fixed an issue where Kroxigor Ancients and Red Crested Skink Chief characters had varying combat skills based on the Lizardmen Legendary Lord selected.
  
• Fixed an issue where, when the Blue Scribes left an army, the effect granting a random Cataclysm Spell was not removed from the army.
  
• Fixed a bug where stealing Magic Items would block the item drop chance for reinforcements.
  
• Fixed an issue where the code was incorrectly checking for a lord's rebellion after data removal had begun. The rebellion check is now performed earlier, allowing the rest of the code to be skipped if a rebellion occurs.
  
• Resolved an issue where technologies requiring active Gifts of Chaos were not consistently providing bonuses for Warriors of Chaos factions, particularly affecting techs like 'Mystical Banner' and 'Temple of Tzeentch' when playing as Vilitch. Bonuses should now correctly apply once the relevant Gifts are active.
  Unfortunately this fix has not made it in to the final release of hotfix 5.2.7, but will be included in our next release. Apologies for the confusion!
  

UI/UX

• Fixed an issue where multiple instances of the same Path to Glory event would trigger upon unlocking one.
  
• Fixed a missing icon when recruiting an Exalted Hero of Tzeentch.
  
• Fixed an issue where the Daemonic Progression panel would not open when accessed through the Character Details panel.
  
• The Dwarf Ancestor Rune no longer incorrectly states that it grants permanent death immunity to all nearby units. (This was purely a UI issue.)
  
• Fixed an issue where the Chaos Dwarfs' settlement type icon on the city label would not update after the settlement type was changed.
  
• Fixed an issue where several tooltips for contact effects in the Flesh Laboratory were missing text.
  
• Fixed an issue where characters with long starting trait names, such as 'Virtue of the Impetuous Knight,' could clip outside the recruitment box.
  
• Fixed several Tomb King building icons that were using the wrong colour.
  
• Fixed a bug where misleading tooltips would pop up after purchasing an upgrade in the Rewards of Dread panel.
  

BATTLE

GENERAL

• Fixed an issue where the Herald of Tzeentch (Metal) was incorrectly treated as a Slaanesh-aligned character when determining the likelihood of army abilities for Daemons of Chaos.
  
• Fixed the porthole camera angle for the Shadewraith Gunners (Deck Gunners) Regiment of Renown.
  
• The Blue Scribes can now access the Lore of the Hag in Custom Battle.
  

UI/UX

• Fixed a bug where the abilities 'Rot or Die,' 'Necrotic Phylactery,' and 'Isha's Rain' did not display their names when hovered over in certain contexts.
  
• Fixed an issue where several Legendary Lords were using incorrect unit cards in quest battles.
  
• Fixed an issue where Emperor Karl Franz's name was duplicated on his unit card in battles fought during a campaign.
  

MULTIPLAYER

• Fixed a multiplayer campaign desync issue that occurred when a player without ownership of a building in the Nurgle chain upgraded a building to complete the cycle and then recruited all available Forsaken of Nurgle units.
  

⚠ IMPORTANT

🧱 MOD WARNING

• Resolved a potential crash that could occur at the end of a turn after updating to 5.2.5.
  
• Removed references to older, unreleased content from our game files.
  

DEV NOTE:

The act of removing these references in today's Hotfix will also require us to revise our active cache of rollback builds, which will temporarily remove the option to roll back to an earlier release. With this release, the available rollback builds will be set to 0, and today’s build will go on to serve as the oldest rollback version as we release new updates to the game over the coming months.

We apologise to all our players who currently make regular use of our rollback releases, we know how beneficial this feature has become for many of you, and the responsibility for that falls entirely on us.

As mentioned during the launch of version 5.2, we aim to maintain one rollback build for each category: update, patch, hotfix, and release, for a total of 4 rollback builds. This supports players running heavily modified campaigns, helping to minimize delays while their mods are updated. Each subsequent build following today’s 5.2.6 Hotfix will remain available as a rollback option until we have one build in each category - 4 in total - at which point the oldest will be replaced by a newer one.

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CAMPAIGN

SKILLS

• The Blue Scribes' skill ‘Tzeentch's Quaestors’ now correctly modifies the Assassinate action, rather than Wound (which they did not have!).
  

SETTLEMENTS

• Special settlements (e.g., Altdorf, Karaz-a-Karak, etc.) will now correctly use the Wood Elf settlement battle map when occupied by Wood Elves.
  

ENVIRONMENT

• Fixed an issue where the edges of The Great Canal, south of Cathay, appeared jagged; the canal's edges should now display smoothly.
  
• Fixed an issue in The Lost Valley where building assets for a landmark near the settlement of Oyxl were visible despite being covered by the Fog of War.
  

TEXT/LOCALISATION

• Fixed an issue where the Korean translation of ‘Livery’ was incorrectly displayed as ‘Symbol’; it has now been corrected to ‘Horse House.’
  
• Fixed an issue where a Lord's name in the Visions of the Old Ones mission panels was not localized.
  

BATTLE

AI

• The AI has been improved in chokepoint battles to prioritise moving swiftly through chokepoints when under fire, rather than reforming or trying to cross while in formation. This enhancement increases the overall challenge and reduces the dominance of artillery and ranged units in these scenarios.
  
• Fixed the disabled AI skirmish mode for isolated units; it will now be disabled only when it is clear that the unit will lose, preventing unnecessary prolongation of the battle.
  
• Fixed an issue where AI-controlled units were moving chaotically in some quest battles while incorrectly waiting for reinforcements.
  

ENVIRONMENT

• We've asked the flying trees in Dwarf Mountains to calm down, thereby resolving an issue with them floating above the ground during battles.
  
• Nan-Gau is no longer affected by random fires, and specific assets have been grounded properly, fixing the issue where they were floating above the battlefield.
  
• Fixed an issue on ‘The Shifting Monolith’ map where the camera could move under a lavafall, revealing unintended areas of the map.
  

UNITS

• Fixed black spots on the Chaos Sorcerer, caused by transparency maps being turned off at different levels of detail (LODs).
  
• Fixed an issue where parts of the Marauders of Khorne's armour would disappear due to LOD errors.
  
• Fixed a visual issue with the inner wall of the cabins on the Thunderbarge and The Spirit of Grungni.
  

⚠ IMPORTANT

🧱 MOD WARNING