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Total Warhammer 3 Immortal Empires open beta set for fall 2022

Creative Assembly announced during Skulls Showcase 2022 that the Total War: Warhammer III Immortal Empires open beta is still slated for a Q3 2022 release date. That's sometime between July and September on Creative Assembly's calendar, and the development team promised more news closer to launch. The new mode will launch alongside the strategy game's 2.0 update, and while the team is still keeping quiet about specific release dates for now, we did get to see a new Immortal Empires trailer.

Total Warhammer III Immortal Empires combines maps and factions from all three Total Warhammer games into one gargantuan campaign. Before you start dreaming of clashes between the warriors of Kislev and the Vampire Coast's legions, there are a few important factors to keep in mind. You'll need to actually own all three games to get the full benefits from Immortal Empires, and they need to be on the same storefront - Epic Games or Steam.

Don't expect peak performance or full features when the beta launches later in 2022, though, and possibly not for a while after.

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Everything shown at the Warhammer Skulls showcase, including three new games

The week-long Warhammer Skulls event has kicked off with an avalanche of announcements. Leading the pack are three new games: CRPG Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader, digital card game Warhammer 40,000: Warpforge, and retro FPS Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef, the 2D action platformer, also got a release date. It’ll be out on the 20th of October.

Hello everyone! Today's hotfix comes with a small adjustment for an issue that popped up following Update 1.2: a problem where the click-and-drag behavior was disrupting the ability to effectively position troops on the battlefield.

As always, the team is continuing to read through your feedback and take notes to help guide our development, so remember to visit one of our official discussion forums to talk about the changes you want to see:

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That's it for now! We'll talk more about what's on the way in Update 1.3 next month, and will let you know when to expect it as we get closer to the date!

See you on the battlefield!

— The Total War Team

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📃 HOTFIX 1.2

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Fixed an issue which caused the unit formation orders (issued by right-clicking and dragging) to feel cumbersome and unresponsive.

Total War dev making a "major new franchise" with Unreal 5

A Creative Assembly Unreal Engine 5 game is in the works, according to a job listing, and it's in "a new franchise". This could be related to the space game the Total War studio has had in production for a while now, the developer's first FPS game since Alien Isolation.

Creative Assembly and SEGA have posted several job listings (thanks, SegmentNext) that confirm the developer is hiring for "a new project, as part of a new franchise". According to the description for a senior gameplay programmer position, the team will be making the new game "on top of Unreal Engine 5". This will be the first Creative Assembly game to use Epic's Unreal engine, in fact.

While this "new franchise" could be the new sci-fi FPS from the Alien Isolation team at Creative Assembly announced in 2018, previous job listings for the game clearly stated that the positions were to work on that title. Unless Creative Assembly is suddenly getting shy, this planned "first title in a major new franchise for the studio" could be something entirely different.