Total War: WARHAMMER II News

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[h3]🕙 Sale ends Thursday, October 13th @ 10AM PT/6PM BST[/h3]

Total War: WARHAMMER II for Linux gets the latest big patch

As work on Total War: WARHAMMER II from Creative Assembly winds down in favour of the upcoming Total War: WARHAMMER III, a fresh patch is available in the Linux version.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/total-war-warhammer-ii-for-linux-gets-the-latest-big-patch

Cavalry Beta is Live!

[h3]The WARHAMMER II Cavalry Beta is now live for everyone!
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[h3]Entities will no longer charge attack if their charge path is blocked by a friendly entity and the calculation for collision damage has also been changed.[/h3]

More details here: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/warhammer-2-patch-1-12-1-cavalry-fix/

How Total Warhammer 2's dialogue devs brought Taurox and Warlock Master to life

At this week's Develop: Brighton conference, Total War: Warhammer II developer Creative Assembly has given fans some real insight into how it brought some of the strategy game's most memorable characters to life through speech and audio design. In a talk about dialogue work on the game's creatures and monsters, principal dialogue engineer Will Tidman and senior dialogue engineer Dan Stirling have shared a deep-dive into how they went about breathing life into the Skaven's Warlock Master and Beastmen leader Taurox.

Tidman explains that a key challenge in creating new characters is fitting them into a style that's so well established, while still making them individual. For Warlock Master, drawing on the Skaven's existing "skittish", "twitchy", and "aggressive" speech traits with word repetitions offered a good place to start.

Tidman says that the dialogue team first took a good look at the character's concept art. Because the Warlock Master didn't already have a big backstory or characteristics to draw from, the devs instead took inspiration from the DLC's mechanical, engineering-focussed approach to battle - especially the ways these themes factored into the lord's designs. For example, his face mask and tubes gave the devs the idea of using respirator-type sounds over his breaths to enhance this facet.

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Total Warhammer fans are concerned that cavalry units are (still) broken

Total Warhammer fans are enjoying Warhammer II's twilight now that the final expansion - The Silence and the Fury - has been released. Now all eyes are on the horizon for the looming arrival of Warhammer 3. While development is moving on from the second game, some fans believe there are some critical issues that need addressing.

Even after the massive free 'Hammers and Herdstones' patch that accompanied the latest add-on, it seems one issue is still plaguing tactical battles, namely that cavalry are apparently in a bad place right now, and have been since the start of the year. A recent video from Total War Youtuber milkandcookiesTW highlights the issue, but essentially infantry units - even those that don't have a specific anti-cavalry role - can do a lot of damage to cavalry just by counter-charging. More damage than you'd think is reasonable given the roles these two unit types are supposed to play.

It's gotten to the point where this bug is apparently warping the meta and making all kinds of cavalry essentially redundant in both campaign and competitive play. The origin of the problem reportedly stems from an older bug that was affecting Great Stag Knights, but the fix seems to have made the situation worse.

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