Total War: Warhammer

How is it bros? I want to smash face with Ogres so badly, but I'm balls deep in Lost Ark right now and I'll probably just wait for a sale or grand campaign at this point.

Its Total War... but Chaos

and endless siege battles

Free with Gamepass PC. Thx Phil.

lol as if multiple people with preview builds haven't said the same thing. there's a drastic increase in siege battles over TWH2

Gavin is right. Its a shame and I'm not thrilled with that prevalence of the siege battles either.

Game is running like shit on my 3080 at 3440x1440. Only messed with the prologue but gonna have to look into settings. TWW2 ran great.

It took a couple restarts to even change the resolution, it wouldn't let me click the check to keep the change and it would revert after 15 sec.

I'm currently 3 hours and 32 turns into my Slaanesh campaign - so far, I really like it. The campaign is much better than the Vortex campaign in TW:W2 - it seems more focused, as the objectives are clear and there are a ton of missions to usher you towards your goals. My performance is very solid, too - I haven't encountered any bugs at all, end turn times are very quick, and my FPS at 3440x1440 on Ultra settings is easily as high (or higher) than what I currently get on TW:W2 (running on a 3080 Ti).

There are definitely a lot of siege battles, but most of mine have been in the new minor settlement maps rather than the walled settlements that require siege equipment. The new map styles are actually pretty fun, if a little on the video-gamey side with the magic capture points and such. Also, it feels a lot easier to draw in enemies for ambushes and field battles now - using a weak decoy army, I've been able to lure Skarbrand and his Khorne forces into multiple battles.

Of course, there are things I don't care for - for example, the Slaanesh tech tree is very underwhelming and clunky. There are 6 major tech nodes, each with 6 techs to research in each node, each taking 6 turns to research as 6 is the number of Slaanesh. You need to research the first 5 techs to unlock the final tech in each node, but they're often weak, redundant, or very situational. I think one of my first projects when the new Rusted Pack File Manager is updated and the Steam Workshop opens will be to revamp their tech tree with a Sexy Slaanesh Science mod to make it feel more rewarding.

So far this campaign is better for being an "official mode" campaign.

Gfx are a little odd to me right now even on Ultra. Feels not sluggish? Off? Idk, will see how she goes.

Tzeentch furies are faster than marauder horsemen. Cool faction to play.

I've gotten a few battles in on the prologue, and it seems alright so far.

I am not gonna do shit for the campaign, outside of getting boris, and treat this game like ME.

M.E. for WH3 is going to be massive. Maybe too much map?

Burren said:

M.E. for WH3 is going to be massive. Maybe too much map?

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There are a ton of portals in the WH3 main campaign for getting into/out of/around the Chaos realms. I wouldn't be surprised at all if they added similar portals into the ME map to help navigate around and get to far-flung areas.

These minor settlement battles are rage inducing, especially with factions with poor mobility. I constantly feel like units are ignoring orders, pathing and LoS issues out the ass, towers are annoying as fuck and pick of my mages chilling behind the front lines. It forces you into melee grinders in choke points against units that have incredible melee bonuses on higher difficulties. The only thing that seems to work on legendary is vortex/wind/bombardment magic and tanking with single entities and using magic and ranged on the blob.

It’s a shame, I love the campaign mechanics, the demon prince is especially well done.

Broke through the china wall. Tzeentch is really fun so far.

First game on very hard, with Chaos Undivided, got to turn 30 before some gobo bastards back caped my main city, while I was off securing the final settlement of the providence. With 2 Empire full stacks coming directly for my lands, I went ahead and restarted.

Second game on VH is going better; killed the gobos first, then secured the providence.

The 970 on the high gfx setting is chugging along just as well as it was for TW:WH 2. No crashes or bugs yet. Changing the scale of the UI helped make it look better, as well.

Burns said:

First game on very hard, with Chaos Undivided, got to turn 30 before some gobo bastards back caped my main city, while I was off securing the final settlement of the providence. With 2 Empire full stacks coming directly for my lands, I went ahead and restarted.

Second game on VH is going better; killed the gobos first, then secured the providence.

The 970 on the high gfx setting is chugging along just as well as it was for TW:WH 2. No crashes or bugs yet. Changing the scale of the UI helped make it look better, as well.

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Saw a vid that said despite being a recommended starter campaign, Chaos Undivided is currently one of the hardest due to start position.

Worse design than TW:WH2? Lol