Update 2.1.0

Update 2.0 is an update for Total War: Warhammer III, which released on 6 August 2022. The previous update was Update 2.0.
It notably added the Ultimate Crisis to Immortal Empires, along with balance changes and bug fixes based on early feedback from Immortal Empires.
==Changes not in the patch notes==
* Points of interest added to Immortal Empires
==Patch notes==
=== Release Spotlight ===
==== The Total War: WARHAMMER III Assembly Kit ====
For our creative community, the final piece of the modding puzzle is now available: the WARHAMMER III Assembly Kit. This tool provides a full compliment of tools to the modding community, including:
*Database Editing
*Startpos Editing
*Battle Map Creation
*Pack File Generation
*…and more!
Steam users can find and download the Assembly Kit by searching for it in the Tools section of their Steam Library.
Microsoft Store users can search for the “Total War: WARHAMMER III – Assembly Kit” app in the store, where it can be downloaded independently from the game.
===Stability & Performance===
Improvements made to the overall stability and performance of the game.
*Fixed a crash triggered upon sacking and immediately subjugating a settlement.
*Fixed a rare crash when teleporting to a Valkia Quest Battle.
===Gameplay===
====Rules & Systems====
*Fixed a bug where declaring war via the Threaten mechanic would prevent allies from being invited along for the war.
Several Horde factions—Nakai, the Vampire Coast, and the Dark Elf Black Arks—have had their growth and development points rebalanced:
* Increased the Development Point costs of the primary Horde development chain from: 1/2/4/5 → 2/4/8/16 (Tier II/III/IV/V)
* The default Development Point growth rate is now consistent throughout the primary Horde chain. In the early game, it now takes 2 turns to generate a new point, then later scales down to 1 point per turn due to buildings, skills, and technologies.
* Removed the Development Point cost from Horde slots; rather, each unlocked Horde building automatically fills those slots when purchased.
* The starting building of a Horde chain now has a Development Point and monetary cost respective to its tier, while upgrades only cost money (no additional Development Point cost).
* Black Arks have a lower default Development Point growth rate, as they also enjoy the benefits of settlement growth.
* Vampire Coast ships and Nakai’s Horde have a higher default Development Point growth rate, as they rely on this advancement as a key faction mechanic.
* We've also reduced the AI Horde growth rate of Development Points.
====AI Rules & Logic====
* All AI factions (except for the Skaven) are less likely to declare war when through a non-aggression pact.
* When controlled by an AI player, Zhao Ming is now able to select his unique skills upon levelling up.
* Implemented numerous AI improvements to ensure AI-controlled factions are making the appropriate construction choices.
===Races & Balance===
====Units====
*Updated the costs and upkeep of Regiments of Renown units—some of which cost significantly more than intended.
====Spells (Lore of Shadows)====
PIT OF SHADES
*Cast Time: 5 → 6 seconds
*[Overcast] Armour-Piercing Damage Per Second: 10 → 8
(The other changes are listed in their respective sections, below.)
===Bretonnia===
====Technology====
*Fixed broken technology links in The Fay Enchantress’ technology tree.
===Daemons of Chaos===
====Campaign====
* The Daemon Prince: When controlled by the AI, The Daemon Prince will no longer try to claim the Sword of Khaine (which he can’t equip).
* The Daemon Prince: Bespoke sounds tied to specific body parts will now update properly when equipped.
* Replaced the Blue Horrors in Be’lakor’s starting army with Pink Horrors, as he cannot normally recruit Blue Horrors.
Be'lakor's start felt a little restrictive, so we’ve added rifts near lore-appropriate locations that will allow for both better movement and additional opportunities to cause mischief.
* Be'lakor now starts with additional rifts in the Southern Wastes and near Mordheim in the Immortal Empires Campaign.
===Dark Elves===
====Campaign====
* Crone Hellebron: Blood Voyage armies are now able to replenish, as they were in WARHAMMER II.
* Crone Hellebron: No longer has two Chaos corruption effects applied at the same time in the lowest tier of Death Night effects.
* Rakarth: Removed the cost associated with the Convocation of Hunters rite, which was meant to be free.
====Battles====
Added missing abilities for characters during the Rise of Darkness Quest Battle.
===Dwarfs===
====Campaign====
* Adjusted the cost reduction to Runecrafting provided by Thorek’s unique item set from -50% → -25%.
* Ungrim Ironfist: The starting grudge against the Vampire Counts will now target the correct faction.
====Units====
We've made an adjustment to the Spell Resistance of ALL Dwarf units:
* Spell Resistance: 25% → 35%
HAMMERERS
*Hit Points: 9200 → 10000
*Removed: Splash Attacks
*Weapon Imbuement: Magical Attacks
THORGRIM GRUDGEBEARER
*Hit Points: 7708 → 8208
====Abilities====
HIGH KING (Thorgrim Grudgebearer)
* Now activates in melee combat
* Effect Range: Map-wide → 50 meters
* Added Effect: Buffs Armour-Piercing Weapon Damage
* Removed Effect: Immune to Psychology
* Removed Effect: +10% Charge Bonus
RUNE AXE OF GROMBRINDAL (Grombrindal)
* Duration: 26 → 32 seconds
RUNE HELM OF ZHUFBAR (Grombrindal)
* Multiplayer Cost: 200 → 100 gold
====Spells====
MASTER RUNE OF SPEED
*Duration: 30 → 40 seconds
RUNE OF HEARTH AND HOME
*New Effect: Restores 5% Vigour per Second
RUNE OF SPEED
*Duration: 18 → 30 seconds
===Grand Cathay===
====Spells====
MISSILE MIRROR
*Now also redirects grenade projectiles back at the firing unit.
TALONS OF NIGHT
*Cast Time: 5 → 6 seconds
*[Overcast] Armour-Piercing Damage Per Second: 10 → 8
===Greenskins===
====Units====
SQUIG HERD
*Multiplayer Cost: 300 → 350 gold
===High Elves===
====Campaign====
*Fixed an issue preventing Imrik’s Dragon Encounter missions from rewarding him with a trait.
====Units====
ARCHMAGE
*Hit Points no longer scale to obscene levels when mounted.
====Battles====
*Missing abilities have been added to characters in Imrik’s Lamoureux the Frozen Breath Quest Battle.
===Khorne===
====Units====
CHAOS FURIES
*Multiplayer Cost: 575 → 600 gold
===Kislev===
====Campaign====
*The wasteland settlement climate is once again suitable for Boris Ursus’ faction.
===Lizardmen===
====Campaign====
* Oxyotl's threat map will now (properly) scale to the size of the Immortal Empires map.
* Oxyotl's poison skills will now display the ancillary in the tooltip.
* Oxyotl's poison skills will now also unlock at the correct ranks.
===Nurgle===
====Units====
NURGLE FURIES
*Multiplayer Cost: 575 → 600 gold
====Abilities====
HARBINGER OF PESTILENCE (Festus the Leechlord)
*Damage: 24-48 → 12-24
HEALING ELIXIRS (Festus the Leechlord)
*Effect: 0.2% → 0.1% HP/s
====Skills====
ARMOR OF MALADY
*No longer applies duplicate melee-defence buffs to Plaguebearer units.
===Ogre Kingdoms===
====Units====
GORGERS
*Amour-Piercing Damage: 50 → 70
===Skaven===
====Campaign====
*Clan Moulder's Growth Vat now correctly empties when the ritual has been upgraded to the next level.
*An extra army marker no longer displays at the edge of the front-end map for Clan Pestilens.
===Slaanesh===
====Units====
DEVOTED MARAUDERS OF SLAANESH
*Multiplayer Cost: 425 → 500 gold
SLAANESH FURIES
*Multiplayer Cost: 575 → 600 gold
====Abilities====
GATE OF SLAANESH
*Updated the recharge context flag from “Winning melee combat” to “Engaged in melee”.
===The Empire===
====General Updates====
*Fixed a bug where Elector Counts previews would persist (even when hovering over empty space) in the panel, making it difficult to click the Revoke Title button.
The addition of Festus meant that Empire players could find themselves losing a lot of Imperial Authority very quickly in the early game if Festus destroyed Hochland. The Electors are now more lenient for the first loss so you have more time to respond and deal with nearby threats.
*Reduced the Imperial Authority penalties for the first destroyed Elector Count and first razed Elector Count capital in Immortal Empires. Subsequent losses remain unchanged.
====Campaign====
*Elector Count dilemmas now properly subtract gold from the player’s Treasury when intended.
*Fixed several issues which could prevent Wulfhart's Hunter missions from progressing.
*Fixed an issue where Wulfhart's hostility level would not increment when selecting options on certain dilemmas.
*Kalara's Slaughter Amongst the Ruins mission (in Marcus Wulfhart campaigns) now properly concludes after searching the ruins.
===Tomb Kings===
====General Updates====
*Updated the ghost shaders and visual effects of Usirian Armoured Skeletons and their weapons.
*Updated the shaders for Grand Hierophant Khatep and fixed black alpha issues on lower LOD models.
====Units====
THE KHEPRA GUARD
*Base Damage: 0 → 33
*Armour-Piercing Damage: 42 → 9
*Removed Contact Effect: Frostbite
===Tzeentch===
====Units====
TZEENTCH FURIES
*Multiplayer Cost: 575 → 600 gold
====Spells====
INFERNAL GATEWAY
*Cast Time: 5 → 6 seconds
*[Overcast] Armour-Piercing Damage Per Second: 10 → 8
===Vampire Coast===
====Units====
SHADEWRAITH GUNNERS
*Now have voices suitable for their ethereal appearance.
====Skills====
SEA DOGS
*Fixed an issue which would cause the skill to provide less Leadership at Level 3 than at previous levels.
THE COLD BLADE (Damned Paladin)
*Added Passive Ability: Chilling Aura
*Removed Effect: Frostbite
THE KILLING COLD (Mourngul Haunter)
*Added Effect: Magical Attacks
*Removed Effect: Frostbite
===Vampire Counts===
====Units====
CRYPT HORRORS
*Multiplayer Cost: 800 → 900 gold
HELMAN GHORST
*Hit Points (with Corpse Cart): 6908 → 5908
*Multiplayer Cost: 450 → 550 gold
*Multiplayer Cost (Corpse Cart): 250 → 800 gold
NECROMANCER
*Multiplayer Cost: 200 → 300 gold
====Campaign====
*Fixed an issue preventing Isabella (as a Hero) from switching her mount.
===Warriors of Chaos===
====General Updates====
*The Warriors of Chaos can now perform the Subjugate occupation option on all Human and Elven factions.
*Archaon the Everchosen and Be’lakor can now confederate others Warriors of Chaos factions via a new settlement occupation option. This is triggered upon capturing their last available settlement.
*Upon confederation, only vassals and Legendary Lords will be transferred; all other characters and armies will be destroyed.
====Campaign====
*The Long Victory Condition for Warriors of Chaos now focuses on holding Dark Fortresses by any means necessary.
*The Warbands panel upgrades now account for military force bonuses.
====Skills====
SAVAGE BLOODLUST (Mortal Chaos Lords, Sorcerer-Lords)
*Now affects flying Daemonic melee units 
WARP FIRE
*Now applies the correct buffs to the Soul Grinder of Tzeentch
===Wood Elves===
====Campaign====
*Drycha: Added Malevolent units to garrisons.
===Campaign===
====General Updates====
*The Regiments of Renown units added in Update 1.3 are now available to the relevant factions in new Campaigns. (Note that they will not be retroactively added to existing saves.)
*All Legendary Lords now have the Siege Attacker trait, enabling immediate siege attacks against walled settlements regardless of whether Siege Equipment has been built.
*Reduced the likelihood of heroes being pushed out of garrison forces if garrisons exceed 20 units.
*The leader of the Dimmed Sunz minor faction no longer begins mounted on a Wyvern.
*Fixed an issue where rebels could prevent invasion factions (such as those created by endgame events) from spawning correctly.
*Fixed an encounter at sea marker which spawned outside of the navigable map.
*Fixed several areas where green vegetation was incorrectly appearing at several locations around the map.
*Fixed several areas where trees in the Naggaroth area were being displayed as shrubs.
We've adjusted several instances of Norscan faction-wide bonuses which were leading to exploitative gameplay:
*Removed additional faction-wide income effects from the Income building
*Removed research faction-wide scaling from the Growth building
*Added post-battle loot from adjacent regions to the Growth building
*The global scaling effect now only affects Port buildings
In addition to Vampire Coast faction-wide bonuses leading to similar issues:
*Removed faction-wide scaling effects from the Income building
*Added faction-wide scaling effect for Ports: 1% (T1 and T3) and 4% (T5)
*The Treasurer Minister position now increases Port income instead of all income
*Updated the AI construction setup to reflect the above changes
=====Buildings=====
*Fixed the Warriors of Chaos and Daemons of Chaos garrisons at Fortress Gates, Empire Forts, and Bastions, as they were granting access to all Chaos-related units.
=====Dilemmas=====
*Updated the Skaven and Dark Elf loyalty dilemmas to award the intended amounts of Loyalty.
*Fixed a rare case where Wood Elf forest encounters could spawn then immediately despawn.
*Fixed several instances where certain WARHAMMER I dilemmas would unintendedly trigger for WARHAMMER II races.
=====Missions=====
*Settlement names are no longer displayed twice in Raze or Conquer Settlement missions.
=====Settlements =====
*Chantillon: Is now considered a minor settlement, as intended.
*Karak Dum: Adjusted the rotation of the settlement to align properly with the surrounding mountains.
*Mine of the Bearded Skulls: Resource buildings are now available, as intended.
*Teotiqua: Fixed an issue where the settlement would be displayed as a ruin rather than a Lizardmen settlement.
The following settlements can now (properly) construct Elven Colony buildings:
*Citadel of Dusk
*Fortress of Dawn
*Tor Elasor
====Prologue (The Lost God)====
*Mine of the Bearded Skulls: Added missing defence buildings for a major settlement.
====Darkness & Disharmony (Multiplayer)====
*Players who have disconnected from the game will no longer gain victory points and potentially end the game by winning.
====Immortal Empires====
*Fixed instances where certain buildings would claim that they “prevent Chaos Rifts from opening in the local province” in the Immortal Empires game mode, where Rifts aren’t much of a concern.
=====Victories=====
*Added a new event informing the player when they’ve completed their Short and Long Campaign Victories.
*The Long Victory conditions have been updated to provide a more focused experience for the following lords: N’kari, Skarbrand, Ku’Gath, The Daemon Prince, and Kairos Fateweaver.
*Updated the Short Victory conditions of the Champions of Chaos (Azazel, Valkia, Festus, and Vilitch) to be unique and more achievable to each Lord.
=====Endgame Scenarios=====
*Added an optional setting which enables ALL available endgame scenarios to fire in the same campaign. This is disabled by default, as it’s an extra level of difficulty for players who want to embrace the chaos!
*Adjusted the Pyramid of Nagash endgame scenario to prevent it from spawning more armies than intended.
*Fixed an issue which would prevent endgame scenarios from triggering on the correct turn when the turn delay setting was set to 0 turns.
*Endgame scenarios will no longer trigger if the player has confederated all possible targets or otherwise invalidated the scenario conditions.
*Added a camera pan over endgame scenario points-of-interest when the scenarios commence.
*Corrected some misleading text in the A Grudge Too Far and Wild Hunt endgame-event descriptions
===Battles===
====General Updates====
*Be'lakor is now playable in Custom and Multiplayer Battles without the need to complete the Realm of Chaos campaign.
*Removed certain decorative elements of Slaaneshi walls which could block artillery damage.
*The Galleons Cove area will now properly load the Island Battle map.
*The Al Haikk area now properly loads a Vampire Counts settlement to match the Campaign settlement model.
*Updated instances where unintended buildings could be targeted in certain Battle maps.
*Updated instances where deployment borders were inconsistent in some Battle maps.
*Removed corpse collision from the final units that still had it enabled; this is a small change that should further improve the pathfinding and responsiveness of units in Battles.
*Nurgle floating islands have been changed to props to prevent colliding with flying units.
*Updated the hard collision on the Bloodfire Falls Battle map.
*Removed some floating scenery in the Lustria Hills Ogre Camp.
*Fixed an issue which caused dismembered artillery crews to remain active after their death.
*Fixed a positioning issue which would result in some matched combat animations to be misaligned.
====AI Battles====
*Due to several functional and balance issues, Isabella and Vlad can no longer be purchased as Heroes in Custom Battles.
====Ambush Battles====
*Characters will no longer gain bonus experience when the ambush is initiated from a default stance (i.e. for Skaven and Beastmen armies).
====Domination Battles====
*Updated several unit capture weights across all races for greater consistency.
*Victory Ticket limit: 5000 → 1500
*Victory Ticket rate per capture point: 5 → 1
*Time to capture a point: 200 → 150 seconds (with a weight of 1)
*Fast War Beasts' (such as Warhounds or Squig Herds) Capture Weight: 5 → 4
====Major Settlement Battles====
*Capture points in the Tomb King Major Settlement are now circular (rather than square) to be consistent with other settlements.
*Updated the vanguard deployment zones on the Bretonnian Settlement map.
====Siege Battles====
*Khorne Skull Piles will no longer appear within settlement zones-of-control when spawned as a result of a Siege Battle.
====Skirmish vs. AI====
*Fixed a bug where lobbies would continue to display the image of a player who left the lobby after being replaced by a player joining from a different platform.
===Game===
====Graphics====
*Fixed several instances where Dwarf shields would not load correctly when viewing the equipment from a distance.
*Fixed a visual bug in Minor Settlement Battles where green boxes would appear where enemies had built towers/barricades after capturing a point.
====Audio====
*Certain Gorebull and Doombull campaign vocalisations have been reduced in volume.
*Fixed an issue which would result in music occasionally stopping and restarting throughout the Campaign.
*Fixed instances where reverb was being applied to certain characters’ voice lines.
*Fixed an issue where the incorrect Lord dialogue would play after transitioning from the Lord Select screen > Campaign select > Change Campaign > and then back to the Lord Select screen.
====UI====
*Unit cards in the Campaign Select screen no longer have modifiers applied which resulted in the display of massively boosted stats.
*For all new save games, the ‘Continue’ button now displays the Legendary Lord’s portrait rather than their faction banner.
*The front-end version of the Beast Slayer item quest (Karl Franz) is no longer erroneously titled, “The Reikland Runefang.”
*Increased the interaction zone for all buttons in the main menu.
*Updated the FLC and DLC banners on the Race dropdown to display all available products rather than products required for only one of the Lords.
*Fixed an issue where the authority display in the Warbands panel was using the pending authority rather than the current authority. The display of authority should now be consistent across the board.
*Fixed an issue where the authority of a previously selected Lord would be displayed for a newly selected Lord.
*The background colour in the global recruitment section in the unit recruitment panel is now blue for all UI themes. This matches the turn-banner displayed on unit cards.
*The background colour of the local recruitment section has been updated from red to green to match the improved banners we now display on unit cards. This removes any negative implication from the panel—since red is generally used as a warning and for negative effects.
*Separated the display of slaves consumed and generated by Dark Elf buildings to display both at all times.
*Fixed instances where the Strategic Location icon of city labels would display the wrong icon when playing as a WARHAMMER II race.
*Added a missing icon for the Fimir Linebreakers ancillary.
*The Mark of Chaos: Khorne icon in Custom Battles now utilizes the correct icon.
*Updated Oxyotl's faction icon form a teeny-tiny to regular size image.
*Corrected inaccurate effect icons for the Monstrous Strength skill.
*Corrected the magic fire effect in the Diplomacy character porthole.
*Updated the position of Eltharion’s army on the map view of the Campaign Select screen.
*The tooltip on Be’lakor’s rifts now clarifies that they can be used by Heroes.
*The Wood Elf “occupy settlement option” tooltip no longer mentions amber gain.
*Updated the text of Nurgle’s March-stance to clarify that units can, in fact, be recruited while Marching.
*Added a missing Anti-Infantry tooltip to the Marauders of Khorne (Dual Weapons)
*Fixed a bug which would prevent the tooltip from displaying for the Murderous Prowess ability.
*Updated the speed at which subtitles are displayed in several Quest Battles to be consistent across the board.
*Fixed instances where certain campaign advice notes would prevent consecutive notes from displaying properly.
*Fixed several instances where certain items would state that they require a Quest Battle as opposed to a regular mission.
*Added the missing Repanse Quest Battle to the front-end menu.
*The introductory cutscene will now play for the Liber Bubonicus Quest Battle.
*Center-aligned the versus icon in the Battle Replays screen.
*Removed duplicate text on the help page for Beast-Paths.
*The Wood Elf Offices help page now correctly opens when the ? button is clicked.
===Localization===
*The English “Loading” text in the launcher is now localised for all available languages.
*German: The Min Tao Alchemist previously had two abilities called Zaubermetallurgie Flamme. One has now been updated to Durchdringend.
*Czech: The translation of the Chaos Spawn units for Nurgle, Tzeentch, Slaanesh, and Khorne have been properly pluralised.
== External links==
* Update 2.1.0 blog
Category:Patches