RPI - Luke Browne

[random dune]

Hey everyone! We have Luke joining us today! (Hi, Luke!) so usual, please keep questions to 1 and vote on any questions you'd like answered 🙂 we will be done here just after 17:00 BST

[opaque forum]

Is your name Allan Suleman or Luke Browne? xD

[remote zephyr]

Are you Planning to Add more endgame events alongside DLC's? for eg: A lizardmen DLC with "Enacting the Great plan" endgame event (the great plans says its time for a world-purge.) Or Thranquil along with the "Vermintide" Endgame etc etc.

[sinful breach]

With the release of Immortal Empires, will we be able to use the WH2 and WH1 factions in the chaos realm battles? This was previously mentioned aswell, so far I haven't seen any news on it, thanks for your great work!

[shut portal]

Hey Luke hey Yuey!
Glad to see that we are not yet done with the Rally Points.
My question is rather pointed towards modding, and i wanted to know if once you guys released the Tools to make Maps, will we be able to retouch already existing maps present in the basegame instead of having to create entirely new ones?
I am generally happy with the new maps (and old ones) but i would love to add a bit more scenery to them and don't want to create every map from scratch. So that would be really great and enhance the modding a lot with ease!

[granite turret]

Will The Demon Prince (Daniel) have a way to gain access to the generic demon princes added in the warriors of chaos rework, thus giving the faction another undivided lord choice?

[naive thistle]

Hey, long before WH3 marketing started I remeber a mentioning of new battle types - Shrine battles, if I have to guess they are a battle over a battle buff capture point.
Will that type of battles make it in WH3 ?

[rich wave]

As a tester myself, how do you handle situations where you need confirmation from other teams on whether a behaviour you discover is intentional or not?

[sinful depot]

Is there plans to add more layouts for the siege maps of the WH1 and WH2 races ? Most have only 1 or 2 layouts which is less than the WH3 races.

[rough crater]

as a fan of warhammer tabletop games since childhood. what race is your favorite and why are they chaos dwarfes?

[karmic relic]

Will be Ariel able to fly in Warhammer 3 just like others characters with wings?

[spare plaza]

multi part question. (Only get one post, gotta make it count!)

With the new option for co-op to have so many players will corruption affect your friends even in non head to head? Are there ways to mitigate/options to nullify it?

Secondly It's great to see vassal changes to make them more useful! Though are more plans to tweak them in the future possible? It appears the AI still disregards their master and declares war on them regardless leading to broken treaties/negative reputation with people you like. Perhaps making it so a vassal can't be declared on directly needing to go through their overlord?

[acoustic basin]

As a tester myself as well, is there any automation in the testing process or is everything manually tested ?

[stray tiger]

I've noticed wood elves lacking any set item bonuses. Is this an intended thing?>

[long geyser]

Who's idea was it to remove 58HP from Skarsnik? 😡

[fleet lichen]

Have you considered making unique mounts, like Deathclaw, more interesting? I think special abilities bound to them similar to those the Sisters of Twilight get on their Dragon and Eagle would be interesting.

[pine crater]

Performance improvements for the campaign map --- when?

[hoary ridge]

In the early access from the content creators I've noticed the AI is being very passive and offer little challenge to the player even in the highest difficulty. Is this something we can expect to be fixed for the launch on the 23rd or soon after ?

[random dune]

Luke: Usually we have plenty of documentation from designers on how a function or feature should behave, although there can often be some unique cases or - occasionally - a scenario that hasn't been anticipated, and in these cases, we will raise it straight to the designers and have a quick chat about the expected results and whether it seems correct or not. Once that's determined we make a note for reference and then will either bug it or move on to other checks if its the intended design behavior 🙂

[wild vapor]

Who added Chungus to the ogre naming pool and why did they not get a raise?

[restive mortar]

I really like that you can now customize your campaign (endgame events etc). Any plans on togglable options like loreful diplomacy, unit caps or similar?

[ashen stream]

If you did not have to consider time, resources, nor difficulty to create, what would you most like to see added into the game?

[plucky igloo]

Did you notice that AI control reinforcement feature is missing during defensive battle? Currently it only works for offensive battle. Is this intentional?

[fossil hull]

We know Sarthorael is on the WoC roster. But he's not different than a generic lord of change monstrous unit. Do you intend to change his image? Same question to the other unique heroes and lords.? What is your plan in this regard?

[knotty iris]

Do you have any plans for Norska rework?

[olive kiln]

is there any chance that the ai aggression will be tuned higher from what they are now in IE testing because from the youtuber campagins the ai doesn't seem aggressive enough. i believe legends said something about it

[small shard]

Was the healing cap for Ghrost zombies intended to reach 1.2 million or will it be patched out eventually ?

[random dune]

Luke: This is a tough question 😄 but I'd say for me my favorite races was probably Bretonnia - although I really liked Lizardmen and Warriors of Chaos too. 🙂 Chaos Dwarfs are also a very cool race though for sure. I really liked the revamped models Forge World did with them for Tamurkhan when that was released back in the day 😛

[scenic mantle]

Hey ! Do you think we will be able to see more mutated warriors of Chaos (units/hero characters for Mono-Gods) in the future ?😁

[shrewd pasture]

Hi, will Dark Elves swimming fortresses battle map be reworked too and if not maybe later? 🙏

[azure sedge]

As a QA myself (high tech non-gaming company), I'm wondering what kind of the testing do you have Guys in place? (AST's, unit, manual, regression, black box etc. on different branches)

[stone ice]

Are there any plans to increase the amount of data that exists in the current version of the "Encyclopedia" in the game (as in, explaining every hidden stat such as high ground bonuses, splash damage, etc) or are you ok with us relying for those specifics on third parties such as content creators? And any word on the chat system, while we are at it?

[unkempt pebble]

Is there more story for Shen Zoo in the future?

[surreal mauve]

In the latest previews; the Dark Elf Black Dragon has gained a weird green eye glow. No other dragons have this; and the unique mount Black Dragons don't have it either. Is it bugged or intended? As i'm personally not a fan.

[worn inlet]

Havent you in CA thought bring Karl franz an new RoR unit special for him only to get "Imperial dragon"

[grizzled oar]

Can you promise not to disappoint Thanquol fans by making him a terrible White Dwarf or FLC give away? Stormfiends and Verminlords pleeeeaaaaassseeee!

[viscid beacon]

Are there more plans to add more scenarii or quests related to lore in IE just like Karak Eight peaks, involving serveral factions ?

[thick gyro]

Is there any chance for more "rpg" like systems being added to older, existing races? (I'm specifically thinking of the Troy legendary monster lines or the Cathayan merchant journeys/caravans). These are amazing at giving you something to do while in between turns, and bring a lot of fluff and fun to the table, particularly when you're for example skipping turns to get buildings done etc.

[fleet lichen]

Is the team aware that the settlement building auto construct feature does not work correctly? (The allocated budget can be reset to 0 randomly and it sometimes doesn't work even if the budget is 100% and the player has a lot of money)

[modest mirage]

Are there any plans or possiblity to add cultist heroes to Warriors of Chaos (and maybe Morathi's cult of pleasure faction aswell) in the future?

[chilly flame]

Do you have anything to share on performance improvements for campaign map? Does IE run better than RoC?

[solid oxide]

Is there going to be a Nippon DLC at some point?

[unreal panther]

Will Cathayan Alchemists use the lore of Fire eventually? In lore it’s stated they use fire

[faint spruce]

Will we be able to play Be'lakor in Realm of Chaos?

[worldly raptor]

Hi, will there be an opportunity to saddle up and ride Miao Ying when playing as Imrik ?

[random dune]

Luke: Can't really confirm anything here, but a lot of our team really enjoyed the new variety that the Endgames bring to Late-Game campaigns, so who knows, maybe? 🙂 the good thing is these will be modder friendly, so will be very exciting to see what the great community is able to come up with for Endgame scenarios too 🙂

[fleet lichen]

Hello :)
Is there any other game modes you would like to implement or think about to make into WH3 other than RoC or IE ?

[unkempt onyx]

What do you think is the hardest part of QA, and what do you like most about the job?

[tame hare]

Will the legendary lords from warhammer 3 get their own high quality portraits like the legendary lords from the second game have?
Cheers!

[vague lark]

Should we expect another dlc before 2022 ends? like another race or faction?

[limber lantern]

Will Vampire Counts and their Bloodlines get possible update in the far future?

[random dune]

Luke: We utilize both methods across our testing. Due to how massive and complex games are nowadays, you always want to have automation to complement the manual testing that needs to be done too. We have some really great automation testers that work with us on our projects to support any automation test needs we have on the projects.

[random dune]

Luke: I think I'd love to see more objective-based or set-piece scripted battles with more cinematic aspects to them in battles and campaign narratives 🙂 I always like seeing the stories of the WARHAMMER setting come to life.

[sharp swift]

everyone knows that the beastmen rework was a huge improvement. And a lot of people, myself included, think it's a shame to lose the realms of chaos in IE. But it is obvious that with its current mechanics it would not be a great success. As a member of the team that participated in the best rework to date. What ways can you think of to be able to implement the kingdoms of chaos in an entertaining way for the players?

[weary coral]

Hi there! I think I read in one of these that WH1-2 garrisons would be buffed and made stronger and WH3 garrisons would be taken down a notch. Is this implemented in this patch of IE or is that for a later day? Also can you guys talk if sieges with be getting any changes anytime soon?

[random dune]

Luke: There's definitely a lot more of Chaos to explore so who knows? 😛

[fleet lichen]

Will you ever add single player mini campaigns like you have for multi player?

[waxen garnet]

In relation to the current changes to the VCs system, what might be the best way to contact you all in terms of "feedback" for the changes, as well as, could we be expecting a rework to be featured in a new DLC, such as that seen with the Warden and the Paunch and Silence and Fury?

P.S. Do you have any plans of expanding on the new WoC upgrade mechanic system, to apply to other factions? If so, would the undead factions be in the running to see such changes?

[grand heart]

We've been told it's now easier than before to move lords' starting positions now between patches. With the world filling up as fast as it is, even with this size, some LLs are already starting as direct neighbours with barely a settlement between them. How likely are lords to move between patches and is there a certain maximum density of lords in areas you're trying to avoid? The southlands look very crowded, I can't imagine more lords fitting in there.

[chilly thicket]

Will we get another races update blog before 23th? At first, I think we will get 4 races per week until launch day.

[random dune]

Luke: We have a wide variety of testing on our games ongoing at all times, and different kinds of testers for different areas and skillsets, so we get a mix of White box testing, Black box testing, Automation, etc throughout the life of the projects we work on. We have specialists for things like Compatibility, Audio, Platform, etc and then the Functional team that works on the bulk of the game features and design implementation testing, etc. 🙂

[versed pine]

Will the "treacherous" trait for tomb kings heroes ever be fixed?

[random dune]

Luke: The design team is always looking at what we might be able to improve or change for some of the older content when they can, so it's often something that gets looked at. No concrete answers on what will be coming and for whom, but we almost always endeavor to have some QoL changes and updates where we can 🙂

[proud ermine]

Will there be by any chance and expanse of mechanics to vampires , or do you plan to let them as they are now?

[upbeat hornet]

How hard is balancing and how do you approach it? With hundreds of units and massive amounts of lore for each one, I can't imagine having to test every single one.

[safe marsh]

What is the threshold to consider a mechanic or a gameplay aspect a bug worthy of a rework or let it pass as something fun even if it might look like broken?

[spice quiver]

Are they're plans to improve faction effects like Hexoatl? I love what Kroq'gar has now, but makes Mazdamundi feel really bland by comparison

[white robin]

As a QA tester I've always been interested in how you guys test huge games like this. I always enjoy coming up with systems that elegantly and efficiently test applications and I was wondering if there was any test(s) you designed that you felt particularly proud of and why!

[small jetty]

Do you plan to release DLC to add specific funtionalities or skins to all factions like "diplomacy focused DLC, settlements, items, etc

[potent hedge]

It doesn't really make sense for Gelt to participate in the Elector Counts system and try to become an Emperor. Are there plans to have a unique feature for him to replace that, simillar to how you reworked Volmar? A unique Lab feature (similar to Ikit's Lab) and Auric Bastion (similar to Great Wall) features for him would be great!

[icy meadow]

Is there a chance for more DLCs like the Champions of Chaos? As I feel it could be a great way to finish off some races like the Empire

[keen wharf]

can you gives us an idea on how you decide which faction is next in line for an update, is it determined by a set criteria or just random?

[fleet lichen]

Are you going to improve the skin of the armor of Chaos Warriors and Marked Chosen? The armor is only a color change.

[open kestrel]

Once the more obvious reworks are done, you intend to keep updating races which are in a decent spot or you'll turn to faction specific reworks?

[copper dragon]

What is one of the funniest issues your team has ran into during testing? I'm sure there are plenty of them!

[maiden jasper]

In developing Immortal Empires, the Warhammer 3 team has implemented a wide variety of unique faction mechanics (The Forge of Daith, Grom's Cauldron, Sniktch's Shadowy Dealings, etc.) and racial mechanics (Wood Elven Deeproots, Beastmen Dread, Greenskin WAAAAGHs, etc.) which were introduced into Warhammer 2.

Were there any such mechanics whose implementation posed a particularly difficult challenge in the development of Immortal Empires? Are there any interesting solutions the team had to come up with to make them play nice with the new map?

[grizzled tartan]

Do you have a favorite Warhammer fantasy character and who are they? (Can be in the game or not in the game)

[solemn crag]

will Be'lakor ever be playable on the RoC map?

[fleet lichen]

What is the weirdest/most odd thing to happen during the entire process?

Why weren't Troglagobs (sea goblins from White Dwarf) added to the greenskin overhaul?

[random dune]

Luke: Wow, thank you for the compliment 🙂 I am very lucky to get to work on such an amazing team and it's always nice to know the hard work is appreciated 🙂 You raise an interesting question; one that's been discussed quite a bit internally, but as you mention it poses a significant challenge in the current setup for us to do. There are a lot of really cool and fun ideas the team has had about this very possibility, but whether or not it'll be possible in the future I sadly don't know as it requires a huge amount of work to add that section into the existing map. But hey, never say never, I'd love to see it one day in some form of mid-to-endgame dungeon-raid-esque setup where you can dive into the realms of the dark Gods to slay Greater Daemons and find unique wargear options 🙂

[random dune]

Luke: This is definitely a very big task and as you can imagine, testing the entire roster is quite hard work, but it's also quite fun. While we test the entire unit rosters for all races and factions during development, we also do have some real Multiplayer Wizards in our QA ranks that run special balance sessions weekly where they'll play out specific test scenarios of factions and units and designers join to watch and observe and see what the feedback is. 🙂 If there's any really whacky balancing stuff it's often found there, but if it's a more nuanced situation then we see how the community feels about it before making any hasty decisions 🙂
There are 350 spells, 134 mounts, and 879 unique items spread amongst the various Lord and Hero characters!

[torpid thorn]

As an owner of the three base games (but no WoC DLC) will I be able to play as Belakor?

[whole heart]

Wood elves have been nerfed in IE, no magic stance, lost a kurnous volley and we still without naiads and swarms of pixies. Even Athel Loren look more awfull than in W2. Can WE have a crosspack with Cathay and flc Ariel as optional LL? Thanks

[random dune]

Luke: I'd say this is often on a case-by-case basis but very very rare that something unintended is left as-is if it's not working as the design team expects. It really depends on the severity I'd say. If it's a very aberrant bit of behavior from what's described, it'll always be bugged anyway, but if it's a minor thing that's actually just fun and doesn't have any balance concerns, etc, then sometimes a designer might decide it's fine with the additional unintended behavior. But as a general rule in QA; if the output behavior is not on the list of expected results, it'll be bugged 😉

[random dune]

Luke: It's definitely a big challenge testing games as they are big, complex, and in this day and age, often ever-changing. 😄 I can't think of a particular test I'm proud of, but I would say, I think our DLC QA teams are good at adapting on the fly and adjusting our tests for changing features/scope, and also trying to keep our tests easy to understand, while also being in-depth for what's needed 🙂

[fallen silo]

What is the testing process when it comes to balancing and how can the community help out?

[subtle quest]

Will we ever be able to choose which LL (Vlad or Isabella) leads the Sylvania faction when it's controlled by the AI? Maybe a setting beforehand with the standard being Vlad as the lord and Isabella as the hero. I really like Isabella as a LL and was incredibly saddened to see i'll only see her as a LL in WH3 by controlling the faction myself.

EDIT
I don't care about the trait to any who would think that. They can remove that, I don't mind. I just like Isabella as a LL 😊

[pastel wave]

Will we ever see a rework to less then stellar factions going forward from IE? I love some of the reworks you've done regarding Tomb Kings and Lizardmen. But when I see factions like Queek I cant help but think how bad he is compared to his counterparts. It would be really neat to see a Skaven Lord that had faction effects centered around undercities for instance. As a big Warhammer fan I LOVE unique mechanics that set the LL apart from the rest of their faction.

[naive cove]

So, for WH3 there is a diplomacy system, that basically makes it easier, which is so good! However, there's one overtune - confederation. For confederating a LL as HE or Cathay you need to either threaten the LL, or do the shaman astrology work with strategic threat thing to confederate. Will confederations be like that in the future? Because a lot of people like pokemoning

[native raptor]

Why do the new Marked Lords of Chaos have no manticore and Dragon mount? The fact you lose half your skills and a lot of souls doesn’t help.

[lost rock]

This is more a Question, with a little web construction. - (Make Krell a Legendary Hero CA) -

Will there be a Time To Return to the models of the DLC? (Champions of Chaos) In order to truly give them unique models?

Besides 1x Helmet 1x weapon 1x off hand special options? Truly the entire model itself has been copy-pasted from the current Warrior / Knight of Chaos or Chosen model which all of the so called "New Model" reskins have.

Like so many models within this DLC.
The Nurgle Chosen arn't even "unique" enough, they are truly reskins arn't they?

So will you Return and Fix the problem? Do it Justice?
Or simply leave it as it is?
When Modders have done a much better job currently in regards to reused in-game tools.

[random dune]

Luke: So it's definitely not random. I'd say it's more about how the community is interacting with said factions after a while, and whether there are any major problems or really outdated features that are causing the faction to suffer. If it's still fun to play despite its age though, then it lends weight to the design still being pretty solid and perhaps not in need of as much tinkering as one that's less engaged. But ultimately those kinds of decisions are made by our great Development Director of Warhammer DLC 🙂

[weary moth]

what is ur favorite unit in every catogory(infantry, ranged infantry, melee cav, monsters,...)

[granite terrace]

With the new marauder skins being added for the 4 chaos gods, would the team consider adding some leathers or furs to the Norscan Marauders so they are a bit more unique? Especially considering the model is used 10 times in the roster?

[random dune]

Luke: From what I understand, due to how he's set up in RoC as an unlockable lord for certain races, this would make it quite tricky to implement him as a standalone faction in the same way he has been fone for Immortal Empires, particularly as he's the key antagonist to the story of the Realms of Chaos narrative. But hey, who knows, maybe one day? 🙂

[fierce spruce]

Will Tretch Craventail finally get some love and go from generic lord to a cool character? I feel like he really deserves it because lord-wise, he is somehow in an even worse situation than queek (just my opinion though but I feel like a decent amount of people might agree)

[random dune]

Luke: Due to how busy we are on testing it's quite hard to remember at times. But we did get a quite funny internal meme out of one bug that was to do with how aggressive our LoD system was being on units at close distance, which resulted in the rather hilarious "Derp Lion" as the White Lions of Chrace warbeast unit was particularly funny looking when this bug was present 😄

[eager quiver]

Army roster aside, Nurgle has a conceptually interesting system with its buildings/structures and diverse plagues.

While interesting, it could be hard to track what buildings was withering and blooming. Player interaction with this dynamic flow was also fairly limited. Anything on your radar about this system and maybe also the future of plagues for Nurgle?

[random dune]

Luke: I think overall, our design team did a great job of updating the mechanics for the races in Immortal Empires, and we didn't have too much trouble with most of them outside of a few script cleanups and teething issues. The overall scale of the project was probably the biggest challenge of it all; testing out 3 entire games' worth of content, plus all the DLCs was a massive undertaking for us, but one that I think we handled really well. I'm really proud of our QA team and the hard work they always put in 🙂

[past kindle]

have you ever thought of giving Azazel the ability to have unlimited gifted slannesh units in his army like Be'lakor but it needs to be unlock by a skill or Tech

[oak delta]

After all, it's seems that no all campaigns are in the same time in RoC so, maybe Be'lakor can have a prequel or sequel dlc campaign... 👀

[random dune]

Luke: This is a hard one as the WARHAMMER setting is absolutely filled with amazingly detailed and fleshed-out characters 🙂 But if I had to pick, I think I'd say Archaon, as he's this massive threat to the entire world, and his ability to subdue and unite the Northern tribes and descend to burn the worlds of Order and actually achieve his goal was no small task. While many threats in the WARHAMMER world are more local, Archaon is this huge, existential threat to everyone, and ultimately, succeeded in achieving his plans. I also just love his visual designs; The massive slabs of dark armor, coupled with the horned helmet and the massive burning blade just look fantastic. I actually have his old, quite rare GamesDay model of him on foot without Dorghar and it's still one of my favourite Fantasy models despite its age 🙂

[random dune]

Luke: I can't say for sure, but I'd imagine it might be that in terms of actual gameplay, they're just aquatic Gobbos which would still be a pretty low-tier unit to use, rather than something bigger and more badass that could be included. Ultimately if we could though, we'd add every single damn unit possible, but there's only so much time and budget we can dedicate to each project and some stuff doesn't always survive the cutting room floor. But hey, never say never. If that unit is really sought after, maybe one day we will end up doing it after all! 😛

[coral glacier]

I've seen on couple of streams on YT that the Bretonnian knights all have the same model now. Would you consider to bring back the model variety as it was in Warhammer 2 for this unit?

[random dune]

Luke: I think I touched on this briefly in another answer, but it's a team effort when it comes to balance; the design team and QA will review and playtest all the units and content and go over feedback and points on it to see if there's a consensus on if some things need adjusting. The community helps a lot by letting us know which things seem a bit OP or underpowered, either in places like Discord, or forums, but also if we ever put out betas that can be opted into, such as the Cavalry beta we did near the end of WARHAMMER II. the feedback provided by each and every member of the community is invaluable and while we can't always action everything, we really do listen and take in the points you all raise so that we can strive to make the game as best as it can be for everyone 🙂

One question please.

[blissful basin]

Would you consider adding older menu soundtracks like "fire steel and gunpowder" or the original Warhammer 2 to the current warhammer menu?

[random dune]

Luke: Confederation and how it's done is something already being looked into based on feedback. Keep an eye out in the near future for more info on that 🙂

[chrome garden]

Is settlement not changing architecture/city layout based on the owner a technical issue or a design decision?

[tardy gull]

Who is your favorite bretonnian character?

[random dune]

Luke: So the marked Lords of Chaos use different mount options from the Undivided ones to give them a bit more flavourful and thematic options that fit their God alignment. You get access to different skills when dedicating them to a single chaos god, so being able to re-spec your skill tree is quite useful down the line. But this is still useful feedback, I'll make sure it's passed along 🙂

[mighty fossil]

Would you consider making a fusion between the old and new slave system, and adding further usages for it?

I really like the new boons you guys added to slaves. They feel very thematic, however I do think I and many others miss the region management part of it.

Perhaps there could be more usages for slaves, such as using it as a trade resource with other slaver factions, or as a resource to boost your armies or lower the trigger of murderous prowess for an army if you sacrifice slaves.

Really looking forward to what the team has cooking for future content 🙂

[random dune]

Luke: Infantry - Chosen of Khorne with Dual Axes, Ranged - Warp Grinders, Cav - Bretonnian Questing Knights, Monters - The Bloodbrute Behemoth. These are all based purely on the visuals and "rule of cool" rather than stats 😛

[formal lava]

when the end times eventually happen will we ever see new Unique Purple items during those events? like the blade of slaanesh for example or anything above, to allow more factions to be able to gain those items other then just cathay, allowing more variety later game!

[dire aspen]

Hi Luke! SEGA reported the blood for the blood God DLC as the most profitable DLC CA has done so far. Following the positive reception of the recent Blood announent would you guys be open to make more death effects. For example. A "Fire for the Fire God" for burned corpse textures or something?

[outer wren]

As we are going to get a lot of chaotic content soon, can we hope for something more in order near the end of the year?

[golden plover]

Has the CA team looked at updating certain undivided visuals on new units for when you play monogod? Specifically, the chariots of khorne from the roster blog have khorne banners that are replaced by the undivided symbols in-game.

[prime beacon]

What is the role of Aspiring Champions in the game? Seems the low model count high cost infantry haven't found a place yet.

[crimson apex]

Can you explain why empire , cathay and kislev cavalry is faster or as fast bretonnian and HE cav?why winged lancers are fast as wild riders? Lore wise at least in the old lore this should be impossible

[alpine osprey]

Why did Tomb Kings lose the large constructs in their starting armies? Kahtep with no heirotitan?

[hasty summit]

Is it possible that Greasus will get a new mount? His current one vastly downplays his abilities of fighting because of his messy animations

[stone nexus]

I've seen some IM through content creators, and the ai looks to be alot more passive than before.

is that a bug or a feature ?

[slender whale]

A big problem with settlement battles, is that garrisons for a race are all the same. With scripting, we can currently kill units in garrisons, but not add units to garrisons.

Is there any chance of that being added to the engine?

[fleet lichen]

Will you give ghorst grave guard summons to kemmler? Kinda makes sense, ghorst is a zombie lord while kemmler want to have an army of wights.

[timber tulip]

Apart from a lot of new exiting maps, do you consider the option to add a unique map for atleast every important major Settlement like Skavenblight and Hellpit?

[vital relic]

Will there be more survival battles and possibly with different layouts? For example one idea could be a zombie survival without towers and barricades and a limited resource pool, etc.

[untold tapir]

Hello,
Will Bretonnians ever receive new units?

[wicked orchid]

Will we be able to acquire the weapons from the realms of chaos (Slaanesh's Blade, Chainsword, etc.) in IE at all? They were pretty great to come across when travelling through the realms, and they have a power level similar to the Sword of Khaine on Ulthuan.

[cursive raft]

Hey, Are you in the evolution of campaign and battle AI, I'm talking more specifically about battle AI, in order to make battles more competitive, like (offering an AI that makes fewer mistakes, that focus more efficiently, and diversifies those placements and interactions in high difficulties. There will be a lot more cases where we would lose battles, whereas currently we win battles because the AI ​​plays stupidly (drop count, cav which rushes to the instead of waiting for the frontlane, waiting under the towers of the walls etc ...)
at high levels of difficulty ?

[random dune]

Luke: So there's a lot here, but I'd say the goal of Champions of Chaos was to upgrade the breadth of the Warriors of Chaos roster and to provide more variety and better gameplay experience for a very old faction, which the DLC definitely does. With Nurgle units - as with a lot of the rest of Chaos - there's a LOT left to explore in the future. I think a lot of people look at the Putrid Blight Kings models and think all of Nurgle Warriors should be this way, but if you go back to how they were depicted in the Tabletop game for a long time, they were more rusted and darkened armour back in the day which I think is reflected pretty well with the units we've currently added for them 🙂 But you are also correct, the modding community also makes some fantastic stuff too and it's really cool to see what amazing stuff they come up with.

[twilit crane]

In regards to the "army painter" for the campaign, is there a way that we can have a method to select a faction colour from a selection at the start of a campaign? much like they do in multiplayer? Thanks!

[half igloo]

Will you as a player be able to become a vassal to chaos in multiplayer or singleplayer? would be fun to be able to become a heretic nation and spread chaos corruption or later become a vampire vassal

[viral flax]

Can Cathay (& other races) have confederation improved to be a little easier - or atleast the mechanics explained how you get each bonus?

It seems purely luck based at the moment and sucks to have a -130 to -150 hostility penalty from the beginning of the game.

Blue Line should go back to +10% Campaign Movement 😭

Also - Please make Skrolk good again.

[random dune]

Luke: Alberic for sure. I like his armor and styling a bit more than I do Louen's. Although Repanse is a close second.

[random dune]

Luke: This is the currently intended implementation of settlement battles and settlement architecture.

[bitter sigil]

As a former QA myself, how much of your testing is automated. Compared to manual exploratory testing ?

[random dune]

Luke: I'm not sure on this one, but we definitely do have some awesome death effects coming for some future units 😛 Dynamic fire and burnt units might be a cool idea too, I'll pass that on 🙂

[random dune]

Luke: Who knows? Not all Order are always as "good" as some would like 😛

[random dune]

Luke: So they're a lot better than they were previously and can go toe-to-toe with a lot more than they previously could. They're great at blending through mid and low-tier units but can also hold their own against some stronger ones now than previously too. I think they'll find more use in Campaign than they used to for sure 🙂

[random dune]

Luke: Good question. I don't know the answer, but I know we do have designers that try and look at making things more mod-friendly wherever possible. I'll pass this along 🙂

[tender bear]

Are you going to create new races that never had rules on tabletop like Vampire Coast and Cathey?

[warm pasture]

Do you plan to add more forest variety for campaign ? In comparison of game 2 the high quality of details feel gives the impression that all trees look the same, especially since many are simple retextures. It would be great to see plague trees from Nurgle, crystal trees from Tzeentch, burnt trees from Khorne etc...

[honest parrot]

I have question anout IE map about chaos territory. Will there be addition land that will be added in area above eastern steppes in the future?

[slender spindle]

Archaons new animations are amazing, are there any plans on going back and doing the same for other old lords such as Karl Franz and Vlad? and if there are no plans is it a possibility in the future? thanks!

[versed owl]

Can you please consider splitting the tunneling_excluded_regions according to campaign groups? The tables do not work as intended, because the mapping of excluded regions to campaign groups does nothing in the game. This is a trivial change for CA, but impossible for mods. This small change will make it possible to limit the regions where underway stance can be used, without affecting the teleporting stance of Kairos, Vilitch and Daniel.

[real eagle]

Much of the fatigue with minor settlment battles seems to stem from the popup towers. Will CA be looking at addressing that? Potentially reworking the system so that you can only build towers once at the beginning of a game?

[uncut marsh]

Hi, any chance we get the "Search ruins" mechanic back from WH2?

[random dune]

Luke: Our environment artists make absolutely beautiful maps so I'd be all for that 😄 Whether it's something that can happen in the near future I'm not sure, but I'll mention it to the team. Having unique settlement maps for all the big, key locations would definitely be cool though I agree. 🙂

[random dune]

Luke: If you're very lucky and the Gods favour you, some of these are actually able to be gained via the Eye of the Gods mechanic for Warriors of Chaos in the Champions of Chaos DLC 🙂

[tight salmon]

Will there be any plans to rebrand norsca to the northern chaos tribes alongside representation of the other notable chaos tribes or will it remain norsca

[random dune]

Luke: So we have specialised testers that help look into Battle and Campaign AI behaviors and report its current states to our AI coders and designers. The tricky thing here is that it often requires a lot of data to paint a complete picture of how X AI is behaving in any given situation, and so we have to be really careful how we make any changes or possible fixes to things as the consequences can be quite severe. Rest assured it's always being looked into though 🙂

[olive rain]

Are there currently any plans to reduce the amount of minor settlement battles in campaign? I feel like many peoples favorite game mode is regular land battles and the amount of minor settlement battles currently is too much

[random dune]

Luke: This one is tricky. Whenever it comes to adding mounts or "new" stuff that's not explicitly part of the lore we have to be really careful not to disturb the intent and design that's been crafted by Games Workshop. We work closely with them and see what can work and what can't, but as Greasus was depicted in the Tabletop game being hauled along by Gnoblars, I wouldn't expect it to change too drastically from that visual, but I could be wrong 🙂

[random dune]

Luke: This is a cool suggestion. I've also dreamed about the possibility of having factional "influence" that works like corruption creep, but instead of showing corruption, it adds in like little faction assets like elven towers, Bretonnian fountains, etc across the map that you own too. 🙂 I'll pass along the feedback on that though More terrain diversity is cool IMO 🙂

[random dune]

Luke: I'm glad you like them. I'm a big Archaon fan so it was really neat to see them revitalize him and give him some appropriately badass animations to go along with him. 😄 I think these areas are things the team definitely will be looking at - where possible - across future DLCs where it might make sense to fit it in 🙂

[scarlet prawn]

I believe it was mentioned in an earlier blog that there are two teams working on Total War: Warhammer at the moment. Can you share how your two teams are coordinating between each other, both at current and in regards to future DLC?

[pseudo shadow]

For coop campains there dont seem to be any settings for end game crisis. Is it default on like chaos was in mortal empires? And are there plans to add them in the near future?

[rocky stream]

Are there anz plans for implementing blight knights? 😍

[random dune]

Luke: This is something that's being talked about, but as I'm sure you can appreciate since it's such a large system, we have to be careful about how we tweak this. 🙂

[random dune]

Luke: I'm not aware of any plans for this right now, as it would require a whole bunch of new and interesting puzzles, but hey, never say never, I'll pass along the feedback 🙂

[acoustic plank]

will there be another dwarf faction soon. me and my friend love playing co op campaign as dwarfs

[random dune]

Luke: It's being talked about but there are a lot of possibilities and variables at play that need considering. But watch this space for more news in future 🙂

[civic schooner]

With the new mechanics of vassalization of the Warrior of Chaos is there any way to vassalize a Norscan player as Warrior of Chaos player to give him the boost of the vassalisation (like spreading monogod corruption + passive ability for his armies)?

[boreal topaz]

Is there any plan to update the Lizardmen Blessed spawning, allowing us to recruit dlc units (if owned)? Bc this really seems to hold back the dlc factions that are focused on a specific unit (Oxy w/ skirmishers, Nakai and the Blessed Kroxs, and Tehen with red crested skinks)

[light cloud]

I see that Nakai's campaign became a lot more enjoyable in Immortal Empires, since he has less trouble keeping his vassals safe, do you think this is because of the notoriously passive AI?

[exotic mason]

Thank you again to you developers for this excellent game that is Total warhammer.
I have a question, what was the reason for removing strong garrisons from faction capitals (Khemri, Naggaroth, Aldorf)? Because it's a shame, they don't really have this powerful side anymore, and it becomes generic cities, more than now, the AI ​​loses it frequently.

[gritty spruce]

Hi. I have a question, why are the gold incomes from ports in Immortal Empires seem kinda scuffed? As we can see on the streams right now they had their values nerfed and that's fine I guess, that's weird, but anyway. The problem is that now Norscans ports have 800 gold incomes from t3 ports, while even the Marienburg port only has that at t5? And generally what was the reason to nerf landmarks so heavily as you did?

[feral sleet]

Does the AI use the new local recruitment system for Chaos?

[random dune]

Luke: I'm a big fan of Bretonnia, so I'd love to see more units added one day, but not sure if/when it'd happen. Dismounted Knight unit variety and perhaps Truffle Hounds are some units I'd love to see in Bretonnian rosters one day if it was up to me 🙂

[fleet lichen]

Why hasn't it be tweaked so that the AI can't declare war on vassals, it's something people ask for a lot, and in patch notes it's said that the AI takes military strength more into account BEFORE they do this, but why not just remove it as a factor entirely?

[oak goblet]

Have you ever considered having two separate tests for faction balance? One for single player so they can have a more thematic experience and one for multi-player so they can have a more balanced experience.

[toxic token]

Is the trait limit of 40 still hardcoded? Considering all the new LLs (and their respective defeat traits), this might be a problem/confuse players why they don't get any new traits. iirc correctly this has already been changed for Troy and has been made moddable, so is this something you could see being implemented for WH3 as well?

[lucid burrow]

Will Boris Ursus get his own mechanics and tech? His faction is pretty much separate from Kislev’s other two and right now Boris is pretty much sidelined! He does not really get anything out of the supporter race and his startposition in combination with how hard confederating is makes it super hard to get the major cities.

[random dune]

Luke: Survival Battles are definitely being played around with a bit and you're right there's a lot of potentials there for other possibilities. Watch this space 😉

[random dune]

Luke: Rot Knights, I think came about near the End Times so not too sure. But there's definitely plenty of Nurgle to go around 🙂

[somber ether]

Any chance of shar'tor and vorgaroth ever making it into the game?

[random dune]

Luke: So there's a lot of moving parts on each project, but at the very top, you have our Development Director who works closely with the project design leads to ensure the vision for each project is realized as intended, and then on each team, the different disciplines communicate non-stop on the work needed. We have frequent updates to share progress and news between teams about how things are coming along and they show off all the new shiny bits and pieces they're working on which is really nice to see 🙂

[ivory wing]

Can you give drycha ice bears? Why didn’t she get them?

[random dune]

Luke: I'm not sure on this, but I will pass along the feedback! 🙂

[grizzled falcon]

Will we be getting the small narrator cutscenes that show us what’s happening around our faction in the IE beta release?

[ornate quest]

Can we get knights back in Bretonnian garrisons instead of peasant mobs? And heroes in other faction garrisons? Adds faction flavor.

[naive frost]

Hi, since we have seen the new animations for Archaons , is it possible in a near futur kholek Suneater will get a brand new animation ?

[random dune]

Luke: So this is something that we do already. Our functional QA team assesses how it plays out in SP campaign and provides feedback to the design team, and our Multiplayer QA "Battle Wizards" - as I call them - hammer the units against varying combinations and tiers of meta builds and normal builds of factions to see what the balance implications are for Multiplayer. Having said that, it's often simpler to maintain 1 set of data than multiple variants, for both data integrity and test coverage bandwidth 🙂

[small ravine]

Will immortal empires multiplayer victory conditions be improved? 100 regions to win is far too small for the map size

[leaden olive]

Its that time again! Will Orion get a horn blowing animation like imrik? ?

[meager crypt]

In an interview before the games launch CA said the realms of chaos would play a part in IE. Do you still wish to implement them in any way in the future?

[astral stone]

Hello there ! With so many faction colour schemes, have you thought about allowing the player to give armies the look of factions he confederated ? For example, in late game as Karl Franz, letting Boris use the Middenheim look for his army ?

[random dune]

Luke: She doesn't have Ice Bears, but she does have Feral Bears 😉

[stuck shard]

TW:WH is my go-to co-op game to play with friends, and we're really happy with a lot of QoL and new features in game 3 that support a better campaign experience.

In campaign battles, it's incredibly fun to have multiple factions allied fighting together.

Question:
We've had issues sharing (gifting) units back and forth when multiple player armies are involved. Is this intended? I recall the primary player army involved was not able to gift units to player 2 involved.

Example:
For example having 2 player armies, Cathay and Dwarves, we'd love to be able to be able to have player 1 be combined artillery and cav and player 2 control infantry and others, or whatever combo.

[random dune]

We have to wrap up now I'm afraid everyone! We have an exciting week coming so a lot to prepare. We do have one last message from Luke though!

Luke: Thanks so much to everyone for all the great questions, sorry I didn't get to answer them all. I've had an absolute blast chatting with all of you and I just wanted to say thanks to all for being such an awesome community and helping make the game what it is. It's been really nice to see and share the passion the Total War fanbase has and I hope you'll all love the content we've got coming in the future for WARHAMMER. Also want to shout out to our amazing CA Community team, along with the entire WARHAMMER DLC team who I'm honored and privileged to be a part of. Being able to work on such awesome games that I grew up playing is truly a special experience and I still can't believe I get to do it sometimes. As a fellow WARHAMMER fan, I would be remiss about not sharing some of my hobby work with you 😄 so here's a picture of my previously aforementioned Archaon GamesDay miniature that I painted a while back and put up on Instagram. It's one of my favourite Warhammer Fantasy models. Hope you like it. You've all been great, until next time 🙂
Instagram | imperatorprime01

[pliant obsidian]

Ah, again I m late. But mayby lucky and Lady smiles upon me - it was always interesting for me why Morgiana is Carcasson but not Quenelles as by the lore she is most often based there. And heraldry of the dukedom has unicorn as well, though it has other meaning it d look more fit for LL on unicorn) ls there hope she gets Vlad-Isabella treatment with Louen or changes dukedom when rework comes?

[tribal agate]

Is there any plan to revisit/update the Lizardmen's campaign mechanics in the geomantic web? It has aged poorly compared to other factions and makes the Lizardmen far less fun than other races

[quick cedar]

I know rifts and realms won't be in at launch for IE but how long until we get that reinstated as an option?

[fleet lichen]

Is CA considering testing and reviewing more thematic and impactful defeat traits for Legendary Lords? Some of the current ones fall flat when compared to others.

[autumn egret]

Hey there,
Can multiple Endgame scenarios trigger in the same campaign? Not necessarily at the same time, but for example 30 turns apart?

[verbal fulcrum]

Its over stop asking

[pine crater]

Are you guys actively working on the performance issues that plague the RoC campaign map?

[pallid harness]

Without the auto declare war in immortal empires can orderly factions such as the empire be in the same team as chaos in coop campaigns?

[tepid otter]

AMA ended 4 hours ago when CA ended their workday, questions never did got answers the next day, so I doubt you will get answers tomorrow

[grizzled oar]

Can we make sure we don't miss out on highly desired units like Stormfiends because of made up and silly rules? You already have RoR ET units in the game so can we have some consistency here please?

[agile laurel]

Can we expect new Skaven DLC anytime soon?

[leaden olive]

?

[maiden jasper]

You're still here?

It's over. Go home.

Go.

[random dune]

Hey everyone, as mentioned above. We are finished here now so keep this open if anyone wanted to see answers and will close it at 12:00 BST 🙂

[grizzled oar]

True, we've not had one since 2020, that's nearly 2 years 😦

[floral current]

UP

[verbal fulcrum]

No skaven for awhile other races deserve some spotlight same with lizardmen