RPI - Mitch Heastie

[spiral iris]

Hey everyone! We're back! So as always, please keep to one question. Vote on the question you'd like answered!
This will be up till the end of the day so think of some good questions!

[untold fjord]

Anything cool planned for Gobbos? Aka the best race

[bleak ocean]

Any plans for Skrolk?

[jovial ether]

Of all the factions, which would you say you had the best time developing for Immortal empires?

[mortal furnace]

Plans on expanding upon the Empire and adding in some of the unique elector counts?

[barren plinth]

Are you planning to introduce new races with dlcs in the future or rather expand on already existing ones?

[slender solstice]

Any updates coming regarding to some DLC lords? Malus, Nakai etc? Compared to the other DLC lords they are lacking, I've heard that some other DLC lords got a nice needed update but haven't heard anything about these two

[strong yoke]

Hey Mitch, hey yuey, is there any chance that now with the introduction of the Fly toggle button, that we will see an Overhaul of the Coatl Animations? As they were already VERY hard to differentiate between flying, and being on ground in WH2, but now when it is actually a lot more important to be able to tell what state a flyer is in i feel like he really needs the Overhaul more than ever. Also his ground animations look very... silly... :x other than that great work and hope both of you have a wonderful day!

[wispy fern]

Are there any plans to touch up minor settlement battles and sieges in Immortal Empires?

[neat idol]

What about ogre interactions with caravans in the future ? Right now it feels like it ain't even worth to wage war on Cathay.

[compact seal]

I saw a reddit post a few days ago and it had a good idea, it was about various undercities, and if we could get a section in the region tab for undercities and how much money they are make you, as currently you need to select each province in order to Find them, are there any plans to make them easier to find? Thank you.

[kind obsidian]

Hello Mitch! I wanted to ask, is this new four legendary lord lord pack format a new format going forward? I'd love to see packs like this for specific races to get lots of their remaining characters and units in!

[sacred comet]

Could you tell us anything about any of the new regions coming to the Immortal Empires Map i.e. the new sections in Cathay and the Southern Chaos Wastes. Any cool new landmarks or environments?

[normal musk]

Do you think news unique mechanics for older vanilla/base games lords (such as Grimgor, Malekith, Tyrion, Louen, Thorgrim, Queek etc...) will be possible in the future ? They are pretty vanilla and it's not necessary bad but they feel a bit less attractive than most recent DLC lords.

[fresh granite]

What is the process for trying to bring unpopular LLs in the lore to life. Do Games Workshop give you free reign or do you have to go through them to get those approved? any examples of this if applicable

[keen raven]

Are there any plans to update Clan Eshin espionage mechanic? For example from lore point Eshin use Cult of the Yellow Fang - human agents who undercover work for Skaven.

[topaz shale]

So I saw that Archaons animations are being updated, are there plans on updating other Legendary Lord animations to meet the standard of newer titles, i.e Vlad, Sigvald?

[oblique night]

Khuresh is empty at the moment any plans to move some lords or new factions into it

[night tangle]

Nagash as a final threat in Immortal Empires? I think there was an Undead threat in the final game, Nagash will be perfect for the final boss

[modern saddle]

You probably can't say which endgame events (like chaos invasion) will be in immortal empires, but can you give us a number? Or at least say if we get more than three (archaon chaos invasion/undead/greenskins)?

[weak oxide]

Will there be any freebies for people that only own warhammer 3 once immortal empire comes?

[clear mountain]

Immortal Empires has there a Great Hall of Greasus settlement?
If has then why greasus not started that settlement?

[nocturne bronze]

Will Tod get he’s day and own units and as a Skaven lover stormfeinds will we see them and a dark elves will they get new units like the high elves did in the warden and the punch

[edgy garnet]

Spill us some hints on Cathay DLC maybe? As a parting gift

[mighty cosmos]

So many of us know that the jabberslythe was approximately one Charlemagne. Do we have an approximation of how many Charlemagne’s IE is as what seems to be the cumulative work of all your time on the DLC team?

Great work all this time, I look forward to seeing the next project you work on!

[storm gate]

Will you change the location of some quests? It is just really inconvenient to go to Lustria as Ikit Claw or as Nakai and all the other lizardmen LL outside of Lustria who want to get Lord Kroak

[high girder]

Would it be possible to make Legendary Heroes starter units customizable ? Like you have a set amount of gold and you can choose any combination of units that belong to that factions roster as long as it does not exceed the gold amount

[primal night]

Will Tzar Boris always be present on the immortal empires map or will he only spawn when his faction is selected by the player alike on the realms of chaos map?

[floral moon]

Are there updates planned for magic-heavy lords (e.g. Teclis, Manfred) in light of the magic system rework?

[jolly talon]

Are there any plans for tomb kings early game to get a little buff? Takes a long time for them to get online with their monsters

[quaint meteor]

Will we get achievements for beating the campaign with each immortal empires faction?

[rich terrace]

Hello! With all of these factions, how are IE end turn timers? Have something been implemented to ensure that they are within an acceptable range? How are they from your own tests?

[tawny spade]

Is there any plans to add the Watchtowers for the Dark Elves as a unique type of settlement like the Empire Forts/Ulthuan Gates/Great Bastion Gates ?

[ashen bramble]

Any plans to add Egrimm Van Horstmann as a legendary lord and if you do have you considered making him like an Anti-Imrik in that he is hunting down the dragons to corrupt them to chaos?

[solid mural]

Where are my Colossal Squigs?

[errant sleet]

Nagash yes or no?

[full lantern]

Is there any chance Vlad and Sigvald are getting new animations ? Vlad should get his two handed sword instead and Sigvald is supposed to hover in the lore.

[covert mason]

Is there a chance for Bretonnia dlc down the line

[whole remnant]

Is there any communication in the team on how to deal with the ranged meta in the game? Making ranged units not replenish full ammo after each battle would be a good middle ground.

[golden sleet]

Is there any chance you can make it optional have t1 and 2 minor settlements as open battles instead? Frankly it is a better design, so many siege battles now it just gets too much.

[devout delta]

Any chance of any streltsi on horse dlcs giving their cavalry some of the hybrid feel that at the moment only infantry has, so their Cavalry gets some of the hybrid feel that kislev infantry has and is so fun

[sharp quiver]

Any plans to make owned LLs from previous games playable on the Realm of Chaos map? (Like Karl, Snikch, Throt, Ungrim etc)

[willow laurel]

Chorfs first DLC?

[main mirage]

Out of all the Legendary Lords revealed in Immortal Empires, which was the hardest to find a place for on the map?

[winter osprey]

Any plans to make LLs from base games of all 3 games be a bit more exciting with their personal faction mecahnics? They are so incredibly plain in comparison to DLC ones that it's unfair

[green kernel]

Is the 4-lord pack a one-off/exploratory situation, or is the format already decided as the replacement for 2-lord packs going forward?

[halcyon cedar]

Is there any chance you buff undead factions? Vampire Counts and Tomb Kings are downfall by several patches. At least do somethings with healing cap pls.

[static basin]

Can the WoC Lords and Heros be god aligned as well and will they be in the mono god races too?

[fiery scroll]

Any plans to add more Norscan monster hunts?

[uncut fjord]

Hi! What are you most excited for when IE drops?

[fickle yoke]

Expanding on the concept of saved lords from campaign to campaign, could you consider it for customised units too, to recruit as special RoRs in future campaigns?

[rotund oracle]

We'ill see cross game lord pack sooner han in Wh2? Will Lord packs happen without a Wh3 race at some point?

[sharp eagle]

how high is the chance that we still get nippon in tww3?

[solar berry]

Will we ever see WH1 and WH2 races get lord speeches like WH3 races have?

[hallow hazel]

Has the team at the very least noted the interest in Nippon, Khuresh and Ind. Has the team noted the benefits of having a necro Skaven character (Dark Seer) like Huskk Gnawbone? Ikit isn't as 'cool' as Queek by definition, you have just added cooler mechanics, why not take advantage of the many Skaven RoR troops that Queek could use? Does the see a place for Stormfiends?

[spiral iris]

Mitch: As with everything we release, we'll be watching to see what you all think. If this setup is something you really enjoy then we can consider doing more for sure. I know everyone who worked on it really enjoyed making this style of the pack so the team would definitely like to do more like it. We'll have to wait and see.

[dreamy abyss]

Why does Zhao Ming not start in Shang Yang but in Qiang for IE?

[next tangle]

Is there any information regarding the Hobgoblins you could give us?

[winter tartan]

Will the vampire counts have any changes on IE release?

[hybrid hull]

Any talks on the runtime performance for the campaign map? It's a slight worry for me for Immortal Empires especially with the current less than desired performance in RoC

[spiral iris]

Mitch: One little interesting area of the map is something a few people have already spotted, and that is that the Great Desert of Araby looks a little different as a province, and that's because it is a little different! I won't spoil anything, and it's nothing too major anyway, but we've tried to make the region feel a bit unique. Something we'd like to do to more places on the map. Landmarks and unique settlement chains help us do this across the map too, so that when you arrive at a new location it's not just another settlement, but it has a bit of flavour and character too.

[wispy iron]

When the DLC team wants to bring a unit to life which may not have had a model or rules on tabletop, such as the Coatl for the Lizardmen or Eltharion's Mistwalker units, what's that process like?

Like, how far do you let your own imagination (about unit appearance, abilities, performance, etc.) go when there's little source material to draw from?

[vernal pagoda]

when the immortal empires does eventually come out will the map be expanded as we go through the years at all? would be very interested to see what happens with that

[hazy yoke]

Will Orion ever get an animation to blow the Horn of the Hunt like Imrik and his Dragon Horn?

[young ermine]

Any plans regarding Toddy and Red duke? Also will we get Gorfang Rotgut in Blackcrag as a non playable LL?

[hidden oriole]

Will be'lakor get any unique units or heroes such as fen Beasts and dark emissaries

[west dagger]

What will happen to the Karak Izor settlement now that Belegar moved?

[nocturne bronze]

Is Araby coming?

[open pasture]

Of all the DLC you've worked on which is your favorite? Or, is your favorite not yet released to the public :0

[wise cobalt]

Is there any chance that outpost might be improved? It's always disheartening when you finally get that juicy alliance with the wood elves only to find Norden already took their one and only outpost slot 😐

[sand lichen]

Is the pattern of SE artillery in WH3 main release a strange coincidence of rosters, or is this something we might be seeing more of in the future?

[glad verge]

Hey Mitch, you said you are excited to be working on the next era of total war after IE.
Can we expect more news on this "new era of total war" this year? Cheers

[spiral iris]

Mitch: Definitely not impossible. This is the age-old question for us, particularly being the DLC team, whereby we have to decide how much of our time is spent adding new content, and how much we can spend on stuff we've already made. It's a tricky balancing act, having factions that are easier/harder is fine, having factions that have more/less mechanics, or more complex or less complex mechanics is also fine. What we really want to try and stay away from is having a faction be the defacto faction of that race and nobody wants to pick anyone else for fear of missing out, we've fallen into that trap before with Ikit being an example, he's just cooler and better than Queek. That's good in a way because it means we've gotten better as a team and have made the new stuff better or fuller, but of course, isn't as great if you're a Queek fan. Ultimately the answer is the same as it will always be, we want to update the old content, we just have to find the right time.

[spiral iris]

Please don't waste your question with questions already asked. Have a skim through the questions first before posting and vote on any you'd like answered 🙂

[spiral iris]

Mitch: On our radar for sure. We made a few improvements to this in WARHAMMER III with the settlement dropdown list, but we're well aware there is still a ways to go before it's on par with other settlement usability features. So yes, on our radar, hopefully, we can keep making improvements, we'll really get a chance to improve this next time we use the foreign slot system for a feature, but no immediate plans.

[tropic compass]

Has the team looked at possibly implementing coalitions and/or combination of different races on the map as end-game scenarios? It could possibly spice up the game a bit and add more flavor to the late-game snowballing.

[sour lava]

Are the eastern colonies traversable or are they not traversable like Ind and Khuresh?

[north vector]

Other than warhammer 3 factions norsca are the only faction still at 2 legendary lords, is there any plan to expand them in some way and add to their faction?

[bold hinge]

Are there any changes coming to Vlad that will make him more competetive in multiplayer and the late-game in single player? In multiplayer in Warhammer 2 you literally never saw him get picked by a competetive player. And in single player in the late-game he gets outclassed by the bloodline lords on zombie dragons interms of impact on the battlefield. Being a foot lord, his lack of mobility really hurts him in a faction where mobility for your lord is crucial.

[nocturne bronze]

Is the blood pack going to include more effects (burning, charring, skaven weapons melting people, or other more exotic VFX) than what we've seen in past versions, or will it be the same?

**Any plans to make the late game less tedious? **

The auto assign skill points was better than nothing but it's unusable if there are certain skills you want.

A skill queue would have been much better and it was one of the most popular WH2 mods.

Auto building settlements doesn't do anything at the moment it is bugged.

[full shadow]

Hi! Since now the books of Nagash have been expanded to no tomb kings characters (volkmar and manfred), is there a chance for the verses of the ancient sea shanty of the vampire coast to be expanded to sea dedicated lords (lokhir, alberic and wufric) as well?

[crystal crystal]

Hi Mitch, any thoughts about the current implementation of the Vampire Count bloodlines with the hindsight glasses on and about revisiting them in the future? Did the team ever consider disabling the generic vampire lords in favour of the bloodline ones?

[sage violet]

In terms of metres squared. How does IE compare to vortex and realms of chaos?

[stiff depot]

Is there any chance the IE map will get updated in the future to be a true globe rather than a rectangle? Or maybe another map option that is a true globe?

[teal quest]

Do you envision the dlc team returning to the trilogy years after its ‘complete’ for expansion/large dlc (similar to how Rome 2 got a dlc expansion years later?)

[uneven ivy]

Will the immortal Empire be available to residents from Russia?)

[haughty kelp]

Will there be any new legendary heroes added with IE update?

[zealous pebble]

Any hints you can give about plans to fill in the empty territories on the east of the map I.e. dark lands, mountains of mourn, Cathay etc.?

[pseudo spindle]

Thanquol is very essential for the Skaven, as we need Grey Seer representation among the legendary lords, will he come?

[civic shard]

Is there a chance that Malal could make an appearance in a later DLC?

[frozen yew]

are you gonna put the slaangors the pestigors and the Tzaangors for the deamon factions

[signal plume]

Will we be getting more domination maps in the immortal empires release? Also will you be allowing the community to make maps and adding them to the list so that we get more maps quicker? Also you mentioned how chaos factions it doesn’t really matter where they go but how does that play out for multiplayer? Also if you can’t answer any of that what has been your favorite rework to work on?

[deep granite]

Rework of Gortek & Felix?

[spiral iris]

Mitch: Immortal Empires was never going to be about major reworks, those take up half a lord pack usually, so it just wasn't feasible for this project. It's the Lords who need the biggest changes (these two being fair examples) that are the hardest to fit into a project because naturally, their changes will take the most time and effort. So where there is a will there is definitely a way, and oh boy we realllly do want to take a look at Nakai and others IN FULL, we just have to find the right time when that makes sense. We'll make tweaks along the way, as we already have done, but for lords like this, we really want to make sure if and when we give them their day in the sun, we get it right once and for all.

[nocturne bronze]

With the inclusion of the Southern Chaos Wastes, any chance of Beastfiend units or Legendary Lords?

[warm lava]

In imortal empires do you still need to unlock boris and or belakor? and if u need to unlock them do you need to do that in ime or in the realm of chaos campaign?

[velvet hemlock]

Eastern Colonies in the Sea of Dread, they can be colonized, captured, or they are also silenced like ind and khuresh ?

[quasi jacinth]

Will unique and legendary hero's play a role in IE. Are there future plans to add more faction wide named heros?

[raven niche]

Will Malus Darkblade get an update? For example Tzarkan fully takes over, or Malus banishes the demon and becomes the chosen of khaine?

[dry pagoda]

any chance of the dark elf watchtowers being added as a fortress gate/bastion type thing for dark elves?On the wh2 map there are hints of it all along the northern border but with the huge expansion of the chaos wastes and addition of demons etc they really need them to be more than flavour hints

[spiral iris]

Mitch: It's absolutely noted that this went down really well when we did this for WARHAMMER II, you all really enjoyed playing certain old lords in Vortex. So nothing coming as of Immortal Empire's release, but I don't doubt something we'll explore in the future.

[desert panther]

Will minor settlement battles be reduced by way of say, garrison buildings to unlock it over normal land battles or whatever method you all have thought of. Don’t hate the battle type it’s just that land battles should be more common.

[azure flame]

Any plans to introduce the Dogs of War as a possible DLC faction?

[spiral iris]

Mitch: This has been a really long project for everyone, especially the guys who've been in the trenches doing the grunt work. I'm just excited for it to finally be out and to see what everyone thinks. Immortal Empire's is a particullary fitting project for me to end on because it's essentially the combinated of what I've worked on for my entire working life, all into one place for everyone to play. A special moment for sure to see that promise of a combined map with everything in it finally come to fruition after all these years.

[granite pollen]

What's the Idea behind belakor Shadow? Being able to corrupt enemy lord is awesome, congrats to the dev team, but why other Chaos LL can't do that aswell? This feature fit so much with the "Trial by fire" trailer

[lean mulch]

Is there any plans to fix the performance, VFX, antialiasing and overheating? Total War Troy and 3 Kingdoms were pretty smooth and we were told that one of the top priorities of Warhammer 3 was optimization something that we are still to see

[near vapor]

Are there any plans for distant future Norsca update to make Wulfric more of a Duel Seeker type of character with unique bonuses for defeating different named characters?

[vocal pumice]

Do you ever consider to add at least one unique unit for every legendary lord? For example, Wyvern for Azhag.

[woeful moth]

Do you think making like megacaracter dlc exemple: nagash would be a 1 man faction but he can confederate all undead faction and have all units.

Do you think maybe creating brand new units never seen in the books.

What is your final goal as the dlc team.

[rugged stone]

Any chance to see Black Chasm in the future ? also, what would you like to see for a future dwarf rework and DLC ? 🙂

[lime salmon]

Will the legendary lords from game 3 get their own high quality portraits, like the legendary lords from game 2 have?

[opal cliff]

Any plans for additional mini-campaigns similar to beastmen/WE or multiplayer mini-campaigns from TWWH3?

[brittle shadow]

Without going into enough detail to get you in trouble - what’s the coolest mechanic you’ve designed or helped design for IE so far?

[torn lodge]

what is the time frame for "very soon" in CA ?

[deep briar]

how many gigabytes will total warhammer 3 with immortal empires occupy?

[spiral iris]

Mitch: Of course, there is plenty of content still to get through in WARHAMMER III. I don't need to spoil anything or give anything away for you all to know what's still out there. There are obviously going to be things you expect, I'm most excited for the things you definitely don't.

[spiral iris]

Mitch: I've seen a few people are a bit worried about the Tomb Kings and the new enemies in and around Khemri in particular, but we are making sure Settra is the big bad of the desert and he doesn't just get steamrolled - there's a lot that goes into this from many members of the team to ensure the world plays out roughly how we expect. Of course, it's going to be a Beta, so let us know all your feedback good and bad, balancing is absolutely one of those things that are going to be ongoing from here on out.

[tired dune]

Will future DLCs factions and races feature a more varied array of difficulties where both easy and hard lords are playable? I think (but maybe I'm wrong idk) that, with the increasing number of numerical buffs to many aspects of the campaign, like the ones introduced in the beastmen rework, some newer factions really struggle to offer a challenge against players who want it, even when they volountarily ignore those same buffs and even when they play in the hardest difficulties. Is there some chance to select "hard" lords (like Wulfhart) together with "easier" ones (like taurox) in the same race in ways that no kind of player can be penalized?

[sleek wigeon]

Will weapon swapping come for units like Black Orcs and other units in the future at some point? This was a cool feature in Troy and it's something that made Black Orcs unique on tabletop.

[robust sleet]

Can't wait for Cathay DLC, how do you feel about creating a second big human Empire?

[proud bloom]

are you still planning to fix decade old bugs like the Gatebug and are you still going to focus on optimization in the future years?

[viscid hawk]

Is there gonna be a Nippon DLC? ❤️

[mossy compass]

Boris Todbringer and The Red Duke. Any plans to make them playable in the future?

[slender ravine]

Presuming the game remains well-played and financially successful, how far past your current roadmap do you see IE/WH3 supported? The example in my mind would be akin to the Paradox games, which are still receiving dlc six to nearly ten years after their release.

[uncut portal]

Any plans on going back and giving the Vampire Coast's mechanics a bit of a tune up. Coves would be more interesting if the player/ai were able to interact with them.

[nocturne bronze]

will there be undivided demons, for example succubus , devil , pit ?

[spring yew]

We know there are changes to WH1/2 races coming, like goblin big bosses having wolf chariots or NG fanatics having changes to their cooldown on spinning loons. Can we expect a list of changes to every race or was it a select few that needed help?

[night cedar]

Has there been any changes to your campaign map tools that would allow you to expand the physical size of the campaign map, or will we see mostly just regions being filled in like in ME?

[real jewel]

How has it been just designing the characters? I can tell a lot of work it put into them. And even with coming up with the mechanics.

[lapis cipher]

Any plans for general hero talent tree reworks? A ton of factions have heroes whos trees fill up entirely before 40, especially with the new level cap and free mounts it would be nice to be able to spend all the points.

[spiral iris]

Mitch: Off the top of my head I think it's 75% bigger than Realms of Choas, and 92% bigger than Mortal Empires. So it's hugeee. These stats aren't perfect as not every tile is walkable on any map, but it's not far off and gives you a rough idea. This map is an absolute unit.

[astral condor]

Will older legendary lords have voice lines regarding the new factions and regions? While I understand it can be hard to get all the old VAs back, it would be great for connectivity between the games.

[spiral iris]

Mitch: Impossible to pick anything other than Tomb Kings really, they're definitely my DLC baby, to be honest, my first project where I really got to design not just a lord pack which we'd done a lot of before but a full brand new race and to get to decide how they'd play and fit into the game was a really special experience. Then to have it released and for it to be as successful as it was both critically and commercially was a big pat on the back for me and so it'll always hold a special place as my fondest project to have worked on.

[spiral iris]

Mitch: Lots of ideas at the moment floating around for this. Naturally, the introduction of minor settlements reduced the open field land battle count to beyond where we're happy (and I think players feel the same). So we're exploring different solutions to this at the moment and should have something in one of our coming patches (no exact date or patch decided yet).

[hearty valley]

Hi @spiral iris, about the empty spaces of the Immortal Empires map, ofc you can't tell if Kuresh, Ind etc will come as you might not even know, but can you tell if you plan to at least make these areas playable at some point even if Kuresh & co never make it? It would be awesome to have these areas playable with new provinces.

[clever tide]

Please, do you know fans love goblins with sword and shield and night battles for vampires in promos? Can we have them in game? Would be more quality of life for these races

[feral wolf]

Will the hero versions of Vlad and Isabella have defeat traits?

[narrow wadi]

For content involving Chaos, how do you guys decide which demon/mortal Legendary Lords will get added in the future since there are so many named chaos characters?

[keen knoll]

Will be another improvement of autoresolve? It is still not as comforting as WH2 and in WH3 you can be tired of the game quickly because you need to fight every battle manually on harder difficulties.

[spiral iris]

Mitch: This one has been asked a lot so I'll just say here that I cover this question specifically in the Q&A video coming soon.

[smoky pendant]

Why was Belegar move so close from his ME start ? Is his new start the province capital ?

[spiral iris]

Mitch: This is a really cool question, I don't want to take away from everyone on the team who've been the ones actually making these changes so I'll hijack your question to explain how our process has worked with these because everyone did an amazing job I think. Naturally to start with everyone already had a location, so the question we asked ourselves was where could we add variety to the start positions of a race and which parts of the world needed some additions. We broke down the world into distinct chunks we called theatres, and then we decided who were the main factions in each theatre, and if we needed more variety we pulled from other theatres with an overabundance and then of course on top of all of that there were some no brainer moves too, Tretch was always moving to Crookback Mountain, that didn't need much thought. So overall we went through every part of the map and tried to design a unique experience for different parts of the world, and along the way, many moves were made! Looking forward to everyone's feedback on these in the Beta as well, as they are one of the biggest areas of change in Immortal Empires.

[brisk trout]

How is your day?

[nocturne bronze]

Hi @spiral iris , will we ever see a new legendary lord among the Tomb Kings in DLC ? That it is unique if so ?

[kind stratus]

Can we please get rid of captals who only go to tier 3. Playing kieslev in main campaign it was total bore.
Also how are dwarfs suppise to deal with 2 capture points on defending with 25 spd?

[hard steppe]

Are there any plans to revisit Oxyotl's campaign mechanics in Immortal Empires? His campaign of basically playing XCOM Total War is insanely unique and has such huge potential, but seems to be hampered by a few issues. I'd love to see some tweaks like changes to penalties for ignoring missions and a difficulty rebalance for the missions

[peak tapir]

Are there any plans to include changing your capital province?

[spiral iris]

Mitch: You've all seen in the past we are quite partial to extending the map, developing new areas, and reworking old ones. We did a lot of this for WARHAMMER II, and there issss some space left on the Immortal Empires map in places...

[spiral iris]

Mitch: Over time this will come, there is a huge amount of skill trees in the games, like an absolutely insane amount, so have we reworked everyone for Immortal Empires, definitely not, but this is something that will be worked on in patches and future updates going forward to bring what is essentially over half a decade of content up to speed. We've done some work in quite a few skill trees for sure, and tackled some particularly bad ones, but the volume of content just means it's going to be one to fix over time.

[lavish cairn]

Hey there ! What's your current stance on WH2 "Final" battles ? Will the battle of Tor Yvresse be playable to some extent in IE ? As a quest battle or something ?

[misty matrix]

It won't happen on release, but will you make the River Ruin and River Amaxon navigable to Black Arks and armies in the future? They're supposed to be as massive as the Reik

[restive jasper]

Will the AI ​​finally be able to attack enemy ports with these black arches?

[spiral iris]

Mitch: We don't have any plans to revisit the Coatl animations right now, we are looking at ways to fix some of its issues, however, such as it falling from walls. More on that in the future.

[spiral iris]

Mitch: This is a good reminder to call out something really cool. One of our designers managed to spot some duplicated data in our pack files, and so once your game updates with Immortal Empires the overall build size should actually shrink by about 10GB!

[devout jungle]

I was wondering whether you will work on introducing more "interesting" skills to regular heroes, something like the last dwarf updates with thanes providing army buffs and engineers doing so as well?

[sturdy field]

What is your take on expansion of southern chaos wastes further into south and eventual addition of similar to sea lanes mechanic which would allow us to teleport from southern chaos wastes to northern and vice versa? Something to simulate chaos polar gates? I think it would be an awesome addition which would help (not only) our pigeon boy to be present on both parts of the map more easily

[spiral iris]

Mitch: This is definitely valid feedback. We have people on the team who are now in part dedicated to auto-resolve work going forward, so I would say bare with us while we get to grips with this, AR is one of the most complex areas of the game by far to get "right", and it also suffers from being a part of the game where an increase in content is not a linearly increasing complexity curve. Imagine trying to ensure the AR is working for every possible variation of units for all races against all others... we're talking probably trillions of permutations, so to have there not be issues here is impossible, but we're trying to tackle this topic constantly and it's ever improving.

[spiral iris]

Mitch: So we have lost the ability to gain Isabella's defeat trait, as when Sylvania is AI controller Vlad becomes the leader, which leaves Isabella as the legendary hero. This is actually a surprisingly hot topic here at CA. 😛 Some designers really don't like her trait, others do, so you as the players can let us know on this as we're likely to be swayed one way or the other based on feedback I think.

[stark talon]

Why did you want to add leadership to the Ogre veteran unit redline in 1.3 when you removed it from everyone else the same patch?

[woeful acorn]

Anything planned for wood elves? New DLC or FLC or Full Athel Loren?

[nova grove]

Now that most of the Warhammer World has been modeled, what is your favorite continent/region to have brought to life?

[void sun]

Sort of a 2-in-1 question, but I'd consider it as 1 question: How long are you planning on supporting the game? Alternatively, how far ahead have you already planned content-wise?

[weary canopy]

Any chance that Da Krimson Killaz will get a movement speed buff so that they're faster than regular black orcs, ya know, cuz da red ones go fasta?

[digital sage]

Would it be possible to update waaagh reinforcements to arrive at the same time as the main army, as the former is mainly chaff and should be up front

[sweet nymph]

loving the outpost mechanic on WH3, one of my favourite things actually, i have notied that when u got garrison building more than likely the outpost troops just wont make it to top 20 defenders, would there be posibility to represent that by giving outpost capitals increase in defenders, say 20 (if you have) + what you get from outpost
minor thing but outposts are dope 👌

[spiral iris]

Mitch: Our philosophy has always been to make sure we provide a variety of experiences for different players who want different things, some of our campaigns are hard, some are easy, and of course, you have the difficulty settings as well. What we want to get away from is where we trivialize things too much, Taurox definitely falls into this category at the moment, I think that campaign lacks a bit of challenge for sure and we've gone too far, so expect both him (and Skarbrand to name another) to be brought a bit more in line for Immortal Empires and as time goes on. I will say on this topic however that a large portion of our player base are people who really enjoy the power fantasy that Total War provides, and we're aware of that, sometimes it's just fun to wreck your opponents after a hard day at work, right? BUT what I think we need to aim for is to make sure this doesn't come too early in the campaign primarily, and that you need to go out to achieve that power, not just have it handed to you.

[severe hawk]

Any chance trade routes can be made visible and raided for extra money from raiding those spots on the campaign map, your enemies trade routes that is, seeing as trade has been made easier somewhat in WH3 and not needing a direct ocean route?

[abstract mica]

A few factions such as the Vampire Counts have quite a substantial amount of characters left. Can we expect to get at least one Legendary Lord for each Bloodline at some point and is the new DLC format a step into that direction?

[visual wharf]

Will there be any flc legendary lords (besides belakor) this year?

[merry aspen]

Will the voice acting of units be updated so units of older factions can refer to newer factions like Dwarf units having dialogue/banter when fighting Elves and Skaven for example? could they be updated with a theoretical lord pack given there's quite alot going on for Immortal Empires?

Will Karl Franz get something to represent the "Greatest Statesmen of the Old World" the army books seem to call him? As the game seemed to miss that part of him

[spiral iris]

Mitch: I think a lot of people don't do enough zooming in on the campaign map, our artists put a lot of effort into really tiny details on the map, and if you zoom in to particular areas you see lots of little things you might never have noticed. All of our quest battles have bespoke art made for the area they take place in on the world that relates to the battle map or the story of the quest, so those are always cool to see. I think my favourite area of the map has always been Athel Loren, going into that god damned place is always horrible, and I love that it feels and looks like a mini-Vietnam with tight tree corridors, the gameplay, and the artwork together on that.

[halcyon swallow]

I think the sword of khaine mechanic is kind of special as it does not only offer something for the corresponding factions but also for everyone else, as it can be stolen and used by other legendary lords aswell. Looking back, I wonder what are your thoughts on the sok-mechanic in the game and any chance to see similiar things added in game three?

[hard breach]

Can we expect more content for Game 1 races in the future? Maybe a DLC or two for Bretonnia and the Empire?

[warm ice]

Are there game mechanics you want to alter but haven't found a fun way for the player to interact with them? If so can you give us exemple?

[frigid mist]

Can we get a hint wich races will get a new lord from the upcoming DLC? :)

[spiral iris]

Mitch: Maybe, I definitely don't see why not. At one point we were considering making Greenskins go faster through the red sea lane. We didn't, but it does make sense.

[spiral iris]

Mitch: They are definitely traversable, I think they just look a bit odd on the map because they are islands. There are 3 regions in the Colonies, all held by High Elves. There's also a sea lane nearby for access to the Cathay coast.

[supple gorge]

Are there any plans to rework major settlement battles before the launch of IE? The current 2 point system makes defending them much harder than minor settlement battles which only require 1 point to defend.

[edgy fern]

How will team consider big named characters someone like Thanquol and Nagash ? Will they get solo big dlc or will they be treated as rest -- that means with Lord Pack ?

[proper oasis]

Is there a chance that in the future we will have some of the old faction getting unique music? at the moment Bretonnia, Dwarfs, Empire and Wood Elves are the only races that don't get their unique thematic score.

[graceful rune]

How are turn times compared to RoC or ME?

[tropic shore]

We were told that it wasn't possible to actually increase the size of the map in WH2. Is it possible now to increase the size of the RoC map dimensions, for example?

[toxic veldt]

Did y'all see someone sent Kremlo back to space on an actual satellite? Any plans to revisit Skeggi in the near future?

[spiral iris]

Mitch: This is a really interesting question. We call these global features, and not only do we really like making them, but our assessment is also that these types of features are received really well and are a really good bang for the buck. I guess the question actually is why haven't we done more? And to be honest, I'm not sure, I think in part because the ideas for these features are generally harder to come by, its harder to make a system that works for every race, especially given the difference between races and their mechanics, than it is to make something bespoke for one race like most of our feature are. We're also usually developing something new with the idea that its part of a DLC, so naturally, we use it for whatever that new content is. I think we'd like to do more things like this, I think players want it, we just have to find the right ideas and get them into content packs that make sense.

[topaz pebble]

Beyond the upcoming WoC re-work, who do you think is probably the most in immediate need of a tuning pass - and yes Tomb Kings is the answer I'm looking for 😉

[spiral iris]

Mitch: Obviously I can't go and announce future DLC plans in a Discord Q&A. But what I will say is that when we went back and did DLC for older races in WARHAMMER II we definitely took note of how much you enjoyed us doing that, and also enjoyed us mixing up DLC's for different races of different games in the same pack. It was all noted! Other than that you'll have to wait and see what our future plans are!

[deft mirage]

could we see more death effects with the upcoming blood pack like uh

people burning or
going kzzzghk
etc

vomiting when they smell nurgle fans?

[untold fjord]

If you could turn any LL into a plushie, who would it be?

[thin geyser]

Hey! I was wandering if you could share some more information on Boris? He was this amazing suprise for Realms of Chaos, but what does this mean for IME? Will he join the confederation race? Or does he have his own mechanic?

In the narrative of him being revived it made sense for him being a “bystander”. In IME this might not be the case! Hoping to hear about the Bear man himself 🤞🏼.

[indigo vessel]

Hi!
How will IE be activated/added - via Steam/Epic/etc as FLC or through TW Access?
Thank you!

[low saddle]

Hey everyone! Im wondering if you plans with Cathay will include more fantastical elements or strictly stay along more Empire “man v monster” style?

[ripe root]

Could you tell us more about the Old World Updates?
Apart from new animations and upgraded models, will we receive completely new units for WoC(Not talking about marked units, complete new units)?

[spiral iris]

Ok, so long story here that I'll try to keep short. When we made Repanse, we needed a name for her mount. The main designer working on Repanse at that time was our designer Allan Suleman. Allan is great, I love Allan, so I said "Let's name her mount after you Allan, we'll call the mount Suleman." Ultimately we did as you probably know from it being ingame, anyway, a while later Allan's partner orders him a gift for his birthday, what's the gift? A plushie of Repanse, with, of course, her mount Suleman.

[vital parrot]

Are the rivers of Cathay sailable? This would really improve lokhir's gameplay.

[vague lance]

Any plans to let us move the capital of the realm to a new location for fluff stuff?

[eternal violet]

Would you consider reviewing maps made by fans in the future so they could officially be added to the game?

[sweet tangle]

Love your work and huge fan of the dlc just two questions:

1.Do you consider another rework of the sieges? Like no real time building of towers, no magical ladders, hot oil for the gates and more unique towers like flame thrower towers for the Dawi.

2. I know that most formations could be hard to implement. But loose formation for disciplined units seems like thing that could be done right? It would have so many uses!

[mystic ruin]

With the amount of new places to go and the absurd amount of legendary lords, will you guys take another look at the climate mechanic or are you pleased with how it is now? I've been worrying that taking the entire map, which already takes long, will be hindered a whole lot more because of the amount of settlements that won't be inhabitable to your faction.

[true lodge]

I know confederation mechanic liked by many, but still, some of us hate it.
Is there a way, that it could be more of as an option? Like with bretonnia half of your techtree is about confederation. Empire is also about confederation and obviously norsca greenskins too.
I do use "no confederation" mod, but its not optimal because of techtrees and some missions.

[dapper marten]

Have you any plan to put a Land Line in the top North West of Naggaroth to connect with top North East of Cathay? 🙂

[celest notch]

Is Eltharion always starting in Badlands or only when you play as him? Also will Boris exist on the map if you dont play as him?

[ashen lotus]

First of all greetings. :)) We know that Gotrek & Felix are in the game. Will they be added into the third game? What will their role look like in the third game? Will their mechanics will be changed?

[shrewd tide]

Regen was one of the more fun traits from lords. Vlad trait feels meh don´t care if you get it or not kind of

[chilly stone]

When black chaos armor?

[runic monolith]

Will there be Demon princesses?
Belakor's mechanic in immortal empire allows him to corrupt human lords and turn them into demon princes so the question is will damsels, shogengan lords, and Ice witches, become demon princesses, demon princes, or not be able to be corrupted?

[strange stump]

Good afternoon DLC: Will we have to paint units like in Shogun 2 multiplayer or create variants with different equipment, weapons and colors or patterns (Faction Army Customization)?

[trim gate]

After the 4 champions, are the earlier game 3 DLC going to follow a similar pattern to game 2, focusing on the main factions, or do you plan to jump straight to cross-game?

[next plinth]

whether the undivided demons or the belakor demons will be available for the belakora faction

[jaunty zealot]

If you're making a mechanic to have Belakor corrupt heroes and lords and turn them to his faction, are you also considering other factions with mind-bending abilities to corrupt similar units? Main ones coming to mind being Vampires and Drycha.

[glossy turret]

Dear Mitch Heastie,

What a wonderfull journey isn't it? I hope you are doing well!
I would like to ask you a question of much importants and I would like to criticize you too.. just a tiny little bit of a byte.

Critic:
Blood Pack DLC. 🩸 Many folks gone crazy with it. Many won't understand why the Blood is always seperated. Before Total War: Warhammer 1 released I had red a question about this topic on CAs facebook. It was about why you seperate and the answer was just like "If we release it in the base game at the same time the age restriction would be higher.". In my opinion you should communicate it once more in a better way than just an answer of a question under one of your topics. (Nvm if I'm totally wrong but I am pretty sure this happened!)

Question:
Andy Hall said something like "We would like to do everything just give us the time!"
If you are thinking about to milk us.. do you know that there are PLENTY of us just like me or Loremaster of Sotek or The Great Book of Grudges which would just LOVE it even more because we just wanna get milked as hard as possible cuz its WAAAGHHHrhammer!
With that in mind do you think you would probably sell a giant fabric Warhammer map after you have finished the map in his final size? (I red something about plushies LL.... WE NEED DAT!!! )

Thank you so much for all the work you have done and are going to. After you revealed us 2-8 coop I immediately bought the whole TW:W1+DLCs, TW:W2+DLCs & TW:W3 for a friend of me just so we can play as three!
I really love to support you as long as you keep doing TW:W stuff and I just ensure you. If you will sell a final giant Collectors (Count) Edition I would pay 1000€!
I am still waiting for Nagash's ☠️ rise with DLC since Warhammer 1 release and its been long but I try to keep my hope!

Thank you for being! ❤️

[oak nimbus]

Any news on DLSS/FSR? Also will you improve high elf dragons? Abs high elf mages? Animation wise for both and otherwise for dragons 😅

[fallow lily]

Do you consider what units or characters modders have already implemented when deciding what to include in DLC? For instance, to me it seems like as time has gone on, there’s going to be more named characters who could be interesting LL but not enough units left in their rosters to justify a lord pack for their race, so modders will release a bunch of Legendary Lords for various races, leading to the obvious conflict of CA wanting to pick an FLC or DLC lord who is typically going to have been already implemented. What I’m essentially asking is if there’s any considerations for what mods have already done

[severe dirge]

Will Vlad and Isabella’s subfaction have an enhanced levy system? I was thinking of something similar to Arkham the black’s Vampire Count unit building. I believe one of the earlier editions of Warhammer fantasy had a roster for the Sylvanian levies

[formal torrent]

Will the snakemen of Khuresh (Hinterlands of Khuresh faction) be added at some point into total war warhammer 3 as a dlc playable faction? There is already a fan project going on in where they have created and drawn highly detailed concept art of all the various units for the Hinterlands of Khuresh faction, and so I am curious if it will be looked at or possibly even implemented into the game at some point?

[nocturne bronze]

Troglagobs (sea-goblins) when?

[elfin cliff]

Will the Rogue Idol every get the unit attribute of Construct in the future so it crumbles instead of routs? Also, what type of modding tools are coming with the total war assembly kit that modders don't have now?

[royal granite]

Will multiplayer immortal empires (if the host has all three games) allow for players that dot own all three to choose base game lords from all games?

[vivid merlin]

Will the Total War Warhammer franchise eventually get naval battles?

[fiery scroll]

Will the books of Nagash behave more like the sword of Khaine in game 3 where they can be taken from you? Manfred would probably want to take the books from Volkmar in multiplayer campaigns if two players play as those factions.

[quasi jay]

Hello, has your team ever considered doing voice pack style DLC's? EDIT: To address the emotes, I want some "SKARBRAND HATEs" voice lines dangit.

[dire cairn]

Taking away the regen is a pretty big deal. I would be fine if the trait would return on someone equally powerful like a Nagash.

[dense lava]

I have a question. About the 4 Legendary Lords DLC model. If it is going to be successful, are we going to get more of those? And if those are going to be also race-packs, then will it be two LLs from one race vs two from another? That would work great for the Dwarfs since they still have a lot of stuff from both tabletop and other Warhammer media.

[digital sand]

is there any chance settra will get the scarab brooch of usirian in the future?

[keen trench]

will Anything be done to balance trade in the future so we can't trade through enemy territory?

[hallow hazel]

Shouldn't there be an official end to the event for today?

[dark jay]

Will Arkhan get acess to the lore of vampires?

[clever tide]

Each bloodline of vampire should have at least two LL and different animations and each bloodline should have a LP with 4 or 5 new units with worthy mechanics and animations/graphics. Also night battles be a thing. I also want swarms of spirits/spirit hosts, release a golden era for vampires soon please. Any plan to do this?

[next tangle]

For the Far East, are you working with GW to create lore for factions (that previously had little lore) that you plan to add as they are worked on?

[nocturne bronze]

Will there be dlc plans for older factions game one and two

[raw ledge]

Was it the butler... in the library... with the candlestick?

[nocturne bronze]

What are the team's thoughts on pre-campaign Crusader Kings 3 style Game Rules toggles to adjust certain faction attributes for a more sandbox-y game than Total War already is at the moment? (i.e. buff Tretch, nerf Grimgor, randomized lord start locations, no alliances allowed FFA, make x faction more/less aggressive, increase corruption spread speed, etc)

Not an exhaustive list of course but just some rapid fire thoughts.

I imagine it would function similarly to the Skaven Laboratory in WH2 and would include some of those same unit modifiers. The sky is the limit with what values are toggleable and what values shouldn't be changed for game stability and engine limitations. That might be a neat thread to explore for more custom campaigns and for campaign replayability.

[visual wharf]

Will Cathay be able to send caravans to exotic locations like ind and khuresh

[verbal field]

Does being FLC affect Bretonnia's ability/chances of getting a full DLC? I would really love an official comment on this specific topic.

[nova grove]

Would the team be open to the idea of more player inserted characters/customization like the Deamon Prince for other races?

[nocturne bronze]

After the future additions of races DLC, The Plain of Zharr become a unique province with a new climate, particular constructions for example etc... Or no ?

[signal plume]

Are there any plans of tweaking the climate system?

[valid quail]

Hey Mitch. I for one really love Isabella’s regen trait and would miss it if it were gone. Could maybe the two traits become merged and given to both, so no matter who is leading at that moment you still get the effects. Something akin to a “undying devotion” feel, cementing their love in the players mind. It would also echo the lore that they refuse to live without one another. Also I’d love to get some more diplomatic lines for her as her voice actress is perfection.

[elfin cliff]

Any cool new mechanics for Kholek Suneater that you can share, and also any changes to his skill tree or faction that makes him a little stronger?

[molten escarp]

Will there be a rework of Victory conditions to be more sensible? Like not having to go Capital hunting would be a welcome change. Or maybe for a raider faction having a large amount of treasury, wiping out certain factions would be great.

[bleak ocean]

When will Cathay Confederations be fixed?

Currently it's near impossible to confed the other Legendary Lord in any Campaign without significant cheesing of the game with money.

The -130 relations at the beginning is ridiculous, -100 would be far more fitting and help a lot.

[nocturne bronze]

I just want to jump in and say that having only level 3+ settlements become minor settlement battles seems like an easy way to fix this, it would make a bit more sense too as the settlements on the battle maps are fairly well developed

[vernal pollen]

I have a question, please bear with me if i'm doing something incorrect, i'm new to this Discord channel 🙂

Could you please make it so that the AI doesn't always have Vlad as the LL and Isabella as the LH? I always loved Isabella as LL and am saddened to see I won't be ever seeing her as such again unless I play her myself 😦 There are several options: 1) The AI gets both Vlad and Isabella as LL's, or 2) the AI starts randomly with Vlad or Isabella as LL and the other as the hero, or 3) we get a game setting (option before starting a campaign) with which we can choose who leads their faction as LL when controlled by AI. The third option should please everyone who prefers one or the other as LL.

Thank you for the read, and hopefully giving it at least some thought! ❤️

[spiral iris]

Sorry gang, the RPI finishes at the end of the day which is roughly 17.30 BST time but I keep this up so people can see the responses. Thank you to everyone who joined in and hopefully any questions you did have got answered. Never fear, however, there will always be another time to get these answered! 🙂 something tells me it's sooner than you might think 😉
Join me next week for another Rally Point Interview!

[valid quail]

I knew it was too familiar! i guess "Undying Devotion" is way to close to "Undying love" their lord traits... how about "Eternally Enamored"?

[cedar mortar]

Was Araby put off the table in WH2 because of lack of resources, lack of time, or because they were needing a lore rework due to being too offensive similar to the (many degrees more horrible) Pygmies of the 80s? Perhaps a combination of all 3 factors.

Of course I do want to see them one day in WH3, but I understand they had to be done properly or not done at all. I'm curious as to the reasoning you had back in WH2, given their central position on the Vortex/ME map.

[ember crown]

First of all, thank you for your work. How different is the design process between fantasy and historical?

[raven niche]

i have a question, why is blood dlc taking so long to make? Can we expect something more from it like burning and sync kills for infantry? Maybe dismemberment for big monsters like dragons?

[woeful moth]

Have you planned some uptades on the faction that lack originality and content?