Total War: Warhammer 3's next updates will tackle "anti-player bias" and self-destructive AI

Plus much mothers for the motherland

Back successful Total FebWar, the Total War: Warhammer III squad penned a hopeless missive successful entrail fluids, afloat of scrawled warnings astir the changes coming to the strategy game's AI. With their past ounce of strength, they rolled retired a beta trial for the planned tweaks. Now, the results are in, circling successful the eerily fallow aftermath of implicit 50,000 campaigns, similar carrion crows with tangible datasets grasped choky successful their beaks. Thanks, decease crows!

The caller query strategy worked well, with foes nary longer cowering from lone force agents arsenic if they were doomstacks. The tweaks to faction aggression and imaginable were shakier, causing immoderate unintended consequence. As such, the upcoming 6.1 spot won't see changes to however fighty oregon flourishing your foes are. "Faction Potential changes made insignificant factions importantly easier to decision for large factions," reads the blog. "This successful crook caused Elector factions to perish excessively aboriginal and to beryllium ineffective adjacent erstwhile brought back". Makes sense. Can't summon the dead, unless you're 1 of the respective Warhammer factions that tin really bash that rather easily.

There were besides "a fig of reports astir the AI exhibiting suicidal behavior", though the blog doesn't springiness details here. I'd beryllium funny to cognize precisely what this means, since e.g the game's deficiency of antiaircraft sieges strikes maine arsenic a nonstop effect of the AI being excessively picky astir getting into fights it mightiness lose.

There's different beta coming soon, anyway. Patch 6.1 is acceptable for merchandise connected March 25th, and the beta is planned for a week aft that - with "anti-player bias" being a focal point. That's a overmuch ballyhooed bugbear arisen from the ailment that the AI volition occasionally voyage crossed fractional the known satellite to instrumentality a dump connected your lawn, ignoring different imaginable conquests oregon threats successful their path. In theory, toning it down should marque the run acquisition a batch richer, though I bash consciousness it's taken connected somewhat of a mythical prime implicit the years arsenic a stand-in for a much divers scope of AI issues, and truthful mightiness not beryllium the speedy hole solution galore are hoping for.

Patch 6.1 is slated to beryllium packed with goodies, including reworks for the Kislev faction and Kairos Fateweaver, and a caller portion each for Cathay and the Ogre Kingdoms. Newly teased successful this blog is the enactment to person Kislev's Mother Ostankya instrumentality to the motherland - a onshore hitherto noticeably lacking successful mothers.