I've the slightest dose of hopium. Wouldn't be surprised if this was delayed to fall/winter though.
Yeah they've made Cathay and kislev retard-proof with the infantry buffs. Otherwise chaos warriors would rape the mouthdroolers using kossar/peasant stacks. I doubt this will change.
I really like Tzeentch but the way they work in WH3 is not great to be honest. And it's a slap in the face of people that they haven't rectified the missing third lord.
That's what CA is saying, if 3K is anything to go by that statement means nothing. There have been data leaks and speculations since there is quite a bit of stuff that they could add as lord packs, but we will see.
That is probably the most realistic outcome. With how massive the DLC sounds and even with the brutal delays of past DLC I don't think they can deliver a quality product until the end of August. But the can't just announce a delay since that would negatively affect public perception for the billionth time. Probably towards August we will get a blog or stream and the delay.
Still pissed they listened to the whiners on how muh Kislev and muh chinks required buffs when they're both just fine as they were (don't spam kossars only like a retard, mix with strelsi and tzar guards to bulk them up). If anything I thought the Kislev cavalry that weren't bears were weak as fuck even though they were supposedly a big part of their culture.
Data leaks also means nothing. People saw files for additional Amazonian units in Rome 2 and speculated that they'll probably add them as mercs in the new update. In the end none of them will be implemented and the "big" update for Rome 2 is just a glorified mod that'll break other mods.
Campaign and battle modifiers in TWW3 have been separate since launch, iirc. You can have AI with insane campaign modifiers and tons of army stacks but no buffs to their armies otherwise.
Sure those don't guarantee anything. But they can be a hint towards additional content that is being worked upon. Both Chaos Dwarfs and Neferata had data files and leaks years ago.
I have a suspicion that Cathay was intentionally made to be:
Of course in classic CA fashion the stat adjustments included them accidently buffing the Masque's vigour drain instead of nerfing it, and leaving their test build shadow walkers with 4 different contact effects in the launch version.
Well to be fair Game Workshop is also trying to push Warhammer in China so that will reflect on CA. That's Cathay in a nutshell.
Not that its is entirely applicable here but that sort of happens with Slay the Spire 2 as fas I am aware.
We are apparently back to balance changes that don't get split up for SP and MP so you know it's going to be shit again.
To be fair that is a good change, but they just should have rolled it out for everyone and then adjusted it for the End Times patch.
It did, they nerfed some card combos which were so brainlessly busted you'd basically get a free win and the Chinks seethed so hard that they started reviewbombing the game.
What do you mean by this, and why will it be shit?
Balance changes in the past were done universally in almost all cases. So for example if the Empire Steamtank got 10 extra armor that applied to the single player and multiplayer mode at the same time. But what kept happening was that the miniscule MP community would bitch and moan about their precious "balance", Creative Assembly would swing the nerf hammer down on everything fun. And I don't need to tell you that SP and MP are drastic different games. But the much larger SP crowd bitched back, and we started to see changes that were done for both game modes separately.
It does, thank you. But I'm also one of those multiplayer fags (there are six of us, actually, not just five!) so its not as big of a deal for me. It is good for a game to have universal balance imo, and campaign power fantasies should arise from lord, tech, and faction buffs, not flatly OP units.
Have to disagree with that because MP and SP are so different from each other that universal changes hurt both in the end.
That is mostly correct and just plainly OP units make for boring campaign play. But outright removing the possibility to build unique armies because individual traits etc. cause massive imbalances in MP is just lazy and silly. If people want to play MP that's good for them, but their demands shouldn't have an adverse effect on my fun. But CA is also partially to blame because they also nerf stuff without the influence from the MP scene since they fail to make the most out of the lord, tech, and faction buffs and react negatively to anything fun.
Fair enough. But if it makes you feel any better the MP community is very careful about advocating for nerfing a unit/mechanic too hard because they don't want to be blamed for CA totally killing something. They're still catching flak for the ancient salamander nerfs like 6 years later and dont want something like that to happen again. Plus there is constant disagreement between people who play Land Battles and people who play Domination mode about which units/factions deserve nerfs lol.