Final yr Complete Struggle: Warhammer 3 acquired two DLC add-ons. The beta of Immortal Empires was a free enlargement of expansive measurement, whereas Champions of Chaos was a paid enlargement with 4 legendary lords main Warriors of Chaos factions and a snappier marketing campaign. Followers have been rabidly awaiting information of extra, particularly after information miners discovered voice information suggesting Chaos Dwarfs had been on the best way.
In a video message posted to the Complete Struggle Twitter feed (opens in new tab), recreation director Wealthy Aldridge gave an replace on what’s deliberate for 2023 and why it is taken longer than deliberate.
“We knew that we would have liked to get Immortal Empires to you in the absolute best state,” Aldridge mentioned, “and that is the place we targeted all of our efforts final yr. Ensuring that we have got an ideal basis going ahead by Immortal Empires, but additionally in patching Warhammer 3 itself and getting it to the state we want it to be so as to add new content material and experiences later this yr and past.”
Although Aldridge did not make clear what these “new content material and experiences” shall be, he did affirm when the primary one is scheduled for launch. “We’ll be capable of share that with you come April,” he mentioned, describing it as a “ardour venture” that the crew needed to get “good” earlier than placing it out. As for the remainder of 2023, “We goal to ship two extra thrilling experiences additionally later this yr, so one in summer time and one within the winter.”
That’s, nonetheless, “not a concrete plan” and work may also proceed on patches all year long. “Lots of steps are wanted in making a DLC,” Aldridge mentioned, “and I am certain you are conscious of that. Beginning with the inventive spark, improvement, however a lot goes on behind the scenes. The whole lot that we have to get feeling and looking good earlier than we will showcase and launch it to you all.”
Gamers have been vocal concerning the absence of stories from Inventive Meeting relating to its DLC plans for Complete Struggle: Warhammer 3, and Aldridge addressed that. “We wish to be as concrete as potential however in doing so,” he mentioned, “we must be in that place earlier than we will talk it to you. We do not wish to disappoint, we wish to excite. We’re captivated with what we make and we wish to make nice content material so that you can take pleasure in for years to return, and we’re transferring as rapidly as we will on this, so please do bear with us even when it would not all the time look that manner at instances. I might actually respect that.”
The tone of commentary from followers on Reddit and different locations relating to Complete Struggle: Warhammer 3 and the dearth of DLC information has change into fairly hostile. Whereas this can go an extended solution to mollifying that, it could even be good if fandom cooled its jets one time as a substitute of hassling neighborhood managers as a result of gamers demand to be up to date each second of the day moderately than simply having a little bit persistence.
Anyway, whereas Chaos Dwarfs appear possible for one among these three add-ons, the opposite two are an open query. Lord packs including new leaders for Cathay, Kislev, and the Daemons of Chaos? Revamps of present factions from the primary video games, possibly updating the Vampire Counts so as to add Neferata and Nagash as legendary lords? New mercenaries based mostly on the tabletop Canines of Struggle military? No matter they grow to be, we will most likely neglect about Ind, Nippon, and Khuresh.