Total War Warhammer continues to march out their free and paid DLC. With today's latest update, players will see the new Beastmen race, new multiplayer maps and a new hero, along with the usual array of balancing and bug fixes.

The Call of the Beastmen DLC pack offers the Beastmen as playable in multiplayer if you have the season pass or want to drop $18.99 on Steam. But as part of the developer Creative Assembly's ongoing free-LC releases, Update 2 still offers the Beastmen in the Grand Campaign as AI controlled opponents. Also free are four new multiplayer maps, and the Empire Amber Wizard as a hero. 

In addition, here are the latest patch and update notes for the game:

Factions

Chaos Warriors

• Sigvald will no longer bleed when the Blood Effects are enabled
• When Chaos Warriors respawn, they now correctly respawn in a state of war against with the same factions as their vassals
• The Chaos Invasion and Doom Tides events can now no longer occur on the same turn, which previously prevented Archaon from entering play
• The Chaos Invasion event will now not be shown repeatedly
• When AI-controlled Chaos Invasion event occurs, Norscan factions will no longer war among themselves
• Script alteration to ensure Chaos Invasion event doesn't happen too late or not at all
• Azazel The Despoiler now displays correctly in the Chaos Tomb Blade quest UI
• Subjugation now correctly contributes to Sigvald The Magnificent's unlock requirements
• Fixed an issue where seams were showing on Chaos Spawn
• Chaos Spawn claw animations improved

Greenskins

• When Azhag dons the Crown Of Sorcery, it cannot be removed!
• Orc Boar Boy Big 'Uns Unit Info now displays Anti-Large since dey 'av bigga choppas than da boyz
• Savage Orcs now use more torso variants
• Unit transfer fightiness bonus is now applied more consistently
• Greenskins Shaman's Hovel building now correctly affects recruitment slots
• Fixed a bug where fightiness wouldn't always increase after a victory
• Army size for Waaagh armies will now display correctly in the Campaign forces panel

Dwarfs

• Fixed an issue where the Organ Gun would have to turn 360 degrees before moving
• Dwarfs now consistently raise shields to protect from incoming projectiles
• Gold Sickness trait now restricted to Dwarfs only
• Ironbreaker's blasting charges now no longer move to model's other hand when in idle pose
• Ungrim Ironfist's armour piercing bonus from his Dragon Slayer ability will no longer clip into the Weapon strength text on the Unit Details panel
• Steam from Gyrocopters will no longer change colour during Subterranean Battles

Vampire Counts

• Blood Knights and Black Coach added to Raise Dead pool
• Improvements made to tooltip text explaining Raise Dead feature in the Campaign
• Rival Necromancer event now restricted to Vampire Counts
• Blood Knights no longer clip through their mounts
• Fixed an issue where seams were showing on Zombie units on low graphic settings
• Fixed a bug where Mannfred was not given Unique Items after winning Quest Battles
• Fixed a bug where the Necromancers leg would clip through his tunic during his death animation in battle

Empire

• Fixed a bug where the Luminark of Hysh would take 3x the amount of damage as each entity on the model was taking damage from the same source
• Empire halberd thrusting animations realigned

Battle

General

• Fixed a bug where enemy units would remain hidden until around 10m away
• Fixed an issue that prevented cumulative resistance caps applying, enabling some units to become immune to damage
• Limited use items will now display the remaining duration whilst active in Battles
• Updated the rallying Battle mechanic to require units to have more than 0 Leadership before they are able to rally
• Fixed an exploit that would allow the player to use ranged attacks without expending any ammunition in Battles
• Unit card health indicators will now display correctly when fighting battles with a very large amount of units
• Fixed an issue where unit cards were not being deselected if the player moves the mouse off of them whilst the unit is taking damage
• Fixed a bug where explosion damage was not being applied to all entities
• Camera mode now uses standard camera setting when loading in to campaign quest battles
• Default deployment zone sizes adjusted for custom battles
• Defenders in Ambush Battles will no longer briefly see the terrain and enemy army before the screen blacks out
• Improved Battle AI behaviour when the entire opposed army consists of a single Lord

UI

• UI scaling slider now available in options to support high-resolution (e.g. 4K) displays
• Units with magical or flaming ranged attacks (such as Irondrakes or Flame Cannons) will now have this property displayed on their Unit Info panel
• Battle tooltips will no longer flicker when refreshing abilities are being applied, for example Chaos Warhound's Poison! debuff
• Pressing the ESC key whilst in Cinematic mode will now exit Cinematic mode
• Updated the UI when spectating/watching a replay to no longer display unnecessary UI elements
• Unit markers in battle (e.g. when dragging formations) are now visible on top of passable shallow water
• Improved text for objectives during several Quest Battles

Abilities/Spells

• Spell casters in Siege Battles will no longer attempt to use projectile spells on units if their line of sight is blocked by walls or gates
• Changed Direct Damage spell damage-chance to factor in duration and frequency
• Fixed an exploit in Battles that allowed the player to cast multiple magic missile spells without having enough available mana
• Spell miscast chance now working accurately
• Improved some of the targeting visualisation / effects for unit abilities in battle
• Improved targeting UI for several spells
• Rebalanced several upgraded spells that could potentially kill Lords in one or two casts
• Blasting Charge VFX will no longer float in mid-air when attacking Giants with them
• Upgraded Soulblight now has the increased effect duration applied
• Standard variant of Wind Blast spell will no longer do more damage than the upgraded variant
• Tweaked effects of upgraded version of Transmutation of Lead

Maps

• Updated Burial Mound of Grudsnik map to fix an issue with inaccessible terrain.
• Collision areas cleaned on Karak Ungor
• Snow effects will now play at the maximum camera height on snowy battlefields.
• Stretched textures fixed on Crooked Fang Fort
• In the quest battle 'Armour of Morkar' terrain in outfield now longer has a slight gap
• Improved the height map on several maps to fix rare terrain issues, e.g. Mount Gunbad

Siege

• Some characters and units now have a 'Siege Attacker' trait. Armies containing such characters and units may attack a city immediately without building siege equipment. The following all bear this trait:
• Kholek Suneater
• Lord of Change
• Dragon Ogre Shaggoth
• Gorebull
• Cygor
• Minotaurs (all variants)
• Bretonnian Field Trebuchet
• Hellcannon
• Giants (all variants)
• Cannon
• Flame Cannon
• Grudge Thrower
• Organ Gun
• Great Cannon
• Helblaster Volley gun
• Helstorm Rocket Battery
• Mortar
• Luminark of Hysh
• Steam Tank
• Doom Diver Catapult
• Goblin Rock Lobber
• Arachnarok Spider
• Varghulf
• Fixed a bug where a unit carrying a battering ram would stop for a long time before engaging the gate 
• Improvements to sieging AI army with artillery heavy composition
• Units that allow the armies to start a Siege Battle during Campaign without siege equipment now have the 'Siege Attacker' unit ability
• Siege battles at Dietershafen will no longer display 'The Threat from the North' on the pre-battle loading screen.
• Siege equipment now has camera collision across all factions
• Lords now no longer occasionally fall through the ladder and die after climbing to the top of it
• Fixed a bug where Vanguard units who started a battle mounted in siege equipment lost their Vanguard UI icon
• Fixed a rare issue that could cause garrison armies to not appear during Siege Battles
• Fixed an issue that would cause garrisons to appear as reinforcements during Siege or sally out Battles

Campaign

General

• Diplomacy statistics now update correctly upon faction death and re-emergence
• 'Hinder Settlement' objectives now abort correctly when the target settlement has been razed
• Capturing cities of your race type containing prebuilt buildings which unlock legendary lords for recruitment now enables their recruitment
• Fixed an issue that would cause the Autoresolver to always treat the player as the attacker in Battles, even if they are the defender
• Attitudes between factions will now be displayed correctly on the Campaign Tactical Overview map when using the Attitude filter
• Reinforcements in The Eye of Sheerian Quest Battle will no longer appear immediately after starting the battle
• Fixed an issue where turns until population surplus would calculate incorrectly if growth is negative
• Fixed an issue that would cause rebellions to not trigger despite the player having enough negative public order to reach -100 on the next turn
• Horde factions that have been wiped out now have a cooldown period before they can respawn
• Fixed a bug where a garrisoned Greenskin army could be incorrectly selected and moved
• Achievement 'Jack of All Trades, Master of Some' now triggers correctly
• Confederation cooldown period now prevents Confederation effectively

UI

• Loading screens will now correctly display if the player launches the game via the Continue Campaign button on the Launcher
• Fixed an issue where overlapping settlement and army banners would cause the settlement names to appear incorrectly
• Fixed tooltip incorrectly stating building is damaged
• 'XP Gained' messages should no longer appear for max-level characters
• Recruit hero tooltips now explain which building can be built to increase hero capacity
• User no longer gets the blood UI layout for the blood events even when he has the blood effects deactivated
• War coordination system will now deselect correctly if the player opens up another panel whilst choosing a target
• Raze Settlement UI now displays correctly
• Ruined settlements are now named correctly in event panels which reference them
• Fixed an issue with flickering icons for embedded Heroes when panning the camera on the Campaign map
• Fixed a bug which occasionally caused the stance button / UI icon to disappear on the campaign map when transitioning from sea to land
• Settlement nameplates will now display correctly on the campaign map when using Eyefinity
• Fixed an issue with overlapping post-Battle UI popups when attacking Chaos

AI

• Improved the Campaign AI to make it less inclined to send armies an extremely long distance away to attack hostile hordes.
• Fixed bug where rebels would successfully attack a settlement and neither capture nor raze it

Multiplayer

Campaign

• Difficulty setting can no longer be changed during the lobby when resuming a Multiplayer Campaign from a save
• Fixed a bug where players would be unable to load Multiplayer Campaign saves if both players were in different languages
• Fixed a crash that could occur in Multiplayer Campaign if a player assassinates a character whilst the other player has that character's details panel open
• Fixed a Multiplayer Campaign battle issue where the player would not have control of units summoned by spells if another player was spectating the battle
• Fixed a rare desync that could occur during replays from Multiplayer Campaign Battles
• Fixed a softlock in cooperative Multiplayer Campaigns where one player could declare war on another other player's Waaagh armies
• Fixed an issue in MP campaign where the share control option appears as white square
• Fixed an issue that allowed players to play as AI during a co-op Multiplayer Campaign
• Pre-battle screens during Multiplayer Campaigns will now correctly display a timer if an army is attacked multiple times in the same turn

Battle

• Unit abilities, spells and items can now be added/subtracted for lords and heroes in custom and multiplayer battles. This allows the player to experience more expansive key characters for high micro-management, skew their role in battle by selecting certain complimentary actives/passives or create more lean characters with low micro-management for alternative army-wide tactics.
• Each character has a base cost, which includes inherent attributes, but not abilities, spell and items.
• When an ability, spell or item is added, the cost of the character increases
• There is a slight decay in cost of abilities when added, taking into account that the player can only cast/interact with one ability at a time.
• Legendary lords are given relevant quest battle reward items, allowing the player to experience a taste of what can be won in their campaign play-through.
• Magical characters are given a selection of single-use scrolls and non-magical characters a selection of single-use potions.
• Multiplayer Quick Battle lobby will now display the correct tooltip on the Start Battle/Ready button
• Multiplayer Quick Battles will no longer automatically queue for a new match on the post-battle results screen
• Multiplayer Quick Battles will now always use Large unit size
• Fixed a rare softlock that could occur in Multiplayer lobbies if a player changes faction at the exact same time another player joins the lobby
• Lords in Multiplayer Battles will now display the name of the Lord, and the name of the player in the tooltip
• Multiplayer Battle loading screens will no longer show information about units from opponent's army
• Multiplayer Battles will no longer display a message saying the AI is taking control if the Battle ends due to a player leaving.
• Quick Battle lobby timer now resets back to 60 second when a player changes faction and clicks "Ready".

Technical

A variety of isolated crash instances have been fixed

DX12

• Please note our DX12 implementation is still in beta, and investigations with issues are ongoing
• Fixed a crash caused by changing graphics options when running in DX12 with Nvidia SLI
• Nvidia DX12 performance improvements
• Fixed flickering issue when running the game on Nvidia cards in DX12
• DX12 now enabled on Nvidia 950m and 960m

Graphics

• Multiple performance improvements for high-spec systems with Blood Effects enabled
• Fix for missing shadows
• Tree billboard scaling improved
• Metal tint values tweaked to avoid armour appearing black on certain unit models
• Fixed porthole for lord of change
• Advanced Graphics option will now show how many GPUs are active when the player has a multi-GPU system
• Fixed an issue with flickering graphics on the Campaign map when using an NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti
• Giblets will no longer appear on the Low graphics preset with Blood Effects enabled
• Wind of Death icon clarified in tooltip
• Call of the Beastmen theme added
• Water added to parchment maps for all campaigns

Audio

• Chaos Marauder units are now using all their VO
• Fixed a bug where some of the Advisor's audio was not played
• Fixed a bug where Vampire lords were not playing VO
• Fixed a bug where creating a garrison was triggering the wrong VO
• Fixed an issue where the correct Chaos audio wasn't playing during the campaign

Other

• Fixed an issue with the Game Guide that could occur when the window was resized to a very small window.
• Communiteam have been further buffed against trolls and have a flame resistance when in threads
• Updated the Game Guide and Help Pages to fix some links which were not displaying correctly.
• Made multiple corrections to the Game Guide
• Improved some Russian translations
• Added money bag icons to make in-game purchasing easier. Buy it all, you know you want to!

Balancing

General

• Charge defence mass bonus increased
• Dwarf mass increased
• All artillery units firing arc increased/improved
• All artillery units Speed increased
• All artillery units turn speed increased
• Maximum of 4 Heroes in multiplayer battles
• Lords & Heroes Cost reduction for multiplayer
• Decrease to miscast explosion damage
• Rebalance of unit abilities and upgraded abilities
• Rebalance of winds of magic costs
• Rebalance of combat potential for unit abilities and spells
• Rebalance of effect area of some unit abilities and spells
• Tweak to cinder charge explosion delay
• Fixes for various context triggers and stat bugs for unit abilities and spells
• Various updates to unit ability and spell bullet texts
• Improved unit ability and spell targeting visuals and mechanics

Units

Dwarfs

Gyrocopter

• - Gyrocopter Bomb damage increased

Gyrobomber

• - Gyrobomber Bomb damage increased
• - Increased Missile Damage
• - Reduced recruitment cost
• - Increased Health
• - Increased Missile Damage
• - Increased Armour-Piercing Missile Damage

Slayers

• - Decreased Speed
• - Decreased recruitment cost
• - Increased Melee Defence
• - Increased Health
• - Increased Armour-Piercing Damage
• - Decreased Weapon Damage.

Flame Cannon

• - Reduced recruitment cost
• - Increased range
• - Firing arc fix allows for fire from behind infantry line
• - Increased Armour-Piercing Damage
• - Decreased Explosive Base Damage

Grudge Thrower

• - Decreased recruitment cost
• - Increased Accuracy

Irondrakes

• - Decreased recruitment cost
• - Increased acceleration
• - Increased firing arc
• - Increased turn speed
• - Increased reload speed

Quarrellers (Great Weapons)

• - Reduced recruitment cost

Warriors of Chaos

Archaon

• - Reduced recruitment cost

Chosen

• - Increased Melee Defence
• - Increased HP
• - Increased Melee Attack

Chosen (Great Weapons)

• - Increased Weapon Damage
• - Increased Armour-Piercing Damage
• - Increased Melee Attack

Dragon Ogres

• - Increased Health
• - Decreased Melee Attack
• - Increased Melee Defence
• - Weapon Strength includes Anti-Large Damage.
• - Reduced Armour-Piercing Damage

Kholek

• - Decreased Weapon Strength
• - Weapon Strength includes Anti-Large Damage.
• - Decreased Charge Bonus

Dragon Ogre Shaggoth

• - Decreased Weapon Strength
• - Weapon Strength includes Anti-Large Damage.
• - Decreased Charge Bonus
• - Decreased recruitment cost

Chaos Knights

• - Increased Melee Defence

Empire

Demigryph Knights (Halberds)

• - Decreased Armour-Piercing Damage
• - Decreased Bonus versus large

General of the Empire

• - Decreased Health whilst on Griffon
• - Increased recruitment cost for Griffon

Steam Tank

• - Decreased Speed
• - Decreased Steam Gun ammunition

Helblaster Volley Gun

• - Increased Range
• - Decreased recruitment cost

Helstorm Rocket Battery

• - Increased Range
• - Decreased Accuracy
• - Decreased Reload Speed
• - Decreased Cost

Greenskins

Rock Lobber

• - Increased Range

Doom Diver Catapult

• - Increased recruitment cost

Night Goblins (All)

• - Increased Leadership

Trolls

• - Increased Leadership

Savage Orc Big Uns

• - Decreased recruitment cost

Savage Orc Boar Boyz

• - Decreased recruitment cost

Orc Warboss

• - Decreased recruitment cost for Wyvern mount.

Black Orcs

• - Increased Cost

Arachnarok

• - Decreased Armour-Piercing Damage

Goblin Big Boss

• - All mount options have the Encourage ability

Vampire Counts

Blood Knights

• - Speed decreased

Mannfred von Carstein

• - Increased all mounts recruitment costs

Grave Guard (Great Weapons)

• - Increased recruitment cost

Brettonia

Grail Knights

• - Increased Melee Defence

Trebuchet

• - Increased Range