Warhammer: Chaos And Conquest news & patch notes

Greetings, Lords of Chaos! Here are the full patch notes for Update 4.9.5, which is now LIVE across all game servers!

New Tier 6 Units

4 new variants of Chaos Lords, one representing each of the Gods of Chaos, have arrived and can be recruited via the Dungeon.

• Chaos Lord of Khorne on Dragon

• Chaos Lord of Tzeentch on Dragon

• Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Dragon

• Chaos Lord of Slaanesh on Dragon

New Event - Warband Assault

Earn challenge points with your Alliance by defeating Raid Bosses! Defeat the Frenzied Mantiocre and the Chaos Dragons at various levels to earn points!

The Rewards for this challenge are 4 new components required to perform the Ritual to summon the new Chaos Lord on Dragon Units.

New Event - Skull Harvest of Khorne

Featuring level 13 and 14 locations across the Old World, gather and steal resources to earn points in this new Map event.

New Rituals

The following Ritual Trees have received a host of new Rituals.

Battle Rituals

• Unholy Accuracy 2

• Unholy Ardour 2

• Keen Blades 2

• Corrupt Vitality 2

• Sturdy Lances 2

• Robust Construction 2

• Crushing Impact 2

• Chaos Infused Construction 2

• Cruel Lashes 2

• Unnaturally Thickened Hide 2

• Monstrous Blows 2

• Monstrous Vigour 2

Chaos Rituals

• Cruel Privation 2

Khorne Rituals

• Burning Skulls 3

• Fire Scorched Blades 3

• Warrior's Constitution 3

• Throwing Axes 3

• Brutal Strength 3

• Brazen Cuirass 3

• Unleash Chaos Lord of Khorne on Dragon

Tzeentch Rituals

• Mutating Fire 3

• Arcane Blow 3

• Fungoid Form 3

• Arcing Blasts 3

• Sundering Claw 3

• Cloak of Flames 3

• Unleash Chaos Lord of Tzeentch on Dragon 

Slaanesh Rituals

• Stupefying Bolts 3

• Razored Garments 3

• Agonising Bliss 3

• Runic Javelins 3

• Honed Intent 3

• Quicksilver Jewelry 3

• Unleash Chaos Lord of Slaanesh on Dragon

Nurgle Rituals

• Cloud of Flies 3

• Poison Touch 3

• Deadened Flesh 3

• Retching Expulsions 3

• Noxious Grasp 3

• Chitinous Growth 3

• Unleash Chaos Lord of Nurgle on Dragon

Set of the Great Hunt

• Added a new item: Helm of the Great Hunt.

Warlord Speed Improvements

To address a balance issue where some Warlords with lower speeds were slowing down some marches across the World Map, all Warlords have had their speed at every level increased by 2.

Chapter X: Helm of Damnation

Added a new chapter that rewards players for crafting the Helm of Damnation.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed Conquest points and Champion XP not displaying in reward toasts

• Fixed a rare issue where, when viewing the unit detail panel, some UI elements would spawn outside the panel.

• Fixed total units killed and total unit power killed counters not updating during the same session.

Patch Notes

• All spawnable locations have been reworked, so in busy events the highest level Resources, Foes, Armies etc are now prioritised by the location respawner.

• The Chaos Champion has had his maximum level increased from 80 to 85.

• Added a new optimisation to the Spoils delivery system to improve server performance and reduce delays.

• Allow rallies to be created against NPC targets while PVP is disabled

• Improved display for troops in battle report notification to be clearer (survived, hospitalised, salvaged and perma dead)

• Block-list has been increased from 20 to 64 slots.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed display in battle report notification for hospitalised troops

• Fixed UI overlap issue with the Spoils on conquest button on the HUD on some devices

• Fixed UI overlap issue on PC warlord upgrade panel

Tomorrow we will be performing an optimisation update that will require approximately 3 hours of server downtime, at 9:00 AM UTC. As a result of this, PvP will also be disabled for a further 2 hours until 2 PM UTC on Tuesday, 20th. We will also be extending the spawns of the Colossal Squigs event by 3 hours; they will now finish spawning at 7 PM UTC on Wednesday, 21st January.

Below is a list of the features and fixes in this patch.

Features

• All spawnable locations have been reworked, so in busy events, the highest level Resources, Foes, Armies, etc., are now prioritised by the location respawner.

• The Chaos Champion has had his maximum level increased from 80 to 85.

• Added a new optimisation to the Spoils delivery system to improve server performance and reduce delays.

• Allow rallies to be created against NPC targets while PVP is disabled.

• Improved display for troops in battle report notification to be clearer (survived, hospitalised, salvaged and permanently dead).

Bug Fixes

• Fixed display in battle report notification for hospitalised troops.

• Fixed UI overlap issue with the Spoils of Conquest button on some devices.

• Fixed UI overlap issue on PC warlord upgrade panel.

• Fixed an issue where the Dynamic Island on iOS could obscure Resource values.

Spoils of Conquest

This month's 'Spoils of Conquest' has had the following changes made:

• Level 25: Added Ruinous Shards, 5 to the Free Track, 20 to the Exalted Track

• Level 30: Added Corrupted Wayshards, 5 to the Free Track, 15 to the Exalted Track

• Level 35: Added 25 Runes of Domination to the Exalted Track

• Level 40: Added Blood Essence 10 to the Free Track, 165 to the Exalted Track

Challenge Improvements

Legion - Gather Iron Challenge:

• Increased Boosts and Iron Rewards across various Brackets.

• Increased Alliances Coins and added Ruinous Shards.

• Added Tier 4 Units as Leaderboard rewards.

Legion - Gain Power Challenge:

• Increased Alliance Coins across every Bracket.

• Added additional Boosts to every Bracket.

• Added Tier 4 Units as both Bracket and Leaderboard rewards.

On Rotten Wings (Terrorgheist):

• Added 250 Warpstone to the Gold tier. (all 6 brackets)

• Added 5000 Warpstone to the 1st place in the leaderboard.

• Added 2500 Warpstone to the 2nd-3rd place in the leaderboard.

Fury of the Frosthearts:

• Added Brayherd Bestigors to the top 3 leaderboard positions. (2000/1000/500)

• Added Warpstone to the top 25 leaderboard positions. (1000/500/250)

• Added Silver Leaf, Warpstone, Warpstone Star and 8h Shield to tier rewards.

Infernal Warlord Challenges

The following Infernal Challenges, Damage Khorne/Nurgle/Tzeentch/Slaanesh/Undivided Foes

have had the following changes made:

• Clay + 50 Warlord Honour

• Bone + 10 Ruinous Shards

• Bronze + 100 Warlord Honour

• Silver + 100 Warpstone

• Gold + 1000 Tier 5 Chaos Faction-based Units, 2 x 8 Boosts, 1 x 24h March Gather Boost.

Defeat Beastmen Armies

Improved the Bracket Rewards as follows:

• Bone +2x 1h Training Boost

• Bronze +3x 1h Hospital Boost

• Silver +1x 12h Armour Boost

• Gold increased Warpstone from 100 → 250

Improved Leaderboard Rewards as follows:

• 1st +3000 Warpstone

• 2-10 +1500 Warpstone

• 11-25 +600 Warpstone

• 26-50 +400 Warpstone

• 51-100 +250 Warpstone

Defeat Beastmen Foes

• The Warpstone Reward for achieving the Gold bracket now scales up on your Chaos Keep level.

• The number of Vanquish Chests in the bracket rewards also scales up with your Chaos Keep Level.

• Warband Boosts have been added to the Leaderboard rewards.

Greetings, Lords of Chaos! Game Update 4.9 - Dragon Incursion is now LIVE on all Regions!

Patch Notes

Added Structure Levels 

The following structures have had their maximum level increased from 38 to 40:

• Chaos Keep

• Slaughter Pens

• Quarry

• Blast Furnace

• Lumber Mill

• Warehouse

• Sorcerer’s Citadel

• Warlord’s Conclave

• War Council

• Fortress Walls

• Capture Pit

• Sawbones

• Watch Tower

• Daemonic Forge

• Workshop

• Temple of Nurgle

• Temple of Khorne

• Temple of Slaanesh

• Temple of Tzeentch

• Cave

• Trading Post

The following structures have had their maximum level increased from 35 to 40:

• Chaos Warshrine

• Training Ground

• Bestiary

• Dungeon

• Chaotic Rift

• Beastmen Herdstone

• Hellcannons

• Drinking Hole

The following new items have been added to the game:

• Helm Essence

• Chaos Essense

• Chaos-Infused Dragon Hide

• Dark Favour

Added New Champion Equipment / Warlord / Fortress Skin Ranks

The following Champion Equipment can now be updated to Eternal rarity:

• Helm of the Barrow

• Corrupted Runic Helm

• Ritualist Hood

• Skull Helm of the Chosen

• Great Helm of the Vanquisher

• Mask of Blinding Hate

• Elfslayer Winged Helm

• Headsman's Skull Helm

Reaching Eternal rarity in each of these items will grant a new reward of 100 Helm Essence.

All Warlords can now be upgraded to rank 7 using the new item - Chaos-infused Dragon Hide.

All Fortress Skins can now be upgraded to rank 6.

Improved Slaanesh Melee Attack Bonus on Palace of Rapture Fortress Skin.

Unit Stat Adjustments

• Skullcrushers: Armour from 56 to 57. Health from 2225 to 2300.

• Hellflayers: Armour from 62 to 64. Health from 1935 to 2100.

New Raid 

• Dragon Incursion - Driven forth by the surging power of the Winds of Magic, the Chaos Dragon soar on mutated wings, eager to vent their ancient fury on the Empire.

• This new Raid brings epic new rewards, such as the Chaos-Infused Dragon Hide from defeating the Raid and both Dark Favour and Chaos Essence available in a new Cache!

Spoils of Conquest

• This new system adds additional rewards for Daily Quest Completion, both in terms of a Free and Purchasable journey each month.

• All Daily Trials now reward Spoils of Conquest points daily.

• The large Daily Trials rewards have also been adjusted to include more Speed Ups and Daemonic Fulgurite.

Aspirant of Darkness Item Set

• A new Item has been added to this set, the Helm of Damnation.

• The set bonus has been expanded to include larger bonuses when 3 items are equipped.

• Blood Essence can now be exchanged for Chaos Essence in the Daemonic Forge.

• Both the Daemonblade and Armour of Damnation can now be upgraded to rank 6.

The maximum Prestige level has been increased from 30 to 40.

The Undivided Ritual Tree has been expanded with the following Rituals

• Hell Forged Plate IV

• Norscan Vigour IV

• Godly Fervour III

• Rending Blows IV

• Battle Born Accuracy IV

• Frenzied Blows IV

• Chaos Bolts IV

• Chaos Dragons

Updated Gathering Locations

• New Level 14 variants of the potential Gathering locations can now be found within the Siege of Altdorf area.

• The Gathering locations in Veteran Regions (i.e Regions older than 360 days) will now consistently spawn higher-level Resource locations based on the Region Age.

Event Changes

• Updated the Spoils of Victory rewards from the Region Wars Event to feature more high-level Resources and Warpstone locations, along with higher-level Foes and Armies, but slightly less dense spawns of Foes and Armies to not interfere with other Live Event schedules.

• The Scourge of Chaos Event has been improved with an increase in Resource nodes of 11 and 12, and also an overall increase to level 13 resource appearing in the Siege of Altdorf.

• The number of gatherable Warpstone locations in the Warpstone Rain Event and the Warpstone Deluge Event has been considerably increased, and the rate at which these locations respawn has been increased.

• The Boon of Slaanesh Event has been improved with an increase in Resource nodes and their respawn rates throughout the event. More consistently higher-level resources will also now be available during this Event.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed the incorrect icon for Construction in Champion Skills.

• Fixed region relocate restrictions not appearing in the Relocate panel.

• Fixed some stats not being grouped correctly for a simpler display.

• Fixed defending Warlord not displaying in the War Camp troops breakdown pop-up.

• Watch Tower
• Drinking Hole
• War Council
• Temple of Khorne
• Temple of Nurgle
• Temple of Tzeentch
• Temple of Slaanesh

• Equipment Loadout V
• Equipment Loadout VI
• March Formation V
• March Formation VI

• Fixed an issue where the alliance trials would show an indicator when Ulthuan was inactive.
• Fixed a bug where alliance trials would affect your HUD count for player trials.
• Fixed a regression when upgrading research that caused the game would crash.
• Fixed a bug with second queue purchases where it would disconnect you.

• Fixed a regression where defences could no longer be trained because it counted all units instead of only defences.
• Fixed a null pointer when rallies were created.

• Fixed an issue where NPC locations in the world would show the previous 3D model before loading the current model.
• Made the steam particle shader use a simplified shader to reduce memory slightly.
• Several attempts to improve performance and frame hitches.
• Crash fixes from the engine.

• New Ritual Added - Trade Capacity II to Unholy Tree, allowing players to trade a much larger amount of resources with their Allies.
• Changed the Warlord Shards rewarded for completing 18 daily trials to Blue Scribes Favour.
• Improved the rewards given for completing 18 Daily Trials by adding additional Rewards.
• Added a new 3rd stat to fortress keepskins: Hellcannon Fortress - Defences Armour Bonus & Twisting Tower - Construction Speed

• Three structures have had their maximum level increased from 33 to 35. These are:
• Warlords Conclave
• Watch Tower
• Cave

• Added new Objectives for the above Structure levels and the Trade Capacity Ritual.

• Reworked the Terrorgheist loot tables for all the levels at which they spawn. These loot tables now contain the crafting component Steel, Training Speed Ups and have had the rare Warlord favour removed. The drop chance has also been improved so you will always obtain loot on every attack.
• Added level 11 to search results, search level options will change based on the location being searched for, added a search anywhere button at the end of the results list.
• In Region Wars, region invaders can attack other invaders and score points in 3-way & 4-way matchups.

• Fixed a bug where units added to a warband in an enemy region were not returned until reloading if the player is sent back to their own region due to an attack.
• Fixed a bug where sending reinforcements to allies would sometimes incorrectly prevent you from sending them.
• Fixed some typos reported by players.
• Fixed tutorial indicator not taking into account position changes for the canvas scaling resulting in it being off centre.
• Canvas scaling attempts to take into account dynamic islands on iOS devices that have that feature.
• Fixed missing text for player name on Spoils component.
• Fixed issue with Dark Offerings item not displaying in the item shop.

• Fixed a bug preventing starting a research when a player was missing queue time and resources
• Fixed unmapped icons for Ritualist gear
• Fixed missing UI on Dragonbone Fortress
• Android: Fixed extended loading times when starting the game
• Various stability fixes

New Content

Event Changes and Improvements

• Corrupted Runic Gauntlets
• Corrupted Runic Axe
• Corrupted Runic Boots

• Greaves of the Barrow
• Helm of the Barrow

Keep Skin Improvements

• Blighted Stronghold, reduced Healing Resource Costs.
• Exalted Hellcannon Fortress, added Undivided Ranged Damage.
• Gore Fountain, added Troop Training Speed.

Crafted Item Improvements

• Reworked all existing items to no longer only have stats on them that only boost the player’s Champion, in all situations, they will now boost everything within the march if the Champion is present.

Quality of Life Improvements

• Blocked players' messages will no longer be visible in World Chat.
• Added the Skull of the Damned as a tradable currency at the Raider’s Market.
• Players can recruit multiple of the same warlord at once
• Added a toggle to select whether “March Gather Yield” selects enough units to fully clear resource tiles or leave a small amount remaining.
• The number of Warpstone on the leaderboard placings for the Legendary Warlord challenges has been adjusted to allow more challenges to be run during these special weekend events.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a display issue where Warpstone spent on Warlord Bundles in the premium shop would not update on the challenge panel until the game was restarted.

• Spoils of the Warpfire
• Elven Spoils
• Icy Spoils
• Small Blood Spoils
• Blood Spoils
• Large Blood Spoils
• Conquest Spoils

• Fixed a display bug where healing troops would still display units as being healed when they already finished healing.
• Fixed a display bug where the twisting tower defence buff was displayed as attack buff.
• Fixed a display issue with race buffs and warlords.
• Lowered secondary connection timeout.

Patch Notes - Game Update 3.5

• Infantry Health: 2.5% to 45%
• Undivided Melee Damage: 2.5% to 45%
• Undivided Armoure: 2.5% to 45%
• Fortress Combat Bonus: 1% to 18%
• Undivided Ranged Damage: 10% to 30%

• Improved hero loadout swapping by doing it in a single command. Prevents network loss from leaving the hero with no items equipped.
• Added missing premium purchase pop up when pressing recommended speed up quantity button.
• You can no longer send another scout march to a destination that you are currently scouting.
• If you search for a location, and it's not within the search radius, you can now search the entire map to find spawns.

• Fixed a bug where the delay timer for keep skins would re-enable if a flood error was encountered when switching keep skins too quickly
• Fixed a bug where if you had a march on its way to a destination and an enemy also sent a march after you did then you never got a free recall.

• Fixed an issue causing alliance item assist sliders to fill when they shouldn't.
• Fixed an issue where going to a research would sometimes cause the window to scroll to the top instead of the target research.
• Fixed an issue where the Warlord load would not get accounted for properly when selecting Max Gather Yield for gathering.
• Fixed some issues where prices would not display correctly.
• Removed the idle prompt for the herdstone structure until it is level 15.
• Crash fixes

• Players can now place up to 3 Warlords into both Marches and Warbands and this can be done by completing 2 new Rituals within the Mastery Ritual Tree.
• These new Rituals will require level 8 and 15 of the Sorcerers Citadel.
• Select your most powerful Warlords and customize each of your Marches buffs to a much higher degree with improvements to the Warlord panels.
• March and Warband Combat bonuses cannot be added to the same March or Warband.

• When damage is taken by a Warband, it’ll be distributed evenly across the Warband for all players with the same unit types. These losses are proportional, if you add 200 units and another player adds 100 of the same type and the Warband loses 150 of that unit overall then you lose 100 and the other player loses 50.

• Players can now use warlord buffs when reinforcing allies and joining warbands. These buffs will only affect your march, not the Warband or player you're reinforcing. An example of this would be to use a Warlord to improve the march speed so you can reach your allies in a shorter timeframe. In these marches, your Warlords will return automatically when marches of these types complete.

• Players can now build the new Beastmen Herdstone in the top left corner of their Fortress.
• Upgrading the Herdstone to level 15 grants access to 4 new Beastmen units: The Khorngor {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36106554/3b12232cb2855501e5221c1a77b805f49137338b.png The Pestigor {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36106554/941a3e0ffe6431c62e2dc98c6fa1d2d18bd2941e.png The Slaangor {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36106554/b0943d21b90e0ba2c4a7f78e64bce84933cb42a3.png The Tzaangor {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/36106554/c1f8c90a947b28c55b2b76721e16aea2ad1a8068.png
• Upgrading the Beastmen Herdstone grants a bonus to the Health of all of the following troop types; Infantry, Monsters, Cavalry, Chariots, Monstrous Infantry, Monstrous Beast, Monstrous Cavalry and War Beasts.

• The Blue Scribes will appear in a new ‘The Wandering Wizardkin!’ event, and their Favour will be added to the existing Tzeentch Infernal Defeat Foes challenge, as well as being part of a new ‘Defeat Tzeentch Foes’ Warlord Event.
• A new Blue Scribes Warlord chest will be available in the Recruit Warlords panel for a limited time.

• Increased the limits for item donations received daily by 250% and increased the amount each player can donate to an ally by 200%.

• A number of rare new items have been added to the game, these include 30 million resource items, stamina potions that grant 5000 stamina, and a new 20-day speed-up item.

• Set gathering march priority to ‘March Gather Yield’ automatically.
• ‘Queue Max’ button for marches now selects units based on march priority.
• Players can now specify the quantity of items they wish to purchase from the Raider’s Market.

• Daily Trial Reward Chests have been greatly improved, with resource rewards and higher tier crafting components.
• A new Superior Daily Trial chest has been added as a reward for completing 18 daily trials, which includes Warlord Shards!
• There have been a number of new trials added to support the new Superior Daily Trial challenge.

• A new unannounced event has been added and will be coming later this month!

• Fixed a bug that would sometimes cause resource tiles to not display the correct UI when a march is currently gathering on it.