What will happen to our current campaign when the patch is released?

[BladeofSharpness]

With the patch released and all mods updating, are we basically scre.wed for our ongoing campaign? I'm a slow player and a campaign lasts several weeks real time for me, I don't want to restart yet again!

I tried to check in the Steam options to not update WH3 but I saw nothing?

As for mods, I have made a copy of them and can overwrite the workshop folders for them, so I'm less worried.

I just want to finish my campaign :-) I can wait for the new patch, plus I don't intent to buy the new DLC before it is on rebate, so ... no hurry for me.

Thanks for any advice

[John Cena]

You can disable automatic update in Steam settings.

You can rollback to a previous patch to keep compatibility with your mods.

You're not screwed but it's definitely a moderate annoyance.

[Velber]

if your using mods, then yes, because some of those mods may no longer work, or might not work with that previous version once updated, so youd have to start a new game either way

[Father Ribs]

There are changes to the map, so I'd assume old campaigns will be borked.

If you want to be sure, turn off auto-updating, put steam in offline mode, and finish your campaign before Thursday.

[BladeofSharpness]

Is auto-updating on a game basis (where?) or general to Steam (where?)

[Father Ribs]

Originally posted by BladeofSharpness:

Is auto-updating on a game basis (where?) or general to Steam (where?)

When you're looking at your game list on the left side of the steam interface, if you right-click on a game, you get a few options, including updates. You can set it by game, dunno if you can set universally, but check around in Steam options, there are lots of things you can wrangle with.

You're still going to want to go into offline mode, because the first time you start the game it will begin an update, no matter what settings. You can keep it offline for a few days...but eventually you'll have to log on so they know it's you (Steam).

[John Cena]

Originally posted by BladeofSharpness:

Is auto-updating on a game basis (where?) or general to Steam (where?)

It is both. You can set it per game or per your entire account. To disable auto update for Warhammer 3.

Right Click Warhammer 3
Click on Properties
Click on Updates in the left tab
Set it to only update when I launch this game.

[BladeofSharpness]

Ok thanks guys. Surely if I switch off auto-update, it won't also update mods?

[John Cena]

Originally posted by BladeofSharpness:

Ok thanks guys. Surely if I switch off auto-update, it won't also update mods?

Mods will still auto update you will need to copy the old version of the mod and unsubscribe I think.

[dulany67]

CA will need to actually put the old version on the beta branch. Also, playing in offline mode only works so long because sooner or later denuvo will need to call home and the game will not load if it can't.

[Elitewrecker PT]

Originally posted by BladeofSharpness:

Ok thanks guys. Surely if I switch off auto-update, it won't also update mods?

And even of steam doesnt auto update the game, it won't let you launch it if it knows there's an update waiting.
You have to go offline or select the rollback version in tje betas tab.

[BladeofSharpness]

Well, or I keep the game running in memory. I'm routinely putting my PC on sleep mode with several games running. :-)

[Atomsk]

Originally posted by dulany67:

CA will need to actually put the old version on the beta branch. Also, playing in offline mode only works so long because sooner or later denuvo will need to call home and the game will not load if it can't.

Denuvo is one of the major reason why costs have increased, I wouldn't be surprised if $5-10 of the DLC price is allocated to the Denuvo contract itself. All this for a placebo security feature.

[art_loots]

CA actually patches so damn little in warhammer 3 that i don't have many mods that are not up day 1 maybe 2 after patch.
sad to see at warhammer 2 they actually patches alot more and modders actually had to work to make the mods able to be used on the next patch. one point alot of fanboys are not willing to talk about.
so long story short you will be fine

[Captain Baldy]

If you have mods installed then it is good to expect your current campaign to fail on load. That way you are never disappointed. Thankfully starting over is always fun. The joy of mods, heh

[kilen]

For modded campaigns, it’s always an issue.
It’s the main reason I play vanilla all the time. I like playing the very end game campaign, doing 500+ battles per campaign with EGCs active.
Hard time finishing that before the new dlc/update pops up usually…
And if I do it with mods, there will be issues at the update.

Although, even without mods, usually vanilla campaign from one update to an other, it’s fine, it works and you can continue with the new settings your campaign…
But this time, with all the changes for settlements on the map, specially around Kislev and Praag, such as new special buildings, it’s gonna be a mess to update everything on my 180-190 settlements empire with Astragoth that I play since 3.0 popped up.
Also no clue how Ostankya could be implemented in that case.
For my part I think am gonna finish my campaign on 3.1 and only after load the new stuffs… I don’t want to spend 2h checking everything and wait after several turns to build all new buildings, am gonna wait the next campaign to play on 4.0, it’s better.
That’s the kind of things that makes you lose interest and restart from scratch.
With hundreds of hours on this playthrough, that would be bad.

And in a way, at least I don’t have to experiment all new bugs coming with 4.0 and waiting impatiently the hotfix following the new update like its always the case.
So, there is always that.
Yuan Bo and the others 2 will have to wait…