​UPDATE 24/6/24 @ 10:20AM BST:

We identified some items that were missed from the original patch notes list, which we've now added below in the Release Spotlight section, including:

- Lizardmen Faction Colours
- Lord Selection Video Refresh

We've also amended the unit, army and item abilities sections to be clearer and easier to understand. Thanks!

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Lizardmen Faction Colours

We've been cracking the case on some faulty spawning pools and done an initial pass on the Lizardmen faction colour masks. A large selection of Lizardmen units now come in a dazzling rainbow of colours depending on the faction controlling them.

Lord Selection Video Refresh

We've gone back and done a refresher on a variety of old lord select videos! See some of your old favourites in new, high definition glory with new scenes and audio! (Khalida finally found her throne room!)

The following characters have received new selection movies:

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• Repanse
• Aranessa Saltspite
• Count Noctilus
• Luthor harkon
• Crone Hellebron
• Lokhir Fellheart
• Malus Darkblade
• Rakarth
• Thorek Ironbrow
• Wulfhart
• Alarielle
• Alith Anar
• Eltharion
• Imrik
• Gor'rok
• Nakai
• Tehenhauin
• Tik'Taq'To
• Ikit Claw
• Deathmaster Snikch
• Throt The Unclean
• Tretch Craventail
• Arkhan The Black
• Khalida
• Settra The Imperishable (and many more titles)
• The Sisters Of Twilight
• Cylostra Direfin

Holy F that is amazing.

I absolutely love remastered Lord intros.

Love these changes, especially the Lizardmen faction colors update.

I spend a slightly embarrassing amount of time going through the lord select videos, so this is a nice treat.

Nakai and Sniktch have Cathay backgrounds!

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Wood_Sprite#1284 wrote:

Nakai and Sniktch have Cathay backgrounds!

A bit sad for Nakai as him roaring from the top of a lustrian temple was incredibly badass. Excited to check them all out later though.

Show me the glory of my Prince!

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Wood_Sprite#1284 wrote:
We've also amended the unit, army and item abilities sections to be clearer and easier to understand. Thanks!

What exactly do they mean? Are they talking about choosing your units and abilities for multiplayer matches?

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Schub#9514 wrote:

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Wood_Sprite#1284 wrote:
We've also amended the unit, army and item abilities sections to be clearer and easier to understand. Thanks!

What exactly do they mean? Are they talking about choosing your units and abilities for multiplayer matches?

No, that was just formatting of that section in the patch notes.

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Wood_Sprite#1284 wrote:

Nakai and Sniktch have Cathay backgrounds!

I don't like location specific intros. It implies that characters are permanently put in those locations and in the case of the unloreful Nakai in Cathay, that isn't ideal. It would only mean that it costs more resources to move certain characters, as new intro videos would have to be created.

One can update character intros sure, but they should be as general as possible.

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TheWattman#7460 wrote:

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Wood_Sprite#1284 wrote:

Nakai and Sniktch have Cathay backgrounds!

I don't like location specific intros. It implies that characters are permanently put in those locations and in the case of the unloreful Nakai in Cathay, that isn't ideal. It would only mean that it costs more resources to move certain characters, as new intro videos would have to be created.

One can update character intros sure, but they should be as general as possible.

Eh i also dislike Nakai's Cathay start, even if the whole Yuan Bo narrative gave it at least some more contxt and justification.

However, i also believe Nakai is there to stay. The most that could happen is him getting displaced across the mountain range in Kuresh. From that point of view, a Cathay intro still remains valid.

Can't deny that Aranessa and Alarielle look miles better though!

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So basically they had done initially the game 1 base lords + norsca.  

Then they did game 2 base lords in the last major patch.

Now they did a TON of game 2 DLC lords. 

What's missing are all game 1 DLC lords (minus Norsca), i a few game 2 lords (eg. Khatep, Taurox, Oxyotl come in mind) and everything from game 3 (if they intend do redo them too, since at least the base LL are similarly old-styled).  

New LM faction colours is a huge change! Time to play my 607467th Gor-Rok Campaign I guess. 

This goes to show that game is far from dead and from the fact that only little support is left for it. 

Now just watch CA say tomorrow how there will be no further DLC actually. It was all a ruse, so people got excited for the dog. There will only be hotfix 5.1.1 to add new starting screens for the remaining lords.

P.S.: Does anyone have a video compilation of the new starting screens?

I didn't realize how grainy some of them are until I saw the new TK ones, but Khatep still have the old one. I'm curious why a few of the characters didn't get updated (Could very well have just been a time thing, which is fine, but I wonder if maybe other changes are coming so they didn't want to update them yet)

Alarielle's select video is far superior to the old one.

Imrik's on the other hand... Eh. It is better. It is. But it is a relatively small change. There is haughtiness and a hint of dragons, and that pretty much is it.

I wish it would lean more towards the Lord of Dragons aspect. The sky should be full of wyrms. Or, even better, the video should depict him smirking and then zoom out to show that he is leading a dragonhost in the skies.

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Maedrethnir#1968 wrote:

Show me the glory of my Prince!

Smug af

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Maedrethnir#1968 wrote:

Show me the glory of my Prince!

I didn't think you had game 3, MaedinChelsea!