Total War: Warhammer 3’s latest expansion is here, and the Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs comes with a wide variety of great hats. New DLC time is also new update time, bringing the dangerous fantasy Grim ‘Em Up to version 3.0.tucked away in the “general updates” section of patch notes (opens in new tab) mentions that this update “introduced a new packfile limit that virtually increases the number of mods that can run simultaneously (apart from cross-mod issues)”.
William Håkestad, designer at Creative Assembly working on the Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC, Total War modding Discord (opens in new tab) In a more exciting way: “The new packfile limit is 65,534 at a time. It’s your move.”
Each mod was a separate packfile, and as Håkestad went on to explain, those games had much lower packfile limits. At the time it was set to 256. This included the game’s own pack files, so even fewer could be stacked. Too many would not automatically crash the game. “I intended the game to fail if I exceeded this limit, but I’ve had a few coincidences where the game continues to work, when in reality only 256 packfiles run.” It wasn’t fixed and had a serious impact on game stability.”
Even at the height of my mania for fixing the original Total War: Warhammer beer throwing catapult (opens in new tab) and hero quest goblin (opens in new tab) I don’t think we hit 50, but for those who like to get into modding, it’s nice to have more packfiles to work with. And Håkestad says: .”
Considering Total War: Warhammer 3 has less than 10,000 mods, steam workshop (opens in new tab) So far, you may be struggling to reach new limits.Will modders see this as a challenge?
Reactions to Update 3.0’s other changes have been positive, with players praising them Improved unit behavior (opens in new tab) Like a tracker hunting down a fleeing enemy or a single-entity unit engaging a lord, Improved siege AI (opens in new tab)and a small but welcome change to the creation of diplomacy Far away lands are more likely to settle peacefully (opens in new tab)In early testing, it looks like the new line of sight change: Decorations that do not interfere with the gunner (opens in new tab), which ultimately also improves the situation for units with firearms. Chaos Dwarves have big guns to match their big hats, so this is great.