Free Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC releasing alongside Chaos Dwarfs detailed
It’s called the Mirror of Madness.
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I’m pretty stoked for the Chaos Dwarf DLC that’s coming toTotal War: Warhammer 3on April 13, but that’s not the only thing to look forward to if you’re a hammer-head (a Warhammer nerd, that is, not a kind of shark). As Creative Assembly explains in the latestTotal War blog, the Chaos Dwarfs will arrive alongside update 3.0 and a free add-on called Mirror of Madness.
Mirror of Madness contains a pair of game modes that will be added to the Battle menu. First is The Trials of Fate, which expands on Warhammer 3’s survival battles to make a mini-campaign in which you play a time-traveling daemon prince of Tzeentch. You’ll have to survive four battles from the history of Warhammer, then defeat Tzeentch’s faction leader Kairos Fateweaver.
It’s a kind of wave defense mode where you hold a capture point against endless enemies who get stronger the longer the fight goes on. You’ll get “unique spells and abilities” to help, and holding that capture point gives you forbidden knowledge that upgrades those spells and abilities, which include “cataclysmic powers and mighty vortexes to send your enemies ragdolling across the Realms in crazy physics-based chaos.” Scoring well in The Trials of Fate unlocks new Tzeentchian daemon parts you can bolt onto theDIY legendary lordyou design when playing the Daemon Prince in either the Realm of Chaos or Immortal Empires campaign.
The second half of the Mirror of Madness is The Infinite Portal, which will sound familiar if you remember the skaven-themedLaboratory modefrom Total War: Warhammer 2. It’s an experimental sandbox that lets you tweak settings and play one-off battles with resized lords and monsters, increased collision force and damage, more blood, less gravity, and other options that should make for extra chaotic clashes.
Like the Laboratory, the Mirror of Madness is a collaboration with Intel, and also like the Laboratory, which became aboss fight for your CPUif you pushed the sliders beyond a certain point, it’ll be a test of your rig’s abilities. As Creative Assembly warns, “should you crank up The Infinite Portal’s more intensive settings (such as entity scale or unit size) you may begin to notice some performance drop-off, depending on the power of your PC.”
Here are all the options you get access to in The Infinite Portal:
When the Mirror of Madness and Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs DLCs arrive with update 3.0 on April 13, it seems like Warhammer 3 will also get a decent-sized patch. Creative Assembly signs off the latest blog post by saying, “We’ll be back next week, should we survive, with the absolutely gargantuan monster of an article that is the Update 3.0 Patch Notes. Seriously… there’s so much. It’s so big. So many words. More like UPDATE THREE POINT WHOA amirite?”
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