Whole Battle: Warhammer 3's Tides of Torment DLC is delayed: 'We requested ourselves if this subsequent DLC met the requirements that we’ve set in current releases, and the quick reply was no'
Inventive Meeting has delayed the discharge of its upcoming Tides of Torment enlargement for Whole Battle: Warhammer 3, pushing the launch again from this summer season to an unspecified date later this 12 months.
In a weblog submit on Inventive Meeting’s web site, Head of Group Adam Freeman defined that Tides of Torment has been delayed as a result of enlargement not presently assembly the corporate’s normal of high quality.
“In current playtesting, we requested ourselves if this subsequent DLC met the requirements that we’ve set in current releases, and the quick reply was no,” Freeman writes. “Nevertheless, we all know it may and so we need to spend extra time engaged on it, reviewing the content material, and bettering the gameplay experiences that it’s set to convey.”
In March, Inventive Meeting revealed that Tides of Torment would introduce Dechala as a serpentine legendary lord for the Slaanesh faction. Additional particulars had been offered in Could, the place CA revealed a brand new Norscan faction led by a sorcerer named Sayl the Faithless.
CA had deliberate to share extra information about these two factions pretty quickly. However with the DLC delayed, Inventive Meeting will possible additionally push again its upcoming ‘What’s subsequent’ video which was to focus particularly on Slaanesh and Norsca.
Freeman additionally apologised for 2025 being “a slower 12 months for a lot of of you in our Warhammer communities”, although to be sincere, I am not massively stunned that Tides of Torment has been pushed again. Inventive Meeting has appeared extremely targeted on tuning what’s already in Warhammer 3 this 12 months, quite than including new stuff. Again in March, the studio overhauled the sport’s underperforming Kislev Faction to make it extra enjoyable to play, whereas final month noticed the studio utterly retune the sport’s magic merchandise system.
Freeman factors out that additional updates on this method will arrive over the subsequent few months. July will convey siege enhancements to the proving grounds, and August will see CA add “some overdue high quality of life enhancements to Tomb Kings and Lizardmen” in addition to a refresh of orc and goblin character expertise.
September, in the meantime, is reserved for minor hotfixes, in order that’s when CA will return its full consideration to Tides of Torment, which Freeman suggests will arrive alongside an enormous new replace, possible someplace between October and December. “We received’t have any main updates deliberate for launch in September, however we’ll keep on high of rising points as we get to work on the 7.0 Replace.”