Total War: Warhammer 3has released a big update for June 2025, bringing plenty of new content and important improvements to the game. Among the headline changes are significant updates to Magic Items, bringing more variety and strategic options toTotal War: Warhammer 3players’ arsenals.
Total War: Warhammer 3was released in early 2021, bringing players into a mix of real-time battles and turn-based strategy set in the wild Realm of Chaos. Since it came out, the game has grown a lot through regular updates and expansions that have made its strategy deeper and its replay value higher.Total War: Warhammer 3’s huge Immortal Empires campaigncame early on, combining content from all three games into a large open world full of different factions. Big DLCs, likeOmens of Destruction, added new Legendary Lords, units, and special campaign features.
Total War: Warhammer 3has just gotten another major update with Patch 6.2, adding big improvements to many parts of the game. The main change in this update is the complete overhaul ofTotal War: Warhammer 3’s Magic Itemsystem. Over 600 ancillaries have been adjusted to make the differences between item rarities clearer, add new effects like healing limits and shields, and reduce clutter in inventories. Item fusing has also been improved, allowing more reasonable combinations and the chance for rare items to fuse into special items. However, unique items and banners tied to specific characters will be updated later.
The patch also adds several exciting new Unique Items, such as the Wyrmslayer Sword, Scintillating Shield, Accursed Armour, Briarsheath, the upgraded Fellblade, and the very rare Eight Burning Books of Khorne. Also, two new units have been added: Hobgoblin Bolt Throwers for the Chaos Dwarfs and a new Blood Knights version with strong anti-infantry skills. SeveralexistingTotal War: Warhammer 3unitshave also had their names fixed, and balance changes made, making things more consistent across factions and unit roles.
Big Campaign AI improvements have been fully added, giving players two new options. The AI Strength & Threat Assessment setting (turned on by default) makes the AI smarter at judging threats and enemies, while the Minor Faction Potential option (turned off by default) lets smaller factions make better choices and have a bigger impact on the campaign. Also, over 1200 2D unit portraits have been redone to make the game’s visuals more consistent and better overall.
Besides these big changes, Patch 6.2 includes many bug fixes, balance changes, and quality-of-life improvements. Game performance has been made better with a new compression system, cutting game size by 27% and speeding up loading times. Many gameplay changes have been made to units, skills, technologies, buildings, and UI elements to fix bugs and improve balance. Importantly, several campaign crashes and battle problems have been fixed, making theturn-based strategy gameTotal War: Warhammer 3more stable overall.
Total War: Warhammer 3 Update 6.2 Patch Notes
MAGIC ITEM REWORK
The Magic Item system has undergone a major overhaul, aiming to unify item design, balance power levels, and reduce inventory clutter. In total some 600+ ancillaries (all items in common, uncommon and rare) have had their effects and rarity adjusted to match our new balancing paradigm.
What we haven’t done
New Units
COMPRESSION
Implemented and applied general compression with fast decompression speed for the majority of files in game packages:
Added two new customisation options:
2D PORTHOLE UPDATE
As part of 6.2 we’ve gone through the process of regenerating 1200+ 2d portholes across the game!
Most of these were only generated during the initial implementation of units, and over time the game engine has changed significantly, going through rendering and lighting adjustments (some were generated in the bloom-y metal dark ages, and were quite shiny indeed). They were also generated in different eras of how we approach the generation process itself, how much anti-aliasing, what kind of environment lighting do we use?
All regular units (not characters, as those use a different pipeline) have now been regenerated with a unified look and quality level, featuring anti-aliasing and consistent environments.
