What's more terrifying than a horde of barbarians charging at you in Total War: Arena? A horde of barbarians with four legs charging at you in Total War: Arena.
The latest update to Creative Assembly's free-to-play game introduces new units for the most hairy of factions, giving more cavalry units to barbarian commanders.
Total War: Arena's big brother, Attila, is one of our best PC games.
With the Raiding Party patch, you'll be able to, eventually, unlock four new units: The tier 4 Brigands, tier 5 Mounted Warband, tier 7 Chargers and tier 8 Blood Riders, who sound just lovely.
Along with these hirsute mounted men come a bunch of bug fixes and tweaks, to boot. Check out the patch notes below.
Improvements
- Ranged units rebalancing:
- Slings: removed slow effect, slightly reduced damage, increased reload time
- Arrows: reduced damage
- Javelins: increased damage
- Removed 100 Gold from First Daily Victory bonus, and increased the reward multiplier from x2 to x3 instead.
- Consumables are now always restocked using the same currency that they were purchased in, if "replenish automatically" is active.
- Focus Fire will now cause a unit to move towards its target, if the target is out of range.
- There's now a clear indication in the UI of what bonuses you receive for using a unit.
- Barbarian unit pack 2: "Raiding Party"
- We've improved the look & feel of the Gold purchase .
- Currencies displayed in the purchase now show the commonly-used symbols ($ instead of USD, for example).
- Matchmaking now takes commander tier into .
- The UI now clearly shows which players are grouped together in a party, and which are not.
- Unit equipment is now priced more finely, based on its usefulness. Dead end equipment is now significantly cheaper, while unlock-enabling equipment is more expensive. Overall, prices have not changed.
- Pricing update: we've updated the prices of some payment packages to better reflect the real purchasing power of several countries.
Bug fixes
- Army : Unit XP unlock costs are no longer displayed as a Gold cost.
- Unit XP should now display correctly in profile stats.
- Aspis Companion Cavalry appear to be able to unlock the Silver Shield Swordsmen on the unit tree, but cannot.
- The fire whilst moving ability can no longer be used against your own units.
- Purchase price for commander is no longer present on commander tooltip after purchase.
- The speed penalties for Hold the Line and Fight in the Shade can no longer be ignored by exploiting turn speed.
- Infiltration ability now deactivates after being attacked by enemy players.
- Amazonian Warriors and Praetorian Cavalry now have the Charge ability.
- Chat cursor is now aligned properly.
- The commander portrait is no longer cuts off in addition to slightly clipping into the text if the commander has a wide portrait in the post battle .
- Multiple consumable names are no longer slightly bleeding out of their tooltip.
- Switching from a commander with unit slots open to a commander with a unit equipped no longer causes their unit's to open.
- When buying new upgrades the cost number is now aligned correctly with the word "cost".
- Command ability tool tips will no longer follow the mouse cursor when the views the tool tips detail before results are posted.
- There is now a tooltip on the default colour option on your colours .
- Hastati Advance ability is now available under scipio.
- Shop/Convert XP dialog no longer shows only relevant units.
- The "The Alpha" and "The Vanguard" names have now been properly appended.
- Battle chat now has a backdrop/shadow.
- Units on low ground can no longer see units on high ground.
- Tarantine Cavalry can now activate any of their ammo consumables.
- News stories are now sorted by date.
- Players are no longer able to place multiple deployables on the same spot.
- Lockdown ability formally used a generic voiceover – it now uses an alternate line of dialogue to fill in the gap.
- If battle results appear while in the gold confirmation screen for consumables, players will no longer get the invalid purchase error.
- If battle results appear while the XP confirmation popup is open, both purchase buttons no longer grey out.
- Tooltip text of the "play" button during matchmaking now properly displays as "connecting"
- Memory leaks have been fixed.
- Ignitable tar no longer has a misleading effect.
- Health Bar is now light blue, instead of white.
- Battle start time for the metrics now displays as server time.
- First load no longer causes a large visual bug.
- Players will no longer have their client crash when a interacts with a Greek commander card when a faction colour is applied.
- Chat input box now disappears once a command is sent.
- The chat toggle button has been substituted for a prefix.
- Charges now last longer than 5 seconds.
- UI integration from mainline has been completed.
- A fix for client crashing when there is no mouse/keyboard detected has been implemented.
- Constantly removing at unit via click and drag no longer results in tool tips breaking.
- The about now features an updated patch number.
- Tooltips on the front end are no longer small and difficult to read.
- Text/tooltips for different settings in the graphics menu are no longer small and difficult to read.
- Various crash fixes.