All units! At last the time has come for the June update! If you're just joining us and haven't been through this in prior months here's a quick reminder of how things will go down today.
1. Starting at approx. 9AM PT the team will start deploying the game PATCH to Xbox One and Win10. Expect this to start rolling out within the hour and you'll get prompted to download the update. Today's update is approx. 9GB. You can find the patch notes HERE.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Often there appears to be issues with the download going extremely slow or seemingly freezing entirely - LET IT GO. Eventually it will kick back in and usually even if it shows no progress it is actually downloading in the background. Be warned that if you interrupt the download you will almost certainly be forced to download THE ENTIRE GAME when you launch Halo Wars 2 again. This seems to be a pretty common situation so the best thing to do is just be patient and let that original patch download do it's thing.
2. At the same time the team kicks off the publishing process for the new leader DLC - Jerome & Arbiter. This process can take many hours to fully complete and you won't be able to install the new leaders until it has fully completed. During the time between the patch and the DLC getting fully propagated you may see some of the new cards show up in your collection but it's normal and expected that the full leaders won't be unlocked or able to be used yet. Historically we've seen it take anywhere from 4 to 8 hours for this content publish to complete so please hang tight and we'll let you know as soon as it's all ready to go. Once verified we'll light up @Halo on Twitter and Facebook with the Arbiter-Jerome trailer and publish the launch blog on Waypoint.
3. This time we're doing things slightly different. There's a third step that will occur TOMORROW, 6/29, that involves the final round of balance updates getting pushed live to the game. This all takes place service-side and will not require a patch download. I expect this to occur tomorrow morning but will update once those details are locked. We'll also post those detailed balance notes as soon as the team hands them over later today. Stay tuned!
Thanks for playing Halo Wars 2 and we can't wait to unleash these fixes, improvements, balance tweaks and new leaders! See you online.
1. Starting at approx. 9AM PT the team will start deploying the game PATCH to Xbox One and Win10. Expect this to start rolling out within the hour and you'll get prompted to download the update. Today's update is approx. 9GB. You can find the patch notes HERE.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Often there appears to be issues with the download going extremely slow or seemingly freezing entirely - LET IT GO. Eventually it will kick back in and usually even if it shows no progress it is actually downloading in the background. Be warned that if you interrupt the download you will almost certainly be forced to download THE ENTIRE GAME when you launch Halo Wars 2 again. This seems to be a pretty common situation so the best thing to do is just be patient and let that original patch download do it's thing.
2. At the same time the team kicks off the publishing process for the new leader DLC - Jerome & Arbiter. This process can take many hours to fully complete and you won't be able to install the new leaders until it has fully completed. During the time between the patch and the DLC getting fully propagated you may see some of the new cards show up in your collection but it's normal and expected that the full leaders won't be unlocked or able to be used yet. Historically we've seen it take anywhere from 4 to 8 hours for this content publish to complete so please hang tight and we'll let you know as soon as it's all ready to go. Once verified we'll light up @Halo on Twitter and Facebook with the Arbiter-Jerome trailer and publish the launch blog on Waypoint.
3. This time we're doing things slightly different. There's a third step that will occur TOMORROW, 6/29, that involves the final round of balance updates getting pushed live to the game. This all takes place service-side and will not require a patch download. I expect this to occur tomorrow morning but will update once those details are locked. We'll also post those detailed balance notes as soon as the team hands them over later today. Stay tuned!
Thanks for playing Halo Wars 2 and we can't wait to unleash these fixes, improvements, balance tweaks and new leaders! See you online.
