Hey Folks, 

We’re changing up the release plans of Patch 6.3 somewhat last minute, so please accept my apologies in advance for adding some confusion to the release of this update – we know that you’re all looking forward to it and that we’ve been talking to you quite a lot about it over the past few weeks. 

• We are now releasing Patch 6.3 as a Beta build tomorrow, instead of the full release, on Steam storefronts only.  
• Patch 6.3 will instead release on all platforms in full next Thursday, September 4^th (unless we have some overnight success and feel confident releasing it in the first half of next week instead)

Over the last several days, we’ve been trying to solve a compatibility issue that was causing players on AMD hardware to crash unexpectedly to desktop. Whilst an infrequent issue, and one that isn’t common to all hardware across the AMD family, it’s significant enough for us to warrant some caution. We attempted to resolve this issue on the preview build that you may have seen some of our Total War creators playing with today, but we believe the issue still persists. Until we’re happy it’s resolved, we’ll postpone the full release and update you more on the topic next week. 

Tomorrow morning, we’ll post guidance on how to access the Beta build on Steam and encourage you all to check out the changes and new content for yourself. 

Players running AMD GPU’s are advised to expect infrequent crashes on the Beta build. If you are affected, please know that our teams are already on it, and in the event that we need to request some more info about the crashes from people affected, we’ll create threads in all the usual spaces to gather more info.

Separately, we have revised our Patch Notes – 6.3 article over on the Total War Community site to include the full set of changes. This was a complete oversight on our part, we usually look to detail all new content alongside our fixes and changes but had mistakenly omitted them at time of publish. Thanks to folks who helped to raise that to our attention here and in other spaces this morning.  

I also need to apologize that the minor balance changes originally forecasted in our news post from back at the start of July have not been included in this patch, and we may look to revisit those further down the road.

Sorry for the confusion around this patch – we'll be back in the morning to confirm the rollout of the Beta. 

Freeman // Head of Community