
The player's current number of clan tokens is now displayed on the skills tree. Avatar rank is now shown on the pre-battle setup screen of all users. The XP bar on the avatar screen now shows current and required XP for a rank increase. Match-made battles will now prioritise avatar level when attempting to match players, taking into account ELO rating. Higher-Prestige avatars require consequently more XP to level, and cost more to field. Upon promotion to a new Prestige level, Avatars gain +10 Veteran Slots. Upon promotion to a new Prestige level, the avatar's skill-tree is reset, but his units retain their veterancy, and he retains any armour pieces, retainers earned through armour pieces and clan tokens. Coloured ranking stars are now used to define the current Prestige of an avatar: Bronze Silver and Gold. Upon reaching level 10, Avatars can now be promoted to a new Prestige level and re-play the avatar conquest mode. Winner of clan competition (Mon, Crest, Helmet). There is now a series of rewards for players whose clans are promoted: Filters have been added to sort retainers into smaller concise lists based on units and weapon restrictions. You can now cycle through and view all other worlds in the clan competition as well as search for a specific clan and view the world they are operating in. A number of filters have been added to help display the strategic situations of your own and other clans in the clan competition. Points loss: Every time a player loses a match-made battle, they will lose 50% of the clan influence they would have gained for a victory. Corruption and logistics: clans will suffer a cumulative 5% cost in influence point gain for every province beyond 3 that they own (with a maximum penalty of 95%). These maps do not appear in the Rise of The Samurai DLC campaign. 1 top-tier castle, considerably larger than any other castle in Shogun 2Įach castle appears across five maps, resulting in 15 new siege battle-map variants. 1 standard sized castle on a clifftop with limited approaches. 1 standard sized castle of new configuration. Three newly-designed castles specifically for the Shogun 2 campaign map: "And here they are at their beguiling best." "The Creative Assembly designers are masters at transporting strategicians to a different place and time," declared Tim Stone in Eurogamer's Total War: Shogun 2 review. Total War: Shogun 2, released in March 2011, "is a corker".
From Steam, Rise of the Samurai costs £5.99. Rise of the Samurai will release tomorrow, 27th September. The list is as long as a really long worm, which we've coaxed out with Fairy Liquid and stapled, in full, below. Detailed notes for the giant patch accompanying imminent Total War: Shogun 2 mini-expansion Rise of the Samurai have been released.