We’ve had tens of thousands of people playing already, but we know some players had some early-doors issues when the game went live, due in part to a bit of unexpected server load and the way the game handles that. This was causing the game to hang too long on start-up and the multiplayer server list to become unresponsive.
We’ve just updated the Steam build with a hotfix to solve these issues, so we recommend you save your game, quit to desktop, and restart Steam to start the hotfix download. Check the entry for Total War: WARHAMMER in your Steam Library upon restarting – you should see a super-quick download happening (it’s only around 100Mb!). If this doesn’t happen of its own accord, you can force the download by right-clicking Total War: WARHAMMER in your Steam Library, and click properties->Local Files->Verify integrity of game cache.
Once you’ve got the hotfix, and if you want to play multiplayer, any games you see listed in red are being hosted by people who don’t yet have the hotfix, and you’ll be unable to join them. Look for listings with black text.
Thanks for bearing with us – and if you read this and haven’t yet fired up the game, you can ignore it all!
Happy WAAAGH! day,
-CA