Creative Assembly hat jetzt ein dickes Update für Halo Wars 2 veröffentlicht. Nach der Installation sind laut der englischen Patchnotes diese Änderungen und Optimierungen durchgeführt:

UI/Navigation

• Improved selection box to allow for easier selection of units when on the fringe of the unit
• Selected unit sub-selection now more responsive when using Right Trigger and Y button to cycle through the selection
• Fog of war made more readable
  • Now lines up more closely with logical sight ranges
  • The visual transition when units emerge from the fog of war is much quicker
• Improvements to camera scroll speed and feel when playing with a controller – regular scroll is noticeably more responsive, and fast scroll (holding LB) gives a much larger speed boost
  • Changing the Scroll Speed settings in options also has a much greater effect than before, resulting in more control over how scroll speed to feels
  • Speed can be reduced to previous levels by adjusting the Scroll Speed setting in the Options menu
• Hid player gamertag and rank in the map load screen

AI

• AI is no longer able to place rally flags in places players are not allowed to place
• AI no longer knows when the player is beginning to target them with a leader power before they use it
• Units won’t be aggroed by Suicide Grunts and won’t automatically move towards them to engage (they will stand their ground instead)

Buildings/Units:

• Supply Pad upgrade time reduced from 25 to 18s
• Shield Generator stacking reduced per generator from 50% efficiency to 20%
• Special abilities (Hijack, Slam, Phoenix Missile, Brute Warlord’s Hammer Shockwave, etc.) now gain the benefit from generic damage upgrades
• Fixed an issue where the Hunter Captain would not be able to attack if its taunt ability was interrupted
• Hunter Captain no longer receives as much healing from Combat Repair
• Hunter Captain health lowered
• Adjusted Locust’s behavior when targeting units in the fog of war
• Upgrade 3 for Vehicle, Air, and Infantry apply the correct amount of health to appropriate units
• Skitterer health from Vehicle Upgrade lowered at all levels
• Skitterer can no longer become useless if the unit it is going to pair with dies before pairing is complete
• Kodiaks should no longer fail to target an enemy on the other side of a cliff or hill if they have line of sight
• Cutter’s Jerome Hero unit will no longer get stuck in a vehicle if upgraded while in a vehicle
• Spartans no longer become unresponsive when slamming a teleport pad
• Spartans no longer damage the unit they’re hijacking
• Honor guard will now have more success when attempting to slay a fleeing unit
• Units grouped with engineers should now be able to use their Y ability when the group is selected
• Snipers can now be commanded to attack units in garrisons without being grouped with other units who could
• Units will now auto attack garrisoned units as they walk past
• Scorpions now have better accuracy when attacking garrisoned units
• Scorpion can no longer fire two canister shots
• Chopper can no longer trigger ram animation when selecting an air unit
• Condors will no longer waste their Y ability when targeting air units
• Decimus can now use Y ability on buildings
• Hornets no longer fail to do damage after firing at a target for a prolonged time
• Blisterbacks shouldn’t be deployed under the surface of the map anymore
• Veteran Blisterbacks can once again be healed to full
• Johnson’s heal beacon size and effect now correctly match
• Johnson can no longer move to cancel his animation and fire additional smart missiles
• Skitterers now correctly apply full damage from focus beam upgrade
• Colony’s Living Barrier benefits from base Fortify upgrades
• Shipmaster’s Grunt squad leaders are now rightfully Sangheili instead of Jiralhanae, and now can be upgraded to cloak instead of having Shrapnel Mines
• Normalized damage of hijacked vehicles regardless of who made the vehicle
• Kinsano’s Cyclops Hero unit selection circle should now be more visible when not hovering over it
• Decimus and Warlord will no longer try to pull units that are already close to them
• Warlord no longer resets his attack animation when selecting a unit to attack
• ODST charges will now explode when placed on top of or next to buildings in side plots
• ODSTs can no longer throw more than 1 charge at a time
• ODSTs can’t attempt to throw their demo charge at air units

Leader Power:

• Atriox Fortifications slightly reduced in effectiveness at level 1, and greatly reduced at level 2, and is specifically less beneficial to shield generators
  • Cost reduction on bases, stronghold upgrade, turrets and shield generators changed reduced to 15% per level.
  • Fortifications-altered cost of Fortify upgrades rounded to nearest 5.
  • Upgrade speed buff on stronghold upgrade and turret upgrades reduced to 15% per level.
• Vehicle Symbiotes power can now target turrets
• Buffed Vehicle Symbiotes to now apply correct armor and health
• Scorch Mines can no longer blow each other up on deployment
• Shipmaster’s Displacement can now affect Protector Sentinels
• Restoration Drones can now target turrets
• Scatter Bomb now more correctly aligns with its targeting reticle
• Vortex Lightning now damages and debuffs units in garrisons
• Garrisoned units no longer heal faster from leader powers than ungarrisoned units
• Mech Overcharge and Combat Salvage can now be invoked regardless of whether the reticle is in the fog of war or not
• Mass Cloaking now removes units from the minimap in Blitz mode
• Reavers will no longer continue to shoot when hit with EMP Mac Blast while stunned
• Vehicles stolen by Ghost in the Machine are no longer visible in the Fog of War
• Ghost in the Machine can no longer permanently increase Isabel’s population cap by using it on units that are teleported
• EMP Mac Blast now more correctly matches the targeting reticle

Engine:

• Graphical settings now defaults to ‘Low’ when using an integrated GPU
• Fixed an issue with AMD Radeon R9 390 GPU that could cause some graphical corruption in campaign
• Fixed an issue where the “Graphics Driver out of Date!” message could refer to an incorrect driver version in some cases
• Idling in the main menu for extended time should no longer permanently disconnect the player from services for that session
• Players should no longer be able to remove the command point cap earned in a mission by loading a save
• Loading a save and finishing a previously completed mission should no longer add the complete mission time to time played
• Fixed a desync that could happen in 3v3 Strongholds
• Fixed a crash that could occur when loading saved games
• Multi-GPU support is now enabled on Windows 10
• Up to two GPUs are supported
• This implementation of Multi GPU synchronizes data between the two GPUs. Running at 4K resolution and higher-quality graphics options may exceed the bandwidth available to synchronize the cards, which may cause in-game performance issues.
• Updating to the Creators Update of Windows 10 is strongly recommended
• Make sure you’re on the latest graphics driver

Art:

• Fixed graphical corruption that could appear near wraiths in campaign
• Nightingale’s smoke screen no longer disappears when camera moves view off of it and back
• Colossus’ legs face the right way when targeting enemies now
• Vulture’s yellow warning light is now attached to the craft when firing its missile
• Mantis chaingun effects have been cleaned up
• Decimus’ Siphon no longer leaves green effects on the units

Audio:

• Added some audio to the Cyclops death animation
• All leaders were missing the voice over callout when the player’s base was destroyed
• Fixed Chopper’s ramming audio loop
• Corrected explosion of Lotus Mines to play the appropriate sound effect
• Anders sentinels will no longer play Grunt audio upon death
• Johnson’s EMP should no longer cause audio to stutter

Last, but not Least:

• Players affected by earlier issues with loss of progress will have their progress restored, based on their halowaypoint.com Service Record