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19 July

Undead Team Now Available!

Hey Coaches,

We're pleased to announce the release of a new update!

The open ladder of the Cabalvision Official League has been reset with the release of the update.

Thanks for your feedback during the Undead open beta. We gathered them and will now work on them for the next update.

Here are the patch notes of today's update:

New features

The Undead team is now available with the Starplayers Ramtut III, Count Luthor Von Drakenborg and Earlice.
A new roster interface is available. It combines the team and staff management in one page.
The price of the Orc Blitzer is now 80k.
The bretonnian blitzer has now access to agility skills on a standard level up (no doubles).
Increase of the maximum team number per coach (40 instead of 25)
Increase of the maximum competition number in a league (20 instead of 8)
Matchmaking system prameters changes (processing time: 5min / Max TV difference: 500)

Bug fixes

Fix of an issue preventing the Xbox One controller from working on Windows 10
Fix of a bug blocking a team slot
Pass Block is now usable on a Long Bomb
The coaches assistants are now properly taken into account for the kick-off event Brilliant Coaching
Fix of a crash when trying a pass outside of the pitch in BB1 control mode
Fix of a scrolling issue during inducement in hotseat with the combo mouse/controller
Fix of a bug preventing the Norse AI from validating its placement with Starplayers
The ball is now displayed properly during a Touchdown with some players
Fix of an issue preventing the screen resolution to be saved on Mac
Fix of an issue preventing players from using the chat in multiplayer on Mac
Fix of an issue preventing the random selection of a stadium in matchmaking.

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5 July

Undead Beta Live!

Greetings Coaches,

The Undead Team beta is now playable for all PC and Mac owners of Blood Bowl 2 on Steam! Please note that to participate in the beta, you will need to create a new account.

To access the beta, just follow these steps:

Go to your Steam Library, right-click ‘Blood Bowl 2’, and click ‘Properties’
Navigate to the ‘Betas’ tab
Enter the password: deathanddecay
Under ‘Select the beta you would like to opt into’, choose betaundead

Have fun testing out the Undead, and feel free to share your feedback on the Blood Bowl Official Forums and Steam Hub Forums!

Here’s the patch notes for the beta:

New features

The Undead team is now available with the Starplayers Ramtut III, Count Luthor Von Drakenborg and Earlice.
A new roster interface is available. It combines the team and staff management in one page.
The price of the Orc Blitzer is now 80k.
The bretonnian blitzer has now access to agility skills on a standard level up (no doubles).
Increase of the maximum team number per coach (40 instead of 25)
Increase of the maximum competition number in a league (20 instead of 8)
Matchmaking system prameters changes (processing time: 5min / Max TV difference: 500)

Bug fixes

Fix of an issue preventing the Xbox One controller from working on Windows 10
Fix of a bug blocking a team slot
Pass Block is now usable on a Long Bomb
The coaches assistants are now properly taken into account for the kick-off event Brilliant Coaching
Fix of a crash when trying a pass outside of the pitch in BB1 control mode
Fix of a scrolling issue during inducement in hotseat with the combo mouse/controller
Fix of a bug preventing the Norse AI from validating its placement with Starplayers
The ball is now displayed properly during a Touchdown with some players
Fix of an issue preventing the screen resolution to be saved on Mac
Fix of an issue preventing players from using the chat in multiplayer on Mac

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Reviews

“Blood Bowl 2 is a note-perfect recreation of a Games Workshop tabletop game set in the Warhammer Fantasy universe”
8/10 – Gamespot

“The game is a success”
Jeuxvideo.cοm

“A campaign with spectacular presentation and deep, crunchy multiplayer league options blitz this game into the endzone.”
7.8/10 – IGN

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Mac OS X

Minimum:

OS: WINDOWS VISTA/WINDOWS 7/WINDOWS 8
Processor: AMD/INTEL DUAL-CORE 2.5 GHZ
Memory: 3072 MB RAM
Graphics: 768 MB 100% DIRECTX 10 AND SHADERS 4.0 COMPATIBLE ATI RADEON HD 5670/NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 260 OR HIGHER
Storage: 8 GB available space
Sound Card: DIRECTX COMPATIBLE
Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR THE GAME ACTIVATION *WINDOWS XP NOT SUPPORTED

Minimum:

OS: MAC OS X 10.10/MAC OS X 10.11
Processor: INTEL CORE I5 3 GHZ
Memory: 4096 MB RAM
Graphics: ATI RADEON HD 6970M/NVIDIA GEFORCE GT 650M OR HIGHER
Storage: 8 GB available space
Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR ONLINE GAMING AND GAME ACTIVATION

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Posted: 7 August

A classic that has been modernized... sort of. It's worth it for less than $20 and a lot of fun but you'll be left wanting to buy more teams and I'm Xgen... just let me pay full price and get eveything. Pay for play is lame.

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Posted: 6 August

Fancy graphic's don't make a game

Unless you simply must play the official e-sport leagues, I wouldn't bother with BB2 it's a classic example of making a game worse for the sake of fancy pixels and loosing a lot of what makes blood bowl great

Posted: 2 August

If there was a 'maybe' I'd pick that as my recommendation instead of 'yes'.
Personally, I love the game and always have from the days of playing it on a table top. But the criticism of it not being a total upgrade on Chaos Edition (the previous version) holds a lot of water.
The game itself is tactical and very in-depth: player positioning, skill selection and risk- management are the main things you’ll have to learn – usually by trial and error! It’s not too hard to actually play; it is very hard to master though and will frustrate you if you’re new to the game.
Hang on: it WILL frustrate you all of the time!

Compared to BB1 though…there are less races, players don’t look different when they level (etc. etc.). In short there are shortcomings where there shouldn’t be. However, the game no longer rewards disconnecting players (which I totally hated), it looks better in many (but not all) ways and it is definitely improving as the developers iron out issues with the game and add new teams and content. I have both versions, but don’t play BB1 - mainly because it’s dying out and when a player is losing, or simply doesn’t like the look your team, they have a habit of pulling the plug and voiding the game.
In short, it’s rewarding but not easy at all.

Posted: 1 August

After watching TotalBiscuts' Blood Bowl 1 tournament years ago I saw this game coming up and thought why not give it a shot. Since then I've never regretted my decision.

At first the game seems very punishing. If you don't take the time to learn the order of operations (safe moves first, risky plays after) you'll feel like you're getting ♥♥♥♥ on by RNG, but once you get the hang of that the game opens up. After 150+ hours in game I still feel like I learn something knew every time I play.

The community is also pretty great, from what I've seen so far. I stream the game and so many people have come into my chat and offered to give me tips and tricks. They've really helped me improve and get much more enjoyment out of the game.

It does lack a lot of teams for the moment, but they seem like they're looking to add more in the future. So far they're already addedf Norse and Undead. Nurgle, and Necro are on the way too.There is also the occasional bug, crashing here and there, but nothing has ever affected me personally aside from hilarious camera angles.

Over all it's a solid game. If you're at all interested in the turn based strategy (with some rng), warhammer, or football you may very well enjoy this game.

My bad, the game is not total $#%^. I was ignorant of the system and rendered an uninformed review. My apoligies to the players that enjoy the game. The truth is I am still learning so i will differ my review for now.

I really wanted to be able to write a positive review about this game but I can't. The short version of what could be a long review is that the game is fun, but it is completely lacking in long term playability due to the multiplayer matchmaking system being absolutely horrid.

This game is not fun for more than a few matches against the AI. If there was a human element, it would be far more enjoyable but I refuse to sit and wait in a queue for 10 minutes to play one game that the opponent will drop out of 75% of the time after 5 minutes.

SO BIASED.
I have played the real version of this game for years and have many friends that do ive only know 2 people to get 3 attackers down dies in a roll but apparantly trhis game thinks getting 3 attackers down 4 turns in a rown with re rolls is completeley possibal.
this game is so biased it makes it impossibale toplay properly feel gutted ive waisted my money and time on this willo not reccomend and will be veering clear of any game that produces of this style u8ntill theyu sort the ♥♥♥♥ out

is pretty good

Most of the negative reviews are from entitled brats who expect all of the content in BB1 Chaos Edition to be included in this, which is a totally unrealistic and frankly unfair expectation. Shame on them.

A great game, especially if you have fond memories of the tabletop and geography makes playing friends difficult.

i have BB 1 chaos for years and i love it, time for an upgrade i thought.....BB2, 60$ with dlcs. ok lets try.....
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SP:
THERE IS NONE! its just an extended tutoriel

TEAMS:
BB chaos have 23 teams....bb2 have 8 + 4 dlcs(at the moment, im sure they will sell you more)

MP?
i try to find a game for 30 min with a YOUTUBE TUTORIEL, because i was thinking i did somthing wrong. no game!

GRAPHICS
are batter and i liked the tackle animation.

SOUND
the crowd is to loud, and you cant turn it down unless you turn down all the sound effects

TY STEAM for refunding my money, its the first game i refunded ever and im a BB fan. this game is a scam.

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FallenGlory

425 products in account

29 reviews

Posted: 22 July

Seeing this many bad reviews makes me feel like it doesn't do justice to this title. Note that most reviews do not have a whole lot of time invested in the game.

Initially when my friend talked me into playing this I was hesitant to try it, but boy was I happy I did try. The game revolves around the RNG table top version of Blood Bowl and gives a sub story to the all famous Warhammer games. The goal is scoring a touch down, when you are defending you want to stop your opponent from doing that. By any means necessary. This is great and it can get pretty bloody. Some players will try to avoid you, while others try to maim your teammates. Team choice pretty much decides play style. though there are quite a few teams where you have the option of doing both.

About the community, this game really shines when playing others. I've seen a lot of negative reviews about bad AI or long wait times in multiplayer. You can solve this by making a league with friends like I did. So far it has been a great experience, we have players with 1500 hour of experience and players like me with 20 hours (when I started). People have been really polite and helpfull to me and I've enjoyed both winning and losing.

If you still have trouble finding a proper league be sure to contact me, I'm co-host of the Inner Circle Blood Bowl League and I'd be happy to welcome you.

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Slazzurus

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4 reviews

Posted: 29 July

Don't mind the mixed reviews. This game is hell in a handbasket fun.

The only issue is that you need to actively find people/meet people to get in a league for multiplayer. It's got a bit of a learning curve, but it's plenty fun, especially for the more tactical of folks.

And if you're a nerd like me, you get to tackle the ♥♥♥♥ out of the people vicariously that you couldn't before in high school.

-Slazz

Velihopea

249 products in account

15 reviews

Posted: 28 July

Excellent TBS/RPG game, chess with multiple different teams who all have their own specific weaknesses and strengths. All actions are also decided by dice rolls, so if you hate having bad luck sometimes, stay clear!

Reviews of this game are polarised, some will not like this game, but those who do will drown hundreds of hours in it. Also be warned: this is a strategy game, not FIFA. Hours played says it all: If you think you might like BB, do yourself a favor and give it a go.

Goltar

59 products in account

1 review

Posted: 31 July

You will read many reviews of BB2, either from crazed fans or from endless complainers, sometimes from both at the same time.
Both have their reasons, of course: complainers mostly focus on the fact that the game seems "unfinished", that it lacks many teams that were present in BB1 (and the DLC is coming in quite slow), that many small eye candies are unfinished (like cheerleaders being all mummified human dolls in blue) and so many other issues that they will be glad to point out for you.
But before deciding whether to buy or not the game, silence the nay-sayers a bit. Listen to the crazed fans for a moment. To those that still find more than satisfying getting home after a long day at work, grab a ball and get lost in the rush of a Blood Bowl game!
If you know Blood Bowl, you will feel at home. If you never played Blood Bowl, this is your ticket into the madness.
And if you decide to trust the developers *now*, they will be motivated to fix all the small (and, frankly, irrelevant - the game is great already!) issues that bother the complainers so much.

Noytron

237 products in account

8 reviews

Posted: 26 July

I came from blood bowl 1 so to me this is an amazing 2nd game considering how much they improved on the first game.

I'll say right away i probably wouldn't have played it as much as i did if i didn't stream it for 2 weeks straight with some eager viewers that wanted to get into blood bowl or wanted to watch some of the random aspects that sometimes can make the difference between winning and losing.

This game is hard, unforgiving and can be frustrating at times due to the dice rolling aspect and there is a decent amount to learn if you have never played a blood bowl game before but if you can learn the basics and enjoy the idea of lvling up a team, upgrading your stadium and managing what you think is most important to add to your team.

That is a big part of why i like it, but the meat of the game is the matches where you setup your players to create tackle zones, protect ball carriers, make perfect throws that go past half the field or simply punch opponents into the crowd and watch the spectators kill the opponents players or who knows? Maybe they will get greedy and try to run a little further than they can so they slip and die from the fall.

I recommend it because i think if you are into this kind of game and can get past the learning curve which is relatively simple if someone breaks it down for you then this is a really satisfying game to play both against ai and other people even if you are on the unlucky side of things sometimes.

[ACG]Emperor of Thorns

30 products in account

2 reviews

Awesome game to play with friends and in leagues that are specially managed. Normal public leagues may become tedious to endure.

EndlessFragment

116 products in account

10 reviews

Vargas78

508 products in account

57 reviews

Bloodbowl is a great game but let's face it, the graphics in the 2009 version were awful, even by 2009 standards. This has been greatly improved, and the UI has been slightly improved. Does that justify the high price it goes for (as much as 45 euros in some places) for a game that is otherwise lacking many of the teams present in the excellent Chaos edition?

I don't think it does. 30 euros seems a fairer price for the amount of content we have. Yet if it retails for less in your part of the world, or you see it on a promotion i do recommend it. Like the board game it is based on, it is an excellent game which is tactically rich and equally rewarding and frustrating at times. Bloodbowl is part sport, and part battle.