Wargroove 2 (Switch): all the updates (latest: Ver. 1.2.6)

13 March 202413 March 2024 Lite_Agent Chucklefish, Robotality, Wargroove 2

On this page, you will find all there is to know about the various updates for Wargroove 2 on Nintendo Switch (originally released in October 2023 in North America and Europe, and March 2024 in Japan)!

Click here for more Software updates!

Wargroove 2 – Ver. 1.2.6

Release date: March 13th 2024 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Japanese language added

Fix occasional crash when loading into conquest maps, or launching maps from the editor

Fix movement of Pegasus and Turtle units when ambushed in fog of war. These units are allowed to move into FoW if the target tile is not blocked. If it is, the unit is considered “ambushed” and placed on the last free tile in its path of movement.

Fix all HQ structures, not just the one of the current player, regaining health on each turn

Fix map design issues in Pearlescent Valley

No more combat preview tooltips or target highlights for enemy units not in line of sight of Riflemen

Objective texts are now updated properly when changing the language during a match

Tooltips in the unit info UI now always use the correct commander icon

Audio: changing tabs in codex does not play the sound FX twice

Audio: stop active music track when loading map editor

Audio: fix double sound FX with interaction menu in maps with free movement

Fixed quick play rating sometimes not updated if first player abandons the match (note: this is a server-side change and has been patched for *all* versions already)

Fixed bug which could cause performance problems and crashes when stacking buffs on units, for example with ranged units holding an attack boosting item and Emeric’s tier 2 groove

Tenri’s groove can not target kraken, its tentacles, and tentacled units anymore

Tornado and push/pull abilities can not target immovable units anymore, for example the crystal spawned by the Twins’ groove

Fixed list of units (tentacles, crystals spawned by Twins) not convertible by Elodies groove

Fixed Pistils tier 2 groove behaving weirdly when used by AI

Neutral structures do not take damage anymore by slamming units into them

Fixed graphics effect of tentacles wrapped around units not being removed sometimes

Fixed bug in “The General” mission which could cause a story dialogue to be skipped

Fixed scripting bug which could cause bridges fail to spawn in “A Great Fall”

The correct weather setting is now shown in match info of a multiplayer lobby

Updated incorrect description texts of Nuru and Twins on commander selection screen

Fixed exit confirmation dialog opened twice when pressing ESC key in title screen

Fixed crash rendering preview image for custom maps in map selection screen

Fixed crash trying to run misconfigured unit actions on custom maps

Conquest: Fixed various bugs with the kraken mini boss and its tentacles

Conquest: Fixed smoke screen effect persisting until end of map

Conquest: Fixed issues caused by units loaded into transport units. Units are now unloaded automatically when progressing to the next event.

Conquest: Fixed units playing wrong animations sometimes after loading a new map

Conquest: Prevent some situations where the player was able to walk backwards on the world map

Conquest: Commander icon is now shown, instead of Knight, in the “vulnerable” section of unit info UI

Editor: fix waterfall decoration changing position when switching to Dungeon biome

Editor: in the unit palette tool, cycling through neutral faction does not reset the current selection to Soldier anymore

Editor: fix ghost shadows when switching maps in the campaign map editor

Editor: fixed cutscene dialogue box cutting through overlapping UI elements

Editor: fixed unit facing option not working correctly if language isn’t set to English

Editor: Fixed crash when trying to edit properties of treasure chest

Additional notes: none
Source: Chucklefish

Wargroove 2 – Ver. 1.2.5 – Multiplayer Ranking Update

Release date: November 30th 2023 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Multiplayer Ranking + Changes to Quickplay experience

This update we wanted to focus on improving Wargroove 2’s multiplayer experience. Now when you enter the Multiplayer section of the game, a new ‘player rating’ is now visible. This rating is used in matchmaking. If you haven’t played a quickplay match before the rating will start at 1200. After finishing a quickplay match, a new screen has been introduced detailing how your rating has changed based on the previous match.

Quickplay Map Pool

For this update we lowered the amount of quickplay maps in rotation to give players a better chance of learning them, and removed some maps which weren’t a good design-fit for quickplay. We will be rotating the pool of maps for subsequent updates/seasons, so for now, please find below the selection of quickplay maps now in rotation for this season:

Wyvern Isles

Brimouth

Life in 19×19

Moonlight Meadows

Heartsong Gardens

Dusty Oasis

Ban Ban Beaches

Harmonious Hideout

Brimwin Valley

Snowdrift Harbour

Pearlescent Valley

Lost in Riparia

Other updates to Multiplayer include:

Quickplay will now play a different music when queuing for a match. Once a match has been found a notification sound will play.

When a player abandons a lobby during quickplay, a more descriptive message is now displayed to the other player.

Players now have 90s instead of 60s to ready when a quickplay lobby has been found

Balancing Changes

Kraken: Cost increased (750g->850g) and they receive more damage from water units.

Ragna: Tier 1 now charges at Medium speed down from Slow.

Nadia: Both tiers charge at Slow speed now.

Nuru: Nuru’s Tier 2 affects now all recruiting structures.

Valder: Tier 1 now charges at Medium speed, up from Fast.

Caesar: Tier 2 now charges at Very Slow speed, up from Slow.

The following multiplayer maps have seen tweaks in this update:

Pearlescent Valley

Lost in Riparia

Moonlight Meadows

Ban Ban Beaches Beyond

Brimouth Channel

Brightfall Plains

Frostbite Plains

Swamp of the Damned

Fixes

Vespers groove has received several fixes and should now work as intended

Fix bug that would sometimes prevent recruiting with the Enter key

Fixed Zawan’s supercharged vines showing missing description when right clicked.

Fix various navigation bugs when using arrow keys to navigate recruit/map lists

Fix optional Kraken crit objective being wrongly rewarded in “Return to Eight-Arm Bay”

Fix target portals not being available to use for team mates

Fix crash bug that could occur if player placed Lytra at a specific spot during the second prologue mission

Fix softlock that could occurred when player cancelled progress during tutorial campaign.

Optional objective in “The Fortress” is now properly fulfilled if enemy commander is defeated with the twin’s groove

UI: Fixed Tenri’s groove icon

Ultra widescreen monitors are now better supported

Controller: Improved usability in editor by showing button mapping for functions like undo/redo and toggling symmetry tools.

Improved visual readability of Vesper’s and Errol & Orla’s grooves

Fixed issue that caused Ryota’s groove often not being available in Fog of War maps

Neutral structures no longer take push/pull knock-on damage

Fixed a bug which could cause desync and “Invalid unit order” crashes in multiplayer

Fixed occasional crash after leaving multiplayer lobby screen

Updated translations for the Power Gauntlet item description to match its actual properties

Fixed a few spelling errors in all languages

We have made some updates to the server to help with issues people have been having in multiplayer.

Kraken units can no longer tentacle other tentacles

Editor: Fixed issue that caused placed units to be invisible on very large maps

Editor: Fixed crash issue with controllers that could occur when deleting triggers and conditions

Editor: Fixed missing strings in “Units: Verbs used” condition

Editor: Removed a few placeholder items in “Display tutorial box” action properties

Editor: Fixed several objects being misaligned with the mouse cursor when placing

Editor: Fixed “invalid config error” that could occur equipping certain items in the editor

Editor: Fix neutral units causing crash when using Unit Action event trigger action.

Editor: Fixed several inconsistencies with groove charge. The editor should now properly reflect the game’s use of groove in %.

Editor: Fixed Valder’s (No Glove) and Lytra’s (No Harp) voice over lines being wrong.

Editor: Several story props have been made available that were previously hidden

Editor: Removed “Delete All Progress” option from editor

Fixed issue that caused a certain fish not being unlockable when using Mercival’s groove

Fixed crash that could occur in conquest mode when transitioning levels

Fixed issue that caused items to be purchased immediately when selecting in merchant

Fixed issue that caused a crash when purchasing discounted merchant items

Fixed various typos in codex and game in general

Fixed a visual gap in the tile info screen that appeared for several water units

Fixed bug in “Firebird & The Oaracle” that would cause no music to be played during this level after skipping the intro

Fixed issue in last mission that marked unsafe tiles as safe.

Fixed buggy beach texture in “Ice Low Water” biome

Fix custom difficulty description not updating properly on change

Removed duplicate tracks from jukebox that had appeared under a different name

Fixed crash that could occur when quickly clicking buttons in conquest menus

Conquest: Fixed a merchant in Felheim conquest not being interactable

Conquest: Fixed several issues in Saffron Isles prisoner event

Conquest: Fixed issue in Training Camp events when player didn’t have troops available to train

Conquest: Fixed issue in unit transformation event that caused dialogues to go out of order

Conquest: Fixed issue that caused several events to not show their Fog of War status correctly

Conquest: Unlock icon no longer shows exclamation mark when there’s nothing left to unlock

Conquest: Fixed issue in item duplication event that could cause player to be offered the choice to duplicate more than once.

Conquest: Fixed issue that allowed player to give money to Fritz, even if they had none.

Conquest: During unit duplication event, player is now returned to the conquest map right away if they decline the offer

Conquest: Fix soft-lock when player was facing a witch as the only remaining enemy with no means to defeat it

Conquest: Fix issue that caused Emeric to have full groove charge on start of conquest

Conquest: Fix issue that caused units to not retain their item abilities when they get transformed/changed to new unit types

Conquest: Fix possible softlock after finishing the Donut + Fenris fight.

Conquest: Fix artwork of training camps being swapped.

Conquest: Fix occurence of unit stacking

Conquest: Fix several issues in the Prisoner event map during the Saffron Isles conquest.

Conquest: Fixed Amphibian Lucky Coin (“Alacrity”) to correctly show +1 movement instead of +2.

Conquest: Fixed crash that could occur during the Unit Transformation event

Conquest: Merchant dogs can no longer be moved by player

Additional notes: once updated you won’t be able to join lobbies, or continue ongoing games which were opened with previous patches.
Source: Chucklefish

Wargroove 2 – Ver. 1.2.3

Release date: October 18th 2023 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

Fixed softlock that could occur at the end of “Perfectly Natural”

Fixed softlock if you had more than one Commander present at the end of a Conquest.

Fixed crash that could occur during “High Noon”

Fixed crash that could occur when the twin’s groove despawned

Fixed a crash when spectating a game that finishes

Fixed a crash on double clicking on Campaign selection screen

Fixed crash when a unit was blocking Koji during optional objective sequence in “Cry for Help”

Fixed issue that could cause player to lose during “Perfectly Natural” even though they should’ve won

Fixed issue that could cause random unit disappearing when the twin’s groove despawned

Fixed an issue that caused trigger actions to not be scrollable in the editor when using controllers

Multiplayer Map: Harmonious Hideout now has both parties with trebuchets enabled

Fixed bug that caused bonus star not to be applied in “A Great Fall”

Fixed pointer arrow not disappearing in “…” mission during Dark Skies campaign

Fixed player wrongly being awarded optional objective in “Capn’ Sourcheeks” when they have not succeeded in achieving this

Fixed a bug that caused Phil & Cylinder not fading in properly during a cutscene

Fixed optional objective not being awarded in “Return to Eight-Arm Bay”

Fixed spelling error in the objective of “Return to Eight-Arm Bay”

Fixed asterisk in Pirate Harpoon Ship Entry

Fixed Shosa’s name label during cutscene

Added a bunch of backgrounds and assets to the cutscene editor that appear in the campaign

Commander-less factions are now available in the editor to use

Fixed a missing objective string in “…” during the Dark Skies campaign

Fixed a rouge pixel in the road tileset assets

Fixed an issue that made some selections in multiplayer settings hard to navigate with a controller

Fixed visual defects in the castle of “Cry for Help”

Fix crash bug that occurred when using Wulfar’s supercharged groove in Fog of War

Fixed a softlock that could occur in “A Great Fall”

Fixed UI location still being visible at the end of “A Great Fall”

Fixed crash that could occur with Kraken’s tentacle ability

Elodie can no longer target tentacles with her groove.

Frog AI will now respect Fog of War

Conquest: Fixed wrong tile info visible in some merchant events

Conquest: All towers now have 4 tiles for spawning air troopers.

Conquest: Fixed issue that caused Caesar’s movement buff in supercharged groove to stay past current level

Conquest: Fixed mages spawning outside the map’s border in certain maps

Additional notes: none
Source: Chucklefish (Steam)

Wargroove 2 – Ver. 1.2.2

Release date: October 11th 2023 (North America, Europe)
Patch notes:

No patch notes available. This update brings the following to the game:

fixes frequent freezes

re-enables cross-play with PC

updates Home menu icon

Additional notes: none
Source: Chucklefish (Twitter)

How to download updates for Wargroove 2 for the Nintendo Switch?

To download the updates for Wargroove 2, you have three options:

let the console do its thing if you have automatic downloads activated, and didn’t completely turn it off

If not…

try to launch the game from the Home Menu while being connected to the internet. You should get a prompt when doing so: simply follow the instructions on screen;

select the game > press either + or – to go to the Options page > select Software update > select Via the Internet.

To check that you have the latest version installed, simply select the game on the Home Menu, and press – or + to go to the Options: the version number is displayed just below the game title.