Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2
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Developers | |
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Tindalos Interactive | |
Publishers | |
Focus Home Interactive | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 4[Note 1] | |
Release dates | |
Windows | January 24, 2019 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 77 |
OpenCritic | 76 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase |
Modes | Multiplayer |
Series | Battlefleet Gothic: Armada |
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada | |
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Subseries of Warhammer 40,000 | |
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada | 2016 |
Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 | 2019 |
General information
- Official Battlefleet Gothic: Armada Subforum (Focus Forums)
- Official Discord server
- Lexicanum - A huge wiki for the Warhammer 40,000 series
- GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
- GOG.com Support Page
- Steam Community Discussions
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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GamersGate | ||||
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GOG.com | Complete Edition also available. | |||
Green Man Gaming | ||||
Humble Store | ||||
Microsoft Store | ||||
Steam | Complete Edition also available. |
Essential improvements
Skip intro video
Instructions[citation needed] |
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Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\BattlefleetGothic2\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\ |
Microsoft Store | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/573100/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\BattlefleetGothic2\Saved\SaveGames\ |
Microsoft Store | |
Steam Play (Linux) | <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/573100/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud | ||
Xbox Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | Vert- Field of View causes cropping of top and bottom of screen. No currently announced plans to fix this.[2] | ||
Ultra-widescreen | As with multi-monitor, there is no official support; however, this may still be tolerable depending on your aspect ratio. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | |||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | FXAA and two settings for TAA. Image Sharpening is also an option. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | See High frame rate. | ||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See the engine page to force native HDR output, or the glossary page for other alternatives. |
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
High frame rate
Change frame rate cap |
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Notes
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | Camera scrolling and zooming sensitivity options available. The majority of gameplay uses an unlocked mouse cursor. | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | Affects camera movement when rotating the view. See Mouse sensitivity notes. | |
Controller | ||
Controller support |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | General, Music, SFX, and Voices. | |
Surround sound | ||
Subtitles | Campaign dialogue only. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
Royalty free audio |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Spanish |
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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Local play | ||||
LAN play | [3] | |||
Online play | 4 | Co-op, Versus Co-op Campaign and Battle (Skirmish). Co-op supports up to two players. Skirmishes are 1v1 or 2v2 with a Ranked option. |
Issues fixed
Default Windows cursor appearing, mouse input not working
- Can be caused by using keyboard commands (e.g. Alt+Tab ↹) to switch between windows.
Regain mouse focus |
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Startup Crash/instability/performance problems on systems with more than one monitor (Patch 3)
- The patch released on April 1, 2019, has addressed this issue.
Previous workaround: run the game with the following command line arguments: -WinX=0 -WinY=0 [4]
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Crashes shortly after starting on Intel 12th Gen CPUs
Instructions |
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Crashes shortly after starting on Intel 12th-generation CPUs (Linux)
Run the game with the followuing command line arguments: OPENSSL_ia32cap=~0x20000000 %command% -noEAC
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- Note:
-noEAC
does not relate to this bug but is also required to run the game on Linux, and must come after the OPENSSL code)
Broken resolution scaling
- The "Resolution Scale" slider in the game's video settings is broken and does nothing, but can be fixed with an ini tweak.
Instructions |
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[ConsoleVariables] r.ScreenPercentage=150 |
Issues unresolved
Ultrawide/multi-monitor display resolutions cause extreme zoom
- Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 uses Vert- Field of View scaling, causing displays wider than 16:9 to zoom in more than intended.
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Anti-cheat | Easy Anti-Cheat | [6] |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7, 8, 10 | |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-3450 3.1 GHz AMD FX-6300 3.5 GHz |
Intel Core i7-3820 3.6 GHz AMD Ryzen 5 1600X 3.6 GHz |
System memory (RAM) | 8 GB | 16 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 50 GB | |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 660 AMD Radeon HD 7870 2 GB of VRAM | Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB of VRAM |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ Unreal Engine 4 engine build: 4.18.3.0[1]
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/573100/
in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (573100) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.
References
- ↑ Verified by User:Mastan on 2022-09-25
- ↑ [Not a bug] Super ultra wide support 32:9 - Focus Forums
- ↑ Battlefleet Gothic: Armada 2 at Co-Optimus
- ↑ Fatal Error since patch 3 on launch - Focus Forums
- ↑ Game always crashes after around 1-3 minutes. - Steam Forums - last accessed on 2022-02-15
- ↑ Easy Anti-Cheat - last accessed on May 2023