Blood Bowl 2

Blood Bowl
Subseries of Warhammer
Blood Bowl	1995
Blood Bowl (2009)	2009
Blood Bowl: Chaos Edition	2012
Blood Bowl 2	2015
Blood Bowl: Death Zone	2019
Blood Bowl 3	2023

Key points

Many outstanding bugs and rule miscalculations from previous titles have been fixed.

Lacking a significant number of league management features from previous titles.

Various players and rules have been changed from the standard tabletop rules.^[2]^[3]

General information

Official forums

GOG.com Support Page

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail
GamersGate		Legendary Edition also available.
		Legendary Edition also available.
GOG.com		Legendary Edition.
Green Man Gaming		Legendary Edition also available.
Humble Store		Legendary Edition also available.
Steam		Legendary Edition also available.
Amazon.com (unavailable)
Amazon.co.uk (unavailable)

All macOS versions require Steam DRM.

Version differences

The Legendary Edition includes the base game and all DLC.

Monetization

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Team Pack	Contains up to 8 DLC (Lizardmen, Wood Elves, Norse, Undead, Necromantic, Nurgle, Chaos Dwarfs and Khemri). Price adjusts depending on the number of DLC already owned.^[4]
Lizardmen	Adds Lizardmen as playable race. Previously available as pre-order bonus.
Wood Elves	Adds Wood Elves as playable race. Previously available as pre-order bonus.
Norse	Adds Norse as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release.
Undead	Adds Undead as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release.
Necromantic	Adds Necromantic as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release.
Nurgle	Adds Nurgle as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release.
Chaos Dwarfs	Adds Chaos Dwarfs as playable race.
Khemri	Adds Khemri as playable race.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\Data\^{[Note 1]} %USERPROFILE%\Documents\BloodBowl2\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/236690/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%USERPROFILE%\Documents\BloodBowl2\
macOS (OS X)
Steam Play (Linux)	<Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/236690/pfx/^{[Note 2]}

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive		Requires enabling backup of the Documents* folder in OneDrive on all computers.*
Steam Cloud

Video

General settings.

Video settings.

Graphical presets in-game do not explain feature differences between them.

Numerous standard options are missing in-game and are exclusive to the config files.

The UI does not properly scale for Nvidia DSR/AMD VSR resolutions beyond native.

Graphics feature	WSGF	Notes
Widescreen resolution		Default maximum of 3200x2400. See Widescreen resolution to override.
Multi-monitor		See Widescreen resolution
Ultra-widescreen		See Widescreen resolution
4K Ultra HD		See Widescreen resolution
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed	Defaults to borderless windowed mode
Borderless fullscreen windowed	Default mode. See Widescreen resolution to override.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)	4x maximum in config files. Force higher via graphics control panel.
Anti-aliasing (AA)	4x MSAA maximum in config files. Force higher via graphics control panel.
Vertical sync (Vsync)	Default disabled. See Vertical sync (Vsync) or force via graphics control panel.
60 FPS
120+ FPS	Locked to 60 FPS; no config file option to remove.
High dynamic range display (HDR)	See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Widescreen resolution

XML files^{[citation needed]}

Go to <path-to-game>\Data\
Open Options.xml with your text editor of choice.
Find the line <Limits>.
Change the <Min></Min>, <Max></Max>, and <Range></Range> values to accommodate your desired resolution size and refresh rate.
Save and exit the text editor.
Edit %USERPROFILE%\Documents\BloodBowl2\Config.xml
Change the <Resolution>(XXXX,YYYY)</Resolution>, <Frequency>X</Frequency>, and <Fullscreen>X</Fullscreen> values as desired.
Save and exit the text editor.

Vertical sync (Vsync)

XML file^{[citation needed]}
Go to `<path-to-game>\Data\` Open `Config.xml` with your text editor of choice. Find `<PresentationInterval>0</PresentationInterval>`. Change the value to `1` to enable it. Save and exit the text editor.

Input

Controller settings.

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Full controller support
Controller remapping		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Controller sensitivity
Controller Y-axis inversion

Controller types

XInput-compatible controllers
Xbox button prompts
Impulse Trigger vibration

DualShock 4 controllers

Generic/other controllers

Additional information
Controller hotplugging
Haptic feedback		`<Vibrations>` section in Data\Options.xml
Simultaneous controller+KB/M

Audio

Sound settings.

Subtitles can be mistranslated from actual speech for certain languages.

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Music, Sound and Commentators
Surround sound
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
French
German
Polish
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Players	Notes
Local play	2	Hot seat
LAN play
Online play	2	Versus

Connection types

Type	Native	Notes
Matchmaking		Matchmaking done within the league your team is registered.
Peer-to-peer
Dedicated
Self-hosting
Direct IP

Other information

API

A specific API cannot be forced via the config files.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11
OpenGL	3.3
Shader Model support	4

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)

System requirements

Windows
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	Vista, 7, 8, 10
Processor (CPU)	2.5 GHz Dual Core
System memory (RAM)	3 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	8 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 ATI Radeon HD 5670 768 MB of VRAM OpenGL 3.3 compatible DirectX 10 compatible Shader model 4.0 support
Sound (audio device)	DirectX compatible

Despite stated system requirements, game will not run without DirectX 11 or OpenGL 3.3 support.

Notes

↑ When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
↑ ^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>/236690/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (236690) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References

↑ Mac version is now available! - Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: Blood Bowl 2 - last accessed on May 2023
↑ bloodbowl-game.com - last accessed on May 2023
↑ thenaf.net - last accessed on May 2023
↑ http://forum.bloodbowl-game.com/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=8472

[gamedir-5] When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).

[Proton_path_note-6] 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>/236690/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (236690) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

[1] Mac version is now available! - Steam Community :: Group Announcements :: Blood Bowl 2 - last accessed on May 2023

[2] wl-game.com - last accessed on May 2023

[3] thenaf.net - last accessed on May 2023

[4] ttp://forum.bloodbowl-game.com/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=8472

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Developers

	Cyanide Studio
Publishers
	Focus Home Interactive
Engines
	Cyatech
Release dates
Windows	September 22, 2015
macOS (OS X)	May 17, 2016^[1]
Reception
Metacritic	76
OpenCritic	71
IGDB	69
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase
Modes	Multiplayer
Series	Blood Bowl