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Blood Bowl 2

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Blood Bowl 2
Blood Bowl 2 cover
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
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Point and select
Genres Strategy
Art styles Cartoon
Themes Fantasy
Series Blood Bowl
Blood Bowl 2 on HowLongToBeat
Blood Bowl 2 on IGDB
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Blood Bowl 2 on Wikipedia
Blood Bowl
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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
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
GamersGate
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Legendary Edition also available.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
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Legendary Edition also available.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
GOG.com
DRM-free
Legendary Edition.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Legendary Edition also available.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Humble Store
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Legendary Edition also available.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Steam
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Legendary Edition also available.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.com (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
Amazon.co.uk (unavailable)
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Windows
macOS (OS X)
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]
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Lizardmen Adds Lizardmen as playable race. Previously available as pre-order bonus.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Wood Elves Adds Wood Elves as playable race. Previously available as pre-order bonus.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Norse Adds Norse as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Undead Adds Undead as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Necromantic Adds Necromantic as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Nurgle Adds Nurgle as playable race. Free, if base game owned prior to release.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Chaos Dwarfs Adds Chaos Dwarfs as playable race.
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Khemri Adds Khemri as playable race.
Windows
macOS (OS X)

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

Vertical sync (Vsync)

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

Input

Controller settings.
Controller settings.

Audio

Sound settings.
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 Native 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

  1. 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. 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