Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ — patch notes and updates
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| Spring In the Shire | 2025-05-01 | Save up to 90% off of your favorite Middle-earth games including Shadow of War, Shadow of Mordor LEGO Lord of the Rings and LEGO The Hobbit! The Middle-earth: Shadow Bundle allows you to fight to conquer all of Mordor in this complete experience. Includes Middle-earth: Shadow or War Definitive Edition and Shadow of Mordor: GOTY! In Shadow of War, you'll experience an epic open-world brought to life by the award-winning Nemesis System. Forge a new Ring of Power, conquer Fortresses in massive battles and dominate Mordor with your personal orc army. Middle-earth: Shadow of War. The Definitive Edition includes all downloadable content: Desolation |
| Midwinter in Middle-earth Sale | 2025-03-04 | Save up to 90% in WB Games' Midwinter in Middle-earth Sale! Featuring these multiple-award-winning and best-selling full games and DLC set in Middle-earth: Shadow of War Experience an epic open world brought to life by the award-winning Nemesis System. Forge a new Ring of Power, conquer Fortresses in massive battles and dominate Mordor with your personal Orc army in Middle-earth: Shadow of War. Shadow of Mordor Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth. LEGO: The Lord o |
| Spring in the Shire Sale | 2021-05-13 | Great discounts are in bloom in Middle-earth! Save up to 80% off of your favorite Middle-earth games including LEGO Lord of the Rings, LEGO The Hobbit, Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War! Fight through Mordor and uncover the truth of the spirit that compels you, discover the origins of the Rings of Power, build your legend and ultimately confront the evil of Sauron in this new chronicle of Middle-earth. Winner of over 50 “Best of 2014” awards, including Game of the Year, Best Action Game and Most Innovative Game. Fully loaded with all downloadable content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rbOTQhasnM |
| *** NEMESIS FORGE UPDATE *** | 2017-07-06 | Forge your Nemesis and discover your greatest Ally in Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ now; continue their story October 10 in Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™. Nemesis Forge available only with purchase of Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ and Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ on PC and subject at all times to the WB Terms of Service. Nemesis Forge is not available in Japan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0wP-GdrSEk |
| *** NEMESIS FORGE UPDATE *** | 2017-07-06 | Forge your Nemesis and discover your greatest Ally in Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ now; continue their story October 10 in Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™. Nemesis Forge available only with purchase of Middle-earth™: Shadow of Mordor™ and Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ on PC and subject at all times to the WB Terms of Service. Nemesis Forge is not available in Japan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0wP-GdrSEk |
| Update: Build v1951.27 | 2015-05-28 | General Fixes: Further fixed an issue where maximum save file size could exceed maximum allocated size, causing a crash when user tried to save. Fix for crash that could occur when exiting Trials of War mode. Fix for flickering lights in Nvidia SLI. Fixed displayed memory on AMD GPUs in CrossFireX. :Showdown: |
| Update: Build v1951.27 | 2015-05-28 | General Fixes: Further fixed an issue where maximum save file size could exceed maximum allocated size, causing a crash when user tried to save. Fix for crash that could occur when exiting Trials of War mode. Fix for flickering lights in Nvidia SLI. Fixed displayed memory on AMD GPUs in CrossFireX. ːShowdownː |
| Update: Build v1951.11 | 2015-03-23 | Stability Fixes: Fixed memory leak when SLI is enabled that could lead to “out of memory” crashes. Fixed crash that could occur when saving if user had >200 uncollected Runes on the map. (Game now only saves 32 best uncollected Runes left on map.) Fixed crash that could occur when closing game on skin selection window. General Fixes: Fixed an edge-case where Uruks were not re-populating empty spaces in the hierarchy, leading to extremely empty hierarchies. Leaderboards now navigate properly. Improved detection of monitor native resolution. ːShowdownː |
| Update: Build v1951.11 | 2015-03-23 | Stability Fixes: Fixed memory leak when SLI is enabled that could lead to “out of memory” crashes. Fixed crash that could occur when saving if user had >200 uncollected Runes on the map. (Game now only saves 32 best uncollected Runes left on map.) Fixed crash that could occur when closing game on skin selection window. General Fixes: Fixed an edge-case where Uruks were not re-populating empty spaces in the hierarchy, leading to extremely empty hierarchies. Leaderboards now navigate properly. Improved detection of monitor native resolution. :Showdown: |
| Update: Build v1951.6 | 2015-02-17 | New Features: Bright Lord DLC support added. (Note: Bright Lord DLC requires slightly higher system specs than Main Game Campaign. If you’re noticing a loss in performance, please lower system settings.) Continued PC Improvements: Stability: Fixed rare crash encountered when going into Skills Menu. Fixed a crash that could occur if blood failed to render. Fixed issue where game would crash after a video card driver crash. Fixed crash related to physics. Performance: Improved rendering on domination FX to improve framerate. Save/Load: Fixed issue where users save progress could be lost after watching benchmark to completion. UI: Added ability |
| Update: Build v1951.6 | 2015-02-17 | New Features: Bright Lord DLC support added. (Note: Bright Lord DLC requires slightly higher system specs than Main Game Campaign. If you’re noticing a loss in performance, please lower system settings.) Continued PC Improvements: Stability: Fixed rare crash encountered when going into Skills Menu. Fixed a crash that could occur if blood failed to render. Fixed issue where game would crash after a video card driver crash. Fixed crash related to physics. Performance: Improved rendering on domination FX to improve framerate. Save/Load: Fixed issue where users save progress could be lost after watching benchmark to completion. UI: Added ability |
| Update: Build v1808.19 | 2015-01-09 | PC Specific Bug Fixes: Fixed issue where non-English Keyboards couldn’t rotate artifacts or select Captains in Army Screen. Fixed issue where motion blur was not being applied on Camera and Objects setting. Fixed mismatched help-text on Video Screens (Display Adapter and Max FPS were incorrect). Added additional messaging to FXAA help text. :Showdown: |
| Update: Build v1808.19 | 2015-01-09 | PC Specific Bug Fixes: Fixed issue where non-English Keyboards couldn’t rotate artifacts or select Captains in Army Screen. Fixed issue where motion blur was not being applied on Camera and Objects setting. Fixed mismatched help-text on Video Screens (Display Adapter and Max FPS were incorrect). Added additional messaging to FXAA help text. ːShowdownː |
| Update: Build v1808.18 | 2014-12-15 | New Features: Lord of the Hunt DLC Support Added Note: Lord of the Hunt requires slightly higher system specs. If you’re noticing a loss in performance, please lower system settings. PC Specific Bug Fixes: Stability (Crash Fixes): Fixed a crash caused when the user has multiple video adapters, and the first adapter is not DX11 compatible but the second adapter is. Performance: Fixed issue where screen tearing was noticeable when maxFPS is set to 60 and Vsync is enabled. Vsync no longer causes the framerate to cap at 30 UI: Added option to disable FXAA and improved associated help text. When running Shadow of Mordor on a laptop, a new battery |
| Update: Build v1808.18 | 2014-12-15 | New Features: Lord of the Hunt DLC Support Added Note: Lord of the Hunt requires slightly higher system specs. If you’re noticing a loss in performance, please lower system settings. PC Specific Bug Fixes: Stability (Crash Fixes): Fixed a crash caused when the user has multiple video adapters, and the first adapter is not DX11 compatible but the second adapter is. Performance: Fixed issue where screen tearing was noticeable when maxFPS is set to 60 and Vsync is enabled. Vsync no longer causes the framerate to cap at 30 UI: Added option to disable FXAA and improved associated help text. When running Shadow of Mordor on a laptop, a new battery |
| Update: Build v1636.37 | 2014-11-20 | New Features: Lithariel Skin available. Lithariel’s Trials of War “Test of Defiance” available. (Main Objective: Kill 6 Warchiefs and 15 captains. Lithariel has only one life. Death results in failure. Lithariel does more melee damage, but has less armor. You cannot save during this challenge. Quitting results in failure.) New Epic rune granted to player’s inventory “Defiant to the End”. (Additional last chance given to player when equipped.) PC Specific Features: Nvidia SLI support. Bug Fixes for all platforms: Photo Mode: The controller drain/brand SFX persists when Photo Mode is up. Brand SFX no longer persist when pausing through photo mo |
| Update: Build v1636.37 | 2014-11-20 | New Features: Lithariel Skin available. Lithariel’s Trials of War “Test of Defiance” available. (Main Objective: Kill 6 Warchiefs and 15 captains. Lithariel has only one life. Death results in failure. Lithariel does more melee damage, but has less armor. You cannot save during this challenge. Quitting results in failure.) New Epic rune granted to player’s inventory “Defiant to the End”. (Additional last chance given to player when equipped.) PC Specific Features: Nvidia SLI support. Bug Fixes for all platforms: Photo Mode: The controller drain/brand SFX persists when Photo Mode is up. Brand SFX no longer persist when pausing through photo mo |
| Update: Build v1636.29 | 2014-10-17 | Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, build v1636.29 Photo Mode: Photo Mode added to Shadow of Mordor. For more information, check here. Updates: Various bug fixes and improvements :Showdown: |
| Update: Build v1636.29 | 2014-10-17 | Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, build v1636.29 Photo Mode: Photo Mode added to Shadow of Mordor. For more information, check here. Updates: Various bug fixes and improvements ːShowdownː |
| Update: Build v1426.21 | 2014-10-11 | Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor, build v1426.21 Stability: Fixed a source of the game failing to launch due to a corrupt VCRedist installation. Fixed the issue with error message box being destroyed upon shutdown, allowing more detailed information to some players when game crashes during launch. Fix for most common crash when partner of a sync-action is removed. Graphics: SLI profile for Shadow of Mordor is on the way. More information as it’s available. Investigating: We are looking in to the source of our save file loss issue. If this is happening to you, please contact Customer Support at http://support.wbgames.com/. ːShowdownː |