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Wage Total War with huge Steam sale ahead of TW PharaohJul 21, 2023 - PCGamesNWith Total War Pharaoh on the horizon, what better way to get ready for the next installment in Creative Assembly's masterful historical series - featuring some of the best strategy games of all time - than a massive Total War sale? With everything from the series' earliest games, all the way up to the most recent historical entries prior to Total War Pharaoh, you won't want to miss out. So, move fast to grab these bargains. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Medieval 2: Total War cheats and console commands A Witcher mod is in the works for Medieval 2: Total War The Witcher becomes a strategy game in this Total War mod Total War: NAPOLEON Game PatchMay 24, 2023 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39760201/c9249a39627c9e1f542c9720f3b30aa4526aa343.png We've released a game patch for Total War: NAPOLEON which includes, 💥 Fix for cannon firing noises not playing. 🖥️ Fixed game crashing when running on CPUs with more than 32 logical processors. Thanks for your reports and ongoing patience!Small update to Total War: NAPOLEONApr 25, 2023 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3953001/33dba4ccba8b50a326dae249c6c8d0f8fa473906.png Greetings commanders, We've pushed out a small update to Total War: NAPOLEON which addresses crashes with 12th gen Intel CPUs. This update also removes integrated chat from the game. Read on for full details: Due to difficulties supporting and moderating dated chat systems in the current online environment, we’ve taken steps to remove the integrated chat from Total War: Napoleon and other legacy titles in our catalogue. We are, however, continuing to investigate ways to properly implement and support chat in our future projects and will keep you updated on any changes or developments we make.  In the meantime, we encourage you to make use of the official Total War Discord server as a free chat and voice option, or to use one of the many third-party programs available to communicate with your teammates.  In addition to this change, we’ve updated the game to better use of modern architecture, which should result in notable performance improvements in Total War: Napoleon. We’ve also added support and fixed a crash seen with 12th-generation Intel CPUs. For the latest news and announcements, don't forget to visit our official social channels. Steam Discussions Twitter Facebook Instagram DiscordThe best Napoleon: Total War modsAug 11, 2021 - PCGamesNLet's take a look at some Napoleon: Total War mods. While Empire: Total War is remembered quite fondly, Napoleon: Total War is generally considered the superior version: What it lost in terms of scale - shedding the global map to instead focus on the Euro-centric Napoleonic Wars - it made up for with an improved UI, better technical foundations, and generally fixed most of what was broken in Empire. Napoleon's relative popularity over its older sibling means the mod scene is a bit more robust and active, with plenty of overhauls and smaller mods available to spruce up your game. One thing to note is because the setting and underlying mechanics of Napoleon and Empire are quite similar, many of the mods available are also available for Empire: Total War, you may even see some repeats from our Empire: Total War mods guide. We've tried to avoid this as much as possible, only showcasing duplicate entries when the mod is too important or too big to leave out, like DarthMod's Napoleon version. Otherwise, enjoy this curated list of user modifications for this popular chapter in Total War history. Read the rest of the story... Weekend Deal - TOTAL WAR HISTORIC TITLES, up to 75% Off!Sep 26, 2019 - AnnouncementSave up to 75% on TOTAL WAR HISTORIC TITLES as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time Total War: Elysium will be a historywar card game, eventuallyAug 5, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun The strategic armyman management of Total War is being flattened into digital cardboard with Total War: Elysium, a collectable card game made by Creative Assembly. The series overlords call this “a multiplayer strategy game based on Total War background,” a background which is… history? That’s just history isn’t it? Unless Napoleon’s next match after Sun Ren there is against Thorgrim Grudgebearer, mind. I’d watch that face-off. Elysium will will debut in China as part of a partnership with megapublishers NetEase, then Creative Assembly say they want to launch it globally later once it’s proper good. (more…) These are the Total War team s favourite ever Total War factionsFeb 8, 2019 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun According to an ancient Sussex proverb, there are as many factions in the 20-year-old Total War series as there are sand grains on a beach, as there are angels dancing upon the head of a pin, as there are grenadiers in the armies of his Imperial Majesty Napoleon I, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine, Co-Prince of Andorra. This is providing, of course, the answer in each case is between 100 and 200, depending on whether you include the DLC and think Sicily is a real country. From stinky hill tribes through trim Teutonic phalanxes to bawling rivers of undead, Total Warring has certainly come in all shapes and sizes. At a recent hands-on event for Total War: Three Kingdoms, a heinous idea occurred to me: why not confuse and upset all the developers in attendance (plus a couple more over email) by asking them to pick a favourite faction? The results, which involved surprisingly few headbutts, are below. (more…) Pre-Purchase Now - Total War: THREE KINGDOMSFeb 7, 2019 - Community AnnouncementsTotal War: THREE KINGDOMS is Now Available for Pre-Purchase on Steam! Three heroes, sworn to brotherhood in the face of tyranny, rally support for the trials ahead. Scenting opportunity, warlords from China’s great families follow suit, forming a fragile coalition in a bid to challenge Dong Zhuo’s remorseless rule. Will they triumph against the tyrant, or will personal ambition shatter their already crumbling alliance and drive them to supremacy? https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/31196189/da13104d2feedfcde64c4152fdda43c2203dbc28.jpgTotal War: Napoleon, Empire, and Medieval II now include DLC for freeNov 20, 2018 - Rock, Paper, Shotgun ‘Definitive Editions’ of Total War: Empire, Total War: Medieval II, and Total War: Napoleon include all their expansions and DLC and bits, and folks who already own the base games on Steam have been upgraded to their fancy new versions for free. That’s a tidy little gift from developers Creative Assembly, and gets a total phwoar from me. Despite what the name might suggest, the games aren’t revamped or modernised or nowt, they’re just everything all in one package – but that’s not me grumbling. Like I said, a total phwoar, eh? A total phwoar, right? Ah forget it. (more…) Total War: NAPOLEON - Definitive EditionNov 20, 2018 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/3953001/32d523c564a644018d46c9dfdbd3bd27f9447b05.jpg We’re upgrading Napoleon, Empire, and Medieval II to Definitive Editions today – which means that if you already own them, you’ll now have all of the DLC for free! If you don’t already own them, now’s the time to check them out – the new editions include all the DLC and expansion packs for each: https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/TotalWar-Official/ Click here to view the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRhkWSqWSfQWeekend Deal - Total War Historic Titles - 10% to 90% Off!Sep 27, 2018 - AnnouncementIn celebration of the upcoming Total War: Three Kingdoms , save 10% to 90% off on the rest of the Total War Historic Titles as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time The Best And Worst Total War GamesJan 4, 2016 - Rock, Paper, ShotgunAt its best, the Total War series casts a spell over you. Your empire rises from nothing, surrounded by enemies who are poised to trample it into the dust. Each decision on the strategic level is a gamble on the immediate future, where “one more turn” isn’t just a stepping-stone to a new upgrade, but a perilous step onto thin ice. Each time you take to the battlefield is another do-or-die moment, a possible Hastings or Austerlitz that can open the road to conquest or plunge you into a desperate fight for survival. But the Total War series has also been defined by massive, abrupt swings in quality. While the series has been on a linear trajectory in terms of graphics, the quality of the games underlying those vivid battlefield vistas has varied wildly. Total War at its best is interactive Kurosawa and Kubrick. At its worst, it’s a middle-school history textbook as told by Drunk History and filmed by the cast and crew of The Patriot. So before the series (temporarily) leaves history behind for the grimdark faux-history of Warhammer fantasy, let’s put into order the times that Total War was at its best and why sometimes its lows were so very low. We’ll save the worst for last, because if there’s one thing that every Total War fan loves, it’s an argument over which games were the biggest disappointments. … Free Weekend - Total War Titles - 33% to 75% off!Jun 25, 2015 - AnnouncementPlay all Total War Titles FOR FREE now until 1pm pacific on Sunday! Also save 33% to 75% off until Monday at 10am Pacific! Total War Weekend - 75% off!Sep 25, 2014 - AnnouncementSave 75% on Total War Titles as part of this week's Weekend Deal*! Plus, play Total War: Rome II for FREE until Sunday at 1pm Pacific. If you already have Steam installed, click here to install or play. If you don't have Steam, you can download it here. *Offer ends Monday at 10AM Pacific Time. No discount on Total War: Rome II.Total War Week Now AvailableAug 20, 2013 - AnnouncementSave 50 to 75%* on Total War Titles and master history during the Total War Week! Steam Trading Cards Now Available for Medieval, Empire, Napoleon, and Rome. Plus, pre-purchase Total War: Rome II and receive the laurel wreath in Team Fortress 2. Wearing the laurel wreath unlocks a special "Romebot" invasion in Mann vs Machine mode. *No discount on pre-purchase titles. Offer ends August 26th at 10am pacific. Face Off: Is the RTS genre dying?Feb 6, 2013 - PC Gamer Last week, Ironclad Games’ director and co-owner Blair Fraser called the RTS genre “a dying market.” The genre convention of base building is “done,” Fraser says, and while a handful of games like Company of Heroes “may be profitable,” it’s his belief that RTSes are “very niche.” Hearing these comments from a strategy studio we respect sparked our own discussion: what’s the state of real-time strategy? In this Face Off debate, T.J. and Evan talk about the health of the genre, and debate whether its popularity has waned to never return, or if it’s actually seeing a resurgence. Jump over to the next page for more opinions from the PC Gamer community, and make your own arguments in the comments. Debate team captains: construct additional arguments. Evan: Let’s be clear: this isn’t something that I or we are rooting for. We love RTSes. Command & Conquer was one of my formative games. But the decline of real-time strategy as a popular experience is indisputable. RTS has shrank from the smorgasbord of experiences it offered in the ‘90s and early ‘00s—the era of Warcraft, Age of Empires, Ground Control, Homeworld, and Total Annihilation. I don’t think there’s any hope for a comeback. TJ: Oh ye of little faith. Well, I’m sure you expected I’d play the eSports card. So... bam! There it is, on the table. All of the most popular eSports are either traditional RTSes, or spins on traditional RTSes. Competitive strategy gaming is drawing millions of viewers in hundreds of countries. How can you say a genre that’s driving that kind of revolution is dying? It looks vibrant and energetic from where I’m sitting. Evan: The eSports “revolution” you’re describing can be attributed to the increased access to fast, high-quality internet video. eSports is in a better state than it was in the age of DSL and dial-up, sure, but StarCraft is the only conventional RTS with any success as an eSport. TJ: So far. We’re only two and a half years in. That’s like saying sports were dead back when all they had was Throw the Rock Through the Hoop. Evan: I’m glad to see eSports doing as well as it is. But really, this is about what we play and pay for, not about what we spectate. It’s about how few games are being made in a genre we used to count as a pillar of PC gaming. Most RTS studios are either closing or scrambling to change their core competency. Relic released a shooter in 2011. Petroglyph laid off 19 people in December and saw its game, End of Nations, brought in-house by its publisher. Sins of a Dark Age, which was initially pitched as an RTS-meets-MOBA, just ditched a “Commander Mode” RTS component that seemed promising. And Gas Powered Games, after declaring that it’d stop adding new content to Age of Empires Online, and after laying off most of its employees, is clinging to a Kickstarter campaign that seems doomed. I don’t want to see any of these studios shuttered. We need independent, creative groups like Gas Powered in the industry. But this is simply not a heal...Shocked Roman suddenly realises he’s in a videogame in latest Rome 2 screenshotsOct 4, 2012 - PC Gamer Total War: Rome 2 soldiers are made up of between 6000 and 7000 polygons lead designer, James Russell, explained recently at the Eurogamer Expo. Artillery projectiles in Rome 2 are made up of more polygons then a Rome 1 soldier has. If you put enough polygons into these characters and layer on enough AI subroutines than there's always a danger that one of your chaps can become sentient and kick his way out of the matrix. Luckily for humanity this soldier is having his existential crisis in front of a team of rampaging war elephants, one of the top five worst situations in which to have an existential crisis. See his predicament in more detail in the screenshots below. Total War Weekend - Day 2Sep 28, 2012 - AnnouncementIn celebration of the new Steam Workshop for Total War: Shogun 2, save 25% off the entire Total War Franchise and even bigger saving on select Total War titles each day, now through October 1st at 10am Pacific Time. Today only, save 75% off Napoleon: Total War and Empire: Total War. Owners of these two titles will also receive the Stovepipe Shako for the Sniper and Foppish Physician for the Medic in Team Fortress 2 and the Imperial Tricorne in Spiral Knights. Check out the Total War Master Collection for even bigger savings and a collection of Total War inspired items to use in Team Fortress 2 and Spiral Knights! Total War: Shogun 2 Workshop A thousand battles, a thousand victories, but are they yours? Create, discover and download historical battle scenarios, multiplayer maps and the most popular and accomplished mods. Or try out Total War TEd editor to create and upload your own. The "best Total War yet" just got better. Today The Creative Assembly has launched the Total War™: SHOGUN 2 Assembly Kit; a suite of tools that enables ground-up modification of the entire Total War™: SHOGUN 2 product family. This release also includes an update to TEd (the existing Battle Map Editor), which enables Steam Workshop integration and the ability to create scripted single-player historical battles. A sample historical battle, custom-built by The Creative Assembly, is available now on Steam to give new modders a convenient starting point. Don’t forget to come back tomorrow for more great deals and special offers. Total War: Shogun 2 to get Steam Workshop support, deeper mod tools plannedSep 27, 2012 - PC Gamer Accounts of this week's Creative Assembly mod summit have been hitting Total War community forums, with word of Steam Workshop support for Total War: Shogun 2 and plans for an upgraded set of CA-developed mod tools that will let modders tweak campaign and model files. The creator of The Great War mod, "Mitch," posted a detailed account of the meeting, in which some of the most prolific Total War modders in the world got to meet top CA talent like Shogun 2 lead designer Jamie Ferguson. According to Mitch, the presentation revealed that "there will be Steam Workshop intergration" for Shogun 2. "People will be able to create and upload their own historical battles and have others download them." There's also mention of new model conversion software and a "campaign reprocessor" that will let tweakers "edit the most desired areas of modding, the campaign and the models." You can read the full account of the day at the TWCenter forums. The Creative Assembly kickstarted their program to support modders earlier this year with the release of the free Shogun 2 map editor.Total War: Rome 2 trailer shows first in-game footageSep 26, 2012 - PC Gamer Ouch! I've never seen someone get crushed with the head of a massive statue before, but this is WAR. The new Rome 2 trailer shows the first in-engine footage of the siege of Carthage. Legions of troops pour onto the beaches, wash into the streets and break against the grey, craggy fury of an elephant charge. It's a short teaser for a longer fly-through video of the siege that The Creative Assembly are keeping locked safely away in their trailer Trireme, but it offers a heady glimpse of the updated engine. Don't let me keep you. 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