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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: Shogun 2 Game UpdateMay 24, 2023 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/39760201/575f5648e9a1debf6d6f4e8fa51a09e09c939a98.png We've released a game update for Total War: Shogun 2 which includes,  ↗️ Compiler upgrade - This is an update for the game to better use modern architecture and improve performance. 🖥️ Fixed game crashing when running on CPUs with more than 32 logical processors Alongside this, as the current chat systems in our game are both antiquated and limited in the modern online era, it is necessary for us to remove those services from Total War: SHOGUN 2 and our other legacy titles. We are, however, continuing to investigate ways to implement and support chat in our future projects properly and will keep you updated on any future changes or developments. Thanks for your understanding; if you're looking for a free chat option, you can also visit the official Total War Discord server to chat with your friends.Eight years later, Total War: Shogun 2 is getting a new mapOct 14, 2020 - PCGamesNThe distant past of 2011 marked the start of a new beginning for Total War games as it was the year we were treated to the release of Shogun 2: Total War (as it was known at the time). Focusing on feudal Japan during the Sengoku period, it was the sequel to the iconic game that started the whole series, and it also represented a much needed return to form after the rocky periods of Empire & Napoleon: Total War before it. Today, eight years after Shogun 2 received its last major patches & DLC, Creative Assembly is releasing a new map for everyone's favourite samurai game. Ok, technically it's an old map - the Battle of Kawagoe was a bonus scenario anyone who pre-ordered the game via GameStop was given as an incentive back in 2011. It depicts a battle fought at the end of the Siege of Kawagoe Castle, which took place in 1546-46. The Hojo clan launched a successful night time counterattack against the besieging Uesugi clan, timing their attack with the arrival of reinforcements. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Free games: One of the best Total War games goes free to keep Creative reassembly: Total War: Shogun II is coming to Mac Total War: Shogun 2 Gold Edition makes a convincing case for its existence Eight years later, Total War: Shogun 2 is getting a new mapOct 14, 2020 - Strategy GamerThe distant past of 2011 marked the start of a new beginning for Total War games as it was the year we were treated to the release of Shogun 2: Total War (as it was known at the time). Focusing on feudal Japan during the Sengoku period, it was the sequel to the iconic game that started the whole series, and it also represented a much needed return to form after the rocky periods of Empire & Napoleon: Total War before it. Today, eight years after Shogun 2 received its last major patches & DLC, Creative Assembly is releasing a new map for everyone's favourite samurai game. Ok, technically it's an old map - the Battle of Kawagoe was a bonus scenario anyone who pre-ordered the game via GameStop was given as an incentive back in 2011. It depicts a battle fought at the end of the Siege of Kawagoe Castle, which took place in 1546-46. The Hojo clan launched a successful night time counterattack against the besieging Uesugi clan, timing their attack with the arrival of reinforcements. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Free games: One of the best Total War games goes free to keep Creative reassembly: Total War: Shogun II is coming to Mac Total War: Shogun 2 Gold Edition makes a convincing case for its existence SHOGUN 2 Free-LC: Battle of KawagoeOct 14, 2020 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3952758/19e3e9478b10bbf26072d5d457b6f491d9cf0ecb.jpg To celebrate SEGA's 60th Anniversary, we're giving away one of the most impressive tactical battles in Total War: SHOGUN 2! Originally only available as a pre-order bonus back in 2011, the Battle of Kawagoe is now free for everyone. Will you be able to replicate General Ujiyasu’s success in the Battle of Kawagoe? Find out more here: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-shogun-2-battle-of-kawagoe/Eight years later, Total War: Shogun 2 is getting a new mapOct 14, 2020 - PCGamesNThe distant past of 2011 marked the start of a new beginning for Total War games as it was the year we were treated to the release of Shogun 2: Total War (as it was known at the time). Focusing on feudal Japan during the Sengoku period, it was the sequel to the iconic game that started the whole series, and it also represented a much needed return to form after the rocky periods of Empire & Napoleon: Total War before it. Today, eight years after Shogun 2 received its last major patches & DLC, Creative Assembly is releasing a new map for everyone's favourite samurai game. Ok, technically it's an old map - the Battle of Kawagoe was a bonus scenario anyone who pre-ordered the game via GameStop was given as an incentive back in 2011. It depicts a battle fought at the end of the Siege of Kawagoe Castle, which took place in 1546-46. The Hojo clan launched a successful night time counterattack against the besieging Uesugi clan, timing their attack with the arrival of reinforcements. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Free games: One of the best Total War games goes free to keep Creative reassembly: Total War: Shogun II is coming to Mac Total War: Shogun 2 Gold Edition makes a convincing case for its existence Save 70% or more on Total War games in the Total War promo at Games PlanetJun 11, 2020 - EurogamerWith spin-off A Total War Saga: Troy a matter of months away you may want to practice settling back into your role as armchair general with some cheap Total War games from Games Planet. The PC digital retailer is currently running a Total War Promo across a range of games and DLC from across the entire series. There are some massive discounts of up to 78 per cent up for grabs, whether you're looking for something new or old. Let's start with the two entries from the Total War: Warhammer series. These adaptations of the long-running tabletop sensation mix classic turn-based strategy sections with tactical real-time battles. Various races are also present, each with their own campaign and play style. Other Lords and campaigns are also available as DLC at up to 56 per cent off, too! Read more Last chance to get SHOGUN 2 for free!May 1, 2020 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3952758/a8e381a64cbaa8fc364181e9c217b692697340eb.jpg It's your last chance to grab SHOGUN 2 for free! If you’ve not picked it up yet you’ve only got until 6PM BST today, so you’d better act fast. Get your copy here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/201270/Total_War_SHOGUN_2/Get Total War: SHOGUN 2 free!Apr 27, 2020 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3952758/a8e381a64cbaa8fc364181e9c217b692697340eb.jpg Grab SHOGUN 2 for free now! If you ever find yourself thinking about the political climate in 16th century Japan, now might be the time to find out how you’d fare as a clan leader fighting to become Shogun. Pick up your copy here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/201270/Total_War_SHOGUN_2/SHOGUN 2 FREE GIVEAWAYApr 24, 2020 - Community Announcements{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/3952758/a8e381a64cbaa8fc364181e9c217b692697340eb.jpg It’s a difficult time right now, so to help stave off boredom while you’re stuck at home, we’re giving away SHOGUN 2 for you to keep forever! Find out the full details here: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/total-war-shogun-2-giveaway-and-total-war-sale-faq/ #StayHomeSaveLives Excited to jump in? Check out MrSmartDonkey’s Faction Overviews: https://youtu.be/AOg45y-hok0 Completely new to Total War? Here’s DragonHeart’s new player guide: https://youtu.be/s_w9ONoRk90Last chance to save up to 75% on Saga titles!Aug 19, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/3952758/e42a515ae28740289d2c3221afd55f00d1fb9944.jpg Last chance to save up to 75% on Saga titles! Fall of the Samurai and Thrones of Britannia are on sale until 6PM BST today. Whether you want to unite Japan or conquer Britain is up to you, but choose quickly: time is running out... Check them out here: https://store.steampowered.com/franchise/TotalWar-OfficialInterview with FALL OF THE SAMURAI calligrapher Rie TakedaAug 14, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/3952758/4ce5d629d0413e29128ea375cd214ab6a0f4bd12.jpg A Total War Saga: FALL OF THE SAMURAI has a brand new logo - complete with traditional Japanese calligraphy. We sat down and spoke to the calligrapher and artist, Rie Takeda, about her career in calligraphy. Check out the full interview here: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/an-interview-with-fall-of-the-samurai-calligrapher-rie-takeda/Total War Bake Off: FALL OF THE SAMURAIAug 13, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/3952758/ff52b026e638a774eb558d4244a1abe67b4e7262.jpg (B)ready for another bake-off? In this Fall of the Samurai (it’s a Saga title now!) themed episode, our talented bakers do their best to whisk away the top spot with their best attempt at a Japanese dessert. Who takes the cake? Click here to find out: https://youtu.be/qFIoYOJcVV8 Fall of the Samurai is now 75% off!Aug 13, 2019 - Community Announcementshttps://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/3952758/e42a515ae28740289d2c3221afd55f00d1fb9944.jpg Fall of the Samurai is now 75% off! In celebration of Fall of the Samurai joining the Total War Saga family, we're having a week-long sale running from now until Monday 19th at 6PM BST - grab your copy here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/201271/Total_War_Saga_FALL_OF_THE_SAMURAI/ Now get out there and defend Japan. For more information about what Fall of the Samurai becoming a Saga title means, as well as just what a Saga title is, click here: https://www.totalwar.com/blog/a-total-war-saga-fall-of-the-samurai/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.jpgFeral Interactive CompetitionJan 29, 2015 - Community AnnouncementsFeral Interactive are hosting a Fall Of The Samurai competition on Facebook! For a chance to enter and win a Steam key for either Mac or Windows and an A1 Total War: SHOGUN 2- Fall Of The Samurai poster, click the link below. Feral Facebook Page The 15 most brutal mods of all timeOct 5, 2013 - PC Gamer Remember when buying a game didn’t feel like a guarantee of seeing the ending? There are still hard games out there, Dark Souls flying the flag most recently, but increasingly, the challenge has dripped out or at least softened, often leading to sadly wasted opportunities. What would Skyrim be like, for instance, if its ice and snow wasn’t simply cosmetic, but actually punished you for going mountain climbing in your underpants? With a quick mod – Frostfall in this case – you’re forced to dress up warm before facing the elements, and things become much more interesting. That’s just one example, and over the next couple of pages you’ll find plenty more. These aren’t mods that just do something cheap like double your enemy’s hit-points, they’re full rebalances and total conversions. Face their challenge, and they’ll reward you with both a whole new experience and the satisfaction of going above and beyond the call of duty. Misery Game: Stalker: Call of Pripyat Link: ModDB All those weapons scattered around? Gone. Anomalies? Now more dangerous. Magic mini-map? Forget it. Valuable quest rewards? Good luck. Things you do get: thirsty, and factions who send goons after you if you anger them. On the plus side Pripyat is much more active, with a complete sound overhaul, and new NPCs to meet – who all have to play by the rules too, with no more infinite ammo. If you can survive here, you’ve got a good chance when the actual apocalypse comes. Project Nevada Fallout: New Vegas Link: Nexus Mods Nevada is a good example of making things more difficult without being openly psychotic. Levelling is slower, players and NPCs get less health, and obvious features are now in, such as armour only being a factor in headshots if the target actually has head protection. It’s also possible to toggle some extra-hardcore options, such as food no longer healing and taking care of hunger/thirst/ sleep on the move. There’s a sack of new content, and an Extra Options mod is also available, offering even more control. Brutal Doom Game: Doom Link: ModDB Despite what modern ‘old-school’ shooters would have you think, Doom was a relatively sedate experience – fast running speed, yes, but lots of skulking in the dark and going slow. Not any more! Brutal Doom cranks everything up to 11, then yawns and goes right for 25.6. We’re talking extra shrapnel, execution attacks, tougher and faster monsters, metal music, and blood, blood, blood as far as your exploding eyes can see. It’s compatible with just about any level you can throw at it, turning even E1M1 into charnel house devastation. The enemies don’t get it all their own way, as Doomguy now starts with an assault rifle rather than simply a pistol, and a whole arsenal of new guns has been added to the Doom collection – including the BFG’s big brother. Full Combat Rebalance 2 Game: The Witcher 2 Link: RedKit This streamlines the combat and makes the action closer to how Geralt’s adventure might have played out in the books. He’s mo...Why Total War: Rome 2′s army traditions system is so excitingAug 1, 2013 - PC Gamer In 61 BC, Julius Caesar levied Legio X Equestris, a legion of several thousand fighting men who fought with distinction in his campaign against Gaul. They were disbanded in 45 BC, shortly before Caesar's assassination. In the ensuing civil war, the 10th Legion was raised again and fought for Lepidus, Marc Antony, and finally Emperor Augustus. Over that 20-year period, thousands of men died or retired as veterans with lands they had helped conquer in Gaul. Equestris' individual legionaries are not remembered by history. But as a unit, Legio X Equestris were instrumental in Caesar's conquest of Gaul. Creative Assembly wants to give every army in Rome II: Total War a similar legacy, to make them more than masses of faceless troops. And here history and gameplay merge in a really exciting way: as an army accrues victories, it will also accrue traditions, transforming a generally skilled army into a highly specialized one. Every upgrade system in Rome II—from the revamped military and civic tech trees down to the abilities of generals, agents and armies—encourages specialization. On the macro level, military and civic developments are now divided into three subcategories (management, tactics and siege for military, economy, philosophy, and construction for civic) you can hop between at will. Teching for naval superiority or a strong farming economy, for example, is much more direct than it was in Shogun II: Total War. But army traditions are what have me most excited for Rome II, and not just because the historical basis behind them is really cool. Traditions have the potential to completely change how battles play out by the end of a 20 (or 30, or 40, or...) hour-long Rome II campaign, because traditions outlive the poor legionaries who die earning them. As you might expect from Creative Assembly, Studio Communications Manager Al Bickham explained the army tradition system with a historical comparison. "Think about the 101st Airborne," Bickham said at a recent preview event for Rome II. Remember Band of Brothers? He's talking about those guys: "They're all about their small unit tactics and being in enemy territory and working, effectively, guerrilla warfare. That's what they do. They do that really well. They've done that for the last 100 years, right? That's what is all about." In Rome II, traditions extend the upgrade system used for commanding officers to whole armies. But that system has been reworked, too. Instead of progressing a general through a tech tree as he levels up, you now assign one skill at every level (with a cap at level 10). Previously acquired skills can also be leveled up in place of acquiring new ones. If you mainly use your generals to rally and inspire troops, focusing on those abilities will make them horse-mounted masters of morale. In Shogun II, you could specialize generals by choosing a path through the tech tree, but you'd probably be wasting a few points along the way. Rome II simplifies choosing the abilities and b...Total War: Arena devs explain free-to-play formatApr 5, 2013 - PC Gamer We still don't know much about Total War: Arena, the PvP strategy spin-off that will pit teams of up to 10 players against one another, each controlling small units led by historical generals. We don't even have concept art to speculate over yet. But in a recent interview with Edge, Lead Designer James Russel has shared some tidbits about the game's free to play business model, and the reasoning behind it. It may sound incredibly obvious, but Creative Assembly says it's going with free to play because they feel they need as many players as possible in their multiplayer pool. “The first is the reason why we’re doing this is to make this great multiplayer experience…to have a player population on a different level,” says Russell. Previous games in the series have suffered with long matchmaking times and deserted lobbies—something I docked Shogun 2's otherwise great Avatar mode for. Thus, it stands to reason that something would need to change for a Total War title intended to stand on the strength of its multiplayer. Creative Assembly also reassures that "pay to win" won't be a concern in Arena. Rather, the plan is to sell accelerators that "let you level-up your character faster so you get to high-level content more quickly." Again, nothing we haven't seen before in the free-to-play space, and nothing all that unexpected. If you haven't already, you can head over to the Total War: Arena site to sign up to be informed of when the closed beta goes live.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...

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