Total War: THREE KINGDOMS News

Total War fans are discussing what historical title they want next

Total War: Warhammer III may be coming, but if you're not a fan of Games Workshop's iconic fantasy setting then historical Total War fans are currently a bit stumped. You have A Total War Saga: Troy, of course, but it's clear that as the Steam release approaches Troy is embracing the mythological aspects of the setting.

Total War: Three Kingdoms was the last 'major' historical Total War game, but support for that officially ceased earlier this year. We're getting a new Romance of the Three Kingdoms-era game, but there's no clue as to what that could be. In the absence of anything concrete, series fans on the Total War subreddit are discussing what historical game they'd like to see next.

Reddit user HFRreddit has posted an image that breaks down four possible options, along with the notable people and events that happened during the respective eras: Total War: Medieval III (1066 - 1453), Total War: Reformation (1494 - 1700), Total War: Empire II (1700 - 1815), Total War: Victoria (1815 - 1900). This is of course assuming that Rome III isn't on the table, and not taking into account other time periods Creative Assembly might want to explore.

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Total War: Three Kingdoms is getting review bombed after devs terminate support

Yesterday Creative Assembly announced that expansion and patch support for Total War: Three Kingdoms would cease, two years (and a week) since release. In its place, a new game that's also based off the iconic Romance of the Three Kingdoms book is being created, but what form this will take is not clear.

While this isn't as unprecedented as it seems, it certainly took us - and the Total War community at large - a bit by surprise. We've seen a lot of confusion and disappointment over the decision, something that hasn't been helped by the slightly vague dev diary video released yesterday.

Looking at Reddit alone, there are several threads you can read where Total War fans have been voicing their concerns. On Steam, Total War: Three Kingdoms has received nearly 1,500 negative reviews over the past 24 hours alone. One main point of contention is the expectation that a future Three Kingdoms DLC would have expanded the northern areas of the map to include the 'northern tribes', in a similar way to how the Nanman were introduced into the strategy game via the Furious Wild expansion.

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Total War: Three Kingdoms will get a second standalone game

It turns out Creative Assembly's plans for Total War: Three Kingdoms don't stop at the strategy game launched two years ago and its subsequent DLC. The game's devs have announced today that, while their work on content for Three Kingdoms DLC is now wrapped up, they're now pivoting onto a whole other project based on the Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel.

That's according to a new dev diary, in which some of the turn-based strategy game's devs explain that now the recent Fates Divided expansion is out, Three Kingdoms' content is complete. "It's now time to turn our attention to a new project in this amazing, historic tale," game director Jack Lusted says. Associate art director Lulu Zhang explains that the Three Kingdoms team at CA has now transitioned into "pre-production for our next entry in the Three Kingdoms universe, giving us a fresh opportunity to build on this incredible world."

Exactly what this new project will be is a bit of a mystery for now, with Zhang saying that the studio will share more when it's able to. However, what they do tease for now is that they're "increasing [their] focus on the novel's rich cast of characters and their individual and unique narratives, taking the core of what made Total War: Three Kingdoms so special and pushing it further." Hmm.

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Creative Assembly in pre-production for the next Total War: THREE KINGDOMS

It seems like the current Total War: THREE KINGDOMS is now officially done, with Creative Assembly today putting out a video to explain what they're doing.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/05/creative-assembly-in-pre-production-for-the-next-total-war-three-kingdoms