Total War: THREE KINGDOMS News

With all eyes turning towards the Rome: Total War remaster releasing at the end of the month, it feels we're entering into a dry spell for news regarding the other Total War games. There's going to be nothing new for Total War: Warhammer II until the summer, and further Warhammer III news isn't due until May.

It's not all bad, though, as we have just learned that a new patch for Total War: Three Kingdoms is due within the couple of months. This comes from Creative Assembly's official bilibili account. Bilibili is an all-in-one social media platform that caters exclusively to the Chinese market. Sort of like Facebook, Twitter and streaming services all together.

According to the r/TotalWar subreddit (which we've independently confirmed), the post reads: "Thank you to all the players who gave feedback on Fates Divided and patch 1.7.0. In response to everyone's feedback we are preparing a large patch which will include bug fixes and other improvements, and it will be launched within two months' time. Once more thank you to everyone for your support!"

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Developer and game porter Feral Interactive announced today that the Total War: THREE KINGDOMS - Fates Divided DLC is now supported in the Linux version.

Read the full article here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2021/03/total-war-three-kingdoms-fates-divided-out-now-for-linux

When it was announced that Three Kingdoms' next expansion would focus on the war between Cao Cao and Yuan Shao and the Battle of Guandu, I had one question: are they going to recreate that scene from the TV show? You know, the one where Cao Cao laughs in Yuan Shao's face and then runs off waving his arms and snickering, like the pantomime villain he is?

I figured the answer would be no (fair enough: I'm pretty sure that never actually happened in The Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel), but even without it this new expansion has plenty of rich and enjoyable tools to play with. Fates Divided is in many ways the opposite of The Furious Wild: whereas that expansion gave us the vibrant, warlike factions of the Nanman, Fates Divided and its accompanying update enrich the game's existing factions with more subtle, underhanded means of approaching problems.

Many of those factions are already pretty Machiavellian, and none more so than Cao Cao. His new 'schemes' mechanic enables him to spend his credibility to basically trick the game, or as a resource to swing diplomacy in his favour. Yuan Shao's rework, on the other hand, is military minded, making captain retinues more useful by letting you upgrade them with lineage points.

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