The third full patch for Total War: Rome II is now live and available via Steam for would-be Emperor's and Barbarian Kings. It features "over 140 technical, gameplay, balancing and usability" enhancements. Among them are "significant improvements" to multiplayer campaign speed, a kick to frame rates for all specs, more campaign optimisations, and even a desktop icon touch-up.
Creative Assembly have gone live with Patch 4 for Total War: Rome II, giving AI a major boot up their collective rear end when it comes to building, food management, army creation, research and more. There are also "further tweaks and improvements" to diplomacy, missiles, melee units "and much more." To take full advantage of all these patch changes it's best to restart campaigns.
Creative Assembly have now released Patch 5 for Total War: Rome II, which includes full Steam Workshop support and a new faction for free: the Seleucid Empire. Fixes across "pretty much every part of the game." There's more Campaign Map optimisation, with better framerates when fog-of-war recedes. Diplomacy should be stronger to with AI now taking personality, threat etc. seriously.
Oh look some DLC ambushing us for our shinies. Wait! This content pack is free. Creative Assembly is releasing the Nomadic Tribes Culture Pack for Total War: Rome II at no cost to us - delightful. No cost whatsoever... until October 29th. The Royal Scythians, Roxolani and Massagetae now become playable factions. Log into Steam and just tell the DLC to 'install' and its yours forever.
There's been a distinct lack of bloody guts all over our battlefields in Total War: Rome II, but Creative Assembly has addressed this issue with the newly released Blood & Gore DLC just in time for Halloween. All new options are added turning blood on and off, and there are plenty of "decapitations, dismemberment" and impaling animations. Now you can carve a 'red carpet' to Rome.
Sega revealed in its earnings report that Creative Assembly's Total War: Rome II has sold over 800,000 copies from its launch on the 3rd September through to the 30th.
Creative Assembly are tweaking Total War: Rome II to be in full support of SteamOS when it releases, and that includes compatibility with their Steam Controller which they were invited to try out. The studio has always wanted the series to be "enjoyed by living room gamers," and now it can thanks to SteamOS. It grants them the "control fidelity and platform" to do so.
Creative Assembly has brought the barbarians of Patch 7 to our civilised PC gates as Total War: Rome II gets more optimisations, with the oppressive shackles of limited graphics options broken. No longer will Rome II dictate what you can and can't have toggled based on its evaluation of your system. Patch 7 has a healthy list of changes and balance tweaks.
Total War: Rome II is once again the tool wielded by historians to give a visual flair to the retelling of some of Rome's most embarrassing bloopers like their crushing defeat at Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. Three Roman legions were lost that sent shockwaves across the empire as they realised how terribly overstretched they were becoming. If only they had had Update 7 at the time.
SEGA and developer Creative Assembly has just announced the first campaign expansion for Total War: Rome II. Four playable factions feature in the upcoming Caesar in Gaul expansion, due December 12th. The team always planned to "focus more closely" of key historical conflicts, and Caesar's military tour of Gaul is their starting point. A new campaign map with 24 turns per year.
Creative Assembly has announced that the developer is releasing a free downloadable content pack for Total War: Rome II, adding Baktria to the mix.
SEGA and Creative Assembly's first campaign expansion for Total War: Rome II is now on the march with Caesar in Gaul. It's an all-new campaign map focusing specifically on Caesar's Gallic war. The campaign spans seven years with turns also dealing with the change in seasons, with Rome and several key barbarian states to play from. Conquer Gaul and southern Britannia.
Modders assemble! Creative Assembly have just released the beta of the Rome II Assembly Kit which lets mod enthusiasts get their hands on approved methods to creating new content for Total War: Rome II. It's available in the Tools section of Steam to download. The strategy game's database, variants, "textures, models, animations" and other gems are all for the pillaging.
Creative Assembly has brought Patch 9 out of beta as they officially release it to all Total War: Rome II gamers. The studio has been focusing on "performance and memory optimisations" again. There are CPU load reductions in battles too, and greater support of multi-GPU setups and multiple displays. Plenty of AI tweaks in pathfinding and behaviour.
This weekend, SEGA has unleashed the dogs of war on Valentine's Day. They want us divided into camp Total War and camp Company of Heroes as the two go head-to-head... but not really. For every battle won in Total War: Rome II or Company of Heroes 2, a point is scored. The community with the greatest horde of points wins DLC for their chosen game.
The strategic showdown between Total War: Rome II and Company of Heroes 2 had ended with Relic's WWII RTS winning the Make War Not Love competition. That means two Commander DLCs go free. While Total War: Rome II would have received a free DLC if its community had won enough battles, Company of Heroes 2 gets a free German and Soviet Commander pack until February 22nd.
SEGA and Creative Assembly have unleashed the dogs, camels, elephants, bees, scorpions and snakes of war with the new Beasts of War DLC for Total War: Rome II. Conquer the world with your bee armies... Well, not quite a whole army of bees per say, more like: bombard your enemies with bee hives to start a panic. 'Is it in my hair?! It's in my hair!!' Dogs are also barking for Greeks and Celtics.
Before Total War: Rome II launched it was said that any downloadable content wouldn't include content that was cut from the game, but the community point to video evidence of the contrary with recent DLC. Caesar in Gaul and this week's Beasts of War DLC 'both contain units that were cut'. Creative Assembly remark the "naming is unfortunate," but that they aren't the same.
The free-to-play MOBA Total War: Arena from Creative Assembly is now accepting registrations for its closed beta, which also grant "exclusive Vanguard Armoury items" when it officially launches. Should you already own Total War: Rome II then you're entitled to "privileged access" to Arena content, "advanced beta access" and Legion Armoury bonuses.
SEGA has announced a new campaign from Creative Assembly for Total War: Rome II. Hannibal at the Gates features a new campaign map with Scipio and Hannibal ready to set the world aflame. Five playable factions bring new units with Rome and Carthage getting civil tech for diplomacy, and they join Syacuse, Arevaci and Lusitani. It's out March 27th.