The maximum number of Total War: Warhammer 3 mods you can install just went up to 65,534
The latest expansion for Total War: Warhammer 3 is here, and Forge of the Chaos Dwarfs brings a variety of big, excellent hats with it. New DLC time is also new update time, taking the perilous fantasy grim-em-up to version 3.0. Tucked away in the «general updates» section of the patch notes(opens in new tab) is a mention this update has «introduced a new pack file limit that increases the number of mods that can be hypothetically run simultaneously (barring any cross mod issues).»
That's a boring way of saying what William Håkestad, a Creative Assembly designer working on Total War: Warhammer 3 DLC, announced to the Total War modding Discord(opens in new tab) in a more exciting fashion: «The new packfile limit is 65,534 simultaneously. Your move.»
Each mod is a separate packfile, and as Håkestad went on to explain, these games used to have a much lower packfile limit. «This was set to 256 at some point during the age of the dinosaurs due to being stored in 8 bit,» he said. That included the game's own packfiles, making the number you could pile on even less. Having too many wouldn't automatically crash your game, but the results wouldn't be good. «The game was intended to fail when this limit was exceeded, but a bit of a fluke occasionally allowed the game to continue to function, however, only 256 of your packfiles would actually be running, and the game's stability would be severely affected.»
Even at the height of my mania for modifying the original Total War: Warhammer with beer-throwing catapults(opens in new tab) and HeroQuest goblins(opens in new tab) I don't think I even made it as high as 50. Still, for those who like to go mod wild, having the number of working packfiles boosted will be a blessing. And,
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