Total Warhammer 3 is out now, but performance is a problem
Almost six years after the historical strategy action of Total War crashed into Games Workshop's wacky fantasy world of Warhammer, the trilogy wraps up today with Total War: Warhammer 3. Oh I'm sure expansions will follow, and the game-joining Mortal Empires campaign is still to come, but Total Warhammer 3 is here now. Sadly, the launch is somewhat blighted by many players suffering serious performance problems.
Twarhammer 3 sees factions fighting over the remains of a dying bear god, for various reasons. Along with the forces of Chaos, this one introduces the armies of Kislev and Grand Cathay, who previously existed in the fiction but have been massively fleshed out to appear in the game. And the game's a good'un.
"Though best considered as the final part of an excessive strategy megagame, [it] is a heavyweight in its own right," Nate's Total War: Warhammer 3 review said. "A little too much RTS grind in the midgame is easily outweighed by transformative changes to multiplayer, sieges, diplomacy and more."
Nate also talked about "the game's impossibly hench arse", the upcoming update which will finally join the trilogy together for one giant rumble in the Mortal Empires campaign, for people who own all three. Also still to come are the official modding tools. Those are probably a way out; hopefully we see some patches soon.
Three hours after launch, only 43% of Twarhammer 3 player reviews on Steam are 'Positive', giving the game a 'Mixed' rating. Many, many complaints about technical problems, including bad performance, the game being wonky with a 1440p screen resolution, crashes while alt-tabbing, and more.
The official Known Issues support page does warn, "Some PCs running Windows 10 with Intel 12th generation CPUs
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