Total war warhammer 2 shadow warriors full#

VG247: What about the magic? It felt that it would be easy to unbalance the game with it. Our solutions to that ended up making it, visually a lot better as well as actually work. A lot of the criticism we had about вЂblobbingвЂ™ in Rome II, it really helped with that. We had to work around attack and reaction, sort of things that could work at any time. With Warhammer, obviously, there are huge permutations of sizes, so even if we had the time to make all those anims, we wouldn't have the memory to store them. From a combat perspective we had to really look at everything we had and decide, well, how is this going to work? The matched animation system we had before works on a one-on-one basis. ThereвЂ™s a difference in scale in Warhammer but it's bigger than that in our game - the giants are absolutely massive. How can you see where they are, how can you look at both the ground and the air? We tried all sorts of different things to make it look great, but also to make it still understandable and playable. If they are swooping around individually then that's going to be very difficult to read as a player.

Exactly how we end up implementing flying creatures will directly affect how easy they are to play with. Pitkethly: The flying creatures wasn't just a technical problem, but also a gameplay thing. Were there any particular challenges from implementing those? VG247: The monstrous creatures, the flying creatures, and the magic are the big differences from previous Total War games. It's the same kind of thing with the campaign, we got things in which allowed us to find a lot of the problems, play-test a lot of things, but we wouldn't want anyone to see it. Pitkethly: Also, when we started development, because everything is so different to what we've done before, we had to make quick approximate size proxies of everything, just so we could start stress testing the engine before we could have time to make all the models. Also, you want to save things for people to see later on! I mean, the battle side of it was certainly the part of the project that we were pushing first because we had a lot of the animation team come in onboard early, and we wanted to prototype that because that was a big, chunky amount of time on the project that had to be started earlier. Roxborough: All sorts of different reasons. VG247: You didn't show the campaign off to the press until very late in the day. It's always been a big focus to just say, 'Look, let's not push the boat out to the point where we go over the edge, and just really stay on focus.' We've made a lot of changes to the processes and the pipelines to increase that, and we've been very self-controlled and very aware of that. Roxborough: It's a been a big focus of ours from the beginning, to really make sure that we release a really good, solid game, and get the brand fully on track, and learn from previous mistakes and really be hot on that. Is this going to be the most stable Total War game ever? VG247: Given the problems recent Total War games have had at launch, you must be spending a lot of time polishing.

It's fixing every last thing we can, and just making sure it's a really good, stable release. We're just stabilizing and just, that's it. Roxborough: Yeah, and to be honest, we're at the end of polishing. They were Ian Roxborough, the game director Jim Whitston, the campaign designer and Scott Pitkethly, the lead battle programmer. We caught up with three of the team entrusted by the Creative Assembly with making that dream work.

Total war warhammer 2 shadow warriors full#

That shows how much confidence the Creative Assembly and Sega have in Total War: Warhammer - that they expect gamers to buy this game three times at full price, along with DLC. Few games companies - Bungie and Blizzard aside - have committed so much time to a single project. The Total War team are staring at a ten year development cycle.

'ItвЂ™s a been a big focus of ours from the beginning, to really make sure that we release a really good, solid game, and get the brand fully on track, and learn from previous mistakes' - Ian Roxborough, game director With a ten year plan covering a trilogy of games, you have to get the first title right.