14 DAY TRIAL // Video game developer The Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA are announcing that they have added the long-awaited Steam Workshop support to Total War: Attila and that a beta version of the Assembly Kit for the title is also now live for all those interested.
The included tools are designed to allow modders to tweak the game in interesting ways, working on the battle map, the units, the campaign structure and the scripting to create entirely new experiences.
A page on the official wiki of Total War: Attila offers more details on the way each of the elements of the Assembly Kit can be used and how the Steam Workshop can be leveraged to distribute created content.
Those interested should be warned that the raw data for the terrain that can be modded is about 60 GB big.
Gamers can use the official forums to ask for assistance in their efforts and to offer feedback, and presumably, The Creative Assembly will offer updates for the tools in the coming weeks.
The company is also asking those who find interesting mods to help make them popular.
The stance is very different from the one adopted by The Creative Assembly in the past, when it was not open to the idea that its video games could be tweaked in interesting ways by the community.
Total War has a legacy when it comes to modding
The first Rome: Total War titles managed to spawn a wide variety of interesting player-created modifications, the best of which was Europa Barbarorum, a deep research effort to make the mechanics of the title more realistic.
Since then, all titles in the series received at least one mod that managed to improve the overall experience.
The Creative Assembly has not yet announced whether it plans to support Total War: Attila with downloadable content and with free patches for a long period of time, as it has done with Rome II, which even received a free expansion.
The development team has recently announced that it was working on a Warhammer-themed video game.
It will be the first of a trilogy and will use the traditional campaign-focused features of the series, while combining them with the races and the fantasy world created by Games Workshop.