14 DAY TRIAL // The Total War series from The Creative Assembly has been one of the most successful strategy franchise on the PC and one of the reasons fans love it is linked to the modding possibilities that it offers, allowing for players to use the core framework of the game to play content based on Lord of the Rings and other historical ages.
Recently, the series became more difficult to mod and fans have been claiming that the team is increasing the level of complexity because they are interested in selling more downloadable content for Shogun 2.
Mike Simpson, who is the studio director at The Creative Assembly, told PC Gamer that the team was not in any way trying to make it more difficult to create mods for the Total War series, saying, “That isn’t the case. If anything, we tend towards: the more mod support, the more DLC you’ll sell.
“It has always been quite difficult to support mods quite well and it’s quite a lot of work, so we’d end up not doing something else.”
The developers who have worked on the Fall of the Samurai expansion for Shogun 2 are interested in delivering mod tools for the game and there are plans to create tools that allow the fan community to launch their mods via the Steam Workshop.
Simpson added, “We should be letting people do this. There’s no philosophical problem with modding at all.”
The big problem with modding the Total War series is that it takes a long time to create substantial new content, with many teams still working on the engine that powered Medieval 2: Total War.
On March 23, fans of the Total War series can get their hands on Fall of the Samurai for Shogun 2, a standalone expansion that allows players to play both modern and conservative factions during a Civil War set in the XIX century.