It’s another dire old week in Chartland, with the last breaths of the Summer Sale ensuring, with the exception of spots #4 and #5, that all the usual suspects dominate. But we won’t let that change us! We’re better than this! We’re going to have fun anyway!
Yes, yes, it’s me. I know, I know, but calm down. While it’s obviously very exciting to have a celebrity as handsome and excellent as me writing you some Steam Charts, I’m still just a regular ordinary guy underneath it all. I leap into my trousers both legs at once, same as anyone else.
Official mod support launched for Total War: Three Kingdoms this week, letting players create new units, add new battle maps, tweak balance, pretty it up, and more. Who knows what else we might see over time? And can someone add a proper dating sim to meet hot new kingdoms in my area? The tools do have some big limitations, mind, so don’t expect mods with things like new campaign maps.
Modding tools are now available for Creative Assembly's warlord squabble, Total War: Three Kingdoms. The doors were flung open to mods yesterday, and already we've got around 250 of them to dig through in the Steam Workshop.
The tools should be familiar if you've done any modding in Rome 2 and beyond, which conveniently means that there are six years of resources, like tutorials, if you're just getting into modding Total War now.
Some changes have been introduced, though, and according to Creative Assembly they should make modding easier. It's more data driven, apparently, so the returning systems have been more fleshed out. Creative Assembly has also included resources to let modders make 2D character artwork.
Battle maps, character portraits, models and animation, Lua scripts, character traits and more can be modded, though there are some restrictions. Campaign battle maps and campaign map hexes can't be modded, nor can audio files, game code or battle assets, including prefabs and VFX.
The most popular mod at the time of writing gives units a bit more variety. Hooveric Reskin is a work in progress, currently reskinning flags, militia and low tier units with new colours and texture changes. You'll also find mods that stop characters from dying from old age—I wish I had that before Cao Cao keeled over just before he could declare himself Emperor—or being executed by the AI.
Take a look at the most popular mods here.
Mod support has launched for Total War: Three Kingdoms - and Creative Assembly has made it clear what is and isn't appropriate.
In a blog post, the developer said it will curate the Steam Workshop and remove any mods that breach the modding terms found in the game's EULA.
"Please refrain from creating mods that are designed to provoke, intimidate, or antagonise other groups, reference other IP, or create content of a sexual nature," Creative Assembly said.
