Hello everyone,

You’ve maybe heard me mention that we’re working on a new stream for the end of this month. As it’s the first of its kind, I wanted to give some context about what we’ll be showing. 

On April 30th at 3pm BST, we’ll be going live on Twitch[twitch.tv], YouTube and Bilibili[live.bilibili.com] with our first ever Total War: Show & Tell.  

Show and Tells are something we regularly do internally, where different development teams come together to share snippets of the cool things they’re working on, and we wanted to try and extend an invitation to one of these publicly. 

Before we get into it – I just want to highlight that we’ll be showing you in-development footage, mostly running without UI. Nothing seen in this stream will be final quality, so you’ll see placeholders and broken textures all over the place. This is something that we’ve been doing over on our Medieval III streams – and you’ve told us that you enjoyed these insights, so we’re trying to expand that thinking to other games in the hopes of getting you all involved earlier.

We have asked each development team what they’d be interested in presenting, so in this Show and Tell, you can expect to see:

The Building Medieval III series is the best place for us to share our progress, and we don’t want to try and cram one of those streams into 15 minutes. Instead, we’re using this space to discuss our approach to rosters (using one faction as an example) and answer some top community questions (but look forward to our next dedicated Medieval III stream in the Summer).

Surprise! We spoke last year (and in the Community Inbox stream) about wanting to return to some of our older titles and update them. Rome II is the first title we’re doing this for, and we’ll be sharing our plans for what you can expect to see.

We’ll start with a discussion on a few bits about upcoming Campaign AI changes and the Siege Rework, before giving you the first look at Bhashiva in-engine, alongside the accompanying FLC Legendary Hero coming as part of Update 8.0.  

Then, it’s onto Lords Of The End Times, and we’re thrilled to be introducing another Legendary Lord. We’ll show some in-engine footage of them alongside revealing a couple of the units included in their pack.

There’s been a lot of discussion about the game’s scale, so we wanted to take this opportunity to answer some of those questions. We’ll show you the current development pass on planetary visuals, chatting about how we’re tackling battling across an entire planet. Then, we’ve got a few battle maps to fly around in, where we’ll give you a proper look at the map featured in our trailer, alongside a look at some less dense maps.

Our first community inbox was well received, and we thought this is a good place to slot in another. As the game directors will have already covered specific game bits, we’ll have Roger answer some of the franchise-level questions that you’ve emailed in. If you haven’t dropped Roger an email before, we can’t promise that if you did so today that it would make it into our stream next week, but don’t let it stop you doing it for when we next catch up with Roger. You can do so via http://mailto:roger@totalwar.com.

At the end of each segment, we’ll let you know when you’ll hear more from each game. We’re very excited to show you what we’re working on and hope to see you there!

P.S. Consider this a one-off for now, but if you enjoy the stream and the format, please do let us know and we’ll look to repeat it when we’ve got another batch of things to show.

See you there,

Josh // Head of Community Engagement

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