Total War: Warhammer II takes the strategy game series to a realm of grand high fantasy, this time unveiling the mystery-shrouded continents far to the west of The Old World.Featuring four iconic new races from the Warhammer Fantasy Battles world – the High Elves, Dark Elves, Lizardmen, and The Skaven – players will battle across enchanted isles, bleak hinterlands, treacherous swamps, and perilous jungles.
In a Total War campaign like no other, players will struggle for dominion over the ailing Great Vortex that has swirled for millennia above the elven homeland of Ulthuan. Performing a series of arcane rituals, each race must save or disrupt the Vortex according to their motivations – a struggle culminating in a cataclysmic endgame. Territorial conquest is no longer enough… this is a race for control that will define the fate of the world!
Total War: Warhammer II will offer hundreds of hours of immersive gameplay in this epic new campaign.
Shortly after launch, owners of both the original game and Total War: Warhammer II will gain access to the colossal new combined campaign. Merging the landmasses of The Old World plus Naggaroth, Lustria, Ulthuan and the Southlands into a single epic map, players may embark on monumental campaigns as any owned Race from both titles.
Creative Assembly are pleased to say that at this point Total War: Warhammer II is the most pre-ordered Total War game to date.
“We’re in the final stage of development now and very excited by the comments coming out of our closed testing and mock reviews,” said Rob Bartholomew, Brand Director, “loads of love for the new features, races and the sheer volume of gameplay. Great to see that expectation reflected in the number of pre-orders being placed, it really helps motivate us for that final push.”
With the game now nearing release, system specs and a range of new graphical features to enrich players’ experiences in the New World can be revealed.
Continuing the series trend for optimisation and performance improvement, the second game in CA’s fantasy-strategy trilogy will be playable on a wide range of PC systems. To achieve the gameplay gold-standard of 60FPS, Creative Assembly have also quoted a 60FPS @ 1080P spec alongside the minimum and recommended specs below.
- Improved Screen Space Ambient Occlusion (SSAO)
- New volumetric fog system which thickens the air, producing god-ray effects
- New sharpening filter
- Impressive wet-look surfaces, appropriate to certain models and model features
PC Recommended Specifications:
Expected around 45-55 FPS on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to “High”, running at 1920x1080
- Operating System: Windows 7/8.1/10 64Bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-4570 3.20GHz
- RAM: 8 GB
- Install size: 60 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2GB | AMD Radeon R9 270X 2GB @1080P
PC Minimum Specifications:
Expected around 25-35 FPS on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to “Low”, running at 1280x720
- Operating System: Windows 7 64Bit
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz
- RAM: 4GB/5GB (PC integrated graphics chipsets, e.g. Intel HD series, will require 5GB system RAM)
- Install size: 60 GB
- Video Card: NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB | AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB | Intel HD4000 @ 720p
PC 60fps+ Specifications:
Expected 60 FPS+ on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to “Ultra”, running at 1920x1080
- Operating System: Windows 7/8.1/10 64Bit
- Processor: Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0 GHz
- RAM: 8 GB
- Install size: 60 GB
- Video Card: Nvidia GTX 1070 8GB
Please note: all systems perform differently. The framerates above are based on PCs using the quoted specs with fresh OS installs, no major background programs running, and should be taken as a guide rather than an absolute.
Total War: WARHAMMER II is still in development and undergoing optimisation and compatibility testing and these specs are subject to change.
Total War: WARHAMMER II graphical presets details
All settings may be manually customised, and full Anti-Aliasing is available if desired, however these are the settings automatically applied when selecting a preset:
Setting Name Low Medium High Ultra Direct X DX11 DX11 DX11 DX11 Anti-aliasing Off Off Off FXAA Texture Filtering Trilinear Anisotropic 4x Anisotropic 8x Anisotropic 16x Texture Quality Low Medium High Ultra Screen Space Ambient Occlusion Off Off Off On Depth of Field Off Off Off Off Screen Space Reflections Off Off Off Off Unit Detail Low Medium High Ultra Building Detail Low Medium High Ultra Shadow Detail Low Medium High Ultra Tree Detail Low Medium High Ultra Grass Detail Low Medium High Ultra Water Detail Low Medium High Ultra Unit Size Small Medium Large Ultra VFX Detail Low Medium High Ultra Terrain Detail Low Medium High Ultra V-Sync Off Off Off Off Vignette Off Off Off Off Proximity Fading On On On On Fog Low Low High High Resolution Scale 100% 100% 100% 100% UI Scale 100% 100% 100% 100% Unlimited Video memory Off Off Off Off Porthole quality 2D 3D 3D 3D
Total War: Warhammer II will be available in Sept. 28, 2017 for PC.
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