The Guanxi System (Friendship and Loyalty) is modelled after Guanxi, the Chinese concept of dynamic inter-relationships, Creative Assembly claims that the game has taken an paradigm-shifting approach to character agency.The games features a cast of hundreds historical characters with some of them being famous figure with unique design. So all of the player's characters can be a spy one day, a general on the battlefield next, and a governor in the court after. There are no dedicated Generals, Spies or Diplomat in Three Kingdoms, all characters can perform all roles.
Characters in the game are now unique entities with different backgrounds and traits. However, with each warlord having personal ambitions and constantly shifting allegiances, the player needs to utilize strategy and tactics to unify China and write their own history. New warlords rise and form the coalition to start the campaign against Dong Zhuo.
Dong Zhuo's oppressive rule leads to chaos. The enthroned child Emperor, Xian, was manipulated by the warlord Dong Zhuo, at the age of eight. All I ask is: give me ways to be more and more of a dick until even the gods think I've gone too far.The game begins in 190 CE, in which the once glorious Han dynasty is on the verge of collapse.
They still don't have much to say but do hint that while striking a balance "between making a conventional Total War game at a tighter scale, that a wide audience can enjoy, but being brave with new features and dynamics to push the series forward in interesting ways," they might lean more towards brave newness. It drops another wee hint at the next Total War Saga game too, which everyone's pretty sure will be Total War Saga: Troy. The big Total War progressblast also says Total Warhammer 3 "is deep into production with the largest of our TW project teams revved up." We already gave the game a shiny RPS Bestest Bests badge in our Total War: Three Kingdoms review. These are revisions to plans, not a do-over. Looking deeper into the future, they say they "have some very grand plans which will encompass a whole timeline of events, conflicts and characters throughout the period" though "nothing's set in stone." That say that over the next year Three Kingdoms will visit "the era of the Yellow Turban Rebellion and Liang Province rebellion" then "the clash of Cao Cao vs Lü Bu" and the Nanman will follow. They do reveal some of the stories and factions coming, at least. What exactly that means is a mystery for now.
"We're also working on DLC that adds significantly to the main campaign and are continuing to look at how that might develop and grow into some much bigger DLCs over time." "We still like the idea of Chapter Packs that explore other chapters of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, though the next one will be more recognisable to the majority of players," Creative Assembly continued. Though the form of Eight Princes sounds like it was somewhat lacking too, changing far less of the game than many hoped. It seems like it'd be good for a later DLC once they've hit the big notes of Three Kingdoms, not for the first. The idea of Eight Princes is still an interesting one but immediately leaving the setting players bought the game for was a curious decision. Yesterday's "behind the scenes" blog post said Creative Assembly were "excited to touch on a later and fascinating period for our first DLC, Eight Princes, but we're really aware that players were looking for something else, and so we're currently working hard on our mid-term, post-launch plans for the game with a view to doing more of what the community is feeding back to us on." They also assure they are working on DLC that "adds significantly to the main campaign." Developers Creative Assembly now suggest that the Eight Princes DLC was perhaps a misstep, and say they're bending their plans following player feedback. How curious it was the first DLC following the mega-hit launch of Total War: Three Kingdoms (the fastest-selling of the series so far, they boast) skipped past the end of the Three Kingdoms era to tell a story of a follow-up civil war.