How much does Total War Warhammer 2 weigh? Total War: Warhammer II system requirements announced

Total War: Warhammer II is a turn-based and real-time strategy game developed by the British company Creative Assembly and published by Sega. This is a sequel to TotalWar: Warhammer(2016) and part of the series Total War . It takes place in Games Workshop's fictional version of Warhammer Fantasy.

Gameplay

Total War: Warhammer II takes place in the fictional Warhammer Fantasy, on four continents: Ulthuan, Naggaroth, Southlands and Lustria. The game is based on controlling the Great Vortex in Ulthuan. The campaign contains a narrative storyline for each of the 4 races performing rituals to stabilize or control the Great Vortex.

Like other parts of the series, Total War: Warhammer II contains turn-based strategy and real-time tactical combat. The campaign involves the races of the High Elves, Lizard Men (lizardmen), Dark Elves and Skaven. Those who have their own races from the first game will receive the same races in multiplayer. After the game's release, a grand campaign map will be released, covering the campaign maps of the first and second games. The game's campaign is more narrative-driven than the previous title, which featured a sandbox-style campaign. Each race fights to save or destroy the Great Vortex over Ulthuan.

Plot

Many thousands of years ago, mysterious space travelers the Ancients visited the world of Warhammer. They redesigned it to suit their needs and created several types for use in battle with the Forces of Chaos. The first creation of the Ancients or lizard people. They helped the owners develop a big plan. However, the star gate through which the Ancients entered the world collapsed. The demonic legions of Chaos rushed into the world. The Ancients disappeared, and the lizard people were left to fight the onslaught of demons.

On the island continent of Ulthuan - the homeland of the elves - Chaos Demons went on a rampage. Two heroes emerged from the chaos - Aenarion the Defender (the first of the Phoenix Kings) and Caledor the Dragon Tamer. Aenarion led armies into battle against the demons, and Caledor devised a plan to destroy the forces of chaos. Together with a cabal of magicians, he used ancient waystones (points of concentration of magical energy) in Ulthuan to drain the Chaos energy from the Aether. This energy entered the world through the destroyed chaotic gates, allowing demons to manifest themselves in the physical world.

Caledor, using the secret help of Slaan (magicians who rule the lizard people), created the Great Vortex. The vortex was intended to draw winds of magic and chaotic energy from the world. However, the plan only partially works: although chaotic energy is depleted, it continues to flow from the Kingdom of Chaos and, especially, in the Chaotic Wastes. Caledor and the mages experience something worse than death: they are caught inside the Vortex. It is necessary to continue to conjure the vortex to stabilize it - otherwise the world will end.

Currently, a two-tailed comet is passing through the world. She disrupts the Great Vortex. The weakness of the Vortex is felt by 4 factions: Lizard People, High Elves, Skaven and Dark Elves. The Lizard People and High Elves want to stabilize the Vortex, the Dark Elves and Skaven want to take control of its power. Over the course of the campaign, they initiate 5 rituals in an attempt to bend the Vortex to their will. As they near the end, it is revealed that the comet was actually a rocket ship created by the Skaven. They made a fake comet to provoke other races into unwittingly adding ritual power to their bell. When the bell rings 13 times, the Skaven god - the Great Horned Rat - will come into the physical world. After completing the last, fifth ritual, the player chooses the race with which he will fight in the final battle on the Isle of the Dead to determine the fate of the world.

Winning the campaign of different races leads to different results. If the high elves win, they stabilize the Vortex. If the lizard people win, they stabilize the Vortex and become its new guardians. If the dark elves win, their leader Malekith captures Ulthuan and, with the help of the power of the Vortex, becomes a god. If the Skaven win, the Horned Rat is summoned and the Skaven conquer the world.

Reception

On Metacritic, a month and a half after release, the game had ratings of 86% (62 reviews) and 78% (152 ratings), on Steam - 6,911 reviews, 6,080 positive and 831 negative.

System requirements

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz, Intel Core i5-4570 3.20 GHz recommended
• Memory: 5 GB RAM, 8 GB recommended
• Video card: NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB or AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB or Intel HD4000 @720p, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 4GB or AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB @1080p recommended
• Disk space: 60 GB

Creative Assembly studio announced the system requirements of the Total War: Warhammer II strategy, and also clarified what performance this or that hardware will provide.

So, for the minimum configuration, the expected performance is 25-35 frames per second with “low” graphics quality and a resolution of 1280x720 on the campaign map in 1v1 battles and 20v20 squad battles. The configuration itself is as follows:

• operating system: Windows 7 (64-bit);
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo with a clock frequency of 3 GHz;
• RAM: 4 GB or 5 GB (for built-in video cards, for example, Intel HD series);
• video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460, AMD Radeon HD 5770 or Intel HD 4000;
• video memory: 1 GB;
• : 60 GB.

• operating system: Windows 7, 8.1 or 10 (64-bit);
• CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 clocked at 3.2 GHz;
• RAM: 8 GB;
• video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 or AMD Radeon R9 270X;
• video memory: 2 GB;
• free hard disk space: 60 GB.

Finally, if you want to play at ultra settings with a resolution of 1080p and 60 frames per second, you will have to get an Intel Core i7-4790K processor with a clock speed of 4 GHz and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 graphics card with 8 GB of memory. In addition, the developers presented a table with detailed graphics settings. All indicators can be changed manually, including enabling maximum smoothing. The following settings are applied automatically when you select the appropriate menu item.

Settings	Low	Avg.	High	Ultra
Smoothing
Texture filtering	Trilinear	Anisotr. 4x	Anisotr. 8x	Anisotr. 16x
Texture quality
Screen Space Allocation Algorithm (SSAO)
Depth of field
Reflections
Unit quality
Quality of buildings
Shadow quality
Tree quality
Grass quality
Water quality
Unit size
Effect quality
Landscape quality
Vert. synchronization
Vignetting
Focus area
Scaling
Interface scale
Unlimited video memory
Portraits

Although the game's engine is the same as the first part, technically the sequel is somewhat different. "Total War: Warhammer II has been further optimized to improve performance and will therefore support the game on a significantly larger number of systems."- said the authors. They also specifically mentioned the use of the following technologies:

• improved screen space lighting algorithm (SSAO);
• a new volumetric fog system that makes the air denser to create a three-dimensional light effect;
• new sharpening filter;
• Improved handling of wet surfaces for certain models and their features.

Total War: Warhammer II is the second part of the trilogy, which will offer a combination of large-scale battles in real time with an exciting global turn-based strategy dedicated to government, politics, creating and strengthening your own empire. The release on PC will take place on September 28 this year. You can pre-order it on Steam for 1,799 rubles.

Total War: Warhammer 2 is a mixed real-time strategy and turn-based strategy game. The game is being developed by the British company Creative Assembly and published by Sega. This game is the eleventh in the Total War series, created in 2000. It was announced in March 2017. The game is available exclusively on the Windows platform.

Many thousands of years ago, the world of Warhammer was visited by certain cosmic creatures called the Ancients. They changed it to suit their needs and created nations to fight the forces of Chaos. The first creation of the Ancients were the lizardmen, who helped their rulers carry out their plans. But one day the Star Gate, through which the Ancients could travel between worlds, collapsed, and the demonic legions of Chaos broke into Warhammer. The lizardmen were forced to repel the attack, at the same time their creators abandoned them. Two heroes dared to fight the demons - Caledor the Dragon Tamer and Aenarion the Defender. Caleodor created the Great Vortex, which weakened the influence of chaos on the world. Soon he, along with the magicians, was imprisoned in the Vortex. But then a two-headed comet swept over the world, which marked the beginning of the destruction of the Vortex. This has led to instability between factions - some want to preserve the Vortex, while others want to subjugate it.

In Total War: Warhammer 2 you will engage in diplomacy, research, politics and military affairs in the campaign mode. You can build, develop or even capture cities, recruit huge armies and maintain them. Arm and train heroes and lords, declare war on those who interfere with your goals and negotiate with future allies. Cast spells in battles, command huge armies in difficult battles and throw various bloodthirsty monsters into battle, including fire-breathing dragons.

• Platform: PC
• Genre: Strategy
• Developer: Creative Assembly
• Publisher: Creative Assembly, SEGA, Games Workshop
• Series: Total War

System requirements

minimum:

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7
• CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0Ghz
• RAM: 5 GB
• Video card: NVIDIA GTX 460 1GB / AMD Radeon HD 5770 1GB / Intel HD4000 - at 720p resolution
• HDD space: 60 GB

• OS: 64-bit Windows 7/8 and 8.1/10
• CPU: Intel Core i5-4570 3.20GHz
• RAM: 8 GB
• Video card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770 4GB or AMD Radeon R9 290X 4GB - at 1080p resolution
• HDD space: 60 GB