Overview
- The remastered Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition launched earlier this month and was removed from sale after players reported severe performance problems, pervasive bugs, and visible regressions in art and cutscenes.
- Roger Collum, Creative Assembly’s Total War vice‑president, apologized on Friday and said the remaster was developed externally rather than in‑house, so it did not go through the studio’s usual internal reviews and quality assurance.
- The game's Steam listing names Mataboo as a co‑developer, Creative Assembly says a small team of senior developers is now working with Sega and the external partner on next steps, and the studio has opened an investigation into asset creation and QA.
- Community mod authors also reported that the remaster broke mod compatibility by moving the mod ecosystem to Mod.io, which intensified player backlash and complicated fixes for long‑running community patches.
- Creative Assembly reiterated its policy that generative AI must not be used to create game assets while allowing AI for supportive tasks, asked the public not to harass individual developers, and has not provided a timeline for any relaunch or remediation.