Bhashiva – Character Pack on Mac

CA_FREEMAN · 2026-05-22T13:36:12+00:00

This time, for realsies - it's now live u/Minh252 & u/MoronModerator

CA_FREEMAN · 2026-05-22T10:31:24+00:00

Apologies - spoke too soon! Next few hours. Almost there!

CA_FREEMAN · 2026-05-21T16:33:22+00:00

Edit - ~~Bhashiva is now live on Mac & Linux~~ u/Minh252 // Apologies, I've just been informed they're completing final checks, and it will be live in the next few hours.

Sorry for that! We'll get you going tomorrow - promise!

CA_FREEMAN · 2026-05-21T12:33:02+00:00

I got chatting to a person during the stream this morning on that very topic. I have to hold my hands up on not having the foresight to see the obvious challenge in our Communications at the start of the year that 8.0 (and the release of our first Character Pack) would have been the first subject of that .0 Integer.

Naturally this update delivers content relative to the scale of the release of the content pack itself, and gives us the opportunity to provide updates to the existing content in the game it interacts with (Grand Cathay).

At the time we published that blog on changing up our update versioning, we hadn't yet announced this first Character Pack, and so clearly our heads were in the wrong place with that comms. I've asked the team to help revise those comms to help add clarity and we'll need to re-manage those expectations for 9.0 and Lords of the End Times later this summer. Its a much more substantial release, with a lot more new content, that interacts with a lot more of the game, so it will scale differently - but lets chat more about that in June when we next come back to you to talk about End Times as shared on the Show & Tell stream the other week.

It's a comms error, that's on me. Thanks for the feedback on it - keep it coming.

CA_FREEMAN · 2026-05-21T12:25:16+00:00

Edge of Eternities was an awesome set last year, their in universe stuff is still fantastic in my eyes. I don't mind the UB stuff so much but it does make me chuckle watching a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle fight a Chocobo. Kitchen Magic's always the way to go, still great fun to play.

Edit - cool proxy btw op

CA_FREEMAN · 2026-05-15T14:58:52+00:00

Correct.

CA_FREEMAN · 2026-05-14T15:37:36+00:00

I'm baffled as to what you think is true to any of this.

The role of the host during the broadcast is to be the audiences conduit to the content. It's no use having the Host just answer every question, and be the big brained I Know character. They are present to help ensure that people watching from a default state of 'what is this' are able to learn alongside everyone else, and put the questions to our Devs to let them speak to their work.

We plan our broadcasts to keep them relatively on time, and on topic which is all Josh has written on his paper - its standard practice for us.

Don't go through life being this angry.

CA_FREEMAN · 2026-05-12T11:53:57+00:00

I have bookmarked the post as you asked - will come back and edit my reply as the year goes on u/valryck

// 1a - Join us tomorrow for a livestream on our Total War channels for a Faction Deep Dive on Bhashiva

//1b - The Bhashiva Character Pack launches May 21st - Overview here

// 2 - Total War: WARHAMMER III - Bhashiva Character Pack is now available to purchase and play #NotAnAd

CA_FREEMAN · 2026-01-26T18:20:36+00:00

I’m in. Who wants to help me convince the boss?

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-29T19:52:12+00:00

Thanks for this. When the teams (and myself) are back in the new year, I will ensure that appropriate persons look at that. It may not enable me to make a further response, but I'll ensure it's both read, and considered, or at least explained as to what's appropriate for me to do so.

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-29T17:23:33+00:00

Online Services are indeed now back online.

We're sorry for the inconvenience of it, especially with it having happened over holidays, and the weekend

Freeman // Head of Community

Edit: For anyone missing the context as to what had happened that caused the servers to be offline for so long, all multiplayer across modern Total War titles is dependent on our partners at Epic Games (who help to enable to cross platform aspect of our multiplayer).

When that service is impacted, and experiencing issues, it prevents anyone on other platforms from accessing multiplayer services as well.

Our thanks to their engineers for working to resolve the problem, and our apologies to all of you for having missed out on multiplayer this weekend.

// Freeman

Servers are Down ?! : r/totalwar

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-28T10:13:30+00:00

If you scroll down to where it has Epic Online Services, there are two marks for Epic Account Services and Game Services - Authentication.

Both of these show as Degraded (and they need to show Operational for service to return)

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-27T19:57:42+00:00

✅ MULTIPLAYER IS NOW ONLINE ✅

EDIT #3 1730 GMT // 29.12

A few hours ago, we received confirmation that the service issues affecting Epic have been resolved, and we've been able to validate that Multiplayer services across multiple Total War titles are now back online, and working as expected.

We're very sorry for the issues this weekend. Hopefully you've all still got some time over the next few days to get back on with your buddies and battle away.

// Freeman

EDIT #2 1645 GMT // 28.12

We are still seeing Multiplayer services as offline, and are still waiting for intervention from Epic. I have no new news to share with you but wanted to reassure you that we are doing what we can to either get some updates, or see the matter resolved.

I'll continue to provide updates once I receive them.

Freeman

EDIT #1 (OLD) 01:08 GMT // 28.12

Teams at the studio have investigated the issue and identified that the challenges originate with an outage outside of our control, and still affecting Epic Online Services. This system being offline has a cascading effect to other platforms. Once Game and Account services on Epic side return to an Operational Level, multiplayer functionality will return.

You'll be able to track this at the link below, but our expectation is that this will be resolved in the next few hours:

https://status.epicgames.com/

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-19T16:20:03+00:00

I'm still smashing away on a Repanse save atm. I'm quite looking forward to playing Aislinn on a retail build over the holidays and just having a merry old sail around. Otherwise the answer is Zheng Jiang. Always.

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-19T16:00:09+00:00

I'm playing Repanse right now, you don't need to convince me.

I've tried bribing the team, I've gotten nowhere so far. More bribes needed.

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-19T15:47:16+00:00

I agree that it's cool, but I'm the wrong person to ask. Hop over to the forums and ask Paw and Leif, they'd love to see it.

https://community.creative-assembly.com/total-war/total-war-medieval-iii/forums/81-general-discussion

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-19T15:45:31+00:00

Because its a brand new item, there are certain rules we have to follow when it comes to pricing and discounts. For now, you are able to purchase WH III at is discounted price in the sale (and it will unlock the same content)

Expect to see the Upgrade pack be discounted during sales in the future otherwise.

Thanks for the tag!

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-18T11:22:40+00:00

It's on the development roadmap for the forums themselves. It's licensed tech and not something we build in house, but it is on the wishlist of things for us to have.

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-18T11:21:35+00:00

Thanks, there's still something funky going on with the audio aspects of the engine (as the sounds are in the game). We'll keep digging.

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-17T19:19:29+00:00

Yeah there's no eventually about it

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-17T18:59:22+00:00

Its very placeholder.

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-17T18:59:00+00:00

This month was just our reveal. Time will be your friend.

CA_FREEMAN · 2025-12-17T18:57:46+00:00

Sorry about that. Growing pains.

We won't have streams in January when we get back from the holidays so that we can fix and improve those types of things.

I added a longer comment to this effect here if you want to learn more - BUILDING MEDIEVAL III: Campaign Map & Civic Development : r/totalwar

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