Total War: Three Kingdoms Review Bombed After Final Update

Total War: Three Kingdoms has been review bombed with overwhelmingly negative reviews after the game received its final 1.7.1 update path. Creative Assembly has announced that it is going to cut down on production to work on a new Three Kingdoms Game.

Fans of the game have not taken this very well as the game has been review bombed since the announcement and release of the update. The game’s Steam page is sitting at a grim “Overwhelmingly Negative” recent reviews, even though the overall reviews show that the title is mostly positive.

Review bombing is nothing new but a way for players to show their dissatisfaction over controversial announcements. But one has to think as to why fans have gathered up together to show their frustration. And it all stems back to the promise the developers made for the expansion of the northern region that never saw the light of day. Some fans have also said that the game never actually explored the Three Kingdoms that the game is named for.

Having said that, the update does bring a few changes and additions that were previously promised by the devs, and these include shifting Mount Song and Hulao pass to their right location.

Reach the full patch notes below:

MAP CHANGES

Moved Mount Song and Hulao pass to their correct location
Added more impassable areas to the Yellow River to prevent moving past some passes

BUG FIXES

GENERAL

Reduced frequency of AI picking Faction Council missions that spawn Looters
On restoring the Han your factions name will change to the Han Empire and your flag will change to the Han Empire
Removed Imperial Favour gain from positive public order, and adjusted some food-based gains
Xiangyang is now owned by Liu Biao in 200
Friend relationships added between Mi Zhu, Sun Qian and Liu Bei in 200, and family relationships between Lady Mi and Mi Zhu and Mi Fang
Zhou Tai’s now heals 0.2% of max HP every second, 5 times slower than before, and can no longer use his heal when on an elephant
Governors can now restore the Han (or declare independence) if they control the emperor when they hit the maximum prestige level
Fixed two desync errors with Cao Cao in co-op and at the 190 start date.
Fixed starting the game with Chinese IME leading to losing control of keyboard and mouse in-game in certain versions of Windows 10.

CAMPAIGN FIXES

Fixed crash when annexing Yellow Turban settlements as the Han
Fixed crash when extracting a spy when they’re leading an army
Fixed crash related to annexing settlements and amount of action points remaining to the army annexing
Fixed crash that could happen upon zooming in on a besieged settlement
Yellow Turban Rebellion can no longer be invited to join Empires
Postponed the ‘Restore the Han’ dilemma until Emperor Xian is an adult to make sure he could not become faction leader when still a child
Removed duplicate Black Mountain Hideout buildings in the 194 campaign
Fixed issue where if a faction in an alliance left it, alliance peace would be automatically signed but one faction would remain in an alliance war and be unable to leave it
Fixed issue where the Trade Territory function was not always working correctly
Fixed issue where it was possible to annex territory of a faction who had left your Empire
Fixed issue where nothing happened if you attacked a vassal of a member of your Empire, the correct diplomacy pop-ups now occur
Fixed issue where player would get two pop-up messages if the target of a mercenary contract is vassalised by the faction issuing the contract
If a faction which is fulfilling a mercenary contract is vassalised the contract now ends and the mission will expire the following turn
Fixed issue where vassals did not always have access to the option to request permission to declare war from their vassal master
Nanman rebels can now no longer do any diplomatic treaties beyond war, this will only apply to new campaigns
Vassalising a Nanman faction through settlement occupation option as a Nanman faction will now correctly sign peace with that faction
Fixed issue where Nanman diplomatic options with Han factions were not always working correctly
Fixed issue where Demand Fealty for Nanman wasn’t correctly unlocking the option to vassalize Han factions
Fixed issue where Yellow Turban factions were sometimes not progressing and therefore not gaining access to more diplomatic treaties
Fixed issue where Dong Zhuo incorrectly had access to Liu Hong’s specific diplomatic option to annex empire subjects
Fixed issue where Yu Jin leaves Cao Cao on turn 1 of a legendary 194 campaign
Moved Emperor Xian’s pin in the 200 campaign to Xuchang to match his location
Liang Rebels in Mandate of Heaven are no longer affected by Imperial Favour
Han Empire and factions like Liu Hong led by a current/former Emperor now get a boost to Imperial Favour
Northern Army veteran units now have unit caps to be consistent with the basic Northern army units
Fixed many instances of characters appearing in the 200 campaign who should already be dead
Fixed issue where Liu Xie with his unique art could be born to any character
Xun You can now correctly access all skills in his tree, which enables him to gain access to his Turning the Tide ability
Updated text for Lu Bu’s Personal Victories and Momentum to reflect the fact that he gains both from defeating enemy generals in battles, not from duels, as many AI generals are reluctant to duel him
Fixed issue where the Qiao sisters event was not triggering for Sun Ce
Fixed issue where if the Emperor is executed by a non-Han faction a duplicate Liu Xie could spawn
Fixed issue where the ‘Iron General’ title was not unlocking correctly
Fixed issue where when Nanman children are born they would ‘steal’ one weapon and one mount from the factions available pools
Shanyue in 200 were set to Bandit culture but Han military group, their military group now matches their culture which will enable them to recruit more units
Fixed issue where when playing as Dong Zhuo in Mandate of Heaven Lu Bu did not always join the player due to an error in the related events
Corrected unlock conditions for Liu Chong trophy that required 15 spear infantry units but only tested for pike infantry
Fixed issue where Rice Paddies were not providing food production from farming as Bandits
Fixed issue where increase in spy slots was not applying unless campaign is saved and reloaded
Fixed issue where Imperial units were not being unlocked correctly by technologies in the Eight Princes campaign
Fixed issue where Liu Yan/Liu Zhang’s tier 6 settlements were wrongly giving a faction-wide bonus of +50% to commerce income

BATTLE FIXES

Fixed issue where several settlement maps were covered in the caltrops ground type
Fixed issue where Yu Jin had different abilities in custom battle to campaign
Fixed issue where several characters unrelated to Yuan Shao had the ‘Familial Conflict’ ability, and added it to Yuan Shu
Fixed issue where faces of Nanman units could appear black at certain angles/lighting

UI FIXES

Fixed issue where some already researched techs in the Nanman tech tree were not being displayed correctly
Fixed issue where player would get notifications and pop-ups about Imperial Intrigue before the feature was active
Fixed issue where first notification for a turn does not always pop-up
Fixed issue where more than 11 administrator positions did not fit into the court UI, a scroll bar has been added
Fixed issue where the ‘King of Kings’ UI for Meng Huo was not updating with the correct duration
Fixed issue where some character names were shown in lower case when loading into battles
Fixed issue where the ‘Discredit Faction’ was sometimes available in circumstances that weren’t valid
Removed outdated information on the Info Overlay for Cao Cao and Yuan Shao
Fixed issue where the Abdicate Emperorship diplomatic proposal had wrong description, it wrongly suggested the faction being proposed to would abdicate, instead of the one proposing the deal

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