Total War: Warhammer II

Total War: Warhammer II

Developers
	Creative Assembly
macOS (OS X)	Feral Interactive
Linux	Feral Interactive
Publishers
	Sega
OS X	Feral Interactive
Linux	Feral Interactive
Release dates
Windows	September 28, 2017
macOS (OS X)	November 20, 2018
Linux	November 20, 2018
Reception
Metacritic	87
OpenCritic	86
IGDB	88
Taxonomy
Monetization	One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions	Cosmetic, Finite spend, Cosmetic
Modes	Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing	Continuous turn-based
Perspectives	Bird's-eye view
Controls	Multiple select, Point and select
Genres	RTS, Strategy, TBS
Art styles	Realistic
Themes	Fantasy
Series	Total War: Warhammer

Total War: Warhammer
Subseries of Total War
Subseries of Warhammer
Total War: Warhammer	2016
Total War: Warhammer II	2017
Total War: Warhammer III	2022

Total War: Warhammer II is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RTS, strategy and TBS game in the Total War: Warhammer series.

General information

Official forums

Official support page

Total War Center - A large fan site for the series with an active modding community

Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source	DRM	Notes	Keys	OS
Retail		Europe only.
Epic Games Store
Humble Store
Mac App Store
Microsoft Store
Steam
Amazon.com (unavailable)

All Windows versions require Denuvo Anti-Tamper DRM.

All owned DLCs from the first game will be available on this game as well.

To be able to play Mortal Empires mode, you must own Total War: Warhammer as well.

Monetization

Type	Notes
DLC	The game features extensive paid DLC; if you play only the base game, you will miss a substantial amount of overall content.

DLC and expansion packs

Name	Notes
Repanse de Lyonesse
The Shadow & The Blade
The Hunter & The Beast
Gor-Rok	Free
Tiktaq'to	Free
The Prophet & The Warlock
Lokhir Fellheart	Free.
Curse of the Vampire Coast
The Queen & The Crone
Alith Anar	Free.
Steps of Isha
Tretch Craventail	Free.
Rise of the Tomb Kings
Mortal Empires	Although this DLC is technically free, you are required to own the previous game in the series, Total War: Warhammer, to be able to play Mortal Empires grand campaign.
Blood for the Blood God II
The Warden & The Paunch

Microtransactions

Type	Notes
Cosmetic	Blood for the Blood God DLC is cosmetic only, in that it adds gore effects, but if you own the same DLC for Total War: Warhammer, you do not need to rebuy it.
Finite spend	Each DLC can be only bought once, putting a cap on total spend.
Unlock	You get a set of races in the base game, but the remainder of the races are locked behind real-money transactions.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

• Install this mod.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer2\scripts\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/feral-interactive/Total War WARHAMMER II/SaveData/Steam Saves (<user-id>)/scripts/

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

Save game data location

System	Location
Windows	%APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer2\save_games\ %APPDATA%\The Creative Assembly\Warhammer2\save_games_multiplayer\
Microsoft Store
macOS (OS X)
Linux	$XDG_DATA_HOME/feral-interactive/Total War WARHAMMER II/SaveData/Steam Saves (<user-id>)/local/Warhammer2/save_games/

Save game cloud syncing

System	Native	Notes
Epic Games Launcher
Steam Cloud
Xbox Cloud

Video

Graphics feature	State	Notes
Widescreen resolution
Multi-monitor
Ultra-widescreen		See Ultrawide 21:9 interface cropped.
4K Ultra HD
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed		See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Borderless fullscreen windowed		There is a "run in windowed" option in-game, which enabled borderless windowed mode.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)		Up to 16x.
Anti-aliasing (AA)		FXAA, MSAA (2x, 4x, 8x)
Vertical sync (Vsync)		Off by default.
60 FPS and 120+ FPS		Tested at to 144 FPS.
High dynamic range display (HDR)		See the glossary page for potential alternatives.

Input

Keyboard and mouse	State	Notes
Remapping
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support

Controller types

Audio

Audio feature	State	Notes
Separate volume controls		Separate volume controls for "speech", "effects", "interface", "music", and "master".
Surround sound		Options for 5.1 and 7.1.
Subtitles
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Traditional Chinese
Czech
French
German
Italian
Korean
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Turkish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8	Co-op, Versus Multiplayer campaigns only support 2 players. In Custom Battles, up to 8 players can play at the same time.
Online play		8	Co-op, Versus Multiplayer campaigns only support 2 players. In Custom Battles, up to 8 players can play at the same time.

Issues fixed

Ultrawide 21:9 interface cropped

Interface is cropped in 21:9, due to UI scale defaulting to 200%.

Change UI scale to 100%
Go to Options, Graphics, Advanced and change UI scale to 100%.

Other information

API

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	11, 12	Toggleable from in game settings Main Menu → Options → Graphics → Advanced
Metal support
Vulkan		Linux only.

Executable	32-bit	64-bit	Notes
Windows
macOS (OS X)
Linux

System requirements

Windows

macOS (OS X)

Linux

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	7	8.1, 10
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core 2 Duo 3.0 GHz	Intel Core i5-4570 3.2 GHz
System memory (RAM)	4 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	60 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 460 ATI Radeon HD 5770 Intel HD 4000 1 GB of VRAM DirectX 11 compatible	Nvidia GeForce GTX 770 AMD Radeon R9 290X 4 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

The recommended requirements are quoted for 1080p resolution with default graphics preset set to "High" at 45-55 FPS.

Intel Core i7-4790K 4.0 GHz and Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB are recommended for 1080p resolution with default graphics preset set to "Ultra" at 60+ FPS.

macOS (OS X)
	Minimum
Operating system (OS)	10.14
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i5 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM)	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	51 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 680MX AMD Radeon R9 M290 Intel Iris Graphics 540 2 GB of VRAM

A 64-bit operating system is required.

Linux
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	Ubuntu 18.04
Processor (CPU)	Intel Core i3-4130 3.4 GHz	Intel Core i7-4770 3.4 GHz
System memory (RAM)	6 GB	8 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	52 GB
Video card (GPU)	Nvidia GeForce GTX 680 AMD Radeon R9 285 Intel Iris Graphics 540 2 GB of VRAM	Nvidia GeForce GTX 970 AMD Radeon RX 480 4 GB of VRAM

Nvidia graphics cards require driver version 396.54 or better (tested)

AMD graphics cards require Mesa 18.1.5 or better (tested)