Creative Meeting has confirmed it has a new Total War online game set to be introduced at The Game Awards, however what’s it? Warhammer 40,000 followers suppose they know — and one eagle-eyed viewer even noticed what appears to be like like concrete proof.
The Sega-owned technique specialist behind Total War: Warhammer (the fantasy model of Video games Workshop’s much-loved tabletop setting) is rumored to be engaged on a Warhammer 40,000 and a Star Wars tackle its long-running Total War collection, and it appears to be like just like the Warhammer 40,000 recreation will lastly get introduced at The Game Awards tonight.
Redditor Knavbot took to the Total War subreddit to level to a blink-and-you’ll miss it reference to 40K in Creative Meeting’s current showcase livestream (the one the place the developer introduced Total War: Medieval 3). I actually do imply blink-and-you’ll miss it as a result of the information labeled 40k are extremely laborious to identify. I needed to sluggish the video proper down on the 32:42 mark and freeze-frame to see them, however sure, they’re there:
Listed below are the related file names within the video:
- 40k_outfield_sheet_01_base_colour
- 40k_outfield_sheet_01_material_map
- 40k_outfield_sheet_01_normal
This obvious 40k leak appeared throughout the a part of the showcase the place Creative Meeting talked about its new recreation engine, which is able to assist deliver its video games to consoles for the primary time. Assuming that is all resulting in a Total War: Warhammer 40,000 announcement, we will assume the sport will launch for PC in addition to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Collection X and S.
In fact, the announcement received’t come as a lot of a shock for many Warhammer 40,000 followers given the sheer quantity of rumors floating round Creative Meeting and the Video games Workshop neighborhood in current months. However till the sport is introduced, we should always level out that the Total War reveal at The Game Awards could possibly be one thing else solely.
Warhammer 40,000 online game leaks have a historical past of coming from file names proven in movies. The look of Darkish Angels Primarch Lion El’Jonson in upcoming RTS Daybreak of War 4 was leaked by way of file names in a video. Developer King Artwork Video games not too long ago admitted to IGN in an interview that this was an accident. Maybe Creative Meeting knew what it was doing right here! Maybe not.
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