{"id":21024,"date":"2012-05-24T17:55:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T07:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=21024"},"modified":"2012-05-24T17:55:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-24T07:55:27","slug":"total-war-shogun-2-map-editor-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=21024","title":{"rendered":"Total War: Shogun 2\u2122 Map Editor now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>SYDNEY, Australia \u2013 May 24, 2012 \u2013<\/strong> SEGA\u00ae of America, Inc. and SEGA\u00ae Europe, Ltd. today announced the availability of the first-ever official <em>Total War\u2122<\/em> modding tool. The Editor, or TEd for short, enables modders to create their own custom maps for use in multiplayer and custom VS AI battles across both <em>Shogun 2\u2122<\/em> and its recent standalone expansion <em>Fall of The Samurai\u2122. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTotal War has enjoyed a strong and dedicated modding community down the years, and we want to do more to support that\u201d, said Rob Bartholomew, Total War Brand Director. \u201cWith TEd at their fingertips, we\u2019re expecting to see new battle-maps for <em>Shogun 2<\/em> that will equal our own in popularity\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.pcgamer.com\/files\/2012\/05\/Total-War-map-editor-7.jpg\" width=600><\/p>\n<p>TEd is a powerful tool that enables users to alter terrain type and height, and comprises libraries boasting hundreds of unique battlefield props, such as trees, buildings, railway lines and coastal batteries. Users can construct vast and intricate castles from their component pieces, sculpt beautiful rolling landscapes, and model their own unique townscapes or vivid coastal scenes for naval battles.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.gawkerassets.com\/img\/17njew907t35jjpg\/original.jpg\" width=600><\/p>\n<p>When a map is built, it can then be used in any custom VS AI or multiplayer battle, at which point it will be automatically shared with the player\u2019s opponent. Experienced tacticians are now capable of building their own challenging battlefields around features such as choke-points, forests, rivers and custom deployment zones.<\/p>\n<p>TEd is completely free, and accessible now to <em>Shogun 2\u2122<\/em> and <em>Fall of The Samurai\u2122 <\/em>owners via the Tools section of their Steam library.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Australia \u2013 May 24, 2012 \u2013 SEGA\u00ae of America, Inc. and SEGA\u00ae Europe, Ltd. today announced the availability of the first-ever official Total War\u2122 modding tool. The Editor, or TEd for short, enables modders to create their own custom maps for use in multiplayer and custom VS AI battles across both Shogun 2\u2122 and<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=21024\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21026,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21024\/revisions\/21026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}