"It's super fun, with a huge modding scene, which is super cool despite its early launch problems. Also on December 4th, 2025, they allowed Total War: Warhammer 1 and 2 players to play with owners of this game. Sounds cool, right? It kind of is.

However, what the devs did not say out loud, and what is just being discovered as of this review, is that you are no longer allowed to roll back to any update before 7.0. Luckly it seems they are not removeing the ablity to rollback completely. However it is still a bad situation currently.

"What does this mean?"
Nothing if you play the vanilla game.

But almost nobody does that. For people who use mods, particularly huge mods that overhaul the campaign, the units, or anything big like that, you are sh*t out of luck.

Unless the mods get updated, you aren't using them; your save files (that you have put 200 turns+ into and a ton of fun and time investment) Will no longer function. This is bad if you had some really fun mods from a pre 7.0 update and the mod author has left the scene or something. Which is a lot of cool mods.


"This has always been the case."
Yes It has. However you could downgrade freely before so it was not such a big issue.

"But mods get updated fast, right?"
Nope, absolutely not! They do not. The mods that are broken by this consumer-unfriendly choice are the ones that take months to even years to update, Thankfuly they do not seem to be removeing the ablity to roll back completely.


"It COULD get worse"
We are not fully shure yet. But now that things have calmed down a bit it seems as though they are not removeing rollback completley. But that is not a gurentee. And there is still the issue of pre 7.0 mods no longer working and no longer haveing any way TO work.

"I don't care about mods."
Fair enough; however, these practices are super anti-consumer. The more these things receive no pushback, the closer we get to mods being removed from all AAA games; the push to do this is huge. Companies get way more cash off of live services, microtransactions, and DLC than they do from games that embrace modding. I don't like that they are takeing options away, perticularly considering this game is NOT CHEEP. this is a very very expensive game. Perticularly if you have the other 2 or bought diffrent armys. Anything that takes my ablity to do as I like with the thing I bought is not a good thing. I do not like everything being a live service.

Conclusion
This is a fun game, However The removeal of rollback has some bad implications for modding. And I don't much like this modren push to remove modding from games of this kind, or make it harder. This is not a cheep game, this is a very expensive 100 doller title if its not on sale where I am. And thats without dlc. So anything that messes with modding annoys me.

I would sugjust for a bit, that you Go play Total War: Warhammer 2. It does not receive updates now, as it's 15 years old, but the mods are, as a result, complete and compatible in their best form now and forever!"