Recent reviews by Attini

This studio needs to go under - SCORCHED EARTH!

Creative Assembly broke it and most of the mods from Steam Workshop no longer work.

Creative Assembly broke it and most of the mods from Steam Workshop no longer work.

Creative Assembly broke it and most of the mods from Steam Workshop no longer work.

Creative Assembly broke it and most of the mods from Steam Workshop no longer work.

Creative Assembly broke it and most of the mods from Steam Workshop no longer work.

Creative Assembly broke it and most of the mods from Steam Workshop no longer work.

Creative Assembly broke it and most of the mods from Steam Workshop no longer work.

Cool thing with Creative Assembly is that they break their games in the most spectacular way.
None of the mods from Steam Workshop work anymore. I can uninstall the game, it just doesn't delete any of the files. When trying to reinstall the game, steam won't let me change the installation folder.
To be honest, you should just acquire a stable version of this from the high seas, mod it how you want it and play that - This way Creative Assembly can't break your game with some nonsense "bug fix" auto-update that's just a pretense to install a storefront launcher, in an attempt to get you to consume their latest hot garbage.
Other than that... it's Shogun 2 - The game's good, but Creative Assembly can go bankrupt for all I care.

Starting a new game, exploring the map and setting up your first few cities is fun enough. The troubles start when most of the map is revealed and you have more cities and control a larger area, that's when the game starts having serious performance issues.
Selecting a worker in the late game stutters the game to a halt. Turning off 'show building recommendations' in the options helped a bit, but longer games are quite unplayable as moving a single unit takes several seconds as the game hangs and the units do not move. This happens with nearly every menu item or a unit in the late game.
I tried playing a medium sized map with a lower amount of cities, but it still happens - I'll defeat two opponents and as the area I control gets larger and the game gets gradually slower and slower, while testing my patience.
Why does the game have to render previews for items on the other side of the map when selecting a worker?
Selecting a larger city gives you an abundant amount of information on the screen when I can just check the total value at the top of the screen and the available upgrades on the sidebar on the left - all the useless numbers that the game loads and shows in the hundreds of small boxes on the screen slow down game to halt - I wish there was an option to turn them off, it's all just bloat.