Developer Creative Assembly and publisher Sega have announced that Total War: Warhammer III‘s upcoming Tides of Torment DLC has been delayed to “later this year”.
Originally, Tides of Torment was intended to launch this summer, but as Creative Assembly reveals in a new blog post, the DLC won’t be meeting that release window. Instead, Tides of Torment will be launching sometime later in 2025, although the studio doesn’t commit to a more specific release window than that.
Creative Assembly says that during recent playtesting for Tides of Torment, the studio’s developers asked themselves if the DLC “met the standards…set in recent releases”, and as you’ve probably gathered from the delay, the answer was no.
As a result of this dissatisfaction, Creative Assembly says it’s going to spend some time “working on [Tides of Torment], reviewing the content, and improving the gameplay experiences that it’s set to bring”.
That also means that the info shared as part of the Slaanesh and Norsca previews released back in May is probably “no longer accurate”, according to Creative Assembly. More will be shared about these factions, as well as the third and final DLC faction, when the final What’s Next video for Tides of Torment arrives.
The studio acknowledges that this year “has been a slower year” for many Total War: Warhammer fans, and that while Warhammer III “is in a better space” this year than in previous years, Creative Assembly is “currently not meeting [its] commitments” to transparency, pledging to address this issue over the next few months through new updates, hotfixes, and preview videos.
With regards to the future of Total War: Warhammer III, Creative Assembly closes by saying that “one of the biggest Total War: Warhammer content packs ever created in the trilogy” is coming next year, and that the possibility of smaller DLC packs that include certain legendary lords or hero units is also on the table.
Total War: Warhammer III is available to check out right now on PC via Steam, and you can remind yourself of what our very own Andrew thought of the game right here. The Tides of Torment DLC is set to launch sometime later this year.