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Players Furious Over Total War Shogun 2 AI Upgrades
Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition sparks outrage with AI-upscaled art that's blurry, broken, and inconsistent.
In brief
Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition sparks outrage with AI-upscaled art that's blurry, broken, and inconsistent. Players criticize Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition for AI-upscaled unit art that's blurry, broken, and inconsistent. Originally reported by Kotaku.
Total War Shogun 2 Complete Edition Launch
Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition released October 13, 2026, with 82 percent negative Steam reviews in 24 hours.
“literally the greed they talk about in the bible”
Original Game Popularity
Total War: Shogun 2 originally released in 2011 and scored 9s and 10s, rated the best game in the Total War series by Kotaku in 2019.
Steam Reaction
Players report crummy performance, bugs, broken mod support, graphical issues, and AI upscaling for unit cards in the Complete Edition.
Sega Price Change
Sega delisted previous versions of Total War: Shogun 2 from Steam and increased the price for the Complete Edition.
AI Art Issues
AI upscaling created blurry, distorted unit art, including merged figures, lost details, and incorrect smoke effects.
Specific Art Problems
The AI merged the central wooden bar into background, flattened figures, and turned gun smoke into lampshades.
Player Outrage
Players describe the AI-upscaled art as 'literally the greed they talk about in the bible' and demand fixes.
“literally the greed they talk about in the bible”
What it means
Players criticize Total War: Shogun 2 Complete Edition for AI-upscaled unit art that's blurry, broken, and inconsistent.
