{"id":824705,"date":"2025-12-09T23:32:41","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/total-war-pharaoh-getting-four-new-factions-as-part-of-free-update"},"modified":"2025-12-09T23:32:41","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T23:32:41","slug":"total-war-pharaoh-getting-four-new-factions-as-part-of-free-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/total-war-pharaoh-getting-four-new-factions-as-part-of-free-update\/","title":{"rendered":"Total War: Pharaoh getting four new factions as part of free update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/total-war-pharaoh-getting-four-new-factions-as-part-of-free-update.jpg\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>Sega and Creative Assembly have announced a collection of new features and cultures coming to Total War: Pharaoh as part of an upcoming free update.<\/p>\n<p>The game&#8217;s campaign experience will be reworked to &#8220;improve existing gameplay foundations whilst providing players with a host of new content to better experience the turbulence of the Bronze-Age collapse&#8221;, the Total War: Pharaoh team said today.<\/p>\n<p>This reworking will include an expansion of the campaign&#8217;s map, which will soon see the Mesopotamia and Aegea regions added to the conflict. And, as you would expect, these regions will be bringing their playable factions with them, as well. These are: Babylon, Assyria, Mycenae, and Troy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/total-war-pharaoh-getting-four-new-factions-as-part-of-free-update\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/total-war-pharaoh-getting-four-new-factions-as-part-of-free-update\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sega and Creative Assembly have announced a collection of new features and cultures coming to Total War: Pharaoh as part of an upcoming free update. The game&#8217;s campaign experience will be reworked to &#8220;improve existing gameplay foundations whilst providing players with a host of new content to better experience the turbulence of the Bronze-Age collapse&#8221;, the Total War: Pharaoh team said today. This reworking will include an expansion of the campaign&#8217;s map, which will soon see the Mesopotamia and Aegea regions added to the conflict. And, as you would expect, these regions will be bringing their playable factions with them, as well. These are: Babylon, Assyria, Mycenae, and Troy. 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