But concedes that "we took our eyes off" its creation

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Last week, Creative Assembly and Sega pulled Total War: Shogun 2's remastered Complete Edition from Steam , after an avalanche of complaints about technical problems and some AI-generated art. Now, Total War vice president Roger Collum has written a personal apology, while pinning some of the blame on an unnamed external partner. He's also clarified Creative Assembly's stance on generative AI, conceding that the studio do use it to help with "analysis, debugging, or speedy prototyping", but that they're against using it to generate game assets and art.

"I get many of you are angry and disappointed about the state of the Shogun 2: Complete Edition release," Collum writes on the official Twar Reddit . "We are too – especially the team members who have put everything into Total War games for years, some even decades. This was not a Creative Assembly developed game.…