Total War: Warhammer, the next installment of the Total War franchise for the PC has been delayed to May 24, 2016. The creator, Mike Simpson says:

This could be the best Total War game we’ve ever made. We don’t want to rush it.

This statement leaves high expectations for the game since Warhammer‘s predecessors were all high quality strategy games. From the screenshots and videos, Warhammer looks graphically better than any other Total War game. The game is already a new take on the series by making it based on fantasy armies rather than historically accurate ones.

Following the announcement of the delay, Creative Assembly released the specs for the game. The game will be the first Total War game to run on 64bit. The full specs are:

PC Minimum Specifications: [Expected around 25-35 FPS on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to “Low”]

• Operating System: Windows 7 64Bit
• Processor: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo 3.0Ghz
• RAM: 3GB
• Hard Drive: 35 GB
• Video Card: (DirectX 11) AMD Radeon HD 5770 1024MB | NVIDIA GTS 450 1024MB | Intel HD4000 @720P

*PC integrated graphics chipsets require 4GB ram, e.g. Intel HD series

PC Recommended Specifications: [Expected around 45-55 FPS on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to “High”]

• Operating System: Windows 7/8.1/10 64Bit
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-4570 3.20GHz
• RAM: 8 GB
• Hard Drive: 35 GB
• Video Card: (DirectX 11) AMD Radeon R9 270X 2048MB | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 2048MB @1080P

PC 60fps+ Specifications: [Expected 60 FPS+ on campaign map and in a 1v1, 20 units vs 20 units battle, default graphics preset set to “Ultra”]

• Operating System: Windows 7/8.1/10 64Bit
• Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K 4.0 GHz
• RAM: 8 GB
• Hard Drive: 35 GB
• Video Card: (DirectX 11) AMD Fury X or Nvidia GTX 980 @1080P

From the specs, one can tell they really want to outdo their predecessors with this new installment which could be why they have decided to delay the release. For everything that they want to improve check out what the lead writer of Warhammer had to say.