Games Rome II: Total War

[Aada]

I really do prefer the battles in earlier games. They tend to descend into riots rather than a proper battle. I want my units to advance in a straight line, not a mob. At least they seem to have sorted the friendly fire out now! Cavalry shits on everything though, I remember being terrified of the spear phalanx in previous games, not any more.

I wish there was an option where they would advance slowly in a straight line, I can understand not being able to do it at running speed.

 

[Gwadien]

Want to try out campagin coop Raven?

Co-op is fuckered aparrently, but I'm game if you wanna give it a bash add me - Gwadien

 

[Raven]

Nah not really. I play really slowly and may take half an hour to play a turn. I tend to be watching Netflix most of the time while playing then get really deep into making sure provinces are giving their overlord the maximum benefit.

 

[AngelHeal]

yay world domination

 

[AngelHeal]

I wish there was an option where they would advance slowly in a straight line, I can understand not being able to do it at running speed.

there is.. use formations

 

[Raven]

They advance in a line ok but as soon as they meet the enemy it just turns into a mass blob of units.

 

[Mabs]

quite a few formations are totally buggered atm: Testudo is a joke, mostly, and Phalanx flat out doesnt work, they dont hold formation and cant absorb a charge properly, i havent tried it but rumour is, if you want a wall of spears to stand their ground, use PIKEMEN -not- hoplites

 

[AngelHeal]

quite a few formations are totally buggered atm: Testudo is a joke, mostly, and Phalanx flat out doesnt work, they dont hold formation and cant absorb a charge properly, i havent tried it but rumour is, if you want a wall of spears to stand their ground, use PIKEMEN -not- hoplites

thats because fear etc can be a factor... even though they might not show it on their flags...
a better general near them can keep the formations tighter

 

[Mabs]

thats because fear etc can be a factor... even though they might not show it on their flags...
a better general near them can keep the formations tighter

no someone actually looked at the coding on it, if you charge a Phalanx it wont hold formation, spears wont fight properly, etc, its bugged at a design level

 

[Gwadien]

I'm off today, and I fancy giving co-op a bash, any takers?

 

[Lethul]

Sounds like i shouldnt be to miffed about missing this release. Will pick it up when I get a new computer instead, hopefully some of these things are fixed by then

 

[Shagrat]

same old total war release really.

 

[Coldbeard]

yeah, it even has those random stacks pointlessly standing about

 

[Mabs]

i havent had any random armys standing around
i havent had any AI freeze ups in battles

in fact, its been fine for me, it just goes to show, it strikes at random /shrug

 

[fettoken]

Could be just a matter of unoptimized hardware/software in combination with... well yeah anything.

 

[Mabs]

one guy on the forums was raging that Creative Assembly are shit, Sega ruined his life, and R2 is fucking shit

then later admited he had a 1gig overclock but that it MUST BE R2 that was causing his blue screen

/shrug

some problems are problems, others are PEBCAK

 

[fettoken]

Some games are extremely sensitive to overclocking and unstable hardware (due to power surges, under voltage etc)

 

[Turamber]

I got to the end of part one of the prologue as Rome.

Took the Samian capital but now can't advance.

I get the cut scene and I'm back attacking the city again.

Way around this?

On my iPhone apologies for posting like a douche.

 

[Raven]

That ok, it's part of the Iphone experience

 

[Mabs]

beta patch 2 is out, much faster AI turn turnover and some other bits

http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Total_War_ROME_II:_Patch_2

 

[Mabs]

http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Total_War_ROME_II:_Patch_Notes

seems theyve fixed most of the launch issues now, fingers crossed

 

[Mabs]

free DLC pack if you get it before 29th Oct

http://store.steampowered.com/app/258270/

 

[Fafnir]

http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Total_War_ROME_II:_Patch_Notes

seems theyve fixed most of the launch issues now, fingers crossed

Yeah, but i got tired of the game and its issues, will be a while until i play it again...When should i learn not to buy game on release but wait a few months....

 

[fettoken]

This gave has actually been updated pretty well now, and with all the DLC's its fun and all. Woop!

 

[Gwadien]

Yeah, it's purty good, just gets frustrating after a of doing the same rinse repeat sort of stuff, I never felt it -that- bad in the previous Total Wars, I guess they were a bit quicker.

 

[fettoken]

True. With 100000000 factions, and when you are managing a larger army it does get very repetitive and somewhat hard to follow.

 

[SilverHood]

Yeah, I got 8/10's of the way to completing the domination victories as Carthage and Sparta, but I don't have the patience or energy to fight the 10 battles each turn. Just need 6 more provinces for my Sparta game, and I can't make myself do it. I've worked out it will take me about 40 hours to complete.