http://forum.melee.org/and-all-the-other-things-floating-around-out-there/total-war-attila
It's what FOTS is to Shogun 2 and what Napoleon is to empire
The first video there said pre alpha footage, On 27th September. Release in February. Pre alpha to release in 5 months? Seems... Awkward
Because they are?Are.. the best ever?
I paid 30€
Best review ive seen so far, inspired me to bully my parents to get it for me from english amazon for 20 quid and give me the cd key since im not paying 40 euros in jolly old germany.
I paid 30€infrom Germany including the Viking DLC :(
Doesn't really matter as long as you pay at services off-site. Like Paypal...
I'm mostly suffering from relatively bad FPS despite an otherwise pretty strong system. Looking forward to optimization patches and gfx driver update.
And not only popular but so clearly cut from the full game. It was even included for free just yesterday with the prerelease version.It's ridiculous they do this. It started in E:TW, and only gotten worse ever since.
Not yet, but ive got show limited moves on (instead of show all), read it helps on the forums.I always have those off, since rome1
Vikings are only playable with a DLC..? What.I paid less than 30euro for the game including the dlc.
LOL release day DLC costing 8 euros for 3 really popular factions, Sega strikes again. Glad I pirated this.
To build anything better you need to camp for at least 4 turns, which seems kinda long to just be idling about. How long do you usually stay camped?
Never really played a total war game only a few hours. Whats a easy faction to start with? I started as the saxons as they look more alpha than the rest.
I'd betray you everyday even if I had no reasonBecause you want to me to "punish you", don't think I don't know what you're trying to achieve you dirty little man.
i pirated it and played few turns before it crashed so i guess no playing for pirates :( from what i saw combat looks fun and game itself seems good.I pirated it too, playing without any problems. You probably fucked up with the CPU crack.
Huns are OP.
Seriously. I have wiped 8 hunnic Hordes and they STILL have 4 stacks always running around. It's pointless and stupid. (playing as Eastern Romans)
And since they are a horde, you can't just "wipe" them out since they keep one stack in the middle of bum fuck no where.
i arr arred it too and it's shittily optimized; dunno how you're doing it molly but i hardly belive you're using the same settings as i am with an r7 260 :/I am using the Max quality settings with a few extras like 16xAF and putting units size and stuff to ultra.
I am using the Max quality settings with a few extras like 16xAF and putting units size and stuff to ultra.darmaster is just too poor for good pc cuz even i run game at max settings and no laggs or anything that slows down my arrrrr atted game
Well, I actually own the game tho.
AI is interesting as WRE. Had the Caledonians and the Saxons and Jutes (I think) march across gaul to invade me after I desolated it. Kinda confused by this. 10K troops on your doorstep having marched hundreds of miles just to pick on me.Sounds personal :lol:
In your pic, there's still a faction called Western Roman Separatists. Do they not have the same unit/tech as normal western romans?(click to show/hide)
What's gay is how fast the West Roman Empire died out, didn't get to fight them once.
In your pic, there's still a faction called Western Roman Separatists. Do they not have the same unit/tech as normal western romans?Looked like barbarian units, not sure though.
Looked like barbarian units, not sure though.Wait wut.
I am using the Max quality settings with a few extras like 16xAF and putting units size and stuff to ultra.I own the game too, but I've noticed in other threads there's some performance issues with specific cards. I used to run RTWII fluently on ultra settings with the same or better performance I get from Attila's 'performance' settings, with much worse graphics. To me it is unplayable until it gets optimization patches and some driver updates. That's what I get for breaking my habit of never again buying games at or before release. Will see what difference an overdue format will do within the next days.
Well, I actually own the game tho.
I own the game too, but I've noticed in other threads there's some performance issues with specific cards. I used to run RTWII fluently on ultra settings with the same or better performance I get from Attila's 'performance' settings, with much worse graphics. To me it is unplayable until it gets optimization patches and some driver updates. That's what I get for breaking my habit of never again buying games at or before release. Will see what difference an overdue format will do within the next days.
I have had no problems here. Run it on upper medium/high. What card do you have and did you upgrade your drivers?Geforce 660 with the newest drivers. But again, I think anything below 35-40 fps when zooming in and out of a big battle is too low. I also want at least quality settings with MLAA enabled. Patch here the 26th seems to include VRAM usage optimisation.
Someone said there were already ~4 DLCs "loaded" to Steam before/at game launch. So that's how many culture packs and cut content we can expect in the near future... it's fucking stupid.poor people who thought preordering would give them the full game
No less than 11 DLCs for RTWII. I even bought them, but only on Steam sale together with the Emperor's Edition.
i pirated it and played few turns before it crashed so i guess no playing for pirates :( from what i saw combat looks fun and game itself seems good.
Oh Hunnic armies cost 0 upkeep.Only for the AI, Hunnic armies definitely cost upkeep for the player
wut. No wonder they have 50 stacks.
Only for the AI, Hunnic armies definitely cost upkeep for the player
Wut. Really...Can't make a balanced AI, so have to make them cheat to be good. Sigh.There's really no other way to make Huns the threat they should be other than cheating.
There's really no other way to make Huns the threat they should be other than cheating.
TOTAL WAR BECAME WORSE SINCE THE COMMAND CONSOLE GOT REMOVED YOY ANTI CHEAT my old friendGKT U DESERVE 2 DIEhttp://cheatengine.org/
http://cheatengine.org/only thing that i ever modified in total war was in meieval 2 total war i unlocked all nations to be able to play them, otherwise its just lame. Why people play game if they dont want to play the game?
http://forum.cheatengine.org/
I always cheat/cheated in TW :oops:
Never played MP consequently either tho...
This is how it's always been handled in the Total War series. Even the by community consensus most balanced mod campaigns maps rely heavily on spawning stacks where applicable. I used to share your sentiment but until we see a revolution in AI this is the best option.(click to show/hide)
Few things i've noticed. Cavalry suck against ranged. I drop some cavalry in the faces of some ranged I expect some serious damage. It takes forever to rout them and then they just come back.
If my guys rout then they usually shatter immediately. Enemies don't.
Food seems really erratic, I went from +600 food to -200 in 3 turns, how is this even possible? I lost 3 settlements in that time and didnt build anything, seemed random as shit.
Legio in defensive testudo will hold forever.
Towers collapsing is stupid as they just fall over. Even stone ones. Against random archers.
I'm terrible at this game, help plsso am i only with 5th try i manage not to starve or die from deseases :D
I'm terrible at this game, help pls
I'm terrible at this game, help pls
http://mrantifun.net/index.php?threads/total-war-attila-trainer.3411/
Just play with one of the easier factions.Playing as saxons atm, can you name a easier one please?
You have no honour
Playing as saxons atm, can you name a easier one please?
Playing as saxons atm, can you name a easier one please?
(until the huns come but thats a different kettle of fish).
You're playing ERE sounds like.
First off, Scout Equites suck. Gotta use them more as a flanking force, and killing off lone range units. Both mainline infantry ERE units are gods at taking a defensive position. Learn to camp, literally. Nothing short of the crossbow/catapults break their defensive testudo. Towers are weak as shit, unless it's a teir 3 city. As a ERE player, you need to literally, play camp the cities to make the most of your units(or camp forts). Huns will murder you in an open battle.
Sassanids are weak, save for their cavalry.(their bows are good, but not as good against the roman units in general) Try to keep your Fronts somewhat flexible, but as static as possible to force the AI into kill zones.
As for food: the seasons change the amount of food. Autumn has the highest while winter the lowest with spring/summer kinda in the middle.
whats new in patch?Here you go! (http://en.lmgtfy.com/?q=total+war+attila+patch+notes+just+for+latvian+kaka)
Yes it is.
Any suggestions for playing as Western Roman Empire/Eastern Roman Empire? I'm consistently getting the shit kicked out of me as either faction, the others I'm not having a problem with.
They are represented like a crumbling empire, you're going to have a lot of nursing to do to get them up and running. I haven't played them myself yet but from what I've seen abandoning some settlements and even disbanding some armies can help you to begin with, rid yourself of the most rebellious/shitty settlements and the least important armies early in the game, so you can use your funds to focus on and solidify your most important places.This seems the best bet. Look at the map and create chokepoints, abandon cities that aren't defensible.
Continuing with my Danes campaign I'm very positive about this game.How does Attila compare to Rome 2 with all DLCs in your opinion? I own Rome 2 and some DLCs, but been thinking about pirating it with all of them. The time period seems more interesting to play as Rome or Greece, while Attila is more interesting when playing as barbarians or Huns, IMO.
A few positives: Generals look like their portraits on the battlefield. Sea battles work well now, basically just land battles on sea, I'm enjoying playing a mainly seaborne faction (the no high-seas attrition and seasickness are potentially very powerful). Auto calculation takes educated guesswork now instead of the boring 'choose the right button' thing from RTWII. Family tree and politics works well now and adds narrative and character to the faction and the campaign. Also great that they've included what I've always hoped for in the series, that the death of a faction leader means new diplomatic relations, historically a common issue in autocracies.
The graphics are great and the game runs really well. Very cool period and visual design overall, I like the grimy atmosphere and the good attention to historical accuracy in unit and building design (low points being RTW and ETW). More polish to numerous RTWII features that already worked pretty good in RTWII:EE, I really like the different army stances for example, province decrees, political events and streamlined skill trees for both armies and characters. Squalor and disease being a factor now in settlement construction. Changing climate. etc.
9/10, one of the best Total War games in my opinion, in line with some of the best such as the first Medieval, Viking Invasion, Mongol Invasion, Napoleon and Rome II.
Any suggestions for playing as Western Roman Empire/Eastern Roman Empire? I'm consistently getting the shit kicked out of me as either faction, the others I'm not having a problem with.
About 40 turns in as Langobards and I am finding it a bit too easy already. All the factions around me were pretty friendly and instantly brown nosed me when I attacked WRE, so my homeland is surrounded by really high relation military allies whilst my armies occupy and sack WRE settlements.
What's making it easy is the fact I have seen minimal WRE armies, looks like the Alamans have taken some land south of me and the Geats and Jutes have invaded the lands west of me, I imagine it has been easy for them as the WRE armies seem occupied elsewhere, not sure if it's being smart holding onto it's other territories or it's just down to AI being stupid lol. After all they will send 5+ full stacks to chase a single horde across the entire map. That aside, the overall game is great, I am looking forward to trying out all the other Factions.
I thought as much, they really need to start focusing on Faction specific AI behaviours, WRE seem way too careless and they need to really reduce the horde chasing business, sending 6 stacks halfway across the map chasing a horde is stupid as hell, that's even before you consider how many Barbarian factions are pushing towards them.
Yeah I read some posts with people complaining about the whole map becoming infertile later in the game, it could be a cool mechanic if done properly but it's clearly not been thought out, parts of the map becoming infertile would be good, perhaps randomised, so the Factions that live there may be encouraged to conquer in order to obtain more fertile lands. But the whole map? overkill IMO.
How does Attila compare to Rome 2 with all DLCs in your opinion? I own Rome 2 and some DLCs, but been thinking about pirating it with all of them. The time period seems more interesting to play as Rome or Greece, while Attila is more interesting when playing as barbarians or Huns, IMO.Emperor Edition holds up very well. I still have an ongoing Roman campaign there. It's not like ETW compared to NTW.
If Attila is a direct upgrade over almost everything instead of a sidegrade/different style of play, I'll probably find it pretty hard to go back to Rome 2.
My experiences in attila seem vastly different to what I see other people posting, is anyone else playing on legendary? because I am (not that successfully!), but my point is that the AI bonuses mean that instead of crumbling the WRE tends to stay super strong. which breaks the usual gameplay dynamic, so that you don't want to pick on rome, since they will bring 3 or 4 stacks of superior infantry to your small town.
Also they actually added a human player only diplomacy penalty via cultural differences for legendary difficulty. THIS IS EXACTLY the mod I made for rome 2. I mean they could have come up with the idea without me but still... I made that mod as a difficulty crutch for poor AI, you'd think the official developers would have a better solution.
LOL CA are dumb kids, this game sucks hard !!
OKOK first we start good, we start constructing bulding and staff am talking about the purple romans, i am playing as them ok we start turn 0 with like 3 full stacks of enemys OKOKOK i manage to kill them very hardly, then i rebuild all and start making my economy, BUM !!!!! all persia hates me and wants to kill me OKOKOKOK i have to burn some cities and make army barricades so they cant pass eny further without fighting me, OKOKOKOOK it works they stop now i manage to sneak a full army stack and start doing to them what they were doing to me destory and loot all my little towns without armys -.- ok i great i destroyed a full region of those persians #)$Y(Y$#, now i manage to make so damage to all the ASIAN puppy states from that ((%/%// persians, i feel safe now i have good control of my empire and many are happy, =) WHAT ???? from now some pirates have raded my trading sjips, i now have -4000 lolol ok its ok enemys are rekt so they needs time to recover, i can disband some unites ok no problem o wait a second ? is that an ARMY OF AGENTS COMMING ? Yes Sir they are, jesus chryst we are lost, they start FFFFUUUUCCCC))( all with out sending a single real army plus the all mighty purple rebel romans start comming from no were taking half of my troops in each city ? WFT???, i manage to recover now i got enofe food and enofe money and all is clean and staff, STILL MY SOLDIERS ARE DIEING ???? WTF, i losse all the WAR AND MY EMPIRE, AND EMPIRE !!!!! TO AN ARMY OF AGENTS.
They did what 10 full stacks of armys could not, great CA another agent war game.
How does sanitation work?
I have a total sanitation of 11 my region yet diseases keep appearing there. How are you meant to stop a disease in a province which already has positive sanitation?
the way sanitation works is like when you poop, you flush the toilet, and your poop is carried away via poop tubes..... = sanitation....
I can't stand to play the game anymore because of the fucking fog in battles. Makes it pointless when you can't even see your own units, zero fun. And it seems like it gives me foggy weather about 80% of the time.
I can't stand to play the game anymore because of the fucking fog in battles. Makes it pointless when you can't even see your own units, zero fun. And it seems like it gives me foggy weather about 80% of the time.
In my Danes campaign I mainly focused on taking the British Isles.
I started by quickly taking Jutland with King Danr's hirdmen 'The Blood Swans', then Sweden, all the while my fleet under Prince Humbli stopped all Varinian trade until they were suspectible to a peace offer.
Then I secured my southern border by marrying off a daughter to the Angles, keeping my relationship with the Anglo-Saxon alliance one of mutual respect, and king Danr on Sealand to fend off a Rugian invasion while Humbli raided Rugian waters.
I then married Humbli to a Frankish princess and started an invasion of England with 10 hirdmen units and 4 nordic spearmen, 2 mounted raiders and 2 archers, supported by Humbli's fleet 'The Black Sails'. My fleet took Ireland while my invasion force landed and took Londinium from the WRE in a gloriously bloody battle.
We've worked our way north from there, though the fighting's been fierce against the Caledonians and Picts around Hadrian's Wall, but a recently arrived second stack from the homeland have pushed the last remaining Scottish tribes to the utmost north where they turtle up with a few stacks, licking their wounds as we both build up our forces for the reckoning.
Next, now laid open for my fleets, is the whole western European coastline.
edit: and as I write this a Germanic horde has just landed and started besieging Londinium in the south, meaning I'll have to split up my forces in the north, hope the Picts don't attack me and hope half my army is enough to fend off the horde that for now seems content just raiding and pillaging.
Btw. real disappointing that Celtic peoples use Nordic units. But that's for yet another DLC, I guess..
My greatest fear is that they will release medieval 3 and tack on this horrendous DLC fest business model.
we have some kind of "insider" guy and he said that looks like the next will be warhammer total war)
Okay when idiots stop preordering this incomplete produce i might care. Until then i recommend that you pirate all you can, but if you put down cash for this you deserve the burn.
CA could break from their publisher if they wanted, the brand is so popular.
CA would probably be pretty fucked with crowdfunding because a lot of people blame the studio for the DLC policy, so lots of bad PR.
Sucks though, without the shit DLC thing I'd buy Total Wars, now I just pirate them instead.
Okay when idiots stop preordering this incomplete produce i might care.
Yeah I noticed them coming to invade Western Europe occasionally and being English, that thought did run through my head :lol:eastern roman empire was chasing me through entire europe with 5 armies, thats why i got there in the 1st place :D
so i just got this and it makes perfect senseNice income Potatoian.(click to show/hide)
Nice income Potatoian.i took those cities like 3 turns aggo, now its fine ;)
Looks like a new standalone like fall of the samurai for shogun
I actually really like charlemagne campaign, played it a ton already. Its easily in my opinion the best TW mini campaign ive played.I agree, the Charlemagne campaign is one of the best campaigns I've played in any game in this series. Perhaps since the first Medieval: Viking Invasion. Kept all the good from Attila, fixed some of the problems, and generally improved where it could. Excellent time frame, the closest we come to a new Medieval Total War game. I have high hopes for newer installments after this.