Rome Total War 2 announcement incoming

[Molly]

Medieval 2 is the best TW anyway.

[Xant]

I prefer Medieval 2's graphics to Shogun 2's graphics as well...

[Siiem]

If you play shogun you have to adjust your yellow colour setting.

[Turboflex]

The good parts of STW2:

-AI is better. Better on battlefield, and smarter on campaign. Defends cities better, acts more aggressively. Legendary difficulty is really mean!

-Better diplomacy. AI is a lot more reasonable.

-Less agents. Playing  MTW2 again recently I was really annoyed by how many agents I need to move. By STW2 they cut out princesses, merchants and diplomats as agents leaving just spies, priests and assassins.

-I also like the new building style where cities have slots so specialization is more straightforward.

So there have been some significant improvements in the engine since STW2 so it will be great to go back to Rome.

I hope Roman politics will be a bit deeper if you choose to play it, it was kind of weak in RTW where you just chose 1 of 3 factions that you ran like a kingdom and then the senate acted like a pope. The senate should be A LOT more significant. If you don't want to deal with that then just go play some non-Roman nation, but Republican Rome should be special and different.

[Beauchamp]

I don't like CA's attitude when they release unfinished games, especially multiplayer suffered really horribly from this. I'm not going to buy any TW game for full price because of that.

[Xant]

Which games did they release unfinished?

I remember swearing a holy oath to never buy another CA game back when they released ETW because of some stupid DLC shit though, can't remember why now though

But it's a good reason to pirate the games and feel morally superior

[Baggy]

CA are having a a modding conference, they made a thread over on TWC.

[MacNille]

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[Beauchamp]

Which games did they release unfinished?

I remember swearing a holy oath to never buy another CA game back when they released ETW because of some stupid DLC shit though, can't remember why now though

But it's a good reason to pirate the games and feel morally superior

shogun 2 had totally horrible multiplayer after release, both campaign and battles. as far as i know even other releases before were one big desync party.

btw i haven't pirated a game for 5 years at least...

[Xant]

Shogun 2 had some problems, but NTW and ETW had good multiplayers. Lacking in most functions that other MP games have (such as checking ping), but still good.

[Beauchamp]

Shogun 2 had some problems, but NTW and ETW had good multiplayers. Lacking in most functions that other MP games have (such as checking ping), but still good.

- i heard it was impossible to finish any campaign without desyncs for months (etw, ntw)...
- regarding battles only, shogun2 was just awfull (features, stability, drophacks, balance, ladder was and still is just one big LOL...), i can't imagine any other system they had before for battles was better. if they had any "system" at all...

i might possibly buy rtw2, but only as some cheap sale after they patch the game.

[Xant]

ETW doesn't have a multiplayer campaign, despite what they promised before it was released. Shogun 2 was impossible to finish MP campaigns on. Desync at turn 70, every time.

[Rogue]

ETWs MP campaign is still buggy as hell and both NTW and STW2 had sever de-synchronisation problems at release. Transferring the savegame manually solved most of those problems though. I have played and completed dozens of MP campaigns, even in ETW.

[Jacko]

Every TW game since M2 have had more or less gamebreaking bugs (like pike/spearmen switching to close combat weapons, blue screens, loading problems, countless mechanical issues and so on), for me the vanilla games are usually 'unplayable' the first six months. Still I love the series, favourite being NTW so far (clean good functional working mechanics).

A buy, Hell Yes.

After six months or so.

[LordBerenger]

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Your avatar really shows your excitement.