Rome II General Info Thread

[Oberyn]

The game is pure shit and I feel bad for anyone that paid full price for it. Predictably, the AI is even worse than in Shogun2 (battle and campaign), vanilla balance is utter nonsense and there's the usual avalanche of release day technical/graphical glitches. The only thing CA will (eventually) fix are the tech/graph stuff. Everything else they will wait until their modding community fixes it for them, like every single TW game since MTW2, the last out of the box TW game that wasn't total crap. Except for the AI of course, that is just a lost cause. From my perspective:

Fuck the new engine, the most important gameplay enhancement that they've neglected in practically every iteration of TW games is the AI. If anything it gets worse. Darthmod tries to make it at least slightly better every time but there's only so much he can do.

It's a fucking strategy/tactical game and the AI is literally dogshit retarded. It's like they don't seem to understand what the fucking point of their own game is. No, CA, it's not zooming in to look at the pretty little action figures slaughter each other like we're autistic children. That gets old after the first battle or two.   
I'm not even going to get into the DLC scam.
Like someone else in the thread this has just made me look forward to EB2 even more. I was worried for a while that Rome2 was going to be good enough to overshadow any mod on the old MTW2 engine, but I forgot how exponentially disapointing TW game releases have become over the years.

[Vibe]

How to have longer fights on battlefield:

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play with slow-mo on the entire fight

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http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?607309-My-final-retirement-message

Now this seems to be really bad news for Rome 2 News to me at least - didn't know before.

Don't worry!
www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?616804-Announcement-The-Rome-2-Total-Realism-Team-would-like-to-introduce-itself-to-you!
Rome: Total Realism was the best thing that happened to the original Rome. First of all, it was historically very accurate and thus, second of all, super challenging. Those guys working on TR for R2 is very good news.

[Molly]

Release date 2015.

Just tried the beta patch and it did nothing to improve for me. I am just very disappointed and I don't have any hope that I will be able to play it properly for the next month... considering their first patch does nothing for me.

[[ptx]]

R2:TW is a great strategy game.
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[Franke]

Technically, there are no real problems for me. Still haven't encountered any crashes yet, only a random lag here and there.

Gameplay-wise, I'm still not sure. From earlier games I'm used to play with AI turns being shown, but those long round changes really start to become a pain in the ass...

[Molly]

Hey butan,

was just chatting with Herezy on Steam and he showed me a screenshot from you:

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He said you fixed the zombie look. I have the same crap and wonder how you fixed it. Tell me please D:

[Tyefire]

Rome 2 is bad and you all should feel bad.

[Butan]

Frankly Benkey I feel like I have been blessed by the gods graphically-wise 

My computer was mid-high when I bough it more than a year ago, now it should be mid, and still got a good FPS in huge battles (ultra unit size, + x2 unit size mod, + 40 units per general mod) with those settings.

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Like it has been said before, what works for almost everyone (from most to least important) :

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- never use the benchmark, its ugly with my settings, beautiful in-game, check your FPS playing a quick custom battle with lots of troops

- check unlimited memory (here is why : http://forums.totalwar.com/showthread.php/80298-Explanation-of-low-quality-visuals-and-the-new-%E2%80%9CUnlimited-Video-Memory%E2%80%9D-option?s=bd3cb1416b947deaf4af9e79c9d12b22)

- unit details on high; on higher settings the FPS drop a lot for not much graphical improvement

- 1st set of graphical options to tick off : V-sync, distortion effect, SSAO, Vignette, DRA, Anti-aliasing, vegetation alpha, depth of field

- 2nd set of graphical options to tick off/lower : shadows, water, sky, particle effects

- 3rd set of graphical options to lower : trees, grass, terrain, , texture filtering



Best cost-efficient option (to leave at high-extreme as much as possible) : texture quality, shader model, building details, unit details (high max)


Then Unit Size greatly amplify the settings you made, so you gotta choose if you want size over details before anything. Personally I barely have a taste for 160 men formations (god bless the 2x unit size mod) so I would have tried to make it happen even if I would have to look at zombies all the time.

And if it doesnt work for you (stuttering, lags, zombies, etc...), no luck.

Try to find your personal computer sweetpoint between performance-quality by spam launching custom battles -> checking if it looks good and doesnt lag -> go into settings and tinker with it a bit more -> custom battle check -> loop.



P.S.: maybe the patch changed the situation, didnt test.

[Vibe]

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They look more in shock rather than zombies. They're like "what the fuck was that shit back there man, the enemy didnt even fight back"

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[Leesin]

They look more in shock rather than zombies. They're like "what the fuck was that shit back there man, the enemy didnt even fight back"

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Hahahhahaha fuckin laughed my tea out

[Butan]

Another mod to try out : Radious campaign mod : http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?618525-Radious-Campaign-Features-Mod

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And another : Slower units mods : http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?618660-Released-Slower-Units-mod

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Modders to check out often : Radious, R2TW: GEM, Splenyi, Roma 2: Imperium Aquilarum, other large modding team that will certainly have some WIP soon.

[Molly]

This might be interesting for ATi users, I know Tor could be interested cuz it specificly states that crossfire is fixed/improved but single gpu too:

ATi 13.10 beta drivers

http://www2.ati.com/drivers/beta/amd_catalyst_13.10_beta.exe

Haven't tried them yet myself.

[Nessaj]

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Downloading first patch :0