Rome II General Info Thread

[Butan]

I looked at it (and still enjoy Rome 2, AND his valid points) and didnt see the time pass one bit. Try it!

[Leesin]

Waiting on my hardware upgrade, will probably gut my PC late next week and hopefully by the end of the week be able to either gloat or be pissed off at how well the badly optimized Rome 2 runs on my new hardware.

[Ninja_Khorin]

I don't see how any review that takes 43 fucking minutes can be classified as good.

Because most reviews provide the reviewers opinion of the game, while this review provides footage of the games failures, I guess.

Also, he makes jokes and stuff that make it more entertaining, assuming you like his humour.

[Adamar]

Angry joe is someone you can identify to. A gamer who expresses what we mostly feel when dealing with a game's shortcomings, and makes an enemy of the corrupt gaming corporations that are often reponsible for them.

[Banok]

I was thinking of sitting on this so I could have fun exploiting it in head to head but yeah I'm reporting it to CA now since i'm only really playing vs my brother.

basically other civilizations upgrade on recruitment type buildings can only be built in a city type settlement and you can only build 1 of each type of building in a settlement, but since barbarians can be made in any settlement type you can stack them with themselves.  best on seubi/iceni since you can get 4 settlement provinces. (bonuses which are equipment levels don't stack with themselves ofc). in my case I had +100% attack 40% defense 10% armour ~100% morale.

also worth noting you can stack the morale buildings on any faction. Enjoy.

still not telling you my favourite strategy to exploit this tho ;)

also WOOT patch 3 is awesome. it might even have fixed the above was a bit vague.

[Xant]

You were actually thinking of sitting on that so you could have fun exploiting it in head to head.

....

Wat. Head-to-head, as in head-to-head campaign. Something you play with friends over a long period of time, not just a random 30 minute game. Oh you, Banok.

Also, what the fuck's the point of cheating like that? Why not just use an editor and modify an unit's stats to 100000?

[Banok]

I spent alot of time learning the new game mechanics, trying to come up with interesting strategies. thats one of the most enjoyable parts of the game for me (a big nerd). it just happens that it payed off and I found something out which maybe not even CA know about, since they seem have intentionally designed the other factions to prevent it. I wouldn't call it cheating tho, and don't see how you could compare it to editing the values.

I essentially came up with a strong stratergy, and its a stratergy game. trying to execute it vs an actual good player though might not be that feasible, at least to maximum effect.

I also reported a couple of other exploits which are probably already known ;)

[Banok]

I'll put my post here incase anyone cares

My older 2012 driver gives me 5-17 more fps.

so its been ages since I updated my drivers, I decided to do a test to see how much fps I actually gained if any. I wrote down average fps of the ingame benchmark after around "he will betray rome!"

fps on ultra/very high/high
original december 2012 driver
40/48/90
updated to sept 2013 drive
 34 / 42 /73
reverted back to old driver:
38/48/90

one caveat is I just did this on the new beta patch 3.0, I have no idea if older version is different. I cannot be arsed to test it right now, sorry. I also didn't restart my pc in between, altho it didn't ask me to so Idk if this matters.

if your curious the 2012 driver im using is ATI 9.12.0.0 on my hd6950 1gb.

[Leesin]

Currently using a HD 7770 ( until my "Golden Sample" GTX 660 arrives later this week and pisses on it ) but my performance was better when I upgraded to the latest ATI beta drivers, I would urge anyone to try out them out and if it doesn't work try what Banok suggests and go through some older drivers, going back to older drivers has helped me in the past with some other games.

Anyway, I'm currently playing  Pontus campaign and I was taking over "Asia", by attacking one faction called Sardes I had to face the fact he had about 5 allies joining the war with him. However the icing on the cake was that two other local factions then declared war on me , so I'm fighting against enemies from all over right now, it's getting tough but I'm managing to hold out and counter attacking to take regions. Hopefully soon after I conquer a couple of these turds the other Factions will look for peace, if not then I guess I'm going to have a tough time for a long time, considering the Seleucids is one of the enemies and from what I can see on the map they're just as big as I am right now.

[Butan]

NEVER use the benchmark to test your FPS.

[Banok]

Currently using a HD 7770 ( until my "Golden Sample" GTX 660 arrives later this week and pisses on it ) but my performance was better when I upgraded to the latest ATI beta drivers, I would urge anyone to try out them out and if it doesn't work try what Banok suggests and go through some older drivers, going back to older drivers has helped me in the past with some other games.

Anyway, I'm currently playing  Pontus campaign and I was taking over "Asia", by attacking one faction called Sardes I had to face the fact he had about 5 allies joining the war with him. However the icing on the cake was that two other local factions then declared war on me , so I'm fighting against enemies from all over right now, it's getting tough but I'm managing to hold out and counter attacking to take regions. Hopefully soon after I conquer a couple of these turds the other Factions will look for peace, if not then I guess I'm going to have a tough time for a long time, considering the Seleucids is one of the enemies and from what I can see on the map they're just as big as I am right now.

yeah seleucid has many satrapies, and can end up being a huge empire to take on in the late game. me and my brother were trying to do head to head macedon vs egypt, but as egypt seleucid and friends war dec him and then hes kind of fucked even tho egypt have maybe the strongest currently playable start position. it kind of stops a few head to head match ups being viable since is such a big wall between east and west.

[Overdriven]

Seleucids in my Egypt campaign ended up at war with to many people. They only hold Cyprus now and I've picked their satrapies off one by one and sucked them into my empire via some tactical diplomacy. Have to say I learnt my lesson quickly though when I declared war on them, started taking over the Arabian peninsular only to find a couple of seleucid armies landing on my shores. Fortunately I had an army in Libya and one in Jerusalem just in case but it still took me a little while to recover from the economic damage.

[Lt_Anders]

In my new patch 2 rome game: Seleucid own...like the entire east...it's scary. They are Alexander Incarnate...

[Adamar]

Yep, they overhwelmed egypt in my current campaign. Having a big powerfull contender is cool, it's like a boss fight after you're done dealing with the minor factions.

[Tibe]

Alrighty. Reloaded 2nd patch came out. Installed that and restarted the campaign with hard difficulty. Still kicking a lot of arse, but having extremely bitter fighting going on. Good game. I am enjoying it now.