Rome II General Info Thread

[Fredom]

I am thinking of buying it, I am not the best strategy fan but loved Rome Total War. Is it good enough to suggest it?

[Tibe]

Pirate it. They screwed up too bad while making it. It aint worth the ammount of money they are asking for it. Even now its just playable and you need to have a damn fine PC. My friends cant even play it cause the FPS drops very fast even during 1 vs 1 armyfights. Even im experiencing good ammount of lagging with 1 vs 1 armies with my i7 processor and 16 gb memory. So even trying to go like 2 vs 1 will be quite painful for your PC.

If you can get it for like 20 or 25€, then yea, get it. But for 54? Waste of money.

[Overdriven]

Well lag hasn't been an issue at all to me or any one else I know. Even on my dads slightly older PC. Just got to get the settings right. I would agree though that it perhaps isn't quite worth the money they are asking for atm. If you are debating about it I'd wait for steam sales as I'm sure it'll be down in price then.

[Molly]

Bought it, including the Greek States, for €35 as pre-order. If that wasn't the case I would have been way more pissed.

That said, right it is running smooth on my rig on Very High with some Ultra in it. Like Overdriven said, you have to invest 1 hour to get the settings right and then it's working fairly well now.

[Taser]

I really don't know why you guys that paid over 50 euros for a preorder aren't more pissed off that it sucked balls on release. You guys got shafted hard with 59 euros for a preorder when US had only $59.99 for preorder. They didn't even bother converting for most of it. Wut.

[Tibe]

I was remotely curious and googled around a bit. Since as I understood the game had like 117 factions and only a handfull that are acctually playable. So I was quessing, mybe most others are unlockable, like in the first Rome. Hell no! Factions are payable DLCs. I MEAN WHAT THE FUCK? How greedy can you possibly get! You know before I realised this, I was kinda positive that I should get like 1 copy when on sale. But now im kinda strongly against giving those mofos a single dime. This is why piracy has to exsist people. Otherwise the already overpaying consumers would have to pay even more with their mouths shut.

[Butan]

I would be if I didnt pre-order through amazon.uk while living in France 

£££££ conversion ftw !

[Lt_Anders]

I was remotely curious and googled around a bit. Since as I understood the game had like 117 factions and only a handfull that are acctually playable. So I was quessing, mybe most others are unlockable, like in the first Rome. Hell no! Factions are payable DLCs. I MEAN WHAT THE FUCK? How greedy can you possibly get! You know before I realised this, I was kinda positive that I should get like 1 copy when on sale. But now im kinda strongly against giving those mofos a single dime. This is why piracy has to exsist people. Otherwise the already overpaying consumers would have to pay even more with their mouths shut.

Technically, with Mod, all factions are playable. except for paid DLC factions, I believe...

[Adamar]

Yeah, and modding isn't piracy... yet.

[Vibe]

What do I have to research to get better (heavy) Iceni infantry? I only got Sword/Spear band. How do I get Chosen Sword Bands or those Nobles?

[Molly]

What do I have to research to get better (heavy) Iceni infantry? I only got Sword/Spear band. How do I get Chosen Sword Bands or those Nobles?

That is a valid question. I have a similar when it comes to the Suebi

I miss those trees that Shogun 2 had...

[Vibe]

In the tooltips you only see which building you're unlocking, but not what that building actually does. When I played Romans it was pretty clear which research would unlock which unit :/

[Nightmare798]

video game developers have adopted a strange fetish of fucking up the games we are most hyped for.

wtf is going on? first stronghold 3, now rome 2? WHYYYYY?

[Lizard_man]

What do I have to research to get better (heavy) Iceni infantry? I only got Sword/Spear band. How do I get Chosen Sword Bands or those Nobles?

That would be an ironsmith for the chosen, and a great hall for the nobles...

[Mala]

That is a valid question. I have a similar when it comes to the Suebi

I miss those trees that Shogun 2 had...

for odins warband you need the shine of odin II or the oak of tyr V, for the night hunters the slave market III, meadhall IV for the berzerker and black smith III for swordmaster.