Author Topic: Rome II General Info Thread (Read 148152 times)

Ninja_Khorin · « **on:** July 02, 2012, 04:20:10 pm »

The other thread is too cluttered. Here's something to listen to while reading this thread: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zj_kRsTUwJc

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There is now only one battle-type: battles are not split between sieges, naval battles and open field engagements. Naval units can be combined with infantry combat which can be combined with siege combat.

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The Rome II reveal demo didnt include anything from the campaign map, and Creative Assembly were tight lipped on details. But James did explain that it would be larger than previous maps, and that the countries of old would be split into smaller provinces.

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When youve got big regions what that means is that you tend to headshot the capital and suddenly get one big swathe of territory, says James. With provinces and provincial capitals, with quite a few surrounding regions, theres territory to capture without just headshotting the capital. So you get more varied battles and more varied battle types over different terrain. It means you dont want a couple of units going here and here, and we really want people to think about Legions.

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Secondly, theyve repaired the long-standing problem of the divided AI. Previous Total War games included two separate AIs; one for diplomatic relations and one for the actual campaign map. By combining these systems well hopefully be able to give the player some warning about these things, explains Russell, so you might be able to spy on the AI, and see it thinking about double crossing, building up forces about to attack you. Because these systems are integrated we can explain to the player not just the stuff to do with diplomatic relations, but also give you a reason. Its not just it wont do a trade agreement because youre -83 diplomacy, but because strategically, it wants that region of yours and therefore its just not going to make a trade agreement with you. And it makes it more human, so that theres real thinking going on behind it.

Finally, the AIs will have their own unique personalities. Like Civilization, youll come to realize that certain AIs have different personalities and can be treated in different ways. We acknowledge that AI is a key part of making the world believable and fun to play. We also want to make them more human and personality-driven; for example, those guys are vengeful, so you dont want to piss them off because theyll kick you back, whereas another AI might be more realpolitik and look at the bigger picture. Thatll be even more given that Russell hints at something similar to Fall of the Samurais Realm Divide mechanic for the Roman factions - Empire or Republic seems like a likely choice.

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Q. The previews have focused lots on Rome, does this mean the other factions in the game are being neglected?
Not at all. Lots of work is going into all the different cultures present in the game.

Q. What is all this talk about reducing micro-management in the campaign, and you dumbing it down?
We are not dumbing it down. The campaign in Rome II will have more depth than ever before. We are also aiming to reduce late game micro-management so players can focus on the game and the new mechanics we are introducing to the campaign game.

Q. Some of the previews have talked lots about armies, and you getting rid of individual units or controlling them?
There will still be individual units. Campaign side we are putting more emphasis on armies and them having a history or legacy. We will talk about this in more details when we begin to preview the campaign in depth as time goes on.

Q. Will there be DLC for Rome II?
Yes there will be DLC for Rome II. We will details this more closer to release and also talk about why we do DLC and why it is not cut content.

Q. Is it going to be heavily scripted with all this talk about characters or a more sandbox game?
It is going to be a grand campaign, we are aiming to work more story into the campaign that is different every time you play and based around what you do.

Again, we will talk more about the campaign at a later date.

Q. Are the screenshots from the game?
Yes they are taken from the Siege of Carthage battle we showed to journalists.

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Hi all, new update based on more common questions from around the forums.

Q. How historically accurate will Rome II be?

A. It is more useful to talk in terms of historical authenticity than historical accuracy, which never survives past the player getting involved anyway. There are a lot of things we do which arent accurate because it is a game, battles lasting minutes not hours or days for example. So any game cant be historically accurate, but we are aiming for it to be more historically authentic than ever.

This refers to the look and feel of the various nations and peoples in the games, from the way they are dressed to the equipment they use on the battlefield to the mechanics on the campaign map. So the armour, tunic, helmets, shields and so on will be based on historical examples. The unit rosters will be based on the kind of units that were fielded and the societies of different cultures.

There will be units which were historically rare but we make more of because they are interesting and different. As in the past few Total War games they will not be appearing in every army but they will be there to add flavour.

Q. Will there be mixed main weapon types within a unit, say barbarians fighting with swords and spears in the same unit?

A. No. Whilst historically this may have occurred we split them into different units for gameplay reasons. Spears and swords have different stats in our game so we want them to be the main weapons for different units so the use for them is clearer and the player can tailor their army make up more depending on their play style.

Q. Will most of the effort be going into the Roman faction at the expense of other factions and cultures?

A. There is obviously far more information available on Rome than on other factions and cultures in this era, but that does not mean we are neglecting them. A lot of research has gone into the unit rosters for non-roman factions and into the campaign map to represent them well.

Q. With talk of reducing micro-management on the campaign, is it going to be even more focused on war?

A. The focus on reducing province and region micro-management is so the campaign can focus on other areas and not just war. There are a lot of great new features that will increase the campaign gameplay depth.

Not quite the time to outline them all now, but expect greater intrigue and emphasis on characters.

Q. Will mercenaries make a return?

A. YES!

Q. Will Rome II use Steam, and why?

A. Yes Rome II will use and require Steam, just like Empire, Napoleon and Shogun II.

Steam offers a lot of benefits to both us and players, from helping us to reach more people and provide on-going updates to the campaign and multiplayer, along with allowing a great platform for DLC and helping to reduce piracy.

In general, integrating Steam features into the game (like language, social, achievement and multiplayer features for example) also helps us spend more development time on improving and implementing other features.

We will also be talking about some exciting additional Steam features in the future.

24.7.2012 update:

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Alright. Super tired since I arrivved from NY today and 1 hour later I was out with my friends, but here's the latest updates.

A podcast from TWC with a Creative Assembly(JackLusted) member in attendance answering some questions. Some new and some old info

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVG_mEoWgNg&feature=player_embedded#!

TLDL, keep in mind they can't reveal much yet and most of this is stuff they want to do and try to achieve, but can not be confirmed at this early stage:

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Battle:
- The beachlandings are confirmed yet again.
- Historical battles will be in the game.
- There will be a pig unit. What type of unit is yet to be determined, but they won't be like incendiary pigs.
- Dismounting will be in the game.
- Naked fanatics will have loincloths. They will not be naked.

Naval:
- There will be ramming, boarding, archery, and catapults, ballistas, scorpions, onagers.

Siege:
- Ladders, siege towers, artillery.
- They are still unsure regarding sapping.
- Flaming shot will be in.

Campaign:
- The great greek city's will be split in to factions as opposed to Rome 1.
- "There will be a LOT of units. And I mean a LOT." They are trying to make each faction feel different.
- There will be a tech tree-like system in Rome II.
- They are putting more emphasis on politics, backstabbing, intrigue.
- There will be agents. They're looking at new ways of utilizing agents.
- Similar amount of playable factions as in Rome I. But there will be a lot of unplayable ones, I assume.
- They will carry on with trying to make the AI more challenging.
- Random natural catastrophes confirmed. Volcanoes, 'n stuff. Possibly plague. He was a lil' vague.
- Egypt will be Ptolemaic, however with a lil' more Egypt in it than maybe historically accurate. "Historical twist" he called it.
- They are aiming for making the AI use different tactics depending on what type of faction they are to emphasize the diversity.
- They will make historical characters pop up occasionally. Like Hannibal, etc.

General:
- More info is to come. Game is in early development.
- They are aiming to make the game feel historically accurate and look historically accurate, but without hindering the gameplay.
- Will use Steam.
- Modding: Not much said about this other than to wait for the mod summit. (Mod summit is an event that CA are having where they invite some of the modders to their studios and discuss about modding and try to come up with some ideas, etc regarding the future of modding in Total War, but they cannot make any promises.)
- Multi-core support will be improved. But they said that it is extremely hard to do in Total War games, since the game relies on consistency and spreading it over multiple cores reduces performance more often than improves it.
- Graphical engine will be improved. New lighting system, more variance in units(attempt to address clone army issues)
- Rome II will be playable on Windows XP, and the system requirements will be similar to Shogun II.
- There's big stuff coming up after Rome II, but they won't tell about it before Rome II is released.
- Still over a year to release.

Multiplayer:
- There will be big changes planned to multiplayer. They will release more info later on.

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- Poo to you.

Warni · « **Reply #1 on:** July 02, 2012, 05:17:13 pm »

Fuck yeah! Finally.
Looking forward to this one.

Ninja_Khorin · « **Reply #2 on:** July 02, 2012, 05:18:49 pm »

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Ujin · « **Reply #3 on:** July 02, 2012, 05:38:58 pm »

fuck yeah is right

Rogue · « **Reply #4 on:** July 02, 2012, 05:41:00 pm »

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Sounds very interesting so far. Like the changes about combining the different battle parts and can't wait to see how this plays. But honestly what interests me the most is, if the MP campaign will finally support more than two players.

HarunYahya · « **Reply #5 on:** July 02, 2012, 06:27:53 pm »

This .

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Lord_Panos · « **Reply #6 on:** July 02, 2012, 06:31:00 pm »

BY JUPITERS COCK!!!

YES FUCKING YES!

Tibe · « **Reply #7 on:** July 02, 2012, 09:06:26 pm »

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That looks soo awesome.....

Murmillus_Prime · « **Reply #8 on:** July 02, 2012, 09:32:36 pm »

Rhome tewtal warh

Franke · « **Reply #9 on:** July 02, 2012, 09:35:42 pm »

I'm really excited about this. Can't wait to command my galleys in battle!

Chagan_Arslan · « **Reply #10 on:** July 02, 2012, 09:57:08 pm »

well the AI will be shit as usual, but multiplayer might be fun

go Scythia! :]

Manabalu · « **Reply #11 on:** July 02, 2012, 10:37:14 pm »

I hope it will be heavy modifiable like M2TW. Best games are always the ones with user content (TES, M2TW, Warband->CRPG

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Vibe · « **Reply #12 on:** July 02, 2012, 11:07:22 pm »

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[ptx] · « **Reply #13 on:** July 02, 2012, 11:16:21 pm »

I will need to buy a new keyboard, drooling all over the fucking place

"There is now only one battle-type: battles are not split between sieges, naval battles and open field engagements. Naval units can be combined with infantry combat which can be combined with siege combat." hnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnghhhhhhhhhhh

ThePoopy · « **Reply #14 on:** July 02, 2012, 11:31:08 pm »

leaked gameplay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCQ4sJ1D7ic&feature=related

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