Rome II General Info Thread

[dodnet]

Like in Shogun 2 - 50 factions with all the same units? 

[gazda]

Like in Shogun 2 - 50 factions with all the same units? 

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Like in Shogun 2 - 50 factions with all the same units? 

Uh, Rome and various barbarians and greeks and egyptians having the same units? Wat.

[dodnet]

Uh, Rome and various barbarians and greeks and egyptians having the same units? Wat.

Sure: inf with sword, inf with lance, inf with sword and shield, inf with lance and shield, inf with... 

[gazda]

defenitly not romans, but you know lets hope that the difference between that shitload of barbaran factions will be something more then just different emblem 

[Gnjus]

Barbarians are the reason for me to play this game, certainly not Romans. 

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Btw is there any kind of multiplayer in a game like this ?

[Overdriven]

Uh, Rome and various barbarians and greeks and egyptians having the same units? Wat.

The barbarians in the original were all incredibly similar.

My bet is 50 factions, 5-10 playable and there will be no work around to unlock them all unlike the first.

[Christo]

The barbarians in the original were all incredibly similar.

Agree, but give EB a shot, there's lots of diversity there. 

I still want to curse if I remember fighting the Gasetae, or whatever the name of that unit was.

Naked berserkers high on mushrooms man. They ain't gonna rout, and can demoralize your entire army.

[Teeth]

If they add Return of the Mummy Egyptians again I am driving to their office and bitchslap some CEO.

[Korgoth]

My body is so ready for this game.

[gazda]

My body is so ready for this game.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXasCjUTNpE&t=0m13s

[Ninja_Khorin]

Btw is there any kind of multiplayer in a game like this ?

Previous titles have had multiplayer battles and 2-player campaigns.

[Korgoth]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXasCjUTNpE&t=0m13s

That was so fucking hilarious!

[Ninja_Khorin]

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.

TLDR:

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- Poo to you.

[Gnjus]

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- Poo to you.

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