Rome II General Info Thread

[Overdriven]

No shit. But it's as close as you can get and the point is that your decisions are meant to be in the moment.

[Kafein]

You know Total War does not have realistic battles to the extent that you can pull these 'in real life' arguments off right?

This. In a real battle you have much more than mere seconds to make your decisions. And orders don't travel at the speed of light either.

[Jarlek]

This. In a real battle you have much more than mere seconds to make your decisions. And orders don't travel at the speed of light either.

If orders had to be "manually" given to the unit commanders through messengers, drum/horn sounds or flag signals, then I would love to have pauses enabled in MP matches (and why not make it an option you select before the battle?). I would also like you to give certain pre-battle orders to the different units. Ofc, this wouldn't really fit with how the TW games works, but maybe in some other new Strategy IP.

[Lordark]

every new total war game has bugs and glitches that have major effect on single and multiplayer.


Of course not to speak of huge inbalances with the units/factions. Took shogun2 6 months to be stable... 1 year to be balanced!!!!

Pre order at your own risk fan boys. I for one am tired of beta testing their games for almost 60 a pop.

[Turboflex]

^this

I have owned every TW game since Shogun 1 and I have stopped buying them on release since ETW after getting burned every single time. Takes them at least 2-3 major patches + modding (so 6-12 months) to be at the quality level they SHOULD be at release.

They're still good games after that point, but like he said, not gonna pay full price for beta product from these guys anymore.

[Havoco]

I never understood why they don't allow pausing in multiplayer. It's a mature game that is played with (hopefully) mature players (not like your classical cocaine-driven RTS *cough*starcraft*cough*). Pauses allow to reach a level of strategic thought that is otherwise drowned by the need to do shit fast. There's no point in making a game that has deep strategy when anyway in the end the players that trained to use the UI faster win.

Do u use the hotkeys alot? I used to have trouble keeping up in MP unti I looked up the hotkeys, and i gradually started getting faster and faster in MP. I still have trouble with using cav in large battles though.


Pausing isn't that bad, but it kinda ruins the gameplay and fluidity. I hope they don't expand the army size so much that everyone has to pause every time they need to make moves. That would just be overdoing it.


I also hope that if they expand the maximum unit per army size, they should add a way to switch units from player command to AI command. Similar to coop campaign battles in shogun 2.

[Kafein]

Do u use the hotkeys alot? I used to have trouble keeping up in MP unti I looked up the hotkeys, and i gradually started getting faster and faster in MP. I still have trouble with using cav in large battles though.

No offense, but that's my point : I don't want to learn hotkeys in a strategy game. If I wanted to rape my keyboard, I would play an action game...

[Havoco]

No offense, but that's my point : I don't want to learn hotkeys in a strategy game. If I wanted to rape my keyboard, I would play an action game...

Ahh ok. I'm fine with hotkeys being a common thing in games. Just not macros. Macros is the main reason I stopped playing Starcraft in the first place.

I also think it ruins MMOs. Nothing worse than having multiple skill bars with about 30 skills and items but only having to press 4 buttons.

[Ninja_Khorin]

This. Is kickass.

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And they'll be releasing info on factions in the coming months:

Rome.


Rome is where it all begin, the empire of conquest which would shape the very core of the modern world as we know it.

We are very proud to announce that it is also the first of our playable faction reveals in the Total War: ROME II line-up! Over the course of the next few months we’ll be giving you an insight into what makes them stand out and a few screenshots of each, just to get everyone fired up.

With Total War: ROME II we are bringing a new level of depth to our factions with each major power having its own unique unit roster and tech trees, making sure they all stand out amidst the enormous scope of the campaign. We’ve never before been able to put as much effort into creating distinctive factions to play as we are for ROME II.

We’ll be posting each faction as it’s announced here at: http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/factions so keep an eye out for more information hot of the digital internet presses.

Enjoy!

[Jarlek]

I love you Khorin. May you keep posting the updates so that we others wont miss important info on Rome 2.

I'm so excited

[Ninja_Khorin]

I love you Khorin. May you keep posting the updates so that we others wont miss important info on Rome 2.

I'm so excited

Love you too man. I've been slacking lately, tbh.

Here's some stuff I didn't bother posting earlier:

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Hi all,

Things have been quite hectic here at CA for myself recently, working full tilt on Rome II. Today I have time to answer some more topics that have been discussed on the forums.

Q. Will there be a strong Rock, Paper, Scissors style balance in Rome II like there was in Shogun 2?

A. The RPS balance in Shogun 2 was strong because that was the balance we wanted for that game.

It is also important to bear in mind that there has always been RPS balance in Total War games, how strong it is has varied from game to game. It will vary again for Rome II as it will have a very different balance from Shogun 2.

That balance is still being worked out for Rome II, especially as we are making big changes to the rules that control combat, but it is likely the RPS will be less strong compared to Shogun 2.

Q. Will there be rowers in naval battles?

A. Naval battles in Rome II are going to be larger in scale than previous Total War games with multiple ships per units and hundreds of men in each unit.

We will not representing the rowers as actual 3d models for various reasons. The ship models have been made to not show below decks, rendering the hundreds of rowers per ship would have a big performance impact, and coding in the mechanics to have them work and interact correctly would take a lot of code time away from other areas of naval battles.

There will be oars shown for ships, and they will be fully animated, and I hope you can understand why we decided not to show 3d models of all the rowers.

Q. How much is the campaign changing?

A. We’ve not talked about the campaign much so far, apart from a few little bits here and there, because we will not be revealing it for a while yet. This has led to some speculation that we are not changing how the campaign works much.

This is not true a lot is changing on the campaign for Rome II. From diplomacy, to trade systems, how regions work to armies and families the Rome II campaign will play differently to any previous Total War game adding more gameplay and depth without increasing unnecessary micromanagement.
It is going to be epic.

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[Havoco]

Did they say unique faction tech trees? Interesting...

[Turboflex]

Didn't say much about Rome faction...

I hope the Republic dynamics are a bit more interesting, there wasn't much too them in Rome 1. Houses should pretty much be under control of the senate, like you are playing the head of it and given assignments like govern X province, build up an army and conquer province Y (and you are given some gold and troops to get you going). If you succeed you amass popularity and wealth, if you fail you lose it. With popularity you can win votes to control republic offices, with wealth you can do stuff like build up your palace for prestige (popularity & offices), invest in business ventures, or fund a household retinue. Then if your house becomes powerful enough to come close to dominating the Republic, it could spark a civil war event.

[Christo]

Well, still wondering what they were smoking when they decided the "Three houses controlling territory" idea was good for release.

One, unified SPQR controlled by the Senate or a Despot, and that's it.

[Overdriven]

I want to see Parthia again so I hope they are back in...been reading the Parthian series by Peter Daman and it's given me a real desire to want to play as them. I never really tried them in RTW but should probably give them a go now. See how strong those Cataphracts are.