Rome II General Info Thread

[Molly]

They sure did Ninja-patch something before. I restarted quite a lot lately and there was a huge difference at some point:

Suddenly I get food shortage in the 2 turn, 3 factions declare war on me and so on... They did something even before this beta 2.0.

EDIT: Just read the patchnotes and it reads promising.

[Xant]

The direction of the patches looks good. That changelog is excellent, but it should've been a changelog during alpha or beta, not after release.

[Molly]

The direction of the patches looks good. That changelog is excellent, but it should've been a changelog during alpha or beta, not after release.

Amen.

[Lt_Anders]

The direction of the patches looks good. That changelog is excellent, but it should've been a changelog during alpha or beta, not after release.

QFT

[Molly]

Great - now it won't start at all.

I start the launcher, press Play, the screen goes black for 2 seconds and I am back to my desktop like nothing happens

Validated the files, deleted all mods, even deleted a few files that might have been related and let them re-download. Nothing seems to help.

Fuck you, CA.

EDIT: Got it running again. And hell, it is running good now. Using Ultra settings and it's smooth

Should have been that way right from the start tho. Now I am just glad it's at least running smooth and I can finally start playing.

[Overdriven]

I had quite an interesting moment recently in my Egypt campaign where I attacked the southern fanctions. Quite cleverly they took their armies across the red sea and took all of my cities from Alexandria all through Lybia one after the other. I had to hastily make 3 armies and pin them in. I then marched back to take their provinces by which point one of my allies had nabbed one of my captured territories as well as one of the enemies.

I could only sit back and admire the campaign AI there. Whilst I succeeded in destroying two factions, I lost a city and strengthened my ally who I know I'm eventually going to have to fight.

BAI is still shit but I had to admire the CAI in that moment.

[Butan]

BAI is still shit but I had to admire the CAI in that moment.

Yep, BAI is way more random than CAI.


The CAI, at one point, will undoubtedly "fail" at managing food/gold/armies placement and that will cause their downfall, but it also creates opportunities for other "better led" CAI to take more lands; so end game should be comprised of the fittest AI. Actually at turn 100~ and some empires with huge armies are already around taking names.

[Muunilinst]

couldnt agree more

[Ninja_Khorin]

So apparently some guy found some UI related stuff in the Rome 2 files: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?620922-Hidden-gem-Rome-2-GUI

He made these mock-up pictures with them:

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Regardless if he's speaking the truth, that is one huge improvement, if you ask me

[Fips]

After a very boring campaign with Egypt, i installed the beta patch and Magnar Mod + Close Combat Mod and i have to agree that there are actually some decent fights happening, even in sieges. Sometimes, not that often though, it does happen that they just rush through my lines and getting killed in an instant, but most of the times actual fights happen. AI doesn't use only one way into the cities anymore. I'm actually enjoying my new campaign with rome! 

[Lt_Anders]

So apparently some guy found some UI related stuff in the Rome 2 files: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?620922-Hidden-gem-Rome-2-GUI

He made these mock-up pictures with them:

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Regardless if he's speaking the truth, that is one huge improvement, if you ask me

That's NOT ingame. That's just assests on trying to make it look better(using an image editor). States in his post that's what he did. He's putting it up cause of the fact that CA said something about maybe making the UI moddable or something.

[Rogue]

Playeda new campaign as Macedon on vh. Apparently they changed something about the civil war mechanic. All my previous civil wars have been one sided pushovers, but this:
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is complete bullshit. The revolt not only outnumbers me 3+:1 in armies and fleets, it also lacked the usual prelude anout civil war brewing and finally being inevitable, giving you some time to prepare. At this stage in the game I could not even afford more than three armies and two fleets. Might still be solveable, but turning the civil war from a joke into a roflstomp of the players heartland is not what I would call good balancing.

[Molly]

I have to say, I lol'd when I saw your screen Rogue

[Adamar]

Yep, looks like barbarian invasion is out.

[Ninja_Khorin]

That's NOT ingame. That's just assests on trying to make it look better(using an image editor). States in his post that's what he did. He's putting it up cause of the fact that CA said something about maybe making the UI moddable or something.

Mock-up pictures, is what I said. But the assets used to make those pictures he took from the game files. That's what he said.

And it really highlights what could've been done waaaaay better in the UI.