Shogun 2: Total War

I have to wait for my new PC to arrive, will hopefully be in 2 weeks.

i5 2500k, 2 X HD 6950 CF, 3 X 24" 1080p eyefinity, it's gonna be epic.

sink wrote: »

The PC itself is coming to about €1100 and the monitors €460. I might add an SSD for €200. It costs less that you would think.

Damn thats a good deal, costs less than a Mac with one monitor and one ****ty gfx card :pac:

srsly78 wrote: »

Not really that good. I just built similar machine but with ssd for e1000, from hardwareversand.de. Crossfire is waste of money and doesn't work properly with a lot of games, better off just buying a 6970 instead. Also better off with a good IPS monitor, rather than 3xcheap 24".

And yes, I bought it mainly to play this game

Two HD 6950's blow one HD 6970 away, it even beats GTX 580 by a decent margin but is cheaper. I previously had dual 8800GTX and never came across a problem, the drivers kept improving all the time.

The performance increase is as high as 92%.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/crossfire-sli-3-way-scaling,review-32141.html

sink wrote: »

Two HD 6950's blow one HD 6970 away

Two 6950's blow one 6970 away easy, especially when you update both 6950's to 6970's using the firmware Hack lol.

Fun game tbh.

The battles are harder much easier to lose out right and get destroyed.They fixed the annoying empire regional village crap you can access every thing from the castle map however the change to no siege weapons/instant attack of towns/castles im unsure about it speeds things up but the ai isn't great at the whole idea of protecting their boarder towns with armys allowing you to steamroll the ai's citys fairly quickly if you have enough stacks and it doesn't give you much chance of fighting off a quick attack early in the game also the end game every one vrs you thing is annoying with out trade deals its very hard to keep your armys going at that point never mind building new ones.

But i find it fun far better than empire

Kirby wrote: »

couple of questions.....whats attacking a city like? Are the "forts" gone? is it back inside the city itself? is the AI pathing better?

Are naval battles still in it? I take it there is no gun powder whatsoever?

Basically you rock up to a city with your regular army attack the city and your presented with a fort or castle depending on upgrades every single one of your units is capable of scaling the walls of the castle or fort even your cavalry can dismount and do so the only real difference is the amount of walls / areas to take also castles have some token arrow emplacements which i dont recall forts having.

The ai itself seems better at getting around and sticking together even on the campaign map they often roam in more than 1 stack close together to provide support / overwhelm on the battle map they move and attack / counter attack as a group and not the individual units like rome where it was easy to separate them and destroy them notice they also hold good defensive positions and wont come off them.

There are gunpowder units you can import them after upgrading a trade port to a um fancy japanese named bigger trade port they take ages to train though 4 turns each you have basic "firebomb" units for land and sea as well im unsure about cannons haven't been bothered upgrading to much on those buildings.

And ya their are navy battles they still confuse the hell out of me and i still avoid them like the plague