Next Total War Game May Be Shogun 2?

evercloserunion · 23-02-2011 12:57am

Wow, 6GB seems large for a demo, unless I am just out of touch with modern gaming requirements (I don't play many new games).

Maximilian · 23-02-2011 1:52am

full game is 20gb. Only played for a bit but it seems very slick indeed. Pace of the battles seems a lot quicker. Campaign map is really nice. Music in the loading screen is the same as that from the first game. Performance is good.

Griffin87 · 23-02-2011 10:10am

Downloaded the demo last nite. should get a game in tonight. i heard the demo is scripted so we cant judge the batte ai.

uglyjohn · 23-02-2011 12:19pm

started downloading this morning at 6:00 am local time. its now 7:14 pm, 89% done and the speed has dropped to 3kb/s. perfect.

im actually only playing the demo to see how it runs on my laptop. every part of shogun 1 was fantastic. way ahead of its time.

Sephiroth_dude · 23-02-2011 2:19pm

Whats the A.I like?I've read on various forums that its actually smart :O

Griffin87 · 24-02-2011 10:14am

played the demo last nite. The Battle Ai is scripted in the demo so we cant tell weather the ai is any better.

They done this with the Empire demo too.

Branoic · 24-02-2011 3:30pm

I swore after the fiasco that was Empire I'd never preorder a TW game again, but damn them, something about them going back to Shogun just fills me with a warm fuzzy feeling, an I loved the demo, even with scripted battle AI.

grizzly · 25-02-2011 2:24pm

What graphics cards are folks going to run this on? I've got a 285 and want to run on 1900x1200 on high(ish) settings.

Wezo1994 · 26-02-2011 11:50pm

Just been playing the Demo of Shogun 2 and it is UTTERLY AMAZING!

BULLER · 28-02-2011 6:27pm

Just played the demo and I have to say the battle graphics are absolutely awesome!! I've a 465 and I could play it on all ultra settings at 1920x1200p but it wouldn't let me turn on any anti-aliasing which was a little worrying!

uglyjohn · 04-03-2011 12:55pm

it runs well and looks good on my crappy laptop - Core2duo and a nvidia gt220m

Sephiroth_dude · 04-03-2011 4:18pm

Think I might preorder the collectors edition,anyone else preorder it?

mikemac · 07-03-2011 8:42pm

Is anyone able to win the single player battle they have.?
Been at it for ages on normal level and can't

Maybe I'm not very good

I've loved the first shogun game, can't wait for this one

Sephiroth_dude · 12-03-2011 2:04pm

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-03-11-total-war-shogun-2-review

Sephiroth_dude · 13-03-2011 3:47pm

Another review

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/total_war_shogun_2/b/pc/archive/2011/03/11/a-focused-approach-to-total-warfare-is-a-winner.aspx

Paddy Samurai · 13-03-2011 6:43pm

I have been counting the days.
Was up in pc world today ,looking at laptops that can play the game.
Sales guy showed me 4 that can play it.
Now all I need is the money.Could be a few months before I can afford one.:(

Sephiroth_dude · 13-03-2011 7:11pm

Paddy Samurai wrote: »

I have been counting the days.
Was up in pc world today ,looking at laptops that can play the game.
Sales guy showed me 4 that can play it.
Now all I need is the money.Could be a few months before I can afford one.:(

Word of advice for ya,stay well away from pc world if you want to buy a gaming laptop.you'd be better off buying all the parts yourself and building it yourself.

Kadongy · 13-03-2011 7:13pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Word of advice for ya,stay well away from pc world if you want to buy a gaming laptop.you'd be better off buying all the parts yourself and building it yourself.

You can't do this with laptops really.

Dell or clevo for gaming laptops I think.

Sephiroth_dude · 13-03-2011 7:24pm

I meant build a pc

oops

TwoShedsJackson · 14-03-2011 11:39am

Those expecting revelatory improvements in areas like AI may be mildly disappointed by Shogun 2.

After Empire, that's enough to put me off it until it's been played by people who aren't getting paid to write reviews/provide publicity for the game and/or their site.

Tyrant^ · 14-03-2011 12:55pm

The E: TW Demo sucked me into the series.
I noticed the stupidity of the AI and dismissed as - Demo uncomplete game, full game surely has better AI !

2 Hours after purchasing full version I realised that I was rather naive.
3 hours later I never played the game again

Keggers2 · 14-03-2011 10:49pm

I'm literally vibrating with excitement for Shogun 2!

Getting a new PC to celebrate and everything!

Sephiroth_dude · 15-03-2011 1:31pm

Got this in game for 45,limited edition,its taking an age to install,33%@2.0mb,been installing since 11:30 :eek:

Gonzovision · 15-03-2011 6:25pm

Just downloading the patch? Anybody playing yet?

Sephiroth_dude · 15-03-2011 6:27pm

ya its much better than napoleon and empire anyway,runs like a dog on my computer though

Gonzovision · 15-03-2011 6:30pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

ya its much better than napoleon and empire anyway,runs like a dog on my computer though

Thats good to hear. What specs do you have? Apparently no dx 10/10.1 or 11 support for a month.

Outkast_IRE · 15-03-2011 7:01pm

why the feck does the retail version come with 2 discs then install by download over steam what a waste of time

Sephiroth_dude · 15-03-2011 7:04pm

gonzovision wrote: »

Thats good to hear. What specs do you have? Apparently no dx 10/10.1 or 11 support for a month.

gtx 260
4gigs ram
Q9330 quad core @2.58 ghz

ya it'll be coming in a patch,dunno why we have to wait.Just had a thought maybe thats why my game looks horrible.

KeithAFC · 15-03-2011 7:10pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

gtx 260
4gigs ram
Q9330 quad core @2.58 ghz

ya it'll be coming in a patch,dunno why we have to wait.Just had a thought maybe thats why my game looks horrible.

Should run the game fine? Just not on the highest settings really.

Gonzovision · 15-03-2011 9:06pm

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

why the feck does the retail version come with 2 discs then install by download over steam what a waste of time

It installs from the disk.

mikemac · 15-03-2011 9:51pm

Just installed from two disks and seems to be downloading additional data through Steam

Though I do not know what this additional steam update is for

So what version did you all buy?

I got the normal version for 40
Game has the limited edition for 45 and that has an extra historical battle and I believe additional downloads but I'm not realy an online player
The collectors edition was 75 and includes a chess set, looks class and not a bad option if you have the cash

Gonzovision · 15-03-2011 10:23pm

feelingstressed wrote: »

Just installed from two disks and seems to be downloading additional data through Steam

Though I do not know what this additional steam update is for

So what version did you all buy?
I got the normal version for 40
Game has the limited edition for 45 and that has an extra historical battle and I believe additional downloads but I'm not realy an online player
The collectors edition was 75 and includes a chess set, looks class and not a bad option if you have the cash

It's the 0-day patch. I got the same in Gamestop

Outkast_IRE · 15-03-2011 10:59pm

gonzovision wrote: »

It installs from the disk.

Actually theres a bug linked to people who downloaded demo where it doesnt install from disk but starts to download the entire package, their is a workaround on the steam forum for the game just in case anybody is having the same issue.
Seems loads of people are having this issue.

uglyjohn · 15-03-2011 11:54pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

ya its much better than napoleon and empire anyway,runs like a dog on my computer though

strange that it doesnt run well on your computer. how did the demo run? the demo ran fine on my laptop which is a lot worse that yours.

if i dont think the full game is going to run well i'll wait and get it once i upgrade.

Branoic · 16-03-2011 12:10am

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Actually theres a bug linked to people who downloaded demo where it doesnt install from disk but starts to download the entire package, their is a workaround on the steam forum for the game just in case anybody is having the same issue.
Seems loads of people are having this issue.

I had downloaded the demo from steam, and installed from disc no problem this evening.

Outkast_IRE · 16-03-2011 12:21am

Branoic wrote: »

I had downloaded the demo from steam, and installed from disc no problem this evening.

its not happening to everyone , check the steam forum there tonnes of posts , a workaround was sorted. where basically after it tried downloading the whole game for you you needed to pause it, delete all local content , take the disc out ,put disc back in again and it works then for nearly everyone

Sephiroth_dude · 16-03-2011 1:32pm

uglyjohn wrote: »

strange that it doesnt run well on your computer. how did the demo run? the demo ran fine on my laptop which is a lot worse that yours.

if i dont think the full game is going to run well i'll wait and get it once i upgrade.

It ran grand and looked grand,its looks awful now and runs sluggish,I lowered the settings too,I dunno :-/

Sudden Valley · 16-03-2011 2:13pm

Was this not also the case with empire? that the demos ran well compared to the full game that didn't. Is there any point getting the game before the first few patches have been released?

Dillonb3 · 16-03-2011 7:44pm

Just got the limited edition for 33 euro, thank you friends with employee discounts, but according to steam its gonna take 17 hours to download

. Anyone else get long downloading times

Gonzovision · 16-03-2011 8:20pm

Dillonb3 wrote: »

Just got the limited edition for 33 euro, thank you friends with employee discounts, but according to steam its gonna take 17 hours to download . Anyone else get long downloading times

Did you buy it on disk or as a download?

Dillonb3 · 16-03-2011 8:33pm

gonzovision wrote: »

Did you buy it on disk or as a download?

Got it on disk but when I tried to start up the installation from the disk I kept getting an error- No Language Configured so i had to download it of the steam website

Gonzovision · 16-03-2011 8:42pm

From earlier in the thread.....

Originally Posted by Outkast_IRE View Post
Actually theres a bug linked to people who downloaded demo where it doesnt install from disk but starts to download the entire package, their is a workaround on the steam forum for the game just in case anybody is having the same issue.
Seems loads of people are having this issue.

its not happening to everyone , check the steam forum there tonnes of posts , a workaround was sorted. where basically after it tried downloading the whole game for you you needed to pause it, delete all local content , take the disc out ,put disc back in again and it works then for nearly everyone
Yesterday 23:10

BopNiblets · 17-03-2011 5:18pm

I bought the limited edition from Play.com (not collectors, meh!).

Does anyone know if you get the related TF2 items if you add the retail version to Steam or is that just for Steam preorders? :pac:

Sephiroth_dude · 17-03-2011 5:33pm

What item are you talking about now?

this game is hard,Im loving it though

Outkast_IRE · 17-03-2011 5:41pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

What item are you talking about now?

this game is hard,Im loving it though

im playing it at normal difficulty and picked the shimazu clan to start with so straight away theres more powerful neighbours , what i noticed was not to be too agressive with troop movement on the campaign map early on , better to leave them try to take your castle and wipe them out , then chase them down immediately and you use usually catch a daimyo or heir sometimes both and you can move for their castle and it usually has minimal troops.

Those dam "hojo" on the otherside of the map are after taking 15 provinces the aggresive feckers.

KeithAFC · 17-03-2011 6:01pm

Here is my specs. Will this run this game?

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
AMD Phenom (tm) 8850b Triple Core processor (3 CPUs), ~ 2.5GHz

Outkast_IRE · 17-03-2011 8:16pm

KeithAFC wrote: »

Here is my specs. Will this run this game?

NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
AMD Phenom (tm) 8850b Triple Core processor (3 CPUs), ~ 2.5GHz

i would say so , best bet is to download the demo and see as they wont give a refund on this game as its linked to a steam account

KeithAFC · 17-03-2011 11:03pm

Yeah, it works very well.

Keggers2 · 18-03-2011 1:20am

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Those dam "hojo" on the otherside of the map are after taking 15 provinces the aggresive feckers.

That's cause the Hojo are feckin awesome!

Outkast_IRE · 18-03-2011 1:29am

Anyone else finding the AI isnt that interested in the trade ships being sent to the trade ports with foreign powers .
I have taken all but one of them for myself , only one of which i took off an enemy ? and once they lose one they dont mount any decent attempt to take it back .

Also anyone found this mysterious black ship , i got the event message and had ships in the sea to the west but no sign ?

Next Total War Game May Be Shogun 2?

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