Rome: Total War II

Mr Blobby

So it's been officially announced.

Here's the trailer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKglskMfyWA&feature=g-all-u


I cannot wait for this. I have always loved the TW series.... I just hope
the next game isn't a buggy mess.

degrassinoel

Rome was always my favorite, i hope they don't make shyte of this.

Also, the last few seconds had a few bars from the original music from R:TW

karma_

Love TW games, Loved RTW, had no idea this was even in development. Fantastic news.

Mr Blobby

degrassinoel wrote: »

Rome was always my favorite, i hope they don't make shyte of this.

Also, the last few seconds had a few bars from the original music from R:TW

Never got round to playing Rome but did play Empire,Shogun2.

But they have always left a bad taste in my mouht with all the bugs they had.
Nevertheless I always loved them while they were working.

Sephiroth_dude

had sega taken over when the last rome game came out?

degrassinoel

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

had sega taken over when the last rome game came out?

think it was activision, i cant tell which is worse though these days, them or sega. I just didnt like any of the total war games since Rome. even napoleon was crap imo

Sephiroth_dude

degrassinoel wrote: »

think it was activision, i cant tell which is worse though these days, them or sega. I just didnt like any of the total war games since Rome. even napoleon was crap imo

yup I did too,had high hopes for it,it was soooo boring,don't think they ever fixed the A.I Properly

Mr Blobby

Nice little article here:

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2012/07/02/total-war-rome-ii-shows-wars-human-side

I think Sega to over when Empire was made.

Outkast_IRE

degrassinoel wrote: »

think it was activision, i cant tell which is worse though these days, them or sega. I just didnt like any of the total war games since Rome. even napoleon was crap imo

Did you play shogun , i thought it brought the game back to where it belongs.

Mr Blobby

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Did you play shogun , i thought it brought the game back to where it belongs.

As good as Shogun was it's still very buggy.
I still haven't been able to finish a campaign ......

Conquest is fun though.

Outkast_IRE

blobby360 wrote: »

As good as Shogun was it's still very buggy.
I still haven't been able to finish a campaign ......

Conquest is fun though.

Jesus you must be unlucky or i must be very lucky, i have finished multiple campaigns, with only a issue with one where i had to reload a few turns earlier to get past a bug.

What bugs you encountering.

On the main topic, I must admit out of all the games Rome was the one i took to the least, i never did like the way there was 3 roman factions and eventually they turn on ya.

Mr Blobby

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Jesus you must be unlucky or i must be very lucky, i have finished multiple campaigns, with only a issue with one where i had to reload a few turns earlier to get past a bug.

What bugs you encountering.

On the main topic, I must admit out of all the games Rome was the one i took to the least, i never did like the way there was 3 roman factions and eventually they turn on ya.

Its some bug wherethe AI's go to make there turn and than it crashes and you have to start a hole new campaign to fix it.

I think its somthing to do with the AI not being able to make a move so the game crashes.

Cheating Bastards

degrassinoel

Outkast_IRE wrote: »

Did you play shogun , i thought it brought the game back to where it belongs.

The new one? i preferred the original and still do. It's got some nice features in it but it wasnt the same game i remembered and loved.
But like i said, Rome was my favorite from the entire series, did some epic campaigns that lasted for weeks and weeks, great fun taking over Britain with the Carthaginians Elephants ftw!

CastorTroy

Was Spartan Total Warrior a spinoff of this series? That game made me want to go back in time and murder the inventor of escort missions before he could come up with the idea, Terminator style.

Sephiroth_dude

ah this has prompted me to reinstall rome again

Odaise Gaelach

blobby360 wrote: »

Nice little article here:

http://ie.ign.com/articles/2012/07/02/total-war-rome-ii-shows-wars-human-side

I think Sega to over when Empire was made.

They took over in between Rome and the Barbarian Invasion expansion.

longhalloween

Is that Sansa in the bed with the old guy?

Kirby

Rome was my favourite by far. Hundreds and hundreds of hours on conquering the world with the Julii and massive amounts of hastati

Empire wasn't good, Shogun 2 was better but nothing comes close to Rome. I really, really hope they don't screw this up.

saiint

finally
ive been waiting years for this
thought it was never going to come
me favourite of all tw series

Dillonb3

Absolutely looking forward to this hopefully CA wont spoil it with dlc's.
I remember in the previous game holding off entire armies with a well placed phalanx unit at a chokepoint

HowAreWe

jaysus a bit dramatic

Owryan

Rome is my fav game in the series, although i'm in the middle of "empire" right now.

My biggest gripe, and please god its sorted now with Rome 2, is/was the A.I. now matter how far into a campaign the A.I. would throw an army of peasants at you and in the actual battle they would go on a nature walk !!!!

Frisbee

saiint

if anyone wants to team up in rome total war online in a 2v2 or 3v3 pm me
jjust make sure your connection is decent because game tends to lag out or not start

try get a few boardies on this

markesmith

Getting my Mediaeval 2 on atm...ah, Holy Roman Empire! Excommunicated for an attack on Rome! I gave them Roskilde (that Danish island) to continue on their Catholic nonsense :pac:

TheSheepz

Gameplay trailer finally out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OHV628oGiU&feature=plcp

Sierra Oscar

TheSheepz wrote: »

Gameplay trailer finally out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OHV628oGiU&feature=plcp

This game is going to be awesome. Cannot wait to get more information.

Sephiroth_dude

Time for a new pc :-|

gaius c

Anyone else finding it difficult to care about RTW2?
They killed the games once CA made them impossible to mod.

2Mad2BeMad

gaius c wrote: »

Anyone else finding it difficult to care about RTW2?
They killed the games once CA made them impossible to mod.

nope
just not much has been released about it
im not big into modding either because i generally mess up the files :pac:

Outkast_IRE

Im really looking forward to it, have bought all the total war pc releases , and my favourite was shogun 2 along with the fall of the samurai expansion.

My least favourite was empire just got no joy from the gameplay.

So yes i am looking forward to it and am quite happy to say its the game im looking forward to most this year. Along with company of heroes 2

grizzly

Some new campaign map details via pcgamesn;

• Regions are now grouped into provinces. Each has a single administration centre, into which the surrounding regions report. The goal is to reduce some of the area micromanagement that occurs in vast empires.
• Another goal from this new system is to avoid the relentless siege battles of Shogun 2. It’s believed that players will attempt to take the smaller regions first, and tempt the opposing armies out of their castles to fight on the field.
• Armies are ‘raised’ on the field, and recruitment occurs at the general of that army. They’re not grown as single units in towns. Again, the idea is to reduce some of the micromanagement (‘Caesar doesn’t give a **** about an individual’ says Al) but also to create a stronger personality to your armies. Hence...
• Armies have their own skill trees, with improvements earned through battle.
• Armies have at least three possible stances that you can place them in during a turn. I’m not certain the mechanics of how they will play out in the campaign are quite fixed, but it was hinted that switching stances would take a turn. They are... normal, ambush (hidden from the enemy’s sight), forced march (quicker to move, but if caught on the hop, they’ll suffer diminished combat effectiveness), defensive (given a fort or pallisade to defend from)
• When moving armies over water, you no longer need to load them into a separate navy. They will automatically enter transport ships. You will still require a navy to protect them.
• The factions in the game are more clearly defined with starting bonuses and traits. There are ‘flavours’ of faction which should help organise your thoughts. For instance, Barbarians like the Gauls will have similar traits. In the barbarian’s case, that includes a +2 happiness in every settlement for every faction they’re fighting with.
• Naval battles are now fought over naval ‘regions’, rather than having a completely fluid ocean. “This was decided because having a completely organic map wouldn’t be something that would work that well,” says lead Battle Designer Jamie Ferguson, “you needed to be able to actually think that “this is the area I’m trying to defend”. It’s using things we have already got in the game but at the same time bringing back things from the past.
• During battles, units will have true line of sight, the distance of which they can detect changes according to their role. Armies can therefore be hidden behind trees or in valleys, and will require the use of scouts to be spotted.
• Armies that catch another in ambush will be able to place deployables like burning boulders, and place their forces all over the map. The army caught in the ambush won’t be placed at the other end of the battle map - they’ll arrive in a marching formation.
• Each nation will have their own UI decorators.

Outkast_IRE

grizzly wrote: »

Some new campaign map details via pcgamesn;

• Regions are now grouped into provinces. Each has a single administration centre, into which the surrounding regions report. The goal is to reduce some of the area micromanagement that occurs in vast empires.
• Another goal from this new system is to avoid the relentless siege battles of Shogun 2. It’s believed that players will attempt to take the smaller regions first, and tempt the opposing armies out of their castles to fight on the field.
• Armies are ‘raised’ on the field, and recruitment occurs at the general of that army. They’re not grown as single units in towns. Again, the idea is to reduce some of the micromanagement (‘Caesar doesn’t give a **** about an individual’ says Al) but also to create a stronger personality to your armies. Hence...
• Armies have their own skill trees, with improvements earned through battle.
• Armies have at least three possible stances that you can place them in during a turn. I’m not certain the mechanics of how they will play out in the campaign are quite fixed, but it was hinted that switching stances would take a turn. They are... normal, ambush (hidden from the enemy’s sight), forced march (quicker to move, but if caught on the hop, they’ll suffer diminished combat effectiveness), defensive (given a fort or pallisade to defend from)
• When moving armies over water, you no longer need to load them into a separate navy. They will automatically enter transport ships. You will still require a navy to protect them.
• The factions in the game are more clearly defined with starting bonuses and traits. There are ‘flavours’ of faction which should help organise your thoughts. For instance, Barbarians like the Gauls will have similar traits. In the barbarian’s case, that includes a +2 happiness in every settlement for every faction they’re fighting with.
• Naval battles are now fought over naval ‘regions’, rather than having a completely fluid ocean. “This was decided because having a completely organic map wouldn’t be something that would work that well,” says lead Battle Designer Jamie Ferguson, “you needed to be able to actually think that “this is the area I’m trying to defend”. It’s using things we have already got in the game but at the same time bringing back things from the past.
• During battles, units will have true line of sight, the distance of which they can detect changes according to their role. Armies can therefore be hidden behind trees or in valleys, and will require the use of scouts to be spotted.
• Armies that catch another in ambush will be able to place deployables like burning boulders, and place their forces all over the map. The army caught in the ambush won’t be placed at the other end of the battle map - they’ll arrive in a marching formation.
• Each nation will have their own UI decorators.

I like the sound of most of these features, although i must admit to being a fan of castle sieges in Shogun 2 . But in roman times i suppose this twist is welcome.

WhiskeyGoblin

Have a computer that should run this. Can not fawking wait..


EDIT: Nevermind, realised it was a common "tactic".. Anyone got any tips they can pass on? :P Only ever mastered Shogun

Kiith

I like that individual armies get skill tree's.

Sephiroth_dude

marko93 wrote: »

Have a computer that should run this. Can not fawking wait..


EDIT: Nevermind, realised it was a common "tactic".. Anyone got any tips they can pass on? :P Only ever mastered Shogun

I wish I had a computer that could run this .