Rome Total war 2

marko93 · 03-09-2013 12:07am

bizmark wrote: »

g2play and greenmangameing.com have it as well for less than the 55 steams asking not sure if g2play.com comes with the greek dlc though but it is the cheapist.

Alternatively you could have a English friend buy it for you on steam then gift it to your poor euro ass as i did and it costs around 35 euro

Sadly no english friends that I know of

Just bought it from GMG. Pre-loading now

Profile, for any one that want's to get some MP going! (cant promise I'll be any use)

http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197996519817/

degrassinoel · 03-09-2013 7:45am

15 minutes woo! time to get a quick breakfast roll in

McSasquatch · 03-09-2013 8:15am

I'm going in.

03-09-2013 8:23am

I did not plan to wake up this early, but since I am, time to start it up.
Happily this update is going fast enough, though it did just give me a 2/3 hour scare there.

thegame983 · 03-09-2013 9:48am

Anyone confirm hwo long the update takes?

Pyr0 · 03-09-2013 10:10am

Rubbing my hands raw with anticipation here, can't wait to get my hands on it!

Wookster76 · 03-09-2013 11:04am

Well what the vedict so far? Stuck in work

Sierra Oscar · 03-09-2013 11:16am

Wookster76 wrote: »

Well what the vedict so far? Stuck in work

Likewise, would love to know how people are finding it.

karma_ · 03-09-2013 11:22am

Sierra Oscar wrote: »

Likewise, would love to know how people are finding it.

Still getting used to things, it's a slight departure from previous iterations and will take a little time to get accustomed to.

So far so good though, started as Carthage and just trying to get an economy going, stabbed in the back by Syracuse already and good to their word the filthy Romans have declared war.

Small expeditionary fleet on the way to capture Ireland.

Outkast_IRE · 03-09-2013 11:26am

Went to pick up rome 2 from gamestop this morning I had pre-ordered
asked him about the greek states dlc and he said he wasn't given anything extra so it should be in the box and theres no sign of any code or anything.

Can someone confirm it should of come with an additional DLC code or similar either in the box or seperately

degrassinoel · 03-09-2013 11:32am

took about 15minutes to unpack and install for me, not sure about any updates as i was afk in that time. One thing i would suggest is that when you load it up for the first time, check the video settings as mine were set to the highest possible settings and it was very very laggy with like 2fps lol

Medium works fine on my old video card. Just doing the prologue campaign and it's awesome so far! The units seem to react a bit faster than in shogun 2. When you issue an close quarters attack, your soldiers go berserk and instantly attack or sprint to whatever unit. Ranged units like velites are more powerful than in the original (feels like anyway) and Equites are basically tanks.

Cant wait to get into the grand campaign and tear up europe

03-09-2013 11:33am

thegame983 wrote: »

Anyone confirm hwo long the update takes?

Took me less than a hour, maybe 40 minutes. Was jumping around for a bit, was up to 3-4 hours at one point, was going to go back to sleep

karma_ · 03-09-2013 11:50am

During the end turn phase the perspective gets turned around and can be really confusing as to where troop and ship movements are taking place, not so keen on that.

bizmark · 03-09-2013 12:01pm

takeing forever to unpack

grizzly · 03-09-2013 12:10pm

To those who are playing, how much fun is it? More then Shogun? MTWII?

Adamcp898 · 03-09-2013 12:10pm

Still in two minds whether to pick this up, absolutely loved the original RTW but since I've been a bit meh towards the series, partly because I just don't enjoy the battles anymore and much prefer just building an empire and doing everything else whilst auto resolving the fights.

thegame983 · 03-09-2013 12:11pm

What graphic intensity are people running it at? I got a new rig a month ago

i5 4670k
GTX 760
8 gig ram

anyone got anything similar? I should be able to play it at ultra right?

thegame983 · 03-09-2013 12:16pm

Adamcp898 wrote: »

Still in two minds whether to pick this up, absolutely loved the original RTW but since I've been a bit meh towards the series, partly because I just don't enjoy the battles anymore and much prefer just building an empire and doing everything else whilst auto resolving the fights.

You should get Crusader kings 2. It's currently part of the weekly humble bundle if you pay over the average price. Great reviews acrosss the board.

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

I havn't played it yet but it looks like total war without the battles but a much more deeper family managment system.

Europa Unversallis 3 also comes with the bundle which is supposed to be really good.

karma_ · 03-09-2013 12:21pm

Well, Syracuse just attacked Carthage by sea. I was vastly outnumbered as I'd neglected my military to go economical. So things did not look good and they got landed outside the city. Unfortunately the AI just disembarked and stood stationary and my arrow towers destroyed them all. Not good AI, not good.

Taylor365 · 03-09-2013 1:14pm

karma_ wrote: »

Well, Syracuse just attacked Carthage by sea. I was vastly outnumbered as I'd neglected my military to go economical. So things did not look good and they got landed outside the city. Unfortunately the AI just disembarked and stood stationary and my arrow towers destroyed them all. Not good AI, not good.

Aww man

... the only thing I'd want right.

marko93 · 03-09-2013 2:18pm

Haven't had an issue with A.I yet, attacking by land and sea is great

Sephiroth_dude · 03-09-2013 3:39pm

thegame983 wrote: »

What graphic intensity are people running it at? I got a new rig a month ago

i5 4670k
GTX 760
8 gig ram

anyone got anything similar? I should be able to play it at ultra right?

Identical spec to me,except I have a non k i5 and a 770gtx,I'll check there in a while.

coolguyrko · 03-09-2013 5:27pm

Keggers. I didn't forget you. You'll enjoy it when you play it.
http://i521.photobucket.com/albums/w332/coolguyrko/2013-09-03_00001.jpg

coolguyrko · 03-09-2013 5:33pm

thegame983 wrote: »

What graphic intensity are people running it at? I got a new rig a month ago

i5 4670k
GTX 760
8 gig ram

anyone got anything similar? I should be able to play it at ultra right?

Im running it on Extreme. Only getting a bit of lag when theres tons and tons in a mosh pit of sorts. If theres tons of troops(50 units in a custom battle I think it was) then I turn them down a bit but its easy to adjust them so its no problem

Intel Xeon
Sapphire HD7950
8 GB Ram.
Yours shouldnt be that far off ultra anyway but I dont really know much bout computers :P

coolguyrko · 03-09-2013 5:41pm

grizzly wrote: »

To those who are playing, how much fun is it? More then Shogun? MTWII?

I think it's a lot of fun. TBH shogun bored the **** out of me.Medieval 2 was my favourite in the series. At first Rome 2 isn't fun. It's actually a bit complicated but once you've finished the Prolouge campaign it's fairly straight forward and is plenty of fun.

UnleashTheBeast · 03-09-2013 5:42pm

coolguyrko wrote: »

Im running it on Extreme. Only getting a bit of lag when theres tons and tons in a mosh pit of sorts. If theres tons of troops(50 units in a custom battle I think it was) then I turn them down a bit but its easy to adjust them so its no problem
Intel Xeon
Sapphire HD7950
8 GB Ram.
Yours shouldnt be that far off ultra anyway but I dont really know much bout computers :P

I'm totally perplexed at how your PC can run the game better than my rig. Here are my specs:

Intel Core i7-3770K
Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 3GB
8GB Corsair Dominator

It runs poorly on Ultra for me, I didn't even try extreme. When I did a benchmark on Ultra, I got an average of around 30 fps which is very poor. I toned everything down to medium(ish) settings and now I get a 63 fps average (for anybody that doesn't know, you can do an in-game benchmark, go to graphics settings, then advanced and it's at the bottom).

coolguyrko · 03-09-2013 5:46pm

UnleashTheBeast wrote: »

I'm totally perplexed at how your PC can run the game better than my rig. Here are my specs:

Intel Core i7-3770K
Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 3GB
8GB Corsair Dominator

It runs poorly on Ultra for me, I didn't even try extreme. When I did a benchmark on Ultra, I got an average of around 30 fps which is very poor. I toned everything down to medium(ish) settings and now I get a 63 fps average (for anybody that doesn't know, you can do an in-game benchmark, go to graphics settings, then advanced and it's at the bottom).

I'll run the benchmark on mine. There is the chance that I've had to deal with so much bad lag before this rig that I just don't notice it as much :P

blatantrereg · 03-09-2013 5:47pm

EU3 is good. It is more massive than any other game like it I think. Doubt anyone has conquered the entire world in it ever. If you play as a major power and do well it becomes a bit tiresome eventually, as your ever-expanding empire creeps further and further around the globe. You can also play as a smaller state (including Irish provinces) which is a lot more difficult, and you will be focused more on survival for a long time. I tried playing as Leinster a few times and never got anywhere. England eventually just smushed me no matter what approach I took. But it certainly avoids the possibility of over-sprawl really. Some people claim to have set up Ireland as a strong colonial power (sometimes abandoning Ireland itself in the process).

EU4 is coming out around now I think too.

But what I really want to know is - Is Rome 2 any good? The only really new thing I'm aware of is the mixed naval/land battles. I definitely enjoyed Rome Total War 1 the best of the series. It was the first one I played though.

coolguyrko · 03-09-2013 5:49pm

UnleashTheBeast wrote: »

I'm totally perplexed at how your PC can run the game better than my rig. Here are my specs:

Intel Core i7-3770K
Gigabyte Radeon HD 7970 3GB
8GB Corsair Dominator

It runs poorly on Ultra for me, I didn't even try extreme. When I did a benchmark on Ultra, I got an average of around 30 fps which is very poor. I toned everything down to medium(ish) settings and now I get a 63 fps average (for anybody that doesn't know, you can do an in-game benchmark, go to graphics settings, then advanced and it's at the bottom).

Just did it. And the average is 21. Poor but I actually don't even see it. Seems perfectly fine.

coolguyrko · 03-09-2013 5:50pm

blatantrereg wrote: »

EU3 is good. It is more massive than any other game like it I think. Doubt anyone has conquered the entire world in it ever. If you play as a major power and do well it becomes a bit tiresome eventually, as your ever-expanding empire creeps further and further around the globe. You can also play as a smaller state (including Irish provinces) which is a lot more difficult, and you will be focused more on survival for a long time. I tried playing as Leinster a few times and never got anywhere. England eventually just smushed me no matter what approach I took. But it certainly avoids the possibility of over-sprawl really. Some people claim to have set up Ireland as a strong colonial power (sometimes abandoning Ireland itself in the process).

EU4 is coming out around now I think too.

But what I really want to know is - Is Rome 2 any good? The only really new thing I'm aware of is the mixed naval/land battles. I definitely enjoyed Rome Total War 1 the best of the series. It was the first one I played though.

I think Rome 2 is really good. Never played EU games so I couldn't possibly compare

Rome Total war 2

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