Warhammer: Total War

Mr Crispy · 30-06-2017 08:36PM

Darch Nemesis wrote: »

Seems to be some kind of ARG going on, building up to the announcement of, presumably, the Skaven.

Second part released today. Solving the riddle for the first one rewards you with a wallpaper. The second one gives you a choose-your-own-adventure style text quest. My playthrough ended like this;

As you walk into the twilight of the tunnels ahead of you, your heart sinks as you step on thin air. In a rush of wind and flailing arms you find yourself falling rapidly into a great chasm. The sound of hundreds of scurrying bodies swarm below; churning from unimaginably complex tunnel systems pushing great metal contraptions. The last thing you see before you crash to the floor is a flash of green light from far in the distance. Your body shatters against rock.

Remouad · 05-07-2017 01:34PM

Preorder Key for TWW2 is currently €31 over on cdkeys.com

Have never preordered before so just wondering if I order on cdkeys this I'll still get the preorder bonus or does it have to be ordered on steam directly?

Varik · 05-07-2017 02:05PM

Remouad wrote: »

Preorder Key for TWW2 is currently €31 over on cdkeys.com

Have never preordered before so just wondering if I order on cdkeys this I'll still get the preorder bonus or does it have to be ordered on steam directly?

Was mentioned before, I think the pre-order bonuses are available for a short while after release.
So even if you don't get it from them, you'll get it when you add the key before the deadline.

Personally very wary as I've not use any of the key reseller before, but might as I really do want this day one.

killanena · 05-07-2017 02:48PM

I use cdkeys.com a lot and never had any issues. Only downside is you can't get a refund like on steam and im not sure if you'd get the pre-order bonus, ive never pre-ordered anything off them before.
I find them better then g2a as you get the cd instantly where as on g2a I've had to wait even up to 48 hours before.

I still buy the majority of my games on steam but I'm a sucker for a good bargain.

Billy86 · 05-07-2017 05:37PM

killanena wrote: »

I use cdkeys.com a lot and never had any issues. Only downside is you can't get a refund like on steam and im not sure if you'd get the pre-order bonus, ive never pre-ordered anything off them before.
I find them better then g2a as you get the cd instantly where as on g2a I've had to wait even up to 48 hours before.

I still buy the majority of my games on steam but I'm a sucker for a good bargain.

That said, their customer service is good - first time I used them I used an old Paypal account that was linked to an email address than no longer exists (it seems yahoo purged their '.ie' addresses?), so I emailed them with a screenshot of the purchase screen and they resent directly to my hotmail account within a half hour.

Dave_The_Sheep · 05-07-2017 07:56PM

Remouad wrote: »

Preorder Key for TWW2 is currently €31 over on cdkeys.com

Have never preordered before so just wondering if I order on cdkeys this I'll still get the preorder bonus or does it have to be ordered on steam directly?

I once bought what was described as "Total War: Warhammer + ALL DLC keys" off CDKeys for a good bit less than what it all added up to on Steam, to release Feb 28th if I recall. From the date you can likely see where this is going.

The subsequently changed the description of the item to reflect that it was TWW + the small change DLC + the free DLC. No Beastmen, no Elves, etc. They changed it on their site, same URL I'd used to link to it, same price, etc. They didn't contact me to say that it wasn't what I'd ordered of course though.

I had it out with them and happened to have screenshots of what was on their site when I bought it, and they gave me a refund as it was blatantly incorrect. I wonder how many people didn't get a refund though.

I don't use them anymore as a result.

Remouad · 06-07-2017 07:01AM

Varik wrote: »

Was mentioned before, I think the pre-order bonuses are available for a short while after release.
So even if you don't get it from them, you'll get it when you add the key before the deadline.

Personally very wary as I've not use any of the key reseller before, but might as I really do want this day one.

The preorder bonus is for warhammer 1 and will be playable pre-release of warhammer 2. That's why I'm thinking about the pre-order at all.

I've used the site before so I'm ok with taking the risk to get the game half price.

Remouad · 06-07-2017 07:04AM

killanena wrote: »

I still buy the majority of my games on steam but I'm a sucker for a good bargain.

Me in a nutshell. That's why my steam library is full of games I have great intention of playing some day...:D

Dave_The_Sheep wrote: »

I once bought what was described as "Total War: Warhammer + ALL DLC keys" off CDKeys for a good bit less than what it all added up to on Steam, to release Feb 28th if I recall. From the date you can likely see where this is going.

The subsequently changed the description of the item to reflect that it was TWW + the small change DLC + the free DLC. No Beastmen, no Elves, etc. They changed it on their site, same URL I'd used to link to it, same price, etc. They didn't contact me to say that it wasn't what I'd ordered of course though.

I had it out with them and happened to have screenshots of what was on their site when I bought it, and they gave me a refund as it was blatantly incorrect. I wonder how many people didn't get a refund though.

I don't use them anymore as a result.

I remember that being up there. It was the old world edition.
I even sent them a message telling them that the description was wrong.
Didn't hear anything back from them.

killanena · 06-07-2017 04:31PM

Remouad wrote: »

Me in a nutshell. That's why my steam library is full of games I have great intention of playing some day...:D

I remember that being up there. It was the old world edition.
I even sent them a message telling them that the description was wrong.
Didn't hear anything back from them.

I have the same problem but any game I haven't played yet I add to a separate library and any time Im feeling like I don't know what I want to play i just pick one at random and sometimes you get surprised.

Kiith · 10-07-2017 03:35PM

Watched a video of a massive city battle this afternoon, and made me want to play though this and actually manage the battles myself. I've a bad habit of letting the computer do it nearly everytime, and then i get smashed when i have to fight myself.

Gbear · 10-07-2017 03:56PM

Kiith wrote: »

Watched a video of a massive city battle this afternoon, and made me want to play though this and actually manage the battles myself. I've a bad habit of letting the computer do it nearly everytime, and then i get smashed when i have to fight myself.

I feel like if you put the effort in you can nearly win anything but it takes a lot out of you.

I had a crazy battle last week where I was the dwarves with about 1/3 the number of forces as some undead, and the undead had about 12 of their unkillable dickhead heroes. It lasted the bones of half an hour.

I slowed the game right down, paused between attacks and milked every single frame for positioning (and perfect gyrocopter bombing placement, I think one of my gyrobombers had like 400 kills) and in the end I squeezed out a narrow victory, pretty much wiping out the whole Vampire Count army in one battle.

It was deeply satisfying.

Dave_The_Sheep · 10-07-2017 07:49PM

Gbear wrote: »

It was deeply satisfying.

But exhausting.

I do love those battles, but as you say, it takes it out of you.

eeguy · 11-07-2017 11:33AM

Clinch victories are the best. I won an empire vs vampires after losing about 90% of my army.

Had units of five models charging back in. So proud of those lads.

killanena · 11-07-2017 05:26PM

New warhammer 2 gameplay.

killanena · 13-07-2017 02:05PM

Dark Elves In-Engine Trailer

Samuel T. Cogley · 13-07-2017 04:37PM

killanena wrote: »

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Dark Elves In-Engine Trailer

Fook yeah! My new faction! (Prev. Vampire)

Gbear · 13-07-2017 05:57PM

That's a terribly impractical helmet.

Remouad · 14-07-2017 08:05AM

Game and all DLC Discounted on Humble Bundle.
Same discounts that were in the steam summer sale.

Mr Crispy · 18-07-2017 02:37PM

Norsca confirmed as the DLC for the first game, if you're an early adopter for the second. Will contain two factions apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbrbDa9EBR0

Remouad · 18-07-2017 06:37PM

Saw the thumbnail for the trailer and was sure that they'd stolen it from lords of the fallen

Gbear · 18-07-2017 07:16PM

Any quality of life improvements people can think of for the next installment?

Mine would be allowing movement while in encamped stance.

If you want to get through vampire or other attrition territory but don't want to piss people off, you can move half a turn and then encamp, rather than raiding. So it'd be nice to make it require 1 click rather than 3 every turn (and those buttons for movement stance are fiddly to begin with).

Another would be fixing the way diplomacy works. Not the theory or the balance or anything.
Literally the nuts and bolts; the UI, of how you select people. Currently any selected faction becomes "active" and they're the ones that relationships are compared between on hover.

It'd be better if it always stayed on your faction so you could rapidly switch between your interactions with other factions and have a separate command (right click?) to activate other factions.

Varik · 20-07-2017 06:11PM

Norsca is going to vastly change the game, they're going to go from a numerous annoyance to a an actual threat.

Dave_The_Sheep · 20-07-2017 07:55PM

I wonder will the put that northern Dwarf faction in the game (the one that spawns when you start as Chaos) to hold them back a small bit. Doubt it.

Empire when under the control of the AI is going to be boned, unless they get a bit of an upgrade.

Gbear · 22-07-2017 07:54PM

Dunno what's happened but the game has turned into a slideshow for me.
They did release some kind of DLC.

It's stuttering about once every second or so. It's unplayable.
Anyone else notice anything?

Anyone encountered it before?

Reinstalled the game. Seems to have fixed it.

Samuel T. Cogley · 22-07-2017 10:27PM

How do you get Krell?

Ah found it :pac:

Varik · 22-07-2017 10:50PM

Gbear wrote: »

Dunno what's happened but the game has turned into a slideshow for me.
They did release some kind of DLC.

It's stuttering about once every second or so. It's unplayable.
Anyone else notice anything?

Anyone encountered it before?

Reinstalled the game. Seems to have fixed it.

One of the patches reset which GPU the game used (dedicated or the CPU's integrated) for me before.

Gbear · 23-07-2017 08:58AM

Varik wrote: »

One of the patches reset which GPU the game used (dedicated or the CPU's integrated) for me before.

Don't think it was that. It was saying it was using my GPU in the graphics settings.

I didn't get to clear the cache before I reinstalled it. I couldn't find it.
That used to bugger up my Civ 5 games so I had a shortcut on my desktop and I'd empty it every few games.

If it wasn't that than I really don't know.

Varik · 25-07-2017 04:35PM

Werewolves look amazing.

They given the mammoths some weird grasping trunks with finger/tentacles at the end.

Live gameplay tomorrow.

Generic Dreadhead · 04-08-2017 09:05AM

Haven't played this since November. Why is it looking for 34GB of space for a effing update?

Gbear · 04-08-2017 09:26AM

Generic Dreadhead wrote: »

Haven't played this since November. Why is it looking for 34GB of space for a effing update?

I think there's some shenanigans with the updates where it installs the whole thing again and then deletes the old version, or something like that.

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