Rome Total war 2

I'm done with the series. This game has completely spoiled it for me. I was broke wen I bought it. Figured I'd buy this and get me through a couple of weeks but nope. Think I got 4 hours of game play since day one release

Shogun 2 was pretty feckin great tbh, i was expecting more of the same with rome2, but meh..consistently letdown since release

I spent the last few hours playing this again.

I enjoyed it right up til the point where i sent a massive roman army against syracuse -(on the campaign map) had them camped inland pointed directly at the city, clicked on the city to attack it and my army went for a swim because clearly the quickest way to attack a coastal city that you're standing right in front of is to go around it and attack from the sea.. - wasted 2 turns getting my army back because of the area of influence that you cant cross.

Thought they'd fixed that stupid bug, but nope.

Then the actual battle itself, complete clusterfcuk. The units do try to keep formation but then they just stand there, getting mowed down and seemingly not attacking at all. Whats worse is that sometimes the enemy units do that too, so you've got two armies standing toe to toe telling each other about the weather back home and when the best time to plant cabbage is.

When it's not being stupid like that, it's being stupid some other way.. When you have a formation group attacking, it actually turns into a gigantic orgy of carnage, in the worst possible way. cavalry decides to randomly attack RIGHT THROUGH your testudo formations, trampling them, or breaking them up enough so that the enemy (Hoplite phalanxs) tear them up and then procede to decimate the cavalry..

f f s

I dont even know why i bothered to reinstall it at this point

i could live with the problems on the campaign map, it's the battle map bugs that infuriate me really. I enjoyed playing the big battles in all of the TW games, they had bugs too but nowhere near as bad as Rome 2

Sand wrote: »

Rome 2 is half price on Steam - 28 Euro. What's the current state of play with this game? Still pretty to look at, awful AI?

No idea what the state of it is at the moment. No matter what, don't buy it right now, wait for it to go as a Daily Deal or a Flash Sale - it will probably go cheaper than €27.49.

I always really loved the 'Risk' type map in Medieval 1, the game seemed to engross me more than the 2nd one ever did.

I have finally, after all this time (look for me in the early stages of this thread, I was so young and full of dreams) gotten to play Rome 2.

Chalked up a few hours of an Iceni campaign there yesterday. Now it's early days yet, but apart from one siege based path finding problem that cost me a few extra troops, I have had a bug free experience.

I have to admit I'm really enjoying it*. I think this is partly because my expectations were somewhere in the Mariana Trench and partly because I wasn't stung by all the problems of pre patch 13.1 buggy ****tiness. Either way, I can see myself sinking an awful lot of time into this game before summer's end.

*#fukdah8rs

Soo far, the only thing causing me to rage quit is my generally sh1t skill level. It seems like no matter how many hours I spend playing total war, I am only getting worse at these games!

Keggers2 wrote: »

I have finally, after all this time (look for me in the early stages of this thread, I was so young and full of dreams) gotten to play Rome 2.

Chalked up a few hours of an Iceni campaign there yesterday. Now it's early days yet, but apart from one siege based path finding problem that cost me a few extra troops, I have had a bug free experience.

I have to admit I'm really enjoying it*. I think this is partly because my expectations were somewhere in the Mariana Trench and partly because I wasn't stung by all the problems of pre patch 13.1 buggy ****tiness. Either way, I can see myself sinking an awful lot of time into this game before summer's end.

*#fukdah8rs

Well done! Reminds me of when I finally got to play age of conan about 5 years after it came out!

In fairness I never understood the hate for this game.

I play it still and love it still!

Mid way through a campaign with carthage and busy putting down rebellions down in east africa and solidifying my grip on the arabian peninsula!

Oak76 wrote: »

The base game is about a tenner on Nuuvem at the moment, for anyone interested.

Unfortunately "REGION LOCKED: Esse jogo só poderá ser jogado na América do Sul"

ragequitted it last night after about 2 hours of turtling with research and a few massive armies - was attacked by the AI unexpectedly and outnumbered by 3-1 - they had three full armies, i had one. Seriously more aggressive AI on both the campaign and battlemaps - didnt notice much more else, as i was playing Iceni

Gonna give it another chance now though..