**EMPIRE TOTAL WAR**
- Thread starter bakes0310
- Start date
I cant wait for this! The demo is great, the only thing I am a bit let down by is how badly the units scale, they look rubbish as 2d sprites....I hope they give you the option of forcing them not to scale in such a manner, it ruins the look of the game!!
The sprites are much better than M2TW, at least they're an approximation of the colour the 3d units they represent are. The white horses in the mostly brown units even have the correct colour of sprite compared to M2's which didn't take into account any of the unit variety. I found that the transisition to sprites is considerably less jarring than previously.
There sould be an option to turn off sprites via the ini as that's how M2 worked. Should be a killer on framerate though. The ini is in appdata/roaming/thecreativeassembly/scripts and the entries to try would seem to be
gfx_unit_quality
gfx_unit_scale
try seting both to 3
There sould be an option to turn off sprites via the ini as that's how M2 worked. Should be a killer on framerate though. The ini is in appdata/roaming/thecreativeassembly/scripts and the entries to try would seem to be
gfx_unit_quality
gfx_unit_scale
try seting both to 3
Works the same as the single player, the turn based portion (strategic campaign map) is turn based still and the real time portion (the battles) is real time still
It won't let me install Steam because my computer has some "unknown files"
O...M... G... this game is absolutely frackin amazing! Just completed both of the tutorials and I was flabbergaster at how smooth and detailed the new engine is. Land battles looked sublime... but the naval battles... I think I was almost whooping as my ship broadsided the enemy and then I watched them all jump into the beautifully rendered water. The only missing touch I can think of is I didn't see any sharks circling or dragging people under. 
I cannot wait for this to be released... they have my money! In fact if there's a big collectors pack with all the games there (I think I saw one) I think i'll get that via Steam instead and have it all accessible at the touch of a button instead of worrying about eleventy DVD's.
EDIT - Wow from Switzerland the Total War megapack is 59.99 Euros, around £50. How much is it in the UK?
I cannot wait for this to be released... they have my money! In fact if there's a big collectors pack with all the games there (I think I saw one) I think i'll get that via Steam instead and have it all accessible at the touch of a button instead of worrying about eleventy DVD's.
EDIT - Wow from Switzerland the Total War megapack is 59.99 Euros, around £50. How much is it in the UK?
Last edited:
Pre-Purchase Empire: Total War™
£39.99
Pre-Purchase Empire: Total War™ Special Forces Edition
Includes: Empire: Total War™, Empire: Total War™ Elite Units
£44.99
Buy Total War™ Mega Pack
Includes: Medieval II: Total War™, Rome: Total War™ - Gold, Rome: Total War™ - Alexander , Medieval II: Total War™ Kingdoms, Empire: Total War™
£49.99
£39.99
Pre-Purchase Empire: Total War™ Special Forces Edition
Includes: Empire: Total War™, Empire: Total War™ Elite Units
£44.99
Buy Total War™ Mega Pack
Includes: Medieval II: Total War™, Rome: Total War™ - Gold, Rome: Total War™ - Alexander , Medieval II: Total War™ Kingdoms, Empire: Total War™
£49.99
Thanks dude.
For a measly extra tenner there's no reason not to buy the full monty version imo. The Elite Units thing seems pointless really...
Last edited:
Associate
- Joined
- 9 Aug 2006
- Posts
- 753
- Location
- UK
Apart from responding to the hype of having finally implemented the naval battles, I couldnt see what was the actual purpose of this demo. Most of its features sucked even by MTW2's standards and the issue of unnecessarily taking ages to load seems to be quite widespread. Im still likely to buy the final product but this demo didnt show me much or at least Im hoping that certain features would be massively improved upon in the full game.
