Medieval 2 Demo

philstanbridge · 11 Oct 2006 at 10:03

After some more time on the demo I can safely say I will pre-order my copy

Yes, the two historical battles are heavily scripted, hence the charging cavalry towards the same spot every time, but this can be forgiven. To be honest they weren't the best demo battles in my honest opinion because of the scripting - but they do give a pretty good indication of how it will shape up. I too read that the demo was from a fairly old build of the engine hence the dodgy framerates and lack of AMD/Crossfire support. Hopefully this or at least some of the problems will be resolved in the retail version.

I absolutely love the sound effects in the game however, even though they "borrow" from RTW quite heavily too. That musket fire is awesome. Especially on 5.1 surround.

Zip · 11 Oct 2006 at 10:05

Off topic: Is it possible to play RTR online? :confused:

Nieldo · 11 Oct 2006 at 10:10

Yeah it is a multiplayer game as well.

Zip · 11 Oct 2006 at 10:15

Nieldo said:
Yeah it is a multiplayer game as well.

Can we only play with people with RTR? Or can we somehow play against people with RTW?

philstanbridge · 11 Oct 2006 at 11:07

Zip said:
Can we only play with people with RTR? Or can we somehow play against people with RTW?

If you have RTR installed then you have to play people with RTR installed.

Echo toxin · 11 Oct 2006 at 11:16

It depresses me - I must be the only person on the planet who can't get into these Total War games.

Must try this demo on my shiny new Radeon.

Zip · 11 Oct 2006 at 11:25

philstanbridge said:
If you have RTR installed then you have to play people with RTR installed.

Ill have to find some then

Zip · 11 Oct 2006 at 12:08

I just played it then and im going to have to get a new GFX card. It was rapeing mine for all its worth

Roduga · 11 Oct 2006 at 12:16

philstanbridge said:
I absolutely love the sound effects in the game however, even though they "borrow" from RTW quite heavily too. That musket fire is awesome. Especially on 5.1 surround.

Agreed, it sounds ace.

I can get it running pretty smoothly on my machine on one of the maps, everything on max. I think it looks really nice, especially the spray of blood.

philstanbridge · 11 Oct 2006 at 12:24

Roduga said:
Agreed, it sounds ace.

I can get it running pretty smoothly on my machine on one of the maps, everything on max. I think it looks really nice, especially the spray of blood.

It will take some time to get used to the interface though - I dont know what they've done to it but it does "feel" different. I personally don't like the interface graphics that much but they hopefully can change

It might just be because it's still beta (fingers crossed anyway).

Roduga · 11 Oct 2006 at 14:28

philstanbridge said:
It will take some time to get used to the interface though - I dont know what they've done to it but it does "feel" different. I personally don't like the interface graphics that much but they hopefully can change It might just be because it's still beta (fingers crossed anyway).

It does look a little rough around the edges. I prefer where the formation button is, took me some time to find the 'group units' one though.

Zip · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:22

I couldnt work out how to grab a single soldier in this and i swaer they said you can do that.

OIne thiong i hate is the camera, Im not sure what they did to it but i just can seem to control it

katana6434 · 11 Oct 2006 at 16:31

I have just downloaded it and had a go.

Quite impressed. I had never played any of the other versions, so this is new to me.

I found the graphics pretty good and it played very smooth. For some reason I can't get used to the camera. I seem to go all over the place.

I think I need a lot of practice as I just got my a** kicked!!! Oh Well...

I think I will be pre ordering.....

Roduga · 11 Oct 2006 at 17:10

Zip said:
I couldnt work out how to grab a single soldier in this and i swaer they said you can do that.

OIne thiong i hate is the camera, Im not sure what they did to it but i just can seem to control it

Single soldier? Why would you want a single person?

Camera seems right for me, isn't it the same as R:TW? Or have I moved on too quickly?

Zip · 11 Oct 2006 at 17:15

Roduga said:
Single soldier? Why would you want a single person?

Camera seems right for me, isn't it the same as R:TW? Or have I moved on too quickly?

Just to move one here and there to atract Fire from cannons and archers away from the Main unit

And to use to put in frount of on comming people to get in the way while you let the general run away while you regroup

Roduga · 11 Oct 2006 at 17:45

Zip said:
...while you let the general run away...

Isn't that a bad thing?

philstanbridge · 11 Oct 2006 at 18:45

Zip said:
Just to move one here and there to atract Fire from cannons and archers away from the Main unit

And to use to put in frount of on comming people to get in the way while you let the general run away while you regroup

lol!! I pity your soldiers

using them as live bait.

No you cant specifically select a single unit unless of course you get them all killed, and you've one man left (which I've seen before).

b (thats it) · 11 Oct 2006 at 19:59

Ah! cant wait to try it! I've got to finish a paper today, but maybe i'll be able to squeze in a bit of time

Zip · 11 Oct 2006 at 20:58

Roduga said:
Isn't that a bad thing?

Not if he can live to fight again

philstanbridge said:
lol!! I pity your soldiers using them as live bait.

No you cant specifically select a single unit unless of course you get them all killed, and you've one man left (which I've seen before).

If it helps me win then a few Sacrafices will be used

Small half dead units from previous battles get used to lure big armys next to my town walls in RTR

Oberon · 12 Oct 2006 at 01:57

I played the demo over and over for a bit on different graphics settings. Unit detail is what i found to be the defining FPS factor by far!.

Overall i really enjoyed the demo but the historical battles was never my bag with this game, it's always been the SP Campaign which is looking really refined.

£30 under the pillow for November 11th.