Rome 2 : Total War

I was silly and left my capital undefended.. The AI came via sea and lay siege to Camulodunon while I was trying to take wales.

I thought I was dead, outnumbered with a small garrison of farmers. But no. They fired ballistae at the corner of my wall. It went down.

Then the odd thing, at least 4 stacks of their men just stood in front of that broken bit of wall hiding under their shields from my missile attacks. Not once did they move and try and enter through the hole they made :\

So in this time I was able to exist some men via my side gate, run around the map, destroy the balistae and then surround the men stuck at my wall. Due to them being surrounded they all routed extremely quickly..

So did these guys wanna take my town or just destroy a bit of wall then camp on the embankment?
 
Only got around to installing this. Performance is quite bad on my system. Does anyone know of any settings I can turn off to boost fps? Also, the textures look really low for some reason!
 
Managed a couple of prologue missions last night before our 2 year old boy started grabbing the laptop. Having downgraded a couple of the graphics settings (shadows, water to medium), the game played more fluidly, although like everyone says, the battles were over very quickly - too quickly for a unit of swordmen to reinforce the main melee battle by marching around and punching an attack from the rear.
Previous TW games had similar flag systems, usually in center of fortifications or towns, but they had a 3 min timer, which allowed you time to retake or defend a counter-attack.
 
nitram100 said:
Only got around to installing this. Performance is quite bad on my system. Does anyone know of any settings I can turn off to boost fps? Also, the textures look really low for some reason!
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There is a DXUPDATE post in this thread which might help.
Also setting your screen to windowed helps, apparently. There are some posts in here on the matter.

Personally, I find shadows to be the most damaging to my FPS in anything - and so I automatically reduced them.
 
SarGara said:
I see it as the higher up the building chain you get, the more intensive the farming methods used are and its that the people oppose to. Either way its easily balanced out by having a building that produces public happiness per town/city :)

After uniting all of Great Britain under the Iceni I have now ventured accross the channel and encountered the Frissi? who appear to have conquered most of Europe apart from the costal nations. Its getting tough! :(
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Have you actually experienced this personally? Cus if food buildings do produce squalor I'm gonna have to rebuild some things in my cities I think. I was gonna have Scotland and Ireland as my food producers, but if filling them with agriculture will destroy their public order that might not be my best bet :S

Are things like shrines province wide or just for the city they're in, do you know?
 
Darujhistan said:
Has anyone been attacked by the AI yet? played 23 hours on two campaigns and never been attacked, i'm either a master diplomat or the game is bugged.
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Playing as Macedon, everybody hates me, everybody attacks me all the time. I think your diplomatic relationship are just good.
 
Munimentum said:
Have you actually experienced this personally? Cus if food buildings do produce squalor I'm gonna have to rebuild some things in my cities I think. I was gonna have Scotland and Ireland as my food producers, but if filling them with agriculture will destroy their public order that might not be my best bet :S

Are things like shrines province wide or just for the city they're in, do you know?
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See my point about the awful UI giving about as much useful info as Comical Ali? Anyway all buildings work for the whole province, or whatever you hold of that province. I could be wrong though as it's hard to tell.
 
Bergkamp said:
all buildings work for the whole province, or whatever you hold of that province. I could be wrong though as it's hard to tell.
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This is my understanding.
It's the reason that all holdings in a province are shown together when in the building interface.
This allows you to balance what you are building across the whole province and see what the other holdings have at the same time to help with your decisions on what to build.
 
Munimentum said:
Have you actually experienced this personally? Cus if food buildings do produce squalor I'm gonna have to rebuild some things in my cities I think. I was gonna have Scotland and Ireland as my food producers, but if filling them with agriculture will destroy their public order that might not be my best bet :S

Are things like shrines province wide or just for the city they're in, do you know?
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Yeah I've experienced it as ive finished reuniting Britian on my play through :)

Public order is shared per province. So London acts as the capital, and then Wales + Exeter + Midlands towns all share it as they form the "England province" for example.

Population is also shared per province FYI, so if you spend 4 population expanding Wales you then have to wait for it to build back up until you can expand London etc.
 
Ah the so so critical aspect of a new release that is huge on scale.

Rome is adding so many new systems to it that some problems were a given. Performance wise not everyone is suffering but I'll be right to say that CA have always come back and fixed the game up, given freebies out and then quality DLC's post patches.

For me on my GE70 MSI laoptop its running quite well in extreme graphic's modes with little slow down. I think a lot of the issues are somewhat driver/config's of peoples systems.

The other issues are of course the systems that were added not working as intended :). for example as Carthage i've managed to sail a fleet into the Roma area and take rome :) good old fleet!!!. That being said battles are an issue but is it also a case of people used to 'mods'? for example a lot of mods expand unit sizes so unit sizes are huge compared to vanilla. Sea/Land battle combinations are very fun indeed tho.

All in all I'd not say its the 'worst' it has a log going for it and review wise I wouldnt review this game until some patches are out. Would i recommend this as a purchase? YEP.
 
MikeTheNative said:
Does anybody like the new province system? I can see what they were trying to achieve but I don't think it really works.
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They have added a layer of complexity with this system for sure. I understand why they did it as historically they would be more provincial capitals etc. It does work but it takes some time to get used it.
 
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