Rome 2 : Total War

Squark · 6 Sep 2013 at 17:54

Suarez7 said:
Why can't developers just say to consumers, look we underestimated how long it would take to get the product fully polished so we're going to hold the release back a few weeks/month. Honesty goes a long way instead of just releasing the game to the masses to let them test it for you and to receive bad reviews that will just lower their sales.

Absolutely backwards whoever is in charge.

Publishers and money.

Suarez7 · 6 Sep 2013 at 17:59

Squark said:
Publishers

**** them, if they can't see it harms their image as well then...

Martini1991 · 6 Sep 2013 at 18:04

It'll be down to Sega.
I think this is a downgrade to Rome 1 in many ways.

The more I think of it, this is Rome 2 is a great game, but it's also a disappointing great game, as it could have been more, and should have been.

It's like having the potential for a 10, but deciding to go for a safe 7.5

frankmcg · 6 Sep 2013 at 19:15

Martini1991 said:
When I installed 13.10 it made it way worse for me lol, worse than before I did the DXsetup fix.
Hopefully it was because I hadn't restarted.

Just finished benchmarking before and after installing the new drivers. Lost about 1fps on the new ones, and another 1fps on min framerate (now 12fps, yay!). This is on a AMD 7950

Nutella33 · 6 Sep 2013 at 19:41

whats the file to install in R2TW folder that people have said helps performance? is it one of the directx ones?

got it loaded but cant play till tomorrow, want it to go smoothly.

Diplexbullet19 · 6 Sep 2013 at 19:51

Fanatic said:
AI needs to withdraw if it has no siege units left in the battle and can't attack a city.

Yup I agree, I had and army 3x bigger than my garrison and they attacked by sea, landed two boats on the port which I dealt with arrows and the huge army landed outside my walls and just stood there. Had to try bait them to my walls and let my ranged kill them until I ran out of ammo but luckily had a tower which took almost the full 50min countdown.

CaptainRAVE · 6 Sep 2013 at 20:07

The new drivers from AMD are fantastic. Performance has increased a lot for me. Can't wait to have a good day on this tomorrow!

Crippled Potato · 6 Sep 2013 at 20:12

Among AI gripes there are some serious balancing issues, just took a full 12 unit capital garrison with 2 units of gladiators, which at the moment have 116 melee attack and 77 morale. I lost under 100 (mostly to arrow towers) and killed 1000...

Omaeka · 6 Sep 2013 at 20:28

Game won't update, gets to 21.8/26.9MB and drops to 0 bytes/s, Steam prevails again.

Darujhistan · 6 Sep 2013 at 20:29

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?618513-Radious-Battle-Mod

I haven't tried it yet, but here it is.

CaptainRAVE · 6 Sep 2013 at 20:35

Just done some benching. Only thing I have had to switch off is alpha vegetation (which seems to hammer performance). Otherwise averaging a decent 40fps.

Jono8 · 6 Sep 2013 at 20:45

CaptainRAVE said:
Just done some benching. Only thing I have had to switch off is alpha vegetation (which seems to hammer performance). Otherwise averaging a decent 40fps.

lol

slambo69 · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:19

My game keeps crashing, sometimes during turns when it is going through the factions, but there it just crashed during a battle...

havenrl · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:48

Omaeka said:
Game won't update, gets to 21.8/26.9MB and drops to 0 bytes/s, Steam prevails again.

I just paused all downloads, and re started it, kept doing that when it went down to 0 bytes / sec

Darujhistan · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:52

does anyone know I could tell whether the patch has been downloaded or not?

(STEAM)

Martini1991 · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:53

Amazon telling me to wait another 2-3 days for my DLC.

Darujhistan · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:56

Martini1991 said:
Amazon telling me to wait another 2-3 days for my DLC.

What a joke!

Lt_Red · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:56

Darujhistan said:
does anyone know I could tell whether the patch has been downloaded or not?

(STEAM)

Your version number top right on the main screen will go from from v.1.0.0 6798 453126 to v.1.0.0 6858 453644.

havenrl · 6 Sep 2013 at 22:04

Darujhistan said:
What a joke!

tell me about it !!

seems like i've contacted them 5-6 times today, and still no dlc.
very annoying this is.

Omaeka · 6 Sep 2013 at 22:04

havenrl said:
I just paused all downloads, and re started it, kept doing that when it went down to 0 bytes / sec

I messed about with Steam for a bit and found that if you go in your library, find the game that refuses to patch and try and launch it and stay away from the download screen, it'll actually download then. Kinda hit and miss though like everything else on Steam.

Lt_Red said:
Your version number top right on the main screen will go from from v.1.0.0 6798 453126 to v.1.0.0 6858 453644.

Should be like v.0.0.1 or something tbh.