Total War: Warhammer 2

opethdisciple · 22 Oct 2017 at 22:51

I'm finding this game hard even on easy!

Up to turn 150 as the Dwarves. I have control of my corner of the map down south, but getting harassed by Chaos and Nordlings.

I have one general at lvl 23 which generally out ranks theirs but my issue is they are depleting my forces, so I am building new ones with new lords but they are low ranked.

I imagine in the future I am going to be up against high ranked enemies and my troops will have never seen battle before.

Cant imagine how hard this game is on higher difficulties.

Plus need to figure out my army composition. Those hell cannons do a lot of damage.

I am mostly just Ironbreakers and hammers with cannon/grudgetrowers/quarrellers.

Pookie Bear · 23 Oct 2017 at 10:23

opethdisciple said:
Paid DLC?

Or they'll make an appearance in the 3rd instalment...

Richdog · 23 Oct 2017 at 13:12

Pookie Bear said:
Or they'll make an appearance in the 3rd instalment...

Tomb Kings will be in the 2nd installment. Same as Araby.

Tombstone · 25 Oct 2017 at 21:56

Crikey.... https://www.totalwar.com/blog/mortal-empires-patch-notes
85Gb needed during the install of Mortal Empires. Time for me to free up a little diskspace !

Cromulent · 26 Oct 2017 at 05:33

Woop Woop. The day is finally here

. I moved Total War: Warhammer 2 to my SSD to cut down on the bloody painful load times. Looking forward to 3pm when the patch is launched.

Richdog · 26 Oct 2017 at 05:35

Cromulent said:
Woop Woop. The day is finally here . I moved Total War: Warhammer 2 to my SSD to cut down on the bloody painful load times. Looking forward to 3pm when the patch is launched.

Now only the Norsca patch and and all of the improvements that brought to wait for...

Pookie Bear · 26 Oct 2017 at 08:26

Tombstone said:
Crikey.... https://www.totalwar.com/blog/mortal-empires-patch-notes
85Gb needed during the install of Mortal Empires. Time for me to free up a little diskspace !

Thanks for the link - can't wait to try it out.

Cromulent said:
Woop Woop. The day is finally here . I moved Total War: Warhammer 2 to my SSD to cut down on the bloody painful load times. Looking forward to 3pm when the patch is launched.

I didn't know what time it was coming out - I might have to get my wife to turn my PC on at 3 to make sure it updates by the time I'm home!

Cromulent · 26 Oct 2017 at 08:44

Pookie Bear said:
I didn't know what time it was coming out - I might have to get my wife to turn my PC on at 3 to make sure it updates by the time I'm home!

I just upgraded my Nvidia graphics card drivers to the latest version as well just incase that makes a difference. It can't hurt anyway.

elmarko · 26 Oct 2017 at 09:49

ME finally later today.

Get to find out how much work this patch will make for me (mods I'll need to update). Kind of what's stopped me adding more units tbh, as if it turns out I need to start from scratch I may as well wait until ME has settled.

Cromulent · 26 Oct 2017 at 16:15

Hmm patched up the game and tried to install the Mortal Empires DLC and even though it is free it took me to the purchase page. When I tried to pay with Steam Wallet funds or PayPal it just said those payment sources are not available at the moment.

Just tried again and now it is showing an error saying you have tried to make too many purchases recently please wait before trying again. Rather annoying problem. I guess I'll have to wait for a few hours if it doesn't work then just wait until tomorrow to try again.

Shame. I really wanted to play a bit today.

Pookie Bear · 26 Oct 2017 at 17:16

Cromulent said:
Hmm patched up the game and tried to install the Mortal Empires DLC and even though it is free it took me to the purchase page. When I tried to pay with Steam Wallet funds or PayPal it just said those payment sources are not available at the moment.

Just tried again and now it is showing an error saying you have tried to make too many purchases recently please wait before trying again. Rather annoying problem. I guess I'll have to wait for a few hours if it doesn't work then just wait until tomorrow to try again.

Shame. I really wanted to play a bit today.

It took me a few attempts to get it up and running - eventually it added the DLC to my list after trying to run the game three times, then a few minutes wait and it was installed (it had obviously downloaded beforehand).
Up and running now

Tombstone · 26 Oct 2017 at 17:28

Cromulent said:
Hmm patched up the game and tried to install the Mortal Empires DLC and even though it is free it took me to the purchase page. When I tried to pay with Steam Wallet funds or PayPal it just said those payment sources are not available at the moment.

Just tried again and now it is showing an error saying you have tried to make too many purchases recently please wait before trying again. Rather annoying problem. I guess I'll have to wait for a few hours if it doesn't work then just wait until tomorrow to try again.

Shame. I really wanted to play a bit today.

Mine did that too, I had to close down steam and re-open it and then it picked it up

Cromulent · 26 Oct 2017 at 18:30

Pookie Bear said:
It took me a few attempts to get it up and running - eventually it added the DLC to my list after trying to run the game three times, then a few minutes wait and it was installed (it had obviously downloaded beforehand).
Up and running now

Tombstone said:
Mine did that too, I had to close down steam and re-open it and then it picked it up

Finally got it working. Will wait until tomorrow now as I don't want to start a campaign when I don't have the time to really get into it.

I'm highly tempted to play as the Vampires. Should be a lot of fun

. Might even stream it on Twitch tomorrow.

Andr3w · 27 Oct 2017 at 05:11

Mortal Empires is pretty awesome! The map is basically a 'Squashed' versions of the Old and New worlds pushed together. Its a really busy map!

Lunatic Dreyfus · 28 Oct 2017 at 23:32

I'm enjoying the new ME campaign (and some of the extra DLC), but not the "extended" battle loading times I seem to have acquired during this update.

My 1440p Vortex campaign battle map loads were quick and snappy, but in DX11 mode the Mortal Empire loads are glacial by comparison, ranging from 30 seconds to over a minute, with much of the time spent involving little or no disk activity. It almost seems it's having trouble generating the battle map preview image.

After a few hours this started to get very annoying, so I eventually tried switching to DX12 mode. For whatever reason this seems to have sorted things out and bought the times back down again, but only time will tell.

DEL 707 · 22 Nov 2017 at 23:55

Going to pick this up next week to do some co-op with a m8.

Can anyone give me a breakdown of the different armies and their playstyles?

Safetytrousers · 23 Nov 2017 at 00:16

opethdisciple said:
I'm finding this game hard even on easy!

I learned how to win watching Elich on Twitch:
https://www.twitch.tv/elichtv/videos/all

He always plays at the highest difficulty and I've seen him win battles without taking any damage at all.

Richdog · 23 Nov 2017 at 05:44

DEL 707 said:
Can anyone give me a breakdown of the different armies and their playstyles?

Are you kidding? Do a Google or go watch a YouTube video or something where all the races are explained for you.

Old Man · 21 Dec 2017 at 01:29

New race added and going for 10% off normal price so £12.59: Rise Of The Tomb Kings (very cool!!! and go full screen; out January 23 2018)

Cromulent · 21 Dec 2017 at 04:07

Old Man said:
New race added and going for 10% off normal price so £12.59: Rise Of The Tomb Kings (very cool!!! and go full screen; out January 23 2018)

Instant purchase for me. With this and the new Civ 6 expansion coming out in Feb it'll be a good start to 2018 gaming wise.