Ive beaten Very Hard, Shimazu Toyohisa doesnt ever move for me... ever.

The art to winning is yari wall. With it on even yari ashigaru can hold katana samurai off for ages.

at least until archers shoot you down

xccam

Great Britain1150 Posts

February 28 2011 15:53 GMT

#142

Ashigaru are indeed vulnerable to archers, especialy in yari wall but enemyarchers are easy to take out with cavalry so its mostly not an issue

im more bothered by gunners who in even one volley can kill ALOT of men.

Anyoen interested in watchnig a replay vs the Very Hard AI ive uploaded mine to media fire for a friend and the link's here http://www.mediafire.com/?xhro3322mouxswe

Latham

9568 Posts

February 28 2011 20:22 GMT

#143

Well I DLed the demo and so far, I'm content with the game. My biggest fear was that my 3 year old junk of a laptop wouldn't be able to run it even on lowest, but so far so good. I might even try turning a few things on medium and giving it a spin. The game doesn't seem all that more demanding than Medieval II. I though there would be a insurmountable abyss between the requirements but it seems they scaled well.

I'll hold out on buying this game until I hear from TWC and TL what they think about the AI and modding possibilities. If it will be as dumb as in Empire I'll wait until TWC releases some AI mod (if it will be even possible), but I heard a bad rumor that TW games are becoming less and less mod friendly with each generation.

Anyway since I'm already posting, can someone tell me how to watch the replay posted above, and how to start those other campaigns I DLed from the TWC thread posted earlier?

TigerKarl

1757 Posts

March 01 2011 00:43 GMT

#144

On March 01 2011 05:22 Latham wrote:

Anyway since I'm already posting, can someone tell me how to watch the replay posted above, and how to start those other campaigns I DLed from the TWC thread posted earlier?

Dont know about the replay, but the campaign modification you wanna put the downloaded .pack file into the data folder of the game and start the tutorial campaign and you'll see that everything is free and awesome as hell!

xccam

Great Britain1150 Posts

March 01 2011 07:52 GMT

#145

Replays go in On Vista Machine: UserName: AppDate:Roaming:The Creative Assembly: Shogun 2: replays. however this will be invisable unless you make all folders visable which is in this guide here; http://www.misec.net/forum/board/FAQ/1139610900

GinNtoniC

Sweden2945 Posts

March 01 2011 08:17 GMT

#146

I'm soooo pumped for this!
In fact, I fear for my social life

Kong John

Denmark1020 Posts

March 02 2011 18:59 GMT

#147

I'm so excited for this, cant wait till the real game comes out. Its going to be awesome! The demo is really cool. The options don't work very well in the demo, but ones the real game is out and that works. I'm certain this game will live up to all my expectations.

Malkavian183

Turkey227 Posts

March 02 2011 19:25 GMT

#148

demo looks really good. seems much better then empire which really sucked compared to medieval 2 imo. can't wait it!

TigerKarl

1757 Posts

March 03 2011 15:15 GMT

#149

The CUSTOM BATTLE CREATOR for the demo version has been released. You can download it at:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=429404
Follow the instructions on the first page to create your own battles will all availabe units and clans of the game. Definitely worth playing until the full release of the game!

xccam

Great Britain1150 Posts

March 03 2011 18:32 GMT

#150

Already downloaded :D

RoosterSamurai

Japan2108 Posts

March 03 2011 19:27 GMT

#151

On March 01 2011 17:17 GinNtoniC wrote:
I'm soooo pumped for this!
In fact, I fear for my social life

Social life?

TigerKarl

1757 Posts

March 04 2011 19:00 GMT

#152

The presentation of Shogun 2 at IEM Hannover was really awful, but the game itself seemed amazing to me. The map is huge and with a lot of details and sweet spots. I think there will be interesting locations and castles to fight.
The game seemed to run really smooth, but there might be a long time again for the AI calculation between rounds.
The Battle Creator, i posted some time ago, is sick. I've had some insanely nice battles, like 500 Elite Warriors against tons of Yari Ashigaru. Of course i won, but the battles run so beatiful. The Details of Graphic and motion capture is huge and the movement AI of my troops is good. So you won't have to wait like 5 minutes until your Gunners shoot after re-arranging, just a few seconds.
This game is going to decrease my time for SC2 quite significantly.

Headlines

United States482 Posts

March 04 2011 19:47 GMT

#153

After playing a few games on the battle creator I've noticed a few graphics problems. I'm not sure if this is because the demo didn't fully incorporate all the unit models or what, but when my samurai are mixed in with theirs, it's really hard to decipher who's on my side other than the pennants. I believe the low unit mixture/models have been discussed here? And from afar, maybe from about my archer's max range, the enemy have this milky white covering on them, particularly the samurai who have red clothing.

Every graphics setting was maxed out.

Attican

Denmark531 Posts

March 04 2011 21:02 GMT

#154

I've never really been that interested in that time period in Japan. I'll be playing Rome Total Realism and Starcraft 2 until the modders get a hold of RTW 2, plus by that time maybe I'll have a computer that'll actually be able to play it.

Btw, anyone know the requirements for this game? It's not something crazy like the 20 gb that ETW took up is it?

xccam

Great Britain1150 Posts

March 07 2011 07:27 GMT

#155

yes, it will.

reign supreme

Belgium27 Posts

March 07 2011 21:02 GMT

#156

Almost, it can't come soon enough. It will be a fine game to play when exhausted from laddering scII :-)

xccam

Great Britain1150 Posts

March 08 2011 07:42 GMT

#157

7 days.

And fuck that, sc2 will be my release from laddering on the shogun leaderboard

Weken

United Kingdom580 Posts

March 08 2011 19:38 GMT

#158

Dam, this means that there is another game that i want to play but dont have time to. I think i will give this one a miss considering SC2 and EVE are taking but all my time already. Hmm i was really look forwards to a new Total War about 6 months ago, but now the time has come, i wont be playing it. Oh well, mabye next time.

Ramsing

Canada233 Posts

March 08 2011 20:13 GMT

#159

I really want to be excited about this, but it seems that the franchise started to go down the tube after RTW and so I find myself skeptical. Still, dling the demo and gonna hope for the best.

TigerKarl

1757 Posts

March 13 2011 07:19 GMT

#160

After all the material of the last few days i am even more thrilled for SHogun 2 than for Starcraft 2. This game is going to be insane!