Total War: Rome II - Page 11

On April 04 2013 13:34 rezoacken wrote:
Their goals are huge and on paper it looks fantastic but sadly so far it has been mostly paper (we have a couple dreamy screenshots, a good video of battle gameplay) and nothing about the Campaign mode (which imo is at least as important as battles).
Their goals look really ambitious I'm really wary. I can't fight the feeling that some of it will just not make release or will be botched/simplified.

But hey if the game is at least as good as Shogun 2 but in Rome era with more diversity, that's still very good enough for me to buy.

Let's hope they at least make it moddable enough.

(Oh and please fix sea battles, Shogun 2 sea battles were attrocious..., what a waste to make something so beautiful always auto-resolved... and sieges too, it sucked).

On April 15 2013 13:39 rezoacken wrote:
Been a while I havent played Rome TW, what do you fellow TLer consider the best mod for it ?

The idea with Arena is that the playable units will be history's greatest commanders. Russell told us this means you'll see warriors from many different time periods clash in what he described as "the ultimate mix".

The game will launch with units based on ancient cultures, such as the Greeks. When pressed on this, Russell said: "We are starting with ancient cultures. In the very first iteration we will be focusing on ancient world cultures, so Romans."

"Every Total War game is in a certain time period and you have to stick with it," Beresy said. "There's not enough room to go out of that. With Arena we can do that. We can start with Roman and Greek generals, we can have Attila the Hun against Genghis Khan in the future. All those really interesting scenarios could happen. That's the vision."

Now for the small print: this being a free-to-play game, there will be monetisation in the form of "accelerators". These enhance your ability to earn rewards, Russell said.

"The game loop is, you fight a battle and then you use the rewards you earn in battle to customise and improve your squad of three units you then bring to the next battle," he explained.

"From a monetisation perspective, we want to focus on enhancing your ability to get up through the content, to upgrade your units, basically to make that happen faster for you. You'll have an enhanced set of rewards.

"We don't want to hive off a load of the content to be premium only. Our philosophy is we want the vast majority of content to be available free to everybody if they earn it. We don't want to have pay to win mechanics where you distort the battle. That's absolutely not what we want to do. We want to focus on increasing the speed at which you can get to the higher level troops. But you don't have to be premium, you don't have to pay any money to get there, it just might take you a bit longer. This is all outside of the battles, right? There's no progression within the battles. The battles are their own tactical exercise."

Creative Assembly isn't ready to suggest a release window for Arena at all right now, but did suggest that Rome 2 players will get to play it before anyone else.

"We definitely want our existing core Total War players, the people who buy Rome 2, to have privileged access to Arena," Russell said.

On April 23 2013 15:47 cLAN.Anax wrote:
We have a new screenshot from the Battle of Teutoburg Forest. Showcases what they're doing in terms of in-battle UI.



(view the image in a new tab if you want to see the whole thing, but you're not missing much with what you've got here)

On April 24 2013 03:37 cLAN.Anax wrote:
Is anyone else but me bothered that all the cards have Roman units carrying their swords in their left hands? X-D

On April 23 2013 16:26 KtheZ wrote:


Those unit portraits look pretty underwhelming imo