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On September 02 2013 13:18 cLAN.Anax wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2013 09:55 Godwrath wrote:On September 02 2013 09:51 cLAN.Anax wrote:On its release day next week, a single, worldwide unlock time of zero hours US Pacific Time on the September 3 has been announced. That’s the regional equivalent of 00:00 PDT/ 03:00 EDT / 08:00 BST / 09:00 CET / 17:00 AEST. It'll be midnight when it opens based on my time zone. I'll get up around 4:00. Actually not as uncommon an occurrence as I'd wish it to be; you can blame my work schedule for that. ;-P And all this talk about conquering enemies and plundering settlements and ruthlessly taking advantage of the females.... Does no one play any campaign as a"good" guy? X-D There is no glory on that. :-C Y'all are closet tyrants. X-D Final call for the Steam group before I close it to the public. You'll have to let me know later if you want to join after the 3rd. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TeamLiquidTotalWar
Joined, thx for the heads up
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On September 02 2013 13:18 cLAN.Anax wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2013 09:55 Godwrath wrote:On September 02 2013 09:51 cLAN.Anax wrote:On its release day next week, a single, worldwide unlock time of zero hours US Pacific Time on the September 3 has been announced. That’s the regional equivalent of 00:00 PDT/ 03:00 EDT / 08:00 BST / 09:00 CET / 17:00 AEST. It'll be midnight when it opens based on my time zone. I'll get up around 4:00. Actually not as uncommon an occurrence as I'd wish it to be; you can blame my work schedule for that. ;-P And all this talk about conquering enemies and plundering settlements and ruthlessly taking advantage of the females.... Does no one play any campaign as a"good" guy? X-D There is no glory on that. :-C Y'all are closet tyrants. X-D Final call for the Steam group before I close it to the public. You'll have to let me know later if you want to join after the 3rd. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TeamLiquidTotalWar
Joined, why would you close it to the public, you closet tyrant?  Abusing your power, eh? :D
but yea it should've been invite only to begin with perhaps, if you can be bothered with handling TL PM requests
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On September 02 2013 13:18 cLAN.Anax wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2013 09:55 Godwrath wrote:On September 02 2013 09:51 cLAN.Anax wrote:On its release day next week, a single, worldwide unlock time of zero hours US Pacific Time on the September 3 has been announced. That’s the regional equivalent of 00:00 PDT/ 03:00 EDT / 08:00 BST / 09:00 CET / 17:00 AEST. It'll be midnight when it opens based on my time zone. I'll get up around 4:00. Actually not as uncommon an occurrence as I'd wish it to be; you can blame my work schedule for that. ;-P And all this talk about conquering enemies and plundering settlements and ruthlessly taking advantage of the females.... Does no one play any campaign as a"good" guy? X-D There is no glory on that. :-C Y'all are closet tyrants. X-D Final call for the Steam group before I close it to the public. You'll have to let me know later if you want to join after the 3rd. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TeamLiquidTotalWar
Why close it to the public at all?
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On September 02 2013 15:54 Skirmjan wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2013 13:18 cLAN.Anax wrote:On September 02 2013 09:55 Godwrath wrote:On September 02 2013 09:51 cLAN.Anax wrote:On its release day next week, a single, worldwide unlock time of zero hours US Pacific Time on the September 3 has been announced. That’s the regional equivalent of 00:00 PDT/ 03:00 EDT / 08:00 BST / 09:00 CET / 17:00 AEST. It'll be midnight when it opens based on my time zone. I'll get up around 4:00. Actually not as uncommon an occurrence as I'd wish it to be; you can blame my work schedule for that. ;-P And all this talk about conquering enemies and plundering settlements and ruthlessly taking advantage of the females.... Does no one play any campaign as a"good" guy? X-D There is no glory on that. :-C Y'all are closet tyrants. X-D Final call for the Steam group before I close it to the public. You'll have to let me know later if you want to join after the 3rd. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TeamLiquidTotalWar Joined, why would you close it to the public, you closet tyrant? Abusing your power, eh? :D but yea it should've been invite only to begin with perhaps, if you can be bothered with handling TL PM requests
I can, but initially no one but us really know about it, lol.
On September 02 2013 16:07 Incognoto wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2013 13:18 cLAN.Anax wrote:On September 02 2013 09:55 Godwrath wrote:On September 02 2013 09:51 cLAN.Anax wrote:On its release day next week, a single, worldwide unlock time of zero hours US Pacific Time on the September 3 has been announced. That’s the regional equivalent of 00:00 PDT/ 03:00 EDT / 08:00 BST / 09:00 CET / 17:00 AEST. It'll be midnight when it opens based on my time zone. I'll get up around 4:00. Actually not as uncommon an occurrence as I'd wish it to be; you can blame my work schedule for that. ;-P And all this talk about conquering enemies and plundering settlements and ruthlessly taking advantage of the females.... Does no one play any campaign as a"good" guy? X-D There is no glory on that. :-C Y'all are closet tyrants. X-D Final call for the Steam group before I close it to the public. You'll have to let me know later if you want to join after the 3rd. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TeamLiquidTotalWar Why close it to the public at all?
I'm afraid of potential non-TL randoms joining the group. Not everyone's Steam name is similar to their TL handle.
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On September 02 2013 09:51 cLAN.Anax wrote:Show nested quote +On its release day next week, a single, worldwide unlock time of zero hours US Pacific Time on the September 3 has been announced. That’s the regional equivalent of 00:00 PDT/ 03:00 EDT / 08:00 BST / 09:00 CET / 17:00 AEST. It'll be midnight when it opens based on my time zone. I'll get up around 4:00. Actually not as uncommon an occurrence as I'd wish it to be; you can blame my work schedule for that. ;-P And all this talk about conquering enemies and plundering settlements and ruthlessly taking advantage of the females.... Does no one play any campaign as a "good" guy? X-D
look i bring sewers , schools, walls, grand temples and even occasionally an awe inspiring colliseum, all alongside low taxes for all. i think that allows me some freedom in how i plunder my enemies.
but in truth i actually play as a good guy most of the time, and if i make an alliance with someone i will stick with it till destruction or betrayal (theirs i don't do that)
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On September 02 2013 13:18 cLAN.Anax wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2013 09:55 Godwrath wrote:On September 02 2013 09:51 cLAN.Anax wrote:On its release day next week, a single, worldwide unlock time of zero hours US Pacific Time on the September 3 has been announced. That’s the regional equivalent of 00:00 PDT/ 03:00 EDT / 08:00 BST / 09:00 CET / 17:00 AEST. It'll be midnight when it opens based on my time zone. I'll get up around 4:00. Actually not as uncommon an occurrence as I'd wish it to be; you can blame my work schedule for that. ;-P And all this talk about conquering enemies and plundering settlements and ruthlessly taking advantage of the females.... Does no one play any campaign as a"good" guy? X-D There is no glory on that. :-C Y'all are closet tyrants. X-D Final call for the Steam group before I close it to the public. You'll have to let me know later if you want to join after the 3rd. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/TeamLiquidTotalWar
Joined. Preloading now, such a shame I have to be at work tomorrow.
Only played Shogun 2 so far in the Total War series and loved it, didn't really have a problem with the non-existent unit diversity but that's probably because I don't know any better. From what I'm reading most people that played the other games thought that was one of the worst things of S2 so I should be liking this one even better. Plus I just love the entire Roman setting. All in all, very hyped, can't wait to play tomorrow evening 
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It´s just historically accurate that there are no good guys around there. It´s not like today were nobel prize winners would never bomb som.. oh wait .
Jokes aside i personally have always more fun being the bad guy in games. In some ways there are cooler story lines and sometimes it feels more realistic to me.
Especially in games like Mass Effect were the "good" side is just hilariously stupid "well i am the only chance for the whole universe but sure i have time searching for random shit on random planets for random reasons".
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When I am not specifically trying to beat the difficulty, I like to play realistically. My characters behave according to how their character traits develop. If they are cruel, I sack towns and murder the inhabitants, and kill prisoners. If they are good, I occupy peacefully and build beautiful structures to please everyone.
Similarly, if they ascend to the premiership of my faction, I like to take the faction in their 'direction'. If they are a sly underhanded dickhead, I might buy assassins and even send the sons of his which are lame off to die. If they are noble, I might lower the tax rate and declare peace with my enemies. It's all part of the fun .
In fact I wish that they could implement a grand idea of mine which I think would make Total War amazing. Hopefully they will do it in the future: have a complex algorithm that makes the 'narrator' voice appear and do a narrated cutscene every like, 50 years or something, chronicling the history of your faction. It would be very complicated and difficult to pull off but would be unbelievably impressive. Imagine a booming voice declaring:
'after the crucial battle of Granada, the borders of mighty Carthage grew and swelled across the Iberian peninsular. A great mission to bring the civilisation of Islam to the heathens was undertaken, as the new rulers erected impressive mosques and statues in the name of almighty God. However, the occupation of Spain was not taken lightly, and a savage rebellion in Zaragoza took thousands of lives before it was crushed. It is yet to be seen if this militaristic expansion will be rewarded or punished in time.
It would essentially involve a lot of synonyms being thrown into a random generator and then pieced together using a lot of 'when/if' clauses.
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On September 02 2013 18:55 sc4k wrote:
In fact I wish that they could implement a grand idea of mine which I think would make Total War amazing. Hopefully they will do it in the future: have a complex algorithm that makes the 'narrator' voice appear and do a narrated cutscene every like, 50 years or something, chronicling the history of your faction. It would be very complicated and difficult to pull off but would be unbelievably impressive. Imagine a booming voice declaring:
'after the crucial battle of Granada, the borders of mighty Carthage grew and swelled across the Iberian peninsular. A great mission to bring the civilisation of Islam to the heathens was undertaken, as the new rulers erected impressive mosques and statues in the name of almighty God. However, the occupation of Spain was not taken lightly, and a savage rebellion in Zaragoza took thousands of lives before it was crushed. It is yet to be seen if this militaristic expansion will be rewarded or punished in time.
i'm fairly sure islam didn't exist ~200 BC, so there might be some slight issues with you campaign, but yeah a narrator would be awesome.
"the armies of Macedon fell upon the city states of Greece unrelentingly, Athens fell in the first year it's walls torn down by thundering siege engines, Corinth fell two years later, a victim of deception and intrigue as Macedonian spies threw open the gates to the invading army. Of the 14000 people living in Corinth, over 8000 were put to the sword that day. And finally the brutal warriors of Macedon turned their gaze upon the defiant city of Sparta whose people still stood unwavering against their foes, Yet sheer numbers looked ready to win the day, had it not been for the arrival of messengers bearing news of a Roman invasion from the north, Forced to quit the field the Macedonian army looks trapped between an approaching Roman force under the command of Aurelius Brutus advancing from the newly liberated Athens, and the merciless warriors of Sparta eager to avenge their fallen brothers,"
something like that?
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No you're right . It would probably be impossible to do it with individual names but the rest is spot on! It would be so rewarding and fun.
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Time for this game to come out now I think 
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ahhhh can't wait for this. i'm still away from home for 1 week and then BAM.. I won't sleep during next week-end
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so now there is this game lying on my desk. and i can't play it. but it is very beautiful. looking at the cover alone gives me happiness.
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You physically bought it?
So class that people still do that nowadays.
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On September 02 2013 21:02 Incognoto wrote:
You physically bought it?
So class that people still do that nowadays.
almost always preorder the physical copy with big titles i know i'll buy when they're released. i just like having my games lined up on my shelf
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I wont pay 20€ more so i can have it digitally. i hope it arrives tomorrow morning though.
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On September 02 2013 21:09 qotsager wrote:Show nested quote +On September 02 2013 21:02 Incognoto wrote:
You physically bought it?
So class that people still do that nowadays. almost always preorder the physical copy with big titles i know i'll buy when they're released. i just like having my games lined up on my shelf
I never preorder, but amen to having them on the shelf. I'm going to snag a copy in the mornin' tomorrow I hope I'll get the preorder bonus with the physical copy (not at all uncommon in Poland to get a preorder bonus, from a game you bought from the shelf of a store on release day xD) wish me luck!
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On September 02 2013 21:35 SpikeStarcraft wrote:
I wont pay 20€ more so i can have it digitally. i hope it arrives tomorrow morning though.
It's 55€ on steam, and 60€ on retail i believe
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Hmm reviews complaining about difficulty,AI and bugs.Some bugs hopefully fixed with the launchpatch.
Fine with me I guess, game can't be difficult enough!
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