EPTTotal War: Rome II - Page 41
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Zealos
United Kingdom3575 Posts
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Sermokala
United States13942 Posts
On September 04 2013 00:10 Zealos wrote: Game is at 100% saying 1 sec to go. Won't launch. In the downloads section it says it is unpacking. Is the 100% number wrong and I just need to wait? you just need to wait. the game is unpacking 9.9gigs into 25gigs. you'll still have to wait quite a bit for the setup as well once the unpack ends. | ||
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eXeYukon
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aXa
France748 Posts
Right click on desktop, your graphic card options, "3D settings" --> Put your graphic card instead of autoselect | ||
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KillerSOS
United States4207 Posts
On September 04 2013 00:02 Snotling wrote: for me its all: throw big bloob at enemy.......win. and the enemy attacking my city with way inferior forces and wipe.... What difficulty? Try to step it up a bit | ||
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RvB
Netherlands6213 Posts
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cLAN.Anax
United States2847 Posts
On September 04 2013 00:51 eXeYukon wrote: Going to have to wait until the steam sale next summer probably, the cost is just too much.. sad though I love some of the games in that series. Tune in to my stream? :-3 http://www.twitch.tv/anaxofrhodes | ||
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Divine-Sneaker
Denmark1225 Posts
On September 03 2013 23:32 sc4k wrote: I love this. It's fucking awesome. Makes so much sense. Having armies in the field isn't just about a bunch of blokes kicking around, it's ALL about supplies and supply lines and epic feats of coordination. Yeah, it's not that it's bad. It's simply different from other TW games and thus the planning and playstyle is different. I'm usually pretty meticulous and riskadverse in my play, but being forced to leave some settlements undefended barring garrisons makes me paranoid. | ||
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KaiserJohan
Sweden1808 Posts
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KillerSOS
United States4207 Posts
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SpikeStarcraft
Germany2095 Posts
I wanted to play the prologue to get into it because the interface has changed quite a lot from previous games. I've played the total war series since medieval I in 2002 or something and i struggle a bit now. I ended up in a dead end when i happily spent all my money on armor upgrades so i couldnt fullfill the next objective because i didnt have enough money left. So i couldnt continue the prologue. Initially i didnt even find the place to look for my money. In the prologue a lot of stuff is also locked so you dont really know what youre allowed to click and what not. All those symbols in this greek art style in black and white makes it really hard to find everything and recognize which unit is which. difficult historical names make it even harder. I needed to spend some moments checking out my units on the battlefield because its not fun if you can only differentiate them from the sword, spear or bow symbol. So since symbols for units and buildings dont help and the mouse overs are not really helpful i have to look a lot in the encyclopedia. But the encyclopedia is a clusterfuck. The search engine doesnt work and the information is not properly linked everywhere. How are you supposed to find stuff? and apparently some of the lower tier military buildings are shared by all factions so good luck finding stats to your units because the encyclopedia shows 100 units from all factions for that building.. Also units arent very diverse. It seems like there are 4 unit rosters. Barbaric, Roman, Hellenic and Eastern. a lot of units are just <faction name> <unit type> like lybian spearman, gallic spearmen etc pp.. To see if they are unique you have to actually look close at them on the battlefield. So thats quite a hassle. But its fun to play. I started a roman campaign on legendary. Seems very easy though. but i just conquered northern italy + corsica yet, maybe it gets more challenging later. Diplomacy is definetely easier than shogun II. You start out pretty much neutral and its easier to keep away from that death spiral where everyone just hates you because your ally starts war with everyone and then dies off and youre alone like in shogun :D and there are apparently a lot of factions without any friends so they are easy to take out one by one. | ||
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cLAN.Anax
United States2847 Posts
On September 04 2013 01:50 KillerSOS wrote: I'm trying to figure out why I would ever attack a settlement from sea... there's never enough places to land your troops and they are scattered everywhere. Once you land troops in a spot the boat is stuck there and you cant land any other troops in that location. They add to your forces when sieging a settlement. Numbers really do count in those. They've helped me in a couple sieges. | ||
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KillerSOS
United States4207 Posts
On September 04 2013 01:55 cLAN.Anax wrote: They add to your forces when sieging a settlement. Numbers really do count in those. They've helped me in a couple sieges. Yeah I'm in the prologue atm... I can't figure out how to get my troops off the "escort" navy. They are just stuck there. UI leaves some things to be desired. | ||
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RolleMcKnolle
Germany1054 Posts
On September 03 2013 23:03 aXa wrote: Ok guys i've been playing since 9 am and I really enjoy the game. I have some issues though: First off, it takes ages for the computer to process the other faction turns. (So many of them..) Second, the game doesn't allow me in the preset graphic setting to go further than medium. I tried the benchmark thingy with high and had 10 fps. My computer is a laptop MSI GT 70 with a i7 3610QM I have a NVDIA GeForce GTX 675M / 2GB GDDR5 4GB RAM DDRIII Any help / adivce? Its the first game i can't put on max settings :/ funny thing is, I got the same laptop and for me the game runs okay on extreme and very good on high. I am just disappointed about fucked up coop campaign | ||
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aXa
France748 Posts
On September 04 2013 02:01 RolleMcKnolle wrote: funny thing is, I got the same laptop and for me the game runs okay on extreme and very good on high. I am just disappointed about fucked up coop campaign My issues are fixed, playing on extreme too now  | ||
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Skilledblob
Germany3392 Posts
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KillerSOS
United States4207 Posts
On September 04 2013 02:17 Skilledblob wrote: ok so on normal difficulty parthia is extremely easy. no challenge at all. guess I am back to playing on legendary like in shogun I can't even finish prologue because my entire huge army is stuck connected to a fleet and i cant figure out how to detach =/ | ||
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aXa
France748 Posts
On September 04 2013 02:29 KillerSOS wrote: I can't even finish prologue because my entire huge army is stuck connected to a fleet and i cant figure out how to detach =/ Land on a shore that looks flat. You can't disembark everywhere | ||
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KillerSOS
United States4207 Posts
On September 04 2013 02:36 aXa wrote: Land on a shore that looks flat. You can't disembark everywhere Cant disembark at ports? Cool stuff.... EDIT: Ah UI just isn't clear on this point. Game is fun otherwise though. | ||
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aXa
France748 Posts
On September 04 2013 02:39 KillerSOS wrote: Cant disembark at ports? Cool stuff.... I'm pretty sure you can, didn't do the prologue though. | ||
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