EPTTotal War: Rome II - Page 55
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Gorsameth
Netherlands21703 Posts
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thezanursic
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sc4k
United Kingdom5454 Posts
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xDaunt
United States17988 Posts
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Sermokala
United States13956 Posts
On September 06 2013 03:46 xDaunt wrote: Alright, wtf. Why are Spartan hoplites arbitrarily capped at 20 for the whole game? What's the point when the rest of their units blow? The way they made Spartans made it pretty hard to get any kind of numbers in their army. I'm surprised that they get 20 of them anyway. Man breaking formation as a phalanx is fucking murder. I got pwned by basic mobs and levy spearman beacuse I got cocky and had them attack different units. I think the sucessor kingdoms are either broken mechanicaly or ultra high skill cap difficulty factions. | ||
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TSORG
293 Posts
On September 05 2013 21:11 SCkad wrote: Rome 1, Medieval 2 and shogun 2 are the best of the series but though an argument can be made for each of them you can't say "this game is the best of the series by far" because the other two are just as good i'd say still undecided on Rome 2, its fun but i'll wait till i complete a campaign you probably never played mtw1, the older games also had better ai. i remember being so captivated by mtw1 when i first played it, and rome1 too. i never had it with any other game tho i did play a bit of mtw2. i skipped shogun after NTW was kinda a let down, a solid game but too little variation. perhaps i shouldnt have... but this rome is a bit dissapointing so far. the campaign takes ages but turns are 1 a year which doesnt work in this setting (it worked fine in the original mtw). the battles are going way too fast... while in every other tw game i played i could pull of defenses against 1 to 2 odds (even on the hardest mode), and sometimes even 1 to 10 in walled cities here i cant even do 1-1... and not because the ai is so brilliant. | ||
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Sub40APM
6336 Posts
On September 06 2013 03:58 Sermokala wrote: The way they made Spartans made it pretty hard to get any kind of numbers in their army. I'm surprised that they get 20 of them anyway. Man breaking formation as a phalanx is fucking murder. I got pwned by basic mobs and levy spearman beacuse I got cocky and had them attack different units. I think the sucessor kingdoms are either broken mechanicaly or ultra high skill cap difficulty factions. broken mechanically. CA should move away from this 'you can play any faction' towards just locking you into play Rome and then spending their time streaminlining the Romans. The amount of anger I feel when I try to play as Macedon or Epirus is disproportionate to what anyone should feel about any game. | ||
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Sub40APM
6336 Posts
On September 06 2013 03:46 xDaunt wrote: Alright, wtf. Why are Spartan hoplites arbitrarily capped at 20 for the whole game? What's the point when the rest of their units blow? Because CA feels guilty about making a ridiculously unrealistic Sparta? | ||
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Gorsameth
Netherlands21703 Posts
Playing as Parthia i just build a few of there initial melee cavalry and they just murder everything they get a charge on. It can be a little tricky if you somehow get bogged down but so long as your charging they break everything in 10 seconds or less. Really much worse then i had in previous plays as Rome/Sparta | ||
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TSORG
293 Posts
On September 05 2013 22:53 ChunderBoy wrote: Disappointing but fun, I've played every single TW starting with Shogun 1, I have to say Rome 2 feels absolutely retarded. Playing Parthia. After early experimentation I came to the conclusion that missle units are useless. My armies consist of Cataphracts only, every single battle lasts 2 minutes in total. And this is how they go: Put your 12+ Cataphract units in a single line. Charge enemies. 70% of enemy army dies from the first charge impact, the rest rout. Never lost a battle, never lost more than 100 units even against 3K armies. If its a Capital siege, you just dismount, flame gates, and charge your 1K horses through that one gate and win. Money is useless, I'm currently at 100K+ gold and earning 20K per turn. No guard mode, no loose formation, spear phalanx is bugged, families don't do anything, hitpoints?! why did they ever introduce hitpoints, shields are useless against arrows eventually you'll die to them, buggy graphics, 1 turn per year, no seasons, random capture points in open fields, naval combat is really buggy, and lots of other stupid stuff... I bet this game was made to be playable on console as well. etc... etc... Atleast it's really fun. I still enjoy watching whole enemy armies die to a single Cataphract charge. I have hope for patches/expansions to fix this game. oh lol... this sounds alot like the cataphract general unit of the sassanids in the Rome: Barbarian invasion expensian. that was so funny, u could defeat entire armies with 2 family members... in fact i conquered half the world with just 2 family members and some cheap merc infantry to storm the walls and open the doors XD but ya combat... way too fast. battle last like 6 minutes and thousands are dead :S | ||
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CoughingHydra
177 Posts
On September 06 2013 01:38 Incognoto wrote: Are there any good rome total war 1 mods that some of you might recommend? This one is pretty good: http://www.rometotalrealism.org/ | ||
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rezoacken
Canada2719 Posts
By the way... character leveling just suck imo. Shogun 2 had a way clearer and more interesting system of leveling. This... it just sucks. So far after having put more hours into the game... I sadly feel I was more impressed with Shogun 2 (as for release state), it was more polished and just better put together in my opinion despite shit AI and other stuff (that are still aweful in R2). So far the only thing R2 has over S2 in my opinion is the scope of the campaign and unit diversity... | ||
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TSORG
293 Posts
On September 06 2013 04:15 CoughingHydra wrote: This one is pretty good: http://www.rometotalrealism.org/ there is no comparison to this one in scope, attention to detail, and historical correctness. if thats your thing, www.europabarbarorum.com/ is the one to play. RTR was a rival at first, but imo got outclassed in the end. | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
On September 06 2013 04:08 Sub40APM wrote: Because CA feels guilty about making a ridiculously unrealistic Sparta? Did they actually do any historical research or just watched the movie 300? That movie is 99% inaccurate but it's where most of the Sparta fans got their historical knowledge from. | ||
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Tsutchie
Australia951 Posts
On September 06 2013 04:23 TSORG wrote: there is no comparison to this one in scope, attention to detail, and historical correctness. if thats your thing, www.europabarbarorum.com/ is the one to play. RTR was a rival at first, but imo got outclassed in the end. can you recommend any other realistic mods like this one for the other games? namely shogun 2 and empires. | ||
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TSORG
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Sermokala
United States13956 Posts
On September 06 2013 04:06 Sub40APM wrote: broken mechanically. CA should move away from this 'you can play any faction' towards just locking you into play Rome and then spending their time streaminlining the Romans. The amount of anger I feel when I try to play as Macedon or Epirus is disproportionate to what anyone should feel about any game. That sounds like an utterly shite game that has no multiplayer, modability, or multiplayer. Please stop posting dumb ideas. | ||
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TSORG
293 Posts
On September 06 2013 04:39 Tsutchie wrote: can you recommend any other realistic mods like this one for the other games? namely shogun 2 and empires. i cant im sorry :S the games you ask for are exactly the games that came after a TW game i was dissapointed in so i never bought them. (i did get empire recently but couldnt really play it due to graphical problems) i know about Stainless Steel for MTW2, which is supposed to be pretty good! but if you want to find out, sign up at totalwar.org or twcenter.net and ask your question, if there are any good historical mods out for these games, then those are the forums where the people working on the mods were coordinating their work (or atleast started to do so.) EB came from totalwar.org, Rome Total Realism from TWcenter.net. any similar mods for other titles in the series are probably found there too, or people would know about it atleast. gl | ||
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Jockmcplop
United Kingdom9654 Posts
 I wish i did, | ||
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Belha
Italy2850 Posts
On September 06 2013 05:47 Jockmcplop wrote: I'm really quite embarrassed to say that i haven't even played this game since Tuesday. I just don't want to play it. I wish i did, Kinda in the same boat. Just played a few turns in campaign and a few custom battles. Saw a shitload of gameplay bugs and weird stuff, so I read other people reactions, same for everyone. Now I'm just waiting for the patches (right now the game really needs BIG one). Sad, since the game have a lot of potential. | ||
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