Total War: Rome II - Page 70

On September 11 2013 23:25 TSORG wrote:


i didnt mean this particular game, but rather near future tw releases. but who knows.

On September 11 2013 23:50 Sermokala wrote:

As soon as darthmod comes out all the problems in the game ends.

They really should hire darth vader. He clearly knows more about good game design then all of CA.

On September 11 2013 22:52 Zuxo wrote:
Yeah I don't understand this day 1 DLC. Like I can understand if it is a unit skin or something. But to have something gameplay related purposely removed from the game at launch is such a dick move, yet still people buy it at launch. No wonder the gaming industry has declined so much in quality when developers can release broken games and people still buy it.

On September 12 2013 00:01 FliedLice wrote:


Didn't he retire from modding Total War games?

I think I remember some PC Gamer article.

I know, I do not have an "original" approach to modding, as you call it, but with this last reply, I am certainly out of Total War modding for good. Fair well, and you better do not mess up RTW2 gameplay because I think most of the modders will not be able to help you out.

On September 12 2013 03:37 daemir wrote:
When is that even a problem? When it's 1 unit vs 1 unit and the other is faster. Solution, don't fight with just 1 unit?

If you have 2 or more, you can eventually drive the AI into a corner and engage it.

On September 11 2013 22:22 Godwrath wrote:

Shogun 2 at release was also quite a mess, and the corrupted saves bug annoyed the crap out of me.

I am using the "don't preorder and don't buy on release day" if i am not 100% the game is what i want. I just called some of those who travel the seven seas and tested it. I will buy it when it is on a better shape and a better price, because i know in a
year or a bit more, the game will be amazing. But i am fucking tired of games that get out for sale on a obvious unfinished state.

On September 12 2013 00:11 Otolia wrote:

Darth_Mod was never the best mod out there, it was just a well rounded Battle and Campaign AI. Empire, Napoleon and Shogun were pretty limited in regards to mod because CA didn't released any to help the modders nor did they want to. And in that sense, mods for Medieval II and Rome were immensely more interesting than any mods for the following games.

My personal favorites Deus Lo Vult, Stainless Steel and Europa Barbarorum are far more complete than anything Darth ever made. Besides, the fellow is working on its personal game or so I've heard.

Right now, Radious is doing some small AI adjustement so you can enjoy vanilla with bleeding your eyes out.

On September 12 2013 03:22 SCkad wrote:
Ok i have a question, since everyone hates the capture point system, how would you try and deal with the "can't catch the last unit until the time runs out" exploit?

i personally don't see a feasible alternative

On September 12 2013 03:39 aXa wrote:


It's the other way around. The human player run with 1 cav and AI never catch up.

On September 12 2013 03:22 SCkad wrote:
Ok i have a question, since everyone hates the capture point system, how would you try and deal with the "can't catch the last unit until the time runs out" exploit?

i personally don't see a feasible alternative

Hi everyone,

We’ve just put up a hotfix that significantly improves campaign map frame-rate on a variety of hardware combinations that were getting frame rates less than 15 fps. It took us until Monday to get a case of this happening in the studio, but it was a very simple fix, so we’ve decided to put it out as a single issue patch. This bug was introduced very late in the process, but we absolutely should have found and fixed it before release.

This release has obviously not gone as planned for some people, and I want to apologise to everyone out there who had issues with the game, whether they were hardware issues or disappointment in the performance of game features. We obviously don’t plan to release a game with any bugs, performance and AI issues. How this has happened is something we’re beginning to post mortem in detail now.

Fortunately, the same tech that gave us the rope to work on the game right up to release lets us keep working on it after it’s out, and the flaws in the game are mostly just bugs, not structural defects. We can and will get the game to where we wanted it to be for everyone.

The top priority is stability and performance – both frame rates in battle and campaign, and end of turn times and loading times. Then gameplay spoilers – AI flaws and exploits, balancing tweaks and the level of challenge on higher difficulties. Then minor bugs, lesser features that really didn’t pan out, UI improvements, and longer term adjustments to features and systems that could be better. Because there are a lot of us working in parallel there will be a mixture of different priority fixes in each patch. Much of this work would be part of the usual planned improvements we would make to our games post-launch anyway, but we are aware that they have now taken on extra significance and importance.

We have a major improvement to end of turn times in the pipeline, along with around 100 fixes in the next patch. We have another 100 or so fixes already being tested for the patch after that. At this point the limiting factor on getting issues fixed in patches is not our ability to fix issues, it’s our ability to test them and guarantee that we don’t repeat past mistakes by putting a patch out that breaks something new. We’ll also be putting each patch up as a beta you can opt in to before releasing it. It’s our aim to continue patching more or less weekly until all the bugs are dealt with.

Then we can start the kind of dialogue we always want to be having with the community – which new features you like, which you don’t like, which deleted features from previous games you really miss and so on. That’s a good conversation to be having, and since it’s our intention not to fall in to the trap of just re-skinning the previous game each time, it’s one that hopefully you’ll be having for years to come.

Lastly, I’m hoping we can fundamentally treat our releases differently in the future. Long open betas are the way things are going, and while that model hasn’t been compatible with the way Total War has been built to date, that could be the way forward.

Mike Simpson
Creative Director
Creative Assembly

On September 12 2013 03:37 daemir wrote:
When is that even a problem? When it's 1 unit vs 1 unit and the other is faster. Solution, don't fight with just 1 unit?

If you have 2 or more, you can eventually drive the AI into a corner and engage it.

On September 12 2013 04:00 RolleMcKnolle wrote:
then implement a mechanic of no unit deaths in x amount of time -> draw. meaning no one loses any units in the retreat and the defender withdraws from that place on campaign map or something like that. Its not that hard to think of something.