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KwarK
United States43151 Posts
On May 22 2016 04:57 Dangermousecatdog wrote: I wasn't aware Total War had those elements ever since they went to 3D maps. Obviously they advertise that they do, but the AI is just so appallingly bad. This is my first Total War game since Medieval 2. | ||
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Antisocialmunky
United States5912 Posts
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LaNague
Germany9118 Posts
And watching some streams, i cant fault them for being on the arcade side now, most people seem to be incapable of even doing basic battlefield tactics like holding a frontline. Ive always found mods that made tweaked the numbers and made battles more realistic, its just number tweaks. Though i wish they made the AI better, ive seen the love to suicide army commanders and ignore the enemy ranged units with their flanking cav charges. I think ill buy the game though, AI isnt rome 2 release terrible and i had a warhammer fantasy army, so as long as the game isnt completely crap they got me, still cheaper than GW plastic models xD | ||
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DannyJ
United States5110 Posts
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ZeromuS
Canada13389 Posts
Kinda fun, may get this when its on sale in the future | ||
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JoeCool
Germany2520 Posts
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Narw
Poland884 Posts
Those Let's play i watched sadly confirmed what i was afraid of mostly - lackluster AI and quite a few bugs (like hero skill points resetting randomly). Also performance is a big unknown, hopefully my 390 and i5 4690k will be able to handle this decently at very high settings. Shame DX12 support isn't included at release. | ||
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rebuffering
Canada2436 Posts
He says he can hold 60fps @ 1440p with a 980 for reference. | ||
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andrewlt
United States7702 Posts
On May 22 2016 07:16 Antisocialmunky wrote: Empire for all the crappiness actually had a really interesting overmap. There were different types of builds for different types of provinces. Growing those things and making the trade routes work is probably the best part of the mess that was Empire: Total War. They've been toning down Overmap strategy ever since it's complexity peaked in Rome/Med -> Empire before they went to giving every unit RTS cooldowns and battles went completely arcade. I liked Shogun 2's building management. While that side of the game can be fun, CA has never been good at balancing building costs and duration with their effects. | ||
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Nezgar
Germany535 Posts
On May 24 2016 00:44 rebuffering wrote: I thought this a pretty good review, includes some performance talk as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIrGBqA2Grk He says he can hold 60fps @ 1440p with a 980 for reference. When I read reviews (or listen to), I am much more interested in the flaws of the game. When someone tells me for 14 minutes how amazing and awesome everything is and only a single minute of critique towards the game, I don't really feel like it was an honest review of the game. This is especially true when the reviewer foregoes very obvious flaws that other reviews have mentioned before. And I think that's the case with the review you have posted here... From the way he sounds, this is the best Total War game ever and probably one of the greatest games of all time and I have a very hard time believing that. He spoke a lot of words in a short span of time without giving a whole lot of information. For me that's the hallmark of a very bad review. Just listening to his multiplayer part in the review: The words that dominate his first few sentences are "amazing", "excellent", "epic" and "incredibly exciting" despite that fact that the multiplayer has lost quite a lot of features compared to older titles like Shogun 2. And there are similar examples for almost every topic that he mentions. If someone tells me about the bad parts of the game, I will have a much easier time deciding whether those flaws are something that I can look past and still enjoy my time with it. | ||
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rebuffering
Canada2436 Posts
On May 24 2016 08:02 Nezgar wrote: When I read reviews (or listen to), I am much more interested in the flaws of the game. When someone tells me for 14 minutes how amazing and awesome everything is and only a single minute of critique towards the game, I don't really feel like it was an honest review of the game. This is especially true when the reviewer foregoes very obvious flaws that other reviews have mentioned before. And I think that's the case with the review you have posted here... From the way he sounds, this is the best Total War game ever and probably one of the greatest games of all time and I have a very hard time believing that. He spoke a lot of words in a short span of time without giving a whole lot of information. For me that's the hallmark of a very bad review. Just listening to his multiplayer part in the review: The words that dominate his first few sentences are "amazing", "excellent", "epic" and "incredibly exciting" despite that fact that the multiplayer has lost quite a lot of features compared to older titles like Shogun 2. And there are similar examples for almost every topic that he mentions. If someone tells me about the bad parts of the game, I will have a much easier time deciding whether those flaws are something that I can look past and still enjoy my time with it. I feel bad now. | ||
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LaNague
Germany9118 Posts
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KaiserJohan
Sweden1808 Posts
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Simberto
Germany11591 Posts
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ref4
2933 Posts
they're no longer some small indie studio they're just fucking greedy. Fucking SEGA probably has its money-grubbing dick deep inside CA's rectum at this point. | ||
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Godwrath
Spain10131 Posts
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Narw
Poland884 Posts
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Gorsameth
Netherlands21906 Posts
On May 25 2016 06:14 Narw wrote: Well, uhm, this game is actually good. Stream the past week have made that pretty clear yes. The problem for some however is the business model CA has these days. | ||
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Plansix
United States60190 Posts
On May 25 2016 06:26 Gorsameth wrote: Stream the past week have made that pretty clear yes. The problem for some however is the business model CA has these days. It’s is the business model they have adopted to stay afloat and everyone knows they are going to do. I don’t think they are greedily sitting atop piles of money gloating about the hookers and blow they are going to buy DLC money. They made a good game. They will sell additional armies and features for that game that people are free to buy or ignore. Or you can wait for the steam sale, which will happen. They made a cool thing and will make more stuff for that cool thing. Yet for some reason its not ok because they will charge money for it. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17378 Posts
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