Rome II

[JudgeDredd]

Ah - ok. I have been running my troops to make ground - though I'm pretty sure I have them setup in a formation before I move them - meaning (I thought) they were back in walk mode.

I'll double check tonight.

[Gusington]

I am less interested in ancients but Rome II has that certain something to make me more interested. I think the above post that says Rome II is not as polished as Shogun II was upon release is spot on.

My patch just finished downloading a few minutes ago. Hopefully I won't see a lot of the oddities in my real campaign that some of you guys did.

Angry Joe seemed pretty jovial in that above clip...I couldn't help but snort and laugh along with him. But what the armies were doing...running up to his Spartans and then basically calling it off...over and over...albeit hilarious, isn't that due to morale? After all he was playing as Sparta and they must have some pretty kick ass morale...kick ass enough for the other faction to get juiced, run in and then panic at the last second. I have had that happen in Medieval 2, never thought it was a bug.

Either way listening to Angry Joe chortle like that is worth it, no matter the reason :)

[mikeck]

Well, usually TW games work great for me until a patch is released which inevitably screws it up. Waiting for this one to download but Steam keeps freezing....great

[bboyer66]

Well for me, one thing it does better than Shogun is Then it deals with an era And location that I at least have some type of passing interest in

I agree 100% with you on this. Trust me I wanted to like this and had some certain expectations based on how great the gameplay was in Shogun II. Alas I am very disappointed.

[Nefaro]

Well, usually TW games work great for me until a patch is released which inevitably screws it up. Waiting for this one to download but Steam keeps freezing....great

I think the Strat map actually runs even a tad slower than before, after the patch.  But I'm gonna restart this machine since Steam was doing that odd choking thing again after that patch.

I actually just had an open field battle against set of enemy armies that added up to having more than me.  It's a first.  I had to be the one to attack it, of course.  But the nice thing about that battle was the absence of one of those damn flags.  Or, at least, I didn't see one near me.  The enemy army actual came at me (bro) and caused some casualties!  Yeah, man... F those flags.  They're severely hindering the AI at this point.

[mikeck]

Well like a lot of people I ended up with the red skies bug with the new patch.  all my skies in tactical battles are red like Mars.  I have a Radeon card though I thought that this was only supposed to occur Nvidia either way the trend continues game runs fine until the patching and it screws everything up

[Gusington]

Oh dear...

[MengJiao]

Well for me, one thing it does better than Shogun is Then it deals with an era And location that I at least have some type of passing interest in

  I'm enjoying it much more than FOTS.  I'm not having any technical problems and the tactical battles have been reasonable battles.  Where I feel like the game really beats even FOTS is in the complexities of the world, the technological choices, the fantastic atmosphere and the ins-and-outs of strategy and diplomacy.  It think there are whole other layers to RomeII (technology and diplomacy and trade and geopolotics) that were barely there in FOTS.

[Yskonyn]

I can not speak in relation to FOTS as I do not have that, but otherwise I agree with MJ. Totally engrossed by the game so far and I haven't seen any big problems in the battles yet either.
I feel sorry for those of you who are dissapointed or who are having technical issues. That's a real bummer when a new game gets released.

About the linked videos above; I do not visit official boards anymore, nor read reviews or watch YouTube opinion movies of games anymore. It has proven to be a sure way to kill my fun for a game, while ultimately I did enjoy it myself. Those things get to me somehow.

I just play what I like now and don't care what the big world out there seems to believe. I get better advise an opinions from people around here.

[mikeck]

Don't get me wrong, the game is awesome and doesn't run bad. I would just prefer not to have red skies. Every time a patch comes out for TW games after release, I hold my breath.

Ca is really getting beat up I the forums over this game which is amazing. I think it's fantastic and it runs well even on my radeon 6790 (which will be updated to a 7950 tommorow)

[Bison]

I haven't seen any issues following the patch.  The MP game picked up just fine and wasn't corrupt and no graphical glitches that I've seen so far.

[Tuna]

Just grabbed it for my 14 year old.. Tried Green Man gaming, but it would not go through with paypal or credit card (kind of ticked off my wife entered our Credit Card on that site!..

Ended up getting it on Gamers Gate with enough blue coins to get the Greek DLC for free...

As soon as he's done downloading, I'll copy the directory to my computer, so I won't have to do as long a downloading time!

[Bison]

OK.  I just got a red sky in a battle map.  Annoying, but I'm sure it'll be fixed in short order.

[RooksBailey]

I said I wasn't but I ultimately did pre-order Rome 2.  I knew I was going to get it sooner rather than later, so I figured I might has well get in on the free DLC and TF2 items.   :)

I think I have something like 3 hours in the game so far and my experience has been generally positive.  Briefly, I think this game is going to be a new TW classic...once the bugs are crushed.  As I expected, this is going to be your all-too-common modern gaming experience of buying the game and waiting six to eight months for it to "mature" with patches and mods.  Same thing here. 

Now, the game is fun if you can look past the long list of assorted issues (but not $60 fun  :().  But in a year I think it will be as epic as we all hoped it would be.

In the meantime, I returned to Crusader Kings 2.   :D  I hope one day we get a CK2 version of Rome!

[Gusington]

The Greek DLC is 8.00...I feel like I got away with something now :)