Rome II

[Tuna]

I'm always playing Rome II in offline mode.. I'm on my son's ID... so don't want to be knocking him off steam everytime I fire up the game.. I've had no issues at all..

[bob48]

Looks like that last patch has banjaxed my Radius campaign. I can load the game with the mod disabled, and start a new campaign, but can't get into my existing campaign, it just hangs on the loading screen and task manager tells me that 'Rome II is not responding'. I've verified the Steam files and that didn't find any problems.

[mikeck]

Well yeah that's to be expected, patch nine is a major package and it's going to bust up any mod. if I was you I would just uninstall the overhauls use patch nine and just use a couple graphic patches here and there until radius or whoever is you use get their stuff together. I'll be honest,  I'm finding that the vanilla game pretty much accomplishes everything that I was using the mods for anyway with the exception of seasons I mean formations are good battles last a lot longer and I is better so on so forth I don't see a point in using any of the major mods at this point

[bob48]

Thanks mikeck, I'll do that. Its not as if I was very far into the campaign anyway.

[Sir Slash]

Radious posted he is working with CA to get his mod to be able to update on Steam for Patch 9. The individual parts of his mod is supposed to be updated on Steam and you can go to The Total War Center to download an updated version of his mod but just not available on Steam yet. Hopefully soon. I'm back to vanilla while I wait.

[bob48]

Yep, I've now got it running in vanilla.

[undercovergeek]

as Mikeck said, 9 with some seasons and turn extensions is fine all on its own

i know its a big step to trust just vanilla Rome, and you practically feel like youre missing something without a mod - its brilliant all on its own

just do it

[Gusington]

My offline mode never stays offline and never tells me it's going back online. It's been this way for years for me.

Since Patch 9 with the same kind of mod set up (some graphics tweaks, seasons) I have not had one crash.

Probably just jinxed myself.

[undercovergeek]

DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

[Gusington]

I can hear my hard drive melting now. No wait that was something else.

[mikeck]

Okay discovered the first thing that I really don't like about vanilla other then certainty graphics uniform. Agents... I have an enemy agent parked outside of one of my cities and every time he destroys every single building inside the city and every time I have to build it again,but I can't kill him because he's so high ranked that I can't get to him. So I downloaded a cheat mod which prevents agents from destroying your buildings. I don't mind assassinations of things it's just ridiculous one agent should be able to sneak in and burned out every single building in my settlement every every time

[Nefaro]

Okay discovered the first thing that I really don't like about vanilla other then certainty graphics uniform. Agents... I have an enemy agent parked outside of one of my cities and every time he destroys every single building inside the city and every time I have to build it again,but I can't kill him because he's so high ranked that I can't get to him. So I downloaded a cheat mod which prevents agents from destroying your buildings. I don't mind assassinations of things it's just ridiculous one agent should be able to sneak in and burned out every single building in my settlement every every time

Yeah there should probably be some diminishing chances for repeated actions such as that in the vanilla game. 

People have complained about runaway nearly invincible Agents constantly doing such stuff for a number of TW games now.  I thought they had promised to curb this behavior lately but it may not have been enough.

I often end up using quite a few of my agents just to kill or thwart the steady stream of enemy ones killing and ransacking my stuff.  Not all that fun chasing them around with my own, but if I can keep on top of them (and find them fast enough) then it's usually effective.

[SirAndrewD]

The agent stuff is wacky.

I always find it amusing when a horde of agents surround one of my armies like zombies descending on a corpse. 

I imagine life for my generals resembles the multi-assassin attempt scene from The Pink Panther Strikes again, with my generals standing in for Peter Sellers. 

[Kushan]

Naval battles are still a train wreck. One offensive ram on an enemy ship and my Hastati jump over board for no reason.....

Other then that I'm noticing a good performance boost from patch 8. 4 turns per year with seasons makes a huge difference playing the grand campaign.

[mikeck]

You said you noticed an improvement with past eight did you mean patch nine just came out? have you not updated to patch 9 yet?