Rome II

[Gusington]

Short answer: yes. On the bright side I think Rome 2 is more accessible than Medieval 2, at a minimum.

[endfire79]

Do you mean to say it works the best out of the box, versus having patches and then mods to enhance the gameplay?  I skimmed a bit over the TW boards, and everybody has a different opinion.  I guess I do prefer Medieval style warfare though.

Is RomeII a memory hog?  I put together my system back in 2010-2011.  Haven't had time or that much gaming needs to update yet (I better do it before the baby).

- Core 2 Quad Q9550 (2.83Ghz)
- 4GB DDR2
- GTX 460 1GB

[endfire79]

actually doesn't look like the game specs have increased much, should be fine I guess.

[Nefaro]

Newb question (I only skimmed the surface on Medieval Total War 2) Is there a big diff between Rome II and Medieval II ?  Has the gameplay etc has changed significantly?

Yes.

The general style is still the same but many of the little details (and the game engine) have changed.  Most notably on the campaign side.

[Gusington]

^Yes, I agree. It has been about seven years between games also.

[Nefaro]

^Yes, I agree. It has been about seven years between games also.

That equates to approximately a century in Computer Years.

[endfire79]

ah I know.  I just have a habit of never finishing some games that I've had for a while.  Has the AI really improved much yet?

[Gusington]

Depends on who you ask. I had experiences with brain dead siege AI in Rome 2 but that was many patches ago. And I've also seen the AI act ruthlessly. YMMV

[undercovergeek]

right - i might be back on this next week - is radious still the go to mod or has vanilla replicated his fixes by now

or is there a fabby new one?

[Gusington]

Steam workshop content coms out so fast for Rome 2 that if you're not careful it will snap your neck.

[undercovergeek]

Yeah its sparta for me next, I might just go 4 seasons and vanilla

[undercovergeek]

11:00 am - amazon update - stick will arrive at 6pm (for Elite)

11:02 am - ill just have a look and see how Rome II is doing after a 6 month absence

11:04 am - recent reading and film watching leads me to choose Sparta

19:03 pm - oh, so errrrr, right, that was a day gone battling Epirus and the Athenians then!!

great times, hard start but i think i have it sussed

[Martok]

LOL.  Too funny, geek. 

I'm just glad I'm going to bed here shortly.  Otherwise, I'd be sorely tempted to fire up a new campaign (which I didn't get a chance to do this past weekend).  Just one more night til my "weekend" begins... 

[Sir Slash]

Hey Geek about your earlier question, I play with Radious and prefer it to vanilla but it has one great flaw. Radious deleted the "Forced March" option because he said the AI didn't use it properly. Armies and fleets now move at a single pace which for armies isn't too bad but fleets just crawl across the map, so slowly it's almost not worth using them except locally. This might be a deal-breaker for you if you haven't already tried it. Otherwise, love it.

[Gusington]

Anyone play any sieges with the new patch? Even the guys over at TWC begrudgingly admit that sieges are better now. Macedon beckons!