Rome II

[mikeck]

Ok, so any opinions on the Beta 4 patch?

[W8taminute]

...I think it was the same in Shogun 2 - and I didn't like it there. It was really difficult to keep public order under control and get enough money for armies and infrastructure.

You can still exclude troublesome cities from the tax network by unchecking the tax box in the left hand side info screen.

[Nefaro]

mmm...so they made taxes tribe wide as opposed to region wide? What's the consensus on this? I haven't played enough of this to get a hold of whether it's a positive or not, but my initial reaction is "eugh"...I mean - not all regions are the same.

Interested in anyone's thoughts who have played a lot.

I think it was the same in Shogun 2 - and I didn't like it there. It was really difficult to keep public order under control and get enough money for armies and infrastructure.

It's faction-wide in Rome2, as it was in the previous title.  However, there's a checkbox to turn taxation off for specific provinces and it can be quite handy for those times when you've conquered more than one region in them and the unrest penalty is high for a time.

[Jarhead0331]

I may have just fought my most epic Total War battle...ever.  The VIII Legion of Rome (Alpinia), one of Rome's smaller legions with just 1500 legionaries and approximately 1000 auxiliary was cornered and assaulted by a combined Lugiian army under the command of four warlords numbering over 7000 warriors total.  The brave Romans fought to the death almost to the man, with only 200 surviving to make it into captivity. The Legion's general bravely gave his life in battle, as well.  For the loss of 2500, the VIII Legion butchered over 4000 Germanic barbarians over a period of more than 40  minutes (which is a veritable slug fest in game terms).

Its my first and only Legion to be destroyed in battle.  I plan on raising a new Legion immediately and resurrecting the proud VIIIth.  Hail Rome! 

[Staggerwing]

Nice '5th Element' avatar, JH!

[Martok]

Nice battle, Jarhead!  Epic indeed.  8) 

[mikeck]

Awesome. I have never lost an entire legion; although I have come close several times.

[Tuna]

This is when the game is fun.. when you face NME's 2 to 3 times larger than you!

I don't understand all the slamming on it.. Ok I do, it's not perfect... But you know what? I'm having a blast, and when it comes down to it, that's all that matters with any game!  8)

[mikeck]

Like I said before. People see what they want. Someone like me who wants to like it will watch a battle and see an enemy that tried to flank and fails. Someone who wants to see a bad AI to prove their opinions, will see an army that splits for no reason and attacks piecemeal. I think that's a lot of it. It has almost become in vogue to be a reviewer and slam TW games to play to the crowd. This game had- and still has issues- but it is a good game and didn't deserve to be completely ripped by many on the other forums

[W8taminute]

7 minutes 15 seconds now 'till Beta 4 is installed.  Then I go unleash hell.

[W8taminute]

Hell was unleashed on me.  Played for 3 turns on my current campaign before the system locked up on me during the AI's turn.  Fortunately I was able to replay using the autosave and managed to make it through the turn.  Don't know what happened but up until now I have never had a game freeze before.  Maybe something to do with Beta 4?

Then I looked at my graphics performance.  I have 'use system memory' turned on and noticed a slight decrease in frame rate and general lag.  Switched my 'sky' and 'particle effects' from Ultra to Very High and noticed everything running smooth again.  Maybe I'll try unchecking 'use system memory' and cranking up the sky and particles again and see what happens. 

[LongBlade]

I may have just fought my most epic Total War battle...ever.  The VIII Legion of Rome (Alpinia), one of Rome's smaller legions with just 1500 legionaries and approximately 1000 auxiliary was cornered and assaulted by a combined Lugiian army under the command of four warlords numbering over 7000 warriors total.  The brave Romans fought to the death almost to the man, with only 200 surviving to make it into captivity. The Legion's general bravely gave his life in battle, as well.  For the loss of 2500, the VIII Legion butchered over 4000 Germanic barbarians over a period of more than 40  minutes (which is a veritable slug fest in game terms).

Its my first and only Legion to be destroyed in battle.  I plan on raising a new Legion immediately and resurrecting the proud VIIIth.  Hail Rome!

Cool. Did you save the replay?

[Bison]

I may have just fought my most epic Total War battle...ever.  The VIII Legion of Rome (Alpinia), one of Rome's smaller legions with just 1500 legionaries and approximately 1000 auxiliary was cornered and assaulted by a combined Lugiian army under the command of four warlords numbering over 7000 warriors total.  The brave Romans fought to the death almost to the man, with only 200 surviving to make it into captivity. The Legion's general bravely gave his life in battle, as well.  For the loss of 2500, the VIII Legion butchered over 4000 Germanic barbarians over a period of more than 40  minutes (which is a veritable slug fest in game terms).

Its my first and only Legion to be destroyed in battle.  I plan on raising a new Legion immediately and resurrecting the proud VIIIth.  Hail Rome!

Cool. Did you save the replay?

Awesome recap JH.

[mikeck]

I had a freeze with beta 4 as well

[MengJiao]

I had a freeze with beta 4 as well

  No Freezes here.  I have a i7 and 1.5 gig of graphics and a lot of ram and I've put things at lower graphics settings as usual.