Exclusive Content for TWC Discussion Thread (Updated 29th May)

[Deutschland]

Will you ever answer all these question? gg

[LestaT]

Has anyone asked 'Will there be a jewish faction' ?

[Faenaris]

What exactly does a 'legion' entail? Is it a fixed group of units, mean that you train 1 legion and get this and that units? Or is it more of a strategic cognomen, replacing the term 'army'? Or does 'legion' just refer to a single unit of roman legionaries (let's say about 300 men)? I got confused by the interview given by James Russell over at Rock Paper Shotgun.

EDIT: Whoops, already been answered. Mea culpa!

[DavidtheDuke]

Just don't give any vendor specific pre-order exclusives. That's all I ask.

[Captain Arrrgh!]

Just don't give any vendor specific pre-order exclusives. That's all I ask.

That's when I went from supporting reasonable DLC's to not buying the party line anymore. Then it all went down hill from their and their sales schemes got even worse.

[Philippus]

Here's a very simple question Jack.

What, until now, thought the CA on the economic and trade system for Rome 2?

Thank you for your attention, and your time.

[panzerschreck]

-a new faction with accurate units
-new ships
-new custom maps
-a new campaign
-new siege weapons

[Confederate Jeb]

Exclusive mini campaign focused on something

Exclusive 2-3 extra ancient battles scenario

Extra playable faction ingame and multiplayer

No, just no. Gameplay affecting items should not be pre-order/limited edition bonuses, as they'll merely be resold later. Make all factions, units, scenarios, and campaigns to everyone who buys the game, and put actual bonus goodies like a soundtrack/maps/fold-out tech trees like from the original Rome in the limited edition/pre-order purchases.

[Punic Hoplite]

What time period are we looking at for a starting date? Rise of the Republic? (270-220) Height of the Republic? (219-146) Fall of the Republic? (145 BC+)

[Halie Satanus]

There are two threads to discuss DLC on the first page of this forum alone. How about leaving this one to the topic it was intended for..

[PietroMicca]

how often we will be given official news?

I hate rumors and answers scattered here and there

[Neptune4394]

- Global campaign map
- Available one-to-many combat(New Graphic Engine?)
- Many factions
- Many Units(Ships)
- Easy modable
- Blood DLC(Pegi 18)
- Various game mode

[Invictus XII]

Jack, simple question. Can we get some desktop wallpapers happening? Plus an idea of the CA development team structure. What percentage or number of staff and resources are roughly going into the faculties of AI, graphics, historical research, etc...

[craziii]

if by exclusive content jack means different pre order bonus for each different retailer. I think I will wait for the goty edition. if there isn't a goty, I will skip this. I don't like buying incomplete games. I don't care if it is the truth or not, but that is how these "exclusive content" makes me feel.

edit: I don't care about dlcs after release. but different pre order bonuses is a big "NO"

[Jack Lusted]

I realise people may not have realised I was talking about this thread I setup http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=548136 in which unique Total War: Rome II content for TWC will be posted.

There is an answer relating to DLC in that thread, and as said there we will talk more about it closer to release.

[Adreno]

Exclusive mini campaign focused on something

Exclusive 2-3 extra ancient battles scenario

Extra playable faction ingame and multiplayer
No, just no. Gameplay affecting items should not be pre-order/limited edition bonuses, as they'll merely be resold later. Make all factions, units, scenarios, and campaigns to everyone who buys the game, and put actual bonus goodies like a soundtrack/maps/fold-out tech trees like from the original Rome in the limited edition/pre-order purchases.

Yeah you're absolutely right.. allthough i wouldnt mind the first 2 examples as dlc later on, nothing wrong with that.. third one however would only be nice if it expanded the campaignmap.. actually the best dlc would be just large chunks of the world added with new cultures and factions.. but theyve never done that so far.. all their expansions arent really expansions but more like very sophisticated mods

[anandus]

First off: Thanks for wanting to answer possible questions (on exclusive content).
Here are some of mine.

* Will there be a way to buy a sort of pass that grants all future-DLC?
* Will there be pre-order exclusives and if so, will it be that shop A has exclusive A, etc., so it won't be possible to get all the pre-order exclusives? (like Empire Total War), I hope not.
* I like the ideas of mini-campaigns as DLC (Like Napoleon's Peninsular). Any plans for making those? (Plenty of campaigns that are worth 'zooming in', eg. Caesar's Gaul, Pyrrhic War, First Punic (sicilian) War, Iberian Peninsula, Jewish Revolts, etc.)
* Any plans on Workshop-integration?
* Will pre-marian set formations be possible (velites/hastati/principes/triarii in checkerboard)? (those were really missing in Rome 1)

[Lord Maximus]

Jack,

A question about the new engine.

Will the new (heavily upgraded) Warscape engine be a native 64 bit engine or is it going to be a 32 bit one like the current Warscape engine used for S2/FoTS.?

[Mr. Os]

I'm all for historical accuracy for uniform types, buildings, government etc etc. But people, such as most of you chirping on about historical accuracy forget that Total War has never been about it totally in term of where you take your nation.

Rome never stuck to a single idea. When they conquered the world they learnt so much from the other nations that their Government, Armies and clothes changed. What if Rome conquered lands all the way to China, who knows what they may have become?

[cevap]

Paying 50$ for planned content above a 50$ game is not something Id want

Let them make all future DLCs free for those who get limited edition or a preorder hehe yeah that would happen.

About Rome 2, will there be a day one Blood DLC option (I guess you cant put it directly in with some countries forbidding selling the game to minors with it)
If so will it be free for LE version