Regular updates inbound! First patch coming Friday

[CraigTW]

At Creative Assembly we are very pleased with the response to ROME II, with hundreds of thousands of players enjoying the game so far; but we do know that, as with all large PC releases, the variety of hardware and general system specifications can cause issues for some people and we are urgently working to help get them the right experience. As announced last month, we are also planning to tweak the balancing, AI routines and other features now that we’re getting real-time metric feedback from thousands of players. The result is that the first update to the game will drop this Friday, with the intention to update the game on a weekly basis in the immediate future.Full patch notes will be available on Friday, but the update will address known instances of crashes due to hardware conflicts alongside several other performance fixes. In addition, anyone experiencing graphical issues including low resolution textures, should check our support forums at www.totalwar.com/rome2support which contain suggestions for settings which will improve visuals in almost all cases.There are also a variety of other fixes suggested in our support forum, please head there to find out more or report your own problem directly to the CA team who will assist you.Thanks, Craig

[Fishdawg]

Yay Thanks Craig How big are we looking at for patch size??

[SonOfCrusader76]

Craig - please give us an option to turn off the projectile trails, the impact puffs and the capture points on open field battles as they're rubbish and turn open field battles into a complete farce.

[Tim_Ward]

At Creative Assembly we are very pleased with the response to ROME II

[shadowflare1995]

Craig - please give us an option to turn off the projectile trails, the impact puffs and the capture points on open field battles as they're rubbish and turn open field battles into a complete farce.

There's an option in the Battle Interface.

[Steph]

Good news. I hope among the graphics issue you are considering including a "real now shadow" option to completly turn it off for older GPU, and avoid seeing the units all black from some directions.

[Epic28]

Craig - please give us an option to turn off the projectile trails, the impact puffs and the capture points on open field battles as they're rubbish and turn open field battles into a complete farce.

Yeah... They did that already. Guess you can have one less giant all caps bold line of text in your sig...

Craig, thanks for the update regarding the update. Loving the game so far.

[dom385]

and there aren't any capture points in open field battles, have you even played the game?! But yeah I hope battle speed is slowed down too, although I'm guessing this patch will just be fixing graphical/performance issues.

[gumption]

This is good news.

[bangell99]

At Creative Assembly we are very pleased with the response to ROME II

Have you ever thought of doing stand-up, Craig? That remark is like Stewart Lee-level deadpan comedy.

[Emperor Domitianus]

At Creative Assembly we are very pleased with the response to ROME II, with hundreds of thousands of players enjoying the game so far; but we do know that, as with all large PC releases, the variety of hardware and general system specifications can cause issues for some people and we are urgently working to help get them the right experience. As announced last month, we are also planning to tweak the balancing, AI routines and other features now that we’re getting real-time metric feedback from thousands of players. The result is that the first update to the game will drop this Friday, with the intention to update the game on a weekly basis in the immediate future.Full patch notes will be available on Friday, but the update will address known instances of crashes due to hardware conflicts alongside several other performance fixes. In addition, anyone experiencing graphical issues including low resolution textures, should check our support forums at www.totalwar.com/rome2support which contain suggestions for settings which will improve visuals in almost all cases.There are also a variety of other fixes suggested in our support forum, please head there to find out more or report your own problem directly to the CA team who will assist you.Thanks, Craig

Thanks for this fantastic game.
Even if I have no issue at all, any patch can for sure improve the game. I only hope you will not tone down any aspect just to let the game run on low end machines.

[Marcus Claudius Marcellus]

For the love of christ add a family tree and a way to keep track of generals.

[Little Legionaire]

[evya]

Again with the date declorations... just release the patch when it's ready, or else we'll get another unfinished product. Don't rush it so you can say "We got a patch out"

[MathiasOfAthens]

Only hundreds of thousands?

[Sixer19]

Thanks, GREAT WORK CA ! YOU ARE THE BEST ! LOVE TOTAL WAR SERIES !

[random_samurai]

I think your formatting got FUBAR'd when you copy-pasted from all of your other posts around the web.

[Kinjo]

Great news and keep those patches coming! Is there anything you guys can do about the floating Eastern banners? I'm really looking forward to playing Parthia, but I hope you guys will patch this.

[Poniatowski1991]

No, since 2013 they suck.

[blackheartz]

Lets see what this patch will bring.