Failed Claims of CA Before the Release

[Huberto]

Here is more interesting stuff, see this for yourselves. The darker vision of War: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-vision-of-warPersonally I see little of this in the actual game we got, while I still enjoy this game this was simply over-hyped. So on-topic, I think this should apply to the OP as "failed claims".

Russell seemed especially comfortable hyping TWR2.

[PointOfViewGun]

Is that all? Just one claim that turned out not to be a false one?

[haukim]

Facts will not deter the lynch mob. Never fear I filed a report about this website tolerating death threats against CA employees. We will see if the admins act against those savages or face lawsuits.

[karamazovmm]

Facts will not deter the lynch mob. Never fear I filed a report about this website tolerating death threats against CA employees. We will see if the admins act against those savages or face lawsuits.

that was too far, and this as well, he has been reported and "must be punished!"

[Greve Af Göteborg]

Sue CA/ SEGA, and STEAM for making all this happen.

Suing Steam would be extremely hard to do because it's not actually a company.
Besides, Valve is not pulling the strings on this one.

[Boicote]

2:05 - 2:15

CA said that the Rome 2 was supposed to have multiple ships per unit to add the sense of scale...

[alQamar]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-2-information

I was just thinking about this the other day. That comment (he made it about 3 times in various interviews) was one of the main reasons I allowed myself to buy into the hype. The thought of playing TW with 8 players or something equally crazy and then seeing the siege of carthage was just too much. I just have to give it to whoever they hired for marketing this time, they got me good.

Thanks for that. Even worse than I remembered. What an absolute farce.

AHHH the MEMORIES! They can be something sweet, something bitter, (something borrowed something blue). Where is the beer? Trish? What are you doing?

Cheers on that mates.

CA staff and their new shining marketing department (according to gamasutra) still living in a wrong age, where internet is a "new land for us" like our Mrs. Merkel said. They forgot about: "The Internet" does never forget any flaws, isn't it.

[wulfgar610]

CA said that the Rome 2 was supposed to have multiple ships per unit to add the sense of scale...

Sounds confusing? Implementing it would surely raise heaps of issues.

Presently it appears they haven't checked even basic stats of their ships over. The auxiliary assault bireme is still costed as a mercenary unit when it isn't. It's like whoever reviewed it and made adjustments to it, didn't know the game well.

[PointOfViewGun]

2:05 - 2:15

CA said that the Rome 2 was supposed to have multiple ships per unit to add the sense of scale...

They do have multiple ships per unit in that video. I don't see any claims there.

[Kinjo]

So did the battle of the Nile.

[wulfgar610]

It's bad enough already trying to find enough spaces to land the crews with one ship per unit

[DavidtheDuke]

CA didn't show enough gameplay, as we would've seen the horrible siege AI in a lets play longer than 20 minutes. Apart from optimization and unit formation moshing, the siege AI is completely broken and I'm pretty sure CA had to of known this. I believe it was intentionally not shown, however that is conjecture but why would they show such a broken part of their game?

[Humble Warrior]

CA didn't show enough gameplay, as we would've seen the horrible siege AI in a lets play longer than 20 minutes. Apart from optimization and unit formation moshing, the siege AI is completely broken and I'm pretty sure CA had to of known this. I believe it was intentionally not shown, however that is conjecture but why woudl they should such a broken part of their game.

You are correct.

[DavidtheDuke]

You are correct.

You and me agree on something? Sad that it had to be in these circumstances

At this point I think it's in the community's best interests to petition for moddable battle and (more) campaign AI. Moddable battle AI may be a tall order, as CA might consider it more trade secrets than the more script formation dependent AI of Medieval 2

[renegade765]

It looks like for the most part CA did deliver on their promises, but in a really, REALLY slimy and over-hyped way.

[universalmind]

The worst one has to be the optimisation promises I think. This feels like The War Z.

Or the photoshopped pictures being touted as in game footage on the steam store page.

[Raikou]

We were promised African elephants that would be VISUALLY different than indian elephants by Al and wasnt delivered. It was confirmed there would be African and Indian elephants in the final game but only Indian elephants were added. (I'm speaking visually) It was confirmed by one of the attendee's to the small event in San Francisco back in July I believe it was.

[alQamar]

The worst one has to be the optimisation promises I think. This feels like The War Z.

Or the photoshopped pictures being touted as in game footage on the steam store page.

Not only there. Quite all pictures CA released were refurbished and all "trailers" they showed us prior release aswell.

[Achilleslastand]

We were promised African elephants that would be VISUALLY different than indian elephants by Al and wasnt delivered. It was confirmed there would be African and Indian elephants in the final game but only Indian elephants were added. (I'm speaking visually) It was confirmed by one of the attendee's to the small event in San Francisco back in July I believe it was.

They just used the same elephants from Empire.

[Kinjo]

Is that all? Just one claim that turned out not to be a false one?

Whatever this thread is bogus.