pathfinding and unit issues since patch 7 and hotfix, anyone else?

[alQamar]

hello TWC member, some might call me a benchmark , as I spent a lot of times into this topic. Also for Rome 2. So I know the animations and quality and issues like my right pocket.

Since the hotfix I noticed changes in the unit behaviour and I would like to know if you have the same issues aswell.

Interestingly the issues are depending on the graphical presets for me.


extreme preset:
or maxed out settings:
- it happens that a pike unit is not moving anymore, while the unit behind is going through them
- they are not turning around same as before when the balls of fire come down the hill
- pilas are not longer thrown when the cohorts engage the barbarians uphill, animation is decreasing since patch 4


high preset:
- on high preset I noticed that sprites of the dead bodies turn after one or two seconds, lying on the floor, (looks very funny)


Can anyone please try it out on your hardware and the SAME settings if you can reproduce the issues? Thank you very much.

[alQamar]

here are some videos of the issues new to the benchmark since the hotfix of patch 7

Extreme preset - Unit stuck
http://youtu.be/Ke22fxkI_3Y

Extreme preset - Unit stuck while it should turn around, soldiers ironically "jumping" while in formation?
http://youtu.be/i9V98xoX84M


High preset - Unit sprite moving while laying dead on the ground / only 6 units of a whole throwing pila because they are the first 2 "front rows"
http://youtu.be/EwIQyoHotKg


High preset - suddenly turns out of the marching, only happens on high settings ?! - How can graphic setting influence an AI script? Some flickering textures.
http://youtu.be/93edvuZV60U

[DramaBelli]

As I said you on steam, I can confirm all the contents of these videos. Units stuck, slow motion, and all this visual rubbish...eh but my fps are alittle bit more now, in the bench. Not so much in the game.

[alQamar]

Thanks Dramabelli.

I still struggle to link videos here that can be viewed embedded

Help! Video Tags and YouTube Tags don't work as intended.

I made some highlights in the videos

Hope for more feedback.

[alQamar]

No more responses

[Arkymedes]

Hey, I'll do the same tests on my right and report when I'm back. Need to take the kids to school first LOL

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[Arkymedes]

On my rig*

[alQamar]

Thank you Arkymedes!

[Arkymedes]

Unfortunately I found the same problems, apart the sprites in the High settings that didn't show to me.

I'm uploading the full benchmark to each preset on youtube right now but it will take forever to finish.

Once it's done, I'll post the links here so you can check it out.

Cheers,
Arky

[Arkymedes]

Oh, nevermind that, the sprites do "rotate" while in the ground... bizarre o.O

Well, yes, I can confirm each flaw in those settings. Same results.

[alQamar]

Thank you for the efforts! I posted it on. Com aswell hope they find the reason before they release patch 7

[alQamar]

patch 7 has been released and well it was only a day of time between my bug report and the release today so as expected these issues are not fixed. However the performance changed again with the final patch 7

[DramaBelli]

patch 7 has been released and well it was only a day of time between my bug report and the release today so as expected these issues are not fixed. However the performance changed again with the final patch 7

at the opposite you get a rally point video with small amount of secs dedicated to the still permanent sige AI issue. I was expecing more you know, about it. At now I think that pevious CA statement about AI worked only to say: we start t focus on this issue now for the first time. Patch 7 is the first small step.

"performace changed again after official 7?" interesting

[Arkymedes]

Extreme settings (mind the low FPS )


High Settings

[MikeF]

Is performance better with the final version of patch 7?

[alQamar]

nope tested it today. no changes with the patch 7 final. But we could not expect that really as between my reporting and patch 7 was only one day. I will bump my thread on .com and hope they put it on their todo list for the next patches.

[TuranianGhazi]

Confirming the weird glitch where units slow down to a crawl, as if in Slo-Mo speed. Very weird.

Will do more tests and maybe upload on YouTube

[rob-a-dogg]

Units in the recruitment pool have no unit cards, units in the army or being recruited into an army/navy do have cards however.

[alQamar]

err sorry, but how is this related to the topic ?!

[alQamar]

Extreme settings (mind the low FPS )


High Settings

youtube integration still fails you cannot play them but nice to see you have exactly the same issues as I found.