A TWC Q&A to CA ?

**baptistus** · May 20, 2014, 03:33 PM

Originally Posted by Totalheadache

Yep good thread Baptistus. I'd be tempted to stick you know on your ignore list when you are doing your own threads. Saves you wasting your time with the inane drivel that ensues.

My main line of questioning would be concerning what's happening re the engine and also if we can see a more honest approach to marketing the game and perhaps better research and sticking closer to history.

Less 12 yr old arcade with very limited stratedy, more mature game aimed at people with a few more brain cells!

Oh and if there are going to be gamebreaking features, for me that is, (like torches and sieges, I still cant play the damm game) please could you make it possible for people to remove or add these features.

Why cant we create our own custom settlements and remove features such as the torches.

Why after x years is there no way of doing this?

You have your answer in the modding summit report:
-they will continue to use the warscape engine, which are only one of the engine they used
-torches are hardcoded so we can not remove it, and they will not remove it
-maybe will we be able to create custom settlements but we need the battlemaps editor (I ask for a schedule about the editors)

**Totalheadache** · May 20, 2014, 04:07 PM

Originally Posted by baptistus

You have your answer in the modding summit report:
-they will continue to use the warscape engine, which are only one of the engine they used
-torches are hardcoded so we can not remove it, and they will not remove it
-maybe will we be able to create custom settlements but we need the battlemaps editor (I ask for a schedule about the editors)

Right thought as much. Am out of the next total war then unless I play a demo and am amazed...had enough of the low performance of warscape.

Unless they drag it screaming and kicking into 2015....

P.s I liked it for empire and napoleon and to some extent shogun2. If you remember the zombie faces appeared then...

Gonna be interesting to see how alien isolation runs and plays. I know a few people who are looking forward to this.

**Templar Knight** · May 20, 2014, 04:11 PM

Oh that's a good question, will we get demos before future total war games are released again?

**Totalheadache** · May 20, 2014, 04:15 PM

Originally Posted by Templar Knight

Oh that's a good question, will we get demos before future total war games are released again?

it's why it's on my sig! For me it's got to the stage where I feel it's necessary well at least you would feel safer about a pre-order knowing that it didnt look+run like a turd!

No demo could be interpreted as "we must release the game as it is, then patch later". If that's the case i'd rather get on sale a yr later maybe. Although i'd probably cave in just because there's no alternative..

ahh just thought of a question i'd like to ask. is alien isolation using warscape and if so what changes has it undergone and will that carry over into another tw? or maybe it's two seperate teams but in essence the engine is the same..

**Causeless** · May 20, 2014, 04:35 PM

I doubt Alien Isolation uses warscape. It's a completely different genre, with different rendering goals, different physics goals, and different... everything.

**baptistus** · May 20, 2014, 04:53 PM

Originally Posted by Totalheadache

ahh just thought of a question i'd like to ask. is alien isolation using warscape and if so what changes has it undergone and will that carry over into another tw? or maybe it's two seperate teams but in essence the engine is the same..

very different game, different engine I suppose. And because it is two different team, they will not talk about alien isolation. You will not ask to Dice what will be in the next nba live, even if the two team work for EA.

**Totalheadache** · May 20, 2014, 05:21 PM

Originally Posted by baptistus

very different game, different engine I suppose. And because it is two different team, they will not talk about alien isolation. You will not ask to Dice what will be in the next nba live, even if the two team work for EA.

well someone usually finds these things out so all will become clear at some point. just interested to know that's all.

the series for me is pretty much dead atm but I do love the Warhammer genre so will def take a look at what CA does with it. (used to play it on the tabletop when i was young...well I have still have the warhammer40k figures and Blood bowl set!).

**riskymonk** · May 20, 2014, 06:52 PM

Regardless of whether its an answer to bash or praise, there are some questions which they cannot answer due to commercial reasons. Dont forget we're not the only ones who scour these forums. They could have watchdogs on their back, there could be bloggers or reviewers ready to pounce on CAs spokesmen quoting one reference in August 2013 and one in May 2014. 2 references that completely contradict each other. Bad for business, bad for reputation.

If CAs next game will be a financial let down, sega will see them as a liability and could end the contract. This could be the end of Creative Assembly but then again nothing lasts forever. All good things come to an end.

**baptistus** · May 23, 2014, 01:34 PM

Originally Posted by riskymonk

Regardless of whether its an answer to bash or praise, there are some questions which they cannot answer due to commercial reasons.

and there are some questions they can answer. Ask and we will see.

They could have watchdogs on their back, there could be bloggers or reviewers ready to pounce on CAs spokesmen quoting one reference in August 2013 and one in May 2014.

And to be honest, CA are not afraid to put a video of alpha gameplay which looks incredible compare to the final game, and no popular websites talk about it. Popular websites only care about the problem of battlefield 4 ....

**The Outsider** · May 23, 2014, 01:49 PM

Here are my questions

Will you make the encyclopedia offline and user friendly?

Will you make it moddable? (oh wait I should have went to the modding summit all the way from Cyprus to England to ask this single question about modding, my bad)

Will you ever improve the ai upto a respectable level? (in future games)

Other than the so called free lc's what are you planning to do to earn back the communities support?

And thanks for the thread baptistus.

**baptistus** · May 23, 2014, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by The Outsider

Here are my questions

Will you make the encyclopedia online and user friendly?
Will you make it moddable? (

you mean "offline" ?
I think it was ask at the modding summit but can not find anything about on the modding summit report. So I will add your question

Will you ever improve the ai upto a respectable level? (in future games)

they will say "yes" of course lol

Other than the so called free lc's what are you planning to do to earn back the communities support?

And thanks for the thread baptistus.

to be honest, I don't understand what you are waiting for. you means newsletters and this kind of stuffs ?

**brandbll** · May 23, 2014, 03:55 PM

Baptistus, it's nice that you think that these people at CA might be willing to have an open two-way communitcation; but the fact of the matter is they have shown the complete opposite. They want absolutely nothing to do with anything with us. The only time they come here is to promote a new product. You have a better chance of growing wings and flying then getting the people at CA to do an open Q&A with the community. I'm guessing a big part of the reason for this is simply they don't want to be honest with us. I mean, who is going to want to come in here and actually be honest and have to say something like this:

Guys, we really wanted to get the game released and wanted to make sure we met deadlines so we didn't get in trouble, so we released a game in it's beta stage. And as it turns out this game is in much worse shape than we originally thought, and it is still riddled with huge problems even after 12 patches. I mean, we aren't really working on a lot of these problems anymore just because, well, they can't be solved without creating a brand new game. We're glad that some of you think we are and still are holding out hope. I know you're pissed off, but reallly, i really hope you buy our new DLC with 4 new factions that you can actually just unlock on your own for free. But please, just buy the DLC. I'd say i'm glad to be back here but i'm really not. I was actually dreading even having to post this promotion, but i'm still willing to tell you the opposite because i really hope you buy this pointless DLC that you could unlock for free. And i really have faith that a lot of you will. P.T. Barnum once said "A sucker is born every minute." and i have found no truer words than these through my dealings with many people throughout the TW community.

Sincerely,

Imaginary Honest CA Employee

**Octavius Vatco** · May 27, 2014, 10:13 AM

When is the patching gonna stop?

**GoTW Kubee** · May 27, 2014, 10:18 AM

Originally Posted by Octavius Vatco

When is the patching gonna stop?

My guess would be that it'll slow down to one patch every 2/3 months until around the end of the year, then they might do one larger final patch and then stop.