Rome 2 Hallowen update

[Linke]

Ok so we just got an update wich apperantly gives you an option to make battles spokier.



http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...al-War-ROME-II!
Well this was unexpected.

[Fanest]

just tried this new nightmare option..... what a waste of time and resources

[IGdood]

Next thing you know we'll have Barbarian Zombies like Call of Duty.

No wonder my jock friends love this game and hate the rest of the series, they say it plays like Call of Duty.

[WarriorPrince]

I am in complete disbelief...

[Linke]

Unfortunaly this migth be how ca is going to support Rome 2,
Luckily though this cant have taken much effort and in the case of another patch it shouldnt have diverted much attention from it.

[=Vastator=]

The funny part is that no CA representative came here to post this official news (like they did for every thing in the past).
Because they already knew it was crap and they would have been criticized by many fronts.

[Arbitrary Crusader]

God forbid they make a small thing for Halloween.

[texoman81]

CA continues to sink to new lows. If someone had predicted this before it was made official, no one would have believed it because it is simply ridiculous. Is the next patch going to add Santa for christmas?

[Pdguru]

Is it April Fool's or Halloween? Or both?

[jimlawl]

Most of the Roman auxiliaries in the Imperator Augustus campaign are bugged, African factions don't even have proper cultural buildings/temples, etc. and they release this? They gotta set their priorities right...

[Shaggy1973]

It must have taken them all of a few days to knock up... looks like a bit of fun.

[Karnil Vark Khaitan]

It must have taken them all of a few days to knock up... looks like a bit of fun.

I wonder If I can use the Harpie model and make it into a unit? that would be kind of fun :3

[texoman81]

in a couple days Halloween will have pass and this will be even more pointless. Not liking gimmicky updates that have nothing to do with the subject of the game does not mean we are out of touch with reality or that we need to be on our computers less. A new festival was plenty to include for the halloween holiday, the rest should have been to actually improve the game. I don't see how having harpies flying overhead is fun. Its just stupid no reason for it and it adds nothing to the game. This series used to be a simulation of historical warfare. There are plenty of fantasy games out there for those who want that.

[King_Azzole]

I have been having a blast playing with the new patch. Haven't played in a long time and now the game is pretty solid. Patch testers did a great job, and I am now pleased with Rome 2. If they want to spend some time making a fun patch like a Halloween event, that's fine with me.

[Anna_Gein]

My God. Now we even get the Halloween events. Even locals supermarket ceased with theses idiotic things that have nothing to do with their business.
Come one ! This is ok for flash game and phone game you play 5 minutes between two occupations but not for a time and resource consuming game. CA doesn't take its franchise seriously anymore.

The funny part is that no CA representative came here to post this official news (like they did for every thing in the past).
Because they already knew it was crap and they would have been criticized by many fronts.

It has been a time now that CA hardly post anything here. Even patch are not anymore directly communicated to us.

[EinScrub]

It must have taken them all of a few days to knock up... looks like a bit of fun.

Normally I'd agree- I don't mind light-hearted fun, but some other fixes would also have been possible with the same amount of effort (I'm not talking about major ones), and yet we're still waiting for those after over a year.

[Arbitrary Crusader]

in a couple days Halloween will have pass and this will be even more pointless. Not liking gimmicky updates that have nothing to do with the subject of the game does not mean we are out of touch with reality or that we need to be on our computers less. A new festival was plenty to include for the halloween holiday, the rest should have been to actually improve the game. I don't see how having harpies flying overhead is fun. Its just stupid no reason for it and it adds nothing to the game. This series used to be a simulation of historical warfare. There are plenty of fantasy games out there for those who want that.

It still is. It just a little update for a holiday. Just because you find it stupid, doesn't mean there's no reason for it.

[ToonTotalWar]

What a total waste of time and if I was CA's employers heads would be rolling and many staff would now be exiting the company!!!
Work on fixes to the necessary problems in the game instead of producing this crap that no one is interested in!

Christ sake wake up and smell the coffee instead of messing around with investors money on crap updates.

[atheniandp]

I actually like this update. The new lighting effects will be good for modders. I remember the End of Days mods for RTW used similar lighting effects for its apocalyptic world. I imagine that some of these effects are deviated from Atilla, so it's not like a superfluous amount of resources were wasted in its production by CA.

I would still like to see Family trees and a UI overhaul be patched in Rome II. Emperor Edition was definitely a step in the right direction.

[Maximinus Thrax]

Several off-topic have been removed. Gents, please keep it civil and on-topic, otherwise I'm forced to close this thread. Thanks!