The new features of M2TW

[bestantreas]

Those are taken from the .com.

Features Include:

Real-Time Battles On a Massive Scale

Epic Battles with Enhanced Unit Detail




Thunderous battles on a huge scale with thousands of units on screen. Armies are now made up of meticulously detailed troops built with unique heads, body, weapons and armour with unique animations and poses that gives each individual unit character and depth. Troops and cavalry are decorated with all the heraldic finery and colour of medieval warfare that’s gradually muddied and bloodstained through the course of battle.

New Unit Abilities
A legion of more than 250 new and unique units split over 21 factions, each with their own new special abilities that open up a wealth of intuitive battlefield tactics.

Advanced Combat System
Zoom to the frontline and witness the fast, visceral melee combat enhanced by new spectacular battlefield animations. Troops block and parry attack moves and string together deadly combo attacks and finishing moves before scanning the battlefield for their next kill.

New Explosive Sieges
Embark on spectacular siege battles as huge armies and fearsome siege machines rumble into action. Devastating cannon, pummel imposing defences of fully destructible cities and castles before setting them aflame under the night sky.

Advanced Lighting and Richer Environments
A newly enhanced graphics engine brings the battlefield environment to life like never before. The stunningly realistic landscapes feature detailed vegetation with sprawling settlements. Newly detailed dynamic weather effects beat down on new terrain types illuminated by enhanced lighting that captures every glint and spark as arms and armour clash under a gleaming sun.

Enhanced Multiplayer Battles
New multiplayer battle modes will ease the player’s passage to the battlefield and keep the online conflict raging.

A New All-Conquering Campaign

History in the Making
A huge campaign spanning from the years 1080-1530, that will take the player beyond the first Crusade up until the dawn of the renaissance. An extended campaign map will allow passage to South and Central America bringing the player into battle with the Aztecs.

New Settlement Types
Build through six levels of settlement ranging from humble villages to vast cities and wooden forts to mighty stone fortress. Develop your faction as a feudal aristocracy using you castles to keep the peasants in check whilst conquering your enemies with your powerful armies. Or build cities to develop a wealthy urban society, and battle your foes with diplomacy, bribery, assassination and armies of mercenaries.





A Supporting Cast
Put an array of ancillary characters to work and smooth your path to global domination. Boost your coffers with Merchants. Grease the cogs of diplomacy with Princesses and manage your faction’s path to religious enlightenment with Priests. Charge assassins to wipe out enemy generals and witness their cold-hearted killing first-hand with assassination movie sequences.

Embrace Religion
Will you obey the demands of the Papal States, catering to the whims of the Pope? Or shun his requests and risk facing his fearsome Inquisitors or even excommunication? Make a stand against him and you can infiltrate papal affairs by rigging elections.

Global Crusades
Win favour with the Pope and round up your armies for global crusades at his request. Players can even prompt the Pope to commission crusades as Catholicism wages a spiritual battle against the Muslim, Orthodox and Pagan religions.

As we can see they improve the graphics a lot. Many will be happy about that, but some PC might be unable to play it(that's me ).
But I can't see any informations if there's going to be naval battles, blood and the ability to mount and dismount units before, or even better during the battle.
Who know they may add them to a patch for it.
By the way, will it have the same expansion as MTW? Viking Invasion?

[God of Thunder]

Originally Posted by bestantreas

By the way, will it have the same expansion as MTW? Viking Invasion?

Hopefully yes

[the celt]

Originally Posted by God of Thunder

Hopefully yes

That would be redundent. I hope they do somthing unique like "Conquests of the new world/Spanish invasion" expak with the Incas, Mayas, Aztec, Carribs ect. Or they could go more east and do "Mongolian conquests" or somthing. I sure as heck would'int want the exact same expak as for MTW1.

[Fuji]

New combat system would be cool ( RTW's is pretty awesome to but...) and new abilities, in 1 of the screens there was a sort of phalanx like formation ??

[therussian]

Originally Posted by bestantreas

By the way, will it have the same expansion as MTW? Viking Invasion?

I doubt it. I think they would do a REnnesance expansion. Hell, they went further in time for RTW, why not MTW2? Especially since it ends in 1500 and not 1453 like MTW

[Fuji]

About expansion : don't really care a lot spanish conq would be my favourite but i'd buy viking to...

[Albo g]

I doubt it will have same VI expansion, the expansion will propably be new and maybe set araund the new world conquest.

hey finally reached 100 posts didnt notice that

[The True Roman]

Originally Posted by bestantreas

Those are taken from the .com.



As we can see they improve the graphics a lot. Many will be happy about that, but some PC might be unable to play it(that's me ).
But I can't see any informations if there's going to be naval battles, blood and the ability to mount and dismount units before, or even better during the battle.
Who know they may add them to a patch for it.
By the way, will it have the same expansion as MTW? Viking Invasion?

well we no theres blood. But i dout they will add naval combat. They will waite untill they get father into the Gun age. Thats when Naval battles started to get interesting.

[bestantreas]

-therussion-Yes, that could be nice too, but it would be better if they made the qunquest of the America(I mean whole America, not just the central America. The times of the French-Brittons war for USA, Canada... When the Europians terminate the Indian tribes)
-Fujii-The will use an improved vesion of the RTW's engine with more than 100 new animations, that's what I read in IGN's interview

[killerxguy]

Hey..what about easterns/arabs will CA atleast put a little work on them or just plain-old europe .. hmm and will they add unique music for each culture in battle/campaign maps like in M:TW??
Anyways, i just want to tell CA how great their work is..they are finally using all their skill not just 50%of their skill like in RTW/BI.

[Savage_Swede]

Yes i think there is a high probability that it would be about the spanish invasion of america.
And i do know that the Spanish didnt "invade" america, so dont come and correct me anyone...

Medieval Total War II:
Spanish Invasion

[the celt]

Originally Posted by killerxguy

Hey..what about easterns/arabs will CA atleast put a little work on them or just plain-old europe .. hmm and will they add unique music for each culture in battle/campaign maps like in M:TW??
Anyways, i just want to tell CA how great their work is..they are finally using all their skill not just 50%of their skill like in RTW/BI.

Like i said above they might do a mongol invasion starting with Genghis Khan in Asia all the way to the divided Khantes. That is right smack dab in there timeline anyway so it would still be Medieval. But i wouldint frown on a new world conquests expak either. Maybe we will get lucky and they'll do two expaks like they did with Shogun!

[therussian]

Originally Posted by killerxguy

Hey..what about easterns/arabs will CA atleast put a little work on them or just plain-old europe .. hmm and will they add unique music for each culture in battle/campaign maps like in M:TW??
Anyways, i just want to tell CA how great their work is..they are finally using all their skill not just 50%of their skill like in RTW/BI.

I feel the same way with Eastern Europe. I was disgusted how they lumped Novgorod and Kiev into one "Russian" faction.

[Shaun]

I wood love to have Keiv and Novgorod as 2 seperate factions, but there are not enough faction slots. Perhaps if we get rid of the Aztecs then maybe, but there will be hardcoded limits in MTW2.

[guyyug]

i have some screenshots i can put up later on once i have resized them, it shows the graphics and animation brillantly

[LuiSius_ScutaRuS]

i wonder how fast and powerfull my pc will have to be so i could play MTW-II

there is now information about system requirements right?

[TheNavigator]

i'm worried a little because nowhere on the features does it mention improved diplomacy AI, or battlefield AI. new animations and such look great, but i can only hope they lean more towards the first M:TW's battlefield AI as opposed to R:TW's.

[guyyug]

here they are
A English (they rock) axemen hacks at someone French I think?


a turkish general


enjoy

Just needed to add tested the hyperlink for the second one and for some reason it didnt upload properly

[Cayo_Julio_Cesar]

Originally Posted by Savage_Swede

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And i do know that the Spanish didnt "invade" america
Spanish Invasion

Of Corse not , they didn't "invade" america,they just came,betrayed the Aztec Emperor and the Sapa-Inca, killing them and taking all of their gold and silver to the glorius Spain.

And tried to "not invade" again Peru and Mexico in the XIX century with a "Cientific Expedition" that for "Security" had 90% of their ships as warships.

[Valus]

Guys there is already a topic on this HERE ...
Please browse through the forum before creating new threads, we are all just as excited as you are but still we need to maintain some order...