about next patch

[RomaJilo]

Hi!

I red somewhere that a new patch is eminent this week, and it would adress the ai issues...my question is..do you gyus think that it will be save-game compatibe?

[Remo]

Hi!

I red somewhere that a new patch is eminent this week, and it would adress the ai issues...my question is..do you gyus think that it will be save-game compatibe?

Should be.

[Tobobu]

Since they're distributing patchs via Steam they simply have to make them save-game compatible. Otherwise CA would create a big mess.

What they can afford to do is that your old campaign won't be patch improved. But I don't really think they'd choose this path.

[Curtis13]

I would hope for many people's sakes it would be save game compatible, for to be honest, for me, I haven't even bothered to play a campaign yet. When there are such serious bugs as no naval invasions and super passive AI (debatably), why would I bother playing my preferred factions such as Britian, when I know that I can go on a rampage across Europe without the slightest garrison in England for protection?

I'm waiting for some more fixes before even beginning a campaign.

[Ryo]

I would hope for many people's sakes it would be save game compatible, for to be honest, for me, I haven't even bothered to play a campaign yet. When there are such serious bugs as no naval invasions and super passive AI (debatably), why would I bother playing my preferred factions such as Britian, when I know that I can go on a rampage across Europe without the slightest garrison in England for protection?

I'm waiting for some more fixes before even beginning a campaign.

unfortunatly.....agree!!!!

[Björneborgs regemente]

Those issues would be fixed next week if CA would give the moddiing tools they promised, send emails and post to their forums that modders need them.

[ginge51]

I would hope for many people's sakes it would be save game compatible, for to be honest, for me, I haven't even bothered to play a campaign yet. When there are such serious bugs as no naval invasions and super passive AI (debatably), why would I bother playing my preferred factions such as Britian, when I know that I can go on a rampage across Europe without the slightest garrison in England for protection?

I'm waiting for some more fixes before even beginning a campaign.

Well said, totally agreed.

[Drox]

I personally could care less if I lost my save game data as long as it meant the AI invasion bug was fixed. I honestly feel that the game will be 10x more enjoyable once the invasion bug is fixed. In its current state many of the most powerful empires are not even a threat because you know for a fact that they will not attack. I can't wait to see the major AI controlled factions like Briton and Spain become dominant in my campaigns.

[tauris]

The game is running fine for 98% of people, but 100% of people are pissed of at the AI naval invasions bug, its seriously the biggest problem.

Priority should be with the 100% who're all experiencing a pointless game than the 2% with old computers who are pissed they need to wait a few minutes for the turns or get crashes.

[kelvintyk]

The game is running fine for 98% of people, but 100% of people are pissed of at the AI naval invasions bug, its seriously the biggest problem.

Priority should be with the 100% who're all experiencing a pointless game than the 2% with old computers who are pissed they need to wait a few minutes for the turns or get crashes.

98% are running fine? Ya gotta be kidding me, there's tons of people out there suffering CTDs on the campaign map which makes the campaigns unplayable and I'm no exception.

[AngryPolack]

Priority should be with the 100% who're all experiencing a pointless game than the 2% with old computers who are pissed they need to wait a few minutes for the turns or get crashes.[/quote]

Agreed. What good is a boring, no-challenge game that doesn't crash?

[Drox]

The game is running fine for 98% of people, but 100% of people are pissed of at the AI naval invasions bug, its seriously the biggest problem.

Priority should be with the 100% who're all experiencing a pointless game than the 2% with old computers who are pissed they need to wait a few minutes for the turns or get crashes.

I agree with you 100%, I wasn't saying that compatibility issues should be top priority, I was just say I could understand their frustration. I personally just built a new computer so I have no problems. Although I am a bit frustrated with the fact that the game has some significant memory leak issues preventing me from being able to run the game at the settings I should be able to.

[Darklife]

The game is running fine for 98% of people, but 100% of people are pissed of at the AI naval invasions bug, its seriously the biggest problem.

Priority should be with the 100% who're all experiencing a pointless game than the 2% with old computers who are pissed they need to wait a few minutes for the turns or get crashes.

I beg to differ. Firstly pulling statistics out of your ass doesn't make them any more credible and secondly the people that are experiencing issues do not neccessarily have old computers. I for example have an E8400, 4 gigs of RAM and a GTX 280, yet I still get a regular crash while playing as Sweden and the campaign map runs horribly.

I'd love to learn what your PCs specs are though.

[LeoZ]

The game is running fine for 98% of people, but 100% of people are pissed of at the AI naval invasions bug, its seriously the biggest problem.

Priority should be with the 100% who're all experiencing a pointless game than the 2% with old computers who are pissed they need to wait a few minutes for the turns or get crashes.

Where did you find those statistics? In my opinion, I believe 98% of the people IS NOT having a good time with ETW because of its numerous bugs.

[♔Icebear77♔]

At the moment, campaigns are verry borring. Playes with Dutsch-Nation und i have conquert with a very small army (8 units) all provinces round caribic. Its just a sunday-afternoon-walk with kiddies :-) There was no damn army from the spains... where are the spanish-armies? Are they eating some tappas and drinking sangria?? maybe my army can join them to have a party... but its very borring...

[AlfonsoVIII]

I would say it would be save game compatible, but some fixes might have you start a new campaign to see them, like changes in the units/ships at the start of a campaign.

[Sol Invictus]

Don't expect much or any AI fixes in this weeks patch. This patch will almost exclusively focus on stability. It will be a few weeks before we see a major AI fix I am guessing.

[hugorune]

Don't expect much or any AI fixes in this weeks patch. This patch will almost exclusively focus on stability. It will be a few weeks before we see a major AI fix I am guessing.

Have they acknowledged the major bug re naval invasions (and related AI behaviour, or lack thereof)? I heard they have, but I haven't actually seen a link for it.

[Sol Invictus]

Have they acknowledged the major bug re naval invasions (and related AI behaviour, or lack thereof)? I heard they have, but I haven't actually seen a link for it.

I don't have the link, but they are definately aware of the problem. It would be great if this were fixed in this weeks patch, but I think the odds are very slim.

[YoungGrognard]

Have they acknowledged the major bug re naval invasions (and related AI behaviour, or lack thereof)? I heard they have, but I haven't actually seen a link for it.

Here's the link:

http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic...Tells-all.html

Here's the quote:

Granville69 wrote:
Please have faith in us. The campaign AI team are fixing invasions and other issues. The battle team is fixing fort pathfinding and naval avoidance and boarding etc. The sound team are fixing sound issues and the graphics team are fixing display issues. We've fixed the video problems. We do have a presence on these boards contrary to what has been said. I have posted a number of times.
This isn't the Medieval II team, this is the Empire team and we'll deliver patches via steam quicker than for any previous total war game. Yes we recognise steam has created it's fair share of problems for some people but one great advantage of steam is we can get fixes to you much quicker.
I can't give you a list of every fix that's been done, because I don't have a definitive list, that is forthcoming.


Ironically, the people on that forum by and large don't seem to be aware of the naval invasion bug, whereas everybody on this forum seems to know about it.