Playing EB iwth ALX engine = wtf camera

[Dark Lord's Heir]

Playing EB with the ALX engine is so annoying when it comes to the battles, though everything else is fine. When I go into a real time battle and attempt to double click on units to move my camera over to their position just like regular EB on the RTW engine, it wigs out and doesn't move over to the unit. It moves slightly but then goes back to the view it was in. This annoys me greatly as its like fighting with 1 eye blinded. I have to manually use my cursor or double click spaces to move my camera over there at a slower rate. Is there anyway to fix this bug/glitch?

[smoesville]

that happened to me on the rtw.exe, if you move the mouse it stops where the mouse was moved. I can't really help you though, when i changed to ALEX.

[Boriak]

If you double click on the area of the map, sometimes it goes fast as well. But double-clicking a unit will go slowly. I just push 'Pause' and let the camera roll. I take those few moments to lower my pulse if need be.

[Grimmy]

I also play using the Alex engine and the camera works for me just like it did in RTW.exe. I don't notice any difference.

[johnhughthom]

I also play using the Alex engine and the camera works for me just like it did in RTW.exe. I don't notice any difference.

No difference for me either.

[Ferdiad]

Your wrong, THERE is a documened difference with the camera,If you move your mouse when you double click a unit it will stop moving.

[Grimmy]

Your wrong, THERE is a documened difference with the camera,If you move your mouse when you double click a unit it will stop moving.

Huh. Never noticed that. Might be, because as a general rule, I'm too lazy to be wiggling the mouse when I don't need to?

[Ferdiad]

If you "wiggle" your mouse in Vanilla or BI the camera moves there instanly.Dosn't happen with ALX

[Grimmy]

If you "wiggle" your mouse in Vanilla or BI the camera moves there instanly.Dosn't happen with ALX

Heh. Been playing both RTW and BI since the day of release and I never knew that about the camera.

I wonder if I have a pay attention to details disorder? PAtDD. I wonder if I can get credit for invention... or discovery or whatever it's called when new dysfunctions get named.

[Ferdiad]

My advice is to play MOAR!!RAWR!Did you know that you can use these buttons "[" and "]" to switch through cities and characters quickly.It's very helpful for large Empires like mine.

[mamik_yev_konak]

Rome (and possibly its first expansion, BI) allow you to skip the camera pans initiated by double-clicking on a section of the battle map by pressing any arrow key on the keyboard. The second expansion, Alexander, was not programmed this way, so pressing any arrow key during a camera pan will halt the pan altogether as opposed to skipping to the end-point.

All three games have a similar but separate problem. Pressing the DEL key while a unit is selected will follow that unit throughout the battle map. Pressing the DEL key again should ideally halt the follow order, but what it does in Rome and its expansions is not only does it halt the follow order, it reverts the camera position to where you started the follow order. So if you tell Rome to stop following a unit that has just marched a kilometer, you will have to re-position your camera to see the unit again.

[Rahwana]

check the camera configuration you use, RTW and BI is set to use FPS camera as default, but ALEX use Total War style camera.

[AndariusHaliusScipio]

Playing EB with the ALX engine is so annoying when it comes to the battles, though everything else is fine. When I go into a real time battle and attempt to double click on units to move my camera over to their position just like regular EB on the RTW engine, it wigs out and doesn't move over to the unit. It moves slightly but then goes back to the view it was in. This annoys me greatly as its like fighting with 1 eye blinded. I have to manually use my cursor or double click spaces to move my camera over there at a slower rate. Is there anyway to fix this bug/glitch?

This is the single, greatest, only reason I do not use EB with ALX and keep it with BI

[jirisys]

This is the single, greatest, only reason I do not use EB with ALX and keep it with BI

That's a stupid reason, It's far more stable and you can add around 250 more units to the game. Now shut up!

~Jirisys (You tool )

[Wulfburk]

That's a stupid reason, It's far more stable and you can add around 250 more units to the game. Now shut up!

agree

[Ferdiad]

Also the AI is way better and It retrains.

[IGdood]

So....any solution?

[atheniandp]

So....any solution?

It's probably hardcoded. We could petition CA to release a quick fix...