Shrod's Total War: Rome II, and the Community Creations tab.

**Mr. Bundy** · July 09, 2012, 05:28 PM

Shortly: A tablet for the main menu; adding modifications in-game.

foreword:
Firstly I want to thank The Creative Assembly for making the next total war game on Rome. Rome: Total War was a evolution in the total war and gaming experience. It thought us a lot of history, and created a lot of fun and stress for us. Now after 8 years we hear that it get's a sequel and therefore, I think almost every one will thank you CA. Now this thread is intended to bring forward my opinion to you TWC people, I do not intend to offend someone in any way, or any kind. I know this could be done in the 'features you want to see thread' but this peace of text would be a waste in only some people would read it, however I think I will somehow lose this argument. I wish you a lot of fun reading my article of how I view is of a perfect Rome total war, and some things they really should add (not only features in-game).

To start this of, I am not a modder, or computer expert. I play video games because I find it fun to do so. So technical talk is not spent on me. I will try to categorize this a bit as it will come in handy I think.

The 'Community Creations' tab.
As we all know, the understanding between CA and the modders in our community is not where it should be. And not only on the TWC forum there are modders, even not all of them are on the internet publicicing their work to others. And I think that are a lot of people. So it's such a shame that both sides are not working together as it should be. We should combine the two to have the 'perfect' Rome II for every one. But every one is different, and so is their taste, which means to CA to balance the game out to everyone's taste a bit. Such a shame if things could be done differently if you would like for example; Human eating space gnomes. But with this feature every problem that I just told could be solved. Let me explain it to you:

The 'Community Creations' tab is a in-game tablet shown in the main menu like this:

Total War: Rome II

New Campaign
Continue Campaign
Custom Battle
Multiplayer
Community Creations
Options
Leave

It basically is a showroom where modders could publicize their 'wonderful creations', and where Ca and Community created tools are available. And because it are mods, it is not influencing the age restrictions of the core game. But you could add a age restriction for some mods just like this one, on what I will tell you next now.

The reality and glory of the battlefield.
I, for example, would love to see the reality of the blooded battle's that were fought. This is how I think a battle should look like to me:

The terrain, light and other scene subjects have a movie like theme, the sun is at its highest and almost no clouds. When the battle begins arrows start to fly over to both sides, and you hear the centurion giving a lot of commands and advices (without giving orders(like 'come on men!' or 'we will make it through this' or 'hold your line!'). When the infantry marches some become victim of the arrow rain, dropping slowly or fast, and when that happens some soldiers next to them react to that, maybe stop for a moment and try to help the dying man, but without any hope. And when the fighting starts, screams of death and terror, some soldiers already fleeing and a lot of blood and sticking arrows. and when they flee they could be hurt and struggle to even move, or they don't have their left arm for example anymore to make moving not easy and a painful hell.

But seems unlikely that CA would add this to the game, so it can be done by doing it as a mod (maybe helped by some CA crew?). You just open the CC (community creations) tab, and just click download to favorites and activate. Simply done without the worries of CA on the age, and it surely add a nice feature I think so.

Those are the main features that I just found that just needed the main attention, some other's:

Originally Posted by Mjolnr839
small detail, but a big one for me, range units be able to fire in any direction again. no big red box in front of them like in Shogun. i want them to be able to fire in any direction without me having to repostion them every time. it makes sense for formations of musket men in Empire, and Fall of the Samurai, not for archers.

Originally Posted by Shaggy1973
many people now have multiple core cpu's, but TW still runs off just one.

Originally Posted by Coleus
I liked the different start points in M2TW. Ideally, there will be two or three in R2TW

These are all features that could be done with the brand new CC tab. A community combined with the crew of CA, just friggin PERFECT!

I thank you for your time, and please this is not meant as a features topic, this is meant for discussion of the use and possibility of my CC tab.