M2tw on wikipedia

[Sponge]

I found a whole lot of new info while looking at m2tw in wikpedia you should take a look at it

it also tells you most , if not all the factions

here

[PROMETHEUS ts]

I read a very disappointing new .....

Turn System

Although details on the new turn system are sketchy at best, developers have confirmed that Medieval 2 will no longer use seasons or years as its means of keeping track of time. Rather a system of "turns" will be devised, with each turn representing a certain, perhaps undefined, amount of time. For example, the game will not begin in the year 1080 and end in 1520, but instead will begin on turn 1 and end on turn 225, although players can keep playing past that point if they so wish. Reasons for this are unclear. It has been postulated that because the European encounter with the Aztecs fell so close to the ending date of the game, the developers felt that the turn system needed to be changed to allow players to visit the New World much earlier. Others say that the new system will allow the player to have a greater influence over certain events (the appearance of certain factions, the development of gunpowder or the outbreak of the Black Death). Whatever the motive may have been, the decison to abandon the old system was met with protest from many hardcore fans who saw it as a rejection of the historical tradition of the Total War games and part of a shift towards more "clickfest" type strategy games.

and 22 factions in all....

[Lusted]

The number of factions is unknown, as Ca did release the list of 21 factions soon after M2Tw was announced, but then they said they might increase it to 30, and some findings in articles seem to point ot the fact they ar eincluding a few new factions.

[Cyrus the Virus]

Hmm they maybe increase the hardcoded limit to 30, thats what I have read on fans request. Not 30 faction itself in the game.
30 factions would be a big suprise to me..

[Sitarus Originalus PM-30+]

i have already read about it weeks ago =) thanks anyway
wikipedia is really good place to get info =) :hmmm: :original:

[The Thracian]

That Turn System has really got to be modded when the game comes out. It sounds awful

[0ldboy]

It doesn't worry me too much, it will all make sense in the end... *crosses fingers*

[Kanfoosh]

Im actually happy that they changed the turn system, now i can use 500 turns and not even think about the fact that im stll using cavalry at the year 2000.

[Lord Tomyris]

Bah, kills the immersion for me. When I first started playing MTW, I made myself a timeline of my campaign game, was great fun!

[Fuji]

I wonder, how will they trigger events (like in MTW1 where they did it by dates, like gunpowder) they cant use turn numbers for that, right ?

[Aule the Smith]

Of course they can, I think people are confused about the turn system which is why they seem to resent it when, to me, it doesn't seem that bad.

Each turn does correspond to a year (and a season) however there may be 3 years between turn 4 and 5 but only one between turn 100 and 101.

[Miraj]

Have you guys seen the latest trailer for M2TW? The narrator mentions that M2TW is a strategy game that spans from year 1080 to year 1530. So I think the year system is still there.

[Obershutze]

Have you guys seen the latest trailer for M2TW? The narrator mentions that M2TW is a strategy game that spans from year 1080 to year 1530. So I think the year system is still there.

Yes, the game does span between those years, but it turns are now an undifined amout of time; not necessarly years or seasons. I don't think its a bad thing in itself, its just needs to be implemented well. I might not even see a difference.

[ergion]

He traducido el texto completo al castellano.

I have translated the text to the Castilian


Aquí

[Atterdag]

On this picture



The unit under the cursor is named dismounted Frankish knights.

Does this mean that the ''dismount before battle'' system has been reintroduced?

[PacSubCom]

Looks like it wil not be continuous from 1080 to 1530, but divided into different eras.

[Carach]

i still think this new world thing is stupid - medieval with the aztecs..

stupid stupid stupid.

[DougyM]

Unless theres 139 of those horses (wich there isnt) then the unit cursor is merely overlapping the unit info "box" that isnt presently on the screen.


Sorta like... if you move the camera so that your men arent in the screen but if you move the cursor close enough to the edge then you can get that unit summary....

its just that the summary box is wider than the unit....

[Atterdag]

You have linked the screnshot I had made in my forum, really?

Yeah I did