Blood pack all but revealed??

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

Looking at the new screenshots, I think we can safely say that a blood pack will be released for Rome 2.
Those black smudges on the shields are clearly blood, but blood isn't black (and don't say it's dried blood), so I reckon they're blood textures which - like in M2TW - will appear after a soldier has been in combat. With the blood texture pack, CA will make this black smudge into red, and perhaps more gore will accompany it elsewhere too.

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[SamueleD]

I'd like it, but without an official announcement it's just idle speculation.

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

of course, but it's pretty damn likely, would you not admit? why else would they show us finished copies of soldiers with unfinished textures of blood on their shields?

[SamueleD]

of course, but it's pretty damn likely, would you not admit? why else would they show us finished copies of soldiers with unfinished textures of blood on their shields?

Yes, I have to agree, those can't be scratches.

[Prof]

Yes, I have to agree, those can't be scratches.

And I highly doubt, every single soldier would stain his shield with black paint...

[Lockcaps]

It could just be dirt.

[SamueleD]

It could just be dirt.

Yeah, I don't like their shields, they are too pretty, let's throw mud on them!

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

It could just be dirt.

No. No it couldn't.
I mean hey. it could be. but then it could also be ice cream.

[Emperor Domitianus]

I agree. I hope for a next proper annucment about blood and gore.

[Prof]

I agree. I hope for a next proper annucment about blood and gore.

It'll most probably be "there will be a blood pack, but we couldn't show the features, because the previews can be seen by Germans, which won't get the bloodpack." -_-

[SamueleD]

It'll most probably be "there will be a blood pack, but we couldn't show the features, because the previews can be seen by Germans, which won't get the bloodpack." -_-

Yeah, and because of the German censorship other german speaking countries didn't get the blood pack (like me, in Switzerland, and I don't even speak german). I hope I'll find someone on twc that will gift it to me or trade it on steam... that's what I had to do with S2 anyway.

[Prof]

Yeah, and because of the German censorship other german speaking countries didn't get the blood pack (like me, in Switzerland, and I don't even speak german). I hope I'll find someone on twc that will gift it to me or trade it on steam... that's what I had to do with S2 anyway.

Yep, I had to do that, too. They could just put an age restriction on that DLC or something...or just let us have it...everyone with half a brain can get it if he wants it.

[SamueleD]

They could just put an age restriction on that DLC or something...or just let us have it...everyone with half a brain can get it if he wants it.

Actually there IS age restriction on the DLC, but for some absurd reason Germany decided that her adult citizens (and the ones from other german speaking states) were not adult enough.

[Emperor Domitianus]

This german censorship is really ridiculos.

[Prof]

It could just be unfinished blood textures though...without any censorship-related background. ^^

[eregost]

Video game censorship is ridiculous. Books or movies never have to go through these hurdles.

[SamueleD]

Video game censorship is ridiculous. Books or movies never have to go through these hurdles.

All censorship is riciculous, my sarcastic forum companion, I'm ok with age restriction, but let adult people choose by themselvs.

[Prof]

Video game censorship is ridiculous. Books or movies never have to go through these hurdles.

Have you ever seen movies from the 80s or 90s in German...there are some movies, which make it very hard to follow the plot, because of the missing scenes...

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

What is ridiculous is that that porn-related game can't get released through steam because it has "adult content". Here in Australia, the first R18+ game to be released was Dead Island at the end of 2011, and they think that some nudity is too harmful, where extreme (and I do mean extreme) violence is fine.

[Rijul.J.Ballal]

I would love it if it was blood...