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    Default New Prototype Total War Picture + Arena Info

    Here is a picture showing off a prototype for Total War: http://static.gamer.no/images/14/140...696x2448.f.jpg

    Here is the Norwegian article where it was included: http://www.gamer.no/artikler/140011/...r-pa-nettslag/

    According to Craig,
    Quote Originally Posted by CraigTW View Post
    It’s a prototype using the battle engine to show how splitting units might work.
    Also, Påsan translated some of the article, which includes some interesting details on how you can micromanage troops in Arena:

    Quote Originally Posted by Påsan View Post
    - 3 units each in 10 vs 10 battles.
    - Each player have a specific role, one will for example deal with archers and others with cavalry ect. The cooperation between the different players will be decisive. (This turned the whole concept around for me, you'll basically be an officer in charge of a part of an army, which sounds pretty awesom to me from a co-op perspective)
    - One example is that you can decide exactly when your archer-volleys are released.
    - There will be micro-transactions. CA hopes for a large player-base.
    - Units are not restricted to specific squares any more, one unit can wrap itself around another for example, and you can also control individual soldiers with precision.
    - Individual soldiers will now have health-bars.
    Last edited by GideonAI; April 04, 2013 at 02:01 PM.

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    Default Re: First Total War: Arena Screenshot!

    Pretty cool, hope they release new screens soon.

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    Default Re: First Total War: Arena Screenshot!

    well but waht has that to do in Rome II section?
    Post it in the General Forums till there is an TW:arena section

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    Default Re: First Total War: Arena Screenshot!

    Quote Originally Posted by stradar1 View Post
    Dude wheres our Rome 2 total war pics and updates **** this stupid arena bs.........
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    Quote Originally Posted by CraigTW View Post
    It’s a prototype using the battle engine to show how splitting units might work, not an Arena screenshot I’m afraid.

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    well but waht has that to do in Rome II section?
    Post it in the General Forums till there is an TW:arena section
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    Default Re: First Total War: Arena Screenshot!

    It’s a prototype using the battle engine to show how splitting units might work, not an Arena screenshot I’m afraid.

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    Default Re: First Total War: Arena Screenshot!

    Quote Originally Posted by CraigTW View Post
    "It’s a prototype using the battle engine to show how splitting units might work"
    Thats even better than a tw arena screenshot, unit split would be a very good addition to Rome II XD
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    Default Re: First Total War: Arena Screenshot!

    Quote Originally Posted by CraigTW View Post
    It’s a prototype using the battle engine to show how splitting units might work, not an Arena screenshot I’m afraid.
    wait do you mean we can split up say a unit of infantry and have two smaller units?

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    Default Re: First Total War: Arena Screenshot!

    Quote Originally Posted by CraigTW View Post
    It’s a prototype using the battle engine to show how splitting units might work, not an Arena screenshot I’m afraid.
    Wait, unit split in Rome 2? That's a huge improvement!

    Quote Originally Posted by CraigTW View Post
    It's a mechanic that's being investigated for Arena, but I wouldn't get too hung up on it. It's reaaaally early on in development.
    Quote Originally Posted by CraigTW View Post

    And yes, the "screenshot" isn't a screenshot at all. It's fully prototype in a development environment.


    Awwww.... Well, I hope you decide to speed up this feature and add this also to the game that really matters, Rome 2. Not to diminish your efforts in Arena, gonna play that game, but understand that it doesn't excite us as much.
    Last edited by Serkelet; April 04, 2013 at 06:48 AM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CraigTW View Post
    It’s a prototype using the battle engine to show how splitting units might work, not an Arena screenshot I’m afraid.
    Ah.

    I saw a thread about this on the official forums for Total War and Will had posted on it, but he didn't mention that. My apologies.

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    Quote Originally Posted by CraigTW View Post
    It’s a prototype using the battle engine to show how splitting units might work, not an Arena screenshot I’m afraid.
    You guys really should include such a feature in Rome 2. Obviously not at launch, but at a later point, introduce it in a patch.

    It's something I've been wanting for quite some time, being able to split a unit into two smaller units for smaller maneuvers.

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    Dude wheres our Rome 2 total war pics and updates **** this stupid arena bs.........
    Total War is the only massive war game that has yet to be Surpassed keep up the good work CA don't let us down!!!!

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    It looks more like a TW:R2 Screenshot. See the trees and shadows? Matches to the ones in Battle of Tuetoberg Forest Trailer. I know they may be using the same game engine, but chances are that it is from the Alpha-stage TW:R2 development. Well, let's see. For me Arena will be a dream come true. A Multiplayer TW game.
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    Prototype. Even if they are really interested in it, it may still be aborted, or they are not even commited to it and do it just to check how such a mechanic might work.

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    Default Re: First Total War: Arena Screenshot!

    It's a mechanic that's being investigated for Arena, but I wouldn't get too hung up on it. It's reaaaally early on in development.

    And yes, the "screenshot" isn't a screenshot at all. It's fully prototype in a development environment.

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    Default Re: First Total War: Arena Screenshot!

    Quote Originally Posted by CraigTW View Post
    It's reaaaally early on in development.
    You know man, it is almost a year since you guys announced R2. When are you gonna stop being in early stage?? Like, at least, get to middle stage or something. You are working for so long and you are still in early stage, that means that you wont have time to properly beta test it and with those ton of new features you really need to do a lot of beta testing and if you don't do something soon, aren't you afraid that a bugged Empire episode might come again?
    I mean, honestly, you are scary with constantly saying the game is in early stage after so long.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Petroniu View Post
    You know man, it is almost a year since you guys announced R2. When are you gonna stop being in early stage?? Like, at least, get to middle stage or something. You are working for so long and you are still in early stage, that means that you wont have time to properly beta test it and with those ton of new features you really need to do a lot of beta testing and if you don't do something soon, aren't you afraid that a bugged Empire episode might come again?
    I mean, honestly, you are scary with constantly saying the game is in early stage after so long.
    I could agree on that...

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    Default Re: First Total War: Arena Screenshot!

    Quote Originally Posted by Petroniu View Post
    You know man, it is almost a year since you guys announced R2. When are you gonna stop being in early stage?? Like, at least, get to middle stage or something. You are working for so long and you are still in early stage, that means that you wont have time to properly beta test it and with those ton of new features you really need to do a lot of beta testing and if you don't do something soon, aren't you afraid that a bugged Empire episode might come again?
    I mean, honestly, you are scary with constantly saying the game is in early stage after so long.
    While I will agree that R2 should've been moved to Alpha or Beta by now, I think Craig was talking about Arena when he said that.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Petroniu View Post
    You know man, it is almost a year since you guys announced R2. When are you gonna stop being in early stage?? Like, at least, get to middle stage or something. You are working for so long and you are still in early stage, that means that you wont have time to properly beta test it and with those ton of new features you really need to do a lot of beta testing and if you don't do something soon, aren't you afraid that a bugged Empire episode might come again?
    I mean, honestly, you are scary with constantly saying the game is in early stage after so long.

    I think you've missed his point, as most people seem to do when Developers post here. This particular 'feature' or 'mechanic', being able to split units, is in early development. This has nothing to do with Rome II itself. Developers do it all the time. Next to developing their main game, they also test seperate features which could be used for related games in the future.

    This feature will probably never make it into Rome II, as it's just a test in an early stage. People really need to understand the difference between the early stage of a prototype and the early alpha stage of an entire video game.

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    Not fully understood one point of that game...

    Will it allow crosstime units to meet? I mean whats the point in having crusader knights fight versus roman legionaries?
    Or perhaps I understood it wrong and there will be age classifications?

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