I'm a bit bamboozled at the lack of a campaign map showing

[SKSlave]

Is anyone else? I'm as excited as the next guy for this game. My favourite part is the campaign map though, and it strikes me as odd that CA have shown us literally nothing of this particular segment of the game, despite it making up well over half of the average person's play time. Are they saving the best till last? Or do they have something to hide?

[caissus]

I had hoped that this 'info dump' would have included some footage, screens or features.

[Rex Armeniae]

You are bamboozled?

Lmao

Totally agree though! Compared to other Total War titles, we should've seen a glimpse of the campaign map by now. Maybe E3 or just before then?

[ASPGolan]

Is anyone else? I'm as excited as the next guy for this game. My favourite part is the campaign map though, and it strikes me as odd that CA have shown us literally nothing of this particular segment of the game, despite it making up well over half of the average person's play time. Are they saving the best till last? Or do they have something to hide?

Work on the campaign was started at the last. And the map is essential to game balance. They can't announce something that they want to keep open to changes whenever they feel its needed.

[Mary The Quene]

I hope the campaign is going to be awesome

[BeastG33]

I think revealing the campaign map and lots of actual gameplay at E3 makes a lot of sense, and is still 3+ months before release.

Just gotta have a little patience, folks. If you want to see more before you preorder, there's nothing wrong with that, and you'll still be able to preorder just the same September 2nd as May 9th...

[Sowilo]

Fact is that they might not have it done enough to show.

[-=PHX=-Hades]

Fact is that they might not have it done enough to show.

The game is less than 4 months away, I'm sure it's done or damn close.

They just don't reveal too much info at once. Now that all the playable factions and pre-order factions and such are revealed I'm sure the map will be next.

[Sowilo]

The game is less than 4 months away, I'm sure it's done or damn close.

They just don't reveal too much info at once. Now that all the playable factions and pre-order factions and such are revealed I'm sure the map will be next.

No your right its most likely done but your assuming. Besides they always show stuff like that to get people hyped up later on if they show it now people will forget about it by september. And definately the casuals.

[Huberto]

It is strange they're taking pre-orders and we haven't seen the map yet....

In fact all we've seen are some scripted battles...

[SturmChurro]

It is strange they're taking pre-orders and we haven't seen the map yet....

In fact all we've seen are some scripted battles...

I don't even care. I'm gonna pre-order it this week.

[Stavroforos]

When is E3?

In any case, the map from the Collector's Edition revealed to me all I cared about: the map goes pretty east, and all of Arabia is included, as well as the sea around it.

[fightermedic]

and all of Arabia is included, as well as the sea around it.

a fact that surprises me to no small extent

[Mage de Taverne]

I've probably played Crusader Kings II too much - it has the same extent to the east, so I was a bit disapointed at first because expecting a large bit of India (to do what Alexander himself couldn't). But that's good enough.

[Ichon]

E3 is 2nd week of June so only about 1 month away. It would make sense to save campaign map and maybe some beta video for that as that is the biggest chance to announce they will have before launch.

[The Roman Republic]

Is anyone else? I'm as excited as the next guy for this game. My favourite part is the campaign map though, and it strikes me as odd that CA have shown us literally nothing of this particular segment of the game, despite it making up well over half of the average person's play time. Are they saving the best till last? Or do they have something to hide?

Well, if you think of it, the campaign is CAs "last armament" in terms of surprise. And so prolonging the info will only keep us fans twitching and discussing to keep the talk of R2TW buzzing like a bee, and so we most likely wont be told until around late July early August.

[* Matolo Swazulu *]

Is anyone else? I'm as excited as the next guy for this game. My favourite part is the campaign map though, and it strikes me as odd that CA have shown us literally nothing of this particular segment of the game, despite it making up well over half of the average person's play time. Are they saving the best till last? Or do they have something to hide?

They do it every year it seems. Maybe they simply don't want to disappoint us, so they will wait as long as they can and make it as good as possible before showing us.

[The Holy Pilgrim]

Part of the map is revealed if you look at the Collector's Edition:

[Stavroforos]

A larger version:

[MonTeZuma]

They are saving it for later probably as they may wish another faction countdown and showing the map would ruin that