Campaign Gameplay Gets Ridiculously Huge Screenshot Treatment

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Anybody else noticed the "tatoos" on the arm of that brown army guy at the bottom?

Maybe that's supposed to be dirt. I really don't care though.

[Templar Spartan]

Anybody else noticed the "tatoos" on the arm of that brown army guy at the bottom?

I also think it's dirt. But look at the shield and hand detail! They even have veins and tendons!

[Durendalv2]

I also think it's dirt. But look at the shield and hand detail! They even have veins and tendons!

Yeah, it looks like dirt, that army looks like it's in a raiding stance.

Shield is cool but so is the Kopis!

[Durendalv2]

Double post

Did anyone else see the crown on the top of the Roman Army? Is that the faction leader?

[Vlaanderen Vrij]

Double post

Did anyone else see the crown on the top of the Roman Army? Is that the faction leader?

I think it is just the symbol of that specific Roman legion. As shown in a video from rezzed or E3 we can now give the legions symbols. If you look at the different armies and fleets (which could be armies as well, since armies no longer need to be transported via fleets) you see they all have different symbols. But then again you could be right and I could be wrong. We will find out 3rd september.

[Durendalv2]

I think it is just the symbol of that specific Roman legion. As shown in a video from rezzed or E3 we can now give the legions symbols. If you look at the different armies and fleets (which could be armies as well, since armies no longer need to be transported via fleets) you see they all have different symbols. But then again you could be right and I could be wrong. We will find out 3rd september.

I think you're right, super_newbie_pro's pic shows 3 different symbols (instead of the Spartan"s 2). A crown is an interesting symbol for a legion. One probably is a legion, the other two are probably units and a general.

[torongill]

I also think it's dirt. But look at the shield and hand detail! They even have veins and tendons!

It's a tattoo and he's an idiot who thought having a name written in Egyptian hieroglyphs would be supercool.
I suppose he wanted to have "Arsinoe" written. But what he got instead was "Arse for money" Good luck in Athens I suppose.

[PrinceofPersia]

Looks very good!
I guess the red skull above an army is attrition?

[vietanh797]

Looks very good!
I guess the red skull above an army is attrition?

I think it is disease. Since those army Macedon army and they stand on their land (look like summer)

[vietanh797]

The only problem is the shield is totally wrong

[The Roman Republic]

no offense but it's a rarther pointless image, I'd rather see one up close battle, not ones from the highest possible camera position,

[super_newbie_pro]

[Julio-Claudian]

The emblems which we can choose, presumably.


Or not.

[HigoChumbo]

That bring me sweet memories from Shogun 1.

[IlluminatiRex]

FOTS, while a pretty awesome game, the map is too greyscale for my eyes.

[talljoe]

FOTS, while a pretty awesome game, the map is too greyscale for my eyes.

Ditto here. One of my main gripes with Shogun 2 and FotS is the ever-present mega fog. In S2 it is ridiculous. The entire campaign map is 24/7 fogged out, and most battles are too. I usually don't like to use the unit banners in battle, but with so many fog-tastic battles I had to use them just to see where my troops were.

[Keyser]

NTW was so grey and dull, i had the impression to fight in a foggy fall morning in northern France for the whole game in any area.
The map of FOTS was great, but i really like this one more. It fits with my vision of the area and the period.

[Antiscamp]

That was a glorious screenshot, to say the least.

[Menumorut]

I do not like this campaign map compared to Shogun 2 FOTS, you guys made a big step back compared with FOTS campaign map
while the map from FOTS looks gorgeous and very smooth in Rome 2 landscape looks ragged, angular with those little trees very large and ugly

i don't understand why did you increase the scale for landscape in this campaign map. You should keep the same scale from FOTS, especially for the trees
it looks totally unreal that the city have a smaller scale for the trees, and outside the cities, a huge one, trees are larger in size than the walls of the cities!

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...and there is no fair comparison between them

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also the texture of the water

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how beautiful looks in FOTS and how comic shows in ROME2, bring a little with my signature...not to mention how bad cliffs from Rome2 looks, compared with those from FOTS...

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also do not understand what the problem with this agent. I saw him with other occasion and in all pictures, his animation depicts him as if it had stabbed in the back with a knife

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and why this Dacian unit looks so Galic?

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on Trajan's Column, there are not one single dacian warrior beardless, probably not their womens nor their children and yet you depict them without. I think it is harder to carve a man with a beard and lose more time to do it, than to do him without beard and so I do not think the Romans were wasting time to make all dacians with beards
Here color version of Trajan Column

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I hope all this is because the game is not yet ready !

I much rather prefer Default UI cards made in roman frescoes style, then those ones

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[Dan113112]

I do not like this campaign map compared to Shogun 2 FOTS, you guys made a big step back compared with FOTS campaign map
while the map from FOTS looks gorgeous and very smooth in Rome 2 landscape looks ragged, angular with those little trees very large and ugly

i don't understand why did you increase the scale for landscape in this campaign map. You should keep the same scale from FOTS, especially for the trees
it looks totally unreal that the city have a smaller scale for the trees, and outside the cities, a huge one, trees are larger in size than the walls of the cities!

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...and there is no fair comparison between them

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also the texture of the water

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how beautiful looks in FOTS and how comic shows in ROME2, bring a little with my signature...not to mention how bad cliffs from Rome2 looks, compared with those from FOTS...

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also do not understand what the problem with this agent. I saw him with other occasion and in all pictures, his animation depicts him as if it had stabbed in the back with a knife

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and why this Dacian unit looks so Galic?

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on Trajan's Column, there are not one single dacian warrior beardless, probably not their womens nor their children and yet you depict them without. I think it is harder to carve a man with a beard and lose more time to do it, than to do him without beard and so I do not think the Romans were wasting time to make all dacians with beards
Here color version of Trajan Column

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I hope all this is because the game is not yet ready !

I much rather prefer Default UI cards made in roman frescoes style, then those ones

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Wow. That was an epic rage post.

You do realize that TWR2 appears to be zoomed in closer than in FOTS. As for colors you have to remember that FOTS is stormy and gloomy. Just look at the grey sky in those screenshots. There are greater bloom effects and brighter colors because the map is most likely set in a sunny/bright day. Not a stormy one. I'm not denying that the map has problems, though. A bit of rescaling and the removal of those cliffs on the shore would make the map look a lot better in my opinion.

I would like to point out that Trajans column should not be relied upon for historical authenticity as it is an artists representation. Its also part Roman propaganda.