Regular updates inbound! First patch coming Friday

[Idomeneas]

If this community had balls it should at least make example of at least one CA dev by banning him/her.
Although historical accuracy would call for a decimation

[TheChronoMaster]

If that community had balls it should at least make example of at least one CA dev by banning him/her.
Although histolical accuracy would call for a decimation

Yeah man, that'd teach those CA louts to post on fan forums for their game. Let's punish the community managers for something beyond the control of any one person, that'll show em.

[Scarrus]

And because the game didn't meet your expectations, your life is now destroyed... anyway
Tweak the settings around, update drivers, uninstall that perversion called Norton and you should get some results.

With the new Beta Nvidia Drivers I play on Ultra Unit scale, high Unit details, medium shadows, medium textures, SSAO, High Depth of Field and everything else set to Ultra without lag...

On a Q6600, Core 2 Quad @ 3.0 Ghz, 6Gb 1066 Mhz DDR2 Ram, Geforce 560 Ti CU2 1Gb Ram
And apart from the Campaign lag which does not make the game unplayable, I find it very ing entertaining. No crashes, some battles DO last me 30 min constant fighting and as far as I can tell the core Game is basically the same with different designations for buildings and stuff.
The new diplomacy is also very interesting and the Hoplites DO hold their formations, compared to celtic levies, which IMO is a rather accurate representation

So, there obviously can't be anything that wrong with the Game

[Snizel]

From reading the forums over the past few days, I think what most people want aside from performance fixes are:

1. Slower battles.
2. Better Battle AI.
3. Guard mode.
4. Fire at will option for melee infantry armed with javelins/pila (so they do not have to charge in order to throw).
5. Better UI in general. It is too convoluted and the battle UI cards need to display better information (such as how many men are still alive - not just vague bars).
6. MORE economic and city micromanagement (Shogun 2 was fine, why change it?).
7. Larger unit scale.
8. Better multiplayer in all regards.
9. Better AI army composition.
10. Tweaked diplomacy (many people seem to have trouble securing trade agreements).
11. 'Loose' and 'tight' formation options (Now why this was removed? If it was because CA didn't want units fighting melee in loose formation, why not just auto-default back to tight formation upon entering melee?)
12. Implementation of the family tree.
13. More tool tips (what exactly do zeal, authority and cunning even effect?).

I'm sure I've forgotten to mention some issues. Hopefully CA now focus on what we as the customers want changed.

[Guardian112]

Add a family tree!

[hitman_8182]

Tks Craig too much for prompt respond for fans included me, I am very pleased to hear this news from CA, that's mean CA teams still stick with us for Rome 2
Please kindly fix:
_Graphics problems
-Reduce battle speed, they are very fast
-Balance units stat
_Fix Dip (i could not trade to another factions if I did not offer some golds to them, no money, no trade)
That's all for now, many tks

[Idomeneas]

Tks Craig too much for prompt respond for fans included me, I am very pleased to hear this news from CA, that's mean CA teams still stick with us for Rome 2
Please kindly fix:
_Graphics problems
-Reduce battle speed, they are very fast
-Balance units stat
_Fix Dip (i could not trade to another factions if I did not offer some golds to them, no money, no trade)
That's all for now, many tks

Dont worry everything you asked will be on the next patch



Not

[hitman_8182]

Dont worry everything you asked will be on the next patch
Not

I hope so and have to wait

[cherryfunk]

Why do some foreign ambassadors look like scary monsters?

[Idomeneas]

Why do some foreign ambassadors look like scary monsters?

Ever heard of zoomorphism?

[Vernah]

Any news whether the patch will do any of these things?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWwr1D84VEM

[reinadeoz]

Ever heard of zoomorphism?

I haven´t heard about it. Tell me more.

[greengriffon]

[rudthemighty]

I dont care what anyone says about Rome 2. The game is good, and I really want to play it. But its a horrible buggy mess. CA lied and fooled me yet again. Fix it you idiots!

[Copperknickers II]

I dont care what anyone says about Rome 2. The game is good, and I really want to play it. But its a horrible buggy mess. CA lied and fooled me yet again. Fix it you idiots!

To be fair, they didn't lie: they did say it would be a revolutionary, stunning, marvellous and well-optimised game with huge improvements on the alpha graphics when it was finished, the only thing they missed out was that that would be sometime around 2017.

[Semper_Fidelis]

There shouldn't have to be a thousand patches for the game to work properly. It's called beta testing, game developers use it sometimes to iron out the bugs. We could call this version that we own now the beta and after 10 or so patches we can call the full release.

[EastJerusalem]

Let's sack CA settlement and let the modders take the lead )

[Doge Domenico]

"Bashing a game" is hardly what we're doing. Some people have been with CA for more than a decade, and they are passionate about it. So if they can't play it, of course they are mad.

[theruben25]

"Bashing a game" is hardly what we're doing. Some people have been with CA for more than a decade, and they are passionate about it. So if they can't play it, of course they are mad.

This. I remember being excited for this series since I first saw previews for the original Shogun way back in 1999, and how excited I was when I finally had a machine that could actually run it several months after the game's release. Since then, I have played and loved every Total War game that's come out. If I'm pissed and disappointed it's because this is pretty much my favorite video game series out there, and I was expecting Rome 2 to be absolutely amazing.

[ggggtotalwarrior]

My brother and I have had no issues in 11 hours Rome II except for one really, really devestatingly annoying one. Between turns 9 and 10 of my Macedonian main campaign, which I was looking forward to most, I experience a crash to desktop regardless of what I do. I did load it from the Cloud and am playing on a crappy computer right now (low-medium graphics with slight lag, 1664 mb Intel graphics card). I doubt either of those facts matter but i thought I'd list them anyway. I am enjoying the game immensely otherwise and I hope the issue is fixed by the time I get my new computer next week. This is certainly my most awaited Total War game yet, and it's killing me playing with (comparatively) terrible graphics for the first week.

Otherwise, thanks for the great game. I think there were some major steps forward with this release, despite some of the annoying, smaller flaws.