beta patch 2 makes a huge difference

[dougmadman]

Hi all ive been playing total war since shogun 1 and consider myself an expert let me tell you that new beta patch saved my experience with rome 2. BAI and CAI are much better along with end turns. IF you dont have the patch and are playing your crazy go get it off of steam. i just played as carthage on legendary and got my butt handed to me my allies went down in 10 turns and i did in 30. i was totally not expecting that. go grab it.problems persist tho i just bought a gtx 760 and im still getting single frames in battles with only large unit sizes. Idk if that cards just not good enough or its the game but sounds like everyones got FPS issues. and i just defended a siege battle and the ai army just tryed rushing through my defenders at the gate 500 hoplites beat up a 2000 man iberian army

[alstl]

Hi all ive been playing total war since shogun 1 and consider myself an expert let me tell you that new beta patch saved my experience with rome 2. BAI and CAI are much better along with end turns. IF you dont have the patch and are playing your crazy go get it off of steam. i just played as carthage on legendary and got my butt handed to me my allies went down in 10 turns and i did in 30. i was totally not expecting that. go grab it.problems persist tho i just bought a gtx 760 and im still getting single frames in battles with only large unit sizes. Idk if that cards just not good enough or its the game but sounds like everyones got FPS issues. and i just defended a siege battle and the ai army just tryed rushing through my defenders at the gate 500 hoplites beat up a 2000 man iberian army

Quick question. beta patch 2 indicates this is not the final patch, is that right? If so this patch does not automatically download when I start the game on stream, is that also right? When the official patch 2 be released?

[SKSlave]

Patch 2 is only a beta at the moment. You can get it by right clicking on the game in steam, going to betas tab and opting in. I believe the official release date is Monday or Tuesday.

And you're correct, there is a 3rd (and I presume more too) the following week.

[alstl]

Thanks for the reply. I'll wait for the official patch. Hopefully it will improve battles.

[Spaxspore]

monday

[SKSlave]

I'd highly recommend getting the beta if you're itching to play. Battles do seem to be improved, and the patch itself is quite substantial. I've only seen and read positives from it so far.

[[N2]Kami]

Siege BAI still make me cry though T_T

[SonOfCrusader76]

Beta patch 2 is almost a miracle patch in my book - it's totally transformed the game. The CAI is no longer brain-dead, as it was out of the box and the BAI is much improved as well.

[Goth]

does it increase system stability though, I have never experienced so many sytem crashes in my life as I am getting with rome 2 and my system is virtually identical to yours except I have a HD4870 not a HD6850

[Anibal at portas]

Hi all ive been playing total war since shogun 1 and consider myself an expert let me tell you that new beta patch saved my experience with rome 2. BAI and CAI are much better along with end turns. IF you dont have the patch and are playing your crazy go get it off of steam. i just played as carthage on legendary and got my butt handed to me my allies went down in 10 turns and i did in 30. i was totally not expecting that. go grab it.problems persist tho i just bought a gtx 760 and im still getting single frames in battles with only large unit sizes. Idk if that cards just not good enough or its the game but sounds like everyones got FPS issues. and i just defended a siege battle and the ai army just tryed rushing through my defenders at the gate 500 hoplites beat up a 2000 man iberian army

that does not prove anything.you are playing on Legendary difficulty with a AI with bonuses of all types.for demonstrate that the improved AI with the beta patch,you should play on normal or hard level.

[Jackal2233]

Legendary pre-patch 2 was a joke, they build more armies initially but full of crap troops. And then when you approach their towns they run with their tails between their legs. Patch 2 does fix it by improving AI army recruitment, AI defensive strategy etc. And they actually expand now, unlike pre-patch where superpowers were non-existent and even by turn 100 Rome is still stuck on the Italian peninsula.

Field battle AI is definitely improved, siege AI still needs work but I think the main problem is because the AI doesn't know how to go up the stairs on walls; hence once you kill their archers on the walls their infantry just sit there down below. Might be an engine bug too because sometimes your own troops don't know how to traverse walls either despite alot of clicking. Still waiting for them to fix that bug, but for now it's still a good improvement.

But by far the best thing of this patch in my opinion is the incredible reduce in end turn times.

[pajomife]

Armies still using the sea as highway.

[RZZZA]

its compatible with save game files right?

[King_Porus]

its compatible with save game files right?

Yes it is.

[Ataegina]

its compatible with save game files right?

in my experience it isn't! i tried with old save and didnt see any difference, i start new campaign and ......... massive change (but isn't 100% fixed, but would be a godammn 80%) its huge leap, with room to more improvement!

[vietanh797]

in my experience it isn't! i tried with old save and didnt see any difference, i start new campaign and ......... massive change (but isn't 100% fixed, but would be a godammn 80%) its huge leap, with room to more improvement!

load old save game save again and reload did you?

[King_Porus]

in my experience it isn't! i tried with old save and didnt see any difference, i start new campaign and ......... massive change (but isn't 100% fixed, but would be a godammn 80%) its huge leap, with room to more improvement!

That's odd, it definitely worked for my old saved campaign. Battles were significantly longer and there were new icons over the Technology button, plus battles had better framerates (although campaign map actually had worse framerates for some reason)

[Killerbee]

Tbh in terms of BAI and CAI I don't seem to notice such big a difference... But in my game they were both already pretty good to start with pre-patch.

I'm getting the feeling that people are being dragged in some positive current after this patch and suddenly they notice everything that's good about the game whereas pre-patch everyone was pointing out the bad side. Don't get me wrong, I like the patch and all, but I hate how people make the pre-patch game out to be absolute horsecrap when it was not. At least it wasn't in my game, but I don't see how AI performance could differ so greatly between computers.

Funny how I used to get pissed off at all the overly negative people on this forum and now I've become a grumpy old man myself. The dangers of living the internet life I guess

[EL_Kabeer]

anyone now how the new patch (patch 2 ) will be ? and when they will solve the AI battle problem ?

[RZZZA]

And if its compatible with older saves