Huns Stream, Impressions, Gameplay Details

[damien007]

Gamespot just had an exclusive stream playing as the Huns in what I assume is the latest build here: http://www.twitch.tv/gamespot/b/621190831

Anyway after watching the whole stream here are some of the notes I compiled of new gameplay details, mostly taken from the devs answering questions on the stream:

• Battles past the early game will be (on average) slower than Rome 2 : EE
• Early tier units rely heavily on the general, and will break easily without one
• Roman troops won't be as affected by the death of general, due to "disciplined" trait
• Fatigue applies massive combat penalties, But also recovers very fast. designed to encourage cycling of troops, walking reduces fatigue
• Hordes will get penalties for having multiple armies (tribes?) in the same province
• Julian was on the AI team for Attila, and the siege AI is now "much much better"
• Longer sieges mean more defensive deployables for the defenders
• They want to win back the fans with a more "hardcore" experience in Attila
• There are dedicated "scout units" which have excellent vision and can hide, but suck in combat
• Many leaders will have their own unique models in battle
• Any ship with oars can reverse (ing finally)
• "Take on Warriors" no longer lowers army integrity
• They've improved the strategic map feature to try and encourage more people to use it (although they didn't say or show how)
• They've added an extra large garrison for Constantinople

Really disappointed they ended the stream right before sieging Constantinople, didn't get to see if torches are still in the game.

[Knight_Of_Ne]

There's a lot of promising points there. I love the idea of Generals being vital to an armies morale. Hopefully the AI is more than capable of protecting there generals.

[von stoker]

Thanks for the info Damien007. Is there any place to watch these videos after the twitch feed or can you only watch them live. (OK figured it out.)
@Knight_Of_Ne. I always find the AI generals survive pretty well but I have a hell of a time keeping my general alive in battle.

[damien007]

Thanks for the info Damien007. Is there any place to watch these videos after the twitch feed or can you only watch them live.
@Knight_Of_Ne. I always find the AI generals survive pretty well but I have a hell of a time keeping my general alive in battle.

You can watch it at the link I posted. It's under past-broadcasts

[Altimis]

Julian was on the AI team for Attila, and the siege AI is now "much much better"

Sorry for lazy and dumb question but who is Julian? anyone please enlighten me would be appreciated.

[damien007]

Julian was on the AI team for Attila, and the siege AI is now "much much better"

Sorry for lazy and dumb question but who is Julian? anyone please enlighten me would be appreciated.

He worked on the battlefield AI for Rome 2 or some . I don't actually know but somebody on twitch asked during the stream and they answered.

[Zwirbaum]

He worked on the battlefield AI for Rome 2 or some . I don't actually know but somebody on twitch asked during the stream and they answered.

Yeah, it was incredibly awkward question. And this is one of the cases when community scares me

[Garensterz]

Julian was on the AI team for Attila, and the siege AI is now "much much better"

Sorry for lazy and dumb question but who is Julian? anyone please enlighten me would be appreciated.

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Im ing shocked this dude didn't got fired! hahahah

[Darios]

Attila seems to be looking good only because Rome 2 was a laughing stock

[Nelfe]

They've added an extra large garrison for Constantinople

Good !

[Kraut and Tea]

I pre orderd being confident that CA have learnd some lessons.

Now I am afraid that I might be disapointed.

[Altimis]

I pre orderd being confident that CA have learnd some lessons.

Now I am afraid that I might be disapointed.

I believe you can cancel it at anytime, no? no need to afraid if you feel its not worth it.

[Lionheart11]

Faction intro was nice, i hope its for every faction. Only thing concerns me now is faction clones as i hear there are only 4 type. aka. Rome 2.

[damien007]

Faction intro was nice, i hope its for every faction. Only thing concerns me now is faction clones as i hear there are only 4 type. aka. Rome 2.

Aye expect mass DLC culture pacKs. Probably going to be one for Britons, Slavs, and Nomads (non-hun) fairly soon after release. On the upside there will probably be some good mods fixing that stuff out ASAP.

[von stoker]

Faction intro was nice, i hope its for every faction. Only thing concerns me now is faction clones as i hear there are only 4 type. aka. Rome 2.

Yeah. Where's the Australian cultural faction. Flavious Flavious Flavious. oi oi oi.

[Lionheart11]

Yeah. Where's the Australian cultural faction. Flavious Flavious Flavious. oi oi oi.

haha Crikey cobber what a bonza idea, you could have thong hurling units and feral bogan bezerkers, that would be a fair shake of the sauce bottle for sure.

[prithupaul]

It was funny how the Hunnic shock cavalry was utterly useless even when charging from the rear in that historic battle.

And also how the Roman Legions charged like barbarian hordes themselves without any semblance of formations.

[Skowdey]

The campaign looks like A LOT of fun. Looks really good, but the battle ai looks pretty potato-y, especially the ai during those field battles against the ERE. It looked like a total mess, I guess you could argue he rushed the ERE before they could form up, and also he was playing on easy. Siege AI was also looking a like it stood by a microwave too long, those d00ds were just standing there facing away from the hunnic pokers.
But like I said he was playing on easy, and the campaign looks pretty fun

[tono4850]

This might be just my conspiracy theory, but all YT preview vids and streams are played on EASY difficulties to hide the fact that AI sucks on higher difficulties, too and doesn´t offer any challenge !!

[T-Duke]

Some good points but:

Battles past the early game will be (on average) slower than Rome 2 : EE

Every gameplay video seen so far make me think different, a lot different.

Fatigue applies massive combat penalties, But also recovers very fast. designed to encourage cycling of troops, walking reduces fatigue

"ricovering fast" in a vanilla battle of 6-7 minutes....

There are dedicated "scout units" which have excellent vision and can hide, but suck in combat

Wonderful feature in a decent strategy game but we are talking about a battle system where the AI just push forward and charge with every unit. What I have to scout for?