New Patch Announced for Next Week!

[Chris P. Bacon]

http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...-out-next-week

Details: http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Tin_Isle_Mercenaries_Update


Looking through the patch notes, it seems very promising. Here are some highlights I found:

- "General price balancing for units across the board"

- New generals for the Longbeards factions

- Gothic Warband and Nordic Axe Warband no longer upgrade into glass cannon falxmen/two handed axemen.

- Can zoom out of the family tree (So many babies!)

- Less razing by AI in the first 100 turns

- Easier to trade with the AI

- TAGMATA (and Germanic Horsemen) GOT PEW PEWED + Ton of other units getting balancing.

- All Nomadic mounted archers got parthian shot

- Uar warriors bonus vs infantry went from 20 to 10

- Many Hun cavalry units appear to be buffed with their regular spears getting a heavy spear (the one that the Tagmata used to have)

- Shock cav in general get a buff

- Mercenary Onagers get a large increase to hiring and upkeep costs

- Zerks getting a price drop and a HP increase

- Spear units can withstand charges better and get "heavy spears" to fight cav.

[NostalgiaFan]

All this sounds good, but the one I payed attention to the most was the less razing part. Hopefully this decreases the chance of the campaign map turning into a desolate wasteland.

[GrimmCro]

-Campaign AI is now less likely to focus on razing provinces within the first 100 turns
-Great Power trait has been rebalanced
-Less chance for anti-empire Campaign AI personalities

These three along with upkeep rebalance sound promising.

[Fanest]

shame that there is no fix for attacking testudo, well another time then

[Humble Warrior]

I`m pleased that there`s less razing (dunno why it`s only for the 1st 100 turns).

I`m also pleased that you get see Celts even if you don`t get the add-on and you can even employ mercenary ones. that`s good, if true.
Also seems like some CAI work there, be interesting to see how that works out.

Multiple mini rebel armies should no longer spawn in a region.

This has been annoying the heck out of me!

Ever Present Winter still needs fixing, insta-ship armies should be erased as it adds stupid situations with armies jumping on and off water and siege AI still needs to know to retreat once all siege engines gone- I don`t expect it, but I hope, as usual.

[Cavalier]

shame that there is no fix for attacking testudo, well another time then

what's wrong with it?

[Kjertesvein]

what's wrong with it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw0yPUmpVm4

~Wille

[ggsimmonds]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sw0yPUmpVm4

~Wille

It was my impression that using attacking testudo in that manner was using it incorrectly. I mostly play as barbarians but when I use testudo I use it while advancing towards the enemy. It serves as defense against the archers/skirmishers kill zone.
Using it to withhold an enemy charge just seems foolish to me. This was just going by the posture of the soldiers; they just did not look well braced.

[Darios]

Decent patch that promises to take care of some issues but I'm disappointed to see that they still haven't taken a look at the issue with minor factions fielding multiple stacks and no fixes for the Mongoloid appearance of a few Sarmatian units. The former issue in particular is gamebreaking.

[Karnil Vark Khaitan]

It seems like a good patch, but lets see how it plays out :3

[Rostam_e_Iran]

Looks promising. About bloody time tagmata's getting nerfed.

[SharpEyed]

someone pls fix this too -.-

after long time i started to play with Huns again, and noticed this bug's existence.

as a reminder: Cattle herders building tree were suppose to give ability to speed the horses up by some percentage

But It's bugged because of restriction to have a province, but hey Huns cant settle so it aint work..
this problem is in Progress by CA (http://forums.totalwar.com/showthrea...s-building-bug) but who knows when will it be fixed

[jtfjtfjtf]

I hope they fix the legio levy bug

[andreumarmas]

finally they nerf that in tagmata and germanic horsmen, that was a pain in the ass fight against an spam of 8 horses.

[Lugotorix]

They should reduce razing after 445 as well. No point to it, I'm afraid, and settling is in other faction's best interest. FMI what is tagmata?

[Lugotorix]

-can zoom out of family tree- For awhile there I thought it was my resolution- excellent

[r3dshift]

Well, well. Even though their DLC-spamming policy sucks (I know it's defined by SEGA, but still...), CA still manage to impress with the patches. All of the changes sound great. I'm glad I don't have time right now to play the game. I will wait for the patch before starting a new campaign.

[Butan]

- All Nomadic mounted archers got parthian shot

Better here : most ranged cav got parthian (and fire whilst moving)

- Gothic Warband and Nordic Axe Warband no longer upgrade into glass cannon falxmen/two handed axemen.

The whole "upgrading" system need to go, Like here.




Half of the patch notes are minute-modding done on 1 unit or category of unit: looks big when they put 1 comment line for each modification but except that... a bit disappointed at the work done on what is patch #2. They are already slowing down the bug fixing, so quick after release?

[Lionheart11]

why make things more expensive in game!!, early game broke $$ and suxs, late game rich and boring, balance it.

[Riekopo]

Some good fixes and changes, but we still need a lot more. The bug reports are increasing every day on the official forum.