hey, wth is the blood?

[harm]

I thought this game was going to have blood stains in it? I play with low character details. AM i not seeing the blood or is it not in the game?:hmmm:

[Lusted]

It is ingame, you need to have shader 2 enabled for it to be shown though.

[Dckw]

I have shader 2 enabled but I can't see the splattering of blood in the game. I can see the blood stains though.

[RexMortali]

The splattering comes only with arrow fireing not with man on man. Fail to see the point of that thought.

[jimbob]

The splattering comes only with arrow fireing not with man on man. Fail to see the point of that thought.

Theres actually both. Blood splatters from arrows, and stains appear when they take hits from melee. They're subtle, but they're definately in there.

[RexMortali]

Theres actually both. Blood splatters from arrows, and stains appear when they take hits from melee. They're subtle, but they're definately in there.

I was talking about SPLATTERS. Those only come from arrows and are completely unrealistic. Blood STAINS are quite fine but still need a bit modding.

[Dckw]

The splattering comes only with arrow fireing not with man on man. Fail to see the point of that thought.

Hmm... no blood splatter with arrows too. Maybe I didn't notice......

[robinhood]

the blood stain effect is the worst they could of possibly made it. The skin is basically replaced with an all-red hue to it. No, I am not joking.

This is just one of many truly half arsed game features that they shuffled in the day before release, and it shows.

Disgusting.

[jabo0511]

splatter? I thought its gonna be stain only?

[shadyrome]

play on high details, it might help

[Immacolata]

Or just get over it. Its a strategy game, not Quake. Never understood what the obsession is with pixel blood, really.

[Daimon]

Because it's funny

[robinhood]

It adds to the realism, that's why we want it. Shadydrone I play on high detail level. I doubt very high would improve the skin cos AFAIK very high detail level only prevents the sprites from kicking in at low distance.

[Immacolata]

It adds to the realism, that's why we want it. Shadydrone I play on high detail level. I doubt very high would improve the skin cos AFAIK very high detail level only prevents the sprites from kicking in at low distance.

Realism? How so? What is realistic about gore-movie-esque pixel blood? I think the body count already gives enough information that there had been a particular bad fight. I especially squirm when I see my expensive cavalry lying in heaps. Blood would add visual drama I guess, but Im not sure theres much of a realism factor there

[m3thuselah]

Come on, we all know Total War is a modified RTS coupled with a modified Civilisation. That's what makes it so goddamn awesome, ethier game lacks something. The RTS has no real consequence for the battle, just skirmish after skirmish. Civ series has no real battle, you work hard to raise this massive Civ and get great units to see them go 'puff' and disappear off the campaign map.

So because Total War is BOTH, it would be very hard to make it as good as ETHIER. For instance cities are fixed (from what ive seen) in MTW2. Civ has had 'real' citites for ages, as in you actually settle them and can complete erase it from the face of the earth with enough pillaging.

Equally Company of Heroes is a freaking work of art as an RTS goes, with it's crazy AI, destructible terrain, your guys automatically find cover and that makes it look so realistic.

Blood flying everywhere and big pools from armies of little guys fighting it out? Thats the RTS genre, go and buy one of those or wait for a bigass mod (that will prolly cost you frames per second).

Basically, what HorseArcher said. It's just not a big part of this type of game. TW has other stuff to offer.

[Frost, colonel]

The mists of blood are indeed faint, in the pre-alpha demo is was much bolder and better, IMO.
My guess is that to make it easier on people's PC's they reduced the effect.

Can it be increased to how it was in the 1st demo, and if so could someone possibly spare the time to explain in lay-mans terms(I am poor at this stuff)how it can be done?

[robinhood]

the blod mists are yet another half arsed feature they threw in. Since when do bullets, let alone ARROWS, make a mist of blood? Completely bloody ridiculous. Thanks SEGA, you really gave CA all the time they needed.

[Frost, colonel]

the blod mists are yet another half arsed feature they threw in. Since when do bullets, let alone ARROWS, make a mist of blood? Completely bloody ridiculous. Thanks SEGA, you really gave CA all the time they needed.

Thats a matter of opinion, it's a game, so gameplay over realism, me I wan't more claret! I like the effect of damage it suggests when I have six units of longbowmen firing at once.

One would presume that spurts of blood may be difficult to represent, so the red mist effect gives a representation of damage/blood loss?

[ProudNerd]

the blod mists are yet another half arsed feature they threw in. Since when do bullets, let alone ARROWS, make a mist of blood? Completely bloody ridiculous. Thanks SEGA, you really gave CA all the time they needed.

lol have you even seen somebody be shot?

[Hells Black Knight]

Hi guys its been awhile since iv added a reply but i remember the blood mod for RTW and everyone picking on CA for not adding blood to the game but now this is what i can belive now that they have everyone is picking on them because its not good enough its like come on a less give them some credit. At least they have tried.