marvelharvey
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I've just failed the tutorial twice, I wish the designers were a little clearer with what they want me to do.
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Total War: Rome 2 |OT| I Came, I Saw, I Came
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Atraveller
Banned
Just right click on the nearest enemy troops.
Facism
Member
35 minutes now, not even halfway.
Atraveller
Banned
Something is seriously wrong with your HDD or CPU.
I got up 40 minutes before I normal on a work day to play a skirmish because steam told me I could play it immediately.
Completed the install then I needed to leave! Least it will be ready for tonight.
Nah, loads of people are experiencing the same thing, took me ~15 mins to unpack then another ~15 mins to install the Direct X and packages.
EDIT: Double post, sorry.
Atraveller
Banned
Decompressing shouldn't take that long.
Chance Hale
Member
Facism
Member
nah just steam being complete shit again. Saint's Row 4 unpacked in 10 minutes a week ago.
Atraveller
Banned
I see. Both SR4 and Rome 2 had been very fast for me.
Facism
Member
You don't need to build ships anymore to transport units, when an army reaches water it just transforms into a fleet.
bamboobimbo
Neo Member
Stuck in a never-ending unpacking cycle.
This is weird as hell, lol.
No, it's a fantastic change.
May be a good change from a gameplay perspective(I can't judge), but seeing an army regiment becoming a fleet sounds pretty weird.
Dictator93
Member
Just imagine roman soldiers piling onto each other and then mecha-transforming into a boat.
That is what I just imagined.
LEGIONS, TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT!
It's on the campaign map, you have towns the size of countries, 300ft tall soldiers, 6 months going by in a second, armies counting 2000 men strong seen as a single soldier - Don't see why one of the representative army icons turning into a boat is weird.
Makes more sense. For whatever reason I was thinking it happened in the battle map.
It's a great change IMO. Hated that I had to build up a large fleet to transport my main army off of Shikoku...
Shame the game didn't mention that at any point during this tutorial
It's explained in the HOW TO PLAY
Recorded that GIF from one of the videos on there. http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/How_To_Play
No excuses Andy, no excuses.
Megalosaro
Banned
What are the historical battles? I'm assuming the Battle of Cannae is a sure thing?
TheGravemind
Banned
wow i guess my core2duo e6550 , 2gb ram and radeon 4850 can't even play the menu
am i right ?
am i right ?
My 650M will fall this day... Fucking hell.
marvelharvey
Member
So for those of you who've completed the tutorial, what am I supposed to do after destroying the siege weapons? At first, I sent my men across the river, where the game sort-of-hinted, but the mission was failed by the time they arrived on the other side. The second time around, I didn't cross the river, but instead attacked the waiting army. I decimated them all in no time, but still failed.
Also, is anyone else experiencing UI oddness? When dragging out a formation, the first click should be the front left corner, but sometimes it's the right corner for me, weird.
Finally, occasionally my troops don't obey formation orders and will only ever want to all stand in a single line, no matter how many times I tell them to arrange themselves in three lines, with range troops at the rear.
Also, is anyone else experiencing UI oddness? When dragging out a formation, the first click should be the front left corner, but sometimes it's the right corner for me, weird.
Finally, occasionally my troops don't obey formation orders and will only ever want to all stand in a single line, no matter how many times I tell them to arrange themselves in three lines, with range troops at the rear.
lastplayed
Member
So I played some Rome II, closed it to make some dinner, try to open it again and it's going through another unpacking phase, 15 mins to go.
I've never had this happen with a game before. wtf is going on.
I've never had this happen with a game before. wtf is going on.
marvelharvey
Member
OK, I worked this one out, it's now dependant on unit orientation.
Not really gonna have time to play until after work but I messed with graphical settings and ran the benchmark.
avg 45.1 fps @ 1200p on full everything with a 780. Definitely looks gorgeous and I'm way more tolerant of lower framerate on a rts game than a shooter. Will have to see how it pans out in the campaign.
I notice it wont let me select DRA(Direct Rendering Access) on the graphical settings and I am running a 4770k, anyone else having this problem?
avg 45.1 fps @ 1200p on full everything with a 780. Definitely looks gorgeous and I'm way more tolerant of lower framerate on a rts game than a shooter. Will have to see how it pans out in the campaign.
I notice it wont let me select DRA(Direct Rendering Access) on the graphical settings and I am running a 4770k, anyone else having this problem?
Atraveller
Banned
You would probably get 25 on high on 1080p.
shikamaroooo
Member
Alessandro
Member
After having played the prologue here's a few changes I noticed from previous Total War games:
Performance seemed worse if compared to Shogun 2. I'm playing at 1440x900 with everything on High (except unit details at Ultra) on a 7850 and i5 3750k @3.4GHZ with 45~ fps average with benchmark but during actual gameplays it stabilizes at 30~ with small armies.
Later I'm gonna tackle some campaign and maybe some multi.
- Land armies can set sail and break port sieges without having a ship in port.
- You can't munster armies without generals.
- There are a lot more rebels and I couldn't grasp how to effectively reduce unrest in cities. Rebel armies got crushed easily by city levies though.
- The UI during battles is more intrusive and bloated.
- Generals have stances in the campaign map that affects your movement range and upkeep.
Performance seemed worse if compared to Shogun 2. I'm playing at 1440x900 with everything on High (except unit details at Ultra) on a 7850 and i5 3750k @3.4GHZ with 45~ fps average with benchmark but during actual gameplays it stabilizes at 30~ with small armies.
Later I'm gonna tackle some campaign and maybe some multi.
Need some gaf advice here..
SO a friend of mine, who is also playing Rome, was worried. His CPU ran at 70 degrees celsius.
So I figured I would check on my on and I realised that in a battle (roughly 2000 vs 3000 units) my own I5 760 would run as high a 90 degrees !!
I used 3 different programs to make sure. I took the side of my case (a decent antec case if I'm not mistakening) and all fans were running as they should and the inside of the case wasn't hot at all - I figured it would be with those temperatures. My GPU (gtx 580) was btw at 44 degrees.
The strange thing his that only two of the cores were at 70% load and 2 of them at roughly 50%. At those temperatures I just figured it would've been much higher.
I've just quit the game and it now runs at 38-42 degree.
It's just that.. I've had this CPU for 2-3 years. Played Medieval 2, Empire and shogun 2 along with other games on it. Never has it crashed on me, or run slow or anything really.
I've never had any issues and while playing Rome 2 in the battle I checked I didn't have any issues either. It all runs smooth.
So yeah.. It just baffles me. At 90 degrees celcius shouldn't the pc slow down and be quite hot inside?
Or maybe the sensor is just thermal broken lol ._.
SO a friend of mine, who is also playing Rome, was worried. His CPU ran at 70 degrees celsius.
So I figured I would check on my on and I realised that in a battle (roughly 2000 vs 3000 units) my own I5 760 would run as high a 90 degrees !!
I used 3 different programs to make sure. I took the side of my case (a decent antec case if I'm not mistakening) and all fans were running as they should and the inside of the case wasn't hot at all - I figured it would be with those temperatures. My GPU (gtx 580) was btw at 44 degrees.
The strange thing his that only two of the cores were at 70% load and 2 of them at roughly 50%. At those temperatures I just figured it would've been much higher.
I've just quit the game and it now runs at 38-42 degree.
It's just that.. I've had this CPU for 2-3 years. Played Medieval 2, Empire and shogun 2 along with other games on it. Never has it crashed on me, or run slow or anything really.
I've never had any issues and while playing Rome 2 in the battle I checked I didn't have any issues either. It all runs smooth.
So yeah.. It just baffles me. At 90 degrees celcius shouldn't the pc slow down and be quite hot inside?
Or maybe the sensor is just thermal broken lol ._.
There's a civil technology (really not far into one of the trees) that'll let you buy an agent to help you lower unrest. Also remove tax from specific regions and have guards stationed there.
After a couple of rounds you should be fine. Always remove tax if they aren't eactly thrilled about you and bump it up once they acknowledge you.
Also remember if it's a different culture I believe you have to destroy their current buildings and build buildings from YOUR culture (although I'm a bit uncertain of this).