Slackbladder
Member
Well, my i7 hits 84* when I'm on the campaign map. It's a massive drain on the CPU just clicking on armies and units. Will see if turning down low makes a difference. If not it's a big problem.
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Total War: Rome 2 |OT| I Came, I Saw, I Came
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Sir Hamish
Member
Anyone else having problems with diplomacy and agents?
I'm playing Iceni and even friendly tribes straight up refuse to trade with me. It's a complete waste, and I get spammed by tribes demanding money every turn.
I also have an agent that failed to convert and enemy champion 4 times in a row despite having a 95% success rate
I'm playing Iceni and even friendly tribes straight up refuse to trade with me. It's a complete waste, and I get spammed by tribes demanding money every turn.
I also have an agent that failed to convert and enemy champion 4 times in a row despite having a 95% success rate
And that changes what? Sub-30 is shit in any case.
Atraveller
Banned
Did I say it is not?
Sleepy Buddha
Member
Any impressions of Unlimited Video Memory On and Off? Does it improve performance or cause a massive hit? Only had a couple of hours yesterday to play the prologue so I haven't had a chance to really test it.
Why are you quoting me when that's the point I'm making?
Yeah, I saw that. I don't know why they got rid of cheats in previous games.... though most pc games nowadays don't have them either. It's baffling. I'm a big fan of letting the player play the game in the manner they want to, whether they cheat or not.
Only in single-player, of course. Fuck cheaters in multiplayer.
Atraveller
Banned
The point is don't ask too much from laptops, that's why I said "It's a laptop".
And sub-30 is shit on a calculator, toaster, laptop and high-end gaming PC. That is the point I'm making.
Used to be in older games, perhaps select the units and press M
Or drag them over each other.
If its not one of those things, it either was removed or they changed the way to do it
Friend of mine showed me a combination of in-game and nVidia settings that is letting me run the game pretty decently now. I'm getting 60 FPS for the most part but it fluctuates randomly.
Is anyone else finding the garrison troops completely useless to fight with? I was fighting off a group of rebels who attacked Rome (who's army consisted of just a few slingers and mobs) and even though I had their army outnumbered, better troops, and had them completely encircled - half of my infantry still routes for seemingly no reason. I still won the battle but wtf?
Is anyone else finding the garrison troops completely useless to fight with? I was fighting off a group of rebels who attacked Rome (who's army consisted of just a few slingers and mobs) and even though I had their army outnumbered, better troops, and had them completely encircled - half of my infantry still routes for seemingly no reason. I still won the battle but wtf?
On my 560ti I noticed a massive improvement in textures and a bit of a performance hit. Lowering the shadows and tweaking a couple of other things helped to mitigate the performance hit and I average 32 FPS on the in-game benchmark.
Could you share this combination of settings? I'd like to see if the nVidia panel can improve anything.
UnluckyKate
Member
You cant convert an agent if you have the max amount of this agent already
Slackbladder
Member
Yep, I had that with rebels in Sardinia. Blockaded by Carthage for about 20 years until I (and others) defeated them!
Yeah, there is some odd logic going on in the game. Upgrading barracks increases public disorder? Really? Surely it'd be the opposite? Conflicts of culture seem to be a key cause of dis-order but there's no easy fix. Agents like Patricians help and maybe a General with the right bonus. Some buildings do. Maybe research? Still, it should'nt be too easy to fix, except for having a large army near by.
Atraveller
Banned
Game just froze for no reason, weird.
You can't disembark at a rocky coast. You can only land them at a dock or at a stretch of beach.
Try doing it at a port or a beach.
I kinda agree. What I noticed the most is that units break way too fast!
cripterion
Member
This made me laugh.
Provided it's not accurate (the final screenshot is from campaign battle) but I remember being in awe when I first saw the little walkthrough of the battle, scale was immense, it was so epic and graphics were godly, and the dev was saying things would look even better at launch lol.
LiquidSolid
Member
Anyone know why you get to a certain point where upgrading a building will add +4 squalor to your city? Is it because the city isn't big enough and I have to expand before upgrading? Or is it a permanent issue once I reach a certain size?
Doesn't look like that "final" screenshot is running on max settings, but I could be wrong.
Just a mechanic to make you balance happiness, income and food in your provinces instead of just upgrading everything without a care in the world like in previous games.
Well the old games (medieval 2 and Rome at least) had unhappines from squalor. Espacially late game it would get really annoying that your towns were too big and not upgradable anymore.
Unhappy populace from too many citizens... one of the more regrettable things in those games
cripterion
Member
Nope I don't think so too.
You could compensate that by increasing garrison size iirc. With the limited armies in Rome 2, that's not quite possible and it affects the whole game, not just once you've maxed out places.
Yeah I think that's my favorite part of the general system. I've been less angry about the garrison nonsense now that I've increased my imperium. It's just another thing to manage and be cautious about on defense of the homeland -> conquering new provinces. It works pretty well, makes spies more valuable as scouts.
cripterion
Member
Going to restart a campaign, I really had no idea what I was doing with the city expansion and at this stage I'm pretty much just broke with ennemies left & right and general unhapiness in my towns.
I posted about it on the last page:
It's really irritating at the moment though. Conquered all of Britain and now look to expend into mainland europe but my Britania province (London, etc) has major public disorder per turn. Have to keep it on "bread and games" edict to even get it to equalize.
cripterion
Member
This one year per turn is brutal, I feel like the generals die too quickly, had a good one that had lots of xp just die of old age, and the other after that.... sigh.
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Later on I had them at a city with a port and they still wouldn't get off. I'll have to try again.
LiquidSolid
Member
And the size of your city doesn't matter? That's pretty bullshit. If there were ways to solve these kind of issues, I wouldn't care, but just throwing an obstacle in your way and telling you to deal with it is pretty shitty. Especially when I still feel like I'm still fairly early into my campaign.
Squalor's always the thing the completely killed my interest in RTW once I got to a certain size.
Sorry, must've missed it. I completely agree, it's pretty shitty.
Something I hated about Shogun2 Generals rarely died of old age or illness so i embrace generals dying quickly
Alessandro
Member
Got this on Carthage, Olbia and Syracuse. Everyone just idle and nobody attacks. I can't either except if I don't wage war to every unit who's currently on siege.
Regarding squalor: too many buildings gives you penalties on squalor. Want to upgrade your port? Squalor. Want to upgrade your barracks? Squalor. Everything squalor.
Thank god city levies are enough to crush them rebels.
On a side note: AI takes forever before ending turns.
Regarding squalor: too many buildings gives you penalties on squalor. Want to upgrade your port? Squalor. Want to upgrade your barracks? Squalor. Everything squalor.
Thank god city levies are enough to crush them rebels.
On a side note: AI takes forever before ending turns.
I had this one veteran who got 90+ bonus xp to all my troops in the army per turn. I was heartbroken when he died. But at least everyone was rank 7-9 by that point.
But there are ways to solve them. You just have to build order increasing structures next to food/money increasing ones so you don't end up in the negative.
Atraveller
Banned
I just restarted the campaign, early in the tutorials, and I found out I can't save. How do I save?