/twg/ - Total War General

Cuque: Total War when?

can't wait to get 30 fps with a 1070

So a game called Oriental empires that mixes Civilization and Total War came out, apparently two of the guys who are working on it were the lead artist and lead designer of Medieval 2.

Anyone have experience with it? It's (((early access))) so I don't know whether to buy it or not.

youtube.com/watch?v=AVmRSQjb8iQ

guys I really want ancient empires to come out soon

>CA think its gonna have problems adapting Skaven
>Leave HE to last in their priority list
>All this shitstorm on the forum and reddit and people complaining about gates, unit stats, Martial Prowess, people tearing eachother's throat apart in the battlefield of"just wait for release guys" vs "helves are shit"
>Every new video throw more fuel on the pyre

Kek
CA fell for the "everybody loves reddit rats" meme card hard

Guys will we get STUFF today?

Will Ybor stay in my faction if I decide to convert, or will he skedaddle after I renounce Wodan?

Also, what religions are good in Attila? They all seem to carry some pretty harsh penalties with them.

>Tomb Kings still not announced

Every day until it happens.

>have a r5 1600 and a 1070
gonna get comfy

kill chaos

fucks sake wrong image

>Arch

>tfw i5 500 and HD 6850

Ah yes, the legendary battle of Aldorf. It shall be talked about for centuries as the two huge forces clashed for dominion over Reikland.

>Arch
If I wanted my ears to bleed from a woefully fake English accent, I'd hire a high class Latvian escort.

...

Now show us the field battle that drew the garrison out.

>tiles

Your wish is my command.

that was a little dicey actually

>no jezzails or ratling guns
>recycled attila concepts

the skaven look more constrained by budget than any of the other races.

I have 54 1070s and 18 rx580s
Should be good

I prefer these to normal sieges. Since I like playing beasts and chaos fighting a garrison + the army thats camping in the city + the army outside makes for great fights.

*crashes*

>he isn't bagholding for the ice age

everybody loves rats but they fucking failed with their shits mechanics

Many a true nerd is doing a series on it. You can watch it.

>recycled concepts
are you some sort of giga nigger?

>food and loyalty bar for generals
>not recycled concepts
>also "teleport rapto.... slave rats behinds you"

>concepts that are central to the race in the lore
>CA uses it.
>"w-wow, why didn't you invent completely new mechanics CA."

Also they did a half decent transformation spell for the fucking beastmen but the most famous one, dreaded thirteenth spell, is just another fucking summon.

OH FUCK HYPE

Why the fuck do you have that picture saved?

>not owning Attila
tsk tsk... tsk tsk....

CA doesn't give a single fuck.

The gate battles are literally the same old siges but the capture point is the actual gate.

You literally get the same siege wall but the massive defensive structure behind you is completely unmanned.

They just don't care, now I believe Darren 100% when he said they don't give a shit and would deal with the PR fallout later, but the PR fallout never happened for sieges and now we have this...fuck this series and fuck this fanbase.

>Malekith is posterboy of TW2

WELCOME TO NAGGAROND GENTLEMEN

>have the tools to make a better siege map
man up and start modding.

t. Darren.

Darren I can't wait to see your video today

My only hope is that someone who has the ear of CA like milkandcookies fucking shits on them for half arsing the fortress gates battle.

There isn't anything remotely unique/innovative about the gate battles and CA should fucking get creamed over such bullshit.

>indypride
>having CA's ear.

It doesn't work that way, the AI is hardcoded, whatever "tools" you're referring to are completely useless unless you mean to add decorations and other irrelevant shit to the gameplay.

>tfw my throng is mustard

>make it a properly realised battle around a gigantic gate
>cost: 200+ manhours
>potential revenue gain: zero
>make it just another siege battle with different assets
>cost: 10 manhours
>potential revenue loss: zero
Welcome to beeswax.

memebert was sucking his dick on stream yesterday.

You mean morghur turning people into spawn?

>darren doesn't know that modders have made siege battles that work on the campaign and battle map.

No, they haven't.

yes they have dummy.

Who the fuck cares about their revenue.

I want to play interesting siege battles. I don't gain any satisfaction playing shitty maps like these, but realizing CA saved money doing it this way.

Why don't they just get the interns to work in their spare time like they did for the 1v1 monster animations

I don't give a fuck about their revenue, I want a game that isn't trash

Dreaded thirteenth could just be modded to do morghur's spell but summon clan rats
The lowered health needed can just be the CUTTINGA BLOW even thought on tabletop it could be at any percentage

>user ask about the used recycled concepts
>answer to him with these
>user complaint again

The only thing we can't mod is getting naval battles to have spawned maps, but nothing stops making a naval map for custom battles, if you're doing a MP game

If you seriously want to make change you need to hire an army of Chinese to negative review the game on Steam.

I already gave a bad review, i can only do so much.

Unfortunately the majority of the warhammer playerbase are new to the series and have no idea how much they are getting fucked.

>but the capture point is the actual gate.
nein, you can't go to the Gate because it's just in the background, so it's just a normal siege

>siege battles that work

They *barely* work when the AI isn't shitting their pants trying to navigate a bridge/street.

post your review

What settings make the units themselves look good? I've got them on High but armour looks like shit especially on dwarfs

>Doctor Darren i am CA.

There's no setting for that, they look like shit on ultra too

>sieges work
>n-no they "barely" work
The sieges work fine. get a better CPU

So what exactly do you want? Troops on top of the giant walls being useless? Massive siege engines that would require more resources to put in the game and look terrible?

There's a pretty significant texture quality jump from High to Ultra, but even then a lot of units look pretty grungy if you go close.

>Who the fuck cares about their revenue.

If something isn't reflected in their revenue then they aren't gonna fucking do it

Surprise: CA is just as soulless as any other corporation. If you've convinced yourself that they're your "friend" or would ever do something for you for any other reason than that it earns them an extra shekel then you're a double-goy who bought into the marketing like a sucker.

>getting a better CPU will improve the garbage AI programming in sieges

At last I truly see.

this, they could make these gate battles autoresolve only, I don't giv a fuck, total war it's only fun in the strategy map and battles are boring.

Are you seriously asking what does he want? How about not recycling the same sieges across different "games" and even battle types? The "gate"battles are literally just sieges.

>garbage AI programming in sieges
>posts no actual proof
>just says his CPU slows down to a crawl when others are enjoying custom siege battles.

Dark Elves have been the most pleasant surprise of the WH2 previews.

CA adding gate battles is hardly bullshit just because it isn't what you or the community hoped for, they never claimed it was anything but what it is. They released the first game there's your standard for the other two.

Not him but even the most basic crossroad "siege" the AI shits the bed.

I get the feeling you're just baiting though since you said something as moronic as get a better CPU.

>says his CPU slows down to a crawl

I never said that you fucking retard, I said the AI programming is fucking retarded in most GCCM siege maps.

GCCM Marienburg, Middenheim, Talabheim, Nuln, Karak Eight Peaks to name just a few where the AI is terrible and cannot handle defending such a complex map.

because their mechanics fits with them, not like the skavens

m8 are you fucking retarded

his CPU has precisely zero bearing on the quality of the AI

No, I don't think they are my friend, that's why I don't care about their revenue. And it's why when they half-ass something as hard as the phoenix gate sieges I am going to be dissatisfied, and not accept it reasoning it would supposedly hurt their profits.

>total war it's only fun in the strategy map and battles are boring.
"wrong"

>these CPUlets with their zombie AI
Go Coffee Lake or Go Bust!

Is it just me or are Slayers not really that great

t.Darren

He's being sarcastic

>Malekith just strolling past queek on the stream

My fucking sides

They claimed it was a new fortress battle style. Take what you want from that and the lore on the High Elf Fortress gates but it really is a let down that they didn't even try to make them unique or take a chance to improve siege.

>not accept it reasoning it would supposedly hurt their profits.

That's literally the only reasoning that makes any sense
If making them would help their profits they would have done it, they clearly judged that it wouldn't so they didn't.

It doesn't matter if you care about their revenue or not because you don't matter, CA, and more importantly, Sega, do care and they're the ones that make the decisions.

Huge have you or Arch not known about this game? It's been around for a while

*RAUGHS*

They're the only reliable anti large the dwarfs have. They die like flies though.

Of course he matters, every customer or potential customer matters, just like all the chinese that left bad reviews mattered and forced CA to make a change.

The difference between the chinese and us is that we have cocksuckers like the bottom feeders in this thread making excuses for a business instead of review bombing it to get a change.