SmashLovesTitanQuest said:
Guy from the 80 said:
BLAHwhatever said:
3rd patch is in beta
AI still sucks though
I'd wait
This x100 billion.
I've uninstalled the game already (the game is bad and I got a ssd harddrive with limited space) because playing was absolute pointless. Heres my campaign on normal :
-Conquer neighbours while other factions sits still and watch.
-Conquer neighbours neighbours while other factions sit still and watch.
-Outnumbered? Sue for peace, build up forces, declear war rinse and repeat.
I've conquered most of Europe without breaking a sweat.
The AI attack each other though, but theones that are hostile to me just got their stacks sitting in one place doing nothing. Being used to Paradox games the lack of AI made me rage quit.
What difficulty setting are you on?
I can't get a peace treaty no matter what I do. I've managed to sue for peace like twice in my entire campaign and that usually involved offering ludicrous amounts of money.
I play Very Hard, as I always do, because the AI sort of demands it. I have played as Rome, Egypt, Carthage and Athens. I expected it to be a brutal gang-rape and semi-save scumming like Shogun 2 was, when the AI spawned massive armies after turn six and every battle had to be fought on Manual, as Auto-Resolve would get you crushed.
Well, sorry, but that didn't happen. The game is laughably easy compared to Shogun 2. In Shogun, no matter which faction you chose, you get
CRUSHED unelss you play aggressive yet manage your allies well (and ally frequently) to keep them off your back. In Rome 2, the AI..Well, like stated, ignores you, more or less. Sure, they can build massive armies for free, but they do nothing with them. They sit with 80 units of basic infantry/slingers and guard their tiny little village, content with doing nothing at all.
And, though this might only be a problem with the Roman faction, by turn 40, I was making 10.000 every turn and had nothing to spend it on. By turn 70 I had 200.000 in the bank and could still rarely bother to spend anything, as you can only have so many armies at the same time.
Shogun 2 is a challenge. Rome 2, so far, while a nice game with new ideas, isn't. And I LOATH what they have done to Shogun 2's diplomacy. It isn't Epic Fail. It isn't "Worst. Game. EVAR!". It's just not as interesting as Shogun 2 in terms of hanging-on-by-a-thread-at-the-egde-of-your-seat-challenge. It's not even regular challenge.
I'm a great Total War fan, by the way, and have spent hundreds of hours in every game released since Medieval 2 (Except Empire), so feel free to ask me anything you wonder.
Edit: Actually, I am going to continue to muse a bit over how easy the game is compared to Shogun 2. Shogun 2, the first twenty or so turns on VH, you did best to save every turn. You were often at war with several factions at once, and if you didn't move to capture a new city in order to get the economical growth to keep up with the AI, if you played peacefully and slowly, then the AI would simply out-grow you and then step right over you in a few turns.
You had to backstab your neighbor while using an alliance to keep your back guarded while using a Ninja to keep a third clans army stationary so it couldn't capture the very city you left defenseless.
Left defenseless because the only way to take on the AI was to pool all your resources and mount a massive balls-to-the-wall attack. Shogun 2 was all about playing factions out against each-other, because you could never, ever, take more than one or two on at the same time in the early stages (and sometimes not in mid-game either).
In Rome 2, alliances are once-again rather laughable.
