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| 19 NOV 2006 at 12:00pm |
William AmosCenturion
Posts : 848
Joined: 22 APR 2004
Status : Online | I dont have the horses to run this game and that is the only reason I havent bought it.
That said I do look foward to this. I have heard many of those who were hard on RomeTW saying this is an improvement. And there is already talk of many mods to this to improve things even more.
I say give it a chance when you feel its the right price for you. I have to wait to upgrade my computer first (and I need to do that for many other games as well) so I will look forward to getting it in the near future.
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| 19 NOV 2006 at 12:30pm |
OlegCenturion
Posts : 360
Joined: 15 MAR 2004
Location: HR
Status : Offline | How is the multiplayer in MTW2? I heard the MP server browser is improved and that it's now much easier to find MP opponents for a quick game or two - is this true?
Oleg
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| 19 NOV 2006 at 12:31pm |
kellysheroesCommander
Posts : 1722
Joined: 29 OCT 2003
Status : Online | No one knows yet Oleg they can't get it to work properly like RTW was out of the box. lol
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| 19 NOV 2006 at 1:54pm |
OlegCenturion
Posts : 360
Joined: 15 MAR 2004
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ORIGINAL: kellysheroes
No one knows yet Oleg they can't get it to work properly like RTW was out of the box. lol
Yes before it was patched RTW MP was buggy to the point of being unplayable.
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| 19 NOV 2006 at 2:53pm |
marvingardCommander
Posts : 2826
Joined: 13 APR 2007
Location: 0
Status : Offline | After one good night of playtime, my impressions of MTWII is that is essentially a supermod of RTW. There is nothing in MTWII that feels or plays new. There are improvements over the essential gameplay of RTW (such as tactical AI), but there is no comprehensive improvement, and most of it is cosmetic (confessedly beautiful). No amount of patches will quell my general uneasiness that I have paid for a supermodded RTW. It feels even less medieval than the first one, and continues to bore me to death watching sluggish campaign engine animations, pointless dynastic events and uninspired dialogue.
Those are my initial opinions, which are pretty close in line with my initial predictions. Besides, I bought it for the mods.
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| 19 NOV 2006 at 4:04pm |
Thogs AxeCenturion
Posts : 260
Joined: 30 NOV 2005
Status : Online | MY biggest disappointment is that it only allows a very few playable factions, and no way to play any eras other than 1080. Now, maybe the option exists, but I haven't seen it and the manual is unclear. Being limited to just 5 factions, and not able to play some of the more interesting factions, is a huge hit to me.
Generalissimo Thog
Strategus of Illyricum, Dacia, Germania, Thrace, and the Crimea, Friend of the Avars, Bulgars, Poles, Latvians, Lapplanders, and Kotrigur Huns, and Chief Pimp of the Rhubachian Navy.
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| 19 NOV 2006 at 4:11pm |
William AmosCenturion
Posts : 848
Joined: 22 APR 2004
Status : Online | MY biggest disappointment is that it only allows a very few playable factions, and no way to play any eras other than 1080. Now, maybe the option exists, but I haven't seen it and the manual is unclear. Being limited to just 5 factions, and not able to play some of the more interesting factions, is a huge hit to me.
I believe like Rome you have to play awhile to unlock other factions
Is also the option of editing to unlock more
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| 19 NOV 2006 at 4:16pm |
Thogs AxeCenturion
Posts : 260
Joined: 30 NOV 2005
Status : Online | Quite possibly, but that limitation has always annoyed me, and I don't want to muck around in the data files as soon as I get the game to get access to parts that I want to play. That's just stupid. I've done mods, they're fun, but I'm not always in a tinkering mode. Give me my toy and get lost.
Generalissimo Thog
Strategus of Illyricum, Dacia, Germania, Thrace, and the Crimea, Friend of the Avars, Bulgars, Poles, Latvians, Lapplanders, and Kotrigur Huns, and Chief Pimp of the Rhubachian Navy.
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| 19 NOV 2006 at 4:19pm |
kellysheroesCommander
Posts : 1722
Joined: 29 OCT 2003
Status : Online | I agree it's a very childish programing feature to have unlocking factions in the first place. CA sold out to the kiddie crowd and consolelike crowd with RTW....why would they change now? The dumb money is rolling in.
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| 19 NOV 2006 at 5:09pm |
Hartford688Commander
Posts : 1246
Joined: 20 JUN 2004
Location: NL
Status : Offline | ORIGINAL: Thogs Axe
MY biggest disappointment is that it only allows a very few playable factions, and no way to play any eras other than 1080. Now, maybe the option exists, but I haven't seen it and the manual is unclear. Being limited to just 5 factions, and not able to play some of the more interesting factions, is a huge hit to me.
Irritating, yes. Just like SimBin's GT Legends. Excellent sim, daft console decision. Fortunately both can be got around.
The process for M2TW is set out here - very straightforward:
http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=72056
The Sicilians are great fun.
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| 19 NOV 2006 at 5:40pm |
FlickJaxCenturion
Posts : 598
Joined: 5 OCT 2005
Status : Offline | ORIGINAL: kellysheroes
I agree it's a very childish programing feature to have unlocking factions in the first place. CA sold out to the kiddie crowd and consolelike crowd with RTW....why would they change now? The dumb money is rolling in.
Why don't you just leave all us kiddies alone, we are obviously not as all knowing as yourself!
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| 19 NOV 2006 at 5:59pm |
IronXCenturion
Posts : 967
Joined: 25 JUN 2011
Location: CA, British Columbia
Status : Offline |
ORIGINAL: marvingardns
After one good night of playtime, my impressions of MTWII is that is essentially a supermod of RTW.
I agree. But we should bear in mind that the game is actually M[b]2[/b]TW, not MTW2. It's really Total War 1.5 rather than 2.0.
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| 19 NOV 2006 at 7:50pm |
GusingtonGeneral
Posts : 18089
Joined: 16 AUG 2004
Location: US, USMA
Status : Offline | AFAIK, there are 3 time periods to choose from: Early, Late, and High Middle Ages. There is also the option to play a 'short' campaign, conquering only 15 provinces instead of the 45 in the grand campaign.
I agree that having unlockable factions is stupid, but it is very easily modded. Regardless, IIRC the final count of playable factions is 17 out of 21 total.
I'm glad my character uses a shield because I may be taking a bashing here soon.
- Rayfer
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| 20 NOV 2006 at 2:19am |
KushanCenturion
Posts : 376
Joined: 2 MAR 2006
Status : Offline | And when the unpacker is release next week with the patch, the total faction limit is 31!
I've found MTWII enjoyable, way better the RTW. And so far its proven more moddable, but until we get the unapacker all we can do is edit campaign settings.
Kushan
Hard pressed on my right. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking. - Ferdinand Foch -
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| 20 NOV 2006 at 5:59am |
OlegCenturion
Posts : 360
Joined: 15 MAR 2004
Location: HR
Status : Offline |
ORIGINAL: Oleg
How is the multiplayer in MTW2? I heard the MP server browser is improved and that it's now much easier to find MP opponents for a quick game or two - is this true?
No one tried multiplayer? Just a small peek at the MP browser? [&
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| 20 NOV 2006 at 6:02am |
FlickJaxCenturion
Posts : 598
Joined: 5 OCT 2005
Status : Offline | Played online yesterday, up to 8 players and a nice interface once you get past the gamespy log on.
Played a 2 player game no lag which was great
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| 20 NOV 2006 at 9:20am |
Zad FnarkCenturion
Posts : 39
Joined: 13 MAR 2008
Location: US, WI
Status : Offline | Does anyone know how to reset the movies. I think my son hit the "don't show me anymore" box to the spy infiltration movies, and I don't know how to get them back. I can't see any obvious 0/1 flags in the config files.
Thanks
ZF
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| 20 NOV 2006 at 10:48am |
Zad FnarkCenturion
Posts : 39
Joined: 13 MAR 2008
Location: US, WI
Status : Offline | Nevermind...
By some great coincidence, the questions came up on the MTW forums.
In case anyone cares:
[link=http://p223.ezboard.com/fshoguntotalwarfrm55.showMessage?topicID=7772.topic]Re-Activating Cutscenes[/link]
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| 20 NOV 2006 at 10:54am |
marvingardCommander
Posts : 2826
Joined: 13 APR 2007
Location: 0
Status : Offline | And when the unpacker is release next week with the patch, the total faction limit is 31!
Good, now the modders can bring back Aragon... maybe even split Castile and Leon. I love early Spain. Going there next week. Maybe they can add the Cilician Armenians, Georgia, Bohemia and Burgundy split-off factions, Florence, Croatia, Serbia, the Outremer crusader states, Teuton/Knights of the Livonian Order, etc. etc. []
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| 20 NOV 2006 at 11:14am |
GusingtonGeneral
Posts : 18089
Joined: 16 AUG 2004
Location: US, USMA
Status : Offline | Going there next week ? [X(]
You magnificent bastard...why even bother with the game until you get back, then? Nothing can compare to the real thing.
My wife spent 3 months in Barcelona before I knew her and almost didn't return []
I'm glad my character uses a shield because I may be taking a bashing here soon.
- Rayfer
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| 20 NOV 2006 at 12:02pm |
marvingardCommander
Posts : 2826
Joined: 13 APR 2007
Location: 0
Status : Offline | Going there next week ?
[] Yep... Madrid only though. My fiancee said she might take me to Avila though. She lived there for two years, and the Canary Islands for two more.
She leaves on Wednesday. I leave on Saturday. So that means I have three days of M2TW marathon playing... though I'll probably get a little bored before then. It feels too much like RTW right now. Just not very 'new' feeling.
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| 20 NOV 2006 at 12:16pm |
GusingtonGeneral
Posts : 18089
Joined: 16 AUG 2004
Location: US, USMA
Status : Offline | I wouldn't know...still haven't received my copy [:@]
I'm glad my character uses a shield because I may be taking a bashing here soon.
- Rayfer
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| 20 NOV 2006 at 12:35pm |
Barkhorn1xCenturion
Posts : 513
Joined: 1 OCT 2003
Status : Offline |
ORIGINAL: Gusington
I wouldn't know...still haven't received my copy [:@]
Dude, where DID you order from? [&
I feel bad for you. Anyway to cancel ang go buy at BestBuy? I did and got a $10 GC included w/ my purchase.
Barkhorn.
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| 20 NOV 2006 at 12:38pm |
Barkhorn1xCenturion
Posts : 513
Joined: 1 OCT 2003
Status : Offline |
ORIGINAL: Thogs Axe
MY biggest disappointment is that it only allows a very few playable factions, and no way to play any eras other than 1080. Now, maybe the option exists, but I haven't seen it and the manual is unclear. Being limited to just 5 factions, and not able to play some of the more interesting factions, is a huge hit to me.
Just unlock 'em. Here's how:
Specifically, to unlock, do this:
- Locate the following file: descr_strat.txt file
- The file is usually located in:
C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign
- First, make a backup copy of the file, just in case.
- Second, change the file so that it is not read-only. Right click on the file, choose properties and untick "read-only". Then, edit the file using a text editor.
- Delete lines number 10 and 11, ie: Code:
end
unlockabe
- Save and you are all set.
Barkhorn.
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