Empire: Total War

[caladein]

It's $25 again on Steam.  Tempted to pick it up, but does anyone know about the Warpath thing?

[HaemishM]

I saw the Warpath thing but haven't downloaded it. I have been trying it with the "A Proper Empire: Terra Incognita" mod installed. Playing as Savoy (tiny, one province country) and I've enjoyed the mod but not played it enough to give a yea or nay to the mod.

[Kageh]

I bought Warpath, but haven't played yet. Money-wise, it sounded like a better deal than MTW: Kingdoms back in the day, so I thought, why not. I just read the non-gunpowder gameplay is a tad tedious and people would rather want gunpowder factions instead.

[dusematic]

The vanilla game still sucks cock for a living.

[HaemishM]

NECRO! RISE RISE RISE!!!!

I've picked this back up the last few nights. They've patched up to 1.5, added some DLC (free and paid campaign) and I'm playing the campaign with a mod called A Proper Empire: Terra Incognita. It's pretty damn good, and also hard. It lets you play as one of the minor nations (I've tried both Savoy and Bavaria), has supply issues involvedi n just how big an army you can have sitting around, troops cost about twice as much and provinces have different maintenance costs. There are also changes to the combat. I like it and it's kicking my fucking ass.

[dusematic]

NECRO! RISE RISE RISE!!!!

I've picked this back up the last few nights. They've patched up to 1.5, added some DLC (free and paid campaign) and I'm playing the campaign with a mod called A Proper Empire: Terra Incognita. It's pretty damn good, and also hard. It lets you play as one of the minor nations (I've tried both Savoy and Bavaria), has supply issues involvedi n just how big an army you can have sitting around, troops cost about twice as much and provinces have different maintenance costs. There are also changes to the combat. I like it and it's kicking my fucking ass.

Fuck, I wish I was hardcore enough to fuck with mods.  I know I could theoretically do it, but I always just end up shrugging my shoulders and going to take a nap or making a sandwich or something instead.   FYI, don't be sucked in by the siren song to the vanilla game.  If your main impteus is to play the vanilla game, it still blows cock.

[Paelos]

Yep, I loaded vanilla, and nothing about the AI is good. Nor are the ridiculous victory conditions good. I went back and have been playing more versions of Medieval 2: Kingdoms, which I've enjoyed.

[HaemishM]

Fuck, I wish I was hardcore enough to fuck with mods.  I know I could theoretically do it, but I always just end up shrugging my shoulders and going to take a nap or making a sandwich or something instead.

Ummm, you download the installer, hit install, launch the game with the mod's shortcut instead of the main game. This is somehow hard? Granted, it's more difficult than that if you want to upgrade the mod to the latest version, but just to try it out... not that fucking hard.

[dusematic]

Yeah but who needs that hassle?  I don't like searching for the fun, I prefer it to find me.

[caladein]

Have you ever read anything about a game before buying it?

Figuring out what mods to try is the exact same thing.

[Engels]

I got a wierd one this morning; a few days ago, the game autoupdated in Steam. This morning, the idle-time virus scan says it detected a virus in the E:TW directory and promptly quarantined it. Probably a false positive. Anyone else got anything wonky that way? Oh, and it was JUST that folder. Rest of the system reportedly clean.

Edit: to be specific, it was the MS C++ runtime library SP1 installer file in the E:TW folder that was 'suspicious'.

[dusematic]

Have you ever read anything about a game before buying it?

Figuring out what mods to try is the exact same thing.

I don't really read about games either.  At this point in my life I know what's cool and what I'll enjoy basically.  Also, you're bound to get some info by osmosis if you're digitally connected at all.  Don't begrudge a man his apathy.

[Paelos]

I refuse to mod Empire because it was absolutely zero fun to begin with. The only games I've modded were ones that had some redeeming fun qualities on the front end, like Civ IV for example. Was it great fun? No, but it was playable. With the mods it was ridiculously fantastic. The same was true with Mount and Blade, Warcraft games, KOTOR, etc.

[NowhereMan]

Empire didn't really do it for me. I feel like I should go back and have another go at some point but the strategy part of the game has never really been my favourite part of Total War games. I always get really sick of it later on because checking 30 different cities to see if there are any needed upgrades and then starting on agents, etc. was maddening. Especially since Rome where generals and agents age and if I'm not doing something with them I feel like they're being wasted. The battles just haven't really grabbed me in the same way as watching barbarians crashing on Roman legions or knights charging down arab infantry did.

[dusematic]

I refuse to mod Empire because it was absolutely zero fun to begin with.

Yea, I think I tried to say this.

[WayAbvPar]

I refuse to mod Empire because it was absolutely zero fun to begin with.

Yea, I think I tried to say this.

That is funny- I read this thread when the game first came out, and then again when I found it on sale a couple of months ago, and everyone was raving about it. I saw that it was updated and was coming to post that I just couldn't get into it, and I find several posts along the same subject. I don't feel like such an outcast any more.

[dusematic]

Go re-read the thread.  I was one of the only voices of reason saying the game sat on cock for a living.  I think there's like 2 pages of me ranting about all the bullshit.

[HaemishM]

That's because we all know you hate the Total War games with a passion and love to complain about them, yet still you buy them and play them just long enough to bitch about how much they suck.

I still like the game. I like it better with the mods.

[dusematic]

Do we all know that?  Go dig up the Medieval Total War thread where I raved about the game.

[Brolan]

Isn't this the game that promised multi-player for the campaign game after release?  Did that ever happen?

[dusematic]

no

[taolurker]

Isn't this the game that promised multi-player for the campaign game after release?  Did that ever happen?

Necro post because there's finally a response to this.

http://www.totalwar.com/empire/beta/

[dusematic]

Wow that only took a year.

[jakonovski]

I have to say, after 20 hours the lack of AI got to me too. I have downloaded DarthMod and will try it as soon as I can summon the energy.