Total War: Rome II

[jakonovski]

I'd like to play it but I have Napoleon and Shogun 2 with full DLC sitting on my Steam account, almost untouched.

[Paelos]

Patch 5 was huge, so I'm posting that as it was the most recent big update:

[HaemishM]

That was patch # FIVE? 

[Paelos]

They are working on number SEVEN.

[Teleku]

Again, only when somebody here is brave enough to publicly state the game is worth playing again, will I try it.   

[Phildo]

It's like we're all sitting around a table, daring each other to be the first to break.

[Paelos]

If it gets below $40, I'm going to be that guy.

[Ceryse]

I'd recommend waiting until at least the Steam Christmas sale before biting the bullet. By then the number of patches thrown at it might have addressed most of the major issues (but also likely adding others, this is CA, after all).

[Paelos]

Oh that's the plan. I'm not crazy enough to get it in the autumn sale.

[Paelos]

Patch 7 came out this week. They are working on 8 and 9 now. I think 8 is going to hotfix the shit the 7 broke. 

The major complaints are still that the FPS is bad, and the performance on the whole is bad. Fans on the forums have expressed major disappointment that they've removed features that made the previous Rome fun, while focusing entirely too much energy into the graphics and soldier facial expressions, which almost nobody notices when you are controlling 1,000 troops.

[Draegan]

Almost bought this on a bored snowy Sunday. Glad I came here first! Sorry for bumping.

[WayAbvPar]

No, it is a good bump to warn off anyone else. Also to get an update from the suckers people who already bought it.

[Paelos]

No, it is a good bump to warn off anyone else. Also to get an update from the suckers people who already bought it.

If it's in the deeply discounted territory of the winter sale, I'm probably going to be a sucker.

[Teleku]

I pre-ordered it.   

I was so pissed off at it after the first few days of play that I haven't touched it since.  Again, only when somebody is willing to step before everybody on this forum and say that it's been patched into a somewhat decent game will I re-install it.  As I wrote earlier in the thread, just............ bleh.  Can't understand how they went from Shogun 2 to this.  Sounds like they are at least attempting to salvage it, which is nice.  But that still wont fix some of the really stupid shit like dumbing it down not only from the original, but dumbing it way down compared to the game they just released before it. 

[Phildo]

I picked it up again a few weeks ago, but I'd been drinking so my analysis is suspect.

I did eventually get to capture that one city that the AI kept re-sieging, though, so at least that was better.

[Paelos]

http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Total_War_ROME_II:_Patch_8

Patch 8 is out.

[Paelos]

No, it is a good bump to warn off anyone else. Also to get an update from the suckers people who already bought it.

If it's in the deeply discounted territory of the winter sale, I'm probably going to be a sucker.

I pulled the trigger at 50% off. I'm a sucker. I have to get the new computer I ordered up and running, and then this will be the first thing I try.

Reports coming in 2014.

[Phildo]

Godspeed, sir.

[Paelos]

Here's my report. It crashes my brand new PC to bluescreen within 20m of everything I try. Sooooooooooo, I'm probably going to ask for my money back.

[Ginaz]

Here's my report. It crashes my brand new PC to bluescreen within 20m of everything I try. Sooooooooooo, I'm probably going to ask for my money back.

Through Steam?  Good luck with that.

[Trippy]

They may do it just this once but if he tries it again in the future they'll probably just ban the account and all his games will be gone

[Paelos]

Well I'm gonna try making sure drivers are updated, etc.

[Mithas]

So this is on sale again, this time 50% off. Is it worth it yet?

[Speedy Cerviche]

The people at twcenter.net still seem pretty angry about it.

[calapine]

So this is on sale again, this time 50% off. Is it worth it yet?

I don't think so. They are on patch 9 (or more) now, but game is fundamentally flawed, beyond mere bugs.

[Paelos]

I've yet to play it without it bluescreening my system. My brand new system I bought at Christmas.

[eldaec]

So this is on sale again, this time 50% off. Is it worth it yet?

My advice, which applies to all total war post Rome questions, is to play the original Rome game, and forget any later games in this series ever existed.

[Paelos]

Unfortunately my old Rome game won't play nice on the new systems. I don't know if it's age or the Windows 7 problems working with it off Steam.

[Mithas]

I thought the new Shogun had its moments. I really would just like to replay the original Medieval, but I don't believe that runs on Windows 7.

[HaemishM]

I've enjoyed all the games since Rome, especially Empire and even Shogun 2. But they really are just unmitigated disasters bug and performance wise, and they've gotten progressively worse with each new game. What exacerbates the problem is that they don't ever seem to really get the game's fixed before releasing 1) a new game and 2) selling expansions and tons of DLC.

[Phildo]

I loved the shit out of Shogun despite the bugs, but I still can't bring myself to boot up Rome 2 again.

[calapine]

New unit DLC coming out, including such gems as the:


the Beehive Onager, Scorpion Pot Ballista and, even better...Snake Pot Ballista.

 

[Speedy Cerviche]

haha wow, what a mess of a game.

Hard to conclude at this point they haven't taken a TW Empire like step backwards in the series. Before they followed it up with two games which were more popular (NTW, STW2), although they accomplished this by mostly scaling back the scope of those games compared to Empire.

[ShenMolo]

Shogun 2 (with radious mod) is the only game I still play with any regularity.

I almost click on Rome 2 in Steam about once a month, then I come here to check to see if I should.

[Sophismata]

They've all been rubbish since Medieval: Total War.