The Shogun: Total War thread!
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LightSpectra
me autem minui
Battle Report #1 for Shogun 2.
My thoughts: unimpressed. This was supposed to be showing off the enemy AI but they were soundly defeated by the obvious tactic of running cavalry behind the flanks.
My thoughts: unimpressed. This was supposed to be showing off the enemy AI but they were soundly defeated by the obvious tactic of running cavalry behind the flanks.
Jos Ballenbak
Zombiehunter, duh.....
It looked cool though... graphics were super sweet.
sophie
Break My Heart
Indeed. I like when they tried to "show off" the "new AI", by essentially playing like a bunch of morons.
And then they go all "WELP guess we better go with the tried and true tactic of obviously moving our cavalry around behind their lines". And then, to make matters worse, they sit there, for like 5 ****ING minutes and the AI did nothing to stop them. Loverly.
gangleri2001
Garbage day!!!
WTH!
I hope they were playing in very easy difficulty only to show the battle system. If THIS is normal difficulty, I think I'll keep playing the saga starter.
LightSpectra
me autem minui
I don't know who CA got on board to write their AI, but the whole team needs to be sacked. I remember Medieval II having superb AI, and it wasn't always assured that I would win an equally pitched battle because the enemy knew how to exploit its strengths against my weaknesses.
Contrary to this, in Empire: Total War, I've yet to play a single battle where the AI didn't make several critical blunders, such as marching their entire line bizarrely out of formation or not forming infantry squares. Napoleon is slightly better about it, but even on Very Hard I don't detect any real "intelligence" on the CPU's side.
Contrary to this, in Empire: Total War, I've yet to play a single battle where the AI didn't make several critical blunders, such as marching their entire line bizarrely out of formation or not forming infantry squares. Napoleon is slightly better about it, but even on Very Hard I don't detect any real "intelligence" on the CPU's side.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Until Empire they didn't have anyone specifically working on the AI. SUPPOSEDLY they had one guy dedicated to it in Empire, but that was not evidenced in the game.
CA really, really needs to hire at least one really good AI programmer because the AI is the weakest part of all of their games.
CA really, really needs to hire at least one really good AI programmer because the AI is the weakest part of all of their games.
LightSpectra
me autem minui
First picture of the Shogun 2 campaign map:
Spoiler :
sophie
Break My Heart
Well, that's a TW game alright. Who wants to bet the AI sucks?
Elta
我不会把这种
It's time to upgrade then bro, my computer is pretty *run of the mill and it handled it just fine.
Duo core 2.4ghz processor.
4 gigs of ram.
Nvidia 9600 video card.
Other than the video card, everything is pretty much the bare minimum.
I know not everyone has money to save up, but yeah you may want to try and save up for some upgrades.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Well it IS a videogame, so probably. Angry Joe did get Kieran to promise the AI will be capable of naval invasions upon release so we'll see.
As for the map, it looks nice but not a lot more demanding than Empire which is good.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Oh dear!
Ajidica
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Errr, you have already played Shogun II?
It's time to upgrade then bro, my computer is pretty *run of the mill and it handled it just fine.
Duo core 2.4ghz processor.
4 gigs of ram.
Nvidia 9600 video card.
Other than the video card, everything is pretty much the bare minimum.
I know not everyone has money to save up, but yeah you may want to try and save up for some upgrades.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Whoops, typo, fixed.
Elta
我不会把这种
No, I assumed you meant you computer slowed to a crawl due to the size of the photo in the spoiler.
But, I am positive my computer will run Shogun 2 with no problems.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
Meh, Rome 2: Total War will be a huge let down imo, until the good mods come out 
Ajidica
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Agreed. As much as I would like to see a Rome2, it will just ruin my memories of it. (Like playing as the Egyptians and see the Seleucids walk up the hill, then down the hill, then up the hill, then down the hill, and so on while never touching my battleline and all the while getting decimated by archers and onagers.
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