Deux

8/15/2008 10:58:59 PM

This thread/game is worthless until videos arrive!

8/16/2008 9:40:39 AM

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/empiretotalwar/video_player.html?id=JSNlkGev5b0EszLc&tag=videos;title;1

well I asked for it

actual game footage plz

8/16/2008 9:42:19 AM

I posted a gameplay video on the last page


http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/958390/empire-total-war/videos/ETW_081208.html

8/16/2008 10:07:25 AM

Some new land battle screens

8/20/2008 3:53:30 PM

Graphics look to.. bright/colorful, especially in the first pic. And that town looks way to clean.

8/20/2008 4:38:19 PM

I'm not big on the town either, mainly because it looks like 2 blocks of dense urban area just dropped in the middle of a field.

8/20/2008 5:15:23 PM

Quote :

"I'm not big on the town either, mainly because it looks like 2 blocks of dense urban area just dropped in the middle of a field."

Exactly.

Might be a result from to much time spent on ships

8/20/2008 5:34:56 PM

The towns have always been basically like that. I'd rather them add the naval aspect than overhaul the town system, personally.

And from what the video showed of naval warfare, I think I'll be spending a disproportionate amount of time at sea.

9/11/2008 2:23:30 AM

Land battle trailer

http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/958390/empire-total-war/videos/ETWLandTrailer_092408.html

It's looking incredible

Motion capture special:
http://pc.ign.com/dor/objects/958390/empire-total-war/videos/Empire_MoCap_052208.html

They are really going all out this time.

9/28/2008 12:02:00 PM

Looks like this game will encompass the entire world.

Gonna be interesting.

9/28/2008 1:45:24 PM

i'll admit....shit LOOKS good......too bad my computer doesn't have NEAR the hardware needed to handle it. oh well

9/28/2008 1:48:00 PM

^^ Apparently there will be three separate "world maps" that you can switch between any time.

Europe, Middle East, and North Africa; The Americas; and South Asia.

No China/Japan in this one, maybe for the expansion.

[Edited on September 28, 2008 at 1:56 PM. Reason : ]

9/28/2008 1:56:09 PM

Is this game going to be boring?

I mean the prospect of two armies lining up and shoot each other until one goes down isn't very exciting.

I do like Medieval Total War II though.

9/28/2008 2:09:38 PM

Did you watch the video?

You can charge in with bayonets at any time. There's also melee cavalry charges.

9/28/2008 2:21:41 PM

Can you say "fuck it" and just go with swords?

Drop in a roman legion and go ape shit.

9/28/2008 5:02:13 PM

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/empiretotalwar/video/6199980/empire-total-war-official-trailer-3?tag=videos;title;3

some interesting videos with a little more info

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/empiretotalwar/video/6202432/empire-total-war-road-to-independence-trailer?hd=1

[Edited on December 17, 2008 at 9:30 PM. Reason : dsa]

12/17/2008 9:28:15 PM

the naval battles look sweet

is this PC only, cause if it is I will need to seriously upgrade

[Edited on December 18, 2008 at 1:42 AM. Reason : .]

12/18/2008 1:37:53 AM

I doubt there will be an East Asian theater. During this part of history at least, the region was under Chinese hegemony. Things don't go crazy until after Napoleon. Therefore, I predict they'll probably do some kind of Napoleon expansion first. Or perhaps they'll do that and then the Opium Wars. Hmm...

I'm really going to need to get a new video card...

[Edited on December 18, 2008 at 2:05 AM. Reason : .]

12/18/2008 1:54:37 AM

crimea
british battles in africa

12/18/2008 10:26:51 AM

looks like they're actually rendering clouds too


the figurehead here looks really stupid


[Edited on December 18, 2008 at 11:23 AM. Reason : doh]

12/18/2008 11:22:10 AM

Demo now available VIA Steam.

Not sure about the rest of the tubes.

IT BEGINS!

2/21/2009 8:44:34 PM

SWEET

It will be mine soon!

2/22/2009 1:25:45 AM

I need to upgrade my comp if I am to run this to do it justice

2/22/2009 3:35:15 AM

The game feels odd. No idea what I am doing with the ships. We shall see how well this works out with the full version.

2/22/2009 10:05:01 AM

I need yous peoples thoughts.

I am "meh" with the demo.

I never liked the land battles of this era and the combat feels so slow cause all they do is shoot.

Convince me why this is good game play.

2/23/2009 10:18:46 PM

I can't get the demo to run!

I get the creative assembly splash screen, then the screen goes black, and stays for a few minutes. Then it just flashes up one of your standard "screwed up video" screens and I have to restart my comp.

2/23/2009 10:37:01 PM

Update drivers?

Format

2/24/2009 9:20:56 AM

Quote :

"I am "meh" with the demo. I never liked the land battles of this era and the combat feels so slow cause all they do is shoot. Convince me why this is good game play."

I agree. The demo battle was a big let down. It is also a little more tedious to set up your army, since it is much more important to have a good battle line.

2/24/2009 9:51:58 AM

I'm a longtime TW fan and I thought the demo was awesome. The only thing I didn't really like were the changes to the controls...and even that is an easy fix.

What is bad about it?

2/24/2009 11:00:41 AM

dling now

2/25/2009 7:06:19 PM

the intro movie is very choppy for me, well at least the first time i ran it, could have been related to another issue, ill have to try it again here....

2/26/2009 1:58:01 PM

land battle was a route, but the sea one is much much harder... my best result is losing with the damn frenchies only having 1 healthy ship and 2 really battered ones left, killing 4...

i think i need to focus fire with the ships, like, turn all of them at once just about to obliterate one ship then peel off hard and fast rinse and repeat.


also i think alternating line firing needs to be put in... firing by rank...
basically front line fires and starts to reload, second line fires while first is reloading, third line fires while second reloads and first finishes. then the first gets up and fires, repeating the process.

the rest of it is pretty money so far...

[Edited on March 3, 2009 at 12:12 AM. Reason : s]

3/3/2009 12:08:54 AM

focused fire is typically the best option in a situation like that. The more you take out with your injured ships alive, the more time you'll have to hurt the others when your ships start dieing.

3/3/2009 12:13:57 AM

The land battle is heavily scripted and purposefully easy the Devs have said. The battle AI is basically on "Easy".

The sea battle: I started off only firing broadsides....trying to time every one and maximize it perfectly...and lost. The second go-round I just let them fire at will for the most part and beat the French in a close battle.

Alternating line firing in land battles is in....it just isn't in the demo. Rank firing is a military technology that you have to research. There are other rank and discipline techs like fire and advance, etc. Cool, no?

3/3/2009 10:20:45 AM

Getting this today. I've got so many new games to play but not enough time

3/3/2009 12:26:28 PM

Steam is saying it won't be released until tomorrow, which makes me

I swear to God if it turns out I could've just bought this fucking thing in stores today I'm never using that service again.

3/3/2009 12:28:15 PM

Pre-ordered the special edition; I'm not a big fan of special editions in general, but I'm such a big fan of the Total War series, I made an exception for this. Just waiting for it to arrive.

3/3/2009 12:50:00 PM

I have my capstone/thesis to finish for my MPA, so I probably won't get this until April 3

3/3/2009 2:56:00 PM

Anyone else getting this game through Steam? I pre-ordered a few days ago, and I'm supposed to be able to start downloading it today, but it's still listed as "not yet released." I know from the Steam, SEGA, and total war forums that other people are downloading (albeit slowly), but I can't even start that.

3/3/2009 3:27:08 PM

ill drop in a store and see if i can get my hands on this...

3/3/2009 3:31:32 PM

I just want to say that it's 'too' not 'to'

3/3/2009 3:36:01 PM

Check their website....the North American release is tomorrow basically. Digital downloads are available tomorrow...retail ships today..(so good luck finding it). Basically you're shit out of luck til tomorrow unless you can find a walmart or something that gets it in and stocks it fast.

3/3/2009 4:38:01 PM

Yeah, I was starting to wonder if that might be the case. The discussion on the forums wasn't particularly clear, but after a while I noticed everyone was talking about spending pounds and euros...

3/3/2009 8:38:54 PM

I owned the ship battle the first time.

Second time I tried to get cute and go through the middle of the two fleets and got destroyed.

First time I just turn gradually right and told them to attack certain ships and won easily. Let them do what they do for the most part

3/3/2009 8:53:08 PM

Has anyone actually gotten to play the full game yet? My download started, but it couldn't go any slower if carrier pigeons were delivering the individual bits to me on tiny jumpdrives.

3/4/2009 3:42:03 PM

I started it last night and got to 100% or so Steam said...but it actually wasnt finished.

There is a bug where you can start and play the game with a partial download, and lots of shit will be missed and you'll CTD like crazy.

When you install, there is a 100 MB update also. Be sure that you don't try to play if it says 100% - 500 kb/s still.....it needs to say 100% - Ready.

It's taken me all day to get mine working, and I still can't play 100% yet.

3/4/2009 5:26:43 PM

mine works at least up to the menu portion, haven't had time yet to play it really

had to restart steam to get it going

3/5/2009 12:54:30 PM

I played it this morning on my fast laptop. I tried tweaking some of the settings and I'm surprised how choppy it is on my system, which runs other games liquid smooth. So far so good, I did both tutorials and I like what I'm seeing.

3/5/2009 1:58:17 PM

My preorder was backordered, but I got a note that they finally shipped it today.

3/5/2009 2:31:41 PM