Total War Megathread V.2: "All of Christendom Will be Awed by this Megathread!" - Games

[QUOTE=Orkel;35304344]No, as I said, I get small hiccups/freezes every few seconds that last for a fraction of a second, and the framerate between those is smooth. But those hiccups are annoying/distracting as fuck, happen both in battles and even in the main menu, and on both lowest and highest settings.[/QUOTE] sounds like a driver problem

[QUOTE=Orkel;35302127]What's wrong with Shogun 2. Even with low settings, I get small stutters. Like, the FPS goes smoothly but every couple of seconds it "hick-ups" a little and it breaks the smoothness. It doesn't matter whether the settings are on low or on ultra, it still does tiny stutters every couple of seconds with otherwise smooth FPS. And it seems to be a common problem. Surely this setup should be able to run it without stutters [I]on lowest settings?[/I] Not to mention high. Athlon II X4 620 Geforce 560Ti 8gb of RAM It even happens in the main menu.[/QUOTE] I think it's because it has to generate a fuck load of a lot of things, like people, facial expressions, and flash player.

[QUOTE=Sector 7;35304527]sounds like a driver problem[/QUOTE] I doubt it, I formatted and reinstalled everything less than 2 weeks ago. [QUOTE=Broguts;35304742]I think it's because it has to generate a fuck load of a lot of things, like people, facial expressions, and flash player.[/QUOTE] Even in the main menu? :v:

Menu is really badly optimized but try zooming out in battles and see if that works better.

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;35303069]Bows and arrows are obsolete as hell in FOTS.[/QUOTE] Not necessarily. The Bows have larger range than both matchlocks and rifles so it works that you could skirmish with bowmen and move in the swords and spears. I played my last campaign as a pro-shogunate and I tried to keep it relatively traditional. Battles were bloody but it definitely works. Of course, it requires a little more strategy beyond just lining men up and blasting each other until the other breaks.

Started an Empire campaign as Denmark. Last time i did so, i was best chums with both catholics and protestants and got rich within 5 turns. I couldn't pick any fights because people would just smile and give it to me. I've pumped up Campaign Difficulty to VH in the hope that someone will make my day.

[QUOTE=Face Melter;35304289]to be honest, i'd prefer the white bear over the super cost of the marines. every army i've faced with them i've managed to shoot down with white bear. also holy shit FALL OF THE SAMURAI IS AMAZING[/QUOTE] Just did a battle with my white bears against toza rifles and marines. it was pretty close, but they won, probably all the fifth level veterans in their army. Seriously, like half of them were level five!

Oh man, naval fire support. If you're defending in a siege, abandon your first line of walls right from the start. When the enemy starts clustering all their melee infantry on the wall, call a strike down. It'll blow everyone climbing the wall a good 5-6 stories up into the air, and the survivors will be scattered enough to make easy shots for your riflemen on the second wall.

[QUOTE=Jim_Riley;35307026]Not necessarily. The Bows have larger range than both matchlocks and rifles so it works that you could skirmish with bowmen and move in the swords and spears. I played my last campaign as a pro-shogunate and I tried to keep it relatively traditional. Battles were bloody but it definitely works. Of course, it requires a little more strategy beyond just lining men up and blasting each other until the other breaks.[/QUOTE] Bows and arrows are obsolete when armstrong/parrott guns are about. Also if you train up your European mercs a bit, and recruit them in a province with a firing range (And a gunsmith to boot) then they are absolutely devastating.

I've been playing as Prussia in Empire: Total war (on easy mode :/) with Darthmod. Shit's fun, although I can see how this is not as good as other games in the series. I beat the shit out of Poland/Lithuania, and I maintained decent relations with Austria until they randomly broke our alliance and declared war, and I was forced to kick their shit into oblivion. Now I'm pretty much the most powerful country in Europe besides Russia, France, and England. Russia is being a dick and they keep ravaging my eastern-most territories, and I recently lost a big battle against them. Now I'm bored, what should I do next? Take over Russia? Create a unified Germany? Beat the shit out of France?

Is there a way to make shogun 2 lighter? Everything is so dark. Something like a different shader or something.

[QUOTE=sami-pso;35308220]Is there a way to make shogun 2 lighter? Everything is so dark. Something like a different shader or something.[/QUOTE] Isn't there a brightness/gamma option somewhere?

How does FOTS play?

[QUOTE=Freakie;35308251]Isn't there a brightness/gamma option somewhere?[/QUOTE] I mean in a contrast way. I like the brightness of ntw where you can see your troops in fine detail. example: [img_thumb]http://www.gamed.nl/messages/148659.jpg[/img_thumb] [img]http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg13/scaled.php?server=13&filename=braunschweigerlinieninf.jpg&res=medium[/img]

[QUOTE=sami-pso;35308220]Is there a way to make shogun 2 lighter? Everything is so dark. Something like a different shader or something.[/QUOTE] I looked though and didn't find anything. I guess you could adjust your monitor settings if you wanted. Also, I just got a few medium-tier ironclads and RAPED UP the fleets that were bombing my capital. The glory of Satsumi begins again!

[QUOTE=Orkel;35302127]What's wrong with Shogun 2. Even with low settings, I get small stutters. Like, the FPS goes smoothly but every couple of seconds it "hick-ups" a little and it breaks the smoothness. It doesn't matter whether the settings are on low or on ultra, it still does tiny stutters every couple of seconds with otherwise smooth FPS. And it seems to be a common problem. Surely this setup should be able to run it without stutters [I]on lowest settings?[/I] Not to mention high. Athlon II X4 620 Geforce 560Ti 8gb of RAM It even happens in the main menu.[/QUOTE] Sounds like a problem with anisotropic filtering. Have you fiddled around with those settings?

[QUOTE=Nipplestockings;35307996]I've been playing as Prussia in Empire: Total war (on easy mode :/) with Darthmod. Shit's fun, although I can see how this is not as good as other games in the series. I beat the shit out of Poland/Lithuania, and I maintained decent relations with Austria until they randomly broke our alliance and declared war, and I was forced to kick their shit into oblivion. Now I'm pretty much the most powerful country in Europe besides Russia, France, and England. Russia is being a dick and they keep ravaging my eastern-most territories, and I recently lost a big battle against them. Now I'm bored, what should I do next? Take over Russia? Create a unified Germany? Beat the shit out of France?[/QUOTE] Hold your ground against Russia for a bit, build up at least 2 stacks, then attack their territories in the north and south at the same time. It would probably be a good idea to put Rakes in their cities too to incite revolts, because Russia has the hardest time keeping them down as they pop up out of nowhere all the time.

So I was moving to engage in a sea battle and one my gunboats sinks and dies. The hell?

[QUOTE=Sobotnik;35307979]Bows and arrows are obsolete when armstrong/parrott guns are about[/QUOTE] Actually, you're right in that case. Suicide missions to knock out the artillery ASAP with Cav is what I try to do but I imagine if I was playing MP, they'd have that artillery covered. Curse the traditions! Also, has anyone experienced crashing when starting a custom battle between FotS units and Shogun 2 units? It's done that twice for me already and I thought this game was somewhat backwards compatible?

[QUOTE=Bomimo;35308274]How does FOTS play?[/QUOTE] Like Empire... Empire on steroids, with armored sword infantry and big-ass castles thrown into the mix. There's not much better than gunning down giant sword-wielding samurai armies with rifles and Armstrong guns. The French marines even get bolt-action rifles. Also, naval battles no longer really rely on wind or boarding actions, and the HMS Warrior, the biggest ironclad in the game, is about the size of six Shogun 2 Nanban trade ships.

Yeah it's almost perfect. I loved the empire gunfeel and liked medieval combat, but the mix of the two is better than both.

I'm really enjoying Fall of the Samurai, but one thing is bugging me [B]so [/B]much. They [B]still [/B]haven't fixed siege defenses! I never thought I'd have to wait another 20 minutes while the enemy army sat clumped up at the bottom of the hill, refusing to attack me. Oh well.

[QUOTE=johnlukeg;35313359]I'm really enjoying Fall of the Samurai, but one thing is bugging me [B]so [/B]much. They [B]still [/B]haven't fixed siege defenses! I never thought I'd have to wait another 20 minutes while the enemy army sat clumped up at the bottom of the hill, refusing to attack me. Oh well.[/QUOTE] Yeah, that's extraordinarily annoying. BUT. That's nothing some long-ranged, high-powered artillery can't solve.

[QUOTE=ewitwins;35313505]Yeah, that's extraordinarily annoying. BUT. That's nothing some long-ranged, high-powered artillery can't solve.[/QUOTE] I then called in my navy artillery strikes on the guys clumped at the bottom of the hill and the game crashed.

That's what you get for not letting the AI be a dumbfuck how dare you!!

How do I make the game more interesting? Played co-op campaign once with a friend and after like 20 turns, it just ended up in him and me being superpowers and autocalcing every single sieges because it was our huge army against like 4 stacks of ashigarus defending a town, repeat ad nauseaum until the entire country is ours.

I wish they'd kept the deeper general system from Medieval II, it was fucking hilarious having some big fat bloodthirsty bastard rolling around getting scarier and scarier with every battle.

I remember my scarred, high dread, bloodthirsty, excellent attacker (or whatever that trait's called) general in Medieval 2. Even I was scared of him :v:

I don't know about Medieval 2, but in Rome the traits and stat things would effect the speeches the generals gave at the start of battles. So madmen would rave about bathing in the enemy's blood and stuff.

[QUOTE=cheesedelux;35315910]I don't know about Medieval 2, but in Rome the traits and stat things would effect the speeches the generals gave at the start of battles. So madmen would rave about bathing in the enemy's blood and stuff.[/QUOTE] Same in medieval 2