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Spino
02-08-2003, 20:15
Most seem to be the original screenshots used in that UK PC Gamer article while a few are completely new.

Enjoy http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wave.gif

http://www.strategyplanet.com/totalwar/screens.shtml

http://www.strategyplanet.com/totalwar/images/armyfield.jpg

http://www.strategyplanet.com/totalwar/images/outofthefields.jpg

http://www.strategyplanet.com/totalwar/images/raining.jpg

http://www.strategyplanet.com/totalwar/images/romanvsroman.jpg

http://www.strategyplanet.com/totalwar/images/romaninvasion.jpg

http://www.strategyplanet.com/totalwar/images/romancavalry.jpg

http://www.strategyplanet.com/totalwar/images/units.jpg

http://www.strategyplanet.com/totalwar/images/horsesandflags.jpg

http://www.strategyplanet.com/totalwar/images/climbingwalls.jpg

http://www.strategyplanet.com/totalwar/images/chargingcavalry.jpg

http://www.strategyplanet.com/totalwar/images/city.jpg

Quasi
02-08-2003, 20:32
Wow, completely blows you away doesn't it? Just one quetion, what kind of machine could POSSIBLY run this game? Provided max army size stays relatively the same how in the world are you going to get a decent frame-rate with 20k fully 3D soldiers running about? My system (1.6GHz P4, 1GB RAM, Geofore4) cries when I get into a sizable battle in MTW as it is.

Stormer
02-08-2003, 21:02
erm i think iv seen these before.

solypsist
02-08-2003, 21:19
moved to Colosseum (RTW forum)

ICantSpellDawg
02-08-2003, 21:31
Quote[/b] ]My system (1.6GHz P4, 1GB RAM, Geofore4) cries when I get into a sizable battle in MTW as it is.

i think you may have some other problem then - maybe some huge memory leak - im running at the same stuff (nowhere near as much ram on a 1.7 amd athalon and total war runs like butter - every game does in fact - Mafia, europa, medal of honor etc

The One Wraith
02-08-2003, 21:52
GREETINGS *sob*
http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mecry.gif

This is the ultimate in torture......
So close, yet so far away.

I watch the trailer about 50 times every hour.

_Martyr_
02-08-2003, 21:56
Quote[/b] ]My system (1.6GHz P4, 1GB RAM, Geofore4) cries when I get into a sizable battle in MTW as it is.

What??? That is a fine system

Im running MTW on a p3 800, 384 sdram, geforce 464mb pc and I have no problems

One thing that I found out that really improves performance is to turn sound acceleration right down on dxdiag, the difference is amazing http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif And there is no noticable deteriation in the sound of the game either

http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif I seriously cant see how you have any problems with that system at all Plus ive read that RTW will not be such a high performance needer as thought It will most likely run well on your system if you just tweak it a bit http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif

MiniKiller
02-08-2003, 22:23
Wow...system req.?

Anyway reminds me of Kessen

What factions will be present?

*imagines STW in this form*

Quasi
02-08-2003, 22:28
All other games run quite smothly on this system. I wouldn't say it runs by any means but I still get some slowdown during certain battles (mostly when zoomed out) but other times its very smooth. I guess its just the inconsistancy in framerates that bothers me. It might just be my imagination, but I thought it should run much better for a game that uses 2D sprites.

I'd still love to see the proposed system requirements for RTW. Those soldiers look [b]very detailed. I thought for sure CA would skimp on detail since there would be so many objects on screen at once.

On a side note, don't the seige engineers in the third shot look like schoolgirls? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif

Dramicus
02-09-2003, 00:33
Quote[/b] (Quasi @ Feb. 08 2003,15:28)]On a side note, don't the seige engineers in the third shot look like schoolgirls? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif
OMG Your right

lol, but I would say more like girl scouts... there are some things that only a women can take care of... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif

Dramicus
02-09-2003, 00:37
I just noticed something else...

Check out shot #4 and look at the soldiers' armor, it looks like if you have superior armor and weps they are going to be visiually represented by your men...


... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/shock.gif ... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif ... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Monk
02-09-2003, 02:02
i found these pics last weak when i first saw them i screamed out "Son of a bitch thats awesome" i then wet myself and passed out for 3 hours ( http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif ).i was gonna put them up here, but got side tracked and forgot. oh well im glad to see somebody else got around to it.

p.s: id like to take this time to say that i didnt really wet myself or pass out

p.s.s: look at the dif pics, now look at the legions armor. it seems that the Upgrades are shown on the battle field as Dramicus said.

i would also like to take the time to answer the questions that arose inthis forum (even tho ive answered them so many damn times http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/angry.gif )

System Req: To play RTW you must atleast be able to run MTW, my old comp of 800mghz, Gforce2 32mb, 128 ram. could run MTW smooth and with no problems. and it was about 2 years old (with 1 or 2 upgrades)

Timeline: ive heard RTW will take place from about 246 b.c to 14 A.D (DONT QUOTE ME ON THIS) its only a rumor.

Factions: Rome (duh&#33http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif, Greece, Egypt, Carthage, Barbarians (what clans are yet to be announced)but im guessin Celts and Germanic, And the Succeser Kingdoms, and maybe a couple more as the months go bye.

that is all i have to say...

Toda Nebuchadnezzar
02-09-2003, 11:29
Quote[/b] (MiniKiller @ Feb. 08 2003,15:23)]What factions will be present?
Well known factions include:

Romans
Greeks
Carthaginians
Gauls
Visigoths
Egyptians


Naturally the game will have 3 Era's like MTW - Early High Late - and other factions will be present in all of them. But to a different degree.
So don't forget in the "late" period there are 2 romes...Rome and Constantinople.

Explain: In the early empire the Huns were not a threat because they had not moveed West yet. But in High, they were getting there, and in Late they were a major threat.

I'd like to see the Iberians, the Celts, the Huns, the Persians, and the Galatians.

(Galatia was an empire founded by the Gauls who attacked Greece sacked Delphi then moved into Asia Minor (Turkey))

Magyar Khan
02-09-2003, 12:23
dont let shiny jewelry blind u, its about teh intrinsic value of the gold, wait till its gold and ur able to play

Tempiic
02-09-2003, 14:23
Yeah I would really like to see the Celts split as Ghauls, Celtiberians, Galatians and British Ones (dunno the name of that group, though the Iceni spring in mind http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif)

Ostrogoths, Frisians, Parths, Numidians (though i think these will be a form of sub-units for the Chartagenians i think), Etrusks, Sembians, Franks, Berbers, Longobards, Vandals...

Could make 4 era's perhaps

Early (founding of rome - rise of republic)
High (fall of republic - rise of empire)
Late (split of roman empire into two parts)
Fall (Western Roman empire doesnt exist anymore, only eastern part... Kingdoms of the Visigoths, Franks, Bourgondians, Ostrogoths and Vandals have taken western part over)

Hmmm think we will have a "The Great Migrations" Expansion pack dealing with 8 or so main germanic tribes who moved into declining roman empire under pressure of huns and other circumstances.... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

JeromeGrasdyke
02-09-2003, 15:30
Hi people... I'd thought that the min spec issue had been discussed-to-death, but apparently not, so here's a little more detail on the the kinds of machines we run at CA: the average programmer dev machine on the Rome team is currently a 1.6 GHz Athlon XP with 512 Mb ram and a GeForce3. The lowest spec test machine we're using right now for Rome is a dual P3-500 with a TNT2, so P3/Athlon will probably be required in the end. Hopefully that helps a little...

Rome actually runs quite a bit faster than Medieval in big battles because of non-graphics-related things. This is all still preliminary though; we're still hard at work on Rome, and we've only just started optimising. The min spec is not nailed down yet but it's is a really important issue for us, and rest assured we'll do our utmost to keep it down.

On to content... we've said in the PC Zone UK preview that it will be more or less 260 BCE to 10 CE - the main campaign will be the rise of the Empire from the Republic, including Civil Wars and the various reforms of the Roman army - Velites/Triarii/Hastati vs Marius' mules and so on. We'll probably include an option to play on after you've won, but that's where the artists' time ran out http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

There's loads of juicy stuff in that period: the Punic Wars, Hannibal, Spartacus, Pompey, Caesar in Gaul just to name a few of the big ones... add more historical depth and it's almost more than we could cover in one game. But we may stretch that a little in the historical battles, to include the Teuteberg Forest ("Varrus, return to me my Legions") and maybe one or two other notable battles http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/cool.gif

And about sound in Medieval: it really does vary a lot from card to card, and motherboard to motherboard as well. We've heard from QA that on quite a few machines software sound outperforms hardware by a huge amount, because of issues with streaming loads of sounds across the bus to the sound card. It's definitely worth experimenting with this one...

Catiline
02-09-2003, 19:16
That time frame excludes the Visigoths and the Huns. Hopefully there'l be some Parthians to make a nuisance of themselves

Galestrum
02-09-2003, 23:03
please please please, playing a game about rome where we only get to the beginning of the empire is like getting teased by a beautiful woman all night and going home alone http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mecry.gif

we really need to be able to slaughter the huns and germans

at least let us mod it http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smokin.gif so we can go past 10 CE http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

and if need be, put the empire in an expansion

CleverClothe
02-10-2003, 06:50
Wait a minute... those city dwellers live in straw huts... but have HUGE STONE WALLS?

Swoosh So
02-10-2003, 10:32
Sparticus was real?

JeromeGrasdyke
02-10-2003, 11:29
Quote[/b] (CleverClothe @ Feb. 10 2003,04:50)]Wait a minute... those city dwellers live in straw huts... but have HUGE STONE WALLS?
Picture this... here are these barbarian tribes, happily minding their own business in the middle of Gaul. Then the Romans come along and conquer them. Now we've already said that you can build stuff on the campaign map and it gets reflected on the battlefield: what you're looking at here is the Romans having hastily built a city wall around their new conquest... The settlement automatically gets upgraded to look Roman after a while as well, just not immediately http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Knight_Yellow
02-10-2003, 11:36
good good

but jerome u dont just hastily construct a massive stone wall.

by the pic i would live in a hollow in the wall looks safer.

Rosacrux
02-10-2003, 11:37
Quote[/b] (JeromeGrasdyke @ Feb. 10 2003,04:29)]Picture this... here are these barbarian tribes, happily minding their own business in the middle of Gaul. Then the Romans come along and conquer them. Now we've already said that you can build stuff on the campaign map and it gets reflected on the battlefield: what you're looking at here is the Romans having hastily built a city wall around their new conquest... The settlement automatically gets upgraded to look Roman after a while as well, just not immediately http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
OMG... this is too good to be true... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/eek.gif


Errr... Swoosh So, no he wasn't real, there's this guy Kirk Duglas, he was Spartacus, you see... errmm.. ahem... right http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

BlackWatch McKenna
02-10-2003, 20:01
SwoooooooOOOOshhhh.

Yes, Swoooshy, there is a Santa Claus:

Revolt of Spartacus:
The real Spartacus was a freeborn provincial from Thrace, who may have served as an auxiliary in the Roman army in Macedonia. He deserted the army, was outlawed, captured, sold into slavery, and trained at the gladiatorial school of Batiatus in Capua.

73 BCE: Spartacus escaped with 70-80 gladiators, seizing the knives in the cook's shop and a wagon full of weapons. They camped on Vesuvius and were joined by other rural slaves, overrunning the region with much plunder and pillage, although Spartacus apparently tried to restrain them. His chief aides were gladiators from Gaul, named Crixus and Oenomaus. (map)

http://www.vroma.org/~bmcmanus/spartacus.html

Nobunaga0611
02-13-2003, 10:02
Yeah I think I'm gonna have to for sure get a new computer sometime soon, so I think I'll wait a bit till this game comes out. As is now, I just barely meet the minimum specs.

Dramicus
02-14-2003, 01:10
ARE YOU GUYS LISTENING??? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

For the last time

IF YOU CAN RUN MEDIEVAL: TOTAL WAR THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO RUN ROME: TOTAL WAR

Sorry if i seam a little rude but it just gets me when i see hundreds of posts that say: "ohh, Im gonna need a new computer" or "what kind of monster machine are we going to need to run this?"

Do you people ever bother to read the info given to you by CA on the main site and the kind CA employees who find the time to answer the same questions over and over again. It is clearly stated that if your comp can run medieval than you will almost surely be able to play rome They even state that rome will run even BETTER than medieval in some cases... to all of you who say this isnt possible, think for a moment... why not? Did it ever occur to you that maybe, just maybe, that a game or engine can be programed in such a way that you get exelent graphics and preformance without needing to have "godlike" hardware?

I again apologize but either some people need to read more or they are just ignorant...

Magyar Khan
02-14-2003, 02:16
well i bet u need a faster pc....

Monk
02-14-2003, 03:06
no matter how many times i tell people, and devs say it, no body takes the time to actually read the posts. its a sad day when people dont listen to others. oh well, think what you wish. go ahead and run out and buy yourself a $2000 comp and find out when RTW comes out you didnt even have to. ill be siting here lmao at ur post saying how u screwed up and u hate how u neglected the words of others who just happen to know what their talking about.

My comp specs:
P4 1.7 ghz
256mb RAM
Gforce2 64mb

runs MTW with not a bit of trouble. so i dont worry bout System Specs for RTW. happy PC hunting for all those who refuse to listen to me.

Nobunaga0611
02-14-2003, 04:52
Quote[/b] (Magyar Khan @ Feb. 13 2003,19:16)]well i bet u need a faster pc....

lol. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

Well maybe I should have told you my system specs before you started thinking I'm going to go buy something for $2000 or wasn't listening to what the devs say.

I have a
PIII 800 mhz
128 mb sd-ram
GeForce 3 TI-200.
Win 98.

So as you see I have the very minimum specs. I would like a bit of breathing room on the requirements, and since my computer is about 3 1/2 years old I think its about time. And if I don't build my own comp for around $500-600, I'll buy one from Dell for around $900-1000, never $2k. Not worth it.

Monk
02-14-2003, 04:58
i agree with you Nobunaga0611 it is always nice to have some breathing room when it comes to System Requierments. i just kinda get pissed cuz nobody ever seems to listen to me on this subject, even when i quote the words of a Dev im still questioned. *sigh* oh well.

Dramicus
02-14-2003, 05:09
Quote[/b] (Magyar Khan @ Feb. 13 2003,19:16)]well i bet u need a faster pc....
http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/pissed.gif ..... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

youssof_Toda
02-14-2003, 23:59
p667
128 MB RAM
TNT2 video-card

Runs the game like a charm.

Dramicus
02-15-2003, 17:18
hehe,

P4 2.4
512 MB RAM
Gforce4 4200TI

game runs better than a charm... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

some_totalwar_dude
02-15-2003, 21:21
AMD 1,7 gighz
256 mb ram
Gforce 2 64mb

I'm thinking about buying another 256 ram and maby a better 3d card. I know it wont need it, I can dispay 5000 units with about 25-30 frames/sec. But battles just look so much better with high frame rates http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif

Leet Eriksson
02-16-2003, 14:03
I run MTW with the 486,a small 9' monitor,one stick of 16mb ram,TNT and win32.This rig is the pinnacle of grafix and color

on a much more serious note:My rig is more than enough to run TW:Rome and keep a steady rate of fps with big battles on(hopefully)its P4 2.4GHZ,winxp,Ti4600 and 512 SDDram.i just wasted 1600 buqs on top of the 2000 to upgrade it.and its all built by me(not me but my pakie(no offence to pakies http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif)freind hes a tech wizz

Sjakihata
02-20-2003, 15:36
Quote[/b] ]IF YOU CAN RUN MEDIEVAL: TOTAL WAR THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO RUN ROME: TOTAL WAR


Right, so you're saying that my athlon 600 mhz, 128 SD ram, tnt2 machine will run rtw better than mtw, sure...


btw, I have bought a new comp,
amd xp 2600+ 333 FBS
radeon 9700 pro
512 ddr
asus motherboard

and other stuff inc. 19" monitor.

runs game better than better than a charm http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

youssof_Toda
02-21-2003, 08:39
Quote[/b] (Dramicus @ Feb. 13 2003,18:10)]ARE YOU GUYS LISTENING??? http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/mad.gif

For the last time

IF YOU CAN RUN MEDIEVAL: TOTAL WAR THEN YOU WILL BE ABLE TO RUN ROME: TOTAL WAR
Some of us have been here longer and know what is meant with: "you are able to run the game with the same specs as in MTW".

Magyar Khan
02-21-2003, 10:33
well they said nothing under what graphic or mapsize conditions.... first seeing than believing

baz
02-23-2003, 01:29
well ive never known a new game that does stuff previous version didn't on a lower spec machine .. but wonders will never cease http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif