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Slaists, what game is this? I've only found this to be true for naval movements. On land I routinely have AI invasion forces coming onto my territory in FM and maintaining that stance until I obliterate them. They even use FM to come right up to settlements that I have armies in.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slaists
In other news, I posted the patch notes to the Wonders and Seasons patch in the HatG thread and there are AI changes!
They definitely do what Slaists says in Legendary.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Hmm... haven't played on legendary since patch 4 or 5, and since DEI is balanced for normal I haven't played anything other than that for months. However, as far as I know the game's difficulty has never actually affected tactical decisions by the AI (I wish it did). Then again, from everything I've seen and read about this release from the day it dropped it's become evident to me that the game behaves differently on different machines. For example, the survivability of the historically powerful factions like Rome, Carthage, etc differs from machine to machine pretty significantly in some cases.Quote:
Originally Posted by Myth
*Wanna give everyone a heads up on the new patch- There seems to be a bug in the new mod manager that will appcrash the launcher after the update. You might even get the game to launch once, but after you accept the EULA for Twitch, it'll kick you back out and the launcher will crash. I finally got around this by unsubscribing from all my mods and then manually removing any remnants from my data folder. Hope they hotfix this ASAP as I simply can't play the vanilla game.
Fought a couple of battles in the snow though and it was pretty cool. Running speed really reduced.
I have no mods, just vanilla game, very hard or legendary difficulty. What I described was happening in patch 10 version of the game. But I have seen the same behavior since patch 7 or so. Before that, the AI was much more careless about FM. Now, the AI does occasionally stumble into the range of my unhidden armies, but that happens rarely. In those instances, typically there is some "third" factor that throws the AI off: another hostile faction's army, for example.Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
On the downside, the AI unfortunately does not see city garrisons as a threat. They do not mind parking armies in FM stance right next to empty cities. Of course, this allows me to pop out a general, hire some mercs (if needed) and drag the city garrison in as reinforcements (in an ambush battle).
I have also come to suspect that the AI is not as "all seeing" as we assumed it was. If my army is deep inside my territory and away from trade routes, the AI does on occasion run their FM armies into trouble.
As to the new patch: the move point reduction for armies on the high seas is very noticeable. Need to change my starting strategies ;)
On my part: after a few (too many) hours of late-night play: I am pleased. Of course, jumped in with Carthage on VH.
Relations map at start, 272:
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Within the first few turns, Syracuse, Edetani, Celtici, Garamantia, Morocco, Rome, and some other desert tribe declared war. Keeping allies and client states alive was quite a challenge.
So, here's relations map in some 20 or so turns, Punic war in full swing:
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Seems like not much but it took some doing. At some point, Carthage itself was in danger (garrison led by a single general, besieged by a full stack). For one, the AI no longer blindly storms into your walled settlements. At times, they just decide to lay siege and starve your garrison out; very different from patch 10 (and before). Given the stretched out position of Carthage and money problems of Barcids (barely any trade) this can result in scary situations as Carthage is not always able to send reinforcing armies in time.
The fixed replenishing pool of faction mercenaries (and the extra replenishing mercenary slots in terms of the 5 new units) is a lifesaver for Carthage though: now, can recruit crucial troops in crisis situations. Thumbs up for that. This definitely gives extra flavor to playing as Carthage.
stated up 2 different games one with nervii and one with Egypt and no force march =/
Are you using mods? I am playing a Carthage vanilla game and can use forced march. The AI uses it too. Maybe some mod takes FM ability away.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kamakazi
The FM is definately there, but i think they have limited the distances the armies can move in both FM and normal.
I believe, the move point nerf applied to armies traveling by sea. Should not have affected armies on land.Quote:
Originally Posted by nearchos
On a side note: an undocumented feature of patch 11 seems significantly increased life expectancy for agents and generals. Now, my generals and agents tend to reach 70-80 years of age rather than die off in their 50s.
DeI does, some so called hard core mods do. There are also the multiple tpy mods that take it away because the game needs to be slowed down >_>Quote:
Originally Posted by Slaists
Patch 12 beta released. Notes spoilered;
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Still working that siege AI. Hope something positive comes from it.
Anyone know what the latest patch to a patch did? Btw, if you're running beta 12 you got an update today. haha
Not like I consider CA terribly mod friendly any more, certainly not in comparison to pre-warscape, but I got to say, releasing a product in the state R2 did and then patching it a dozen times has to be on the very last nerve of anyone valiant enough to mod this thing.
I suppose the biggest one is this:
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It used to be quite easy to pop-out 4 elephant general armies in a backwater town that just got a visit from a far-away AI army in forced march stance. Invasion repelled... No longer possible, it seems ;)
I guess I'll go on waiting for them to fix agent spam. Until then I've shelved this one. I've just got better things to play frankly, namely ME2.
I am playing as Lusitani now: a VH campaign started with patch 12 beta. I have expanded all over Iberia, Gaul, North-Western Africa; about to roll into Italy. I have yet to encounter the agent spam. I think since the start of the campaign (now it's turn 100), I have been successfully hit by the AI maybe three times. That's hardly an agent spam.Quote:
Originally Posted by easytarget
Lucky you, last two campaigns I ran in CIG and HaTG I ran into never ending waves of them. Until I see it as a line item in the patch notes this one is tabled far as I'm concerned.
I suppose the way I play has something to do with lack of agent spam as well. I rarely have more than 1 close-buy enemy faction (the one that I am actively fighting). Remote enemies rarely bother sending their agents to my lands since there are plenty of allies of mine available before those agents find their way into my territories. I also use ambush stance whenever I can (as in, I advance my armies in ambush stance even if I leave them on the roads). Agents rarely bother armies in ambush stance.Quote:
Originally Posted by easytarget
This agent spam was coming from all over the map, have you played CIG? The campaign starts at near RD and then relations only get worse over time. The stacks and the agent spam come from everywhere. I had 50 flipped agents, another at least 50 I killed. This was outside of one province.
And stance has little to do with this, I never have issues with agents seriously impeding my armies, I take all the flipped agents along for the ride to flip some more or kill'em off when I get tired of them.
The volume is the issue, and one that could be easily corrected, just set a cap per AI.
CA response: mod it
My response: Adults recognize and acknowledge mistakes - and the first and biggest one made by CA was failing to do a beta and uncovering all the game play issues
I suppose it's not a cap per AI but rather a cap of how many AI's can throw their agents at you on the same turn. In CIG you are likely to have many AI enemies each of whom have their own fill/cap of agents. Having said that, no, I have not played CiG (not interested in the setting), but have played HaTG: did not experience the spam problem there.Quote:
Originally Posted by easytarget
Easy you and I think alike in many regards, but 'adults' the world over can't get their heads around that one, so it's no surprise to me that CA can't either. Personally I just can't stand waiting for lame people to do the responsible thing when I know it's highly unlikely, so I take matters into my own hands whenever possible. In this case it's mods to get a better game experience. Believe me, I don't think this is an ideal situation and certainly don't think that it's something paying customers should feel they have to do in order to makeup for how poorly the entire game was executed... but to me this entire fiasco revealed CA to be largely incompetent. They simply can't fix this game, it's beyond their capability. Any improvements they happen to make to the game at this point I'll put down to pure happenstance.Quote:
Originally Posted by easytarget
Slaists, out of curiosity do you run any mods normally? I can't even remember what vanilla R2 was like, I gave up on that mess by the 2nd patch.
Nope, I do not run any mods with RTW 2: plain vanilla game, which has improved a lot with the latest patches (compared to patch 2: it's a different game now).Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
The only time I use mods in TW game is when a major team-effort project rolls out that adds substantially to the gaming experience. Examples would be: Rome Total Realism and Europa Barbarorum for Rome 1, Stainless Steel and Broken Crescent mods for MTW 2, Imperial Splendor (sorry, Darth) for Empire Total War, etc. Such in-depth mods usually take very long time to develop [took several years for EB I] and it's too early for such to appear for RTW 2.
I generally do not touch singe modder mods just because I feel those are not sufficiently tested. A slight preferable change on one end of the game, can introduce undesirable ripple effects on another, etc. On top of that, I best enjoy TW campaigns when I play against another player (MPC head-to-head mode). Balancing various mods across both players can get troublesome. Easier to stick with the vanilla version of the game.
I recommend you give DEI a try after they release v.90. It's a pretty significant (and complex) mod, there's quite a lot on offer in terms of game improvements. I run my own mod along with it that tailors a few things more towards my personal preferences, but those guys have done a pretty remarkable job so far. You should definitely experience it, I think you'd dig it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slaists
Hi guys,
Over the past few patches (9+) I've now got this animation stuttering. The FPS are fine but the battles just stutter constantly on all settings and all sizes of battles.
Do you guys have a heads up on the status of this problem?
9 patches is too long a time for a bug or incompatibility to persist in the game. What are your system specs? My guess:Quote:
Originally Posted by AussieGiant
#1: Not enough system resources
#2: Unsupported graphics card
#3: Outdated graphics card drivers
#4: Outdated system drivers (BIOS, motherboard, Windows update)
Check your RAM usage with RTW 2 on and without it (there is a windows gadget that you can enable on your desktop that continuously monitors usage). It could be that something other than RTW 2 is clogging up your RAM and/or CPU. Other than that: Myth gave you a good checklist.Quote:
Originally Posted by AussieGiant
In my case, I was experiencing frequent BSOD's. It turned out that even though my video drivers were up to date, my BIOS was 10 versions behind... (face-palm). No more BSOD's after BIOS was brought up to date.
BTW, related to that RAM usage: RTW 2 tends to have leaky memory. This means, it leaves junk data in your RAM after every time you play the game (and exit it). In due time, this can clog up the RAM considerably. The easiest solution for that: a reboot.
Hi there Myth, Slaists,
Thanks for the quick response. I have a GTX 690, i7 960 overclocked, 12 GB Ram and the Nvidia 335.23 driver version. I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate. It's an old gaming machine and is still pretty relevant.
I didn't have the issue prior to the last few patches so it seems to be a new issue.
I'll check how much resources I'm using when I play next.
Any other ideas as I think I'm well inside the machine specs for the game. I'm using medium settings from the Gforce Experience software so I'm not running any where near max settings?
The overclocking might be the culprit here.
I agree with Myth. Don't know how long you've run your CPU at overclocked cycles, but what may have been stable in the past is often no longer the case as a processor gets older. Have you checked your temps while the game is running? Easiest thing to do is just run it at regular speed and see what happens. Otherwise your machine is capable of running it fairly well I'd imagine, mine is a straight up bucket of bolts in comparison and it runs the game obscenely well in most cases for what it is.Quote:
Originally Posted by Myth
Hi there fellas. The machines is from MainGear. https://www.maingear.com/
It's been overclocked since I bought it 4 years ago and the machine has been running the game fine since it came out last year and most of the first quarter of this year. It's only been in the last month or so where I've started to see this issue. A quick search indicates it's a known issue but I wasn't certain if any of you guy's had the issue before and therefore knew of a specific fix. I can't seem to find anything specific only.
Trouble shooting is always a pain :-)
Thanks for the helps guys!
Has anyone had their settlements attacked by enemy spies at sea before? Nasty little bug, I came across it for the first time since launch in a recent campaign. Was gonna post pics but why bother, it's pretty straight forward. I run mods so I'd like to know if any vanilla players have experienced this sheeeeiii...