Chapter 5: Multiplayer trailer released!

[ETWUnofficial]

In case anyone hasn't seen it yet, Creative Assembly have released the 5th chapter of the trailer, the one for multiplayer. Link below:

http://www.empire-total-war.org/2009/01/empire-total-war-multiplayer-trailer-released/

[Fisherking]

Good video but the blog is really great!

Thanks ETWUnofficial

[Sir Beane]

Good find! I was just about to post this :P.

How are you people so quick with the news? It's unnatural I tells ye.

Perhaps this should also be posted in the Multiplayer section? I'll let you do the honors ETWUnofficial.

Things the Video Tells Us:

* A variety of customisable multiplayer modes
* Steam Achievements! (Yes! I totally predicted this!)
* Persistent online career
* Compete in ranked matches
* There are rocket launchers.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Heh, I'm a sucker for steam achievements, so maybe I'll try multiplayer this time.

[Thermal]

great find, what exactly are steam achievements what will it include? least impressive of the 5 videos but still worth watching, and it was indeed about multiplayer, but didnt mention a multiplayer campaign so much

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

Steam achievements are basically little medals you get for completing certain things in a game.

Here are the achievements for Team Fortress 2, a multiplayer shooter on Steam (http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_2/Achievements).

They're essentially meaningless, but when done with humor I find them pretty entertaining.

[Sir Beane]

Steam achievements are basically little medals you get for completing certain things in a game.

Here are the achievements for Team Fortress 2, a multiplayer shooter on Steam (http://strategywiki.org/wiki/Team_Fortress_2/Achievements).

They're essentially meaningless, but when done with humor I find them pretty entertaining.

Well said! They had better be funny. If the take themselves too seriously it really wont work at all.

I'm looking forward to witty little comments and joke awards rewarding me for doing rediculous things in-game. Like repeatedly killing my own generals with cannon fire for instance.

[Fisherking]

Well said! They had better be funny. If the take themselves too seriously it really wont work at all.

I'm looking forward to witty little comments and joke awards rewarding me for doing rediculous things in-game. Like repeatedly killing my own generals with cannon fire for instance.

Good Joke!

Now here is a History Lesson right up your ally.

At the siege of Fort Niagara(July 1759) Brigadier General, John Prideaux supervising his mortars, managed to place his head in the arc of fire from one of his own guns when it was fired. Command of the British army fell to Sir William Johnson. The French capitulated on July 26 after a French relief force was defeated at the Battle of La Belle-Famille two miles south of the fort.


It is important for Generals to keep their heads when under fire.

Also an example of when friendly fire isn’t .

[Sir Beane]

Good Joke!

Now here is a History Lesson right up your ally.

At the siege of Fort Niagara(July 1759) Brigadier General, John Prideaux supervising his mortars, managed to place his head in the arc of fire from one of his own guns when it was fired. Command of the British army fell to Sir William Johnson. The French capitulated on July 26 after a French relief force was defeated at the Battle of La Belle-Famille two miles south of the fort.


It is important for Generals to keep their heads when under fire.

Also an example of when friendly fire isn’t .

That must have been embaressing (for the fraction of a second before his head got blown off)! :laugh4:

I shall take heed of this warning and keep my General well away from anything that goes whiz, boom, or splat. :2thumbsup: Unless he has annoyed me in some way. Or I get really bored. Or if there really is an Achivement involving mincing your own side.

On a side note I find friendly fire to be one of the stupidest choices of term I have ever heard. Coming under fire is never friendly, unless the guns doing the firing shoot rainbows or chocolate (which I assume is rare in warfare.)

Calling it friendly fire diminishes the severity. There should really be a change in terminology.

[Megas Methuselah]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!! :wacko:

[Sir Beane]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!! :wacko:

I gather this is good news for you then Meths? :laugh4:

[Megas Methuselah]

Heh heh. Imma go buy a new Total War outfit for ETW. My old cape and sword don't quite fit in with this period... :smile:

[Fondor_Yards]

Anyone else kinda meh about the this one?

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

It's a little hard to sex up multiplayer - it's single player without the campaign but against real people (I'm purposefully ignoring the hotseat stuff because the trailer doesn't mention it).

I mean, some people probably really dig it, but it's fundamental. Kind of like a good pie. I mean, what are you going to say? "It has a sweet crust, and the pumpkin filling? Knock-out." There's not a lot of (new) features to talk about.

[Fisherking]

Heh heh. Imma go buy a new Total War outfit for ETW. My old cape and sword don't quite fit in with this period... :smile:

go here!

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?p=2108552#post2108552

[Thermal]

Anyone else kinda meh about the this one?

yes i am, and there better be a multiplayer campaign or else! :sweatdrop:

[ETWUnofficial]

Good find! I was just about to post this :P.

How are you people so quick with the news? It's unnatural I tells ye.

Heh, just a lucky check of the official site really. I had a spare 5 minutes at work so I'd thought I'd take a quick look... and then I got all excited :dizzy2:




Perhaps this should also be posted in the Multiplayer section? I'll let you do the honors ETWUnofficial.

Um, I'm not sure how to move it? I thought only mods could do that..


Things the Video Tells Us:

* A variety of customisable multiplayer modes
* Steam Achievements! (Yes! I totally predicted this!)
* Persistent online career
* Compete in ranked matches
* There are rocket launchers.

I am most excited about the rocket launchers... I love stuff that flies, is loud, involves fire and/or looks cool... and all the boxes are checked in this case :yes: :2thumbsup: :beam:

[Fondor_Yards]

Um, I'm not sure how to move it? I thought only mods could do that..



I am most excited about the rocket launchers... I love stuff that flies, is loud, involves fire and/or looks cool... and all the boxes are checked in this case :yes: :2thumbsup: :beam:

I think the ever modest Sir Beane is letting you repost it in that forum too. :thumbsup: The Brits had those rocket launchers in N2TW, they were fun but basically useless unless your super lucky. *Which alas, I am not and am just happy I didn't hit my own men.*

[Polemists]

So now that we have the last dev diary, what are we supposed to do for the rest of Jan. and all of Feb.?

I suddenly feel a great deal of despair.


I'll hope for demo.........

[Megas Methuselah]

Hope all you want, friend. I'm going to send hate mails to CA telling them to hurry up. Situations like this require action!

[Polemists]

So....let me get this straight


You think if CA hates us enough, they will give us a demo? :laugh4:

[Sir Beane]

So....let me get this straight


You think if CA hates us enough, they will give us a demo? :laugh4:

Well trying to make them like us enough to get one hasn't worked, so why not give it a go?

Or we could wait patiently, but where's the fun in that? :laugh4:

[Fisherking]

Well trying to make them like us enough to get one hasn't worked, so why not give it a go?

Or we could wait patiently, but where's the fun in that? :laugh4:

Break out the rum! Break out the gin! Toddy up some laudanum! Maybe a sailor has some opium?

By the time we are done awaiting this consarned thing we will all be as Mad as old King George!

Give a care CA!

You can’t depend on sales to madmen!

[Megas Methuselah]

:laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:

Oh man, we would make the best pirate crew evah!

[Sir Beane]

:laugh4::laugh4::laugh4:

Oh man, we would make the best pirate crew evah!

Seconded! I claim the boatswain position! Now all we need is a flag! And possibly a boat...

I suggest our first act of piracy be to raid CA HQ and make off with the latest version of Empire! Make US wait will they?

Let us break out the grog to celebrate!

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!

:pirate2:

[ETWUnofficial]

I think the ever modest Sir Beane is letting you repost it in that forum too. :thumbsup:

Ahh right :idea2:


The Brits had those rocket launchers in N2TW, they were fun but basically useless unless your super lucky. *Which alas, I am not and am just happy I didn't hit my own men.*

They'll be great for any joke friendly-fire steam achievements then! :2thumbsup:

[Fisherking]

They'll be great for any joke friendly-fire steam achievements then! :2thumbsup:

Look there Sir Beane!

You’ll have wonderful opportunities for “friendly fire”!

Keep those General in front of your cannon!

It is something I should have remembered to do in M2TW with all of my dangerously mad heirs…which were practically all my generals for some reason….


Oh my!!!

We may have our first exploit and we don’t even have the game yet!
:laugh4:

[Sir Beane]

Look there Sir Beane!

You’ll have wonderful opportunities for “friendly fire”!

Keep those General in front of your cannon!

It is something I should have remembered to do in M2TW with all of my dangerously mad heirs…which were practically all my generals for some reason….


Oh my!!!

We may have our first exploit and we don’t even have the game yet!
:laugh4:

Most excellent. :laugh4: Any General who offends me will quickly be seeing what a firework looks like from extremely close up. :2thumbsup:

In Empire we may just be able to fire poor Generals, but where is the fun in that?

Now if only we could load unpopular ministers or heirs into a cannon...

[Thermal]

lets make it happen :smash:

[Fondor_Yards]

Achievement Achieved!

Red vs Red, Blue vs Blue

Kill 20,000 of your own or allied men.

[Sir Beane]

Achievement Achieved!

Red vs Red, Blue vs Blue

Kill 20,000 of your own or allied men.

:laugh4: Excellent!

I really really hope we get funny, quirky achivements like these.



Achivement Unlocked!

Why oh why would you do this?

Lose the game by delibirately killing off your Royal family whilst playing as a monarchy.

[Thermal]

I hope there differcult to achieve as well, else everyone will get them in 2 days of playing, hmm a good achievment would be win a fight with a peasant/militia army against tons of elephants :idea2: