Gore unsatisfying

[Taffer]

I am probably going to get complaints about this post but here it goes. I bought MTW a couple of days ago and have run through several campaigns and custom battles. I decided to see how a huge pile of bodies would look in the snow so I made a custom game in which 4 units of German gothic foot knights faced up against 13 units of Spanish zealots (with full valor upgrade so they don’t run). After my foot knights transformed them into so much sausage filler (they're German after all), I found the battlefield rather lacking in eye candy. I once again bring up the old Myth series (which is graphically similar to Total War), which generally want not to impressive unless you had your dwarves blow huge chunks of undead thrall all across the field. I know, I know, 'its not supposed to be that kind of game' and 'if you don’t like it don't play it', but surely the must be some that sympathize with me.

[spmetla]

More gore would be nice but seeing as my computer is slow I'm happy the way it is.

And those gothic knights use maces, just think of them as gigantic meat tenterizers.

[Taffer]

Try turning sound completely off. I have a Celeron processor and the game runs entirely smooth with the sound off. I any technologically capable person could figure out how to make soldiers spill blood, I would be very grateful.

[spiffy_scimitar]

heh. Myth rocked. I feel your pain. What would even be cooler was if: when firing arrows on troops, those that hit but did not kill the soldiers would sometimes leave little blood pools. Same with contact from melee weapons which weren't failure (the computer rolls on whether melee misses/hits/kills, right?)
This way there would be blood without necessarily having a dead body always acompanying it ...

http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif not gonna happen...

[ltj]

ahhh, myth. i loved 1 & 2 to death. 3 was disappointing to say the least. :P

i'm fine with the aftereffects of combat; they're only sprites.

[BlackWatch McKenna]

Myth 2 was super fun.

I was BlackWatch there, too!

[Emperor Theodoripiklos IV]

Wish they would make a new Myth with the total war engine http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/wink.gif

[JRock]

It would be kinda cool if your knights would thrust their swords into fallen enemies to make sure they're dead. And it'd be cool if some of them cheated and did stuff like picked up some dirt and threw it in an opponent's eyes. Little animations like that would be sweet. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif

New unit: Unchivalrous Brigands. LOL

[This message has been edited by JRock (edited 09-11-2002).]