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Kraxis pointed out (and i agree) that the older wishlist was going over the same ground over and over again without achieving much except to express disappointment in CA for not making change x.
A wishlist, however, is a great idea and as such shall be reincarnated in this form. Post up any changes you want made, but don't bash CA or other members. Remember that you are posting your opinion, not the scripture.
Discussion and debate is fine, flaming is not.
Have fun ;)
I'd like to see my agents list organized by groups, merchants, spies, priests, diplomats, assassins, instead of the hodgepodge list it is now. As you train more agents it becomes quite tedious to find and use them with such a disorganized listing.
On that topic, i'd also like to see a feature which says 'agents near me' - you click on the map, and all agents within a 3 or 4 province radius are listed by order of proximity.
Also, and i'm sure this has been said before, but it annoys me enough that i'm tempted to include it in the buglist, grouped units should not attack the closest enemy when given an attack order, they should attack the one i tell them to!
Agreed, I would just add that option to sort them by age, skill, how much money they are making (for merchants) and similar stuff... And a number of them (you have 23 spies)Quote:
Originally Posted by Hosakawa Tito
Mounting/dismounting units :balloon2:
A total check-up of the upgrade models. Some units (like Byzantine lancers) have upgrades that look alike. Another unit is the Dvor Cavalry. There are others, but for the next few weeks, I don't have the time to do some serious searching and documenting. I do know that Byzantium and Russia could use some tweaking in that regard.
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Originally Posted by hoom
He shoots, He Scores!
and tone down the naval invasions, Portugal doesnt need to invade England when being hammered by Moors, Spain and France.
I want the _ex lines made workable.
That would make armour much more effective (padded will give 4 points then), and more in line with the units that have inherent armour.
I want a tougher campaign AI :(
Winning on turn 58 just doesn't seem right :embarassed:
http://users.on.net/~purdsa/temp/m2s.jpg
Fixes:
- Fix towers using wrong ammo
- Re-Introduce movement points indicator. Right now you just can't see any increased range on units, and it's timeconsuming to check your agents' movement points.
- Fix reinforcements not arriving for command because one or two men/horses still off-map
- Fix the errors being reported to system.log.txt;
There are lines and lines of trigger errors. Overall much of the game mechanics seem to not work as intended.
Tons of content files seem to be missing. Maybe a flawed install-routine/copy protection issue?
Suggestions:
- Bring in the much-demanded 3D city view
- Show what type of towers are on the wall
- Bring in a "action available" indicator for agents (diplomats/spies/assasins) so it's easier to see if they have a free action or not (on top of above-mentioned movement point indicator).
- Make retinues mostly transferrable, not rarely. It used to be a great new feature being able to tweak commanders to my specific needs in Rome that I am now totally missing in M2. It seems odd one assassin can't transfer his "famous blade" or "prototype pistols" to another for instance. IMO cities only corrupt generals.
- Let the player pick the prince.
Wrap-up
The first update made things a lot better. Thanks for that. But there still is much to be done.
1. Boiling Oil?...........is that not in game any more? Cos my patch v1.1 doesn't have it.
2. Why can the enemy, walk up to my gate, and the gate opens magically for them????
They have no one in the castle, gate is not destoryed. I have a complete unit in the gate house, and it's not even been attacked.
Again, unit cohesion....
PS: I'm back Kraxis, well i never left, just to busy to mod, or be involved in a large way. :laugh4:
@fenir
1. It's never been in m2tw - it was far too overpowered in rtw
2. They have a spy in the settlement
@chrisky
All your fixes are in the buglist already, but thanks for bringing them up again.
Then a 'welcome back' is in order I suppose.~:wave:
I would like spears to be more resistant to cavalry charges, at least head on. And I would like that most units would not get trampled from the front by light cavalry.
My wish is that they fix the frekin game :thumbsdown:
An Amen on the mount/dismount during setup.
Also, I'd really like the AI to have better garrisons and using it's full allowance of free militia garrison units in particular.
And my pet peeve, the generals speech to be played during setup. I hate waiting several minutes doing nothing yet I really wish to hear the hilarious speeches.
Grab Shaba Wangy's simple mod to the AI and diplomacy.Quote:
Originally Posted by sapi
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=72471
It's turn 45 (VH/VH) as the English, and i've barely got out of England. The Scottish built up and grabbed Dublin and Iverness, and shelled in and resisted me for a long time.
One of the key features of the mod is that the AI's are smart enough to realize that, hey, lets not attack other Catholic factions first. Lets attack rebel factions!
Within a few turns, every single rebel reigon will be grabbed up unless it's so strong it can resist for that much longer (But they usually don't)
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I think one problem that wasn't addressed much post-patch is the much more aggressive AI, and the total lack of actual borders.
Discussed in my thread here:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=75549
Simply: The AI is now more aggressive, and will attack more often. However, often it just lands stacks where and when it likes, without attacking. There is no way to get them off your lands without attacking. The player is required to obtain a military access in order to move it's troops onto other faction's lands, and those factions have no reprocussion to moving troops onto his lands.
Everyone agrees that a diplomatic option is in order. Warnings and threatened penalties are definitely called for. Also, the ability of factions to attack trespassing troops and not be deemed the aggressor AFTER diplomatic options are used by the Pope is also important.
The AI has a habit of leaving two stacks outside an Allied city for no good reason untill it just happens to decide to attack and the player must spend gobs and gobs of money to make sure if an attack occurs, it is defenseable while the other factions wear down on the other fronts.
It's not game breaking that this happens but it's probably my biggest complaint.
Can we get an AI pursuit mode? At the end of a battle it would be nice to have the AI clean up as many prisoners as possible on 3x speed. Unfortunately, if you put groups on AI during the pursuit phase they all stop and regroup before moving. I envision a pursuit mode where all allied units would just charge the closest enemy and keep charging until the end of the battle.
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Originally Posted by www2
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Productive.
My wish list is for either the next patch or sometimes it's just for the series in general.
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Those pikemen could be made a bit more like the phalanx units from RTW. How I used them in RTW was pretty nice, but using them in M2TW plain sucks, as you know they change arms instead of making infantry kebab. Just reuse the old phalanx, because it worked.
Repost: to organize unit cards on the campaign map by dragging and dropping to facilitate viewing of armies' varieties and strengths.
Repost: optimization of engine.
Option to auto-recruit spies in settlements if existing one dies.
Option to auto-recruit priests.
Less heretics and witches. At some point they aren't a nice gameplay element at all nor a challenge: they are just a nuisance hindering enjoyable gameplay.... unless you're a masochist who enjoys pain and suffering playing this game. Or just get rid of heretics and witches totally.
Obvious: improve diplomacy, or otherwise in the expansion.
To crush enemy/neutral/allied agents with army units or kick them out with army units.
To engage in diplomacy using family members.
More settlements/regions on map (otherwise in expansion) though I've seen a mod about this, which looks very interesting and promising.
Unless you have the higher assassin buildings, assassins are still underpowered. With +1 subterfuge I couldn't clean up a rebel captain. Below 60% ain't nothing.
When an assassin has a chance of 95% he should always succeed. He should even succeed at sabotaging an assassins building when at 95%. If you mean to make it harder to sabotage an assassins building because it has assassins and spies in it (or it's connected, whatever), lessen the showed chance, don't show 95% like with all the other buildings that will ALWAYS go down anyway.
Include 100% for assassins, like with spies.
When your spy infiltrates a settlement, show its vital information directly on the campaign map like you'd see with your own settlements. This saves time and effort: it lets you know you have a spy in there, and you don't have to open the settlement to see information (unless detailed information is what you want).
Optimization of the engine.
More factions.
Optimization of the engine.
Give assassins greater view radius. Or better yet make one unit: a combination of a spy and assassin, so no need for two different ones.
When a spy infiltrates a settlement, give the option to 'Spy' or to 'Cause Unrest' (or both obviously). Sometimes you don't want them to cause unrest.
Option to choose your battle time limit.
AI in battle sometimes leaves a small number of forces standing in a corner, even if the rest has already routed. They don't stand a chance anyway, so the battle should be over. I saw one man standing in a corner. Had to look for him. It's only annoying.... unless you like getting annoyed playing games. I thought they were supposed to bring a person joy.
Optimization of engine.
Pike use optimization: instead of "spear wall" have them set to their most effective mode from the start. When selected and you click once, they move slowly, double-click they move fast. But there doesn't have to be a special option: only takes time and micromanagement. When engaging the enemy they automatically lower their pikes and move slower. This way you can close in on them without having to use special option.
They should automatically switch to other weapons if they got closed in on.
All long weapons should have bonus against cavalry.
Repost: "Get Off My Land".
New gameplay element of spies/assassins: they should be able to kidnap an enemy family member (or other valuable character) and you could then demand ransom money or some other "diplomatic" demand. This allows for beautiful dirty play, hah hah! And a powerful bargaining chip.
Of course this spy/assassin mission would have the typical chance of success shown in percentage.
Fix the movement of cavalry. When pursuing routing units they don't always cut them down, but just stay behind them and let them run, or they just suddenly stop moving.
Infantry charge still isn't fixed, or sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
Same with cavalry charge. The rear horsemen just stay behind.
Wow... took some time to put this in.
Nice ideas, bijo.
On another note, can we stop the spam? ww2's post wasn't useful but replying to it doesn't help anything.
Further to Bijo's idea,
Bijo, perhaps if we had the ability not to kidnap, but to assign units in a battle to capture nobles to ranson back?
This would be fitting with titiles, nobles would be titiled, and troops would capture to ranson back.
Sapi, ok i have another for you, why does the game go from map to battle, and there is no deployment available?
fenir
fenir, if they have a spy in the settlement you don't get a chance to deploy your troops.
It's one of the advantages that they get for doing so ;)
I don't mind the trading, religion and diplomacy of the game. It needs some changes, but not important enough for me to bring out. I'm pretty happy with the world map but when it comes to real time battles, a lot needs to be corrected.
My wishes:
Cavalry and routing units - before patch it was better on the field and no cutting down within walls. CA guys seem to fix the problem within walls, the cavalry indeed kills the routing units nicely, but have them charging with lances against men that are running away and are scattered is just useless. Let them use their lances on men that still fight back and use their swords on routing units. And ofcourse, I'd like to see more effective chopping on those runaways. I mean, how hard can it be to strike a man in the back. My point is that the routing units should be cut down much faster without cavalry running all around them and just looking cool.
Castles - IMHO should be much harder to get. The cities could stay as they are, but castles... I would like to see more defences, stronger walls, boiling oil etc. The besieging of a fortified castle should not be a picnic. And it is a picnic right now.
Units on walls - I like the fact that peasants are slaughtering knights on walls, cause it is logical that the knight who has all this armor on him is quite tired when he reaches the top of the ladder and it's easyer for a peasant to push him down with his pitchfork anyway. But the archers on walls. They are just way too soft, firing in the air insted a direct shot downwards and are killing of just too few of attackers, even when they are standing still. Archers on walls should get some bonus and be able to shoot accurately, even when the enemy is almost under the wall. The second row should behave as it is right now, but the first one should have a clear sight on enemy no matter how close it is.
Pike units - again not so much improvement where it should be. I would really like to see a pikewall that is a pikewall not guys with broomsticks trying to scare the horses. A direct attack on them should cause atleast 50% damage for the cavalry unit stupid enough to charge them. Their casualties in the first hit however should be not greater than 15%.
Overpowered peasants - I'd like to see that fixed aswell. They are not a cannon fodder they should be. I've red lot's of comments where peasents are slaping proffessional military around on one-on-one brawls, it should not be so. Peasents must be the lower lifeform in this game, superior only to cockroaches running around castles kitchen.
Grouping of unit-cards on the strategy map:
It would be nice to be able to sort the unit cards in bigger armies either automatically or preferably by hand (drag & drop).
Currently you have to do this by separating and rejoining the army which costs movement points and is quite tedious.
"To engage in diplomacy using family members." Second that Bijo. It is so strange that my king can't negotiate with another king.
Thanks, sapi. I even got some more, so brace yourselves.
fenir, I like the idea, but I think in a way it's already there with the current system. If you "assign" a unit and "kill" the enemy general when he routs he's captured and you can demand ransom, let him go, or execute him. Unless you mean to use an agent somehow in battle to capture/kidnap the family member? Maybe I'm not totally getting you.
But I was more talking about every valuable character: family members (generals, princesses, heck even their young children!), but also skillful diplomats, skillful merchants, and priests/imams with high piety.
Sometimes the enemy faction wouldn't pay the ransom because it'd want to get rid of their character, hah hah.
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To build watchtowers with every army (unit). Why is a general the only one to build them, or to receive order for the building to be constructed? I imagine messengers/scouts on horses traveling back and forth to deliver messages. Certainly, if we think like this, an army captain can receive the message to build a watchtower. This would take away the annoyance of needing a general around if he's not there.
Optimization of engine.
Taken from the post about the cantabranian circle: option to have missile cavalry encircle and shoot an enemy unit.
Princesses can perform.... "certain services" to enemy/neutral/allied family members to "convince" them of their diplomatic intentions and proposals. If such services are given to diplomats, they will move Heaven and Earth, mountains, oceans, to convince their leader to accept.
The receiving enemy/ally/neutral can also lie and use the princess, and then not hold on to the agreement. Or maybe this shouldn't be.
Assassins (or the new "spy assassin") can not only kidnap, sabotage, spy, and cause unrest, but assassinate children of the enemy/neutral/allied royal family. They can even persuade these children of the family with propaganda to join your family and they will grow to be a worthy general or princess.
To add to that: when an enemy spy does this to one of your grownup family members, you can order them to 'pretend to betray you' to infiltrate their faction and play back information.
Like: you can then see their whole map information and every movement.
Archer units do not fire consistently, though they should. The difference between them firing arrows is too great: they should approximately be at the same time, or a minor difference to ensure better effect (or at least the feeling of it).
When a single man is hit by an arrow (especially if not armored), he should just die. I even saw a man get hit by an arrow in the head (didn't have a helmet) and he just lived on. If they get hit by armor-piercing arrows they should always die.
Make the cavalry charge just like in RTW. Way I played it I remember it always worked fine. Even from a reasonable close distance they would charge. Screw the so-called "realism" if it's bugging the enjoyment of gameplay.
Somebody made a small mod, but I don't remember who. The Russians have two heavy infantry units mainly used: Dismounted Boyar Sons and another one. Both units cost the same and have the same basic stats. Boyar Sons on their horses use missiles (javelins), so he gave the Dism. Boyar Sons javelins to actually make a difference.
This should be a standard in the patch.
Catholic priests can not only get rid of heretics and witches, but also imams (and maybe the Orthodox preachers too, but they are a branch of Christianity).
The Orthodox ones should not only get rid of heretics and witches, but also imams.
Imams should not only get rid of heretics and witches, but also the Orthodox and Catholics.
Optimization of engine.
Somehow fix the annoying clashing missions. I don't know, but I know it looks more like giving the player opposing missions on purpose just so "you give him a nice gameplay experience" or something like that. Well, it feels phony.
Repost: when using Shift+# the selected units don't always move/position correctly.
Optimization of engine.
Repost: more titles.
Fix overall unit movement: sometimes a person gets stuck against a tree, or a rock.
Repost: more detailed video options for campaign map, and better pop-up descriptions for options, what they exactly do, for all those people who don't know.
Fix shadows: how can shadows take SO MUCH performance, even if it is "properly" auto-detected by M2TW?
Include video option: simple shadows like in RTW. They looked good enough, and were FAST. Though some eye candy don't hurt anybody.
Who's even going to pay special attention to graphics like these, and soldiers faces, when there's a bigger more important picture to handle? (Not that I disagree with those who do, but you get my point.) Those individual faces still look alike, by the way.
The 2D graphics of distant units look terrible. The coloring should be at least the same as their 3D versions. This makes switching from 3D to 2D, and vice versa, smoother and more pleasant to the eye, as you mask better.
When ending a battle the voice of the one who's talking should continue to go when going into the loading screen. It's all a matter of fine-tuning and smoothing out those rough edges.
Fix the pre-battle speeches: with the Germans especially I've noticed repeating sentences or parts of them. Sound like someone handling the audio forgot to edit some takes.
Sometimes the army cheers aren't fine-tuned to the speeches, like timing.
Change speeches for Italian factions: to have a Spanish/Iberian sound to an Italian general just sucks.
The Mongols should not be Islamic, but pagan.
Optimization of engine.
Optimization of engine.
Optimization of engine.
Option to choose entirely different religion for your faction in-game.
Example: if you're first Catholic, and change to Islamic, you will have better ties with Islamic factions, and worse ones with Catholics.
Example: if you change to pagan, you will be able to recruit heretics and witches to annoy other factions. Maybe even able to ally with pagan rebel settlements and fund their armies to fight your enemies.
If an AI faction is more and more bothered by a certain religion, it can also choose to adapt to it (making it its dominant religion), or face lots of unrest.
In my freshly started campaign as the boring English faction, I engaged a family member and a spear unit with totally overwhelming power. In patch 1.1 I didn't or hardly notice passive A.I., but here it is with pictures. And also the stupidity of pursuing cavalry, as they don't cut their enemies down like they should.
It's to support what people are saying about passivity and the failed pursuits of routers.
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This is where I'm closing in after I've wasted their passive (suicidal) spear unit waiting there.
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In here you see how I'm STILL closing in on the general unit, as my archers and crossbowmen still rain death upon them.
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Strangely enough, even though I totally closed in on the git, he and a few men managed to escape from my clutches. I had fast moving light cavalry: they should be quick to run the rest of them down, including the general - ESPECIALLY THE GENERAL.
https://img304.imageshack.us/img304/...purszl9.th.jpg
As you can see, the schmuck managed to get away from my wrath. How so? Well, let's just say my light cavalry likes to stand around looking cool once in a while, instead of finishing off their enemies when they get close.
Frustrating? Annoying? Bothersome? Irritating? No, not at all: how could one even think that by reading the above? Actually, I find it quite nice to miss my opportunity at killing an enemy's family member, weakening their strength. It's the best element of the whole game. Maybe he had a pagan magician, or some other force, protecting him... making my men turn away as soon as they near him.
Army units should be simply more effective at what they're trained to do: killing.
repost: 3D City view
wish: princesses! I'm playing my third campaign as HRE and have yet to find a princess, even though denying marriage to all my generals and having 16+ aged unmarried women in the family tree. I only get to use a princess in the very beginning as I start HRE with one...
wish: Ability to set reinforcement sequence. When I'm reinforced by two heeavy infantry and 1 peasants and have one slot free to reinforce, I don't want the peasants to come in.
wish: fix the known bugs that should be easily fixed in a 1.1.1 patch BEFORE FEBRUARY (CAs announced circa ETA of patch 1.2) so people get stuff out of the game that the manual promises. I'm specifically thinking about stuff like the defense towers and the wrong city models being used. Should be easily fixed as it's just improper referencing.