Screenshots!

[Sir Beane]

http://totalwar.org.pl/board/viewtopic.php?t=21741

Click on the link for some new screenshots of ETW. I don't think these have been seen by most of us before.

All credit goes to bloodshed for finding these!

An interesting note about the 4th screenshot. The advisor message reads:

Mines

Mines facilitate the harvesting of underground resources such as gold, silver, iron and precious gems for both manafacturing and trade purposes.

Manafacturing? Sounds like we might need resources to produce certain things now. Or maybe it was just a bit of flavor text, who knows?

[KozaK13]

Hmm, colours are different on the mini map to what we have seen previously.

All in all nice screenies, i like the look of the campaign map.

[Sir Beane]

You are right about the colours. It would be nice if someone could blow that map up so we can take a look at what else has changed.

[hoetje]

Hmm, colours are different on the mini map to what we have seen previously.

All in all nice screenies, i like the look of the campaign map.

true, nice screens, {GrailKnights}Kozak

:P

[Polemists]

Have to say I'm surprised, last time MTW2 was this close to coming out, we had those faction pictures,

You know picture of Germany, it's saying and the faction select screen. (Which I guess no one is doing since now they give us the factions haha)

and a leaked demo (which I still want)

Faction videos (Where did those go?)

Newsletters with battle previews (I miss those tooo)



I mean other then 5-9 unit, building, ship profiles, 5 dev diares and 10 confirmed factions...the information has been pretty darn slim coming otu of CA.

This puzzles me

I wants to get geared up about game....give mes stuff

[Sir Beane]

Have to say I'm surprised, last time MTW2 was this close to coming out, we had those faction pictures,

You know picture of Germany, it's saying and the faction select screen. (Which I guess no one is doing since now they give us the factions haha)

and a leaked demo (which I still want)

Faction videos (Where did those go?)

Newsletters with battle previews (I miss those tooo)



I mean other then 5-9 unit, building, ship profiles, 5 dev diares and 10 confirmed factions...the information has been pretty darn slim coming otu of CA.

This puzzles me

I wants to get geared up about game....give mes stuff

They might be keeping marketing to a minimum to avoid over hyping the game and having it be a disappointment upon release.

Or hopefully they are too busy making it brilliant to come up with promotional stuff.

[KozaK13]

true, nice screens, {GrailKnights}Kozak

:P

You have some nerve showing your face here....

I do wonder where the factional videos went...

[Lusitani]

Great screenies..i specially enjoyed the Polish Winged Hussars.

The detail on the fort is also very interesting.

I couldnt help noticing however that there is a major abundance of white horses in the game and i guess drummers look all the same... lol

Thanks for the screenies

[Mailman653]

The new advisor is quite a looker, I wonder what accent she will have. It's great to finally see the officers, standard bearers and drummers up close.

But,

1.Weren't musicians in the contiental army supposed to wear red coats with blue cuffs and turn backs? Or to generalize, the reverse of the armies colors?

2.The American drummer and the Prussian look almost identical.

[Durango]

Hmm, colours are different on the mini map to what we have seen previously.

All in all nice screenies, i like the look of the campaign map.

So do I! Although the water sort of reminds me of jelly

You are right about the colours. It would be nice if someone could blow that map up so we can take a look at what else has changed.

I did a quick fill in where the....white stuff was over Scandinavia.

[cannon_fodder]

Now that they're parameterizing their shaders better and such, it's a thing of beauty. Technically impressive with very, very well-designed assets. Finally a new TW game that's more aesthetically pleasing than Shogun.

And you know it'll run amazingly well in spite of the scale of the graphical/physical/behavioral task. CA are the best optimizers I know of in the whole industry.

[Sir Beane]

So do I! Although the water sort of reminds me of jelly



I did a quick fill in where the....white stuff was over Scandinavia.

Excellent work! The map looks like the factions are in the same places as our previous information, but some are in different colours.

[Durango]

Now that they're parameterizing their shaders better and such, it's a thing of beauty. Technically impressive with very, very well-designed assets. Finally a new TW game that's more aesthetically pleasing than Shogun.

A crusade has been called by the pope. His Lord's wrath having been incurred upon a heretic's words.
It is marching toward the province of cannon_fodder.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

j/k

Excellent work! The map looks like the factions are in the same places as our previous information, but some are in different colours.

Thanks!

Which ones are in a different color? Can't remember the previous minimap...

[KozaK13]

So do I! Although the water sort of reminds me of jelly

It does now that i think or it...meh i like jelly, it adds to the appeal.

It really does look stunning, even the reflection of the fleets makes it all the better. The map texture and colours are what med 2 tried to aspire to, perhaps it was a transition phase between rome and empire...

And you know it'll run amazingly well in spite of the scale of the graphical/physical/behavioral task. CA are the best optimizers I know of in the whole industry.

I hope you are right, i'm afraid for my system's performance after how bad it handles call of duty 5...