Demo Discussion Thread

[Chloe]

Played the land tutorial so far, and I was impressed, The only small thing was that the Spanish did not react when I outflanked them with my general and made a spectacular charge.
No lag for me, runs fine and is a great game.

[Sir Beane]

Played the land tutorial so far, and I was impressed, The only small thing was that the Spanish did not react when I outflanked them with my general and made a spectacular charge.
No lag for me, runs fine and is a great game.

I think the Spaniards in the Tutorial are purposefully programmed to act stupid to make it easier.

[Chloe]

I think the Spaniards in the Tutorial are purposefully programmed to act stupid to make it easier.

Oh, yeah, the scripts!:D
Also, did anyone else notice the building? There were actual soldiers moving around inside it.

[Sir Beane]

Oh, yeah, the scripts!:D
Also, did anyone else notice the building? There were actual soldiers moving around inside it.

I blew it up . There were no soldiers after that . Buildings are garrisonable now (or atleast some seem to be) look out for it in the Battle of Brandywine Creek as well.

[Chloe]

I blew it up . There were no soldiers after that . Buildings are garrisonable now (or atleast some seem to be) look out for it in the Battle of Brandywine Creek as well.

I'm trying it first thing tomorrow morning
And then I will replay the tutorial just so I can blow up the farmhouse

[Ziem]

Oh goodie! Dual screen mode (I have a matrox triple head 2x 24" and 1 x 19" ). Runs smooth on highest settings but I have to say that I'm not that impressed by the graphics itself. Sharper graphs then MTWII, yes , but I dunno...probably I have to get used to it. MTWII battlefields are gloomy and cold just the way I like it...this is too shiney..too arcade...and ofcourse as usual, high speed movement. But hey, its only a demo and I'm sure that the modders will take care of these thingies once the full version is released.

Z.

[ULC]

That's kind of a harsh judgment since all battles available take place in favorable weather conditions.

I will pity the fool who decides to fight the Ruskies in the rain

I just wish it was modifiable - I would soooo setup some battles without scripts to truly test the AI.

[Barkhorn1x]

What a PAINFULL download process!!!! Really, why do I go away and everything looks good at 30% and I come back after 90 more minutes to "updating" and no % at all??

I restart and now I am "updating" at 1%. This is my first experience with Steam and guess what,

I pre-ordered a digital d/l - a taste of things to come? NOT HAPPY!!

[Belgolas]

I replayed the land battle 2 more times. Ist I bunched up all my men including my cannon infantry(by dismounting and then putting them in melee mode). Then charged at the enemy in one be melee ball of men. I got owned :). (this was just for fun)

Second time I sent all my men to the left side. Eventually met there entire force by the town hall building and had a good fire fight. Although the stupid AI didn't move their cannons so I had all my cavalry flant and take out the cannons one by one. In the end I only lost 300 men and only 1 unit routed. The AI did place spikes infront of my cavalry at one point killing a bunch.

[Greyblades]

MTWII battlefields are gloomy and cold just the way I like it...this is too shiney..too arcade

Im just thankfull that CA didnt use next-gen "Realistic" colours in this.

[TB666]

Im just thankfull that CA didnt use next-gen "Realistic" colours in this.

Yeah, it's nice to see color these days instead of the grayish/brown that you see in games these days.

Anyway played the demo and loved it.
The new engine is beautiful on both land and see.
The battles were a bit easy but they were scripted so not a good indication of anything really.
But the land battles were the most fun I thought.
Seeing men march into a shower of cannon balls and musket fire and then unload a volley into the peasants was a lovely thing to see.
Did notice the AI pointing out stakes and setting up ambushes(not sure if that was scripted or not).
Oh and don't use your general as a fighting unit.
He could hardly handle a arty crew.

[jumpyg1258]

Hi everyone, decided to register today after watching this board for a while now waiting for the game to come out. The reason why I am posting is to display my huge disappointment in the demo for this game. You would think that after the delays in the release date for this game, that they could at least release a demo that was somewhat playable. I've never seen a game with a longer load screen in my life. You can your screen res, thats a 2 minute wait. Want V-Sync off, thats another 2 minutes. Then when you get into the game you get a screen like this...

And yes after getting this the first time I decided to update my drivers and that made no difference. It is not like I have a crappy machine either since the game recommended the Ultra settings.

Intel C2D 6750
ATI Radeon 4850 Toxic
2gb DDR2 1066Mhz

Anywho this demo gave me the worst first impression I think I have ever had with a game and I am right now regretting pre-ordering this game big time!

[Ziem]

Im just thankfull that CA didnt use next-gen "Realistic" colours in this.

Heheheh...colours would splash out of your screen right into your face!! :) :) Anyways I find it too unrealistic. But as I said before, this only the demo.

Z.

[Mailman653]

Has anyone tried unpacking the files yet? I think M2TW uses the same .pack format, but I might be wrong. I'd love to take a peek inside the files.

[TB666]

I usually get 1,4 MB/sec on Steam even when a "hot" game has just been released.
Now it's struggling with 100kb/sec.
What the hell steam ??