Any questions for CA?

[econ21]

It looks like we may be able to put a few questions to CA about Total War: Shogun 2. Has anyone got any burning questions they would like answered?

For example, I'd like to know what general's command stars do? (Is it just morale within a perhaps larger blue circle and also autoresolve benefits?)

And what the difficulty levels do? (Specifically, is the BAI working to its best on normal or does it get smarter - e.g. flank more - on hard?)

What other questions do members have? Single player or multiplayer.

After a week or so, we will take stock of what questions we have and forward a selection to CA to get some their answers.

[Rothe]

It looks like we may be able to put a few questions to CA about Total War: Shogun 2. Has anyone got any burning questions they would like answered?

For example, I'd like to know what general's command stars do? (Is it just morale within a perhaps larger blue circle and also autoresolve benefits?)

And what the difficulty levels do? (Specifically, is the BAI working to its best on normal or does it get smarter - e.g. flank more - on hard?)

What other questions do members have? Single player or multiplayer.

After a week or so, we will take stock of what questions we have and forward a selection to CA to get some their answers.

Gameplay:
How does armor work?
How do morale effects work? Does flanking actually lower morale? (it seems there is an issue with morale penalties stacking)
Do fire arrows actually do anything vs. troops that is better than regular arrows?

General:
Are any expansions planned?
Will the game recieve major gameplay patches?

[Marshall Louis-Nicolas Davout]

Why is there not a good amount of female presence ?Because reading the history of Sengoku Jidhai,there were female samurai's and they had lands and armies!It would be good if you added them in the game.

Aslo will you be making expanisons?It would be good to remake the Shogun 1 expansion The Mongol invasion,you could name it ''The Horde''.

[Prodigal]

Another call for info on any planned expansions. Also do all the archery accuracy bonuses stack?

[edyzmedieval]

Can they shed any light on the expansion pack/DLC packs?

And the most important to me, can we have some information about modding tools?

[frogbeastegg]

Remember that they will be restricted in what they can say, so they won't be able to discuss things like DLC, patches, expansions or sequels unless they have been officially announced elsewhere. As awesome as it would be for the first news of something like that to break on the org, it won't happen.

The original shogun had a reading list, IIRC it was on a PDF file on the disc. They gave the titles of some of the books they had used for research. I'd like it if they could provide some titles they used for shogun 2; people often ask for reading suggestions on the TW game periods and sengoku Japan has limited material available in English.

It would also be nice to hear about some of the art inspirations as it's obvious a lot of care has gone into bringing authentic aspects into the game's UI and art. Any particular artists or pictures they found inspiring?

Did the shogun 2 team play shogun 1 to help them design the new game? There are a lot of little touches which really call back to the original game, such as the parchment fog of war map.

Are there any plans for a soundtrack? There's a lot of nice music in the game. (I suppose they couldn't answer this one but it might make them consider a soundtrack if they aren't already)