sigh for me the game feels dead

**||GUNSLINGER||** · 06-03-2011, 12:33

I was so excited when in an interview a few months before launch CA said that every game they focus massively on one aspect every time they create a game and this time (finally) it was multiplayer. But instead of making a really solid, bug-free, balanced, competitive multiplayer experience they tried to do way to much for the time they spent on it - if they wanted to do all of the campaign MP and Avatar and MM that they did they should have spent another 6 months or more getting it right, BETA's, community involvement etc. If they weren't prepared to put in that time then they should have just made a more basic but solid and balanced MP experience and made it simple but fun. I was shocked how difficult it was to just jump in and play when I first tried it and I'm sure that put so many people off. Then the pathetic state of bugs/crashes/drops etc if you actually stick it out put off all but the most persistent lovers of the game who can battle through it. In my opinion they ruined multiplayer before they even started.

I really thought STW2 was going to get me back into TW properly (I played religiously/exclusively from STW until end of VI era) but I played STW2 for 2 weeks and whenever I go online now and try MM and face absurdly superior armies, or drops if I do start doing well, or crashes whenever the hell it feels like it I just think what's the point this is hardly much fun and go back to other games. I still play Company of Heroes and over FIVE years down the line they just released the best patch yet for balancing which has been in a 6 stage BETA for 4 months getting it right!! Relic weren't perfect and messed up a few times down the line but they know what keeps people playing multiplayer and all these years later there are still thousands of people playing at any one time and it really is a fantastic illustration on how solid support from the developer keeps an RTS going at a high and competitive level many years down the line.

Creative Assembly once again just don't care about multiplayer - when they actually say they will focus on it they think mass of features and gimmicks is enough when they need to understand that a few basic things done very well is what an MP experience needs! And if they do want to add extra features then make damn sure they are properly developed!!

I'll stop ranting now, sad days.

**AggonyKaptenFloede** · 06-03-2011, 14:00

Avatar mode is dead, classic is just getting better. I'm pretty sure everyone who is even slightly interested in competitive tw will be in classic mode very soon.

**Cu'Roi** · 06-03-2011, 19:05

yes kap, you're right. avatar is broken, and i imagine that for any players who really want to test their skill vs each other they will go classic. it's even possible that avatar mode will become a gimmicky thing that is considered for noobs.

they really do have to fix classic battle visibility in the battle list.

there is a way (albeit impractical) to get a fair avatar competition, but you actually have to restrict so many things that you have... a classic battle lol

it did not have to be this way, but it is.

from my own personal opinion as a gamer i friggin love avatar mode because the game is always stale to me anyway. just to keep the game fresh me and boats used to take 8 artillery pieces in ETW or all cav armies. In shogun we find ourselves taking ninja spams and play 2 v 3s in the battle list. avatar mode was the freshest thing in TW to me in a long time. you can actually spec everything out in pursuit of a certain type of army. in theory this is the coolest concept ever and involves a lot of strategy. but what we have today is a long way from that.

for me TW is like christmas but i always find i only get coal no matter what santa promises.

**Magyar Khan** · 06-04-2011, 03:52

classic mode also requires different banners.... why cant u take your own banner design like it is now u may end up fightin g an eemy with the same banner colour who invented that lol sigh cry sigh

**FasT** · 06-04-2011, 09:57

I wait to c wot the next patch will bring! Simple as that, as I stated before won't waste my limited time on a bugged beta gAme.. Those days r behind me now..;)
They not gunna patch this game forever! B lucky if u get 5 patches max :(
So let's c but most know CA to well so won't hold my breathe:p
Hoowwwlll

**Marshall Louis-Nicolas Davout** · 06-04-2011, 18:26

Well....I don't know why you people complain anyway.Go and play some other and game if you're not pleased.I am sick to death of hearing you people moan about ''the game sucks'' or ''CA is corrupt,they never care about us''.

Well let me tell you this.Did they have the technology to do it in 1999?No.Thanks to the tax cuts in the UK,schools,hopsitials and other companies have to cut jobs,and the government is paying a massive debt.Once Britain is out of the reseccion thing,and they get rid of the tax cuts,then can CA buy new equipment to patch the games you want them to.For now...everything is limited here.So to patch the games does take time.If yo

Strange how you can call them corrupt.I played M2TW yesterday and I had enormous amounts of fun,no matter the glitches,bugs,blah,blah.

Eureka!You see ,they announced this game on October 2010.And now its May...no April, thats either 5 or 6 months.What they should have done is start from October 2010,and release it........November 2011.The game would have been fully fixed.Apart from some minor glitches,it would have been yes,fixed.

But nothing is perfect.Greed is temptation and its a part of Human nature.

Oh,and for those of you who say the ''the game is dead''.Its not,Its alive,I play loads of times!Bloody amazing game.There are people who make the game alive really.

Sure there are problems in the games,I'm playing MP,and yet it crashes during battle,why?Due to the computer.You know .. although the game was released,many of you started to complain,I don't think it was partly the game's fault,it was you're computer.When a total war game releases do you ever update your drivers?