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    Quote Originally Posted by Harleyquin12 View Post
    @Nanbans: In your guide, you said skilled players could sink fleets with a single ship. That is no longer the case, now you need 3 Nanbans against a typical AI fleet in naval battles for certain victory.
    Gah! Nanbans are relatively expensive and slow to build, needing so many kills any hint of an advantage. There goes my only reason to play the occasional Christian game.

    It's confirmed that FotS has no general pre-battle speeches
    I hadn't seen anything about that and so didn't know if it was related or not.

    I can confirm the browser-based encyclopaedia has the messed-up order.
    In that case I can confirm that particular problem is not universal. Mine displays the ninja family correctly, and I haven't spotted any errors elsewhere.
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    Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
    Gah! Nanbans are relatively expensive and slow to build, needing so many kills any hint of an advantage. There goes my only reason to play the occasional Christian game.


    I hadn't seen anything about that and so didn't know if it was related or not.


    In that case I can confirm that particular problem is not universal. Mine displays the ninja family correctly, and I haven't spotted any errors elsewhere.
    For my Mori long game on hard, having the big Nanban navy and one normal stack of regular ships seems to work and doesn't break my budget, it helps that I used my huge treasury to buy myself a 40+ rice surplus so that trade is no longer a red figure. That would probably leave playing Christianity as a means of getting all of the Chi arts researched long before the AI does, plus the nice rebellions.

    There's at least one thread on the official forums mentioning the lack of speeches in FotS.

    I had a quick check on the encyclopaedia in-game and the off-game version using my browser. In-game the building order is correct, using my browser as I type this on the other hand reveals a messed-up order for the Craftswork, Intellectual, Naval, Smith and port chain buildings. This is when I check this: file:///C:/program%20files%20%28x86%29/steam/steamapps/common/total%20war%20shogun%202/data/encyclopedia/buildings.html

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    There is big argument going on about changes in graphic quality on both the official forum over at TW center. One guy was able post before and after shots by recreating screenies he had taken of the historical battle of Sekigahara prior to the patch. Based on those shots, the graphics have definitely taken a hit for the worse.

    Anyway, several people are in a uproar about it. Now it could be that some of these changes were put in place to boost general performance and also to accomplish having 40 units on the battlefield, but a big contention is that none of this is mentioned in the patch notes

    Previously, many had complained of the glossy plastic look of the units, which now appears to have been removed. Some argue that they like the change while others are saying that they want it back. However, the real crux of the matter is that it appears other graphic changes were also made in the process. CraigTW has posted that CA made a design decision to remove the gloss from the units, but he has not acknowledged any of the other perceived graphical changes which include:

    1. Swords and spears no longer glint in the Sun.
    2. The draw distance has been reduced. One can pan back from a unit and easily see each soldier's face disappear at a point that is a bit too obvious.
    3. The special AA (I forget what it's called) that was added for ATI cards doesn't work any more. I have NVidia, and never used this setting.
    4. Textures have been reduced to the point that black and red costume components look simply garrish with no depth or clarity. This may associated with the gloss removal, but The Mori particularly look bad now.
    5. Blood effects (decals) on dead bodies are gone. (this has been confirmed by CA as a possible bug)
    6. It is claimed that DOF and HDR are not working correctly also. I don't use these, so I can't comment for sure.

    I'm sure there are another one or two complaints, but these are just off the top of my head. Some of this I might not have noticed if not mentioned. I never cared for the over glossy look of the units, but overall I am less pleased with the look of Shogun II after the patch.

    It also could be my imagination, but too many of the battles now look like there is layer of dirty industrial smog everywhere. I just don't think the battle side of the game looks as good as it did, but I'll refrain from whining too much about it until the guys at CA formerly respond to the complaints.

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    I had not paid that much attention to it but yeah, now that you mention it. All reflection effects as well as sword glints are actually gone.

    -E- One thing I seem to notice atm is that the game seems to randomly crash at time >_> Like just stop working. The process just ends, desktop, Shogun gone lol.
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    I haven't played since the patch, although I have an on-going Mori long campaign.

    I decided to take a look; graphics are darker and flatter (if that makes sense :p)
    The reports logged here actually make me hesitant to play a turn; I don't like surprises in the middle of a game. I have no DLC at all so the question is: why am I subjected to the patch? If I get my nerve up I'll play a few turns tomorrow; thank you all for the information on the current state of the game.
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    Quote Originally Posted by HopAlongBunny View Post
    I haven't played since the patch, although I have an on-going Mori long campaign.

    I decided to take a look; graphics are darker and flatter (if that makes sense :p)
    The reports logged here actually make me hesitant to play a turn; I don't like surprises in the middle of a game. I have no DLC at all so the question is: why am I subjected to the patch? If I get my nerve up I'll play a few turns tomorrow; thank you all for the information on the current state of the game.
    Going forward, if you can stand it, place and leave STEAM in OFFLINE mode until you finish a game. That'll prevent unwarranted updates. I too have a game going pre-patch and have kept STEAM in OFFLINE mode until I finish my current game. There's nothing on STEAM that's so important to ruin an ongoing game.

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    A hotfix is now available:

    Quote Originally Posted by CraigTW from .com
    Hi all,

    We've just released a patch for a couple of issues.

    Fix for blood effect in blood pack
    Fixed occasional crash when entering Avatar Conquest Map
    Miscellaneous other crash fixes
    Fixed an issue where trees could appear black
    Fix for level 9 clan skill lockout


    Enjoy!

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    Feedback isn't that great for the hotfix, it seems the problems they fixed in the hotfix are only partial, not complete. There are complaints that the blood decals only cover half the body.

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