First Impressions

[BroskiDerpman]

I suggest to spam more pikes and use that 1 cav unit to chase down the enemy trying to kite.

If you win the main engagement you should lock down the whole map and run in order to prevent a draw.

Though as of now I'd suggest sticking to SP till CA somewhat fixes up the MP.

I already know so much about the game without even playing it. XD

[Myth]

Haven't played MP yet because I don't want to be a nooblet due to the new controls. But in the custom battles screen I can see some limitations: elephants and chariots are limited to 2 per army for example.

Also, Parthia has IMO the best roster out there, followed by Rome, Egypt, Macedon, Epirus and Carthage. The Suebi have some pretty badass looking melee infantry and I think they can grind down pike spammers (haven't tried it yet).

If push comes to shove and all you see are pikemen just spam pretorians with armour upgrades. In Rome 1, Urbans could charge right through any pike/spear unit and grind their faces in with their gladii.

[BroskiDerpman]

Nope, got more pikes and pike wall can easily counter Praetorian spam in numbers and fighting ability.

Parthia is currently useless when their archers don't have enough arrows and do nothing while the Cataphracts easily lose to Averni Nobles.

Under a decent player nothing beats pike spam, Sparta has the most cost efficient pikes in Rome 2 and if you play as them that's the way.

The other top builds are all heavy infantry spam.

[Kocmoc]

Well, the important notice at first. I got a free copy, as I promised not to buy another CA product and wasting my hard earned money.

Its okay. Im not surprised, CA cant get a proper betatesting done. There seems to be always the same people testing, with almost always the same silly ideas of how a game should be.
The result we see, heavy infantry overload. Im a bit surprised, that after so many games, its still again without max unit (of a type) or penalties... I guess, they like to make the same mistakes each and every time.

The game "behave" and feel okay, the controlling seems not to be a big problem. ( I didnt tested it too much)
As Spoon said, the missles are too weak and the balance ist the typical CA problem. I guess, that we see a big patch end of November and a small patch in Januar.

This is a SP game and even so we have some MP people left, the game never will be a MP game.
I accepted it and wont waste anymore of my time. Its okay, probably some fun as well, but the tactical deepness ist had once, we wont see anymore.

If you remember the 2000 Shogun, it was the same problems with a lot less units, the insane balance of Monks and guns. Today we see it once more, other units, same story.

Koc

[BroskiDerpman]

Currently slingers are a little too useful, I'd wait for balance patches before playing MP.

TW releases imo always feel like they're lack luster and when gold edition is released the game finally feels like a v1.0 to me. Plus usual popular titles get discounted just months after release (Bioshock, Shogun 2, etc) so it's good to wait and let others "beta test" the game instead so you won't face the same frustrations hopefully.

It's the same old just to different degrees in each game on release and for around a year as said above. Same old exploits, same old bugs, same old, oh my... When will CA improve on these matters, I have no clue. It's getting quite tiresome I think for everybody imo.

I agree with Alqamar's MP review: 4/10 They cut out some neat or useful features i.e global chat, free for all, etc. Then add in a map generator. Just super barebones MP with the same old balance issues. Sad but it's true.

[tobias88]

fps reduce for me