Blood and Gore Pack now available! AND Halloween Special~

[Trish CA]

Hello fellow ghouls and goblins,
Once again, it is my favourite event of the year: Halloween! Makes me miss dressing up my house like a haunted house back in Canada... -ponder- so if you have any cool Halloween stories (feel free to make up a story) or costumes, be sure to share them with me! I may have some treats to giveaway... ;)

As many of you already know, we have now released the ROME II: Blood and Gore pack. You can check the trailer out for that (here) - the voice in this one gives me straight up chills! Afterwards, you can check out more information on the DLC (here).

Thanks!

[Myth]

Wow... Who would have thought a simple blood & gore pack would turn Tetuborg Forest into a terror filled, hectic massacre (as it actually was)! And though military historians report of loosened bladders and... worse on the field of battle, I think blood is quite enough to make me feel sorry for my troops.

Can't wait to impale some horses on my Spartan pike wall.

p.s. No horses were harmed in the conquest of Magna Graecia. That is to say, no true free Greek horses, raised on strong Greek democratic values.

[Beskar]

A very nice trailer! Thank you for sharing that with us, Trish.

[Hooahguy]

Nice! And for those who haven't seen it already, Trish has graciously given us an exclusive wallpaper!

[MadKow]

I am probably going to buy it, but from my experience i probably shoudn't. I rarely zoom in on battles, for one, and i fear the performance impact (recent patches appear to have caused more performance problems than solve them on my side). Also, im sure when i go and look at all the gory details, i wont notice my 6 year old stepson looking over my shoulder... But that's Murphy law for you.

[Bramborough]

I'm a little on the fence with this one. I'm perfectly happy with the way R2 is running on my machine right now, and am a little reluctant to do anything which might throw it off, or cause me to have to lower some of the graphics settings.

On the other hand, the gory enhancements this will add to my AAR screenies just sounds too good to pass up.....

[Veho Nex]

I havent seen a performance hit in 0-5000 man battles. Considering thats the most that I fight I'm perfectly fine with it.

Also, I <3 teutoburg with this dlc.

[Myth]

I'm a little on the fence with this one. I'm perfectly happy with the way R2 is running on my machine right now, and am a little reluctant to do anything which might throw it off, or cause me to have to lower some of the graphics settings.

On the other hand, the gory enhancements this will add to my AAR screenies just sounds too good to pass up.....

Blood & Gore features new visual and sound effects including:

• New blood-spattered front end
• Graphics option for turning on/off blood
• Blood VFX on arrow/pilum/javelin impacts
• Blood VFX on rock/stone impacts
• Blood VFX on death animations
• Blood shader on death animations and attackers
• Decapitation on selected death animations
• Dismemberment on selected death animations
• Blood decals on terrain
• Sound effects for all blood animations

Additional Minimum System Requirement:
Note that the Unit Detail option in the graphics setting menu must be set to Medium or above in order for dismemberment effects to be seen. Blood effects will display at all settings.


You can turn it off. It costs as much as a pint of Guiness, so I don't see a reason not to get it.

[Mhantra]

You can turn it off. It costs as much as a pint of Guiness, so I don't see a reason not to get it.

Because CA has conspired against me, specifically, knowing how much I want to love the game. CA is criminals and purposefully fleecing me of all my monies and we need to band together and let them know...we're not gonna take it anymore!!

[Jarmam]

You can turn it off. It costs as much as a pint of Guiness, so I don't see a reason not to get it.

You are a blessed man to have Guinness at such prices. An area worth... visiting?

[Hooahguy]

Well if they could it would have already been done. Which it hasn't. And there is gore it's just not widespread.