Well I havent played the Hatg yet, but I have started a new campaign with iceni. I must say that for some reason I think the battles look much better, closer to the shogun 2 level more than ever. It also seems that the performance have increased for me, didnt experience any lag on extreme settings, I used to have lag when I speed up the game, now there is nothing. I cant comment on siege battels yet though since I havent tried it yet. Overall I think that its getting better. I definetely hope so anyway.