State of the Game

[Sp4]

I can't really play the game anymore. The improved stuttering the patch notes mention really is an improvement for me.. as in there is more of it now, to the point where it happens in every battle that involves more than 10 units lol.

[Hooahguy]

Wow that stinks, in a quick custom battle I had a FPS increase.

[Sp4]

It is not an actual decrease in FPS, just the animation stuttering.

[Hooahguy]

That's rather unfortunate.

[ReluctantSamurai]

These are the times I'd prefer the choice not to go along with CA and Steam on an update be presented. Some of us were just fine with the way things were when it came to playing decade old games.

Yet another reason for me to wait for the bargain bin. I hate it when ET phones home without your consent......

There is no point where I should have more than 50 agents mid-game just because I wasted the money flipping the endless spam sent my way by the AI

I'm not saying stop agents, I'm saying make the number more rational as it was in Shogun 2, where they made a difference but didn't get ridiculous, this is Total War, spies are supposed to be an aspect of the game, not hijack it.

[Hooahguy]

One of the big problems is that while there are agent limits, its not an overall agent limit, its a limit for each type. So if you have a limit of 3 of each type, thats still 9 total agents and that is a lot. I think it should be an overall limit, so if you want 3 spies or 2 spies and a champion thats fine, but 9 total agents is kinda crazy.

That or severely limit their capabilities. Like maybe only spies can assassinate and poison wells, champions can only duel and train your troops, and dignitaries can only change culture and concert enemy agents. Right now they can do a bunch of different things that when you combine them all together its crazy, but when limited its a nice feature.

[Myth]

Well there were no agent limitations in Rome 1 and Med 2 but they worked just fine.