Did you enjoy the demo?

**MadKow** · 08-30-2004, 18:39

Not very good but i think Rome will be better.
I never played MTW or STW demos, so i can't compare demos. I found that i really dont care much about an area that took a lot of effort, which was units animation and details in melée and stuff like that.
It looks good enough from affar and should play just as good. Thats all i really ask.
I am sure playin the whole Rome Total War will be much better. I was always a campaign player. I like to grow into the game and groom my armies. A bunch of units slapped together for a quick battle has no emotional attachment... I trust everything will be alright, and i trust the people here to make sure that if it turns out not so good, they will make it great.

**dedmoroz** · 08-30-2004, 19:59

great demo, can't wait for the final game

**Sir Robin** · 08-30-2004, 20:07

Took the kids to the pool #2

Some things could definately use more tweaking but overall I enjoyed it.

Hopefully the full game will live up to my hopes.

Just waiting on the PCGamer review next month.

**Puzz3D** · 08-30-2004, 20:17

I didn't like the gameplay in the Trebia battle due to the unit run speeds. It's interesting that longjohn refused to increase the speed of cav by 10% in MTW, and then in RTW it's 25% faster. The infantry run speed is 50% or more faster. I have no reason to expect RTW demo speeds to change in RTW v1.0 since CA doesn't acknowledge that there is a problem. Changing run speeds means readjusting fatigue rates and ranged unit effectiveness. No doubt single player can be adjusted by the players, but multiplayers are pretty much stuck with the official gameplay.

**eldaran** · 08-30-2004, 21:30

Numero Dos.

The vanilla demo battles were a bit crappy tbh, but with modding, that allows:

1.) New Battlefields,
2.) Weather,
and
3.) The ability to set up troops prior to battle

I was a lot more impressed. As the above things will obviously be part of the full game, i'm very hopeful that, combined with the improved strategic mode, it'll be a great game.

**Mr. Juice** · 08-30-2004, 22:58

What mod are you using to set up your troops before battle?

**eldaran** · 08-30-2004, 23:03

http://www.totalwarcenter.com/forums...opic=7123&st=0 All the info for changing to new battle maps, deploying pre-battle etc is in the first post there.

**The Marcher Lord** · 08-31-2004, 00:04

Enjoyed it, but it needs some polishing in a number of areas. I am optimistic that the final game will be good, if not great. Without the incredible modding that quickly saved the day I think the demo, and the lack of feedback from CA (as usual

) on everyones comments, would have turned quite a few players away from this game.

**econ21** · 08-31-2004, 00:32

It's a very good demo - much more substantial (an entire battle) than I was expecting.

Graphically, the zoom-in to melees is very impressive. I like the main menu music too - hope there is more of it in the final game. Zoomed out, I find it harder to take in the entire battlefield - maybe I am just pushing the screen resolution too much for my laptop, but pretty soon things start getting blurry.

I agree that movement seems a little too quick - this, and the difficulty discerning unit types at a distance means that battles soon get hard to follow. Elephants do seem overpowered - their hit points need halving or more than halving. But those things aside, it was clear that this is more of the TW goodness we are used to, with flanking, timing, correct unit match ups etc all being important.