QA from CA for the Org-ites

[Tamur]

However, out of the kindness of his heart, Roxy has volunteered to answer - or ask around in order to find the answers to - five questions, if you can sort out a list amongst yourselves. The usual rules for 'unofficial CA contact' apply - we take no legal responsibility for the answers, some questions may not be answerable for legal reasons, ten questions is not five questions, if you don't like the offer we can always withdraw it, etc etc...

I suggest a spot of discussion over the weekend before someone posts up a clearly-marked final list.

*nudge nudge*

P.S. I wonder what the record is for acronyms in a thread title... hmmm...

[d6veteran]

Question: What's the deal with the routing banners?

;)

Seriously though, I would like to ask that.

[Medieval Assassin]

Men running into the river, not going over the bridge, have you noted THIS HUGE BUG, and fixed it? If you havent, you best be patching...

THIS IS THE PROBLEM...

They don't fall off the bridge, like in STW and MTW if you ordered a unit to cross a bridge you click on the other side, they would line up and cross the bridge, No, no no, here they just run in a straight line and vanish, I've seen it every other game


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..BRIDGE->........| |
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./ \
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XX CORPS
.|
XXXX ................+++
XXXX.................( In oppose to moving here
XXXX..................then crossing, they assume
XXXX..................a staright line into the river and all die...... ALL)

And they all die, in medieval they would stack in front of the bridge, apperntly they dont here... :S
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(This one NEEDS to be answered.)

[The_Emperor]

Ok my question is...

Has the bug from the demo regarding cavalry pursuit of routing units been adressed? By this I mean the fact that sometimes my cavalry will run alongside or in front of routing infantry instead of killing them.

Sometimes it is questionable as to who is the one being pursued!

[Colovion]

Why is the "Total War Cam" not truly the Total War Cam? Will it be fixed from demo to full release?

[octavian]

Men running into the river, not going over the bridge, have you noted THIS HUGE BUG, and fixed it? If you havent, you best be patching...

THIS IS THE PROBLEM...

They don't fall off the bridge, like in STW and MTW if you ordered a unit to cross a bridge you click on the other side, they would line up and cross the bridge, No, no no, here they just run in a straight line and vanish, I've seen it every other game

(This one NEEDS to be answered.)

are you playing a Mod? 1) i have NEVER seen that 2) someone from CA already posted in reply to someone who asked that question. he said that as soon as you are using a mod, the AI can no longer be expected to preform at par. (i believe many of the events in battle are choreographed)

[Agravain of Orkney]

In what ways is multi-player different in Rome TW from Medieval TW/Viking Invasion?

[saundersag]

My question is if they can give some example of how moddable rtw will be. For example will they give you programs with the game to mod it. Will the files be in data files and will they not use obscure file extensions. So what have they done to make Rtw easy to mod.

[Mr. Juice]

May I suggest a question about KILLING SPEED?

Also, has the game gone through any more optimization since the demo?

[Armchair Athlete]

My question is if they can give some example of how moddable rtw will be. For example will they give you programs with the game to mod it. Will the files be in data files and will they not use obscure file extensions. So what have they done to make Rtw easy to mod.

I second this one. In the interviews CA had done so far they said they will not really be going into this in depth until a couple of months after the release, so it would be good if we can get a bit of info now.

EDIT - I guess if I were to ask 5 question they would be

1. The aforementioned one about modding

2. How can you influence whether you can fight in day or night?

3. Will faction re-emergences still be in like they were in MTW (tied to loyalty of province etc) and will they re-emerge with good quality troops?

4. What does land based trade involve? Is it just as profitable as sea based trade?

5. If we at the .org were to ask for advanced copies of RTW would your answer be the same as the answer to this question? (haha this one will get 'em!)

[metatron]

Why do the soldiers in MTW speak Latin, but the Romans in RTW speak English?