RTW multiplayer is dead

**d6veteran** · 10-04-2004, 20:19

Originally Posted by FearZeus

TBH,

There are no excuses from CA to do a bad job on the patch because there are some fantastic topics on here that have already listed the most importatnt bugs, problems, etc

I don't know ... I mean the game shipped with 3 showstopper bugs in multiplayer (sync issue, crash to desktop and memory leak). In addition, we've got lots of other things that are steps backwards from MTW. So at this point the most we can expect from a patch is to get a close to MTW multiplayer game with better graphics.

Right?

**FearZeus** · 10-04-2004, 20:47

Well,

All we can hope for at the moment is that CA team read these forums and have the decency to let us know what is going on! In the mean time lets just list as much as we can so they can correct everything!

STW and MTW never had any where near as bad a response as this game, and to be honest they need to be working over time to get it right or it will be too late.

**Colovion** · 10-04-2004, 21:04

I think Medieval had a lot less hype though - less expectations.

See a paint flaw or scratch on a Porche and it's an outrage - see one on a Celica and it's a lot more "ho-hum"

they know we have missgivings, now they need to do the giving.

**Voigtkampf** · 10-04-2004, 21:53

I am so disappointed.

I never played M:TW, not to mention the S:TW online; bad connections. When I got access to faster connections, the golden age of M:TW was at the end and I decided to wait for the Rome; after all, where is the sense in playing Medieval only to shift to Rome - just when I start to be good at M:TW - and be blown away by Rome’s graphics, possibilities and features. I have begun organizing my own clan for Rome, for crying out loud!

And what now? Well, I see all those veterans I was hoping to encounter online in honorable fights cursing the game and wowing not to touch it at all or only to touch it after the patch has come out. By the time I get my clan settled, no one respectable will be playing the damn game, and I can only hope for some “raving fanboys” to fight with!

Oh, yes, I will buy the game. I won’t say otherwise, I know I will buy the game. I have never waited for any game as long and hopeful as I have waited this one (except for Fallout 3, that is, after 5 years been bought off from Interplay by another company and set to status zero: fresh beginning!) and I will buy it and I will play it! And I will hope that the patch will fix the issues at hand very soon.

I will buy the game because I am a stubborn mule. Not because I am an optimist, I have long learned that such a way of thinking is most dangerous one, but I still hope that things will be better.

I will buy the game and play it because I cannot admit to myself that it is (MP part) bad as most of the people say here. In my heart, I know it probably is, but I will buy it anyway.

But I am soooo disappointed and disgruntled and disillusioned…

**shingenmitch2** · 10-04-2004, 22:03

Hi voigtkampf

Sorry to hear u never played on-line before. I'm gonna try sticking around the MTW server and hopefully many of the old vets will stick around there too. You might get some good games yet :). Many are still willing to help new peeps.

As for the campaign, I'm seriously getting more enjoyment from HellenicTW than Rome right now. If you get annoyed with RTW, I encourage you to DL that mod, its very well done.

**Pitt_Slayer** · 10-05-2004, 00:53

hi voigtkampf

i understand totally with wot your saying

the problem with RTW is its more like Age of Empires then STW\Mi\We\MTW\VI
most of the Vet's have battled online at one time or another with these tw versions and probably expected a better game that kept the good stuff and improved on the not so good stuff!!!!

well for some reason CA have deciced to aim the new product at 12 year's or peeps with limited abilitys!!

play for 2 week's and be the best,ie 50% win 50% lose but no skill needed
(then start playing doom3)
rather then needing to play for many months before "becoming a ok player"

in all honesty i think this is a end of a era!!!

i could have download rtw from the internet BUT having so much respect for CA work and enjoying MP "i would never do so", BUT i feel cheated
and i suspect many other vet's feel the same

maybe CA should give someone else the opportuinty to run with this game engine, someone more hungary and creative then theirselfs!!!
then they can go and join Eidos

**FearZeus** · 10-05-2004, 01:01

Originally Posted by Pitt_Slayer

hi voigtkampf

i understand totally with wot your saying

the problem with RTW is its more like Age of Empires then STW\Mi\We\MTW\VI
most of the Vet's have battled online at one time or another with these tw versions and probably expected a better game that kept the good stuff and improved on the not so good stuff!!!!

well for some reason CA have deciced to aim the new product at 12 year's or peeps with limited abilitys!!

play for 2 week's and be the best,ie 50% win 50% lose but no skill needed
(then start playing doom3)
rather then needing to play for many months before "becoming a ok player"

in all honesty i think this is a end of a era!!!

i could have download rtw from the internet BUT having so much respect for CA work and enjoying MP "i would never do so", BUT i feel cheated
and i suspect many other vet's feel the same

maybe CA should give someone else the opportuinty to run with this game engine, someone more hungary and creative then theirselfs!!!
then they can go and join Eidos

Someone like blizzard ;)

**Degtyarev14.5** · 10-05-2004, 18:32

Originally Posted by shingenmitch2

Hi voigtkampf

Sorry to hear u never played on-line before. I'm gonna try sticking around the MTW server and hopefully many of the old vets will stick around there too. You might get some good games yet :). Many are still willing to help new peeps.

Hmmm... Might do that now...

Make way guys, I'm a-comin'!

A.