Actually, I feel that it looks like something else....Originally Posted by Beirut
Nope, no similarities here, move along...
Re: MTW after RTW
Actually, I feel that it looks like something else....
Nope, no similarities here, move along...
Last edited by DisruptorX; 10-11-2004 at 23:04.
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Re: MTW after RTW
Yes, that was my feeling as well: it seems, as if RTW and MTW were made by completely different companies... or is it: their programmer teams changed completely and the old know-how got forgotten?
Re: MTW after RTW
Because these games were made in parallel it could be two different teams making two different games.
I dont know and havnt followed the 'scene' long enough. They are undertaking a new project apparently even as they were finishing RTW.
Let's hope its MTW2 but with the MTW gameplay developers and RTW graphics/sound engineers ;)
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Re: MTW after RTW
The most frustrating part for me in RTW is that the AI overrides the user way too much. If your horse archer wants to skirmish this way and you want to skirmish that way, you have to turn off skirmish mode or the skirmish AI will keep on overriding your orders. Same with fire at will. They'll ignore you and keep firing on whomever they want to fire, not who you want them to fire. Sometimes, they'll fire 1-2 more volleys, follow your orders for 1-2 volleys then go back to their initial target. Grrr.....
Re: MTW after RTW
OH I agree with many of the comment here.
I've had some infuriating experiences with the controls and lack of unit response.
An example.... I had a few units of Hastati and a few archers fighting off some Gaul warbands. I lose track of part of the battle moving other troops around (Easy to do with these new controls) All of a sudden a warband has moved in right next to my Infantry making a B-line for my archers. I order the infantry to make an intercept course (even though enemy unit is maybe 3-4 man widths away and directly at my flank. My unit takes an ice age to respond.....so I desperately order an attack.
All of a sudden the Gaul unit just hits my flank! wow how manuveorable were they! I couldn't get my boys to do that.
Often I can't even get my infantry to make even 30 degree shifts in facing to plug gaps and protect flanks.....even when the enemy units are 5-6 'unit lengths' away!
Or at times an enemy unit is all most straight in front....offset 10- 20 degree again 5-7 'unit lengths' away. I think to myself....how would they like some Pilum's?...So I order my boys to shot. By the time they even start to get organised to wheel.....and b4 they even dream of shooting.....im getting charged!
In M:TW javelin units were very responsive in letting off a volley just before an enemy charge hit home. Or getting off a volley before making a charge. My legions on the other hand barely function as legionsshould. They have trouble moving when ordered, and move about like crazy with no orders at all or even better when ordered to a particular place and no-where else.
When I got this game I was anticipating using the highly disciplined armies of Rome much more disciplined the the feudal rabble in M:TW. How wrong I was...give me back my highly disciplined peasant and feudal levies over Rome professional armies...
Please Developers, you may have overestimated the powers of feudal discipline but please fix this rabble called the Roman army
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