This game is buggy beyond belief...

**ryanjm** · 10-16-2004, 06:58

Ok, I see I need to expand upon my first post because some of the **** here think that anything any game company puts out should be worthy of sexual favors. Let me say this:
You paid money for this game. It is buggy as hell. If you actually want me to list bugs wrong with it rather than "unspecified complaints" then you are an idiot. I didn't come here to make e-friends and move up the "ranks" so I can post in the other forums where people who take this game seriously do. I came here to **** a little because this game has great potential but the developers botched it by releasing it before it was done. I have no idea how any of these reviewers could recommend it so highly. There is a list a mile long in the "patch requests" section and this game has been out for what? a few weeks? I can't remember the last time I played a game with this many gameplay bugs.

And no, I'm not 16, but I am hung like a rodent and it causes me all sorts of emotional problems, and my computer doesn't crash playing the game. I've never crashed you idiots, it runs fine on my computer that "hasn't been updated in 5 years yet I've got a geforce 4 and an athlon 2500+ you ****" but if you don't understand what's wrong with the game then perhaps you don't know how to play it anyway. Let me list just a few things so people will stop with the random "mine doesn't crash" retardisms.

-Squalor is ****. It's really cool to have to slaughter half your population every time you get up over 25,000. Did any of the devs PLAY this game?!?
-AI pathing is ****. Try to have your guys run through a breach in the wall and it's a cluster as they get confused and/or pile on top of each other.
-Reinforcements is ****. No choice of command. Hell, not even a "smart" choice in command. Yeah, I really want to command the captain with 4 groups of horsemen while my Faction Leader heading 1,000+ men is controlled by AI that couldn't command a backwoods hillbilly militia (and I should know as I am one).
-Generals have a death wish. They run into battle first just because they're cavalry. Again, AI is half-retarded in this game (which out scores me by a quarter) and anyone playtesting it for more than a few days would have found this problem and corrected it.

The fact is, this game wasn't playtested thoroughly, it was rushed out the door and they shoveled this crap onto shelves expecting the masses to run out, buy it, and then spend hours online checking for fixes and patches. I'm sorry, but that's **** and I've never had problems with a game before to the point where I was like "Hey, this game is pretty cool, if only there weren't 30 crippling bugs wrong with it".

Anyone who disputes the fact that this game was rushed and not playtested thoroughly needs to have their **** examined, because you're probably sitting on your brain. And no, I don't care if I'm "going about my post the wrong way" because I'm drunk and I don't need to make friends here.

**smoothiemaker** · 10-16-2004, 07:29

first i be tyou have never playeed stw mtw you started eith rtw

one the ai is alot better then in the pevious games were the computer would just walk tord you units with no startagy in this the ai on very hard atleat has a stragy.

two you play the army that was attacked or is attacking so if you dont want to play with forw horse men then dont atack or defend with them

three in this game the general attacks first becous ethis will give all of his units a humongus morall bust (this is game ai cant be perfiect, great ai under condicions though)if you dont like ai play multiplayer

four if population size unrestproblems play with large or huge armys and when a city gets unroudy becouse of population build a lot of solduirs and use them in a suicidle campane

five this game is so over du they have been working on it for ever i remember seeing prevuse when viking invastion came out

and what you think are bug are just problem in you playing or are just dislikes you have not actual bugs.

**Belenus** · 10-16-2004, 07:59

I agree that there are some pretty bad bugs in the game, but ranting about it gets you no where, in fact, the people who would of agreed with you are scared off....

**footman** · 10-16-2004, 08:46

no no no..u guys shouldnt even reply this thread, best shock for him...

**WannabeGosu** · 10-16-2004, 09:25

It's a bit buggy, so what? I have not noticed any serius bugs exept the crash to desktop bug when trying to play online but that was solved a few days after the game came out so that wasn't such a big pain. And they will make patches to fi the game, I can wait.

. Its a really great game and shouldn't be treated like trash just because it's abit bugged...

**Colovion** · 10-16-2004, 09:40

The fact is, this game wasn't playtested thoroughly, it was rushed out the door and they shoveled this crap onto shelves expecting the masses to run out, buy it, and then spend hours online checking for fixes and patches.

Actually Activision gave them an extra year to work on it. Sure, I'm really disapointed in the game as well - but at least give CA till they can release their patch they're making now - most other game I've played has so many patches out after a year and some people still complain about balance problems.

Look - your whole post was great - it reminded me of the first week after RTW was released - now we've seen it all and we and CA all know that the game has it's problems. You just wanted to rant? jsut wanted to tell us that the game wasn't what you wanted? I like the sound of "screaming for some kind of attention" in that phrase, sounds like the 16 year old you are .. not?

**Axeknight** · 10-16-2004, 09:57

First off, squalour is not 'f'ed up' as you so ably put it. You have a big city, guess what? it starts to smell a bit. Deal with it. The fact that you choose to massacre your population every few years shows you haven't really thought the problem through, doesn't it? Never thought to queue up some peasants and send them somewhere else in your empire to settle? No, wait, squalour is f'ed up, so why bother trying to combat it when you can spit bile on an internet fansite forum.