Diasabling battle zoom camera?

[Oaty]

The ingame zoom camera is a nice enhancement but is no longer that big of an option anymore.

Where my problem came from is for some reason the A.I. sallied in the middle of an assault, not the usual come in and get me. I had 5 battering rams and of course having the camera zoom 4 times and taking you away from the action can be annoying. Anyways it was a bit odd as I never had the A.I. come out in the middle of an assault but I think it was because the chariots can act quite oddly in a city. So there chariots come rushing out and are coming at my left flank wreaking havoc. The 4 battering rams to the right proceed but the one on the left is getting nailed along with my skirmishers. So I finally get my reserve hastati to the flank and right when I start to give orders. I get 4 zooms at the wall all within 5 seconds and then I also get the generals death zoom.

Its even worse when your defending, due to the comps bumrush tactics that the split second that gets taken away from you is the precise time you need to give orders and although I knew I'd lose it but the timing I needed to give the orders caused units of mine to not really cause any casualties because they ended up getting nailed on their flanks causing a chainroute almost immediately.

Another minor bug is trying to move peasants and loose order units to a specific spot. Some towns the only place you can place peasants is the town square and the wall.

[Colovion]

I agree with the option to turn off the battle zoom thing. It's great sometimes - but others you just want a quick battle (or you have 5 battering rams).

I've seen the Chariot thing too. It seems that the computer tries to stretch out their chariots as much as possible and if they try to do the normal "run along the front of the city" AI 'tactic' the chariots will come out of the city accidentally and will just sit there if there aren't any guys near them.

[ToranagaSama]

Are you talking about the *Cut Scenes*, like when you break through the Gates with the Ram?

[Deep pangs of sounds emanate from the bowels of TS.]

I HATE this with the greatest of passions and did so from the first occurrence of the Cut Scene. When this first happened, I was like WTF is going on??!!

I wish there was a NO CHEESE option that would remove all the graphical embellishments which add nothing to gameplay and negatively impact immersion!

Uggghhhh....

[ToranagaSama]

P.S., I've also had enough of the Battle Speeches. They contain a little bit of info for the Novice player, and are a bit entertaining for about the first 5 times, but ENOUGH! I just hit Esc now.

A Third Graphical Embellishment that needs to STOP! is the Tortise-like movement of the Spies, Assasins, Diplomats, etc. ENOUGH! Can we get on with the game, you are wasting my time!

Please, CA, it would go a lonnnggg way toward speeding up the game by making ALL the "Graphical Embellishments" optionable.

[jeffreyLebowski]

A Third Graphical Embellishment that needs to STOP! is the Tortise-like movement of the Spies, Assasins, Diplomats, etc. ENOUGH! Can we get on with the game, you are wasting my time!

why aren't you just right-clicking again? it skips the map animations exactly like you're asking for. and once you do it a couple times, it stays that way. i didn't think anyone actually sat there and watched those.

[GFX707]

but if they are walking at normal speed, if you see something along the way you can press backspace to stop them. i.e if you are about to walk into an ambush/huge enemy stack