BI Demo Comments

[SpencerH]

The BI demo is available on this thread https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=51712 (although it may take some while to download as the servers become busy). I thought it might be a good idea to start a seperate thread with comments on the demo since they seem to be cropping up on seperate threads.

I've only played Chalons so far and retired once my general got killed (course I havent played in months).

I had no problem starting the demo from King Ragnar nor have I had a CTD or any other glitches. Technically it worked as well as 1.2.

Part of the reason I lost was that I had problems controling the HA and light cav who tended to have 'minds of their own' i.e. giving new orders to units took a long time to have an effect or the ordered changes never happened at all. Of course, in the few seconds while you're trying to re-direct your 4 units of light cav who're chasing after 1 unit of enemy HA the battle is lost. So one thing for sure, the demo game speed is not slowed down. Battles are still way too quick even with pausing. I'm unsure whether the problems with my HA were caused by the 'parthian shot bug'.

Its possible though that my control problems were due to being out of practice.