Your thoughts on BI

[Viking]

I know for certain that I am going to buy BI whether they fix the bugs or not, but hopefully they`re going to fix the load savegame bug as that`s a dreadful one, but all the other bugs are just minor ones and I can easily live with `em.

[UglyandHasty]

For the first time since TW serie is out, i will to see the comment on this forum before buying the game. If the major bugs like the save bug are not solve, i wont buy it. If CA have done their homework, i'll buy it, i'm addicted. Darn !

[Mongoose]

I no longer trust the reviews from gamespot/gamespy, i will read afew on the .org before buying.

[Brave Sir Robin]

I will buy it regardless of bugs/reviews. There are always going to be bugs of some sort, i just hope more so on the minor rather than major scale. Anyway we are lucky that there are people out there with the patience/skill to enhance the game the paid programmers create. Thank you modders i appreciate the hard work.

Anyway enough arse kissing, (or being a bloke shouldn't it just be a firm hand shake - hand to hand that is), wouldn't people be disappointed without any bugs? The amount of posts would shrink overnight!

By buying BI it would save you from spending anymore time with the (delete where appropriate) family/partner/schoolwork/college work/university work/the gym/crap TV/the gardening/DIY/conversation in general/sleep/and generally life as we know it Jim

[ToranagaSama]

Are you the BSR of BloodThirsty fame?

If so, then gentlemen we have a Master Modder in our midst.

[Spino]

I'm definitely letting others be the guineau pig/early adopter this time around. Marked contrast to my behavior with the previous title's expansion pack, I ran to the store and bought Viking Invasion the day it was released!

Anyway, there's no way I'm going to fork over $30-35 for RTW:BI if the AI isn't markedly improved over 1.2.

[scorillo]

i will buy this game no mather the AI or bugs will be.....OK....now someone please tell me what faction BI will have ..i know..

western romans
eastern romans
alemanni
goths
huns
sassanid empire
sarmatian
vandals
saxons
franks

Just these ??? that`s all ?.....or it will be other factions beside these 10 ?

HELP me understand.Cheers!

[Barbarian_King]

Come on guys.
Rome isnt that bad.
BI is like the second part of the story. Personally I am looking forward to BI.

[lars573]

i will buy this game no mather the AI or bugs will be.....OK....now someone please tell me what faction BI will have ..i know..

western romans
eastern romans
alemanni
goths
huns
sassanid empire
sarmatian
vandals
saxons
franks

Just these ??? that`s all ?.....or it will be other factions beside these 10 ?

HELP me understand.Cheers!

Yes, there are also rumors of Romano-britons and pagan celts in the British isles. Also Ostrogoths and Visigoths, these are one of their new faction emergence plots. Likely if you as the western empire leave Britian around 400 AD it could spark the emergence of the Romano-British.

Also I'm going to be in EB with bells on the day after BI is released. The day after the release date is usually when EB gets new games.

[Brave Sir Robin]

Are you the BSR of BloodThirsty fame?

If so, then gentlemen we have a Master Modder in our midst.

No sorry i am Brave Sir Robin of bugger all fame, except in my own head, or unless you include my inane ability to nearly match up all my socks after washing (why is there always a rogue one that doesn't seem to have a partner?) or the fact that i suggested during my time travelling days:

Ceasar, "beware of the ides of march" what the frig? ignore that soothsayer prick, what does he know? It'll be ok, Brutus is there anyway, he'll look after you.

Jesus, that Judas bloke is the one disciple you can rely on.

Montezuma, those Spanish seem like men we can trust.

Maria Antoinette, tell those scruffy buggers "let them eat cake" they'll love you for it.

Heh Nappy Boney man, invade Russia it'll be a piece of piss.

JFK, its sunny and warm go for the open top car.

Hanna and Barbera why don't you bring in a comical little nephew for Scooby Doo?

George why don't you make the Ja Ja Binks character an integral part in the first film?

To most world leaders- global warming - don't worry, doesn't everyone like the sun?

[NimbleNota]

Also I'm going to be in EB with bells on the day after BI is released. The day after the release date is usually when EB gets new games.

I might see you there Mainlainder

[The_678]

I am buying it for sure. Hopefully the bugs will be fixed. The new game looks awesome. East rome, good barbarians and civil wars its gonna be great regardless of bugs. Also with no senate and the new features such as the horde civ move thing, will open many modding possiblities hopefully. Also most mods will probably move over to BI, if VI is any example, I remember VI added tons of new modding oppurtunities and since CA has promised better modding support I have high hopes for BI.

[lars573]

I might see you there Mainlainder

Bloody capers.

[Franconicus]

Of course. I am looking forward to play brand new campaigns with brand new factions, brand ne units, brand new features. And I am sure I'll have a great time with my friends in the org. - Pez, The Hun, IliaDN, Viking, Katank ...

[Jambo]

I'll definitely wait till I read a few objective reviews here, TWcenter and .com before I commit to buying BI.

For me the expansion itself is far less important than a corrected siege AI amongst other AI tweaks.

[Sid_Quibley]

Think Ill wait till it hits the bargain bins,unless I see rave reviews from "respected" posters here.

[The Hun]

Of course I buy. This is better times for me the new factions will add much. I look forward to seeing new campaign features (and Attila of course)

[Colovion]

I'll probably do the same thing I did with the demo and the full release.

Hear the first few people to play it rave. A few minor complaints. Mostly avid fandom though. Buy it.

Be disappointed.

Pretty standard, really.

Let's go for the hat-trick. woo hoo

[Zakor]

I won't buy it. While I love it that players can MOD a game, the RTW release was nothing more than a full-priced beta.

[caesar44]

i will buy it because of the mod's
every good mod would have to be on top the latest version of the game

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

I'll certainly buy the first day it comes out.

[Red Harvest]

I try not to make the same mistake twice. I'll wait until BI has been out awhile and real veterans have had some time to explore it. Might even wait until all the patching is done. Then, if it seems to be a substantial improvement over RTW I will consider buying it. I'm not willing to pay much for it though since it is a patch to the game.

[BrutalDictatorship]

Come on guys.
Rome isnt that bad.
BI is like the second part of the story. Personally I am looking forward to BI.

dude, there's no "story"...this isn't final fantasy or something. It's a historical recreation of a time period. It's a strategy game lol, no story here man.

[tibilicus]

It will have floors, I know it will.
But hey i will probably still buy it. Will still keep me entetained for 4 months if I do!

[player1]

Well if does make sense, that since loadgame AI bug make me play full campaign much less often (90% less to be exact), then if it isn't fixed in expansion there is no point in buying it.

But, since BI is about INVASIONS, it's just too unlikely to have same bug there, beacuse it would be so, so obvous even by casual players.

So, I keep my hope.

[bodidley]

If there are some great mods available, then I'll buy BI when it goes into the cheap bin. Otherwise, I'll wait for the next CA release, pray that they've actually made some improvements, and maybe buy that.

Come on CA, do you expect us to pay almost full price just for a new campaign when the mods are giving it to us for free?

[ciaoftu]

Best way is to wait for good review after release meanwhile just use cracked version..................

[CMcMahon]

You know, if there's one thing I'd like to see, it would be Half-Life styled mod support; that being that you install your mods in separate directories, and turn them on whenever you want to play them, so that one day you could play, say, RTR, and another day vanilla RTW:BI, and on yet another day Disco Breakdown: Total War (which I fully intend on never making) without having to switch files around all the time.

[Orda Khan]

Best way is to wait for good review after release meanwhile just use cracked version..................

I believe this is the second reply of this type I have seen you post. The .Org is not a place to make suggestions of this sort

........Orda

[Norxis]

yup, i'll be buying it when it comes out