Note on whinging

[Puzz3D]

I think they deserve a bit of optimism before release, no matter what has gone on in the past. After all, MTW was one hell of a game, and the same company made it.

Sound ok?

What are you basing this optimism on other than it's just your general disposition? The pessimism is based on CA's recent performance developing RTW. What is the project director, Bob Smith, doing micromanaging kill rates? They hired a supposedly talented player to do that, but if Bob Smith says to change it, do you think the guy they hired can stand his ground? It could be that he just threw that statement out to give the impression that they are more concerned about gameplay now.

When Bob Smith says that they are catering to both vets and new players, it's reminiscent of the same PR spin they used when marketing RTW, and it certainly doesn't make me think he's in the STW/MTW gameplay camp especialy when he said the gameplay in RTW was awesome. I clearly remember MikeB's sarcastic remark to me when I said that the RTW Demo represented a new vision at CA for the Total War series. Well, I was right. There was clearly a shift of influence at CA with the development of RTW.

I'm still waiting for someone to test the RTW AI faults in Custom Battles

That's already been done. At this point, the RTW AI doesn't matter. After M2TW is released, there will be a window of opportunity where CA looks at the forums to make a list of M2TW issues to be worked on for the patch.