Med2 Preview Event... the answers

[Soulflame]

Well only that you'll be able to play all 21 factions in multiplayer, that there is no online ranking, and that the system specs weren't really sure yet.

What specificaly do you want to know?

[Ibn Munqidh]

Thanks alot Soulflame, really great effort, worthy of a promotion. One more thing I noticed about cavalry in the movies, cavalry have been waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay underpowered! I saw in one movie where a unit of knights charged into a unit of swordsmen (i think), most knights were killed on the charge!

What did you think of the cavalry, was it normal? (Rome Like?) (god I hope so), or was it weak?

[Orda Khan]

Things like......
Is 4v4 possible? Without lag?
Is the server stable?
Is the lobby improved?

As for the 5 starting factions...

To be honest.. I only read this:

Quote:
*There are 21 factions, namely;
England, Holy Roman Empire, France, Venice, Spain => these 5 are starting factions.
Now this sucks.. No muslims starting faction?! That means no extra content for any muslim faction.. GAH BAH DOH whtver!

I have to agree, none of these factions remotely interest me

........Orda

[Ibn Munqidh]

I think those choices for starting factions are wrong. Yes, they must include at least 2 major catholic ones, but it is sad they they do not include others. i hoped that they would include Byzantium, and an Islamic faction, as well as HRE, England, and France, or Italy.

[Soulflame]

They weren't sure about specs yet, so what you would need for lagless 4 vs 4 is uncertain (I actually did specifically ask for specs for 4vs4 since it was one of the questions I had listed)
Server stability is something that they probably don't know, since that depends on who does the server and stuff like that. Probably done in Australia, if at all, my guess it that that's probably outsourced to Gamespy.
Lobby improved, I don't know, that's something I might have asked, but didn't occur to me. I'm sorry, I'll try to put that in the list of questions still to be answered that I'll send either tomorrow/monday. Not sure if they know the answer.

Cavalry is still effective, but it depends on what type you have, the enemy and positioning. To me it felt pretty much the same as Rome (barring in mind the kill rate and speed reduction).
If you can get the cavalry bogged down, yes, they will die fast. So their role might be a bit more pronounced as shock troops, but it's hard to say since I only saw very few cavalry units and I didn't examine all of them closely to see how good they were in terms of how much defense, attack, where in the technology tree and how good the enemy was.
But my cavalry didn't die that fast, and neither did the enemies (although the Arquebusiers were pretty nice against them).

[Dutch_guy]

System
1. The only real number I got were 1.8 Ghz Gf4 128 for minimum specs

Is this what you needed to play Rome on Medium, does anyone know ?

[Divine Wind]

Is this what you needed to play Rome on Medium, does anyone know ?

My machine is a 1.8 ghz, with GF5 card, and most of my settings on RTW are low-medium.

[TB666]

Is this what you needed to play Rome on Medium, does anyone know ?

Depends on the unit size.
I got a 2.3 ghz Celeron, 512 mb ram and Radeon 9800 pro 128 mb and with huge settings then it is a medium-low for me while on large setting it is high.

[x-dANGEr]

I think that is wrong.. I have 2.4 GHz with GF5 and I have 2 FPS rate in battles with 4000-4500 men.. (Around 7 for 3000-4000)

EDIT: And my GFX is like set to none.. The lowest of everything.

[Zawath]

Well there are different types of processors. 1.8Ghz AMD processor is about twice as powerful as 1.8Ghz Pentium processor.

[|Heerbann|_Di3Hard]

Is this what you needed to play Rome on Medium, does anyone know ?

On the cover you can find the following minimum specs for rome:

1GHZ CPU
256MB Ram
64MB Graphic Card



But I don't wanna c this. My computer cannot handle Rome 2vs2 lagfree. And it is much better.