General Comments and Concises about M2TW

**Puzz3D** · 10-04-2006, 11:56

Originally Posted by spong

Does anyone know if MTW2 will carry on some of the cool features introduced by BI? Such as night battles, swimming etc. I think they really improved over the original Rome in this respect but I don't get to enjoy those features because I don't really like any of the BI factions so I don't play it :(

Play the XGM. It can use the BI.exe; you get the BI features in the RTW setting.
XGM version 4.1.8, XGM Readme

**grzeg** · 10-04-2006, 12:45

Those who don't like it probably don't have comps good enough to handle the game right on high settings.

I don't. I meet the minimal requirements, my processor (3.0GHz) and video card with 128Mb memory are OK. But my 512Mb RAM is definitely not enough to enjoy huge battles smoothely. I'm afraid my comp won't handle the game under Windows XP... XP takes up so much RAM that I'm not sure if I can even run the game. :(

So I'm looking desperately for some sour grapes. First of all the historical period... I prefer Rome and ancient times. When it comes to historical realism... conquering the whole Europe proved impossible in the Castle age. The English were entangled in wars with France for long centuries and didn't manage to win. Germans could not act as one, divided into many factions and provinces. Medieval Europe was divided into small counties, dukedoms, etc. For Europe the times up till the XIV/XV Century were not times of national empires. Perhaps that's the reason behind so few turns in the campaign... you just don't have time to control the whole continent. Rome is set better in history, in the times when global domintion was really possible, even if it isn't historically flawless too. Egyptian units, much older than Roman times, look pretty cool, and I appreciate the coolness factor.

Other than that, sure, I'd love to play MII, I'll upgrade to 1024Mb RAM sooner or later and I'm going to buy the game, because it looks just marvelous. The graphics, animations, effects all of these are breathtaking.

**Barbarian_King** · 10-04-2006, 15:22

I thought about it, and I think 255 turn limit is probably a good idea, because it's a historical game, so what they could do is let the players decide if they want to continue after the 255 turns or not.

**Darth Nihilus** · 10-04-2006, 18:28

And, "yes", to answer someone's question about if they will include night battles.

**Polemists** · 10-05-2006, 07:26

Yes there is a photo to prove that in another post.

Still I agree that I'm sure 225 will be fine, and who knows in final version maybe there is some way to continue after it. Same way you could continue after you had your 50 provinces as Rome, you could continue just no more world events.

Yea to guy who said his comp may not run it, here's hoping that half of us have a graphics card decent enough to see these graphics in detail, who knows what kinda pc these videos are runnin on

**SirGrotius** · 10-05-2006, 22:28

I'm looking forward to it a lot and I think graphically the game is head and shoulders above Rome even though it uses the same engine. I know most people go on and on about how graphics don't matter and it's just about gameplay, but I'd be shocked if a new game didn't show improvement graphically! I appreciate the artwork that goes into these titles.

I'm very worried that the battles will be more along the lines of RTW than MTW, though. I hope that the developers leave enough open so that more protracted battles can take place. This is both an historical thing for me and also a gameplay thing. Regarding the former, I got the sense from Rome that my 5 minute battle translated to about 30 minutes in real time! Regarding the latter, I loved the long battles with tons of units in MTW where I just barely had enough units to get by.

**blahblahblah** · 10-07-2006, 17:56

Dam my Agincourt battle thread got deleted. I think it's because of the sticky about unauthorized videos, demos and stuff that doesn't belong to CA.

From the videos I see, their chloriographing (spell this for me) is pretty dam good. Their graphics heads and shoulders above RTW. But I wanna wait for the demo to see how you guys and myself say about the gameplay before I buy the full game.

**econ21** · 10-07-2006, 18:04

Originally Posted by blahblahblah

Dam my Agincourt battle thread got deleted. I think it's because of the sticky about unauthorized videos, demos and stuff that doesn't belong to CA.

Indeed. I'm taking advice from other staff, but right now I think that thread would just cause trouble if left to stand.

**blahblahblah** · 10-07-2006, 18:06

Originally Posted by econ21

Indeed. I'm taking advice from other staff, but right now I think that thread would just cause trouble if left to stand.

Opening a can of worms indeed.

**spong** · 10-07-2006, 21:47

Sorry if this has been raised elsewhere but could anyone confirm which are the 11 catholic factions? I'm pretty sure that all the armies I want to play are catholic, which is a shame as I'd rather not have the interference of the pope.