EB v.80 - First Impressions?

**Grimmy** · 12-07-2006, 02:17

First impressions:

I only got so far as picking a faction (Romani) and looking around the map area local to them and checking out some of their cities.

and, so far...

Wow. Ok, new game. I mean, new game to learn to play and enjoy so just added another multiplier to the bang/buck ratio of RTW. I feel like a parasite. Y'all do all this work and I just get to play with it.

Specifics, so far. The GUI looks very Roman. I'm not a fan of big UI with lots of unused realestate and overly large buttons and drill down, but none of that is y'all's doing. The changes you made look good and add to the imersion.

Music... umm... ok, it actually fits what my brain tends to make up for itself when I have my Roman army out and about marching its way to some conquering.
Matter of fact, it was a bit distracting. While I was browsing the building and unit browser, my mind kept drifting to the image of a cobble paved road, shaded by old growth olives and an approaching Roman army marching along on a victory procession.

All in all, so far, extremely well done. I'll be spending another couple hundred hours playing this mod to the ol' RTW instead of the M2TW campaign currently on hold.

Yeah, that's right. At least in one verified case, you managed to put RTW back in front of the newer M2TW.

Now I'm gonna spend the rest of tonight reading up on this mod and the hints and tricks stuff so I dont feel so numbskulled when I start my Romani campaign tomorrow.

**Sol Invictus** · 12-07-2006, 05:17

I have been waiting for two years to play this mod and finally jumped into it tonight as the Romani for about ten turns. I am absolutely stunned by the amount of work this must have required. It is a very impressive accomplishment and I think I will play a campaign of EB before I play MTW2; even if/when the patch comes out. I salute you.

**Dram** · 12-07-2006, 08:10

my impression is basically that of being overwhelmed by the new content and amount of choice/direction avaliable, as well as being blown away by the quality and polish already evident, even in a beta!

the music in particular blends in so well with each culture and adds an epic, cinematic feel to the game.

overall im really amazed and very respectful of the amount of work put into it all.

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 12-07-2006, 08:52

My first immpressions were somewhat tainted by anger/annoyance. Turns out if you copy the RTW folder then uninstall, it removes the original as well as the copy (and the mod with saved games therein).

But once I played the game I thought, "Wow, shiny!" I had never downloaded the Rome UI or the resources addons, so that plus everything new was a real change (for the good).

Second immpression was remembering how long the battles could go without anyone dying...

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Overall:

**nikolai1962** · 12-07-2006, 11:44

It's lost that beta feeling for sure. I only meant to play a few turns before going back to modding but ended up spending hours trying to get to the Getai guy's Unifier trait thingy. Big thumb's up.

**philos** · 12-07-2006, 12:21

Great job guys... the game looks great and seems a lot more historically accurate than the vanilla version...

However, since this is a beta version... there are some things that require improvement:
- the game is a lot slower than rtw (I switched the game options to "fast" but the game still requires a lot of time to load); I managed to play the battles at a decent level by reducing the unit size to small (which is ok but it ain't fun at all having 15-20 military/unit)
- bugs regarding units and buildings. Eg: independents' light cav units appear w pezzies icons; the regional getae rax (or whatever the name is, I cannot remember the exact name) does not have a description and it does not produce any units at all; most unit descriptions have extremely large fonts with the name of the unit which partially gets on top of the unit description and stats (which are at normal font size) etc etc

**Gazius** · 12-07-2006, 13:30

My first impression. Oh. My. God. Is that.... could it be? The perfect game?! Wait, no, there's a screw up. That seems wrong. Why is that there? Look at that graphic display. The text needs darkened there. Can't that guy spell anything? What is that supposed to be, a knight in shiny peasant robes? Wait, that's his skin. So what does the unit look like? Who is this unit anyways? WHERE ARE THE PANTS?! CAN WE GET THE MAN SOME PANTS?! Much better. Ok. That's a bit TOO realistic, but hey, its the thought that counts.

But it'll get there! I highly suspect that EB 1.0 will render almost all other games simpy not worth the time to load them. Nothing comes close to the awesomeness contained in a single mod. Sure, CA provided the base, but they left so much potential unused that this would appear to be just another game, ableit with a delightful set-up of strategic and tactic elements.