Latest Update on patch 1.2

[sapi]

@Whacker - nothing personal, but we don't talk of no-cd patches here especially since cd images work much better and dont' cause any problems

bf2 - clean install - failed (but still displayed as patched)
oblivion - failed
supcom - failed (but still displayed as patched in mp)
etc.

It's very annoying, and I'm happy that CA is doing things this way (especially as i'll have access to a free local mirror of the files in 3dgamers and likely IGN)

[pike master]

the problem i see now is a split in the multiplayer community like they did in mtw over the cav swipe.

right now most of us complain about the swipe and push through but you would be surprised by the number of people who depend on that to win games. and would be at a disadvantage playing a game such as mtw/vi where you cant go around swiping units.

i would be most positive to believe their will be some major rewrites over some program files concerning animations. but we will see.

i dont see why they would deny it. they have already admitted to many mistakes there would be no harm to admitting to more. but most of 600 megs containing battle and cinematic editors along with the fixes is suspicious.

you would think all efforts would have been put forward to fix game issues before they would have concentrated on such a large editor addition.

interesting topic indeed.

[Lusted]

Well they already had the editors ready, they are what they used to make historical battles and trailers, so they've just added them into the game.

[alpaca]

Well they already had the editors ready, they are what they used to make historical battles and trailers, so they've just added them into the game.

And probably gave them a better interface (dev tools are often command-line monsters or have a very basic interface with a console for added comfort)

[JCoyote]

And I doubt the editors are all that big, maybe 10 or 12 mb each. Usually editing programs are relatively small, it's all the media files they manipulate that are huge. Also, I doubt the editors are particularly polished or feature laiden... most such development editors aren't... which can cut down tremendously on program size. So of the 650 MB, maybe only 50 or so are those editors.

People worried about the size will be surprised an "editor free" version wouldn't be that much smaller. Although, if an editor free download was under 512 MB, it might be worth releasing because there are lots of cheap USB keys that size to put it on.

[icek]

and what about guild bug?? Did they even look on it?

[nookie]

i cant wait... I loved rome, enjoyed the barbarian expansion and waited for total war.... And waited... And waited... FINALLY GOT M2TW.... Loaded it up and did my normal thing... Played it conservative early putting every dime into armor and ground troops.. I built an awesome war machine... I took my heavy venetian infantry into battle agains an inferior army and barely won.. I also picked up the bad habbit of leaving nothing but archers and crossbowmen in my towns in hostile area and enjoyed killing the enemy by the hundred (at first)... the last time i played was 2 months ago... what broke the camels back was when i sallied out against a superior french army - they had everything except artillery... tons of calvalry.... I salllied out and killed there archers with my horde of archers/crossbowmen... i then completely surrounded them with all types of missle troops... i got super close to... my crossbowmen located behind the calvalry could have been whiped out in one charge... But the AI just sat there... i killed off about a thousand men with MASSIVE amounts of bolts and arrows, the carnage was horrific.... i sat in amazement and when my archers ran out of arrows i eventually got them to go in there and rout the survivors.. funny - but not fun...

I have not played since.... I saw the post about the patch perhaps coming out so i reloaded total war and now i am all excited - but no patch...

i cant wait to take a superior armored and skilled army against a numerically superior army and win the battle because i did the right thing... Not pick on the stupid AI.....

also looking forward to alliances sticking... I use venice - i am stuck in the middle of the boot surrounded on every side by enemies... Allies are sooo important... it got so bad that the pope attacked me when we where allies...

i dont think they need any graphic tweaks... The game is stunning... I just cant wait for strategy to mean something....

and now we just have to wait....

[nookie]

i also cant wait for my friend to see what the game is really like... He has been playing for about 2 months... When this patch drops he is going to come in saying"wow - this game is tough" I cant wait for my glistening venetian heavys to be wreaking havoc over all of europe

[Bijo]

Heh heh, that story sounds familiar, nookie. Well, at least a part of it. I stopped playing for months and when I saw the mention of the new patch a while ago already I've finally started it up today with patch 1. I've gotten reasonably excited about it.

[pike master]

an electrician i worked for once would install speaker wires throughout someones house even though he was never asked to do this.

the reason was after the home was finished he would often times find the homeowners asking him if he knew someone who could run a sound system in their home.

he replied i can do it but it will cost you such and such. so all he had to do was go in punch some holes in the walls pull out the wire and hook em up.easy money.

11 gigabytes for the game! im sure they have a lot of stuff asleep in there waiting to be brought out.

that 650 megs has something in it more than a battle and cinematic editor.

im not sure what they are up to but as long as it fixes the battle field animations and unit performance it will satisfy me.

[JFC]

@MAD CAT MECH I dunno mate, I don't subscribe to your conspiracy theory. After all the Patch is free.