The Pet Peeve thread

[Foz]

Things that are annoying but not totally awful. Hmm.

- One peculiar one is that units sometimes inexplicably fail to follow all their waypoints. I've laid out a 2-point path and had the unit move half a second in the first direction, then immediately jump at the second WP. Especially when the first waypoint is to get the unit to flanking position, this is disastrous.

- The way units look when holding ladders. Don't know exactly how, but I think the ladder just eerily floats across the landscape, as if under mental control by the ladder unit instead of actually held in their hands. It's like they put up a half-hearted attempt to cover up their telekinetic skills by keeping the ladder close enough to almost fake that they're actually carrying it.

- The way a general's death and ensuing close-up cutscene can completely screw you over by taking away your window to issue a critical order. I have actually cursed out the dying enemy general a few times because he was, though cutscene death, serving his faction far better than he did alive by depriving me of critical command seconds.

- The fact that you don't get to see the enemy general's speech. I want to hear what crap he's dishing out about me, and get fired up to shut the man up once and for all! Screw what's realistic, I just want to hear it.

- artillery snafus. I've seen all sorts of crazy friendly fire incidents, not the least of which was when my cannons kept firing even though infantry were advancing through them. Many good men were lost that day. The most funny and likely also most disconcerting is that cannon crews can kill themselves/each other. If there are non-flat terrain features, the cannons can line up too close together or the crew can be forced to stand too close the their own gun, both of which result in immediate death upon firing. What's worse is more men will run up and often fall prey to the exact same situation that made the last crew die. Insane and often troubling, but almost always also hilarious.

[phonicsmonkey]

hey, can you still take out the cutscenes? you used to be able to in RTW I remember...

on the artillery friendly fire thing, I once charged a unit of hospitallers through a mass of my own bombards, just as they were firing (with flaming ammo of course).....ouch

[DVX BELLORVM]

hey, can you still take out the cutscenes? you used to be able to in RTW I remember...

Yes, you can. You will have to edit the medieval2.preference.cfg

Find event_cutscenes = 1, and change the value to 0 (event_cutscenes = 0)

On topic... I find very much annoying the fact that after the flood, you can't ever build watchtowers and forts in affected province, and the movement is greatly reduced. And this has been an issue in RTW, too.

[rvg]

a few more...

1) Can't designate heirs!!!!????? End up killing off half of my family just to get the right guy on the throne.

2) Experience Chevrons seem to be messed up: only XP lvls 1,4 and 7 seem to add stats, the rest seem to do nothing.

3) Rome Region, Iconium Region, etc... CA, don't be lazy and name the provinces properly.

4) I used to love being able to view the city outside of a siege battle. But cheers, instead we have worthless spying/assassination movies.

5) The narrator starts a Muslim/Orthodox campaign, but you still see the same old company of western knights galoping around as visual effects.

6) The "Winning First" ancillary line. It should be renamed to "Is not an idiot on the battlefield."

[Kobal2fr]

2) Experience Chevrons seem to be messed up: only XP lvls 1,4 and 7 seem to add stats, the rest seem to do nothing.

Actually they do : they increase morale, and I believe stamina and archer precision as well. Could be wrong on the last two (empirical evidence being what it is) but I'm sure about the first.

5) The narrator starts a Muslim/Orthodox campaign, but you still see the same old company of western knights galoping around as visual effects.

Good point ! In RTW each faction (well, except for Barbarians and Greeks which all had a more generic one) had it's own movie, and it is kinda cheep that in M2 it's all the same with different voice over.

6) The "Winning First" ancillary line. It should be renamed to "Is not an idiot on the battlefield."

One could make the point that chivalry is akin to willfull stupidity

[Didz]

How exactly do you avoid getting the winning first trait?

[Rebellious Waffle]

Lead poisoning, or something like that. I start out with a smart, austere, budding bureaucrat general and two turns later he's an idiot man-child with anger management issues who lives in a pineapple under the sea.

[Rebellious Waffle]

(That's with reference to the top of the thread, not the most recent post before mine.)

[Kraggenmor]

Lead poisoning, or something like that. I start out with a smart, austere, budding bureaucrat general and two turns later he's an idiot man-child with anger management issues who lives in a pineapple under the sea.

Thank you for that, Waffle!!

Gave me a hearty laugh this morning.

Hah! Its funny because its true.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

Why does Constantinople get hit by a storm every ten turns? Is the sea Marmara (sp) the Byzantine equivalent of the hurricane season in the Caribbean? Whenever I control Constantinople I block the land-bridges with a fleet. Every 10 turns I have to retrain my fleet because of a storm that hit Constantinople.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

How exactly do you avoid getting the winning first trait?

1. Don't fight any battles with a general leading your army
2. Don't play the game
3. Pray

Now seriously:
1. Don't attack smaller armies
2. Don't chase routers (especially with your general)
3. Release prisoners

Sounds very boring to me