Kingdoms Battles Balance

**Kronos** · 08-17-2007, 04:06

Well the latest bad news from CA is that the rebalancing in kingdoms won't be added to standard mtwII for whatever reason (sounded like a mixture of incompetence and not bothering to fix a flawed product because there's no money in it for them to me).

The reason they gave was actually because it caused an incompatibly between people playing mtwII who have the expansion and people playing mtwII without it. Which imo I think everyone would prefer to still having a broken game. It's either no one plays mtwII because it's a peice of **** or everyone plays mtwII but some people can't play with others even though atleast 90% of people would have kingdoms if not all as it's pretty much hardcore total war players online.

From the info about kingdoms so far the multi looks like it's going to be pretty poor, so it's either a broken game or a poor multiplayer game, which isn't much of a choice

Lets not forget that the actual issue that has been presented as the cause for the incompatibly is pretty much solely CA's fault and doesn't seem particularly hard to correct from my limited knowledge.

I've been a strong follower of CA for al ong time when alot of other people bashed htem however this is just rediculously bad on their part.

**Swoosh So** · 08-17-2007, 18:25

Get used to it tbh, ever since CA left EA the multiplayer got worse and worse.

CA dont care about MP people just have to face up to it, theyre just tacking it on at the end of each game, why else would they not continue sucessful features like the chat and tournament rooms and online ladder....

I used to blow my top trying to get improvements or the old features reimplimented, now i just have fun with single player and tell my ideas for mp to anyone with an open ear, but i dont expect as i used to that CA would put a little effort into mp.

**Paolai** · 08-18-2007, 01:13

These are good changes, what MTW2 needed to be a good game. Well done.

**ELITEofBLIZZARD** · 08-18-2007, 14:51

Better listen to Kyolic :/

Even if balancing is great now, it wouldnt help anything. MTW2 (Kingdoms) will begreat to play in about 3 years, i assume.
When 4000 or even higher connection are common, like today DSL 1000 are, MTW2 will run smooth and therefore will be fun again... Its the same with MTW/VI. Before the release of RTW, most 4vs4 were pretty laggy (at least for me), nowadays, it runs without any problem at a pretty good fps rate. And my DSL 1000 connection didnt changed since that.

Think I'll handle Kingdoms like I handled BI. First "try" it, and if some mach valued vets it really recommend it I'll think about buying...

**Benandorf** · 08-25-2007, 06:07

So, wait, will these changed only affect the Kingdoms campaigns, or will they affect the units in vanilla M2:TW too?

I like my huge number of cav...

**CeltiberoMordred** · 08-25-2007, 12:31

Originally Posted by Benandorf

So, wait, will these changed only affect the Kingdoms campaigns, or will they affect the units in vanilla M2:TW too?

I like my huge number of cav...

It will only affect Kingdoms factions, not M2TW vanilla.

**Noir** · 08-26-2007, 12:12

The balancing sounds pretty good. It is interesting that from the sound of it the RPS is strengthened and the MTW model is used (again) as a basis for balancing purposes, things that have been long advocated from the mp community.

If i was more interested in M2 mp than i currently am, i would be interested to know about the relative percentages of casualties that cause routs on a one on one basis in Kingdoms.

Many Thanks

Noir