Can´t play M2TW

**Apgad** · 06-27-2008, 00:42

Of course, if CA didn't create RTW and M2TW in the first place, there'd be no EB and EB2...

That said, I did find the graphics and M2TW quite nice, and can't wait to see what the EB guys do with them. Gameplay-wise, it held me for a couple of weeks, just long enough to find out what it could do. I got a bit bored when all of the factions started looking the same, with the same (more or less) units available to every western faction with a few minor differences. Also, the fact that peasants looked like elvenkind from Lord of the Rings bothered me...

Overall, I found M2TW a little too homogenous for my liking. I won't say anything about the cannon elephants, excet that at least they weren't in LS!

**Irishmafia2020** · 06-27-2008, 05:24

MTW2 is a good game and a great engine. I modded it immediately, and then I found much better mods to improve the game. Actually, there are some very good mods out for MTW2, and I for one had about a year of bliss out of that game playing my favorite mods and watching them grow to their potential. EB is an outstanding mod, and I love the historical accuracy, but after seeing the MTW2 engine and a.i. I doubted that I would ever play a RTW mod again. One of the main reasons I am addicted to EB now is that my computer can easily handle the RTW engine, and so the battles are in real time and therefore fun. My frame rate drops off on MTW2, and the whole battle lags to a point that it can take an hour or more to finish. That meant that I could never play at night after my wife went to bed, since a single battle could keep up past midnight and leave me wasted for work the next morning. Once I buy a new computer I will go back to MTW2 mods immediately, although I hope that EB2 is out by then, as that would automatically be one of the top mods for the engine...

**Juggernaut** · 06-27-2008, 06:13

You should play M2 with mods like Stainless Steel and Broken Crescent...
It's much much more fun and deeper.

**QuintusSertorius** · 06-27-2008, 09:42

Originally Posted by Apgad

Of course, if CA didn't create RTW and M2TW in the first place, there'd be no EB and EB2...

That's a pretty empty and meaningless aphorism, though. Doesn't make the original games any good just because other people were able to salvage something playable from them.

**Pobs** · 06-27-2008, 10:49

no one seems to find the AI pathfinding in MTW2, particularly in cities as annoying as me then ?... that was the real immersion killer for me...

cheers,

Pobs