New Video Shows Crippling Bugs That Have Plagued the Series Removed!

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Once again 8 games into the series and some people can't get it through their thick skulls that something working in a way I don't like IS NOT A BUG. A bug is something that was unintended and the result of errors in the games coding. You'd think that after 5 games you'd get that what your complaining about is no error, it's intentional.

Intended? Why would they intend your cavalry (other units too, but it is the worst when they do it) to circle around to the front and attack when you have positioned them on the flank? Why is it that that does not always happen, but only some times randomly? They intended to have your units randomly disobey your attack orders and go out of their way to attack an enemy unit's front? Really? Sorry mate, but that sounds like tosh to me. Did they also intend for your pike men to randomly, rapidly switch back and forth between pikes and swords after you tell them to attack in a phalanx formation or pike-wall? For skirmishers to randomly switch back and forth from swords to javelin when in throwing range of an enemy and only finally wind back to throw their javelin when the enemy is almost on them? Did they intend for units (esp skirmishers) to pull 90% of their men back and leave 10% behind to draw the entire unit into combat after being given a retreat order manually or being placed in skirmish mode? Did they intend your units when told to attack an enemy around a corner in a city to try to draw a diagonal through the building and have most of your men get caught up on the corner so that they drip-feed themselves to the enemy one at a time? Is that also their intention then? How about on a battlefield when a tree or rock is in the way, and rather than circling around it or splitting up around it half your unit gets caught on it? In real life unit commanders or individual men figure out how best to micromanage their movements. Their general doesn't have to hold every individual man's hand and teach him how to move! Don't tell me that is intentional, and quit posting your condescending tosh in my thread.

Hey, I'm happy that the cavalry disengage from melee thing was fixed as that was by far the most annoying for me.

Skirmishing works just fine for a feature that is supposed to be inferior to actual micromanagement of the ranged units. You don't have any evidence of how weapon switching and pike formations work so I don't even know why are you so mad.

PS. TDS was complete fail compared to TDP and TMA, how come you have Deadly Shadows models and quotes in your signature?

I was very happy as well to find out that they made cavalry be able to disengage, but that was one major problem out of many across 8 games. And you are wrong about skirmishing. They sometimes do the same thing even when you give the order manually. And why would they bother implementing a deliberately broken feature to increase micromanagement anyway?

And you are wrong about my signature. The artwork and the quotes are from the first two games. None of it is from TDP.

Yep, they've specifically mentioned this in various interviews.

Yeah, they've mentioned it, but their gameplay videos do not confirm what they say. If it is better, it is not better by a lot. Every game that comes out they tell us that they are gonna be fixing all these bugs, but they never do.