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Well I wouldn't call that guy the best tactician ever. Honestly I could probably have won that battle far quicker and taken fewer losses.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
In fairness that would have been a poor demonstration over too quickly and reminiscent of Angry Joes very popular and harsh lashing review of Rome 2, which CA had to take on board, which decried how large battles lasted only five minutes. A lot of people are watching to see of CA has learned its lessons from there.
Besides once you replace those Mounted Yeomen with KotR, the strategy used might be the strategy you need to use. Azhag might be needed for the first half of the battle nuking and debuffing knights until da boyz could hold off what remained and azhag could fly to the trebuchet.
The scenario was on 'hard' yeah right. I am pretty convinced that the Yeomen are placeholders for other cavalry. The generals speech, which is custom for the battle, mentioned fighting knights. When from what we could see there was only one knight on the actual battlefield and he was on foot.
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It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Well this got pushed back a month. Hopefully that means it will be a decent release. Also, it will be a 64 bit system. This should show how much I know about computers, but does this make it more of a high computer to run or low?
Tagony wrote: Well this got pushed back a month. Hopefully that means it will be a decent release. Also, it will be a 64 bit system. This should show how much I know about computers, but does this make it more of a high computer to run or low?
Higher, 64 bits allows it to use more than 4GB of RAM
I am not the leas bit surprisd by the pushback. It is clear that some factions are nowhere near ready.
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It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
Ah thanks noob. My computer does just fine with shogun TW 2, WoW, Pillars of eternity. Should I start thinking of upgrading? Or better question have you guys seen the exact requirements for the game?
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The requirements aren't out yet. But I doubt they're much higher than Shogun 2 was.
What are your specs?
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Total War games tend to be rather inefficient at running things, so tend to need pretty beefy computers (for what I would argue no real reason - I really don't care about individually tracked grassblade or whatever bs they'll end up advertising next).
I don't think Pillars or WoW are known as high spec games either (Indeed, I'm sure the low-specness was one of the keys to WoW's success, historically, right?)
I'd probably suggest looking at Rome 2's specs at the very least, then maybe adding an extra 20% or so?
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
I never found the graphics requirements to be high, it was more on the processing end. And having more RAM was always desirable of course. Of course I just always ran them on low setting to improve performance.
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Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Waiting for my shill money from Spiral Arm Studios
3gb of ram? That's an odd number.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Tagony wrote: AMD FX(tm)-8350 Eight Core Processor 4.00 GHz
8 gig of ram
64 bit operating system
GeForce GT 640 card
I got it about 3 years ago, so hopefully it can still hang
Most of that sounds good except for the video card. Mine is like a 950 or 970 and I got it fairly recently. It manages games infinitely better. Cost me like 200 USD though.
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Yeah, you're gonna want a new video card for sure.
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Let me help here. My graphics card will play it, but it would be nice to at least look at upgrading. Trouble is where to go for advice. Some sites probably know their stuff but don't know how to speak English without jargon, and look down the nose at anyone else who cant.
Others just point to a graphics card and make a hash of explaining why you should get it.
It hits the goldilocks zone of computer advice, telling you everyitnhg you need to know about thecards and doesnt assume you already know the industry.
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It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
My computer fixing family member told me to get one of the current video cards as it'd just go out of date super fast. I have a NVidia GeForce gtx 960 for that reason. It's a really good video card and they're so efficient they can work on their own much better. You might want to check to see if you have two fans though. Just make sure it works with your computer on hand. I had to get my whole computer put into a new case and given another fan just so it'd work. 200 dollars for the graphics card alone but it can run just about everything.
My trouble with Creative Assembly 'in engine cinematics' is that we don't know if they are telling the truth or not.
The in engine trailer work for Rome 2 Total War didn't look like what gamers actually got. I am yet to have my confidence restored.
Also the cinematics are likely there to cover up the faction not being ready yet for play.
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shinros wrote: vampire counts trailer up my body can't handle the awesomeness of it.
This will be the faction I play of the 4 (or 5 with DLC). I always wanted to play them in the tabletop but skaven took priority. Really looking forward to: coven thrones, mortis engines, terrorgheists, zombie dragons, vampires, crypt horrors, hex wraiths, vargheists and pretty much just raising undead. The only real weakness vampire counts had was no shooting but they could horde, raise dead and have fairly elite units all just fine.
I really do hope we can summon our dead enemies though. That would be so sick. Such an ultimate offense to your opponent.
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Going by the last bit of that trailer, I think raising your opponent's dead is definitely happening. The real question is if you can keep them after the battle...
Self-proclaimed evil Cat-person. Dues Ex Felines
Cato Sicarius, after force feeding Captain Ventris a copy of the Codex Astartes for having the audacity to play Deathwatch, chokes to death on his own D-baggery after finding Calgar assembling his new Eldar army.
Grey Templar wrote: Going by the last bit of that trailer, I think raising your opponent's dead is definitely happening. The real question is if you can keep them after the battle...
I'm happy either way. God that'd be such a massive offense to your enemy.
I am so hyped for this game. I loved fantasy, and they seem to be doing right by my Dwarves.
TheEyeOfNight- I swear, this thread is 70% smack talk, 20% RP organization, and 10% butt jokes
TheEyeOfNight- "Ordo Xenos reports that the Necrons have attained democracy, kamikaze tendencies, and nuclear fission. It's all tits up, sir."
Space Marine flyers are shaped for the greatest possible air resistance so that the air may never defeat the SPACE MARINES!
Sternguard though, those guys are all about kicking ass. They'd chew bubble gum as well, but bubble gum is heretical. Only tau chew gum
War Kitten wrote: I am so hyped for this game. I loved fantasy, and they seem to be doing right by my Dwarves.
I seriously hope Angry Joe's complaints have subsided. I seriously feel he's done more bad than good for that game and though the business practice may not be good I'd easily buy that game 3 times over with all DLC just to get my Warhammer Fantasy fix again.
I mean if he helped ruin any chance of a reboot of warhammer fantasy tabletop I will go to his house and punch him in the face (though I most likely wouldn't go there and do it) and normally I like that guy.
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Angry Joe had valid complaints, and he should be credited for cutting through the BS that was Rome 2 Total War and forcing Creative Assembly to review its marketing policy.
Pre-order is to me 'backing' the product, and I am ok for this to include sweeteners.
Also this looks like a massive game in terms of workload, each faction is very different, not just the same deal with different coloured units. There will be a lot of extra coding involved in making the game as it is. As it expands we will see a lot of DLC and unlike many DLC offers these appear to be worth paying for. But we shall see, we don't know the pricing structure yet.
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It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
If I bought the game 3 times over with all DLC it'd still be cheaper and a more in depth experience with more factions playable and better balanced armies that warhammer fantasy was on the tabletop. Considering fantasy tabletop is now dead this is the only way I can live out my fantasy dreams. Just let this game grow Joe and let GW swallow their tongues on all the crap they keep spewing out. People should understand this is what made fantasy so great. It truly deserves another chance with a broader audience that can truly appreciate it's great story and gameplay without knowing if they want to since hundreds of dollars or more and spent time painting and make models for just one army.
I mean 'Dawn of War 1' got me into 40k and playing the tabletop game. Total war could do this for warhammer fantasy as well. Please GW let your universes grow and try not to butcher them into some sort of Frankenstein.
Age of Sigmarines has a 'following' but its very small, there is very little loyalty to the IP because its new IP, Mantica is older.
The main advantage of Warhammer Fantasy was that it was built up over time and has a fanbase. I am hoping that with the undoubted success of this release Games Workshop will come to their senses and relaunch WHFB, they can still keep Age of Sigmar boxsets as an alternate timeline. We have already had one of those with Storm of Chaos, which directly contradicts the End Times story arc.
I really hope the endgame doesnt play out as hold as long as you can then - Sigmar. I hope the game allows your faction to crush Archaon and cancel the apocalypse. Then if we can do so on the PC, we should be able to do so in the tabletop universe.
This game may well be the best news WHFB has ever had, as when new people want to join in in Warhammer and find the unloved smegfest that is the current fluff and model range they might want the ral thing enough for even the morons in GW corporate to see a good thing.
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It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion. By the juice of the brew my thoughts aquire speed, my mind becomes strained, the strain becomes a warning. It is by tea alone I set my mind in motion.
They could save face by releasing it in a "Horus Heresy" style. Relive the classic battles of the world that was!
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Eldarain wrote: They could save face by releasing it in a "Horus Heresy" style. Relive the classic battles of the world that was!
I really hope they back-pedal so hard but I'm sure GW will act like it was their plan all along. I swear the hate Creative Assembly and Sega have gotten over 'total war' DLC are freaking non-issues in comparison to warhammer fantasy. Seriously 28 years of a franchise including brand loyalty and your big move is to kill the game that you expected us to invest in and then fully accept that it's dead and this new crap with a totally space marines faction and rules scribbled down at the last second with childish 8 year old humor moments is something we should totally spend hundreds on when a casual game generally doesn't amount to spending hundreds of dollars per person. Seriously when 40k players that play AoS compare it to a 'take a drink' game and say it's a good 'secondary' game there's an issue. Seriously all that effort in their main game for 28 years thrown into the wind for a game you casually flick your testicles to get a re-roll for.
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On the subject of mannfred in the trailer he was always my favorite of the von carsteins. Manipulative and successful as well as smart, good with magic and a pretty decent fighter. He is such a worthy von carstein successor. I like how he just casually fights and kills each empire soldier fighting him within the span of a second or two. Brave men for sure but mannfred kills them so effortlessly in a "Wtf do you guys think you're doing?! Don't you know who I am?!" sort of way. I mean seriously it mentions some vampires are such good fighters that very skilled mortal men fighting them are as fumbling children in comparison. I mean they're super strong, super smart, super fast, super magic heavy and can't die through age or sickness. I mean far as I remember vampire counts can be as fighty as chaos lords. There was once a thread on it in the fantasy forum. Something along the lines that chaos lords would win duels but vampire lords could kill more basic dudes.
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