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 Disciple of Fate wrote:
This game really brings back memories, counting down the days

The EB mod hooked me on the Hellenic factions, so for me its probably going to be Makedonia, hammer and anvil (or the Seleukids, come on CA, please ).

Well you should be happy then. Seleucids will be a free DLC in October.

 djones520 wrote:

 Disciple of Fate wrote:
This game really brings back memories, counting down the days

The EB mod hooked me on the Hellenic factions, so for me its probably going to be Makedonia, hammer and anvil (or the Seleukids, come on CA, please ).

Well you should be happy then. Seleucids will be a free DLC in October.

Ah some great news for the month of my birthday it seems, for free even. You made my day

I'll probably play as Parthia. Love me some horse archers.

Is anyone else a bit uncomfortable with this trend of making playable factions DLC? I remember being able to play literally every faction in Rome and Medieval II for only the price of the game.

 GangstaMuffin24 wrote:
Is anyone else a bit uncomfortable with this trend of making playable factions DLC? I remember being able to play literally every faction in Rome and Medieval II for only the price of the game.

Not if they're free, because I'd prefer to have factions added through free DLC if it means they have more time spent on them other than rushing factions for the release and having to spend time updating or patching them instead of having the devs work on other stuff.

 Avatar 720 wrote:

 GangstaMuffin24 wrote:
Is anyone else a bit uncomfortable with this trend of making playable factions DLC? I remember being able to play literally every faction in Rome and Medieval II for only the price of the game.

Not if they're free, because I'd prefer to have factions added through free DLC if it means they have more time spent on them other than rushing factions for the release and having to spend time updating or patching them instead of having the devs work on other stuff.

That's a fair point, I don't mind as long as it's free. I just don't see the justification behind paying for them (if they decide to go that route).

 GangstaMuffin24 wrote:
Is anyone else a bit uncomfortable with this trend of making playable factions DLC? I remember being able to play literally every faction in Rome and Medieval II for only the price of the game.

Given how much more goes into each faction then they did in Rome 1, no.

The game is a lot more complex, so you can't expect to see the same level of openness. The fact that they are continuing to provide new playable factions though, shows that they intend on eventually providing us with as many, if not more options, then we used to have.

The game is up for pre-load on steam, got it loading up now!

I preordered through gamestop, just to learn that I'd get a steam code from them, so I've still gotta wait till the 3rd to get the code...

The DLC factions are likely the result of trying to get the game out as soon as possible. Im sure there is a magic number for completion of the playable factions to make the game "ready for release" then you can continue working on the stuff that gets left out and release it via DLC

Carthage! The Second Punic war was an underrated turning point in history, in my opinion. Imagine Rome had fallen, would Carthage have expanded as far north as Rome did? Would Carthage have persecuted Christ? Would the Arabs have been able to take North Africa? Far reaching stuff...

Having pre-ordered, I'm gonna go with Sparta first off becuase... well Sparta. But second replay of the campaign? Probably the Icenii - gotta love barbarian rage!

Does anyone know if it'll run on a normal laptop?

 gianlucafiorentini123 wrote:
Does anyone know if it'll run on a normal laptop?

Depends on your machines specs.

http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Rome_II_Recommended_Specs

Either Rome or Sparta. While I love me some organized ranks of Roman legionaries I am also a big fan of hoplites! After that I will probably go for something more exotic, never really mastered the use of cav armies or what to do with elephants so maybe Pontus or Carthage?

The game is going to be a big change for me. I have only ever played Rome 1 and skipped out on all the other total war games ever since. Not sure what will be the biggest change, probably naval warfare as the first game just auto resolved them. There should also be a teensy change in the graphics I guess!

Now if you will excuse me, I am off to watch all the trailers again...

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/09/02/wot-i-think-total-war-rome-ii/

Its seems to be basically like I expected, good but not as good as it could have been. The Battle AI in particular seems to be as dim witted as it always has been, at least the strategic AI seems to be worth the name now though.

Hopefully the Very Hard AI isn't just a Hard AI that cheats.

I gotta go with the Macks.

barbarians, probably britons. their just so simple to use. no bullshet city management, ESPECIALLY SQUALOR, my oldest foe.
also helps how like a third of all factions were like barbarians in the old game, no cultural difference always a win

The Arveni, because who doesn't love Gauls? Hoping more Gaulish factions will be playable, I want to make Romans pass under the yoke as the Helvetii

 djones520 wrote:
I preordered through gamestop, just to learn that I'd get a steam code from them, so I've still gotta wait till the 3rd to get the code...

I was told we get a physical disk. WTF is the point of getting a disk if there is only the steam code on it?

 lord marcus wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
I preordered through gamestop, just to learn that I'd get a steam code from them, so I've still gotta wait till the 3rd to get the code...

I was told we get a physical disk. WTF is the point of getting a disk if there is only the steam code on it?

Maybe differant stores are doing differant things. I might be getting a disk and the guy at the counter was just an idiot (that's very likely as well). I'll find out tomorrow morning.

 djones520 wrote:

 lord marcus wrote:

 djones520 wrote:
I preordered through gamestop, just to learn that I'd get a steam code from them, so I've still gotta wait till the 3rd to get the code...

I was told we get a physical disk. WTF is the point of getting a disk if there is only the steam code on it?

Maybe differant stores are doing differant things. I might be getting a disk and the guy at the counter was just an idiot (that's very likely as well). I'll find out tomorrow morning.

indeed. Either way, we will probably be in the same quinqiereme. and in this case, Good luck to us both.

Argh... why did I see this thread... I'm trying to resist buying this game till it comes on sale... now I want to get it when it releases tomorrow... to be 'part of the conversation'... or something like that.

 djphranq wrote:
Argh... why did I see this thread... I'm trying to resist buying this game till it comes on sale... now I want to get it when it releases tomorrow... to be 'part of the conversation'... or something like that.

Give in to the dark side. Let your nerdom flow through you.

Djphrang:

within a few short hours there will be 2 types of people in the world...those playing tome total war 2....and everyone else....

 ironicsilence wrote:
within a few short hours there will be 2 types of people in the world...those playing tome total war 2....and everyone else....

And those who have to work while the game downloads so mega-slowly from steam/ a disk.

 ironicsilence wrote:
within a few short hours there will be 2 types of people in the world...those playing tome total war 2....and everyone else....

And here I am, stuck at uni with a laptop that nearly craps itself when playing Shogun II on the lowest settings, and with my gaming desktop at home.

I'm unfortunately not really going to get to play it until Friday. I'm working mids right now, so simply going to get the game tomorrow is going to be rough.

i preordered the game on steam so its already "loaded" on my system and conveniently enough I'm working from home tomorrow as some people are coming to work on my house....the stars are aligned