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[scriver]

Many thanks, Mech. It's appreciated

[DoomOnion]

Apparently blood and gore dlc will be released in a few days.

I totally called it.

[Vendayn]

Anyone try the Radious Total War mod compilation?

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?2000-Radious-Total-War-Mod/page2

Supposedly "fixes" RTW2 Total War and makes it playable. Improves battle AI (which early on was so stupid looking in the videos I watched) and a ton of other stuff.

If anyone has tried it, worth buying RTW2 on the steam winter sale for this?

[Digital Hellhound]

I'm always surprised when people tell me the game's broken. I'm not doubting they've had problems, but for me the game started out working (if flawed) and just rolled out with polishing in patches and free DLC. Guess it's just really good luck.

It's worth buying, mod or not. It's a game with a lot of missed potential and some flaws, but it's still enjoyable enough for me to have sunk plenty of hours into it.

[umiman]

I never really had any problems myself. But I have a pretty damn good computer, so I don't know if I merely didn't experience the problems. The only thing I dislike is the removal of the family tree, which was quite annoying. I also wish they actually put some more personality into the historical battles. I mean... look at all the trailers. Why couldn't they use those as the introductions instead of those stupid speech bubbles.

Other than that I like it.

[lordcooper]

Between the utterly retarded AI (admittedly it has never been great but this is a pretty major step back), blink-and-you-miss-it battles, obtuse political system, flat out lying in trailers/interviews, imbalances in the naval battles (transports are still among the best ships to use), plethora of 'magic' abilities, pointless/minuscule general/legion development, gate torching etc etc this is easily the worst Total War game I've ever played.

This is the only game (out of at least a hundred) that I regret purchasing this year.

The province system is kinda cool though.

[PrimusRibbus]

I'm always surprised when people tell me the game's broken. I'm not doubting they've had problems, but for me the game started out working (if flawed) and just rolled out with polishing in patches and free DLC. Guess it's just really good luck.

It's worth buying, mod or not. It's a game with a lot of missed potential and some flaws, but it's still enjoyable enough for me to have sunk plenty of hours into it.

Agreed. I held off on buying Rome 2 because Shogun 2 left such a bad taste in my mouth. There are some pretty obvious oversights in Rome 2 (the family system needs to be thrown out and redone from scratch, for example), but it's one of the most fun games I've purchased in a while and it makes me hopefully for the direction of the series after the awful Shogun 2.

[Lukeinator]

I thought this looked interesting, and I kind want to play it. Sadly I have mac.
Anyone know how to get this to run on mac? Thanks.

[lordcooper]

You are doing two things wrong here.  Expecting to be able to game on a Mac, and planning to buy this game.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

You are doing two things wrong here.  Expecting to be able to game on a Mac, and planning to buy this game.

understatement. of. the. year.

Tell me, what can we, as a community, do to show you your better off with ANY OTHER TW GAME GAME? Self mutilation? A montage of the destroyed computers RTWII left in its wake? Maybe the a funny picture explaining the loss of my childhood happiness?

[sebcool]

I thought this looked interesting, and I kind want to play it. Sadly I have mac.
Anyone know how to get this to run on mac? Thanks.

I don't think the game is mac compatible, and it has some pretty hefty system requirements.

[MorleyDev]

Honestly? I never ran into any real AI problems or game breaking bugs. I've seen videos, but never seen it in my games. The game works fine for me and is fun mechanically. From what I've played, it's a decent game.

It's just not a very good Total War game. It feels more like a Total War clone, like it was designed by people who only had a description of the Total War games and didn't understand what made them so enjoyable. On it's own merits, I genuinely do think this is a decent game. But I don't think it holds up in context of the series.

[sneakey pete]

If you never had any AI problems of game breaking bugs you obviously never played the release build

I think the best for me and my mate was... 8 turns before the game desynced playing multiplayer.

[Karlito]

I thought this looked interesting, and I kind want to play it. Sadly I have mac.
Anyone know how to get this to run on mac? Thanks.

I don't think the game is mac compatible, and it has some pretty hefty system requirements.

Yeah, while possible with older games, there's no way Rome 2 is going to run on modern Mac hardware.

[PrimusRibbus]

I thought this looked interesting, and I kind want to play it. Sadly I have mac.
Anyone know how to get this to run on mac? Thanks.

Dual-boot Windows 7 or Windows 8 via Boot Camp.

I thought this looked interesting, and I kind want to play it. Sadly I have mac.
Anyone know how to get this to run on mac? Thanks.

I don't think the game is mac compatible, and it has some pretty hefty system requirements.

Yeah, while possible with older games, there's no way Rome 2 is going to run on modern Mac hardware.

The Mac Pros that we've LAN'd Rome 2 on at work with maxed settings would beg to differ I also have buddies that play Rome 2 on iMacs and MacBook Pros, albeit not on maxed settings.