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[Teneb]

Most animations are pretty good. A very subtle one is Malekith's run animation: He just walks faster, because running isn't edgy.

[scriver]

He walks the Long Stride like all proper Altmer.

[ArchAIngel]

Well apparently if you kick Tlaqua's ass hard enough they'll confederate with you.


That was an unexpected, but nice, boon.

[sprinkled chariot]

Did Surtha Ek the everchariot make his way in tw 2 ?

[Mech#4]

Did Surtha Ek the everchariot make his way in tw 2 ?

Makes him sound like he'll appear randomly in battle like Doomrider. Charging over a hill at the head of a host of Chaos Chariots, trampling all before him.

[Tack]

Skaeling exists... the rest, unsure.

[Coolnesstod]

Since this is the latest total war, I'm just gonna voice my biggest complaint with the total war series as a whole here.

The prices of the past 6-7 years of total war games, is insane. Let me explain. Shogun 2:total war, without any dlc, is $30 base price; with dlc, $50. About what I expected for a 6, almost 7 year old game. Rome 2, a 4 year old game now, is still $60, without dlc. Add all the dlc, $145.90. <- That is insane. How about Attila? A 2, almost 3 year old game, $45 base price. huh. Cheaper than Rome. Add all dlc, $117.91. Not as insane, but still kind of insane. I can excuse Warhammer 1, since it is a newer game, and I'm not expecting a price drop at all for it. I could bring up the older games, but that's digging too deep. I expect all these games will be priced this way until they hit the 6/7 year mark, like shogun 2, which is kind of worrying.

I'm not asking that these prices be dropped to like $20 or anything, just i think that these older games and their prices should be looked at, and reevaluated. Maybe give us new bundles or have sales for the games more often.

[Tack]

I got Attila on sale for about six bucks.
Warhammer 1 was 50% off over christmas.

It could just be an 'Age of Steam' thing, where games don't depreciate as fast.

[thvaz]

Skraelings are wrecking High Elves in my game. I got the chance to look at one of their armies and it looks like their roster is pre-Norsca DLC.

[PrimusRibbus]

Since this is the latest total war, I'm just gonna voice my biggest complaint with the total war series as a whole here.

The prices of the past 6-7 years of total war games, is insane. Let me explain. Shogun 2:total war, without any dlc, is $30 base price; with dlc, $50. About what I expected for a 6, almost 7 year old game. Rome 2, a 4 year old game now, is still $60, without dlc. Add all the dlc, $145.90. <- That is insane. How about Attila? A 2, almost 3 year old game, $45 base price. huh. Cheaper than Rome. Add all dlc, $117.91. Not as insane, but still kind of insane. I can excuse Warhammer 1, since it is a newer game, and I'm not expecting a price drop at all for it. I could bring up the older games, but that's digging too deep. I expect all these games will be priced this way until they hit the 6/7 year mark, like shogun 2, which is kind of worrying.

I'm not asking that these prices be dropped to like $20 or anything, just i think that these older games and their prices should be looked at, and reevaluated. Maybe give us new bundles or have sales for the games more often.

As an example, Rome 2 and its DLC have gone on 75% off sale four times this year so far. If you're missing these sales, be sure to put the game on your wishlist and enable email notifications.

If you're expecting a bigger sale than that keep in mind that Rome 2, a four year old game in a niche genre that was critically panned by the community for its initial bugginess, is still usually in the top 50 games by concurrent players on Steam in any given week (and in a week where Warhammer 2 is taking the attention of most of the TW fans, Rome 2 is still around 60th last I checked). That's a game that has legs, and you're not going to see Medieval 2-level sales until the player count drops to Medieval 2-level numbers.

[Sindain]

Skraelings are wrecking High Elves in my game. I got the chance to look at one of their armies and it looks like their roster is pre-Norsca DLC.

I've been fighting the Norse pretty extensively as Malekith, and yeah, I've only see pre dlc units. Although I did not notice at the time, as I haven't actually played a game with the Norsca dlc yet.

[Teneb]

Skraelings are wrecking High Elves in my game. I got the chance to look at one of their armies and it looks like their roster is pre-Norsca DLC.

I've been fighting the Norse pretty extensively as Malekith, and yeah, I've only see pre dlc units. Although I did not notice at the time, as I haven't actually played a game with the Norsca dlc yet.

It probably has to do with the fact that Norsca got released after work on TWW2 had started. CA mentioned that at first the Mortal Empires campaign will feature pre-dlc unplayable Norsca.

[umiman]

I can't play this campaign. The removal of the free-rotation from the middle-mouse button is completely ruining this game from me. It works fine in battle, but for some reason CA removed it from the campaign map. If you want to rotate or angle the camera, there's like 4 different buttons you need to press. It's so unbelievably jarring considering it works perfectly fine in battle.

It feels like I'm stuck in a porthole on the campaign map.

[Cruxador]

I've found the game so far to be the XCOM 2 of TWarhammers.
They did a thing with more storyline and it's fallen flat 'cos I just want to expand and conquer, and then they threw in a bunch of cutscenes to bring me in to the story, which again don't really do anything for me.
That and now the between-turn camera pan-across is... I wouldn't say jarring, but overly showy. It's certainly gotten a lot more flair since the days of bare-bones historical sims.


Also I always thought of Morathi as being more wizened... that was not so.

Haven't played 2, but one thing I found to be a problem with the first was that just expanding and conquering quickly became the only thing to do, and the strategic gameplay was nowhere near satisfying enough to support that. And once you've got a strategic advantage, the tactical gameplay soon becomes far less relevant, since you can just toss a full stack of good units at any problem and even just auto-calc a pretty good victory. Together with the multiple-minute load times (Why? My computer is getting older, I guess, but definitely not old enough to justify this) for each battle and the game stopped being interesting very quick. If there's a bit more story, at least that'll give some purpose to your actions.

[umiman]

I've found the game so far to be the XCOM 2 of TWarhammers.
They did a thing with more storyline and it's fallen flat 'cos I just want to expand and conquer, and then they threw in a bunch of cutscenes to bring me in to the story, which again don't really do anything for me.
That and now the between-turn camera pan-across is... I wouldn't say jarring, but overly showy. It's certainly gotten a lot more flair since the days of bare-bones historical sims.


Also I always thought of Morathi as being more wizened... that was not so.

(Why? My computer is getting older, I guess, but definitely not old enough to justify this)

My enjoyment of Total War went up tenfold the day I bought an SSD.

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