Medieval II

[tisl]

Has anybody tried the campaign? I'm goddamn busy these days and I don't have eight hours straight to spend on it, which is what I used to do with the Rome campaign. It's an incredible game, though. The armies are excellently made, the maps are nice, and the dividing of troops into different periods makes my battle fantasies feel much more authentic. They took Rome and then changed the setting and added a few extra touches, which is just what they should have done. My only complaint is the lack of a "Hide GUI" key. The game looks incredible, and epic battles make for epic screenshots, but when you have that GUI in the way...bah.

I'm going to go rape the Aztecs with my conquistadors.

[foshizzle]

You can make it where there is no UI, just go to UI Settings when your'e in a battle, and change it to minimal UI.

[Darz]

I've gotten a little pissed off at the bugs and game mechanics in this game.

The inquisition is messed up. Ends up killing off entire family lines, and one even killed my cardinal(the manual said this isn't possible...but it happened)

The excommunication system is really messed up. Five different christian nations have attacked me for no reason, and only one of them has been excommunicated. When I go to defend myself and capture one of their cities, the pope sends me a message "cease hostilities". Why should I have to cease hostilities when they are the ones attacking me?

Other than that I've enjoyed the game. I'm kind of putting the game on hold until more bugs are fixed and problems are ironed out...plus I could use a better computer.

[gamp_alcom]

Hey guys, just a question, what is the requirements for the game? It looks to be graphic heavy oriented.

I am hoping to get this game soon. This game looks sooo good on the reviews.

[Dark_Swordmaster]

Well, you might be able to run it on yer 5200, but not well. But gameplay > graphics.


Though 2400 flaming arrows illuminating a pitch black thunderstorm is truely a sight to fucking behold. Amazingly beautiful.

[Silence]

the games out? under what fuckin rock have i been sleeping...

im quite i sure i cant play it because of my un-snappy vid card... god daarn it to hell.

*pats pc* oh Sarah we have gone through alot... we gonna play this game, play it untill you groan, yes you like that dont you... naughty girl...

[RADiator]

I find tactical map an utter bore. But battles! Oh battles are surely an ode to death and misery all but make up for it in my case.

[tisl]

*pats pc* oh Sarah we have gone through alot... we gonna play this game, play it untill you groan, yes you like that dont you... naughty girl...
Holy shit.

[Ahriman]

I find tactical map an utter bore. But battles! Oh battles are surely an ode to death and misery all but make up for it in my case.

Um, you don't like the battle map, but the battles make up for it?

[Dark_Swordmaster]

He means the campaign map.

And it's true. The campaign map is currently shit, simply due to the stupidity of the Palpacy. Inquiring everyone in my faction, even if they've just passed the inquirer's last turn. Telling me to... Ugh. But the battles, even though they're only 8-18 FPS) are awesome. Quite very awesome.

[Silence]

Holy shit.

ney good sir, it has nothing to do with shit, or a holy one that is.

[LynX]

Really good game, though i'm spending more and more time (literally 30min - 1hr+ at a stretch) on the Campaign Map than involved in battles..... It just gets very hard to track everything when you start owning other factions.

There's a couple of bugs though, like your cavalry stopping in the middle of footsoldiers after charging, so only the front few horsemen actually kill an infantryman....

ALSO, on some areas especially in mountainous areas, there is a chance that your forces cannot get at each other.... because its on the edge of a very steep cliff/mountain, your troops cannot climb up to fight, and neither can the enemy get low enough to even shoot arrows or artillery.

But i'm addicted to this game. There's already some player-made mods that let you play as Aztecs, Timurids, the Papal States (Cardinals can also kick ass you know), the Mongols and any of the other "locked" factions.

[tisl]

But you wish it did, you dirty slut.

[Dark_Swordmaster]

It should be noted tisl is referring two comments up.


Regardless: I need to start over. I thought it'd be helpful to let the AI automanage a few of my settlements and that totally fucked me over. Now my armies are spread thin since France decided to attack out of no where, I have no agents, my super-duper assassin mysteriously disappeared (old age? counterassassin?) and the battles aren't going my way at all.

About those battles: I find troops NOT paying attention to any orders about 40% of the time. I say charge, they piss on themselves. I tell them to attack a different unit, they keep chasing the routing one. I tell them to run, they jump there on one leg.

The AI needs to be fixed SO hard. Other than that it's awesome.

[LynX]

^ You need to tell them to Stop, sometimes. I always use that when they start chasing routing troops, works like a charm.

The cavalry charging system is abit retarded too at the moment, its a big issue over at the TW forums. My solution is to tell them to charge behind the troops; though they don't pull out their lances, they actually kill more enemies this way because the horsemen behind the lead ones don't stop after the front guys hit the enemy. They usually run past abit then turn back, thus surrounding the troop their unit is attacking.

[tisl]

Why don't you use GUARD MODE to prevent them from chasing the fuckers?

[Dark_Swordmaster]

Because I don't have a manual.

[Darz]

You can download the manual from Steam, even if you didn't buy the game.

[gamp_alcom]

Well, you might be able to run it on yer 5200, but not well. But gameplay > graphics.


Though 2400 flaming arrows illuminating a pitch black thunderstorm is truely a sight to fucking behold. Amazingly beautiful.
damn im so jealous now :D