Warhammer: Total War

Gbear

Any quality of life improvements people can think of for the next installment?

Mine would be allowing movement while in encamped stance.

If you want to get through vampire or other attrition territory but don't want to piss people off, you can move half a turn and then encamp, rather than raiding. So it'd be nice to make it require 1 click rather than 3 every turn (and those buttons for movement stance are fiddly to begin with).

Another would be fixing the way diplomacy works. Not the theory or the balance or anything.
Literally the nuts and bolts; the UI, of how you select people. Currently any selected faction becomes "active" and they're the ones that relationships are compared between on hover.

It'd be better if it always stayed on your faction so you could rapidly switch between your interactions with other factions and have a separate command (right click?) to activate other factions.

Varik

Norsca is going to vastly change the game, they're going to go from a numerous annoyance to a an actual threat.

Dave_The_Sheep

I wonder will the put that northern Dwarf faction in the game (the one that spawns when you start as Chaos) to hold them back a small bit. Doubt it.

Empire when under the control of the AI is going to be boned, unless they get a bit of an upgrade.

Gbear

Dunno what's happened but the game has turned into a slideshow for me.
They did release some kind of DLC.

It's stuttering about once every second or so. It's unplayable.
Anyone else notice anything?


Anyone encountered it before?

Reinstalled the game. Seems to have fixed it.

Samuel T. Cogley

How do you get Krell?

Ah found it :pac:

Varik

Gbear wrote: »

Dunno what's happened but the game has turned into a slideshow for me.
They did release some kind of DLC.

It's stuttering about once every second or so. It's unplayable.
Anyone else notice anything?


Anyone encountered it before?

Reinstalled the game. Seems to have fixed it.

One of the patches reset which GPU the game used (dedicated or the CPU's integrated) for me before.

Gbear

Varik wrote: »

One of the patches reset which GPU the game used (dedicated or the CPU's integrated) for me before.

Don't think it was that. It was saying it was using my GPU in the graphics settings.

I didn't get to clear the cache before I reinstalled it. I couldn't find it.
That used to bugger up my Civ 5 games so I had a shortcut on my desktop and I'd empty it every few games.

If it wasn't that than I really don't know.

Varik

Werewolves look amazing.

They given the mammoths some weird grasping trunks with finger/tentacles at the end.

Live gameplay tomorrow.

Generic Dreadhead

Haven't played this since November. Why is it looking for 34GB of space for a effing update?

Gbear

Generic Dreadhead wrote: »

Haven't played this since November. Why is it looking for 34GB of space for a effing update?

I think there's some shenanigans with the updates where it installs the whole thing again and then deletes the old version, or something like that.

Varik

30 new regiments of renown being added to the game.

Great more units for the CPU to abuse in campaign. (still happy about it).

Samuel T. Cogley

Is it my imagination or is the game a lot harder now?

Varik

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Is it my imagination or is the game a lot harder now?

compared to when, a lot of factions added meant that the sides are more fleshed out and don't have the same limitations they once did.

Samuel T. Cogley

Varik wrote: »

compared to when, a lot of factions added meant that the sides are more fleshed out and don't have the same limitations they once did.

It seems that the dwarfs are a lot more trigger happy, the minor factions anyway. The minor empire factions aren't so much of a walk over either.

eeguy

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

It seems that the dwarfs are a lot more trigger happy, the minor factions anyway. The minor empire factions aren't so much of a walk over either.

The regiments of renown have upped the difficulty in the early game.

Samuel T. Cogley

Easy is too easy and I'm getting pissed off on Normal, I'm gonna try a mod to delay chaos and creep a bit more.

degrassinoel

Samuel T. Cogley wrote: »

Easy is too easy and I'm getting pissed off on Normal, I'm gonna try a mod to delay chaos and creep a bit more.

Chaos is a ladder!

Sorry, had to..

Varik

They're doing a balance pass on the old world factions now they've grown to even it all out.

it's called the "old world" update.

Biggest thing I see is that the AI Empire starts with a full provence now.

killanena

And playing a chaos campaign you get a lot more unit regeneration after the update which will help get things moving on a bit. Noting worse then having to stay encamped for 10 turns after every battle.

Varik

PC was down for the last while, so sorted now and looking to order 2, where's cheapest?

Rather get it somewhere legit to get pre-order bonus but norseca is €6ish so might get that seperatly.

degrassinoel

Skaven finally confirmed for WHII

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8EQ1KNkpmw

Remouad

Varik wrote: »

PC was down for the last while, so sorted now and looking to order 2, where's cheapest?

Rather get it somewhere legit to get pre-order bonus but norseca is €6ish so might get that seperatly.

Cheapest I've seen it is cdkeys for around €36

Next to that would be bundlestars for €50

Varik

I hate when they keep something secret like that and everyone knows what it's going to be, really anticlimactic.

Remouad

Varik wrote: »

I hate when they keep something secret like that and everyone knows what it's going to be, really anticlimactic.

Well I'm just glad they've finally confirmed it.

So... Skaven confirmed and the map has the lands of the Tomb Kings.

Now we just have to wait for someone to make a mini campaign mod remake of Shadow of the Horned Rat and Dark Omen

Varik

If they introduce tomb King, I hope the change the shuffle for the undead. It's good for vampires but would want it a little different for tomb kings.

Mr Crispy

RPS got hands-on with the Skaven in campaign mode.

Edit: So did Eurogamer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr-bL1qeSqQ

ancapailldorcha

Totalbiscuit has been playing with a preview build of Total War: Warhammer 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7pJbChcaX4

Skyte

Can I just say how much BS it is thay CA gave TotalBiscuit exclusive Q&A rights on his stream and they ****er has the gall to lock it down to his paying subscribers to ask questions only, he also didnt have a clue how to play the game also. (Not using groups, not using formations, half the time played in slow motion)

Dave_The_Sheep

Skyte wrote: »

Can I just say how much BS it is thay CA gave TotalBiscuit exclusive Q&A rights on his stream and they ****er has the gall to lock it down to his paying subscribers to ask questions only, he also didnt have a clue how to play the game also. (Not using groups, not using formations, half the time played in slow motion)

What. A. Bastard.


...no.

ancapailldorcha

Skyte wrote: »

Can I just say how much BS it is thay CA gave TotalBiscuit exclusive Q&A rights on his stream and they ****er has the gall to lock it down to his paying subscribers to ask questions only, he also didnt have a clue how to play the game also. (Not using groups, not using formations, half the time played in slow motion)

I don't see how that's BS to be honest.

Sephiroth_dude

Is it out soon?

killanena

28th of September but I'm pretty happy with the Norsca dlc for now. All the new regiments of renown are nice in multiplayer too.

Dave_The_Sheep

The Steel Faith Overhaul mod has been updated for the Norsca DLC and released this evening.

Well worth a look, makes it a bit more difficult and tweaks the lords and skill points. Quite modular with a few official submods including ones to help it work with Legendary Lords and Cataph's mods.

Generic Dreadhead

I've gone back to the 1st game now I have a working mouse wheel

What the f**k is up with the (default) Greenskins Campaign?
After 20ish Turns the (default) Dwarves with their King just come down from the North/North-West to Barak Var/Blood River Valley and crush me, they have all these strong units, a huge army and they are armoured, and I have f**k all armour piercing units at that stage

Like the battles are me killing 50 of them and them kill 800 of mine
I was having a grand ole time until then. Do I honestly need to spend the entire 1st 25 turns preparing for this specific attack?

It's happened like 3 times now

Remouad

Is it the dwarfs or  Clan Angrund?
If it's Clan Angrund AI is probably programmed to head for Skarsnik/Karak Eight Peaks asap and you might be in it's way.

Remouad

Need to play more of this. The game has so much content.
So far I've played campaigns as the Dwarfs, Vampire Counts and Empire. 
Which means I still have 2 free races (Greenskins, Bretonnia) and 4 DLC (Chaos, elves, beast men, Norsca) races left to play. 
That's not even counting the sub factions!!

Heffoman

What are the best mods to make this game easier?
I have Brettonia and few others to complete and I d like an easier run at ti.

Generic Dreadhead

Remouad wrote: »

Is it the dwarfs or  Clan Angrund?
If it's Clan Angrund AI is probably programmed to head for Skarsnik/Karak Eight Peaks asap and you might be in it's way.

The Dwarves from up North, the lads with the King being carried around on a big chair.... the langer :mad:

Remouad

Heffoman wrote: »

What are the best mods to make this game easier?
I have Brettonia and few others to complete and I d like an easier run at ti.

Haven't tried these myself but should make things easier.

• Agent cap - stops the AI from spamming agents.
• No Aggressive Agents - AI agents can't attack/assassinate you.
• Chaos Please Wait - delays the chaos invasion.

killanena

Heffoman wrote: »

What are the best mods to make this game easier?
I have Brettonia and few others to complete and I d like an easier run at ti.

Most overhaul mods focus on adding more challenge to the game but you could get a collection of multiple smaller mods to make it a bit easier if you'd like

Home region movement bonus
More skill points
T4 minor settlements
Better AI recruitment and army composition - Doesn't make the game easier but it stops AI from spamming units like ranged and artillery and forces the AI to build a more balanced army like you would expect.
No aggressive agent - AI tends to spam agents are are pretty aggressive with them, Can be very annoying for some players. This mod disables all aggressive actions by agents of the AI.

These are just a few off the top of my head.
There is some very good mods out there so watch a few youtube videos or just browse the workshop to find more

Edit: Im also looking for someone to start a new multiplayer campaign with. PM me if interested. Can start tonight.

Dave_The_Sheep

There's a whole set of maps - Grand Campaign Custom Maps (GCCM) - that are much prettier and varied than the vanilla ones. Particularly the major cities, but also minor settlements, rivers, etc, etc. The AI isn't always the best at pathing on them, but I find them generally excellent. Search for GCCM on the workshop and you'll find them all - it's modular so you can add what you want and leave the others. I use pretty much all of them.

Other than that I use Steel Faith and the ones killanena listed... (Steel Faith has it's own version of More Skill points and Tier 4 minor settlements).

Better Campaign Map - Pretties up the campaign map a good bit.
All Tabletop Lords - Adds more Lords to the Generals type, as per tabletop.
Better Camera Mod - makes moving around on the battlefield easier and better.
Legendary Lords Remastered Currently waiting for a fix between Steel Faith and this, but it changes the mastery points for the various Legendary Lords to be more interesting.
Valuable Veterans - Leveling up your units now gives them much better bonuses to health leadership etc. Really like this one, your experienced units can be battle changers.

I'm sure there's a few more I've missed but that's most of them (along with the ones in the previous post).

Billy86

Generic Dreadhead wrote: »

The Dwarves from up North, the lads with the King being carried around on a big chair.... the langer :mad:

Great, now I can't stop picturing some Corkonian f***er in the middle of a giant battle finding the time, space and quiet to go off on an endless rant about "look at your man in the big chair over there, thinks he's great so he does, the langer, I'll show him, Mr Big Balls in his chair..." before getting cut off with a spear through the neck.

Generic Dreadhead

Sounds like something you'd see in Vikings or GoT :pac:

Generic Dreadhead

Ok, so I started a new Campaign as Carcassonne and TBH, I was liking it more. Just don't think my playstyle suits Greenskins.

Kind of annoying how it's hard to support 2 decent armies (upkeep cosy + peasant counting mechanic), kind of running back and forth defending with my 1 decent army now

F**k the lads in the Southern Realms. Myself and all the Bretonians and Empire lads and guys in the top left area are all in a big fu€k pile. All allied up and making joint wars etc and wrecking the gaf.... but these langers won't join the fu€k pile and they keep getting hit by loads of Beastmen who OF COURSE come up through Estalia and are knocking on my Capitals door within a turn or two... ughhhh

I've been going down the tech route of getting all these lads into my big confederacy, which is nice, actually playing a strong diplomacy game. Really liking my girls spells too

Me and the Wood Elves butted heads a bit early one, but they we all made peace but this one dude, so this dude now decides he wants to war, but his Army is OP, like all Dryads and Wardances and Eagles and they are just ripping me apart. How can the AI even sustain these big armies with like 1 town each

I keep utterly annihilating the Vampire Couts in fights (like some fights they have 4 separate stacks, not full) and I'm killing like 2,000 of them to their 500 of my lads killed... but becasue they rarely ever rout it's hard to actually beat them. Plus their dog things and bat things are hella annoying. And they seem to replenish fast so it's a total war of Attroition now.

They only have 1 province, I want them gone, so that whole place can become Human master-race

I've provided a detailed tactical run-down map below

Remouad

Damn hard to follow that cracker of a post but thought you'd all like to know that all the DLC is 50% off in the humble bundle sale

J Mysterio

I really liked the picture 10/10

Remouad

So just pre-ordered Warhammer 2.
First preorder ever but got it for around half price so pretty sure I'm going to get my money's worth
Also picked up wood elves and chaos so only missing beastmen which I'm not too fussed about.
Might get it when I've finished my playthroughs of the other races.
So in about 10 years or so

eeguy

Remouad wrote: »

So just pre-ordered Warhammer 2.
First preorder ever but got it for around half price so pretty sure I'm going to get my money's worth
Also picked up wood elves and chaos so only missing beastmen which I'm not too fussed about.
Might get it when I've finished my playthroughs of the other races.
So in about 10 years or so

Where did you preorder?

Remouad

eeguy wrote: »

Where did you preorder?

Bundlestars.
Work connection is through the UK so was able to order it in sterling.
Paid £32.79 (~€36)
Used Revolut so got really good exchange rate.

eeguy

Remouad wrote: »

Bundlestars.
Work connection is through the UK so was able to order it in sterling.
Paid £32.79 (~€36)
Used Revolut so got really good exchange rate.

Couldn't get the UK rate. Found it on CDkeys for 35.69. Much of a muchness