Turning down SSAO would do nothing, the game is so insanely and inefficiently cpu bound you would probably get the same fps on an integrated gpu
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1900 x 1080 Here with everything on ultra, AA16 and every post processing shit enabled. Using a i7 2600k with a single gtx570 and get no lag whatsoever in battles, however I do see a tiny bit of a drop in the campaign map where things dont feel as smooth. Havent seen a drop in any of the battles even with full armies in sieges, etc..
Loser Araysar
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I will need 750$ wired to me to show you the photos. Sadly my uncle has been sick the past 3 months and I've had to pay for his healthcare by myself since he is so poor. That means I couldnt take care of my Kamera-phone which is now broken. Furthermor my computer at home finaly gave away and needs fixing to transfer the photos, private message me for wire transfer information where we can start our relationship and love long time.
Betsy, your internet gal.
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I jacked the Battle Difficulty (different than campaign difficulty) up to legendary, and battles are more difficult, but I still don't lose any, I just take a good chunk more casualties and lose the occasional unit. Are you playing as Rome? At this point I am not so sure that it is the AI. It does the right things, but my full veteran upgraded Roman units just stomp their faces into the dirt. Whenever I play skirmishes against the AI with evenly matched armies they win more often than not.
When I finish up this campaign I am going to try a legendary/legendary campaign using one of the "hard" factions and see how that goes. The battle difficulty setting matters quite a lot though. I went from losing like 100 units in a full stack battle to sometimes half my troops, and battles last twice as long now (from 4-5 minutes to 8-10 minutes). The slider is more about the stats than AI I think. Battles are still too short, Shogun 2 had the right speed if you ask me. I know a lot of people thought THEY were too short, but I thought they were just right.
Yes battles have been on legendary my whole playthroughs, first thing I changed. I played as Sparta, but it doesnt really matter, its about what the ai does. He's sieging my city with 2 full stacks of units, yet attacks ONE gate where i have 6 reserves...and just keeps sending one unit at a time while my 3 square pikement obliterate them with levies shooting on them from aboe the door...40 units slain that way.
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Gotcha.
I haven't been sieged, and the skirmish battles I played were normal land battles. Cities really seem to through the AI for a loop.
It does fare better on normal battles, but anything involving an obstacle and it goes absolutely fucking retarded mode and 0 strategy. It's a bit sad because a game like this, the AI will make or break the entire experience and should be one of the main focus...games from paradox understand this and are awesome for it. Games like Civilization dont, fail and people stop playing them because the ai is dumb as nails.
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Let's hope it gets improved soon, as I love nearly everything they've changed with the game. At some point I'll do a full write up with what I like and why, what I don't like and why, and what just doesn't work right.
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Dear betsy, I am sorry to hear about your uncle. My uncle died not too long as well, so I know what you must be going through. I will send you the $750 but I need to know who I am sending it too. Please take a photo with a disposable camera and just mail the camera to me, I have PMed you my address information.
Your sugar Daddy, Dimitri.
Hello dear Dimiti,
Unfortunately it is hard for me to purchase a camera in this country and without any money, please wire transfer 200$ so I may go buy a camera and ship to your country.
In your dreams always, Betsy.
Aw shit apparently you can enter buildings in siege mode, this will be intresting once AI isnt incompetent
http://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/com...uildings_with/
http://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/com...uildings_with/
Been playing a few hours, I do really like the trait shit you can toss to armies/generals.
Anyone found a way to check the age of Generals when recruiting a new one to replace a dead one? I no shit recruited a 72 year old general to replace my dead one, fucker lasted like 3 turns before he too died.
Also, is there a way to see how much "happiness" a city/province has? If I'm at 100, I can't see the +X thingy. I don't want to build something that gives -X without knowing how much + I have to offset.
Anyone found a way to check the age of Generals when recruiting a new one to replace a dead one? I no shit recruited a 72 year old general to replace my dead one, fucker lasted like 3 turns before he too died.
Also, is there a way to see how much "happiness" a city/province has? If I'm at 100, I can't see the +X thingy. I don't want to build something that gives -X without knowing how much + I have to offset.
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I don't want to say the game is completely fixed, but the performance for me is indeed way way way up in battle and campaign maps with the patch. I turned everything all the way up and its giving me about 35 fps but its smooth, not sluggish or jerky or screen tears all over the place.
The patch today definitely helped me.
The patch today definitely helped me.
hodj
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Wait for the sale, but my biggest gripe was the sluggish bogged down feel of the campaign and battle maps, the sub par framerates and the like and I do think they cleared alot of that up today.
I played it all evening and except in the most busy of moments (full army marching in a packed city etc.) it was silky smooth, even if the actual FPS was about 35.
I played it all evening and except in the most busy of moments (full army marching in a packed city etc.) it was silky smooth, even if the actual FPS was about 35.
Glad I haven't bought a PC game for ages. It seems the norm to churn out half ass games, then slowly patch them because they realize customers won't stand for their bullshit...
And they still fuck it up.
And they still fuck it up.