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I’m loving it, but it is really poorly optimised and there are a decent amount of bugs in the game. I had to put up with a craptop for most of the time I played Shogun 2, though, so I’m not fussed.

perfect performance for me, and the AI on the CM is actually good, but sieges ._.

What settings? My rig should handle ultra well and it still has performance drops – lots of people on the forums complaining about it too.

The game is solid, the only real bugs I’ve found are things like the desyncs for multiplayer campaigns and one time I couldn’t click on a menu option until I reloaded. I’ve got 12 hours on it already and I’m not even 1/4 way through my first campaign.

Still yet to play it as attempting to download it made steam crash. Found a fix for that and will be playing this game for most of the evening and early morning, YAY for days off.

I also found a tip for ‘vastly’ improving performance as well. So they said. Let me see if I can find it…

Vegetation and depth of field. Turn them off and you get a massive boost apparently.

Im so excited about this game :>

My direct experience with Total War games is limited to Shogun 2, but:

– in Shogun 2 I could never lay siege more than one turn without them coming out to fight me, which was preferable than attacking a city so I never bothered. In Rome 2 you both suffer attrition if you lay siege, so attacking straight up is viable and they don’t always rally out to fight you.
– haven’t seen any unit tomfoolery yet
– in combat, i’ve not been on the receiving end of a city siege but settlement sieges have been “i have a wall of units i’m going to walk at you” affairs [to clarify: provinces are split up into 2-4 settlements, one of them will be a walled city and others will be unwalled settlements]

okay, I figured out what the AI problem is
basically if you have walls, it will send 2-3 units to burn your gates down early on (later in the game, but like supa late, they get onagers / towers / ladders etc.). if you rout those 2-3 units which is very easy, the rest of the army will not react and will stand there until the time runs out

the game is still rather boring, as it is IMPOSSIBLE to lose when Rome even on the hard settings unless you try to.

Shit tons of bugs of course, some big ones:
slave revolts don’t actually do anything
the slaves revolt, a huge army appears in your province(s), but it does not do anything, disappears about 1-2 turns later. your income does not suffer too so it doesn’t matter at all
the predictions are god awful for battles – size matters only, not unit skill, so a veteran legion full of elite units will lose against (if auto’d) an army 3x its size but made of peons

the politics are useless – if they DO matter, it’s impossible to tell how.

champions are incredibly OP due to the xp they give an army

I’m glad that they fixed a lot of the inane shit though, diplomacy actually has depth now unless you go around betraying everybody, then it doesn’t matter since nobody will trust you.
The combination of land and sea battles in one is very nice and adds another level of depth
sieges are better, the AI is fine when defending

it ain’t a bad game over-all but it’s a bit simplified and has some shitty things about it, I’d advise waiting 6 months to a year for the good mods to come out – maybe a roma surrectum 3 or ER 2