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Angry Lobster posted:Godspeed, preorder goons. I offer myself as tribute  I remember posting around the Rome 2 pre-release, but I don't remember what the attitude towards the game was like before release. I remember some trepidation about some of the army/settlement changes, which was also mixed with excitement.
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Save an extra 5% on pre-orders from Fanatical using: TWTKGAMESPOT also works post release until the 27th
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May 21, 2019 00:09
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Blooming Brilliant posted:I offer myself as tribute a lot of people, myself included, got tricked into preordering the game thanks to some brazilian site having it for 50% cheaper and a bunch of cool trailers. of course, the game being bad still made that money wasted
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May 21, 2019 00:19
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Davincie posted:a lot of people, myself included, got tricked into preordering the game thanks to some brazilian site having it for 50% cheaper and a bunch of cool trailers. of course, the game being bad still made that money wasted I was one of those people. Haruspicy failed me then. I refuse to believe astrology will fail me this time. This game's star is soaring high into the heavens.
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May 21, 2019 00:21
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Josef bugman posted:My brother is getting this for me for my birthday. The only real difference in our stories is that I started with 4 instead of 2. Also I am preordering the game as having followed the game in twitch for a while it has been great seeing just how much stuff they have improved.
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May 21, 2019 00:25
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Rome 2 at least spawned an episode of Three Moves Ahead that I’ve listened to dozens of times over the years when I just need something to fall asleep with.
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May 21, 2019 00:31
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Kanos posted:Watching a ton of streams/youtube stuff pushed me from the "i dunno about this one maybe Warhammer ruined me on historicals" to "yeah i'm getting it". The campaign map stuff looks actually fun and interesting instead of dumb cruft to sift through, and the battles remind me of Shogun 2 in a huge way - they're definitely less fancy and varied than Warhammer's battles, but they look really solid and punchy for a historical. +1. I watched a couple youtube let's plays today and pre-ordered on the strength of them. It looks really, really good and fun. Lots of improvements, both on the macro (families, relationships, some diversity in buildings, etc.) to micro (battle maps seem to be more varied, better terrain, siege maps are back, etc.)
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May 21, 2019 01:20
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https://www.gamereactor.eu/news/765003/Creative+Assembly+lets+dying+fan+try+Three+Kingdoms+early/ A sweet story about CA giving a dying fan early access to the game.
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May 21, 2019 01:26
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Josef bugman posted:My brother is getting this for me for my birthday. Hell yeah My oldest friend who is still nearby came round to watch the latest GoT but I'm also watching the Three Kingdoms series on YouTube We used to play dynasty warriors after school and this ep had xiahou dun show up to fight guan yu and XD is his fav character so it was like fate Pretty sure we started on 2 as well... Dang. Good Times. I'm pretty sure I thought Cao Cao was the good guy which is NOT the case
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May 21, 2019 02:09
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Hentai Jihadist posted:Hell yeah He only looks so villainous because the author had a grudge against the jin dynasty.
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May 21, 2019 02:12
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Well Cao Cao's methods ultimately worked and united China even if it wasn't quite his clan that did it.
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May 21, 2019 03:17
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I'm guessing Sima Yi will be one of those expansion packs.
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May 21, 2019 03:22
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The later dw games are great because they get more and more revisionist as time goes on until 8 where cao cao is ruthless, but prefers to avoid it when practical and is mostly motivated by bringing peace to land and the shu are bunch of ideological fanatics who keep the war going to sate their own savior complex
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May 21, 2019 03:30
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Cao Cao is no joke one of my favorite characters in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Even as a villain, he's so over the top that I can't help but love him. My favorite story about him in Three Kingdoms is (oversimplified) when he's about to literally stab Dong Zhuo in the back with a sword, except that as he draws his sword, the latter sees the motion in the mirror and turns around. And then in one smooth motion l, Cao Cao goes from "about to stab Dong Zhuo in the back" to "presenting Dong Zhuo a present", after which he makes an excuse that he wants to test ride his new horse and gets the gently caress out of dodge before Dong Zhuo can react. The nicest save in Chinese literature, imo.
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May 21, 2019 04:16
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That scene was extremely tense in the Chinese TV series, it was great.
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May 21, 2019 04:40
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I like him because I used to think his name translated to "smelly" when I was a kid
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May 21, 2019 04:50
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Davincie posted:a lot of people, myself included, got tricked into preordering the game thanks to some brazilian site having it for 50% cheaper and a bunch of cool trailers. of course, the game being bad still made that money wasted I got smoked by Rome 2's launch as well. On the happier side of things, this is actually the extremely nice thing about CA's modern approach of "early release the game to a shitload of youtube/twitch influencers"; there's hundreds to thousands of hours of footage to look at, as well as the opinions of a bunch of normal people actually playing it to go on. It's not really possible to get smoke-and-mirror bamboozled by a busted Total War game at launch anymore because you can literally just see for yourself if the game is broken or not without spending a dime.
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May 21, 2019 05:09
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Yes, preordering is bad but I can't really see word of mouth upon release being radically different from what Youtube and Twitch are already showing us.
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May 21, 2019 06:31
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Only thing I can think of would be a launch day patch that causes performance issues, but they have extra hands on deck just for that this time around, so...
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May 21, 2019 06:39
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I saw some small bugs watching streams but nothing too bad. It will almost definitely need a balance pass or two but the bones of it look good. Compare to Rome 2, which at release had a bug where your general had no armor or was uniquely vulnerable for some reason, and would literally die to one or two volleys from slingers. They didnt fix it for weeks after release
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May 21, 2019 06:42
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I've preordered almost every CA game over the past 15 years. This one is no different. I remember picking up a demo disk of Medieval I at a local car boot sale when I was 6 and shortly after picked up Rome I and Shogun I. There just aren't many other games like these. Even though I am expecting the usual day 1 - 60 jank (and yes I do remember the Rome 2 AI and boating issues that arguably still persist to this day) I am quietly optimistic about this. They've had extra time to work out the bugs and kinks and all of the videos I've watched so far look great. As long as I can have some simplistic battles and slowly expand my empire I'll find a way to have fun. The main problem i see is that there is no real competition for developers like creative assembly or paradox and both have a distinctive style that makes them non-competitive too. Hopefully as time goes on some younger developers will try their hand at this particular genre but some how I don't see that happening any time soon. It's the only thing that will truly motivate both developers to ensure that their games are playable and well supported after release (looking at you throb). Hopefully if the extra time they have spent on this gives them their best press for a game to date CA will reconsider their development plan and ensure that all future releases do the same. I also booked another week off of work so they better not delay again.
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May 21, 2019 07:25
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The zombie romans and the land ships were two of thr most amusing Rome 2 bugs at release.
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May 21, 2019 08:19
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Looks like release time is 3 am Eastern on thursday. 47 hours to go.. I wanna be sedated (to slightly modify some lyrics)
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May 21, 2019 09:12
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Catsplosion posted:
I hope that 3K is a hit in China so we start getting Chinese total war clones I can play too or other western devs chasing that market There's that Tiger Knight which has way better historical models for its units than 3k but isn't quite the same thing and the interface confuses and frightens me
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May 21, 2019 10:21
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Don Gato posted:Cao Cao is no joke one of my favorite characters in Romance of the Three Kingdoms. Even as a villain, he's so over the top that I can't help but love him. My favorite story about him in Three Kingdoms is (oversimplified) when he's about to literally stab Dong Zhuo in the back with a sword, except that as he draws his sword, the latter sees the motion in the mirror and turns around. And then in one smooth motion l, Cao Cao goes from "about to stab Dong Zhuo in the back" to "presenting Dong Zhuo a present", after which he makes an excuse that he wants to test ride his new horse and gets the gently caress out of dodge before Dong Zhuo can react. The nicest save in Chinese literature, imo. It's a very good scene, but it's not a patch on Liu Bei's reaction to having his son and heir rescued against his orders: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHQPFWWHyMU
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May 21, 2019 15:05
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Got burned on Rome 2 so bad I skipped on Atilla and Throb but this looks so good I preordered. Please be good
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May 21, 2019 15:15
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Seeing people all over getting hyped about this is fascinating to me, like people getting excited over DMCV. I told y'all it was cool!!!
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May 21, 2019 15:22
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I'm just hoping people won't get burnt. Streamers seem to like it but games seem much better when you get exclusive early access to them for free
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May 21, 2019 15:28
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This game looks revolutionary. Will change the way how we game in Total War forever
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May 21, 2019 15:29
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Theres no way Im getting this unless they improved how individual models and units work on the battlefield. Sick of how wooden tw games are at that level.
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May 21, 2019 15:41
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I don't think my processor can handle any more indoviduality
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May 21, 2019 16:39
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toasterwarrior posted:Seeing people all over getting hyped about this is fascinating to me, like people getting excited over DMCV. I told y'all it was cool!!! Warhammer's enormous success was a pretty foundational change for Total War and people weren't really entirely sure how another historical would play out(ThroB hardly counts and was basically a blip on the radar), so it makes sense that a lot of people who were unsure would be convinced now that we have tons of footage of people playing the game.
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May 21, 2019 16:56
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I want this game, but my SSD probably can't handle both Warhammer and this one at the same time.
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May 21, 2019 17:13
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3K is like 40gig based on the pre-load, how much room do you have on your SSD?
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May 21, 2019 17:14
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Not sure, but my SSD is old and tiny, because I play in an old gaming laptop.
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May 21, 2019 17:17
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I got warhammer...and boy you really do need an ssd just to play these games
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May 21, 2019 17:18
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Has anyone done a breakdown of the unit roster and tactics yet? I've seen the stuff on how units are recruited but idk what kind of units they have- like S2 having tiers of units with different roles and weapons
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May 21, 2019 17:33
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StashAugustine posted:Has anyone done a breakdown of the unit roster and tactics yet? I've seen the stuff on how units are recruited but idk what kind of units they have- like S2 having tiers of units with different roles and weapons What I've gathered from watching videos and reading a bit is that things aren't quite as rigidly delineated as Shogun 2's ashigaru/samurai distinction, and there are a lot more uniques for each faction and so on. Units are kind of divided into 5 elements which have an affinity with a particular general type - Shock cavalry is coded red which matches vanguards, archers are blue which matches strategists, and so on. There are definitely militia-tier units which are somehow distinct (Liu Bei has free upkeep on militia apparently) and more elite types too. This is very shaky because I haven't actually played it obviously.
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May 21, 2019 17:46
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this wait is getting painful. I have to get through some meetings Thursday, but then I can play all day at work Friday and then we have a 3 day weekend.
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Scott Forstall posted:this wait is getting painful. I have to get through some meetings Thursday, but then I can play all day at work Friday and then we have a 3 day weekend. Hi, Scott. This is your boss. Come see me first thing in the morning. We have a few issues to discuss.
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