Just got done installing Rome 2 so I'll be starting my playthrough tomorrow. Any tips or advice from those who already played it? What factions to pick or avoid, what campaign to play (I have all the DLC) and so on? I haven't seriously played a Total War game since the first Rome, so I'm pretty out of touch with the series.
Better musicTo keep it painfully short, I will say this. The music in Rome 2 (and Attila too, but it's slightly better) is horrible. The composure is an absolute joke and the music fails to make you excited, or fit the setting at all. You may THINK this is a little thing, but it's not. It makes a massive difference, and this mod helps. You have to download the music from the Dropbox as well, and then just drop the folder (don't unzip it, just the entire folder) in your Total War Rome 2 Data folder. It's very simple.
I just play with the Radius mods...
Quote from: Luciana on September 25, 2015, 10:03:07 PMBetter musicTo keep it painfully short, I will say this. The music in Rome 2 (and Attila too, but it's slightly better) is horrible. The composure is an absolute joke and the music fails to make you excited, or fit the setting at all. You may THINK this is a little thing, but it's not. It makes a massive difference, and this mod helps. You have to download the music from the Dropbox as well, and then just drop the folder (don't unzip it, just the entire folder) in your Total War Rome 2 Data folder. It's very simple.I've been needing this, thanks.
I have a personal love for the Sparta faction <_< Just make peace with Athens and steamroll Epirus to start off with.
Quote from: Nick McIntyre on September 26, 2015, 01:41:02 AMI have a personal love for the Sparta faction <_< Just make peace with Athens and steamroll Epirus to start off with.My friend hates Sparta because he's wet for Makedon and Alexander-senpai,
Quote from: Luciana on September 26, 2015, 01:55:50 AMQuote from: Nick McIntyre on September 26, 2015, 01:41:02 AMI have a personal love for the Sparta faction <_< Just make peace with Athens and steamroll Epirus to start off with.My friend hates Sparta because he's wet for Makedon and Alexander-senpai,I feel like Macedon is a crappier version of Egypt.
Quote from: Kaptein Svartbær on September 26, 2015, 02:08:43 AMQuote from: Luciana on September 26, 2015, 01:55:50 AMQuote from: Nick McIntyre on September 26, 2015, 01:41:02 AMI have a personal love for the Sparta faction <_< Just make peace with Athens and steamroll Epirus to start off with.My friend hates Sparta because he's wet for Makedon and Alexander-senpai,I feel like Macedon is a crappier version of Egypt.But Alexander-senpai~That fuck really split Greece. They never did form an empire after that and thus the ROMANS came and took em over.
Quote from: Luciana on September 26, 2015, 02:09:17 AMQuote from: Kaptein Svartbær on September 26, 2015, 02:08:43 AMQuote from: Luciana on September 26, 2015, 01:55:50 AMQuote from: Nick McIntyre on September 26, 2015, 01:41:02 AMI have a personal love for the Sparta faction <_< Just make peace with Athens and steamroll Epirus to start off with.My friend hates Sparta because he's wet for Makedon and Alexander-senpai,I feel like Macedon is a crappier version of Egypt.But Alexander-senpai~That fuck really split Greece. They never did form an empire after that and thus the ROMANS came and took em over.I don't think he wanted to really. I reckon he was mostly in it for the glory, and that he would have made a better general than an emperor. Perhaps if he'd made it past his thirties, he might have given some thought to ensuring that everything he'd done didn't go to waste. But that neither here nor there, since his empire still probably would have been steam-rolled by the Romans once they'd started looking eastwards.
He's only talked about for never losing, which is amazing in itself.
Quote from: Luciana on September 26, 2015, 02:29:10 AMHe's only talked about for never losing, which is amazing in itself.Although it probably helped that he was rampaging around an empire that was past it's prime. If I recall correctly, his biggest challenge on the battlefield was Memnon of Rhodes.
Quote from: Kaptein Svartbær on September 26, 2015, 02:45:11 AMQuote from: Luciana on September 26, 2015, 02:29:10 AMHe's only talked about for never losing, which is amazing in itself.Although it probably helped that he was rampaging around an empire that was past it's prime. If I recall correctly, his biggest challenge on the battlefield was Memnon of Rhodes.I wouldn't know. I can't say I know an incredible amount about his battlefield exploits. I do know though that the Phalanx was still a new concept, so the fact he used it so well meant none could really figure out how to beat it.
Oh and one more thing, can anyone give me a brief overview of the DLC? The humble bundle came with all of the expansion packs included, so I have access to all of them. Should I still just play a grand campaign first? Does the DLC add anything to that general grand campaign, or are they completely separate? Should I play one of those instead?
Sooo I'm already understanding the complaints about bugs. 5 minutes into the game (the prologue) and I run into a gamebreaking bug preventing me from finishing the mission and accessing the other parts of the tutorial. I defeat the men handling the siege engines, the objective gets checked off and then nothing. No new objective, no markers, no cutscene. I can't fight any other units or move anywhere new. Restarted the game and retried the entire mission only to run into the exact same bug again.Wonderful.
Quote from: Kaptein Svartbær on September 26, 2015, 04:14:08 AMQuote from: Flee on September 26, 2015, 03:51:22 AMOh and one more thing, can anyone give me a brief overview of the DLC? The humble bundle came with all of the expansion packs included, so I have access to all of them. Should I still just play a grand campaign first? Does the DLC add anything to that general grand campaign, or are they completely separate? Should I play one of those instead?Caesar in Gaul is pretty much what it says on the tin. You play as the Romans, or some of the Gallic factions, and there may be a Germanic one, the map is covers just France, I think.Hannibal at the Gates is set in the early days of the Roman Empire. You can play as Rome, Carthage, and I think a coupe of Iberian factions. The map covers the Western half of the Mediterranean.Wrath of Sparta is set during the Peloponnesian War. You can play as Sparta, Athens, Corinth, or the Boeotian League. The map covers Greece, some of the Balkans, some of the Black sea, and the Western tip of the Anatolian peninsula.I think the rest are faction DLCs, which you can get a good idea of by looking at the grand campaign faction screen and through the custom battles faction unit rosters.Do any of these somehow tie into a grand campaign? As in, do these factions / maps / new units / buildings get added to the massive main map or are they completely stand-alone? Also just realised that apparently the Hannibal one was not included in the Humble Bundle. Oh well.
Quote from: Flee on September 26, 2015, 03:51:22 AMOh and one more thing, can anyone give me a brief overview of the DLC? The humble bundle came with all of the expansion packs included, so I have access to all of them. Should I still just play a grand campaign first? Does the DLC add anything to that general grand campaign, or are they completely separate? Should I play one of those instead?Caesar in Gaul is pretty much what it says on the tin. You play as the Romans, or some of the Gallic factions, and there may be a Germanic one, the map is covers just France, I think.Hannibal at the Gates is set in the early days of the Roman Empire. You can play as Rome, Carthage, and I think a coupe of Iberian factions. The map covers the Western half of the Mediterranean.Wrath of Sparta is set during the Peloponnesian War. You can play as Sparta, Athens, Corinth, or the Boeotian League. The map covers Greece, some of the Balkans, some of the Black sea, and the Western tip of the Anatolian peninsula.I think the rest are faction DLCs, which you can get a good idea of by looking at the grand campaign faction screen and through the custom battles faction unit rosters.
Quote from: DAS r00d d00d B00T on September 26, 2015, 12:05:48 AMI just play with the Radius mods...does it actually improve anything or does it just make it really easy like the Radius mod for attila?
Rome 2: Total War
