Unfortunately S2TW also uses steam so I'm ****ed. On a bright note I've downloaded a bunch of promising mods for RTW that I plan to try tommorow (after mowing the front lawn and recovering from the near heart attack)!
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We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.
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Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View PostYou get warnings every time you go up a level in the "Shogun's Ire". Plus you can check it anytime you want from the Daimyo screen.
People on the Shogun 2 forum ***** about it's too hard with realm divide but that's because you can't just expand and expand and expand. The mid-game is about consolidation before the final push for Kyoto.
And of curse if my Samurai staks are elswhere when the Realm Divide happens, I'm pretty much up the creek.Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.
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Originally posted by Lonestar View PostMy "warnings" popup was the fame my clan had, with a half-ass mention that eventually I may tick off the Shogun. As my relations with the Shoganate were "Very Friendly" all the way up to Realm Divide it's a bit misleading.
And of curse if my Samurai staks are elswhere when the Realm Divide happens, I'm pretty much up the creek.Last edited by Al B. Sure!; April 2, 2011, 04:01."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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Discovered a slight flaw in the Battle AI.
Got sieged by the Sagara Clan (formerly renowned trading partners of me, till they got greedy and thought they could get one of my provinces). It as a hard defence (me having a few ashigaru archers and yari troops, the enemy having 2 armies, onbe with ashigaru archers and yari troops, as well as severyl cavalry unis).
When I had repulsed the storm of his ashigaru foot troops and his archers ran out of ammo, his archers tried to climb the walls and storm the castle.
When they, too, got repulsed and fled in panic then enemy did...
nothing
That´s right, the enemys still had his general and several cavalry units, but they just stood below my castles walls and didn´t do anything (like for example, dismounting and trying to climb the walls as well (which evben might have succeeded, as my troops were low on morale and men).
There were also the enemy reinforcement troops, fresh units which contained a few foot troops, which surely would have broken my morale if they would have been used, but they, too, did nothing but stand at the location, where they entered the map.
So I just had to wait it out, resulting in my province staying in my own hands, the enemy losing 1400 men (compared to my 800) and the Sagara clan getting wiped out the next turn, as my own army already had entered the Sagara home province and found his home catsle almost completely undefended.Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"
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Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View PostThat's how it works. When that fame bar fills up, the Shogun freaks out.Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.
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Originally posted by Felch View PostI've checked into that "Steam is a rootkit" thing, and I've found no evidence for it. Maybe you should give Steam a shot.
The steam client is a program that has access to the internet, can be changed at will by a second party i.e. Valve (or anyone else smart enough to spoof as Valve), collects unknown data from your PC, and uploads whatever data it has collected to other locations all without you knowing what it has sent (that behaviour is illegal in Europe but it hasnt reached the courts yet).
What is it about that process that has anyone feeling comfortable? That you can set it to an "offline mode". Even in "offline mode" the Steam client 'pings home' meaning it still has internet access and uses it. An earlier version of the client automatically changed from "offline mode" to online after 30 days. Valve got caught red-handed and changed it. Who's to say they wont change it back? Who's to say they wont install a version that requires it to be online? Sure you can prevent internet access via other means but then you cant patch your game. You want to play the games you've legally purchased, you have to use their program! They've got you by the balls.
A component of Valves revenue comes from their sale of gaming information and trends. They also currently collect hardware info and plan to collect software data "that will help them improve their service". Big Brother? Maybe not but I wont install it on a PC that has any personal data of any kind.We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.
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Originally posted by Proteus_MST View PostDiscovered a slight flaw in the Battle AI.
Got sieged by the Sagara Clan (formerly renowned trading partners of me, till they got greedy and thought they could get one of my provinces). It as a hard defence (me having a few ashigaru archers and yari troops, the enemy having 2 armies, onbe with ashigaru archers and yari troops, as well as severyl cavalry unis).
When I had repulsed the storm of his ashigaru foot troops and his archers ran out of ammo, his archers tried to climb the walls and storm the castle.
When they, too, got repulsed and fled in panic then enemy did...
nothing
That´s right, the enemys still had his general and several cavalry units, but they just stood below my castles walls and didn´t do anything (like for example, dismounting and trying to climb the walls as well (which evben might have succeeded, as my troops were low on morale and men).
There were also the enemy reinforcement troops, fresh units which contained a few foot troops, which surely would have broken my morale if they would have been used, but they, too, did nothing but stand at the location, where they entered the map.
So I just had to wait it out, resulting in my province staying in my own hands, the enemy losing 1400 men (compared to my 800) and the Sagara clan getting wiped out the next turn, as my own army already had entered the Sagara home province and found his home catsle almost completely undefended."Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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If you mean shogun 2, it's also Steam (thats why I wont play it). If you mean the original Shogun, it may be a diabolical pain to make work on a modern PC.We need seperate human-only games for MP/PBEM that dont include the over-simplifications required to have a good AI
If any man be thirsty, let him come unto me and drink. Vampire 7:37
Just one old soldiers opinion. E Tenebris Lux. Pax quaeritur bello.
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Originally posted by SpencerH View PostYou didnt check hard enough then
The steam client is a program that has access to the internet, can be changed at will by a second party i.e. Valve (or anyone else smart enough to spoof as Valve), collects unknown data from your PC, and uploads whatever data it has collected to other locations all without you knowing what it has sent (that behaviour is illegal in Europe but it hasnt reached the courts yet).
What is it about that process that has anyone feeling comfortable? That you can set it to an "offline mode". Even in "offline mode" the Steam client 'pings home' meaning it still has internet access and uses it. An earlier version of the client automatically changed from "offline mode" to online after 30 days. Valve got caught red-handed and changed it. Who's to say they wont change it back? Who's to say they wont install a version that requires it to be online? Sure you can prevent internet access via other means but then you cant patch your game. You want to play the games you've legally purchased, you have to use their program! They've got you by the balls.
A component of Valves revenue comes from their sale of gaming information and trends. They also currently collect hardware info and plan to collect software data "that will help them improve their service". Big Brother? Maybe not but I wont install it on a PC that has any personal data of any kind.John Brown did nothing wrong.
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Shouldn´t Steam deserve its own thread?
After all S2TW isn´t the only game that forces us to use Steam.
I can remember a certain game from Firaxis, that came out last year for example (which was the reason why I started to use Steam)Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"
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Originally posted by Dr Strangelove View PostI'll probably get Shogun TW eventually. I'm still miffed enough by the failure of Civ 5 that I can't bring myself to buy another Steam product.Today, you are the waves of the Pacific, pushing ever eastward. You are the sequoias rising from the Sierra Nevada, defiant and enduring.
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Originally posted by Al B. Sure! View PostYeah I've heard there's a problem with the AI and reinforcements during a siege. The cavalry not dismounting is odd, though. The generals and cavalry always dismount and are the last ones to climb the walls during my sieges.
Happened a 2nd time now, this time a large castle was attacked by a huge Takeda army (which of course had more than one cavalry unit, after all they were Takeda ).
The Takeda stopped their attempts to storm the castle, when there were still several cavalry troops, 3 general units as well as 2 bow ashigaru units out there.
My own troops already had withdrawn to the innermost circle of the fortress, so, theoretically the Takeda archers would have been able to conquer all outer gates, enabling their mounted units to get into the next to last fortress ring without unmounting.
(well, de facto Takeda troops managed to conquer gates during their storm on my fortress...unfortunately all conquered gates were in the 2nd ring, leaving the outer gates still in my possession...despite one of the 2 archer units being within the outer ring, they didn´t try to conquer the gate located there).
The siege AI doesn´t seem to act very intelligent
Either this, or it acts like a real human commander who sees the main body of his army trying to storm a castle and then coming back fleeing (with only few survivors) and who then is unwilling to sacrifice the lives of the men in his few remaining units (and own live) as well
btw. am I the only one who thinks that units within a fortress are rather unprotected against arrows?
One would assume that at least 1-2 defending units should be able to enter the keep in the middle of every fortress, thereby gaining some protection against arrows (maybe the same amount of protection, your castle walls give you, but in all 4 directions) and in the end making the keep the last chance for defense, if all of the walls have been taken
(this would also make it a little bit harder for the player to invade AI controlled castles...at the moment often all you have to do is to place your archer units in a way, that they can reach all units within the bailey with their arrows (and ideally be able to shoot at defending archery units behind walls from an angle, from which bthey aren´t protected by the castles walls))Last edited by Proteus_MST; April 4, 2011, 08:10.Tamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"
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I got Rome Total War Gold for free with Shogun and I started playing it. It's pretty good but obviously dated, but is even better with the Mod Europa Barbarorum. If anyone has Rome, I suggest trying out that mod. There's a version for Medieval 2 Total War, as well, that is about to come out.
"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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