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| First impressions of Empire: Total War by Fortinbras 03/04/2009, 2:34pm PST | ||||
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| Note I haven't played Medieval II so some of this shit may have been covered there
- Regions no longer have the same construction queue for EVERYTHING, so you can build up a lot faster. Similarly, guys can just come across your border, squat on your farms and burn them all down without risking an engagement. - There's a new Reinforcement system where you just click on the unit you want to replenish and pay a fee and wait a turn or two, rather than having to queue up replacements at a town hall. - AI is still a bit stupid for my tastes even though they said they fixed it up - Assassins are replaced with Gentlemen with dueling pistols, who also happen to be research boosters for the new research thing. Being a patriotic sort of guy, my first action as Guy-in-Charge-of-the-American-Revolution was to send Paul Revere into New York to shoot some British fuck in a duel at 20 paces. My opponent's pistol jammed, and he promptly violated the number one rule of gun safety and peered down the barrel of his jammed weapon, promptly blowing his own fucking brains out. Paul Revere wins by default! - Double right-click to charge is gone, which is really obnoxious. You have to switch them from run to walk every time you want them to move faster. If you switch your infantry into melee mode they'll stand around like retards until you click them AGAIN and instruct them manually to charge. This is mega-dumb. The game doesn't tell you but there's a minimum range on rifle infantry because I've tried to instruct them to shoot at point-blank range and they just stood around like idiots. - Cannons are a lot of fun, way more flexible than siege weapons in previous games. - Alternately, rifle infantry is really boring. It takes a ridiculously long time to wear down an opposing unit with rifle fire so if you want to wrap up a battle real quick, you had better just man up and go with a bayonet charge. - I haven't defended a siege yet but someone said that defending cannons don't start out on the battlements, meaning you have to haul their big horses asses up the stairs and get into position while the other guy is marching on your fucking FOOOOOORT. |
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First impressions of Empire: Total War by 03/04/2009, 2:34pm PST  Entire TW series review by 03/07/2009, 5:15am PST The United States faction is a goddamn con. by 03/07/2009, 12:03pm PST Also I can't believe that everybody review site bitches about the naval combat by 03/08/2009, 5:41pm PDT How did I ever go without Grenadiers?! by 03/13/2009, 9:02pm PDT Is it just a trend for developers to forget dual/quad core these days? by 03/14/2009, 4:14pm PDT Except Valve of course. 8( NT by 03/14/2009, 4:25pm PDT TF2 has a seizure if I try to alt-tab. NO POINTS. NT by 03/14/2009, 5:37pm PDT Not enough room in those 15 GBs to squeeze it in NT by 03/14/2009, 11:20pm PDT The opposite by 03/15/2009, 10:00am PDT SO IS MY DICK NT by 03/15/2009, 11:04am PDT |
