WHERE IS THE DEMO?

Would you sacrifice your men to help the royalist gain power back? It was more like a strategic retreat. The French had the advantageous higher ground and their artilery is the best in Europe. To rush them with infantry is suicide. Prussian army will lose a lot of men. Of course if they had known what would happen next with Napolean, they might have had more innitiative

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Added on February 18, 2009, 11:36 pmPatience...it will be here soon.

This post has been edited by frags: Feb 18 2009, 11:36 PM

Guys! Demo is coming out soon. 4pm GMT 20th Feb!!!!!Thats 12 midnight tonight!(tutorials and one naval and land battle)More details below:
http://malaysian-gamer.blogspot.com/2009/0...ing-really.html


Also, New superior Tactics 2 trailer. Jack is talking about Winged Hussar



Will be online on Steam 10pm tonight in anticipation for the demo. Add me Knights_Of_Cydonia to your friends list if you want to join in the anticipation and what ever question you have about the game.

This post has been edited by frags: Feb 20 2009, 12:26 PM

I better prepare my download com with steam and let it download through the night instead of my gaming com.

Well done CA finally the fans will have a taste of the land and sea battle a good adrenaline boost before the game release.

the demo is hot! go grab it at Steam!

Yeah i can only play it at medium...but it still looks amazing...loading times are a bit long..

Lol...haven't downloaded the demo yet...

Blame the TM international line incident....but I hardly play Total War's RTS element...I just like hoarding forces and click auto-resolve...

Cause I suck tactically

If I can manage to make that pile of crap of Steam work properly I will try to grab the demo also. A bit busy with DOW2 atm but still pretty looking forward for ETW to come soon

Edit of Edit: OUnch 2G+ it's going to take a while >_<

This post has been edited by Gormaz: Feb 21 2009, 12:24 PM

I am looking forward to this as well since the last one kept me awake for several days and weeks of late night gaming.

Damn after the demo I cant access any of the official forum sites. including http://www.twcenter.net/ and http://www.clanlong.com/forum/forum-537-1.html chinese ones too.

They are probably down...heavy traffic...

My initial impression...

Technically its good...graphics look good, runs well enough(naval battles are a bit demanding though)...
Gameplay is really good, land battles are where it's at...its a lot slower and a lot different from Medieval(for obvious reasons)...I think need more time to get use to the new combat tactic...

Bad
Naval battles are a lot more difficult and require more control...
the default camera i feel is too zoomed in...
loading times are a loooooooooooong
some sound bug...crackling sound when zoomed in
some graphics bug(i have issues changing resolution) and sliding units in 2d mip map at times...
Sound effects are not so impressive...

Overall I definetely noticed bugs(maybe because i play these total war games a lot), but the engine is pretty good, the size of the map is a lot bigger...the gameplay is good...and i think that is what matters...ohhh and it makes me want to get a new PC

BTW for those that have a 256MB card like me, you can force graphics setting in the preference script file...you can ask me if you want to know the location of this file...

Wow! this game is fantastic! it totally didnt fall short of my expectation! The battle is huge, the animation is very lifelike, great graphics AND performance. Grasses, trees, soldiers' uniforms, the sea and most importantly the ships are so incredibly detailed. Its so cool watching ship cannons fire different kind of projectiles and ripping enemy ships apart.

I mean this is RTS at its finest. Except the loading time.

Anyway i have a question: Is there any friendly fire in the game? will i accidentally killed my soldiers when i order my rifleman firing into a group of meleeing mess?

All total war games have friendly fire....this one is no different...glad you liked it...i suppose you have a good gaming rig...

Im looking forward to try the demo.

Just waiting to go back to Sydney to get the demo.

How many GB of files i need to download?

I absolutely love the sea battle.

Broadside fire is Ownage.

It's 2 GB

Awww... Damn.

2GB is a lot.

What the...halfway through the sea battle tutorial, suddenly no signal to monitor and no sound at all. wtf? temperatures are still acceptable and had no problem like this before playng with crysis, fallout3 etc..

I just finished downloading the demo (yar, 2Gb was a pain through Steam).

I skipped the tutorials just to have a first taste of the battles tonight. The land battle seemed more "complicated" than the previous Total Wars, seems they added lots of new details to handle. With artillery, volleys, smore complex formations and co it seems the battles will require more work to win. I didnt go through much in the land battle yet as I think it will take me a while to go through

The Sea battle was interesting, definitely something new to the genre as it's not often you have to handle wood ship battles. It's seemed a bit "slow" to me and not that many details to manage. Wind is obviously the biggest parameter there and to remember it's all about broadsides and putting more cannons to bear on the opponents that he can on your ships

Graphics are indeed pretty nice even though I run most of the stuff on medium and "accessories" (Likes trees or grass) in low.

I think I am gonna enjoy playing a game in this time period, it's not a period of time very used outside of pure wargames, it was an interesting historical period and the wars were really complicated at that time.

I will have to go through the demo more deeply tomorrow (not enough time tonight) but good first impressions

And yar, loading times are quite long!

the steam download for the demo really making me "steam"