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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWZCfdDW4NQ

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YeIC-Rftuu8

 

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PC Gamer's Wes Fenlon gets excited about Rome 2′s army traditions in this article.

 

And, VG 24/7's Stace Harman acknowledges the brutality of Rome 2's AI.

 

Plus, RPS's Adam Smith gives us an account of his time spent ordering legions around here.

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What a coincidence. :D

 

BTW, in one of the vids it was spotted that the game still has a feature of putting a group of units under AI command. It has been improved even from the times of M2TW, now you can presumably give such a group a task of defending a territory. I'm mentioning this because finding this feature in TW games gave me the option to play without both pausing and utter chaos. Which gives a very movie-like feeling to the battle.

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Definitely good to know, SV. smile.png

 

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And seeing as one can never know too much...

 

https://www.armchairgeneral.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/battle-capua.jpg

 

Armchair General's Peter Suciu learns of what is to be expected of Rome II from Creative Assembly's studio communications manager Al Bickham.

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IGN's Nathan Lawrence counts in the fingers of a hand things you'll want to know about Rome II.

 

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For instance:

 

(...) Rome II is primed to run on a PC that’s almost as ancient as the game’s epoch. Even single-core processors are listed in the minimum specs rap sheet, with only a measly 2GB of RAM and a 512MB video card required to get the game off the ground. (...)
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According to Creative Assembly post-launch plans for Rome II are already in place.

 

Here's word from Lead Designer James Russell:

 

"As with SHOGUN 2, we will continually improve the game's compatibility, optimisation and integral features such as AI and gameplay balancing post-release, and plan to add to that with new control schemes and additional free formats on other operating systems (...) We are also very proud of how SHOGUN 2 is our most moddable Total War to date with over 500 user-made mods on Steam Workshop alone. We hope to support ROME II in a similar fashion."

 

In addition to free content, gamers can expect to see Culture Packs that add more playable factions and unique units, Feature Packs that add gameplay or wide-ranging aesthetic changes, and Campaign Packs that add entirely new story-based campaign expansions.

 

While the Greek States Culture Pack DLC and free Pontus playable faction update will arrive day one; by October players will be able to add the Seleucid Empire to their playable faction roster for free and the Nomadic Tribes Culture Pack featuring the Royal Scythians, Roxolani and Massagetae as DLC.

 

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