Quick Look: Napoleon: Total War

They ever fix medieval 2: TW  on steam?

I think anyone who is a Total War veteran will notice a lot of small changes by watching that video.  If you pay attention theres a lot of cool improvements. 
 

• Decent terrain deformation
• More vibrant animations
• Path finding seems to be a BIT better.
• Formation control seems better, although like pathfinding it could be better.
• Interface looks a whole lot smoother, focusing on the new forward/back/rotate controls
• Graphically , it looks so much more varied, the maps are beautiful.

Total War has changed.

" What's the difference between "streaming" and "progressive"? "

I challenge the Giant Bomb Crew to go one week without using a pun in the titles.

Whoever wrote the subtitle for this video on the main page, thank you.

" @Kimozabi: I had to disable ad block plus in FireFox to get the videos to work. "

" Whoever wrote the subtitle for this video on the main page, thank you. "

Poor Mike.  His first Quick Look and he gets slaughtered.  :P

It's a good thing Mike is not in charge of a real army

Did no one else laugh out loud at "a LITTLE COMPLEX!" Shit, maybe it's the alcohol.

Whoever was playing really does suck quite a bit...

I am totally stoked for Call of Duty 3: Total War: Modern Supreme Commander: Modern Total Warfare

The new player doesn't work on the PS3 browser :( This makes me very sad. I know it's Sony's fault the browser is crap, but I liked watching these on the couch. I don't know if I'll keep watching them now :/

" @PlasmaBeam44 said:

" @Kimozabi: I had to disable ad block plus in FireFox to get the videos to work. "

Me too, but I don't mind doing that for GB. "

" I think anyone who is a Total War veteran will notice a lot of small changes by watching that video.  If you pay attention theres a lot of cool improvements. 
 

• Decent terrain deformation
• More vibrant animations
• Path finding seems to be a BIT better.
• Formation control seems better, although like pathfinding it could be better.
• Interface looks a whole lot smoother, focusing on the new forward/back/rotate controls
• Graphically , it looks so much more varied, the maps are beautiful.

 
One thing though, when do we get pre-battle general speechs back!?

"

Haha, the "This looks a LITTLE COMPLEX, hey-o!" subtitle was great. And DAMN, I wish I had a PC that could run this.

ahahahah, the horse head

Gun knife bitches!

" @Johnny5 said:

" I think anyone who is a Total War veteran will notice a lot of small changes by watching that video.  If you pay attention theres a lot of cool improvements. 
 

• Decent terrain deformation
• More vibrant animations
• Path finding seems to be a BIT better.
• Formation control seems better, although like pathfinding it could be better.
• Interface looks a whole lot smoother, focusing on the new forward/back/rotate controls
• Graphically , it looks so much more varied, the maps are beautiful.

 
One thing though, when do we get pre-battle general speechs back!?

"

Dude there's even more weird minor changes in napoleon.   For whatever reason it seems like they've taken out rank and fire, they've simplified town building a lot, and the turns go by the beginning of the month and the end of the month. "

I still think that it should be an expansion

Man quicklooks have been long lately.  Awesome!!

" @thwak said:

" @Johnny5 said:

" I think anyone who is a Total War veteran will notice a lot of small changes by watching that video.  If you pay attention theres a lot of cool improvements. 
 

• Decent terrain deformation
• More vibrant animations
• Path finding seems to be a BIT better.
• Formation control seems better, although like pathfinding it could be better.
• Interface looks a whole lot smoother, focusing on the new forward/back/rotate controls
• Graphically , it looks so much more varied, the maps are beautiful.

 
One thing though, when do we get pre-battle general speechs back!?

"

Dude there's even more weird minor changes in napoleon.   For whatever reason it seems like they've taken out rank and fire, they've simplified town building a lot, and the turns go by the beginning of the month and the end of the month. "

Something else I've read is that, they simulate armies a lot more strategically, weather affects them more because of the shorter turn cycle and they require supplies or suffer attrition.  But seriously THEY REMOVED RANK AND FIRE!?....My Prussian army isnt going to be happy AT ALL. I give it a week before someone mods it back in. Are you sure its just not higher on the tech tree?  "

" @Johnny5 said:

" @thwak said:

" @Johnny5 said:

" I think anyone who is a Total War veteran will notice a lot of small changes by watching that video.  If you pay attention theres a lot of cool improvements. 
 

• Decent terrain deformation
• More vibrant animations
• Path finding seems to be a BIT better.
• Formation control seems better, although like pathfinding it could be better.
• Interface looks a whole lot smoother, focusing on the new forward/back/rotate controls
• Graphically , it looks so much more varied, the maps are beautiful.

 
One thing though, when do we get pre-battle general speechs back!?

"

Dude there's even more weird minor changes in napoleon.   For whatever reason it seems like they've taken out rank and fire, they've simplified town building a lot, and the turns go by the beginning of the month and the end of the month. "

Something else I've read is that, they simulate armies a lot more strategically, weather affects them more because of the shorter turn cycle and they require supplies or suffer attrition.  But seriously THEY REMOVED RANK AND FIRE!?....My Prussian army isnt going to be happy AT ALL. I give it a week before someone mods it back in. Are you sure its just not higher on the tech tree?  "

I think they took it out because the game supports drop in battles, and they didn't want someone dropping in only to get murdered by another player who has rank and fire. And I've been talking to people who have been playing the game more than me and they can't find it either. "

Has the person playing this QL ever played an RTS before?  Lol don't question why your guys are targeting a certain enemy when you're aiming them at that group.  Funny QL though.

" @Ishatawk: It's probably just because this game has more going on, causing compression artifacts to be everywhere. "

No Rank and Fire. That is one of the key tactics for British and Prussian forces. 
Oh well at least we get to run through Napoleon as compensation

give them a whiff of grapeshot huhuhuhuhuhuhuhu!!!

Horse man!

this is the worst Total War play I've ever seen.  fun quick look, though :]

My favorite in the Total War series is to make a high level kensai fight ashigaru. The lone swordsman vs an army. The AI I believed kept thinking it was getting flanked by 100% of the enemy and so the whole army went bait ball but it took forever. It was touch and go for a while there though.