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Offline Fishu

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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #90 on: March 14, 2009, 12:15:59 PM »
To be honest, Ive only encountered a single bug.

You're not just looking hard enough into it. Though, I've only had one crash and that forced me to boot the computer because I couldn't refresh the screen anymore - that makes this game one of the most stable releases out of the box in a long time.

but some bugs that I can remember in couple of seconds:

1) troops are having difficulty moving through the gates - fleeing troops may get stuck at the gate and keep it open and there's nothing you can do about it.
2) if you have two pieces of foot artillery/howitzers and you tell the other to hook up, it will do that, but with the other you have to click the button twice to get the piece to hook up.
3) when you tell artillery pieces to stop firing at will they will still blaze away, usually at nothing. This "feature" has killed quite a few friendly troops so far. Not to mention that the gunners are brainless morons that have to be pampered all the time - they don't care if there's a line across their position.
4) when attemping to move agents from towns with troops you might end up moving a troop instead.
5) troops will not fire at a fleeing infantry that has separated from it's "flag troop", and sometimes the soldiers of a unit can be running out from different parts of the map.
6) sometimes I've worked hard to capture ships and none of them end up being captured - each surrendered will be counted as lost.

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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #91 on: March 14, 2009, 02:14:40 PM »
This is the first RTS I've ever owned, so I have nothing in it's class to compare it to. I can say with certainty, however, that it's extremely fun!

As far as bugs go, I haven't had any problems, other than the first one that Fishu noted. I've found that in general that troops don't move through fortresses well.

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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #92 on: March 14, 2009, 11:00:23 PM »
Gah.. I came across an annoying feature. I can't get my ships past Gibraltar thanks to Moroccoan ships blocking the path. I can't get past them no matter what, even with alliance and military access the ships would be blocking my way - only way to get through is to declare war and sink the ships, but that just means there'll be soon thereafter another nation blocking the path.

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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #93 on: March 15, 2009, 12:04:38 AM »
fishu, do what i do, declare war on everyone at once and march over the world!

 Playing on the hardest difficulty for campaign and battle AI, this game is much more of a challenge than any of the ones before it.
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #94 on: March 17, 2009, 11:56:10 AM »
You're not just looking hard enough into it. Though, I've only had one crash and that forced me to boot the computer because I couldn't refresh the screen anymore - that makes this game one of the most stable releases out of the box in a long time.

You know its funny, I clicked on this thread to update my statement after playing for a while.  ;)

1.)  Got my first CTD.  England, 1733 like clockwork.  Huron Confederacy declares war on me in America - screen goes white.  Only way to avoid it was to move my troops away from the border, give them a payment and stop them from declaring.  Course, once they did a few turns later, anyway, it happened again.  Campaign could not continue.

2.)  Now that Ive researched all firing drills and implement variations in the field, Im getting a lot of instances where the 'fire at will' button doesnt seem to work correctly.  I use it to hold fire until range is optimal, and they will fire, but allowing them to continue firing at will afterwards seems to go in one ear and out the other.  They just stand there after the initial volley.

3.)  Using walls as cover (place troops in the pre-considered position behind, etc, etc) often results in elite units failing to fire at approaching bad guys.

Others that Im forgetting, Im sure.
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #95 on: March 17, 2009, 12:12:39 PM »
My oldest son has taken over this game from me....although I am still playing it he has been getting up at 5.30am to continue his own campaign (playing as the Ottoman Empire, I am playing as Russia).

It is actually very good for him...he's learning alot about history. 
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #96 on: March 17, 2009, 12:13:35 PM »
My oldest son has taken over this game from me....although I am still playing it he has been getting up at 5.30am to continue his own campaign (playing as the Ottoman Empire, I am playing as Russia).

It is actually very good for him...he's learning alot about history. 
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #97 on: March 17, 2009, 11:16:11 PM »
Steam: This game is currently unavailable, please try later




Now this makes me frustrated. I dont even want to play online. So what if Steam goes bust? We can never play our single player campaign again? Really REALLY annoying.  :cry
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #98 on: March 18, 2009, 02:22:55 AM »
Steam: This game is currently unavailable, please try later




Now this makes me frustrated. I dont even want to play online. So what if Steam goes bust? We can never play our single player campaign again? Really REALLY annoying.  :cry

It only does that when it's downloading an update.  My update only took a couple minutes and then it was ready to go.

So far my only complaint is the lack of documentation.  The book that came with the DVD is very short on details.  I still haven't figured out how to rally routed troops.
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #99 on: March 18, 2009, 02:40:54 AM »
what im saying is, what happens if there is no steam at some point in the future? How do I then get my brand new high price copy to play? I'm confused is all, i dont know how this whole steam thing is needed for single player mode.

Loving the multi player quick battles though, I must say.
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #100 on: March 18, 2009, 06:20:04 AM »
Bat, there have been stories of people who have had their pw stolen and subsequently had their accounts banned by steam, losing all their games.  I believe PC gamer did an article on this once.
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #101 on: March 28, 2009, 10:54:19 AM »
Steam: This game is currently unavailable, please try later

Now this makes me frustrated. I dont even want to play online. So what if Steam goes bust? We can never play our single player campaign again? Really REALLY annoying.  :cry

I have the same issue. I bit the bullet and bought it from Direct2Drive (didn't know they sold Steam products there until this morning when installing it.) It only took me a little over 5 hours to download the 11+GB file for the Special Forces Edition...which I can't even flipping play due to the above error. I have a friend that told me he had the same problem with the real live disk version. It is gonna be a real problem for me if I can not get this game to load ever due to this Steam crap.
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #102 on: March 28, 2009, 02:14:03 PM »
I just hoping some hacker knows how to bypass this crap one day and is kind enough to share it :)
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #103 on: March 28, 2009, 02:15:12 PM »
Did anyone answer my question about the naval warfare, or did I miss it?
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Re: Empire Total War
« Reply #104 on: March 29, 2009, 03:26:13 AM »
I have the same issue. I bit the bullet and bought it from Direct2Drive (didn't know they sold Steam products there until this morning when installing it.) It only took me a little over 5 hours to download the 11+GB file for the Special Forces Edition...which I can't even flipping play due to the above error. I have a friend that told me he had the same problem with the real live disk version. It is gonna be a real problem for me if I can not get this game to load ever due to this Steam crap.

I've got the DVD version and it worked fine when my internets weren't working the other day. You just start steam in offline mode and off it starts...

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