Total War: PHARAOH

Total War: PHARAOH

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Kain Oct 12, 2023 @ 6:53am
Total war needs a new Engine or the franchise is finished.
Hopefully they have been working on a new engine for awhile now. If not the AI just sucks too hard to make the game play compelling anymore.

Come on total war plug in GPT or something.
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DayChap Oct 12, 2023 @ 6:56am 
The melee has sucked in this engine since Empire. I agree they must need a new engine.
Malekith Oct 12, 2023 @ 6:59am 
Originally posted by Kain:
Hopefully they have been working on a new engine for awhile now. If not the AI just sucks too hard to make the game play compelling anymore.

Come on total war plug in GPT or something.
Honestly, I have huge doubts they have done anything like that. It was obvious from Empire that the engine wasn't going to work really... if they had something in the works, they would have used it by now...
JimmyTheSnake Oct 12, 2023 @ 7:38am 
If they don't change the engine, will you leave?
Rincewind Oct 12, 2023 @ 7:50am 
Originally posted by JimmyTheSnake:
If they don't change the engine, will you leave?

and the same try here to. Everyone that critism the game he say "you have to leave"
So cheap....
JimmyTheSnake Oct 12, 2023 @ 9:33am 
Originally posted by Kain:
Originally posted by Rincewind:

and the same try here to. Everyone that critism the game he say "you have to leave"
So cheap....
your right lots of folks dont like to think they wasted money. you warn them, they dont listen then they argue meanwhile they will be lucky to get 30 hours out of this game.

I kind of wish I only played 30 hours in each total war game. It's embarrassing the hundreds and thousands of hours I've put into them.
Captain Baldy Oct 12, 2023 @ 9:34am 
Originally posted by V ! P:
i wonder what they use
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1468720/Ultimate_Epic_Battle_Simulator_2/
I love that game and the one before it but it's not a total war. It is a press K and sit back to watch the carnage. Sure it has an RTS element to it but its basic :steamthumbsup:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3044770164
Last edited by Captain Baldy; Oct 12, 2023 @ 9:36am
Lord DGP Oct 12, 2023 @ 9:43am 
I am sick of buying the same game with different setting for over 10 years.

The first thing I do in any TW game is make a custom battle with a bunch of melee units and watch the engagements. Melee engagements have either not changed (Rome 2, Attila, Pharao) or regressed (Warhammer, 3K, Troy).

Rome 2 marks the beginning of where CA forgot why we play their games. I suggest watching the Rome 2 review from Reynold Sanity. His points regarding the battle mechanics stand to this day.

They should honestly just scrap the entire warscape engine. It does well on ranged combat, but that's about it. Better armor is not reflected in different materials and weapons behaving different towards it, but because of +2 piercing armor. The units don't feel lifelike at all, they move in perfect unision, clip through eachother, search their targets like drones and when killed die with the same death animation. Units end up in giant blobs since Rome 2 as every unit tries to attack into the center of an enemy unit... I want a battle SIMULATION, no spreadsheet calculator!

​​⁠Some games have no matched combat where units attack the air and die randomly. If there is matched combat, it just means that second rows in a formation will do nothing. If an ally does actually attack the enemy stops mid-animation and dies by some generic non-matched animation. To this day they have not fixed the moments between matched combat animations, meaning units will stupidly stare at each other and awkwardly move into position for the next animation. Absolutely zero dynamics here. Compare that to Medieval 2 where there are dedicated attacker/defender animations and matched combat kill animations without delay!
Battle lines do not move and still look inferior to Rome 1 heavy units simply pushing through peasants.

New physics based engine, more lifelike animations, ragdolls, collsion, mass, formation combat, etc. Why is Total War rendering so many units only to handle them like Age Of Empires units? That one poor roman soldier does not have 75hp but 1 life and if he gets stabbed at the right angle he dies immediately. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to replace single entity hp with a shared hp pool for the entire unit? Formations like Testudo do not work AT ALL!

I think Totally Accurate Battle Simulator does a better job at Battle Simulation than Total War currently...

Seriously, make Empire 2 (since it actually works on Warscape) and get a new engine for Medieval 3.
Last edited by Lord DGP; Oct 12, 2023 @ 9:48am
Man of Culture Oct 12, 2023 @ 9:44am 
I can give you at least two good reasons why they probably won't be doing a new engine any time soon.

1.) It costs money
2.) It requires time

If you half-ass the same engine or half-ass a new one you're still half-assing it.
degumuto_berseg Oct 12, 2023 @ 9:50am 
Originally posted by Kain:
Hopefully they have been working on a new engine for awhile now. If not the AI just sucks too hard to make the game play compelling anymore.

Come on total war plug in GPT or something.
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT, NEW ENGINE?
Lord DGP Oct 12, 2023 @ 9:51am 
Originally posted by degumuto_berseg:
Originally posted by Kain:
Hopefully they have been working on a new engine for awhile now. If not the AI just sucks too hard to make the game play compelling anymore.

Come on total war plug in GPT or something.
HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT, NEW ENGINE?
He does not know, he hopes as written.
Wagon Wheel Oct 12, 2023 @ 10:06am 
Originally posted by a mite of Nurgle:
Originally posted by V ! P:
i wonder what they use
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1468720/Ultimate_Epic_Battle_Simulator_2/
I love that game and the one before it but it's not a total war. It is a press K and sit back to watch the carnage. Sure it has an RTS element to it but its basic :steamthumbsup:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3044770164


Thank you for posting that. I put it on my wishlist and may well send my money over there after some careful consideration. Sega has taught me, over the last few years, to carefully consider each game I buy as I do not want to make the mistake of purchasing another poor game the likes of which Sega/CA has been producing as of late.
Ultrabot Oct 12, 2023 @ 10:10am 
Originally posted by SeaMan:
Originally posted by a mite of Nurgle:
I love that game and the one before it but it's not a total war. It is a press K and sit back to watch the carnage. Sure it has an RTS element to it but its basic :steamthumbsup:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3044770164


Thank you for posting that. I put it on my wishlist and may well send my money over there after some careful consideration. Sega has taught me, over the last few years, to carefully consider each game I buy as I do not want to make the mistake of purchasing another poor game the likes of which Sega/CA has been producing as of late.

It's not really a game from what I've seen, thought about it but I passed.
Yes, likewise. They burned many with rome 2, The yearly release model just doesn't work either. Sega thinks it should, I guess?
WarriorRim Oct 12, 2023 @ 10:16am 
they are making a new engine!
Lord DGP Oct 12, 2023 @ 10:17am 
Originally posted by WarriorRim:
they are making a new engine!
Source pls
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