Caeser in Gaul. Post first impressions:

[Jonboy]

Well DL'd it. Starts with a very cool cut scene and then straight into the campaign. First disabled all the mods. Wow , was I really playing with that many? As a Roman clan had to select a Roman campaign first. This time its the main man himself, JC. (No, not that one).

The map is quite large but its all France and some of Germany. Your starting Roman province is in the North of Italy, no Rome to speak of. I launch an attack of with a mixture of legions. The quality looks good. I noticed the speed was a little quick for my tastes. I have a V fast rig , so it probably means that they have tightened up the optimisation for slower systems. All candy is maxed. The detail looks great and the unit's sharp. Its on VH difficulty.

Slaughter the Gauls and take their village. Next, I move against a lower tribe that has just sacked one of my provinces. A siege ensues. We assault next round and the town looks amazing. The settlements are far bigger and more detailed. My arty take out his walls and we assault on three fronts.

Stay tuned:

[Shane]

The only impression that matters at all, How is the AI?

[Idreaus]

Patch 8.1 will fix ALL the issue people are complaining about tomorrow. so i am hoping the AI will be smarter. right now they are alright, defintly doing better on sieging part since the wall settlements are different from vanilla, easier to break in

[Vargas78]

Too early so far to tell about the A.I. for me at least, but it seems a decent expansion so far. Though it seems a lot of the community are having issues.

Must be the libation of wine i drank in honour of Fortuna that i am so far unaffected by any technical problems :)

[SageHashirama]

still at work, won't be able to try it till sunday :(

[Barney Google]

Played the first battle, still had the annoying lag where the camera is smooth but all the units stutter. The AI did seem slightly improved while they were defending, but it reminded me just how quick the vanilla battles are (been playing with Divide Et Impera).

Checked out the map, seemed ok, the seasons are a nice touch.

Checked out the tech tree, turns out that the new political system is just a renamed tech tree, the first tech being "Adopt Marc Anthony", once that is unlocked you can "supoort Crassus" and "support Pompey" but all this really does is let you build wine traders etc just like the Rome 2 tech tree except now you have to 2000 monies to research them.

You can use Marc Anthony as a general once he's adopted, I'm not sure if you can use Pompey or Crassus as I havent unlocked them yet, but I highly doubt it...This was Caesar's campaign after all.

After a few turns my city was attacked! By a full stack of Gauls, and all I had defending was a small garrison and a very small army. I set up in the streets, I set my legions in choke points, ready to brace the waves of gauls that would undoubtedly flood through my city! The enemy approached, and I waited. They set up their slingers and I waited. I put my legionaries in testudo to weather the hail of rocks and waited for the immense onslaught to begin. They ran out of stones to throw and I waited...And I waited...And I waited...And the AI just stood there, looking at me....60 minutes later I won the battle by sheer patience and the Ai army ran away bloody and battered, having not even tried to take my city...They just stood there, dumb and broken.

I think I'm done with CIG for now. I'll wait untill the Divide Et Impera guys bring out their update. I really thought after that first battle the AI would maybe have been a bit better, but maybe my expectations were just too high.

[Typer.]

Am I the only one with Performance Problems? Vanilla Game worked great on Ultra Graphic Settings, just played my first big siege in the DLC and ♥♥♥♥ just went crazy as soon as the fighting started. Every single Unit started lagging, they better patch that game up.

Edit: Seems like I am not the only one. I am really disappointed by CA's newest strategy of realeasing Rome 2 and DLC filled with bugs. I am a huge fan of the series but this wouldn't be acceptable anywhere else.

[Jonboy]

Well vanilla AI reminds me of Paulie's robot in Rocky 4. I dont have great expectations but will report in soon.

[Sgt. Flaw]

Yea, I jumped into the campaign real quick and it looks really good...They fixed up the tree's a bit and added more color.
Gunna be getting into it later tonight..

I really haven't had a problem with A.I. for a few patches...campaign A.I. has been nothing short of phenominal for me. I've had treaty's(military/peace) with factions that helped out their alliences by fortifying in front of troops so the could pull more of their units to attack my village. Kept their peace treaty and guarded an opposing factions position. Been ambushed quite cleverly a few times....Battle A.I. is about average...path finding, sieging and responsiveness needs work but nothing game breaking.

[G l o b e]

hey can any1 say does the mod still work or are they not working anymore on patch 8?

[Barney Google]

Nguyên văn bởi krisk8:

hey can any1 say does the mod still work or are they not working anymore on patch 8?

I dont believe they are working.

[LeadStarDude]

Nguyên văn bởi {Triari} Jonboy:

Well vanilla AI reminds me of Paulie's robot in Rocky 4. I dont have great expectations but will report in soon.

Ha! Ha! Ha! ROTFLMAO!!!

[Barney Google]

Nguyên văn bởi {Triari} Jonboy:

Well vanilla AI reminds me of Paulie's robot in Rocky 4. I dont have great expectations but will report in soon.

Amen to that.

[LeadStarDude]

It kind of reminds me of the expansions for Medieval 2. You are in a familiar region, but it is more detailed with more provinces. Also it feels more personal because you are actually using Caesar. Honestly it is more like what I was expecting the base game to be like prior to launch. Also unrelated to the DLC itself I got a slight visual & performance increase with the new patch today. :) I haven't tested much AI yet, but I don't really see a point when the (AI repairing) beta patch 8.1 will release in a couple of days.

[Nazcatraz]

My problem is all Romans turned into Purple/Pink

[Barney Google]

Nguyên văn bởi LeadStarDude:

It kind of reminds me of the expansions for Medieval 2. You are in a familiar region, but it is more detailed with more provinces. Also it feels more pesonal because you are actually using Caesar. Honestly it is more like what I was expecting the base game to be like prior to launch. Also unrelated to the DLC itself I got a slight visual & performance increase with the new patch today. :) I haven't tested much AI yet, but I don't really see a point when the (AI repairing) beta patch 8.1 will release in a couple of days.

Not sure if it really is that personal. I mean apart from the general being named Caesar, nothing else really changes. He's still a level 1 general and his legion is called "Legio I". The same affect could be achieved by digging around in the files and renaming Lucius Libo to Julius Caesar in the main game.