*What the hell is this!? The social distancing formation!?* Laughed my ass off on this one

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

🤣I stole that joke from someone in my chat during the stream.

@siavashamin951

3 жыл бұрын

That was really funny, and I agree. Why bother doing a remaster but then leave the fighting functions unchanged. What is the point of that?

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

@@siavashamin951 I think it was worth doing despite the terrible pathfinding and AI, simply because Rome 1 is basically unplayable on Windows 10.

@justingray8161

3 жыл бұрын

I came down to write the same thing XD I was reeling

@augustoluna5577

3 жыл бұрын

Social distance and Black Friday formations... O literally LOL so hard... Hahahaha

Your accent gets so much stronger when you get pissed 😂

@tedarcher9120

3 жыл бұрын

What is his accent?

@darkmemes953

3 жыл бұрын

@@tedarcher9120 idk sounds like Boston or New York accent.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

I'm from New England, not Boston, though.

The AoE2:DE ai is even more impressive once you dig into how it's scripted; the ai scripts are literally just thousands upon thousands of "if->then" rules which somehow piece together into a coherent and somewhat lifelike ai AND it's more or less just coded by a single guy, who started as a hobbyist.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Holy shit...that is insane.

@RJALEXANDER777

3 жыл бұрын

Okay wow. I know enough about coding to know that that's thousands of hours of work. If that's all one person for the most part then that person is a genius.

@willdbeast1523

3 жыл бұрын

​@@RJALEXANDER777 I think it definitely is thousands of hours. There's been a handful of people doing it as a hobby basically since the games came out, and the specific person I think has been doing it for maybe 10 years with the new AI being based quite heavily on what they were doing before.

@RJALEXANDER777

3 жыл бұрын

@@willdbeast1523The thought of keeping keep track of all those cases is making my head spin. Making sure the sequences work properly, making sure that the sequences actually result in a capable AI. Astonishing stuff.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

@@RJALEXANDER777 Yeah. My mind is blown.

That „Black friday“ Formations almost killed me by the way 🤣🤣🤣

@tarnillanther4477

3 жыл бұрын

The social distancing formation got me 😆

Do note that a medieval2 Remastered is never going to happen now because of the backlash.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't say never, but it definitely dampens the chances I agree.

@gaaaaaaaaaaah1

3 жыл бұрын

If it ia going to be more of the same then why would you want a remaster? especially if you ALREADY own a functioning old version on Steam

@1invag

3 жыл бұрын

It was never the sales of this that would dictate the chances of that happening. It was the sales performance of the mobile game. That was the only reason this is even a thing. If that sells well they'll probably make a medieval mobile, and then fuck it we've already got this in existence might aswell make some extra cash of it, stick a half arsed version on pc. And we can charge more than double the mobile price for it on pc cos why the fuck not

@aleaiactaest6503

3 жыл бұрын

@@gaaaaaaaaaaah1 mod support and better graphics. I do believe that rerome is superior to the original, but many disagree.

@draganivanisevic5182

3 жыл бұрын

Med2 remaster will happen, rome 1 remaster might start to sell much better in future if they patch it and when we start to get good mods, rights?

As someone who doesn't particulary liked modern TW, but struggles with the clunky controls of Med II and Rome I, this Remaster is worth, A LOT!

@sharpe3698

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I'm exactly in this demographic. It's basically exactly what I wanted. Honestly my only gripe is that the move to a numerical UI makes building decisions harder to parse than the bar graph UI if the original.

@nikosh6565

3 жыл бұрын

Same here. I just wanted the same game but looking new. I just really enjoy it

@RobBCactive

3 жыл бұрын

As a long time RTW player the controls aren't clunky, you just need to look at the key bindings and use the features. Watching KZreadrs play, including the TW specialists, they don't use many of the controls eg) filing down and using "at the double" to pass through gateways and pass through streets.

@quarreneverett4767

3 жыл бұрын

You can change the controls in og

@victuz

3 жыл бұрын

Why you didn't like the modern ones?

Wait.. what? Hundreds of hours poured into Rome 2 and I never realized there was a feature where your army formatio automatically auto-locks onto the enemy army when you attack? I've always just individually clicked on one cohort to attack another!

@Kvs-vf9nt

2 жыл бұрын

Yes ctrl g makes a locked group and g just a group.

@amp8295

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kvs-vf9nt To add on top of your reply, there's a button at the bottom (left side) which lets you place your locked group under the AI's command, and you could tell the AI to attack the enemy or defend ground of your choosing.

@Kvs-vf9nt

2 жыл бұрын

@@amp8295 Ow yes that's true.👍

@amp8295

2 жыл бұрын

@@Kvs-vf9nt It is rather useless if you wanna pursue enemies, cause all it does is form up and sit there looking dumb.

@Kvs-vf9nt

2 жыл бұрын

@@amp8295 It's also true. I make a not locked group and micromanage my troups. Not that I have lots to do because the AI is not that smart...

Well all that I was looking for was Rome 1 with updated graphics. I never expected AI or pathfinding to be reworked at all so I am not disappointed. I can't remember the last time I sunk so many hours into a total war game. I am loving this remaster. Plus, it wasn't too expensive. Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have paid $50 or anything for it. For the price, I have no complaints.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

That's awesome man. Glad to hear it.

@vincesettineri

3 жыл бұрын

Hell yea this game kicks ass

@RobBCactive

3 жыл бұрын

The graphics options are a god send on laptops in summer, they could run really hot yet still be laggy (even after the DX8 shim is installed). I really don't need more than 30fps on a strategy game.

@Ackalan

3 жыл бұрын

It was reworked, it works way worse in the remastered, I have the original and I went and checked, pathfinding and unit AI is sooo much worse.

@elih9700

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ackalan The pathfinding in original Barbarian Invasion was worse than Rome 1, how do those two compare now?

Finally someone mentioned the muffled battle sounds, i like the game but i hope it gets fixed

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

A fellow sound enjoyer.

@gromsword6984

3 жыл бұрын

They are also muffled in the original. (Babrien Invasion)

@ebergarcia1793

3 жыл бұрын

@@gromsword6984 no they aren't, pleantty of mods use the bi.exe and you can hear a lot of sounds when you zoom in, in the remaster you barely hear screams

@prazv2

3 жыл бұрын

average music fan vs average sound enjoyer

When he gets angry toward the end, suddenly he's 110% Bostonian, it's crazy

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Living in the south for so long, I've lost a bit of the accent & learned how to speak "neutral American English," however when I get animated the New England definitely comes out lol. Edit: worth noting that when you work with the public in the South, you're seen as less trustworthy if you sound like a "Yankee," so losing the accent was something I consciously tried to do. As you can see in the comments section on this video, people go nuts when they hear the R's dropping lmao.

@BB-ce5ev

2 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy lol i remember when i moved from the south to the north. I would tell customers at work "have a good day yall" and get dirty looks.

@VL1975

2 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy You live in the South? I am in SC but from PA. One of best friends is from Fall River, MA. Ya...sometimes my Philly accent comes out and Southerner just stare at me like in Deliverance. lol

@happycompy

Жыл бұрын

@@VL1975 Hahahahaha this comment got me

@happycompy

Жыл бұрын

@@BB-ce5ev Yuppppp. My northern friends cringe when I say "y'all" but it's so damn useful!

Personally I just played a little bit of campaign for nostalgia but the main reason I bought it solely for the mods. Like the collaborative one coming out. I was a huge fan of Europa Barbarorum and im looking for a similar experience

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Mhmm. RTR looks great.

@draganivanisevic5182

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy patches and mods can fix the game and a lot more things to it

@MarktheRude

3 жыл бұрын

Europe Barbarorum isn't going to be ported for Rome remastered

@thesnake2620

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarktheRude Yeah I know I said like EB

@knuckle1493

3 жыл бұрын

@wowalinbie AOE2 is even older yet made the game better in every way

This revieuw sums up my thoughts on this game very well, but i still am enjoying it, maybe becouse of nostalgia more than anything.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching :). I enjoyed the nostalgia as well but it wasn't enough to keep me there.

@sharpe3698

3 жыл бұрын

I think it's great, but the modern total war games never really sucked me in. Empire is probably my fav, so that should qualify the utility of my opinion.

@kurtshaw229

3 жыл бұрын

Im really surprised at the negative response to this game maybe its my play style like i don’t use group or the formation attack command but i have run into very few problems even in siege battles. The pathfinding will mess up a little but its nothing i havent been able to fix by giving my unit a second order and/or turning off skirmish. I am one of those people just never stopped playing medieval 2 and have a couple 1000 hours in it though so that might be it.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

@@kurtshaw229 what matters is that you enjoy it man. I'm happy for you :)

'If you expect nothing else but Rome: Total War but prettier, it's worth your money.'

@sancho7863

3 жыл бұрын

I started with shogun total war 1 when i was a 19 year old marine back in 2000. I still play mtw 2

@jrow8332

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Been playing since Shogun. The complaints have always been the same. While i could throw out a few myself, they aren't any that havent been said before. I've always appreciated CA's somewhat humorous take on history as well as their efforts to reach out to their curmudgeonly fan base.

At this point it is absolutely necessary for them give us an option for the old UI.

@transsylvanian9100

3 жыл бұрын

I hate the new one. TW UI has been complete garbage since Rome 2. And i am sure they will butcher Medieval 2's remaster in the same way by replacing the old UI. Why did they do this?! There was no reason whatsoever to change the UI, it was perfect. There were so many other things that could have been improved upon.

@cycomiles4225

Жыл бұрын

@@transsylvanian9100 Its not perfect. It does the job, its way bigger than it needs to be though. TW UI has never been great, just good enough (I personally think Shogun 2 did it best, minimal, aesthetic and gives you all the info you need and its out of the way at the same time). You are just used to the old UI. The new UI from an aesthethic point of view is very bad though, very centered for whatever reason. It looks like a 4:3 picture on a 16:9 screen.

That one moment people say that Rome total 2 was "shit" and that the rome remastered would be the comeback of the franchising but it wasnt :/

@theleetworldbest

3 жыл бұрын

Rome 2 and Rome remastered are both trash imo, in tradition of TW games.

@LordVader1094

3 жыл бұрын

I mean Rome 2 Total War is still very mediocre. Unfortunately they put even less effort into Rome Remastered than Rome 2, handing it off to some mobile game dev.

“If you expect Rome Total War, but prettier...” I mean... that is what a remaster is supposed to be. It’s not a remake.

@riblix4744

3 жыл бұрын

What else did they expect?

@ayylmao575

3 жыл бұрын

I don’t understand why people bitch when they what they want.

8:28 XD Loved that I agree with the pathfinding, and with the UI for the most part. But, I think there's enough there for a "comeback story".

@Splicer87

3 жыл бұрын

YES

@tiranu

3 жыл бұрын

Pink Pijamas where?

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Hey, Melkor :). Lots of people wrote off Rome 2 on release, which was even more broken (end turn times were excruciating), but it shaped up into a great game. Here's hoping Rome Remastered gets the dev time it needs to fix its issues and endure. Love your content btw!

@MelkorGG

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy Rome 1 got wrote off on release and had a nightmare launch XD I swear Rome is cursed. (Imperator Rome)

@tiranu

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy thx for the heart :D

I never knew about the locked unit formation attack. I always thought Rome 2 had armies converge into blobs.

Lol I like how the accent came out

@cultofthevoid5677

3 жыл бұрын

From "standard American" to Bostonian in a fraction of a second lol.

When u just spent £20 just so u can see the pink Pajama men: uhhh

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

This post brought to you by MELKOR gang

@executeorder6559

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy lol MELKOR is a total war legend

That intro KILLED me LOL. I actually started clapping my guy!

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

hahahaha thanks man! Glad you liked it.

Just like I have not touched Troy after downloading, I would give any total war title 12+ months to get their sh!t together via patches and then sink that 100 hours in

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Too true.

@gorgefood9867

3 жыл бұрын

And if they don't, you just got scammed for your money.

@ShacklefordR

3 жыл бұрын

@@gorgefood9867 With content overload and game backlogs that I’m sure many people have, I would say just wait for the next steam holiday sale that will inevitably do the ubiquitous 50% discount if you must buy one lol

Rome Remastered may be disappointing but you know what isn't? ATTILA!

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed...until you click the end turn button.😂

@rabbideadpool5190

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy that’s why I always keep a copy of the Gallic wars by my laptop

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

@@rabbideadpool5190 LMAO

@leemanjay7276

3 жыл бұрын

As much as I want to like Attila. It runs like shit. Poorly optimized

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

@@leemanjay7276 Facts

Wait how do you do that in 7:20 I never know you actually do that? As for the remastered, I mean yeah, it’s okay but personally I still find it to be a lot of fun to play, it’s scratching that itch I don’t get with some parts of the newer games but I really hope they do actually patch it up a bit

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Just create a locked group (padlock symbol), and click attack on an enemy unit :)

@maesde

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy Dude I never knew you could do this and I've been playing TW games for so long!! I guess this doesn't matter to me now jaja, but still. How did I miss this..

@MH-wx5ff

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy i played rome 1 in like 2005 and plenty of games since and i never knew this attack style was a thing lmao

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

@@MH-wx5ff once you start using it you can't go back, especially in giant battles!

@ruas4721

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy I never use this, its to simple movement. And ranged units suck with this option, focusing one unit is so much better.

8:30 Hahaha the social distance and black friday, you should win an oscar award

Funny enough Rome remastered was my second total war game (first being Troy) and I absolutely loved the mechanics and how everything worked once I figured out how to add more soldiers to my army so I’d stop accidentally only sending my general to fight half the gaulic army lmao. Something about the older total war mechanics are way easier for me to wrap my head around than the newer game mechanics. For some reason it’s a struggle for me to understand Rome II’s mechanics, but Rome remaster’s are so accessible to me

@erikfahr6072

Жыл бұрын

true the rome 2 mechanics are annoying to understand especially the city building stuff

I'm annoyed by the pathing being worse 20 years later lmao

When you get angry you sound like mafia :D

Rome 2 infected Rome 1 remasted with the launch fail plague

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Oof lmao.

I’ll be honest I’ve been playing rome 2 for 1800 hours and I never knew you could do the locked formation attack, I would attack one by one in pause to get an organized attack like I did in Rome one, I get your points too but I still love the game

Basically people who haven't played Rome 1 since they were 12 are playing it again and realising its a game from 2004 and feels like trash in battles. The nostalgia crew who continue to play it never did and don't care about the dodgy battles because they all play mods and just look at the pretty units and role play, which is fine but its not critical of the game. I almost feel like it would have been better recieved if they actually did less, and just made the original game fully optimised and compatible with modern systems with a few fixes and nothing else. But like all recent CA products this one tries to be two things at once, a remake and a remaster.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

💯

Its 2021, if you still get hyped for games, you're just gonna get disappointed all the time, I was, so many times and now I just expect bad things...

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I can't believe I got Charlie Brown'd by a Rome title a second time. I'm usually good about tempering expectations, but classical antiquity is my weakness lol.

@MsSirAndy

3 жыл бұрын

rome remastered is good, it just need improvements and fixes with patches and good mods

First one of your videos I have seen, Nice Video! Good editing, good confident voiceover. I recently started making videos myself and can appreciate the effort. Great job!

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! It means a lot and good luck on your channel!

I have a lot of love for Rome 1, and there are some positives in the remastered version, but unfortunately, the gripes about the remaster, leave me with a tragically familiar disappointment that I've had with CA ever since the release of Rome 2. {Yes I know this was re-made by a different company) The UI is good, better in some ways than the original, but its a remaster and they should of left the old UI in it so we could choose what we wanted. I think the scrolls droping down the right hand side at the beginning of the turn was just beautiful, and if you chose not to read them and ended the turn, They were lost to the annuls of history...instead theres the annoying tri-fector. The towns and cities, (in the battles) but the towns in particular should of just been enlarged by atleast a third of the size of the original, (if this could of been done) which I believe, would of sorted most of the pathfinding problems you have in town battles. I have tested the orignal with the remastered version and I disagree that the tinkering they have done to AI is an improvement, in a lot of cases it isnt. I could go on with the lists of disappointments but whats the point, this is what I've come to expect from a CA game, disappointment. If they remaster medieval 2, what I would hope for is updated graphics, great sound, fix the bugs that were still in the game. thats it. Dont add your own mark to the game dont mess with the UI or even the AI if its not going to be a real improvement, and if you do, leave an option to let us, the players, to have the choice of using it or not. IMO it doesnt need an improvement, thats is why we want medieval 3. Just found your channel, have to say, really enjoying your content :)

How do you make your soldiers automatically attack the nearest enemy in ROME II? my soldier just keep running forward until clash randomly against the enemy not charging them so I have to stop the game and give individual orders of attack to each group of soldiers... please help

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Make sure they are in a locked group (padlock symbol) and then issue the attack order.

i hope the remaster's comeback isnt 5 years late

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Same!

Well I learned something new... about Rome II. I didn't know about the attack command feature where you didn't have to micromanage the units. I'm going back to Rome II.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

It's not just in ROME II either, it's in all of the games from at least Shogun 2-onward.

@arnabsarkar4735

3 жыл бұрын

Just an older Rome 1 and Medieval 2 player, what is so difficult about making the units group together, bring them to melee range and then order each of them to attack the unit in front of them? Seriously how much effort does it take? Clicking is too much now?? Same for the pathfinding and other "jank". If you learn the clicking rules and how to fit formations into cities, city battles go smoothly. It's a learn to play thing, though I would say that the extreme unit formations don't help (i think we should limit unit size to large at the max to avoid insane pathfinding problems.

@AlexFroufe93

3 жыл бұрын

I learned that too today lol. Time to see how you do it

Wait... the battlegroups do what? Oh well, thanks for teaching me something new to use in my ongoing Sparta Campaign for Rome 2. Man, that actually makes my life so much easier instead of manually selecting each unit to attack each manually selected target. Sheeeeeeeesh.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

So glad it helped man! I can't live without it now (obviously, based on how much I ranted in the vid lol).

"Who likes losing winnable battles because I zoom in on my soldiers fighting on melee" *woah i didn't expected to be called out*

@happycompy

6 ай бұрын

I knew I wasn't the only one 🤣

Keep the work up man, I only just found your channel and it's dope as bro!

Rome Remastered is for the OG fans. Young gamers who joined much later will of course struggle.

@michalkrasnodebski8709

3 жыл бұрын

true, TW zoomers are not used to total war game that dosen't do 50 % of gaming for them,

@jdurthu4304

3 жыл бұрын

@@michalkrasnodebski8709 so You consider bugging on streets in every siege "not doing gaming for the player"?

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

@@jdurthu4304 Only casuals and zoomers expect carebear things like "functional pathfinding."

@jdurthu4304

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy probably that is the case haha

@michalkrasnodebski8709

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy ah yes because in modern tw games pathfinding is so good.

Nostalgia is a powerful feeling but it never lasts long

How do I do the battle line thing for Rome 2? When I put them in a group and send them forward they don’t choose targets

Considering how terrible Pharaoh ended up being, I swear another 6 months giving this multiplayer campaigning would have also been a vast improvement. That's my take two years on. Honestly, I could have lived with all the flaws if I could play it with my friends, and its a genuine let down that remasters in the world just means making the same exact game, putting lipstick on it, and that's' it, the end A great example to me is BDSP, to a point, not giving this Multiplayer feels the same way. I can go play EUIV or HoI IV, now we have Victoria 3, which also needed a massive change there as well military wise.

I agree with every single point you made about the campaign, the battles, the UI etc., but I totally disagree with your conclusions. Which is because I would weigh the points of criticism very differently. 1. This is easily the best Total War campaign experience since Medieval 2: Soldiers are not spellbound to generals, population is back, no building limitations, auto manage, taxation of individual cities, Rebel towns at the start of the game, territories can be traded etc. 2. Battles are not great, but also not bad, they are OK (for all the reasons you mentioned). You just have to get used to the old mechanics again and help the pathfinding a bit. In return, you get pre-Warscape battles that just look and feel so much better... And the AI is also OK. Apart from a few dropouts it flanks your phalanx, attacks from different directions if you try to block bottlenecks and a cavalry attack from behind and your army will be mercilessly routed. 3. The UI is not ideal, it needs getting used to, but after a few hours it is quite manageable. This game is a solid 85/100 in my book.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Hey man, thanks for watching and for the detailed comment. Obviously I disagree, but it was interesting to see your take on it.

Bro, I loved Rome Total War. I still have it. I don’t need to buy the remastered because it’s exactly the same game with some polishing. Rome 2 in it’s late form is hands down one of the greatest total war games ever made, thanks in no small part to it’s absolute chad community. I love my retro games but people need to wake up, this game is beyond dated. I had fun with it but to me, remastered will always be a well polished cash grab. Rome 2 is still king.

@ruas4721

3 жыл бұрын

Rome 2 is still one of the worst titles, only ToB is even more shitty.

@patrickshelley09

3 жыл бұрын

@@ruas4721 Modded Rome 2 is the best TW game. End of story.

@ruas4721

3 жыл бұрын

@@patrickshelley09 Moded Rome 2 is still worse than Empire = worse than every other main Total War

@patrickshelley09

3 жыл бұрын

@@ruas4721 I'm sorry. I don't debate the mentally impaired. Have a great day.

@ruas4721

3 жыл бұрын

@@patrickshelley09 so you dont do it with yourself, thats great

The real questions is, is it worth as a base game with new upcoming mods? or is it better to keep the original plus mods?

Amazing review HappyCompy as always! For me all I wanted was a modern graphic update to Rome 1 and I'm content with that, but regardless everything you said was spot on.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Rene! Glad you're having fun with the Remaster!

I must agree with almost everything said in this video except one thing , Rome 2 siege battles are not bad, they are freaking epic, after hours and hours of playing and watching them I still dont have enough

I bought it for the prettier graphics. That's it. It is still as janky as I remember it.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

True Rome 1 enjoyer right here.

Wait, how did you move the family tree around? I cannot see the full family tree and I can only scroll up and down...

This video was a surprisingly much more balanced than what the title suggested. As an old school _Total War_ fan, I can understand where you're coming from. Given enough time with future updates and mods, _Rome Remastered_ can really rise up to the occasion. If _Empire_ and _Rome II_ can be salvaged, I'm confident this game will too.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

I'm right there with you hoping!

I really want to enjoy this game, but for now i think I’m happier with Rome 2 DEI, although I should mention I’d rather play vanilla Rome 1 than vanilla Rome 2 for sure.

I am so glad I'm subbed to you, this was the exact video I needed to not buy the game LOL, like really? the battles are the best part in total war and clunky battles alone are a deal breaker thanks for this super informative video

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Glad you found it helpful :)

when I was a kid remember putting praetorian cohorts in a general and it acquired a title trait of praetorian prefect.

Never played the original, I got to turn 70 as the Julii and gave up after getting bogged down in gaul trying to reform my armies after the marian reforms while Spain and Briton hit me from all sides. Also in that time the Scipii never expanded out of Sicily and the Brutii never got a foothold in Greece. I can only speculate how big Egypt, Carthage and Armenia got in this campaign..................

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

That actually kinda sounds like an epic campaign not gonna lie.

That's why reMASTER, was a red Flag to me. It's not a reMAKE. It could be, it depends on the developers. But it's just a rePAINT

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Big oof.

@ruas4721

3 жыл бұрын

Thats not true. The developers have limited ressources. A remake needs much more time, money and workers, thats the job of the publisher. The developers did a great job.

@SirWarkwark

3 жыл бұрын

@@ruas4721 Yeah, they should have gotten so much more. It's sad that such an iconic game got so little time and love from CA.

I enjoy the game for what it is and hope the devs give it some TLC in the battle AI department. I love the campaign AI as it's really challenging, especially on higher difficulties but after playing it for a dozen hours, it has reignited my love for Rome 2 after realizing, as you said, how much you take for granted.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the campaign was really enjoyable for me! A shame about the battles.

@timokaaarp7779

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure they can improve the AI, or feel like they need to bother.

PLEASE tell me what you're doing to get your army to automatically lock on to the target? @7:21 can I do this in TW: WH2? This would be life changing for me

@happycompy

Жыл бұрын

Create a locked group, and then give an attack order :)

I know it's nitpicky, but one of the first things I noticed and still annoy me after 30 hours is that the cheer at the end of the generals speech is delayed a few seconds, it takes so much from the immersion when the General comes to the end of the speech, only to be followed by crickets chirping for 2 seconds to sink in with the army.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

True!! Was it always like that?

@jaco6971

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy nah it used to follow up immediately. a shame they messed it up

I have started Cartage campain. They were buffed quite a lot, and I thought that I can finally win with romans. And than U have pkayed 2 siege battle... qnd quited. I can not play with these sieges haha. That is kind of sad, because that was literarly the one thing that made me not love rome 1 as much as most people. And it is not fixed :(

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Yup. That and the janky formation controls did it in for me.

*insert look of superiority for predicting that it was overhyped

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Hahahaha go ahead and gloat. I would too if I were in your shoes.

I’m curious, can you fight cross era battles? As in fighting the western Roman Empire as the house Julii for example?

You don't mention it here, but one of the battle bugs I remember being frustrated most in Rome 1 TW was when a siege tower unit got stuck in the base of the tower when it was time to climb. I don't remember there being any solution when that happened except to hope that you could do without that tower or the unit stuck on it. Given what you've shown of the other battle issues, I don't hold much hope that they fixed that bug.

Oh man. I actually feel this review. I bought the game few days before lunch and still play attila today. I played rtw back in the days and bought on steam few years ago and had a good time with it (500 hours). When I heard of the remaster, I thought it would be rtw+good graphics, which it is. However, as I still play attila, I noticed that the game was lacking many many features (also the intros of some factions have been remade 🤢). I feel like the old engine is just not suited for the modern day total war games. If only they could give it better path finding and give it back its old UI (the new one is horrible in my opinion) then it would be fine but now it's just meh

@yacinebenchoubane3645

3 жыл бұрын

Also, sometimes you give an unit an order but it doesn't do it (hence why I had to restart the siege of Sparta 3 times before I could win )

"black friday formation" hahahaha

I’m really enjoying Rome Remastered but I hope for other titles like Medieval and Empire we get actual sequels instead of remasters. Some parts of the game just haven’t aged well and a remaster wouldn’t fix that. Still, I’d love it if Creative Assembly could take some of the features which hold up here (family trees, armies not tied to generals, more stuff to build in campaign) and combine them with the great battles we get in modern Total War titles. A synthesis of the things the old games did better and the stuff the newer games excel at.

This is kinda out of topic but i think what would be great for unit management would be "attack area" order for archers so they would shoot in the general selected area like a circle or something. It would help in sieges a lot in my opinion.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

That sounds awesome

You should play the Ancient Empires Mod for Attila.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I need to get around to trying that and 1212.

@KTA1sVidsandFacts

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy It's designed in a way to make you feel nostalgic for Rome I, so hopefully its the perfect blend of old school with the new school for you.

@valvexe1238

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy 1212 is great and really fun to play with but be careful of those knights, they kill everything in the early game xD

@FilipMoncrief

3 жыл бұрын

@@KTA1sVidsandFacts that sounds great. Is it better than Divide et Impera for Rome II? I don’t believe so

@KTA1sVidsandFacts

3 жыл бұрын

@@FilipMoncrief Divide et Impera lags my game into 10 mintue turns, and I have huge frame drops in 40 v 40 army battles. Meanwhile I don't have the same problem with Attila.

I basically already had this experience when I tried to play the old games a few years ago. I grew up on Rome 1 and Medieval 2 but compared to the newer games they are terrible to play nowadays. On the other hand I'm replaying Napoleon right now and it still holds up.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Nappy is a gem. HATE that it doesn't have Empire's scale though.

@mortimer1992

3 жыл бұрын

Are you alright dude? Rome and medieval 2 both aged like best wine

@khadajhin5130

3 жыл бұрын

@@mortimer1992 more like med 2. Rome is very clunky and sad to say.. outdated. Squalor mechanic, public order, ai, diplomacy and pathfinding.

@RJALEXANDER777

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Gotta admit that whilst Rome 1 means a lot to me, it's been years since I played it unmodded. Rome 1 has a ton of character with a lot of features I wish were in more modern games, and I'll always love it but it is incredibly outdated. Which is a bit of a shame given how much of a pioneer Rome was originally, but time marches forward.

@draganivanisevic5182

3 жыл бұрын

@@RJALEXANDER777 the remaster gave to rome fresh air and improved it a lot

My favourite quality of life improvements with Rome Remastered are the Follower Migration feature and improvements to the Hoplite/Phalanx formations. That and it's way easier to send Agents where you want them to go. And knowing how long they will take to get there before you commit to sending them. And the Merchant mechanic is neat. And you can actually do Diplomacy. No hidden faction relations like Vanilla Rome. And an actual prediction of Agent success chances with missions. And run is the default for unit movement on the battle map. And Ranged units are more likely to auto-fire on enemy units with obatacles like buildings inbetween. Sure their accuracy goes down but at least they try. So many times in Vanilla Rome a small building would make my Archers fake-fire their arrows and never actually loose at the enemy. And I am certain the Diplomat cost to bribe enemy stacks is MUCH cheaper than Vanilla Rome. My one gripe is I cannot seem to toggle loose/tight formations anymore. I hate losing my precious Chreeshun Archers to friendly fire. From their own stack. And when firing in towns/cities the arrows seem to spread much wider than Vanilla Rome. Making friendly fire between stacks much more likely.

Hi there. I think in a previous video you mentioned doing a performance comparison with Rome 2. Do you have any information on which of the two games is more intensive performance wise for those looking to play a total war on a lower end pc?

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Rome Remastered runs better for me.

@sirangles5055

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy Thanks. It's nice knowing you can indulge in some nostalgic gaming without needing a GPU upgrade.

That accent came out!

they fix pathfinding some issues with AI and is a whole different game, CA doesn't care... they did not even make the remaster themselves

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I'd go back to it if they overhauled the pathfinding.

@draganivanisevic5182

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy and then when they fix the problems, UI, AI and pathfinding do you think the game will have better ratings on steam and increase the chances for a med2 remastered?

Modern game dev studios - not only their gameplay is almost non existant, what little they promise isn't delivered

I never used to think it was possible to screw up a remaster. Then this game and the old GTA remasters proved me wrong 😅

I got the Remaster, and I'm enjoying it a lot, but at the same time, I wish it could have been more. Rome Remastered actually makes me appreciate Rome 2 a lot more.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

I feel the exact same way. I enjoyed the campaign a lot, but I'm ready to go back to Rome 2 until patches come to Remastered.

The seige battles suck.. I didnt have issues with the other battles so much. But whats up wit when you try to deply units in front of a gate you cant get them to form up right. I end up having to create a thin formation.. Anyone else have this issue?

Nice little channel you have here, you just got a new suscriber lad

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Much appreciated! I'm glad you're enjoying it :)

Ok, this one will get a dislike from me. Formation locking? Haven't used it in any total war games. Path finding in sieges sucks, tho, that much I can agree. But UI is not that bad, alerts being divided into your empire alerts and then world wide alerts is just logical. Wait for a few patches and modding scene, also campaign is already better than Rome 2 lol

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

You're missing out on that formation locking feature! It's really great when playing 40 v 40 battles!

So basically you are critizing the Rome I Remaster for not being so modern as a new Total Wars. But I think you're missing the point that it was supposed to be just remaster of original version, so I really dont understand why you expect CA to do any new features on a REMASTER of Rome I.

@alexpillow9754

3 жыл бұрын

He didn't like this one.

is there an option to remove the annoying circle option thing above every single unit?

@thomashazlewood4658

3 ай бұрын

yes

Haven't bought it yet but still will. I remember in the original pausing battles to choose which units my line would attack. That helps but is obviously not ideal work around

My PTSD intensities every time I see a Rome 1 battle.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Yup!

@JuanRojas-xs9fc

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy Its sad man. The most important aspect of any Total War game in my opinion are the battles. And they couldnt sell it for me with this remaster. Its honestly sad since now they have received alot of backlash and med 2 remaster seems farther away.

@MsSirAndy

3 жыл бұрын

@@JuanRojas-xs9fc don't worry, rome 1 remaster will have comeback definitely with patches and future mods or even dlc's..... it will have the comeback and become a great game and sell well, and then we will got med2 remaster. The future is bright. Right?

younger generation of gamers complains about everything xD this is a masterpiece, one of the best total war games and Turn based strategy games of all times, every video game has flaws, but this one does more things right than other "modern" TW games which are kinda shity

@brydonthunder

2 жыл бұрын

I can give you a list of petty accomplishments on a resume but in the end what will stand out are the big things. Rome 1 has a lot of really good aspects but a lot of them are minor details like population and character traits. The game was great for its time but simply put many of the bigger things it just doesn't have. Rome 1 lacks world immersion which Attila and Rome 2 have with the faction diversity and realism (all are not great but Rome 1 egypt) It's Ai is bad, diplomacy is pathetic. I've watched a LegendTotalWar video where he made peace with the Sassanids in Empire Divided Rome 1 when his faction had 1 city left with 1 unit and being beseiged by 3 stacks of Sassanid armies. Even regarding the combat system itself the game is different (not worse) then all the newer ones apart from Med 2, but if you are going to enjoy the combat of the old games, Med 2 is vastly superior in that regard as the AI is much more functional and the units feel like they have a bit better weight to them. There is a reason Medieval 2 stood the test of time while base game Rome 1 did not

I agree with everything said in the video. It is a fun game for the people that played back in the day, I enjoy it very much. But the battles are nothing compared to the modern titels, which is a shame bc I still prefer the older battle engine. But the reality is that I win most of them by just charging te enemy and then they rout. Curious to see what the mods can improve, the overhauls back in the day improved the game extremely much. But yeah all in all for newer players Rome 2 is the better option and with mods like DEI its not even comparable, lightyears ahead of this game.

I could feel everything you just said, currently doing an modded sqpr campaign, my favourite faction, one of the hardest starts with instant civil war, but im so mad about the ui and the city battles, but the autoresolves and with no unit replenishing enabeld it is too dangerous, to simply skip them, but im hating the pathfinding, that was one of my biggest hopes, that they would fix this, but no, other then that great

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

It's a shame, because I really enjoyed the campaign!

Getting some real James Rolfe/AVGN vibes from you! Lovely video, subscribed!

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much! I've heard of AVGN, but who's James Rolfe? Edit: oh they're the same thing lmao.

ive been pretty happy with the remaster so far i just finished a brutii long campaign and i had a lot of fun, the battles to me are fine but i dont use group formations so i dont have your frustrations but sieges are still painful as ever, the ui is mostly good for me but the building menu is too small and i dont like how the historic flavour text for units and buildings is tucked away into a small box, my only real gripe is the audio, especially the general speeches. When the general finishes his speach there's like a 3 second gap before you hear the men "cheer" it sorta ruins the hype while your men are standing silent at the end of a speech and the sound effects are muffled which i dont really like but im just happy i can run this game again

hey one question, do you know if there is a rome 2 mod where you can rename youre generals? 🤔

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Nope :(

Great comedic timing, and well articulated points, I want to use your points in my RTW review lol but I'll add my own thoughts for sure so I ain't copying or anything, for example the point you made about the AI and the battle formations - that's something I've had as well so I'll write it in my own way This game for me will age like fine wine, give it time and most of the issues I hope will be sorted out. Let's see my man :)

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Looking forward to your review man!

Social distancing formation got me good.

I started the franchise with Medieval 2, so I didn't get any nostalgia from Rome 1 or remastered. I gotta thank you for the useful information in this video, keep it up 👍

@ HappyCompyTW Overall nice review, but I have to correct your statements regarding Three Kingdoms : 1) Population in 3K doesn't work like in Rome, in Rome, the population are actual people who pay taxes or get enlisted - if you don't have them you don't have a way to replenish/get new units/get more money. If you loot or exterminate a settlement for easy cash, don't be surprised if you don't have enough people to enlist in to your army in that village afterward. Everything else like buildings and what not is a modifier on that number - in 3K its exactly the opposite, meaning the population is the modifier and its the buildings which give you the income. Romes system is far better objectively because the features ties the battle and the campaign together, you play the battles so you can keep your units who aren't being able to be replenished everywhere alive and well or send them back to places where you have the population so you can keep you veteran powerful units. 2) Three kingdoms traits are triggered by random events, Rome's beauty was that the traits were a reflection of the life the character had, while not perfect that system worked far better than in most total war games by being both dynamic and player action based - Three Kingdom's traits are random, you can win a battle and exterminate a settlement and the next turn recieve with the character a pacifist trait. Even worse because of how powerful special characters are not getting them is just stupid and while for some people playing as famous characters sounds fun and exciting - for me and many others the beauty of the old Total War games was their sandbox nature - the fact you played with unknown characters which grew and developed with the player across the campaign made them unique and fun and memorable (especially thanks to the trait system), Three Kingdoms Troy and Warhammer killed that with Total War games. p.s. There is plenty to love with 3K, it just could have been much better if CA did really go back on some aspects which were great while still doing many of hte improvements the game has.

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Good writeup, I should have mentioned that 3k's population was different than Rome's and Medieval 2's in its functionality. Still, its existence is a step in the right direction! That's a shame about the traits in 3K. Even Rome 2, Attila, and Warhammer have action-triggered traits.

@DeadLikeMeJ

3 жыл бұрын

@@happycompy It's hard for me to say they are on the right path when they already were on the right path almost 2 decades ago (god I am old) ... but here is for a bit of optimism. Anyway keep up the good work :)

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

The greatest things were the traits, nicknames, general speeches and crazy flying soldier glitches

7:35 Original rome had a thing were Groups would autoselect enemies to attack instead of actually attacking what you selected to attack. Im surprised anyone would like that. I think its still in the Remaster, you just have to enable the Formation/Group Lock AFAIK

How about the requirements? Can I run it with a computer able for Rome 2 or it won't work?

@happycompy

3 жыл бұрын

SHOULD be okay, but some people have issues with load times. I would try it out for an hour and refund it on steam if it doesn't work.

@Jorn-gy3yc

3 жыл бұрын

It seems to run well On at least Intel 4000 series, and at least Phemon/fx series, at least 1050 2gb. My current build is Amd phemon x6 (2013) And gtx 1080 for my dated cpu it runs fine.if your on HDD, DONT get 4k textures, SSD required, it will bloat your load times. Im on HDD myself. Load times are rather quick , I play on ultra get always 45-120 fps

As someone who was totally satisfied with the Remaster because... I really just wanted to play a version of RTW that doesn't run like shit on modern hardware, I was worried about the clickbaity title but I'm glad I gave it a shot anyway. Honestly it's still my favourite total war game (and my first game in the series was Shogun 2), but there's no denying the pervasive jank. For my part, the QOL changes that were present was more than I even expected, but I concede it could have been amazing.

@happycompy

7 ай бұрын

Such a balanced and reasonable take. Refreshing to read, like a glass of ice cold water on a hot summer day. Thank you for sharing and I'm glad you enjoyed the game :)

Because Rome TW 1 was my first Total War game, I was use to micro-managing battles. My dad for example pauses and orders each unit to attack another unit. I sometimes do that. Also the click and drag to setup new lines is sometime that is very helpful in Rome TW 1. A couple of minor bugs that I noticed is if you are sieging a city and are attacked by the defenders, you have to actual take the city or the battle will be called a draw. This wasn't the case in the original RTW 1. You could win without taking the city as a defender. Another issue is that hoplites do not maintain Phalanx formation in cities. They did in RTW1 (granted this made things easy because you could set a couple of hoplite phalanx in a city street and watch the enemy AI just blow its entire army against it 300 style and get their army wiped out. I loved doing this as Seleucids for example).