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[Total War] Omens? In this economy?
Karoz
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War, war always changes.
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Goooood. There's a mod that changes this in RoC, and it helps with the AI blobbing the player a lot! The AI still war decs you as is appropriate, but you have to be somewhat close to them instead of them sending stuff from across the map like when they're perma-warring.
My bet is still Total War: Ants
I wonder if Volkmar is going to have some kind of beef with the Tomb Kings, given that they too are hunting books of Nagash.
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
As an Xbox profile guy, time to double dip!!!
Insanely good price too. Christmas came early
hmm altho the warhammer 1 page says no achievements, so you might only get achievements for 2, or maybe playing 1 races in 2?
Also in classic Microsoft fashion the app doesn’t have the full games available for purchase, just the dlcs floating in the ether, you can only buy the full games on the Microsoft website store. Maybe sync this stuff Microsoft, given the fact that you’re you know, one of the largest corporations on the planet
Also clicking the buy button on the store does nothing, so that’s great
Ok I have an Xbox app on my pc which I’ve been using to play 3 on gamepass, however buying 1 and 2 on the Microsoft store opens up the Microsoft store app, a seperate app, some of the dlc is available on the Xbox app but not the games themselves. Super good job microsoft
So once you get 1+2 you more or less don't need to play 1 (theoretically this will be the case with 2 and 3 once Immortal Empires comes out, if it is good).
Having 1 enables Mortal Empires in 2, which is a big combined map that lets you play the races from 1 as well as 2. You'll want 1 and 2 to unlock the races from those, as well as unlocking the big fancy map (Immortal Empires) that is coming out at the end of the month for 3.
That's the main appeal of buying the older ones.
Three Kingdoms 2 is in development because they have a dedicated Three Kingdoms team.
The front runner I’ve seen for normal historical based on usual guesses and sleuthing things like IP registrations is Medieval 3.
Yeah that’s what I was thinking
Also man the Microsoft store app sucks. I think the Xbox Pc app just hasn’t updated to show the warhammer 1 and 2 games, cos their dlc shows up in warhammer 3, but there’s no actual warhammer 1 and 2 page yet. So I’ve bought it on the Microsoft store, an app so shit even I’m complaining about it, a person who usually has no idea whether an app is good or not. It offers no way I can see to actually say where you want to install the game. I’m hoping it’s just a delay and eventually my purchase will show up on the Xbox app as well and I can go back to not even knowing the Microsoft Store app existed and never use it again, I finally get why people complain about Microsoft on PC now.
Basically the Xbox PC app is what I’ve been using this whole time to play warhammer 3 and various gamepass games, it’s a decent app that does all the things I need it to and works well. All the info I can find says that things you purchase in the Microsoft store should show up on the Xbox PC app, so I’m hoping they just haven’t updated the app yet to have a warhammer 1 and 2 page
Which is very professional and good for a trillion dollar company
It should be way better, and it is compared to Games for Windows Live but that is an abysmally low bar to clear.
the gamepass app works well, it has all the functionality i require. They should just put everything you buy that can be run on it on it. But i think theyre keeping it seperate for some annyoing reason
There is the wood elves and beastmen DLC campaigns in 1 but otherwise no reason to even install it.
I’ll have to see how the achievements work cos I’m doing all this for the cheeves. 1 and 2 look like they have seperate achievement lists, but I’m hoping I can unlock achievements for 1 while playing 2. but it looks like ill actually have to load up 1 to get the 1 achieves, load up 2 to get the 2 achieves, etc I’ll have to do some testing
For Mortal Empires, you only needed to own 1, you didn't need it installed.
How are the individual campaigns in 1? I’ll likely play some of them to get the achievements anyway, but are they different enough from the mortal empires stuff?
Also playing 1 and man it makes my computer whir like crazy, whereas with warhammer 3 it’s quiet, shows you how much optimisation can do
There’s plenty of problems with Gamepass, especially around installation directories and access to them.
Oh yeah I don’t doubt it
Also the achievements are very odd/glitched so far, unlocked an exiles of Nehek achievement, while playing as Dark Elves, havent touched tomb kings yet…
Ok yeah achievements in 2 are broken, I just did a ritual as dark elves, and instead it unlocked an achievement to do with wood elves
1 was only out for like a year before 2 came out, at which point updates on 1 stopped. 2 has 5 years of updates and support, and at this point is far superior to 1. I played a single campaign in 1, then I bought 2 and never looked back.
The Beastmen DLC was kinda cool but I mostly played with so many buffs that sieges lasted 1 turn.
I got Beastmen and Wood Elves more for multiplayer at the time but both have gotten great updates and have very distinct campaign mechanics now.
(I replayed Season of Revelation not too long ago, and was surprised to see Gristle Valley as a settlement on that map. I thought CA had just introduced it for the Ogres in game three.)
-Antje Jackelén, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
Nope, you're not crazy. Steam charts says the 30 day average for 3 is about half of 2 -- 6,600 vs. 12,400.
It launched in a really bad state which drove a lot of people off. They've fixed lots of it, but everyone is pretty much in "wait for immortal empires" mode at the moment due to the Realms of Chaos campaign being pretty bad.
I've won once with most of the factions (only Khorne and Slaanesh left) so I've just been in a holding pattern until IE as I didn't think I had enough time to bang out one more. I could've gone back to ME but I didn't want to spoil my appetite so I'm playing other stuff.
Though I've been so desperate to play my rats again I ever so briefly flirted with hitting up GOG for Mark of Chaos before coming back from the brink.
I wouldn’t be surprised if it stays high on player count even after Immortal Empires.
they actually recently changed it so now MS store games can install to any directory you choose; not just the stupid microsoft appdate magic directory with no access that sometimes doesn't delete data when you uninstall the game and filled up my entire SSD and nuked 2 windows installs of mine when i tried to delete them manually...not that i'm bitter...
I tried to go back after the most recent patch and it still just felt so limp and uninspired after 2. There are a ton of cool concepts, but the initial failure of execution and implementation still haunts the game. I'm hoping with the new Chaos factions, I can at least enjoy the warhammer 3 map as I mostly played warhammer 2 map and almost no Mortal empires.
It was easier than I expected, my first Legendary victory in any Total War game.
I don't think I'll ever play the Realms of Chaos campaign again though, at least not with any of the initial factions.
That last campaign battle is just extremely boring to me, and it takes way too long to finish.
Maybe if they make it autoresolvable like the other survival battles, but with Immortal Empires just around the corner there doesn't seem to be much need to play RoC at all.
There are just some times I prefer the smaller and more focused non-vortex vortex campaigns like Tomb Kings and Vampire Coast.
So I suspect if Champions of Chaos also uses the Realms of Chaos map I will love it very much.
There is a smaller campaign for Champions of Chaos, where they are collecting souls to activate rifts.