Comments on: Empire Total War EuroChat At 4pm

By: aaron hall

aaron hall — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 01:45:20 +0000

sorry but u have lost the essence of total war if i wanted a manengment resoures game i would bloody well go out and buy it.
go back to basics and look at shogun total war thats what your selling
your game as nothing to do with total war . all u are doing is bloody going from 1 town to a village to a city keepin the populus happy every 2-3 hours u mite if u are lucky have a battle and thats if u havent fallen asleep first waiting for the computer to sift thru all the crap,

By: Calistas

Calistas — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 22:37:58 +0000

Had it for nearly 24 hours. Can’t get past “server busy”. It’s going back to the store on Monday unless I see it work soon.

By: Fumarole

Fumarole — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:12:12 +0000

Anyone else wander over to the Steam forums for Empire? It really makes me fear for humanity’s future.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:52:44 +0000

Never mind. After a few goes at deleting and reinstalling, it seems to be installing from the disc now.

By: Ginger Yellow

Ginger Yellow — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:42:46 +0000

OK, this may be a stupid question.

My boxed copy arrived today. I’ve just started installing it. When I entered my activation code and OKed the install, it processed that for a while and then said that the Steam servers were busy. But E:TW is now in My Games, and is updating. But at 600k a second for several minutes, it’s still at 0%. Is it supposed to be doing this? My question is, is it trying to download the whole 15GB game, or just a smaller, but big update? Should I delete and try to reinstall from the DVD?

Also, 15GB!!!!

By: aufi

aufi — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:45:55 +0000

thank you Doc!

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:27:02 +0000

Why is the demo not available in Japan? I really wanted to try this out, and now I’m started to turn green and go into AIM mode. Where is my f*cking game? The game is going on sale from the 5th evidently, but I still can’t play the demo? WTF?

By: Mad Doc MacRae

Mad Doc MacRae — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:58:44 +0000

Got a transcript here:

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=113622

Blackguard asks: Can you tell us anything about multiplayer campaign mode which we hear is in the works?

Kieran Brigden: The multiplayer campaign mode will be a post release feature of Empire Total War. We are going to release it as a beta shortly after the game’s come out. The campaign mode allows two friends (or mortal enemies) to play against one another and the AI through the Grand Campaign mode. Players will be given the option of fighting every battle as the enemy, meaning whoever your friend fights wherever in the world it will always be the two of involved in a deathmatch. It’s an awesome new feature and one we’ve been keen to do for a while. The basic code is there, now we’re getting the rest sorted!

By: aufi

aufi — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:27:49 +0000

were there any further details regarding the co-op patch? i managed to miss the dev chat.

By: Mad Doc MacRae

Mad Doc MacRae — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:27:27 +0000

Yeah, I was a little short with my answer to you A-Scale, for which I apologize. It’s possible that there were more units than I remember capable of platoon-firing in the demo. But the line units of both sides are not capable.

By: A-Scale

A-Scale — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:13:58 +0000

Unless you’re talking about the demo, in which case you’re simply wrong. There was maybe one unit in the demo that can platoon fire (without modding; it’s pretty easy to mod it so that all units can platoon fire).

I am indeed. Both the Americans and the Spanish had 2+ rows of soldiers firing at once, where as mine did not. Thanks for the answer chaps! I do think I’ll be buying this one.

By: Seraphim2150

Seraphim2150 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:42:56 +0000

Empire’s looking really good. Hopefully my copy will turn up tomorrow.

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