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That's right - today is Wednesday-Newsday! Surprise! Forget Tuesday, Wednesday is where it's at now, and do we have a lot of news for you? Yes. Yes we do.
First up - we announced a patch. You've been asking for it, and here it is. We mentioned some of the things involved in it during the livestream, but if you missed that and wanted to hear it again, here are some highlights: five new battle maps in multiplayer, unit rebalancing across the Old World, sieging against the AI will be harder, agents will be nerfed somewhat and... Blood Knights are coming. They're on their way.
The patch + Free-LC is out at 2PM BST on 30 June 2016.
And the second thing is another thing you've been asking for - DX12. This is an opt-in beta that will be available to try in game. Our work on DX12 is ongoing and there are some outstanding issues still to solve, so we’re keeping it as a beta feature for now.
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So according to the list dx12 isn't compatible with the NVIDIA 980ti?? The fix is in I guess, very bad business practices to collude with AMD to sabotage NVIDIA users. Shame on you CA, I will not switch to AMD.
Also, you didn't even list the patch build number. How are we supposed to know if it downloaded.
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So according to the list dx12 isn't compatible with the NVIDIA 980ti?? The fix is in I guess, very bad business practices to collude with AMD to sabotage NVIDIA users. Shame on you CA, I will not switch to AMD.
According to the Wiki this is not really CA's fault.
"In readiness for DX12, AMD have been building Async Compute functionality into their GPUs for quite some time now, including the new RX480. This means that, while some earlier-gen NVIDIA cards are technically DX12 compatible, you’ll see more DX11-to-DX12 performance gains across a greater range of AMD cards, as they get the benefit of Async Compute and therefore parallelize tasks better."
So does the DX12 patch run on NVIDIA cards or not? The patch notes only say that they don't support Asynch Compute. But that's not identical to saying that they don't work with the DX12 patch.
Since DX12 also has much better multi-threading support for draw calls which should help performance in certain CPU limited situations I would be nice to run the DX12 patch with NVIDIA cards as well, even without Asynch.
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If what balancing I've seen here is the shape of things to come - this will be the worst balanced Total War game to date.
Very poor work. Unbelievable in fact.
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If what balancing I've seen here is the shape of things to come - this will be the worst balanced Total War game to date.
Very poor work. Unbelievable in fact.
care to give an example?
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Under Campaign Changes it says: "Character experience is no longer awarded for sacking a settlement."
Does that mean a general will never gain experience if he sacks a settlement, not even from fighting the garrison? Or was there simply an experience bonus after fighting the garrison for also sacking the settlement that was thusly removed?
Under Campaign Changes it says: "Character experience is no longer awarded for sacking a settlement."
Does that mean a general will never gain experience if he sacks a settlement, not even from fighting the garrison? Or was there simply an experience bonus after fighting the garrison for also sacking the settlement that was thusly removed?
he should still get the battle experience and the normal "in charge of" tick but, as you say, no bonus exp for sacking
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Great update! Little miffed about being shafted on DX12 being a 980ti owner (Not exactly going to go out and buy an AMD card just because lol DX12), but the rest is grand.
Great update! Little miffed about being shafted on DX12 being a 980ti owner (Not exactly going to go out and buy an AMD card just because lol DX12), but the rest is grand.
980TI is supported for DX12. It's just that they can't do Asynch Compute but that's a NVIDIA GPU architectural problem.
DX12 should still be better, especially in CPU limited situations (e.g. zooming in on a lot of units).
Great update! Little miffed about being shafted on DX12 being a 980ti owner (Not exactly going to go out and buy an AMD card just because lol DX12), but the rest is grand.
You might still gain a performance boost. The Wiki only states a yes/no when talking about Async compute, which is not a feature in many nvidia cards. All cards listed are DX12 compatible.
If what balancing I've seen here is the shape of things to come - this will be the worst balanced Total War game to date.
Very poor work. Unbelievable in fact.
care to give an example?
Invocation of Nehek and increased physical resistance for ethereal units to name one.
Check out this video why this will keep vamps at the top:
Debuff to savage orcs for another.
Also Forasken receiving so much debuffs when they are pretty much the only good thing about Chaos.
EDIT: And just the general fact that all this rebalancing has been done with stat and mechanic changes as opposed to cost changes only.
None of these get tested. It's just guess work. And imo uneducated guess work that goes into this sort of balancing.
Sorry if I sound salty - I've just seen this too often now.
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Under Campaign Changes it says: "Character experience is no longer awarded for sacking a settlement."
Does that mean a general will never gain experience if he sacks a settlement, not even from fighting the garrison? Or was there simply an experience bonus after fighting the garrison for also sacking the settlement that was thusly removed?
he should still get the battle experience and the normal "in charge of" tick but, as you say, no bonus exp for sacking
Ah, thank you for the clarification. I was not aware of that bonus.
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2 · 2LikeCheck out this video why this will keep vamps at the top:
Debuff to savage orcs for another.
Also Forasken receiving so much debuffs when they are pretty much the only good thing about Chaos.
EDIT: And just the general fact that all this rebalancing has been done with stat and mechanic changes as opposed to cost changes only.
None of these get tested. It's just guess work. And imo uneducated guess work that goes into this sort of balancing.
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