Patch 1.5 in BETA Today

Joey CA

Hi Everyone,

We have taken the decision to move back Patch 2 slightly to increase the amount of fixes included in it. We will have more news on it later this week.

Before then, Patch 1.5 will release which contains one important fix.

Patch 1.5 will enter public BETA testing today. It will not automatically update your game at this time, you can download it should you wish to participate in the BETA test by following the instructions below:

Patch 1.5 Contains one fix:
- Should improve Campaign Map frame rate in the majority of cases for those people with high-end graphics cards combined with mid-range CPUs. Those people who have noted high frame rates in battle but single-figure frame rates during Campaign Map play should see a notable increase in performance.
EDIT: In order for these changes to come into effect you must start a new campaign.

If you’d like to use it rather than wait for the official hotfix:

In your steam game library, right click Total War: Rome II. Then choose Properties and select the BETAS tab. Finally select “patch1.5” from the drop down list.

Please do be aware that this may not work or solve your specific issue and you take part in any beta tests at your own risk. If you do not wish to assume that risk please wait for the official live update.

MurkyAssassin

What about Battle lag fix?

Maximus Thrax

let's see when i get past the 91%

LoolPoop

So does Patch 2 come in friday?

Murry

Thx for the quick fix, i'll check it out as soon as possible.

Sharp.cl

Thank you. Go Rome 2!

Sheep

Or somthing to speed up the waiting between Turns?

AndersonBLUE

I won't be playing until the turn times have been acceptably decreased in load times.

Fitzpatrick

To CA are your patches focused on performence and removing bugs? Or removing unneeded content like destroying enemy gates with fire etc?

Fabiano1979

Sheep wrote: »

Or somthing to speed up the waiting between Turns?

This

Spionkop1

ta joey

Cracked shield

Is it save game compatible?

DreadedNorwegian

Is that the only thing you are fixing in this patch?

Hellhammer

How about fixing the end turn crash?

Theta Sigma

I do find it strange that this patch addresses one specific performance problem, but doesn't even touch on the relatively simply, straight-up bugs that have been reported all the last week:

- Testudo formation not working/increasing incoming missile damage
- Fleets/armies clipping and getting stuck
- Inability to attack blockaded settlements with land armies
- the list goes on
- and on
- and on


One would think that these very straightforward gameplay bugs would be on a big list in the office, and ticked off one at a time, and could be therefore disposed of in a few hours as they're reported. Instead, a patch that just solves one particular performance issue?


Seems utterly peculiar to me.

Indalus

Vastator wrote: »

1.5? WTF name is this?

CA, hire a better "patch name" guy.

Really, what's the problem with 1.5? Decimals are used everywhere in numbers and patches for other games and mods use it too, like Stainless Steel 6.4.

greenman

I think we can expect something substantial in the actual patch, Path 1.5 is very misleading, it's very much a hotfix.

Dalamarth

Fitzpatrick wrote: »

To CA are your patches focused on performence and removing bugs? Or removing unneeded content like destroying enemy gates with fire etc?

Quite obviously the former, until that is resolved.

Priorities, man.

{Legio-II}-Artorius

Great, still no AI fix. Its not like the AI is the main grievance right now.

Indalus

Theta Sigma wrote: »

I do find it strange that this patch addresses one specific performance problem, but doesn't even touch on the relatively simply, straight-up bugs that have been reported all the last week:

- Testudo formation not working/increasing incoming missile damage
- Fleets/armies clipping and getting stuck
- Inability to attack blockaded settlements with land armies
- the list goes on
- and on
- and on


One would think that these very straightforward gameplay bugs would be on a big list in the office, and ticked off one at a time, and could be therefore disposed of in a few hours as they're reported. Instead, a patch that just solves one particular performance issue?


Seems utterly peculiar to me.

This is sort of a hotfix for people who are having problems with the technical aspect of the game, the above fixes would probably be more suited for a full patch than a hotfix like this.

Joey CA

The patches will keep coming so the issues you are facing will get addressed. We're doing that as fast as we can and I'm going to get as much information as possible, so bare with me

AA43560

If this is really the rate and kind of fixes we can expect from your "patches", then you guys are in a lot of trouble.

timothy1

Im going to test it now i hope PC does not explode

Rewinged

Thank you so much for this patch. I personally get acceptable frame rates on the campaign map but I'm sure this will help a lot of people. Keep up the hard work

Demongunner

And the haters just keep on hating. Read the guys OP ffs. Grow up.

krunsh

It's not the same people working on AI and on performance (And other aspects of the game.). They could have waited for the full patch before releasing anything, but they choose to push this small fix in right away since it was ready.

No point in asking more or complaining about the lacks of things in it. It doesn't mean that priorities are in the wrong place. It means that it's simply not ready.

It's called 1.5 because it's not quite patch 2, simple enough no?

Izay

Yeah, the patch didn't do jack. I still get spikes down to 14 FPS whenever I click on an agent and with a 680 coupled with a 4.7GHz 2500K I'm still forced to set unit detail and shadows to high to even get 20FPS in a melee...

Carfax

AA43560 wrote: »

If this is really the rate and kind of fixes we can expect from your "patches", then you guys are in a lot of trouble.

Yup, this.

Not to mention, the "fix" is so nondescript it's hilarious.

What's a mid-range CPU to you? A Haswell chip?

Theta Sigma

Joey CA wrote: »

The patches will keep coming so the issues you are facing will get addressed. We're doing that as fast as we can and I'm going to get as much information as possible, so bare with me

I think for the sake of everyone wondering, could you perhaps confirm what was said above - that patch 1.5 is pretty much a performance hotfix, and not representative of Patch 2 in terms of bug-fixing and any possible changes that might be coming this week or next?

It makes sense that this performance fix would be beta-tested quite early on, but the worry is that the huge list of pretty simple bugs is just not being addressed; whereas I suspect (and hope) that things as simple as 'testudo doesn't work' are on the list to be done for the actual patch later in the week.


I'd expect addressing gameplay issues and community discontent is secondary to getting bugs and technical things sorted out - but people are also very eager to here about certain very displeasing things, such as the 'torching gates', 'fast battles' and even things like the post-processing effects that seem to have appeared since older previews of the game, so I hope we can get some news at least on the broad direction soon.

ironman3112

Joey CA wrote: »

The patches will keep coming so the issues you are facing will get addressed. We're doing that as fast as we can and I'm going to get as much information as possible, so bare with me

Will these patches address gameplay issues soon or just mainly bugs? By gameplay issues I mean dynamite torches that destroy metal gates making siege equipment useless, Cataphracts losing to barbarian noble horseman (balance issues), transport fleets beating regular fleets unless auto resolved etc etc.

Demongunner

if you read his original post you would quite clearly see he said that.