Tratto da un post di MagyarKhan sul .Net dove tutti i maggiori clan di Stw e MTW stanno discutendo pregi e difetti della demo.
GOOD
- overal games runs fine concerning performance
- overal graphics/eye candy
- a good unit selection box
- new hotkey system is is more simple
- maps seem much better than in STW/MTW
- different camera options
- spear/javelin throwing seems effective
- great customization of settings (audio/video/controls) (VAST improvement)
- the spatial effects are really really cool, it's great that you hear them louder when the units are closer and fainter when they're away, and that they're also directional (you can tell _where_ that unit is with respect to your position).
- ctrl+1-0 for assigning groups, 1-0 for recalling them
- Total War camera option
NEUTRAL (for now)
- cavalry is highly responsive when moving from or thru enemy unit...
- left right clicking vs old totalwar series
- screenshots with ctr-screen
- speed of wich units-soldiers die in combat
- real effectivity of archers
BAD
- demo tutorial is minimized
- speed of infantry which in tutorial is 60% of cav speed at running, it feels to high
- when grouped and drawing "lines" units stay same spacing as they already are..
- overal mousemovements scroll click speed seems slow and it doesn't have to do with the performance. especially combined with gamespeed and 20 units and veterans Way of Microing Around (WOMA). controls are a bit non-responsive. Faster game speed with slower mouse speed. Ruins any chance of accomplishing any type of counter moves. The zoom-in is useless in an MP match, the zoom-out makes units very difficult to click on or mouse-over for unit status. We thought MTW/VI made it hard to find and click on units once engaged? This game makes it near to impossible.
- no "full" ghosting of units. Only the purple markers
- ugly green backmark of selected unit (luckily this can be disabled)
- javelin throwers still run when on skirmish (that is, b4 they actually get in range). On hold position they seem to function oke (bit of microing).
- somewhat bluury look on units and hard to tell what is what when zooming out
- no fatigue bars
- when using waypoints unit stands still on every new point as if the have to look on compass first where to go...
- irritating game-jump when a general dies....
- unit-info for friendly and enemy units the same
-reports of camera being "jerky" when selecting a unit
- valour better shown as figures, not chevrons
- fatigue should be shown in the unit icons; also ideally as figures/lines
- ability to resize/turn off the HUD and the minimap and the "commands" panel in the lower right corner
- minimap: can we have the option of choosing between arrows and dots as back in MTW ? Too many big arrows together make a mess and you can't tell much from it.
- big ugly pause box; a screenshot with that on it is worthless.
- one unit can't belong to multiple groups (pity, why not ?)
- routing units losing their key assignments
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