Also they explained how the rituals work, basicly your biggest 3 citys are attacked by chaos forces, and if you lose one of the citys to chaos the ritual is over and you have to begin again, but when you win you get a bonuswide map, and the Dark Elves get as a bonus: Black Arks, who will act as Mobile Citys on the Sea.
I absolutely cannot wait to finally download this game and jump into the campaign map with Queek and Malekith. The only thing I'm looking forward to more than that is the videos Indy will be making with Total War Warhammer 2. His commentary, knowledge of the lore and superb narration on the events in his battles and campaigns is the reason I watch his channel over any and all others that deal with this game. I'm very excited for this game to finally release. More excited than I've been for anything in a long time. Keep up with the great content Indy. I'm always excited to see more.
It sure was strange watching high elves glowing green, exploding for no reason and hilariously run away from nothing. Did the dark elves drug them all or something?
You said you can increase the amount of summons by investing more food. If you don't use the summons does the food you invested still go away or is that food consumed each time you actually cast a summon?
The more food you have, the more you can summon as far as i know. That means, if you have low food for example ( on the campaign map ), you can only summon one additional unit. If you have good numbers of food you can summon three additional units. And if you have ridiculous amounts of food you can summon five units. I don't think you will lose food if you summon a unit. Of course the numbers i pulled out of my ass, but thats how i understand it.
If you got the food back, there would be literally no point in committing food up front, since the only correct play would be to invest all of your food every battle. However, it looks like you DO carry over the summons from battle to battle, so the food isn't really lost if you don't use it in that battle, you just can't turn it back into food.
I can hardy wait... With the way the old lore map of the Warhammer world looks like; I really want to know what the badlands look like now, since it should to be right next to the Lands of the Dead and the Coasts of Araby should be right next to Tilea. Not that I'd have a problem with it, but I really want to know!
I hope that the menace below mechanic is a little more fleshed out on launch. It sounds really cool, but I'd like to trade in those points for other advantages as well. Maybe different units that cost more/less food, or the ability to retreat a unit instantly for later deployment?
I'm really glad that Skaven has finally been rendered beautifully in a game but I'm kinda sad to see that they haven't made the underground map for the Skavens. That would have been really interesting, trying to gain the upper hand against the other clans or trying to gather them against the surface races. Would have been interesting to attack settlements from below too, as sieging cities from the surface is pretty unusual for a vicious and tricky race as the rat-men. That would have helped to make the Night Goblins closer to the lore too, especially for Skarsnik and the Battle for Karak Height Peaks between Belegar, Skarsnik and Queek. Still hope that they'll add that at some point.
They ain't gonna add it, but yeah, a map of the underworld, where Skavens, greenskins and dwarves could move around (a la heroes of might and magic) would have been awesome.
I'd forgotten about that, that would have been really cool. I sorta wish you could always do it to be honest, or maybe just the evil factions (though they tend to suck at ranged anyway in 1)
people have to understand it'd be so hard to balance, and a lot of people wouldn't have fun with that kind of a mechanic, i LOVE skaven, but im not like upset about that specific mechanic not being a thing
Given that Khemri is already on the map, Tomb Kings seem likely as DLC or FreeLC for the 2nd game. From a marketing standpoint, it makes far more sense to have them in the third game (IMO), but geographically it doesn't make sense
4 chaos armies! Damn that sounds pretty good. I really wish they wouldn't have released chaos as a DLC at first launch. The epic arrival of chaos and archaon in the 3rd and final game would have been so satisfying.
I'm super disappointed that Jezzails and Ratling Guns are missing from all the footage I've seen so far, as well as assassins. Apart from those, I'm pretty happy with what they did include. Verminlords would be awesome, but I never expected them from the company that still refuses to give us Doombulls.
I get that Skaven can apparently only occupy ruins, but what I am more curious about is how/if they implement under-cities. The skaven have several cities under inhabited cities in the Old World like Altdorf and Middenheim. When the maps are combined, will those cities have special hard to detect skaven settlements that maybe can only be fully built up if the surface city is ruined? I hope they don't just nix that concept.
Not in the Vortex Campaign (New World map), but you can in the combined map where both the Old and New World are included. They've said it will be made available a few weeks following game two's launch.
Unique advisors fuck yeah!! It was hinted in the Skaven campaign intro story cutscene but yeah, the game is perfect now to me. Ignoring the sieges obviously. In another video the old advisor pops up but he's literally a tutorial guy which is totally fine. The story advisor is the respective races and that is what I want. I don't care about the tutorial advisor but story advisor is a big deal. Done with the video and I must say. It looks so damn good. I knew the expansion was gonna be a better game than game 1 but they went so far with this one. It's a fully fledged game. Much more than game 1.
I always thought that the fire graphics in W:TW were on the low end. But seeing them colored GREEN just makes them look even more bizarrely bad. Getting hit with Nickelodeon slime would look more deadly.
does the skaven summon mechanic carry over between battles? i noticed that you had 7 in the first battle then 9 in the second, and gained 2 per food investment.
Also, how do you feel about the skaven having another corruption mechanic? Do you feel it is different enough with the threat below ability that its more than just a reskin?
Also also, the warp fire throwers didn't seem to have much of an effect when hitting your own units. Is friendly fire damage from them negligible? Cause it would be a bit disappointing if so.
Looks like they're getting rid of the old dude walking into whichever home base he wants and setting himself up as the Grand Vizier, huh? Good. More faction-specific stories and perspectives, please.
The crazy old man is still there, I saw him trying to talk in the way skaven speak during one of the in-game campaign videos but I don't remember where
@Aize You can clearly see that they do.. Which is another reason that makes me dislike Total Warhammer. The patch that introduced a healing cap and the "unbinding" trait was the stupidest shit I ever saw CA do.
I had hoped that Queek and his faction would be placed in the mountains with Karak Azul, East of the Badlands. Or at least put him in the Old World, so he can towards Karak Eight-Peaks. The war over that mountain hold isn't well illustrated in the game; and not just because of the missing Skaven. Whenever I play the campaign, and I'm not Skarsnik or Belegar, then the either get wiped out, confederated, or just have no relevance.
Hey indy, can you confirm that warpfire throwers can't fire into your own troops? If so I think the community really needs to let CA know that it is a desired feature to be able to fry your own rats. Also @ 10:08 "BY GAWD THAT ELF HAD A FAMILY!"
Bert Macklin this is the second comment I've seen like this. Do you mean taking friendly fire the same way flaming irondrakes would do or any less accurate ranged weapon or do you guys literally want to target your own men? I'm positive there is still friendly fire damage in this game. But I don't know why they would have a mechanic where I could accidentally target my own men when trying to select enemies.
A common skaven tactic is to pin an enemy down with cheap cannon fodder units such as clanrats or slaves and then fire any and all firepower into that melee. Killing 5 of your own rats is a decent trade if it means killing 1 of your enemies. I don't think you should be able to target your own men, but at least there should be a toggle ability in which ranged units can disregard friendly units that are obstructing their aim. As it is in the game right now friendly fire does happen, but it is mostly due to poor accuracy as your units won't fire if there are friendlies in the way. The skaven wouldn't care if there is anything in the way they would simply fire if it meant killing an enemy.
Somewhat wish the Rat Ogres had darker fur. I don't mind them having that sickly color for Clan Pestilen. But to me I'd rather them have a darker fur color for every other clan.
Yeah I've definitely thought about, CPU is definitely the bottleneck, I just dont know if hundreds of bucks if worth a noticeable but still small improvement in FPS
milkandcookiesTW Up to you. All I'll say is that cpu is 4 years old now and if you do plan / still do play other games and want that high quality, it's about the right time to upgrade Also when the FUCK is the dark elf gameplay going up lol
Does anyone know if game 1 (when it will be combined) will get an update when game 2 comes out so that they're on par with each other and there's no difference in mechanics/quality(i.e. maps, design, uniqueness and so on) etc? Because here it looks kind of new and better and not only because it's a different race. Otherwise i think game 1 will just die out and those "old" factions won't get touched again. For example those Warpfire Throwers just look like Flame Throwers but only about 10x stronger.
4770K aging!? Shieet! Here I'm sitting with my 2700K and rocking a GTX970 and still top most games. And I've never seen FPS drops because of my CPU on moderately optimized games.
killio54321 Sadly it seems neither will be in the game at release. I expect they will be added later though. Hopefully CA might just have asked people not to spoil/show off any unconfirmed units until the full reveal tomorrow. I doubt it though, can't see them not being in the in-game engine reveal trailer (especilly the Gunners) if they're in the game.
Honestly having any amount of skaven weapon teams is still hype. The Warpfire thrower is cool, but I REALLY hope Jezzail teams are still shown tomorrow
Cyce I don't think so no, maybe you're meaning the Warpfire Thrower? Milkandcookies didn't mention it in his trailer breakdown. I'd love you to be right though.
I have an i7 4790k and a 1080ti and i still dip below 60 (not even on all ultra) I think the game is simply unoptimized... hopefully this one is more optimized
i have a i5 6600 k and 1060 6g my friends at store told me last year that i would run all games flawlessly and they were right.. this one on benchmark all on ultra gets to 130 fps, on campaign map 100 and in battles sometimes out of nowhere dips to 20.. so i guess bad optimization as usual from them..lets not even talk about attila
I have 1060 6G as well, I prefer to play maxed out exept unit details/grass/buildings that I have on medium. I hate to set unit details on low because then dead bodies dissapear BUT that improves FPS a lot after mid - late phase of big battles. They should do something with dead bodies, they eat so much FPS! Also that benchmark represents game so badly. I have like double FPS there than in actual game.
I have a 1080 Ti, 7700k, AND a 3440x1440p ultra wide monitor. I literally cannot play the game full screen, 3440x1440p because the frames fall below 35 when a lot of units and action are going down. So I've settled in 1920x1200 in windowed mode to have consistent capped 75 fps. It dips to 50 if a lot of units and action are happening, but that's a lot more manageable that sub 50 FPS. The game seems to be running smooth as butter in scenes that I think my comp would start to lag in, so hopefully they've managed to better optimize the game to be more fluid on already really powerful systems.
WiseOldDudee this is by far the best optimized total war in *years* . I think youre expecting better because you have a high tier graphics card, but this game is way more cpu heavy than gpu heavy. I have a i7-7700k and a gtx 1070 and it runs this game like butter. (1920x1080 hd moniter btw)
you're probably right about me expecting more fps since im used to it (I play on a 1080p just for the high fps and extreme graphics) It's just 45 fps on all ultra in fights for me is "low" which is probably not bad at all for a total war game.
No never been more than 2 except in hotseat campaigns for older games where you have to extract and send save files to the other players. Hotseat can have a lot, but its an absolute pain to manage and play
GTX 980 TI is a damn good graphics card, more than capable of running TW on Ultra. CPU is the biggest bottleneck for Total War games, but I havent tried overclocking it. It is 4 years old at this point. I dont NEED an upgrade honestly, the game runs well. But being able to get smooth 60+ fps with closeups in huge battles would be great
I don't think that there will be much of an improvement moving up a generation (or multiple) when it comes to your CPU. There is not much difference in game performance between say your i7 4770k and the most recent i7 7700k. Even if you were to get a CPU with more than 4 physical cores; the vast majority of games will not benefit - including Total War: Warhammer. An overclock would likely help you though and I'm not sure if an SSD would help performance (it would obviously help load times). But hey, that's just my two cents. Love the videos, keep 'em coming! :)
Archaon lord of the endtimes maybe if they do an end times expansion/dlc. I would definitely pay for end times and other units. It would also be a great opportunity to add missing units from existing factions, like middenland, more beastmen, Ariel as wood elf LL etc.
hahahhahahah no sadly no.... although it's not so broken that you can't win with any force some factions are more equal others... for example ogres is just CHAAAAAARGE where as the tomb kings need a much more delicate hand to use.
The table top was made with fun and painting/modeling in mind over true balance, a regular pub game if you will. Not to say there isn't a want to try and balance... buuut it's hard juggling all the unique armies. Lot of balancing issues with the TT, thanks in part to the way new armies and new rulebook editions are introduced. Sometimes cheesy strats can appear and GW has to put out a FAQ or leave it in for players to abuse. Funnily enough Warhammer Total War is probably a more balanced game than the TT it's based off of.
Really? 1080? I would've expected it to be the newest AMD seeing as they developed TWW1 around AMD. Sort of irrelevant I suppose, but nice to know. oh and THAT MAP LOOKS SOO GOOD. I'm actually getting a bit annoyed, jealous maybe, that TWW2 looks so much better than TWW1.. It seems like they took every improvement idea for game 1 and put it into game 2 - without changing game one. Miners could have had an animation like that to dig out of the ground fx. It was suggested multiple times before the game even came out. Not that I care about miners, fuck the dawi, but.. well it's just annoying. Also, every time something new is shown, WoC looks bleaker and grayer... Where is the Eye of the Gods?? Well, looking forward to game 2.
MilkandcookiesTW, As a total war 2 fan, I have a love/hate relationship with CA, In my opinion I want to see total war wh2 to be good but I fear it might fail due to it not being "new" It looks the same but with a new face, eg new factions and map. yes the interface looks different but if this is to be a "new game" then I feel like they should improve in the faction relationships. the trade, the sieges and how every faction fights and how they can their own way of fighting a different faction. In my opinion CA should take more time into the game and not make yearly made total war games, I really want to see this game be amazing but I can't seem to see it sadly.
All 3 games will be the same. This isn't a new game, it's a game sized standalone expansion. All 3 will be compatible with one another so you can play all factions from all 3 games with each other
Warp lightning cannon is in the game, its in screenshots and the trailer, and the Doomwheel fires periodically, killing models in an area of effect around it. You can see it clearly in my Lord Skrolk gameplay. C'mon, spreading misinformation is not a good look ;P
Already seen the quest battle, now this? Today is a good day
And the dark elves? I am totally on the hype abomination.
Is there a dark elf battle out there somewhere?
Hans Olsen Yeah, inept general posted it i think
Also they explained how the rituals work, basicly your biggest 3 citys are attacked by chaos forces, and if you lose one of the citys to chaos the ritual is over and you have to begin again, but when you win you get a bonuswide map, and the Dark Elves get as a bonus: Black Arks, who will act as Mobile Citys on the Sea.
I absolutely cannot wait to finally download this game and jump into the campaign map with Queek and Malekith. The only thing I'm looking forward to more than that is the videos Indy will be making with Total War Warhammer 2. His commentary, knowledge of the lore and superb narration on the events in his battles and campaigns is the reason I watch his channel over any and all others that deal with this game. I'm very excited for this game to finally release. More excited than I've been for anything in a long time.
Keep up with the great content Indy. I'm always excited to see more.
I like how this voice actor sounds like hes nursing a horrible warpstone addiction.
I hope the rest of the voices are as good as Mark of Chaos.
Love the videos keep em coming Indy! And I hope your channel continues to grow!
Ah, so was this your mysterious "business trip" you went on?
yep ;P
Queek sounds just as deranged as I hoped he would. Mad props to CA's sound and VA team cause what I'm hearing so far sounds brilliant.
best day ever!!! thank you milkandcookies love your vids
You been holding out on us man! >:) Thanks for the video, I cant wait to play these guys.
It sure was strange watching high elves glowing green, exploding for no reason and hilariously run away from nothing.
Did the dark elves drug them all or something?
mikelms20 THE MEME LIVES ON!
mikelms20 THE MEME LIVES ON!
Loved the game play ... Thanks for sharing !!
Loving the way the skaven move! Really gives off a swarmy vibe alongside the large unit sizes.
Those warpfire throwers look nasty!! I cannot wait to see more skaven!
The Warp-Throwers looks amazing!
I can't wait to hear more from you Indy regarding your thoughts and what not from the event! :D
You said you can increase the amount of summons by investing more food. If you don't use the summons does the food you invested still go away or is that food consumed each time you actually cast a summon?
Kristian Smith same question lol
The more food you have, the more you can summon as far as i know.
That means, if you have low food for example ( on the campaign map ), you can only summon one additional unit. If you have good numbers of food you can summon three additional units. And if you have ridiculous amounts of food you can summon five units.
I don't think you will lose food if you summon a unit.
Of course the numbers i pulled out of my ass, but thats how i understand it.
If you got the food back, there would be literally no point in committing food up front, since the only correct play would be to invest all of your food every battle.
However, it looks like you DO carry over the summons from battle to battle, so the food isn't really lost if you don't use it in that battle, you just can't turn it back into food.
We better get a vid on the grand campaign combined map thoughts ASAP
The people WANT TO KNOW!
I can hardy wait... With the way the old lore map of the Warhammer world looks like; I really want to know what the badlands look like now, since it should to be right next to the Lands of the Dead and the Coasts of Araby should be right next to Tilea. Not that I'd have a problem with it, but I really want to know!
that first battle map though! that looks really good!
I think I'm now most excited for this new UI, looking sleek
so the old man isnt the only one advising us now praise CA
I hope that the menace below mechanic is a little more fleshed out on launch. It sounds really cool, but I'd like to trade in those points for other advantages as well. Maybe different units that cost more/less food, or the ability to retreat a unit instantly for later deployment?
Can't wait for some dark elves content
Keep up the great content
Just by seeing the warp thrower, it can shoot over your troops. I really hope they change the dawi flame throwers to do the same.
Jazz Funk I don't think the warpfire thrower should go over your troops.
But they do... so... that's a mute point
I'm really glad that Skaven has finally been rendered beautifully in a game but I'm kinda sad to see that they haven't made the underground map for the Skavens. That would have been really interesting, trying to gain the upper hand against the other clans or trying to gather them against the surface races. Would have been interesting to attack settlements from below too, as sieging cities from the surface is pretty unusual for a vicious and tricky race as the rat-men. That would have helped to make the Night Goblins closer to the lore too, especially for Skarsnik and the Battle for Karak Height Peaks between Belegar, Skarsnik and Queek.
Still hope that they'll add that at some point.
They ain't gonna add it, but yeah, a map of the underworld, where Skavens, greenskins and dwarves could move around (a la heroes of might and magic) would have been awesome.
Queek have just snort an entire mountain of warpstone
No! subcriptions apocalypse has begun!
the great book of grudges Yeah, they are exploding
Dont you mean YES YES
milkandcookiesTW Do you know why these beastmen look so weird?
milkandcookiesTW i dont like sugar and extacy because you would became... race that doesnt exist.
It kinda sucks that you can't fire into your own units
Yeah these are Skaven not Dwarfs if some of your units are in the way they should they horrible
I'd forgotten about that, that would have been really cool. I sorta wish you could always do it to be honest, or maybe just the evil factions (though they tend to suck at ranged anyway in 1)
GlamdringandOrcrist I agree
people have to understand it'd be so hard to balance, and a lot of people wouldn't have fun with that kind of a mechanic, i LOVE skaven, but im not like upset about that specific mechanic not being a thing
GlamdringandOrcrist 6:20 the fire throwers kills some friendly units so...there you go!
I like the way you talk about the game and you get me hyped evry singel time ;))
Lol glad to hear it :)
milkandcookiesTW -- its true keep up the good work 🙋🙋
Wait, so, what unit size were you playing on, again? (Still watching), because units of 160 clan rats sound tiny
I was wondering about your 'business trip' when you mentioned it in the other video... well, mystery solved
God i cant wait!!! I allrdy completed norska with both lords! Give it now plz :)
Queek sounds like Peter Lorre, it's so great.
Can you make a video at some point on what warhammer 3 will be like? Do they even have enough factions left to flesh out for a 3rd game?
Chaos Dwarfs, Chaos Demons, Ogre Kingdoms +1 for the base races. Possibly Cathay or Ind?
In any case it will be to the east of the Old World map.
Tomb Kings
Given that Khemri is already on the map, Tomb Kings seem likely as DLC or FreeLC for the 2nd game.
From a marketing standpoint, it makes far more sense to have them in the third game (IMO), but geographically it doesn't make sense
If the leak continues to stay pretty accurate to what CA has released so far, game 3 will be a divided chaos. 4 chaos armies, 1 for each chaos god.
4 chaos armies! Damn that sounds pretty good. I really wish they wouldn't have released chaos as a DLC at first launch. The epic arrival of chaos and archaon in the 3rd and final game would have been so satisfying.
I'm super disappointed that Jezzails and Ratling Guns are missing from all the footage I've seen so far, as well as assassins.
Apart from those, I'm pretty happy with what they did include. Verminlords would be awesome, but I never expected them from the company that still refuses to give us Doombulls.
I get that Skaven can apparently only occupy ruins, but what I am more curious about is how/if they implement under-cities. The skaven have several cities under inhabited cities in the Old World like Altdorf and Middenheim. When the maps are combined, will those cities have special hard to detect skaven settlements that maybe can only be fully built up if the surface city is ruined? I hope they don't just nix that concept.
Will you be able to play the races from the first game in the campaign as well?
Not in the Vortex Campaign (New World map), but you can in the combined map where both the Old and New World are included. They've said it will be made available a few weeks following game two's launch.
Joakim Ängehult Sounds good! Cheers :l
Unique advisors fuck yeah!! It was hinted in the Skaven campaign intro story cutscene but yeah, the game is perfect now to me. Ignoring the sieges obviously. In another video the old advisor pops up but he's literally a tutorial guy which is totally fine. The story advisor is the respective races and that is what I want. I don't care about the tutorial advisor but story advisor is a big deal.
Done with the video and I must say. It looks so damn good. I knew the expansion was gonna be a better game than game 1 but they went so far with this one. It's a fully fledged game. Much more than game 1.
Based on the polygon campaign gameplay it looks like the old man still makes a few appearances unfortunately.
I'm sure the community will put out some amazing siege maps.
Wooo!!! Skaven!
the campaign and battle maps look fucking amazing.
What kinda pc do you have, just cuz im building a new one and just want to know if it will run tww as good as yours
Love Queek Headtaker's Laugh
lol yeah its good
I always thought that the fire graphics in W:TW were on the low end. But seeing them colored GREEN just makes them look even more bizarrely bad. Getting hit with Nickelodeon slime would look more deadly.
I can't be the only one that wished that the warpfire thrower unit size was smaller but each thrower was more powerful.
STOP MY HEART CANT TAKE THIS PLEASE STOP!!!!
does the skaven summon mechanic carry over between battles?
i noticed that you had 7 in the first battle then 9 in the second, and gained 2 per food investment.
Also, how do you feel about the skaven having another corruption mechanic? Do you feel it is different enough with the threat below ability that its more than just a reskin?
Also also, the warp fire throwers didn't seem to have much of an effect when hitting your own units. Is friendly fire damage from them negligible? Cause it would be a bit disappointing if so.
Know what I'm REALLY hype for?
The Steel Faith version of game two.
Me too!
Those warpfire throwers are OP as fuck xD
With all that Skaven teasing I am suprised they are not hidden behind first day DLC.
any ratling gunners, or any of there unique long range gunners? or is it the globe throwers and flame throwers only for the unique?
'The dooooom engineer looks like an absolute blast"? Shame on you Indy! JK I already know I'm gonna call a plague priest "Rat-A-Gooey"
Attacking from below seems a very powerful ability. What other army has a great special ability like this?
Nice voice acting
i have a i7 and 1070 graphics card and total war hammer plays amazingly
Looks like they're getting rid of the old dude walking into whichever home base he wants and setting himself up as the Grand Vizier, huh?
Good. More faction-specific stories and perspectives, please.
The crazy old man is still there, I saw him trying to talk in the way skaven speak during one of the in-game campaign videos but I don't remember where
I'm actually undecided as to whether that's bad- because he's back- or good, because, well, skaven-speak.
How is the Menace Below different from Raise Dead?
menace below units don't decay.
Yes they do.
@Aize You can clearly see that they do.. Which is another reason that makes me dislike Total Warhammer. The patch that introduced a healing cap and the "unbinding" trait was the stupidest shit I ever saw CA do.
I had hoped that Queek and his faction would be placed in the mountains with Karak Azul, East of the Badlands. Or at least put him in the Old World, so he can towards Karak Eight-Peaks. The war over that mountain hold isn't well illustrated in the game; and not just because of the missing Skaven. Whenever I play the campaign, and I'm not Skarsnik or Belegar, then the either get wiped out, confederated, or just have no relevance.
can it be that thanqoul (the greyseer dude if i spelled it wrong) and skavenblight are the free dlc you get with warhammer 2?
Hey indy, can you confirm that warpfire throwers can't fire into your own troops? If so I think the community really needs to let CA know that it is a desired feature to be able to fry your own rats.
Also @ 10:08 "BY GAWD THAT ELF HAD A FAMILY!"
6:15 Watch the units in the back they get hit with the warpfire throwers. Does quite a lot of damage them.
Bert Macklin this is the second comment I've seen like this. Do you mean taking friendly fire the same way flaming irondrakes would do or any less accurate ranged weapon or do you guys literally want to target your own men? I'm positive there is still friendly fire damage in this game. But I don't know why they would have a mechanic where I could accidentally target my own men when trying to select enemies.
A common skaven tactic is to pin an enemy down with cheap cannon fodder units such as clanrats or slaves and then fire any and all firepower into that melee. Killing 5 of your own rats is a decent trade if it means killing 1 of your enemies. I don't think you should be able to target your own men, but at least there should be a toggle ability in which ranged units can disregard friendly units that are obstructing their aim. As it is in the game right now friendly fire does happen, but it is mostly due to poor accuracy as your units won't fire if there are friendlies in the way. The skaven wouldn't care if there is anything in the way they would simply fire if it meant killing an enemy.
I like the UI
Somewhat wish the Rat Ogres had darker fur. I don't mind them having that sickly color for Clan Pestilen. But to me I'd rather them have a darker fur color for every other clan.
still haven't seen ratling gunners or warplock jezzails, i'm pretty worried they won't be added.
The old man finally gone.
nah he's still in
Awesome - is it just me or does it look like warpfire throwers are the uber-unit for the Skaven? Surprised their unit size is quite that large.
I think that's the case with a lot of special units, such as firedrakes, dwarven torpedooers etc.
4:53 Cult of Pleasure
Total war is actually pretty heavy on CPUs, so it might not be a bad idea to get that new fancy i7
Yeah I've definitely thought about, CPU is definitely the bottleneck, I just dont know if hundreds of bucks if worth a noticeable but still small improvement in FPS
milkandcookiesTW Up to you. All I'll say is that cpu is 4 years old now and if you do plan / still do play other games and want that high quality, it's about the right time to upgrade Also when the FUCK is the dark elf gameplay going up lol
Does anyone know if game 1 (when it will be combined) will get an update when game 2 comes out so that they're on par with each other and there's no difference in mechanics/quality(i.e. maps, design, uniqueness and so on) etc? Because here it looks kind of new and better and not only because it's a different race. Otherwise i think game 1 will just die out and those "old" factions won't get touched again. For example those Warpfire Throwers just look like Flame Throwers but only about 10x stronger.
4770K aging!? Shieet! Here I'm sitting with my 2700K and rocking a GTX970 and still top most games. And I've never seen FPS drops because of my CPU on moderately optimized games.
What were the specs of the computer and the monitor that this was played on?
1080 was the GPU, thats pretty much all I know unfortunately
*Waiting for ratling guns intensifies*
Love the new Settlement Map, hell yes ! Maps is where Warhammer 1 Lost most of its flavor, for me, unfortunatley.
Say, IndyPride, are you planning to do a Skaven Campaign series?
I've been thinking about it, not sure yet!
Didn't show the Ratling gunners or the warplock jezzails :(
killio54321 Sadly it seems neither will be in the game at release. I expect they will be added later though.
Hopefully CA might just have asked people not to spoil/show off any unconfirmed units until the full reveal tomorrow. I doubt it though, can't see them not being in the in-game engine reveal trailer (especilly the Gunners) if they're in the game.
I do believe the ratling gunner was in the trailer wasn't it?
Honestly having any amount of skaven weapon teams is still hype. The Warpfire thrower is cool, but I REALLY hope Jezzail teams are still shown tomorrow
Cyce I don't think so no, maybe you're meaning the Warpfire Thrower? Milkandcookies didn't mention it in his trailer breakdown. I'd love you to be right though.
Where is intro? this little movie? :(
BUT I LOVE THEM RATS :)))))))))
Elf things.
Vega 56 and Ryzen 1600x are the two best price performance parts you can get for warhammer total war
Merc full hd ultra settings would be easy. But it isnt really worth to change the cpu. Maybe 6 fps difference
YESYES
I have an i7 4790k and a 1080ti and i still dip below 60 (not even on all ultra) I think the game is simply unoptimized... hopefully this one is more optimized
i have a i5 6600 k and 1060 6g my friends at store told me last year that i would run all games flawlessly and they were right.. this one on benchmark all on ultra gets to 130 fps, on campaign map 100 and in battles sometimes out of nowhere dips to 20.. so i guess bad optimization as usual from them..lets not even talk about attila
I have 1060 6G as well, I prefer to play maxed out exept unit details/grass/buildings that I have on medium. I hate to set unit details on low because then dead bodies dissapear BUT that improves FPS a lot after mid - late phase of big battles. They should do something with dead bodies, they eat so much FPS!
Also that benchmark represents game so badly. I have like double FPS there than in actual game.
I have a 1080 Ti, 7700k, AND a 3440x1440p ultra wide monitor. I literally cannot play the game full screen, 3440x1440p because the frames fall below 35 when a lot of units and action are going down. So I've settled in 1920x1200 in windowed mode to have consistent capped 75 fps. It dips to 50 if a lot of units and action are happening, but that's a lot more manageable that sub 50 FPS. The game seems to be running smooth as butter in scenes that I think my comp would start to lag in, so hopefully they've managed to better optimize the game to be more fluid on already really powerful systems.
WiseOldDudee this is by far the best optimized total war in *years* . I think youre expecting better because you have a high tier graphics card, but this game is way more cpu heavy than gpu heavy. I have a i7-7700k and a gtx 1070 and it runs this game like butter. (1920x1080 hd moniter btw)
you're probably right about me expecting more fps since im used to it (I play on a 1080p just for the high fps and extreme graphics) It's just 45 fps on all ultra in fights for me is "low" which is probably not bad at all for a total war game.
Has the total war series ever had more than two people on the campaign map like civ u can have 8 or more I think ?
No never been more than 2 except in hotseat campaigns for older games where you have to extract and send save files to the other players. Hotseat can have a lot, but its an absolute pain to manage and play
milkandcookiesTW mhmm I hope in the future they add where u can add more players cz that will be fun asf but weird in a battle way
I got one question.
What the hell's a Death Runner?
Would a i7 6700K, gtx 980, 8gb ram be good to run this game on high 60fps?
It would run the game well I think yes, might still dip below 60 fps on close ups not sure
milkandcookiesTW I hope game 2 is better optimized I've read a lot of other people with high-end intel/nvida builds still struggle in performance.
milkandcookiesTW I have great performance with my gtx 970 and high settings
+Andrew You can only hope when it's about nVidia nowdays. I've heard the game is well optimized but we'll have to see when it launches.
no ratling gunners?
I love you Indy
Sweet
Your CPU should be fine :p Might want to look at your GPU instead :)
GTX 980 TI is a damn good graphics card, more than capable of running TW on Ultra. CPU is the biggest bottleneck for Total War games, but I havent tried overclocking it. It is 4 years old at this point. I dont NEED an upgrade honestly, the game runs well. But being able to get smooth 60+ fps with closeups in huge battles would be great
I don't think that there will be much of an improvement moving up a generation (or multiple) when it comes to your CPU. There is not much difference in game performance between say your i7 4770k and the most recent i7 7700k.
Even if you were to get a CPU with more than 4 physical cores; the vast majority of games will not benefit - including Total War: Warhammer.
An overclock would likely help you though and I'm not sure if an SSD would help performance (it would obviously help load times).
But hey, that's just my two cents. Love the videos, keep 'em coming! :)
Hello
Can we know you'r pc config plz ?
Qweek is OP!!!
I just want warplock jezzails lol
10:35 HE SAW THE GRAND CAMPAIGN. info please man-thing
I gotta say, after Mordheim, the Skaven in TW:W sound kinda lame. Still pumped to play them though.
But doesn't Skaven corruption give away the fact that the nearby ruin is actually a Skaven settlement?
Perhaps? but it doesn't reveal the units inside it, so you'd have to respect or consider that before trying to settle the ruins.
I7 4770k is still a good processor, you sound like you need a better vid card and the ssd will improve a lot.
Oh thank god they don't have the old man as the advisor for them. That was getting old.
Verminlords?
The skaven r a good faction
I know storm fiends are a Endtime unit but they are still my favorite skaven unit and I'm gonna be pised of if they are not in the game
Archaon lord of the endtimes maybe if they do an end times expansion/dlc. I would definitely pay for end times and other units. It would also be a great opportunity to add missing units from existing factions, like middenland, more beastmen, Ariel as wood elf LL etc.
Richard Round that's actually a pretty good idea
There's no way they make it into the base game
Archaon lord of the endtimes heavens they are beautiful
If game sells well, everything is possible. End Times was total bullshit but it could bring a bit more of unit variety.
this game should really be in e-sport ;)
Nanokan no it shouldnt. Every race getting similiar to the others just to balance it
Disagree, you can have balanced faction with different feel, that is how tabletop works right?
hahahhahahah no sadly no.... although it's not so broken that you can't win with any force some factions are more equal others... for example ogres is just CHAAAAAARGE where as the tomb kings need a much more delicate hand to use.
The table top was made with fun and painting/modeling in mind over true balance, a regular pub game if you will. Not to say there isn't a want to try and balance... buuut it's hard juggling all the unique armies. Lot of balancing issues with the TT, thanks in part to the way new armies and new rulebook editions are introduced. Sometimes cheesy strats can appear and GW has to put out a FAQ or leave it in for players to abuse.
Funnily enough Warhammer Total War is probably a more balanced game than the TT it's based off of.
Look up Time Commanders. It's a Rome Total War game show
Really? 1080? I would've expected it to be the newest AMD seeing as they developed TWW1 around AMD. Sort of irrelevant I suppose, but nice to know. oh and THAT MAP LOOKS SOO GOOD.
I'm actually getting a bit annoyed, jealous maybe, that TWW2 looks so much better than TWW1.. It seems like they took every improvement idea for game 1 and put it into game 2 - without changing game one. Miners could have had an animation like that to dig out of the ground fx. It was suggested multiple times before the game even came out. Not that I care about miners, fuck the dawi, but.. well it's just annoying.
Also, every time something new is shown, WoC looks bleaker and grayer... Where is the Eye of the Gods??
Well, looking forward to game 2.
sejemandhaha "fuck the dawi"
That's going in the book.
12undeadz until Game 3 Comes out.
MilkandcookiesTW, As a total war 2 fan, I have a love/hate relationship with CA, In my opinion I want to see total war wh2 to be good but I fear it might fail due to it not being "new" It looks the same but with a new face, eg new factions and map. yes the interface looks different but if this is to be a "new game" then I feel like they should improve in the faction relationships. the trade, the sieges and how every faction fights and how they can their own way of fighting a different faction. In my opinion CA should take more time into the game and not make yearly made total war games, I really want to see this game be amazing but I can't seem to see it sadly.
All 3 games will be the same. This isn't a new game, it's a game sized standalone expansion. All 3 will be compatible with one another so you can play all factions from all 3 games with each other
I swear to god. Just one weapon team, no jezails, no cannon and the doomwheel is not firing. They better be there tomorrow.
Warp lightning cannon is in the game, its in screenshots and the trailer, and the Doomwheel fires periodically, killing models in an area of effect around it. You can see it clearly in my Lord Skrolk gameplay. C'mon, spreading misinformation is not a good look ;P
my bad on the cannon and on the doomwheel; i didn' know about that video :(
well then let's see the roster today and hope for more weapon teams then
Since we got a quick their should be a mini campaign if sorts where him belegar and skarsink fight in a 3 way war for the eight peaks under ground