They even appear to know how to use siege equipment now. No embarrassing beach soldier conventions where the AI just unloads its ships onto a shoreline and then leaves them there. No more standing units around doing nothing while I pepper them with missile weapons. The most important thing I can say about the battles in Rome 2: Emperor Edition is that I’ve seen the AI do far, far fewer idiotic things. The initial campaign load time is still pretty lengthy. AI turn times, I’m happy to say, now seem absolutely fine and pass in a handful of seconds. One particularly hectic siege assault involving multiple factions did drag me down into the single digits though. With the majority of settings on “very high” or equivalent, I had some minimal slow-downs on the campaign map and the odd stutter during battles. Other people have reported a slight performance degradation during the Patch 15 beta, which is hopefully just a symptom of it being a beta version. It’s difficult to get a universal sense of across-the-board PC performance when I’m just a sample size of one person, but my i3-2100/8GB/2GB 7870 set up has seen significant frame-rate gains across the last few months of the patching process. Terrible frame-rates on the campaign map and in battles, with the added bonus of some absolutely horrendous AI turn time calculations.Ĭreative Assembly have been steadily making improvements in all of these areas, and around the time of the Hannibal at the Gates expansion performance was feeling fairly reasonable at my end. Plus, Pontus are the only faction who can pull off patterned yellow outfits with any style.Īs people will know, Rome 2 had serious performance issues on launch. Pontus’ starting position puts them close to some Hellenic cultural chums in the form of Pergamon, the Greek States and so on, as well as next door to some immediate (Cappadocia) and potential enemies (those eternally bloated Seleucids.) Quite a handy starting point for testing the new battle, AI, diplomacy and building chain changes. Throughout the weekend I’ve been pushing my way through a Pontus campaign in the beta version of Patch 15. Will it be Celtic shields or Pontus uniforms to emerge triumphant in this deadly clash of fashion?

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