Major Empire: Total War Patch Coming Next Week
"There are over 70 bug fixes in this upgrade, plus a tonne of balance and feature tweaks," said Creative Assembly communications director Kieran Brigden in a post on the game's official forums. Amongst many fixes to crashing problems and other issues, the patch will also partially address the naval AI--though Brigden noted that the system will still remain somewhat incomplete post-patch.
"The technology behind naval invasions is actually really rather heavy and is still causing some issues," said Brigden. "The gameplay upgrade will make naval invasions possible but they will be rare. The AI now has a proper mechanism for the planning involved and can execute that mechanism when required, however increasing its frequency is a balance issue we haven't been able to get fixed in time for this upgrade."
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Still waiting on confirmation of all the game-ruining bugs being squashed before purchasing.
*Fingers crossed*-
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On which difficulty setting? I was playing on hard as Austria and although I wasn't having too much trouble taking over my neighbours, at one point Sweden sent a pretty strong army in and took one of my cities. Took me by surprise, had to rush armies from my war with the Italian states up north.
I guess they got pissed at me grabbing St Petersburg from them and giving it back to the Russians in exchange for Moldova ^^
But I sort of see your point, the AI could be much more ambitious in the way they attack you. But in no way shape or form is it a game breaker.
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I used to be a huge Total War fan, but the AI (especially the world map AI) has been absolutely terrible in every Total War after Shogun. In Shogun it had so few choices on which way to move and attack, it just seemed smarter.
In Rome I remember killing thousands of enemy troops during sieges because they would just stand there weathering arrows FOREVER if you broke their siege equipment. They'd just stand there getting pelted. I'd put it on 10x time or whatever and come back and killed 90 percent of them.
On the campaign map they'd sent all these small little armies around that were pathetically small, and the few times they sent big armies they'd be completely unbalanced, like all foot soldiers, so you could just kite them for 30 minutes with cavalry archers, exit the battle map, rinse and repeat until you thinned them down to almost nothing.
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