Link to the original blog post by the developer: https://medium.com/@julianmckinlay/total-war-rome-ii-and-creative-assembly-my-statement-ten-years-on-d964f65b0a8f
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There should be options for hard difficulty that are due to the AI being better, not just getting massive buffs.
Some of the examples given were about the AI not even knowing about certain game mechanics!
Wow, this is a long read. Well worth it for anyone who got caught in Rome TW2's hype and subsequent disappointment.
Would be good to see what other games he later worked on. Will try to remember to look him up on linkedin when I have time
What is their monetisation plan? Currently they don't seem to have anything other than donations?
yeh, thats what I mean, who knows what the state of the market will be in 25 years, unless its an insurance backed guarantee, be very suspicious of it.
Or that they were expecting to be out of business by then...
Nvidia IS making a profit on it though. It's the whole "in a good rush, sell shovels" thing.
the tournaments one is very well reviewed. The Norse one is worth it if you want to play the Nordics.
Royal Court is mostly only good if you want to make the game easier (you get lots more equitable artifacts etc). It sounds like they are improving this to make the actual court bit more interesting.
The event pack/friend and Foes are normally considered not great, possibly even negative, but it sounds like they are updating them to fix the event frequency.
unsure on the rest.
AMD uses chiplets in their CPUs, you can see it in the picture - they have a CPU bit, a GPU bit and an AI bit.
Much like you can buy SKUs with or without graphics you will be able to buy models with or without AI.
Oh it WILL cause security issues. It's just a tradeoff against if they are worth the benefits.
Have you seen how slow their site is normally? Just request loads of obscure random pages and it will just eat their IO.
Throw some standard ddos on top to obscure things and your good? (Bad)
Edit: I know nothing about their storage, so I may be wrong. It just feels like they are held together with spit and prayers at the best of times.
Isn't this functionality already built into the default web UI?