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Gives depth to Diplo, fixes squalor bullshit, retrainable mercs, solves the autoresolve problems, ambushes are actually useful, night battles appear in the base game, enslaving settlements sends population to all settlements... Be still my poor heart.
True on the squalor issue affecting public order though. It gets ridiculous I have to literally bait a revolt in my own settlements just to cull the overpopulation problem
There's a mod for the original that boosts the happyness of walls and certain buildings to fix the squalor issue. The old version unplayable without it.
@@MsSirAndy CA has no immediate plans for it, but id imagine if this remaster sells well (id like to think it will, everyone loves Rome 1), they totally could and should.
I think the soldiers having different etnicity depending on where they're recruited is definetly a nice feature...but I think the main changes I'm grateful is fixed diplomacy...and hopefully no more locked 30 fps or less on sieges
@@alaricjaeger2599 putting black legionnaires or soldiers in any other faction(the only acceptable exception would be nubian slave soldiers that Egypt used tho still would be in small numbers compared to Egyptian s)where there should be none, even tho in small numbers they are still overrepresented, and would be almost non existent irl, if there were 10 ever it would already be heavily pushing it, Rome did not control subsahran territory, this is a very small problem and a clear agenda pushing that can be corrected by mods tho it shouldn't even have to be corrected in the first place, apart from that is fine, but its a bit redundant since there isn't much difference between phenotypes of Caucasian race peoples aka all peoples of the Empire apart from some skin tone variations,, unless they are portraying northern europeans which would have a higher rate of blonde, red hair and pale skin but not exclusively to northern europe region but seen throughout the empire from Iberia to mesoptamia just in smaller numbers in comparison but blonde and red hair would have a higher rate than today, and a large portion of Iberians, Syrians, Numidians, Lybians Carthaginians, Iranians for example would have their phenotypes differences but would look not much different from Romans apart from some Numidians, Carthaginians and Egyptians having degrees of darker tans. And many peoples some like the persians, romans, Greeks, Iberians, Amazigh(also know as the Berbers, you know the natives of north Africa, called in Antiquity Numidians and Moors) have blonde hair and blue and green eyes yet they don't portray it, even when this would be by far more common than any black legionnaires, a blonde or two at least once in every two to three units in pretty much all north African and middle eastern factions would be far more accurate
@@alexmag342 I think you are overthinking this... Having your units be from the place you recruited them from is just a nice detail and yes, loads of empires had foreign recruited divisions including the romans (all be it during later times when provinces were fully romanised). How is that an agenda?! Also there are differences between ancient germans and romans, even just in style of hair and beards, not just skin tone. Also this feature isnt just for romans, its also for other factions that traditionally did include loads of foreign mercenaries and divisions such as Carthage.
Diplomatic changes sound good (AI liking or disliking you) - diplomacy was one of my biggest peeves with RTW and MTW2. It was like ultimately your neighbours would attack you on higher difficulty, whatever you did.
Yeah, diplomacy was a huge pain in the butt. I played a lot of Warhammer 2 (where diplomacy works all right) and then returned to Medieval 2. I felt very uncomfortable knowing that all my neighbours were going to attack me at some point :P
@@petercrash9670 yes pls. I might buy rome 1 remastered just to show support in them remastering later games, and hope they make medi2 remastered along the way
ah iremember my modded gameplay there is feature for make peace with destroyed faction because it will prevent making peace with dead faction allies maybe tied to that rep sytem
It's because they are a small Company. Small companies are naturally more competitive and consumer-friendly due to higher market pressure and concorrence and lesser corporate greed. They are not perfect and there are few bad small companies, but nevertheless they are better in average. A perfect Game Company would be Indie in Spirit, Triple A in Resources.
*Now, here's something I'd like to see in Total War someday, now that there's hope:* *Create your own units:* You choose the age demographic of your soldiers. You choose the weapons, and the shields (if any). You give them armor, and choose whether they are mounted. Statistics are calculated for those troops, and they set out into the world. Instead of producing armies, you produce weapons, and your armies are centered around your weapons. Imagine decking out a battalion with the most expensive armor and weapons money can buy. Imagine, in your hour of desperation, equipping your elderly and your youth with spears and pitchforks, because that's all you can acquire while under siege. Imagine cutting off a nation's supply of iron, and watching them convert their military and military culture into pikes. It would be Avatar Conquest mode on steroids. And I couldn't wait for something like this to happen.
This is actually so exciting! One of the greatest comebacks in total war history! We are living and breathing history in the making. Another good observation MELKOR is units show a little blood on a battle,
Congratulations to the Historical community for getting Rome Total War Remastered! So far this looks like a better remaster than Warcraft 3 Reforged. I am considering getting this one
Warcraft 3 Refunded also seemed nice when they announced it,but it ended up being the shitshow we are familiar with. I never liked the reforged graphics,even before release.
Thank you for all your work, Melkor. I've been with you since you had around 1k subs so I'm delighted to see your channel grow and get noticed more and more. Keep it up!
What I'd definitely love to see along with the n1 change is Armour upgrades actually take effect and have visual updates like in Med 2. For example a Barbarian Warband with the first tier of upgraded Armour will have leather Armour or chainmail in second tier etc instead of being naked barbarians like in the original. If this is not in game I'd love to see that, if not by the time of release in a post launch update if possible providing we leave our feedback on this topic. What I don't like though is the UI. I prefer much more the old simplistic UI and less information shown on the campaign map. I hope that there will be also a modern vs classic UI setting by the time it releases or in a post launch update.
@@owainevans89 Spain would also be interesting since you have to deal with the Romans later, that being said all factions have to deal with the Romans lol.
i really really love the new ui. people say that it looks like the rome total war mobile edition but its theyre problem becuase the mobile ui is actually nice. the new ui reminds me of the paradox game "imperator rome" with all this white marble, and marble is ROMAN... i love it honestly
Add this features and its a perfect game: -an online campaign (maybe even with 3 or 4 Player Support) -better ai (for campaign and battles) -no campaign map size Restrictions for modding (just imagine a huge world map) -dillemmas from modern total war games (would give mods more possibilitys for roleplaying etc) -unit replenishment from modern total war games (with possibility to choose between this an the original system)
Ah yes. "I'm going to need X siege towers for my army's attack plan, so I should build X+2 in case one of them causes my troops to develop headless chicken syndrome" The thoughts of every player preparing to lay siege to a large city.
If this isn't a trashfire on release, I will drop my longstanding rome 2 grudge against ca. I realize that's a low bar to clear, but honestly I have my doubts.
Love that they remastered the best total war of all time. Just wished they added a coop campaign. Playing this gem with or against Friends would be a Dream come true.
This is good for this channel since this channel mostly covers older total war games. This game being being one of the games he'll probably play means he'll have a lot of new people watching his content and learning to appreciate classic TW.
God i was so confused the first time i got one of those "accept or we will attack" diplomacy messages i thought i was tripping the ai where some real diplomatic geniuses
Is that reputation like Med 2 in the sense that it also judges you on Occupy (+5), Enslave (-2) or Exterminate (-5)? That thing needed fixing in Med 2 because of a ";" in the wrong place meant when you Occupied you got 0 instead of +5, so it was really hard to get your Standing up unless you edited the file.
I think it was. And yeah as soon as I found out about that bug I was pissed. Because that’s how everyone hated me in all my campaigns. Now I fixed it and it’s almost like a totally different game.
Ill be completely honest and admit that Ill most likely leave all these options set to classic, especially that abysmal excuse for a UI that they have been shoving down our throats ever since Empire/Shogun 2.
Things I hope also get's reworked 1. Meme bronze age Egypt, could be toggled on and off and perhaps give a more Greco vibe to it's units. 2. Fucking blood curdling death screams when a character died. Child me had nightmares from that shit.
I love the changes, but also we can opt out of them! That's really thinking on the players stuff. On a side note, the quality in your videos is getting better and better.
mate when you mentioned the soundtrack as a change before you went on to say it was the same tracks but remastered I nearly had aa heart attack. I'm unbeleivably hyped for this, I've always wanted Rome 1 but with a higher faction limit
@@MelkorGG I really hope they increase it, it makes no sense to have a hard limit on either the number of factions or the size of the campaign map, they are already officially supporting modding and Rome 2 already has way more factions, they'd just be hamstringing themselves if they didn't open it up
@@mattwhelan13 If there going to be lots of more factions, then there should be somekind division of their power and influence (like tribes/city-state/kingdom/empire, + vassals and protectorates) which affects diplomacy and deals. And maybe that could break the fun in gameplay..
Having individual faces for soldiers is great but having some variations in equipment (armour, shield...) would also be good, since equipment wasn't fully standardised until the industrial era. The engine is fully able of handling that, there's already that in Medieval II.
I think a good video would be the major differences between Rome Remastared and Rome II. AP keeps saying there’s some great gems in this game and it would be a good idea for a vid to explain what these are to intice more players
When they say "balance in auto-resolved battles has been improved", does that mean that you can wipe out overmatched armies in the field via autoresolve? It always annoyed me how you had to manual resolve if you wanted to get rid of some random 5-stack army out in the field
Does the diplomacy rework also make the AI stay loyal to their treaties with you if they like you? Because in the original, regardless of difficulty, they would take one of your nearby poorly defended settlements without hesitation even if they are allies.
Also, adding the feature of when razing a settlement after a conquest, it will reduce its size 1 level down so that you can civilize it completely as your own.
I don't know if CA allows those with advance copies to disclose this, but if they do, it would be interesting to know about the rebalancing. I think weaker chariots have been mentioned. Are there any other notable changes? It's subjective but my impression was that the Roman unit stats were a little too strong (esp. post-Marian) and the Gallic type barbarians a little underpowered. That may be outside the scope of the remaster, but the "balancing" toggle button caught my eye.
Ethnically linked soldiers is just a bad idea. Why would a gallic warband recruited in rome be made up of romans? Or an hoplite unit made up of germans?
actually one more thing i want is for battle maps to always be 2x2km instead of only 1x1km in field battles. only having half the campaign usable in battle means you could end up with good terrain stuck in out of bounds even if you moved just 1 tile over on the campaign.
I am honestly looking forward to the toggles the most. Rome total war was my very first total war game and so I look at it with particularly rose tinted glasses. It’s nice to know that if a bunch of these changes do you wind up bothering me I can always go back and play with those features turned off.
This is amazing. One thing I would like to be added to this game, would be a DLC which expands the different barbarians a bit. Going into the end game with Tier 3 settlements always felt a bit lackluster in my opinion. I know people will say, "BUT MODS", but the problem with Mods is they usually ramp up the difficulty to 11, and try to make battles last for hours because "realism". But, hey, maybe a good mod will come around which won't strangle the casual player for booting up the game! I do wish to get back to some historical. I haven't been able to enjoy a historical game in a long time...
I fucking LOVE your voice Melkor, truly a calming RUclipsr to listen to, and a very AMAZING review! A good addition to the community, I wish I found you sooner.
A change that I'd like, would be a more intense unit upgrade and training mechanism, much like in mount and blade where you have to start with an army of peasants that upgrade over time and change into ranged, cavalry, skirmishes etc.
Are there any more features from BI that they added into the base game? Also did they flush out the factions with smaller rosters? Like giving Dacia chosen falx men.
the other way to deal with squalor in the original game is forced migration. build peasant units to lower pop. then move the unit to your least populated cities and disband. tedious for sure but also helped to bring faction culture to the outlying cites of the empire.
Same, pretty much. I never got that into gaming when I was a kid, but I loved RTW and M2TW. They're the only games in my Steam library, and every few months I think "I could just blow a weekend conquering Europe again".
This is awesome! I just need a little bit more to be 100% complete... *No more indestructible/unconvertible buildings.* I never built farms in Barbarian Invasion because they upped squalor and couldn't be demolished without modding the game. And also max level governor buildings and walls of an opposing culture were annoying because they provided a permanent public order penalty that you simply couldn't do anything about. Even if it cost an exorbitant sum in game, I'd love the ability to max level governor buildings and walls so they become your own faction's culture. This also helps with your "I hate having to let my capital rebel so I can exterminate them for public order" issue you mentioned earlier.
Which change is your favourite?
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What?
@@MelkorGG you heard it right.
@@MelkorGG number .5 LOVELY HATS TO BATTLE THE MOON PEOPLE!!!!!!
What is unit size extreme ? that means over 160?
"Extreme unit size is not intended for proper gameplay"
Every Rome total war mod: I am going to pretend I did not see that
Rome: Total War: "Extreme unit size is not intended for proper gameplay"
My laptop: "Extreme unit size is not intended for your shitty hardware"
Shield wall mod uses small units for example. Cuz it’s more realistic for the time
Europa Barbarorum go brrrr
@@18Hongo So fuuny ahahah
Lotr mod with massive Ork attack
I hope they update the Speeches from the Generals to have the crowd cheering again.
So long as the moon people still have lovely hats, it's all good.
But they're mad that I ate all their honey!
@@RJALEXANDER777 the moon people? what are you talking about?
@@Rex1987 It's a reference to the generals speeches.
They are wild in RTW
I need my generals to have mental illness traits speeches again plz
0:59-1:08 Jeff van Dyck's soundtrack is no "little thing", its absence would be a borderline deal breaker .
True true, my bad :)
I’d better he actually made some more tracks. The original ones are great but having 4 or 5 more will certainly not hurt.
@@sarmatiancougar7556 Oh, forgot to say. They added some cut-content tracks in there also. Stuff that were meant for the OG game, but never made it.
@@MelkorGG that certainly helps!
Gives depth to Diplo, fixes squalor bullshit, retrainable mercs, solves the autoresolve problems, ambushes are actually useful, night battles appear in the base game, enslaving settlements sends population to all settlements... Be still my poor heart.
True on the squalor issue affecting public order though. It gets ridiculous I have to literally bait a revolt in my own settlements just to cull the overpopulation problem
To all settlements? :( I like to guide where m slaves go to to strategically replenish recruitment cities
@@AbuHajarAlBugatti Indeed! No need for pop boost for newly captured unresting settlements (or if it helps to fix that unrest?)..
There's a mod for the original that boosts the happyness of walls and certain buildings to fix the squalor issue. The old version unplayable without it.
@@VirtualVictoryTM Thank you! I ve felt dumb for years for being unable to properly manage settlements in Rome 1.
Just realized that Macedonia finally has the Vergina-Star and not the spartan L!
Ya that make me satisfied
Lambda
Holy shit! I just noticed that too!
Oh, I'm gonna miss that symbol
Kutles, not vergina
LegendOfTotalWar will love you for mentionning him about the so loved Merchants
XD
@@MelkorGG Aye, it seems insignificant but it is rather major in diversity of gameplay.
@@MelkorGG do you think medieval 2 will also get remastered at some point as they did with rome?
@@MsSirAndy CA has no immediate plans for it, but id imagine if this remaster sells well (id like to think it will, everyone loves Rome 1), they totally could and should.
@@jaywerner8415 They always say that, it's corporate get out of jail free lingo. I'm willing to bet if this one does well, then it's inevitable.
I think the soldiers having different etnicity depending on where they're recruited is definetly a nice feature...but I think the main changes I'm grateful is fixed diplomacy...and hopefully no more locked 30 fps or less on sieges
Total War: WOKE
@@elbowsanchez how?
@@alaricjaeger2599 putting black legionnaires or soldiers in any other faction(the only acceptable exception would be nubian slave soldiers that Egypt used tho still would be in small numbers compared to Egyptian s)where there should be none, even tho in small numbers they are still overrepresented, and would be almost non existent irl, if there were 10 ever it would already be heavily pushing it, Rome did not control subsahran territory, this is a very small problem and a clear agenda pushing that can be corrected by mods tho it shouldn't even have to be corrected in the first place, apart from that is fine, but its a bit redundant since there isn't much difference between phenotypes of Caucasian race peoples aka all peoples of the Empire apart from some skin tone variations,, unless they are portraying northern europeans which would have a higher rate of blonde, red hair and pale skin but not exclusively to northern europe region but seen throughout the empire from Iberia to mesoptamia just in smaller numbers in comparison but blonde and red hair would have a higher rate than today, and a large portion of Iberians, Syrians, Numidians, Lybians Carthaginians, Iranians for example would have their phenotypes differences but would look not much different from Romans apart from some Numidians, Carthaginians and Egyptians having degrees of darker tans.
And many peoples some like the persians, romans, Greeks, Iberians, Amazigh(also know as the Berbers, you know the natives of north Africa, called in Antiquity Numidians and Moors) have blonde hair and blue and green eyes yet they don't portray it, even when this would be by far more common than any black legionnaires, a blonde or two at least once in every two to three units in pretty much all north African and middle eastern factions would be far more accurate
@@alexmag342 I think you are overthinking this... Having your units be from the place you recruited them from is just a nice detail and yes, loads of empires had foreign recruited divisions including the romans (all be it during later times when provinces were fully romanised). How is that an agenda?! Also there are differences between ancient germans and romans, even just in style of hair and beards, not just skin tone. Also this feature isnt just for romans, its also for other factions that traditionally did include loads of foreign mercenaries and divisions such as Carthage.
Wish that exterminate populace changed it to whoever did it tho make it more realistic
Diplomatic changes sound good (AI liking or disliking you) - diplomacy was one of my biggest peeves with RTW and MTW2. It was like ultimately your neighbours would attack you on higher difficulty, whatever you did.
Yeah, diplomacy was a huge pain in the butt. I played a lot of Warhammer 2 (where diplomacy works all right) and then returned to Medieval 2. I felt very uncomfortable knowing that all my neighbours were going to attack me at some point :P
Imagine if the crew from stainless steel were to touch this game
There might be hope that this will occur, even if it's just ported by someone who got permission (or even not..).
Let's hope Europa Barbarorum team will see this
@@petercrash9670 yes pls.
I might buy rome 1 remastered just to show support in them remastering later games, and hope they make medi2 remastered along the way
I just tried to reinstall that but I can't find the 6.4 patch anywhere, and the install doesn't work anymore.. very upsetting
@@TheOzzyLegionnaire I think I still have it...Stainless steel astounds me with the detail
Actually the reputation feature was always in the game, just as a hidden value the player can't see without some convoluted math.
Interesting
ah iremember my modded gameplay there is feature for make peace with destroyed faction
because it will prevent making peace with dead faction allies maybe tied to that rep sytem
It was but i didnt notice much difference anyways prob cuz the ai was dumb
I love Feral Interactive. It's so nice to have a company that actually understands Total War.
It's because they are a small Company.
Small companies are naturally more competitive and consumer-friendly due to higher market pressure and concorrence and lesser corporate greed. They are not perfect and there are few bad small companies, but nevertheless they are better in average.
A perfect Game Company would be Indie in Spirit, Triple A in Resources.
@@brunoacostasilva and they very customer support friendly and answer mails withing 1 hour usually
@@brunoacostasilva so is this why national socialists loved small companies
@@King.Leonidas The nazis actually favoured corporations and monopolies more than small businesses
Same!
*Now, here's something I'd like to see in Total War someday, now that there's hope:*
*Create your own units:* You choose the age demographic of your soldiers. You choose the weapons, and the shields (if any). You give them armor, and choose whether they are mounted. Statistics are calculated for those troops, and they set out into the world.
Instead of producing armies, you produce weapons, and your armies are centered around your weapons.
Imagine decking out a battalion with the most expensive armor and weapons money can buy.
Imagine, in your hour of desperation, equipping your elderly and your youth with spears and pitchforks, because that's all you can acquire while under siege.
Imagine cutting off a nation's supply of iron, and watching them convert their military and military culture into pikes.
It would be Avatar Conquest mode on steroids. And I couldn't wait for something like this to happen.
It would be very difficult to make this type of game proper and balanced. I love the idea it sounds super cool and more accurate to real life
well then i would like interactive map that looks like google earth map and where you can build your cities and everything...
Great idea. Don't think it wil ever happen. But a great idea nevertheless!
This is a grand strategy game sorta thing
@Sind the troy resource system is the dumbest addition to total war so far
This is actually so exciting! One of the greatest comebacks in total war history! We are living and breathing history in the making. Another good observation MELKOR is units show a little blood on a battle,
Can’t wait for a Medieval 2 Total war and expansions remastered version! That would be and will be so exciting
Imagine the Americas expansion remastered 😍
I really prefer a medieval 3 total war before any other remaster if they do the remaster before would be disappointing
Medieval 3 would be much better
I won't mind they remastered Medieval 2 before they make Medieval 3.
Imagine the LOTR mod remastered for M2TW.
Congratulations to the Historical community for getting Rome Total War Remastered!
So far this looks like a better remaster than Warcraft 3 Reforged. I am considering getting this one
Warcraft 3 Refunded also seemed nice when they announced it,but it ended up being the shitshow we are familiar with. I never liked the reforged graphics,even before release.
Better than Warcraft 3 Reforged is a really low hurdle to clear.
Thank you for all your work, Melkor. I've been with you since you had around 1k subs so I'm delighted to see your channel grow and get noticed more and more. Keep it up!
What I'd definitely love to see along with the n1 change is Armour upgrades actually take effect and have visual updates like in Med 2. For example a Barbarian Warband with the first tier of upgraded Armour will have leather Armour or chainmail in second tier etc instead of being naked barbarians like in the original. If this is not in game I'd love to see that, if not by the time of release in a post launch update if possible providing we leave our feedback on this topic. What I don't like though is the UI. I prefer much more the old simplistic UI and less information shown on the campaign map. I hope that there will be also a modern vs classic UI setting by the time it releases or in a post launch update.
this is a golden time for Melkor haha. I really hope the algorithm favors him.
do i know you :P
"mercenaries can be retrained"
Where do I buy?
They can be retrained in areas where you can actually recruit them.
@@stefanbajic4464 which makes more sense anyway
Time for me to stop having awful ocd over losing 1-2 men in my cretan archers.
@@rintv3675 or sarmatian mercenaries, superior cavalry
Finally I will be able to retrain silver-expirienced pajamamen, cilician pirates and samnite spearmen!
Melkor: I'm not going to cover stuff like graphics
also Melkor: number 1 - units look different xD
And I'm like: they don't look that great, change it back to original please :p
I’m looking forward to playing the originally unplayable factions.
Like the romano British on barbarian invasion
@@owainevans89 yeah that would be interesting, I’m interested in playing Macedon or the Pontic kingdom.
@@thomassugg5621 Macedon is always a must :)
@@owainevans89 Spain would also be interesting since you have to deal with the Romans later, that being said all factions have to deal with the Romans lol.
you could still unlock them in vanilla just need to change a file ;)
Some of the changes I love and some of them not so much, which is why the toggle is so brilliant. Everyone will have their own preferences.
Merchant with legendoftotalwar haha, you just killed me xD
The ethnicity changes from retraining is going to be so good for immersion, I think that's my favourite of the lot.
Medieval 2 remastered is inevitable yayssss
I believe they've said this is the only classic game that will receive a remaster. Think bigger friend Medieval 3 Total War
i really really love the new ui. people say that it looks like the rome total war mobile edition but its theyre problem becuase the mobile ui is actually nice. the new ui reminds me of the paradox game "imperator rome" with all this white marble, and marble is ROMAN... i love it honestly
We need a toggle for it. Some of us just don't like this kind of UI.
6:01 What a great two!
XD
Z
Add this features and its a perfect game:
-an online campaign (maybe even with 3 or 4 Player Support)
-better ai (for campaign and battles)
-no campaign map size Restrictions for modding (just imagine a huge world map)
-dillemmas from modern total war games (would give mods more possibilitys for roleplaying etc)
-unit replenishment from modern total war games (with possibility to choose between this an the original system)
2 and 3 already added. 1 might be coming sometime.
@@MelkorGG nice, Feral really is doing something great
07:36 Oh man, I can't wait to train a unit of Nubian woad warriors.
Is city-view back? Just curious. I used to love doing this.
Yeah it’s back
Yep, city view is back :)
@@MelkorGG yay!
@@MelkorGG god I wish they would have added this to Three Kingdoms. Some of the city environments in that game were really good looking.
As a kid when I came back from school i didn't go home. I went straight to the city map
How are you not gonna mention, retrainable mercenaries!!
There's so much, I just forgot XD
Have you tested if the "large stone wall" siege towers bug out the troops entering them?
I saw it mentioned by the devs. I think it is either fixed now, or will be fixed for launch.
Ah yes. "I'm going to need X siege towers for my army's attack plan, so I should build X+2 in case one of them causes my troops to develop headless chicken syndrome"
The thoughts of every player preparing to lay siege to a large city.
I might be alone here, but I am more excited for BI than base rome( as in, am excited 9/10 for BI and 8/10 for base game). Cant wait for the mods
I do like the toggled options for the campaign. That’s something Paradox games do well, making the replay ability insane
08:50 - Didn't age well :(
Got to say that i love the new building tree screen. That's a nice quality of life UI change!
If this isn't a trashfire on release, I will drop my longstanding rome 2 grudge against ca. I realize that's a low bar to clear, but honestly I have my doubts.
Love that they remastered the best total war of all time. Just wished they added a coop campaign. Playing this gem with or against Friends would be a Dream come true.
I've been playing Rome Total War: BI since I was a kid. To see this come out is awesome
I wish they would change the look of the spartans or atleast give em Corinthian helmets
Mods
This is good for this channel since this channel mostly covers older total war games. This game being being one of the games he'll probably play means he'll have a lot of new people watching his content and learning to appreciate classic TW.
God i was so confused the first time i got one of those "accept or we will attack" diplomacy messages i thought i was tripping the ai where some real diplomatic geniuses
Reverse psychology diplomacy tactic.. haha
Medieval 2 remastered is where its at
Is that reputation like Med 2 in the sense that it also judges you on Occupy (+5), Enslave (-2) or Exterminate (-5)? That thing needed fixing in Med 2 because of a ";" in the wrong place meant when you Occupied you got 0 instead of +5, so it was really hard to get your Standing up unless you edited the file.
I think it was. And yeah as soon as I found out about that bug I was pissed. Because that’s how everyone hated me in all my campaigns. Now I fixed it and it’s almost like a totally different game.
Can't wait to use the remastered Oliphaunts to destroy Pontus, because who wants to play as Pontus?
Me
Ill be completely honest and admit that Ill most likely leave all these options set to classic, especially that abysmal excuse for a UI that they have been shoving down our throats ever since Empire/Shogun 2.
I like how this looks. I can’t wait to play a fully remastered game to compare it to classic and mix and max features.
I legit used to use the add population cheat backwards (by making it negative) to deal with the squalor, that shit was ridiculous, pun intended.
Things I hope also get's reworked
1. Meme bronze age Egypt, could be toggled on and off and perhaps give a more Greco vibe to it's units.
2. Fucking blood curdling death screams when a character died. Child me had nightmares from that shit.
Is Egypt still Bronze Age, or are they now a Hellenistic faction?
BRONZE AGE!!!
@@MelkorGG steam Workshop
Grecce Egypt
@@mariusbehm4556 No, AOM Egypt. SEND OUT THE ANUBITES!!!!
Do you smell that? Roma Surrectum IV is probably going to happen...
Extended Greek Mod (XGM) Remastered...
I love the changes, but also we can opt out of them! That's really thinking on the players stuff.
On a side note, the quality in your videos is getting better and better.
That these are all great changes AND optional is fantastic. This is just a magnificent offering of a remaster
I was about to say "time to lose to squalor again" but didn't know it was changed, a much needed change. Thank the gods.
I hope the setting swap features become more specific rather than so broad. I also hope they make it so you can pit BI/ALX factions against Vanilla.
Yea. Like, surely like to have squalor fix but also with that the only governed settlements receive slaves.
I just realized that those units were making the shape of the number that each change was lol.
mate when you mentioned the soundtrack as a change before you went on to say it was the same tracks but remastered I nearly had aa heart attack. I'm unbeleivably hyped for this, I've always wanted Rome 1 but with a higher faction limit
That's the one bit of info I am struggling to get out of them, faction cap. It's the most requested feature right now, but I got no info :)
@@MelkorGG I really hope they increase it, it makes no sense to have a hard limit on either the number of factions or the size of the campaign map, they are already officially supporting modding and Rome 2 already has way more factions, they'd just be hamstringing themselves if they didn't open it up
@@mattwhelan13 If there going to be lots of more factions, then there should be somekind division of their power and influence (like tribes/city-state/kingdom/empire, + vassals and protectorates) which affects diplomacy and deals. And maybe that could break the fun in gameplay..
Lmao Rome remastered is gonna be lightyears better then Rome 2
True, (Lets hope like 90% of the vanilla factions aren't broken up into bits for mini-dlcs like Rome 2)
Rome 2 was pretty good tho
Having individual faces for soldiers is great but having some variations in equipment (armour, shield...) would also be good, since equipment wasn't fully standardised until the industrial era. The engine is fully able of handling that, there's already that in Medieval II.
Will you do a video comparing class unit balance vs remastered unit balance?
Man o man I cant wait for the mods this puppy will get
I think a good video would be the major differences between Rome Remastared and Rome II. AP keeps saying there’s some great gems in this game and it would be a good idea for a vid to explain what these are to intice more players
Good idea, I might do it. Issue is though, whenever I mention Rome 2 is a way that is not positive, even if I am fair, I just get bombarded by hate.
I am already planning my conquests
When they say "balance in auto-resolved battles has been improved", does that mean that you can wipe out overmatched armies in the field via autoresolve? It always annoyed me how you had to manual resolve if you wanted to get rid of some random 5-stack army out in the field
Cant wait for RTR mod based on remastered :)
My vote goes for Extended Greek Mod (XGM :)
Looks good and I hope that the guys who did Roma Surrectum II get a hold of it.
Does the diplomacy rework also make the AI stay loyal to their treaties with you if they like you?
Because in the original, regardless of difficulty, they would take one of your nearby poorly defended settlements without hesitation even if they are allies.
Yes, they are much better there.
@@MelkorGG thank to Allah for that
Yes I can finally get macedonia and greece to be true friends and take down rome together! Then reconquer the east in the name of Alexander!
I actually really liked the old u.i. The scroll effect made me feel like a general looking through notes and maps to enact my plans on the world.
I wish they would look into getting pathfinding fixed especially on larger units.
Also, adding the feature of when razing a settlement after a conquest, it will reduce its size 1 level down so that you can civilize it completely as your own.
Can’t wait to play
I don't know if CA allows those with advance copies to disclose this, but if they do, it would be interesting to know about the rebalancing. I think weaker chariots have been mentioned. Are there any other notable changes? It's subjective but my impression was that the Roman unit stats were a little too strong (esp. post-Marian) and the Gallic type barbarians a little underpowered. That may be outside the scope of the remaster, but the "balancing" toggle button caught my eye.
Ethnically linked soldiers is just a bad idea. Why would a gallic warband recruited in rome be made up of romans? Or an hoplite unit made up of germans?
Squalor made sense to me. Watch the mini documentary "The Beautiful Ones" about Universe 25, the famous mouse experiment.
will there be a multiplayer campaign?
actually one more thing i want is for battle maps to always be 2x2km instead of only 1x1km in field battles. only having half the campaign usable in battle means you could end up with good terrain stuck in out of bounds even if you moved just 1 tile over on the campaign.
Are factions like Numidia and barbarian factions in general viable late game? Do barbarian factions get tier 5 cities?
No clue. Not been able to get that far yet. But I do know unit stats have been rebalanced which should help. No tier 5 barbarians though.
The recruiting feature is so awesome! Do you know if you are able to turn off missile trailing?
6:06 Why would a tavern provide bonus to health? If anything it should be negative effect.
Health boosts population growth. So the drunk barbarians are just geting ;)
alcohol is a sanitizer lol
I am honestly looking forward to the toggles the most. Rome total war was my very first total war game and so I look at it with particularly rose tinted glasses. It’s nice to know that if a bunch of these changes do you wind up bothering me I can always go back and play with those features turned off.
This is amazing. One thing I would like to be added to this game, would be a DLC which expands the different barbarians a bit. Going into the end game with Tier 3 settlements always felt a bit lackluster in my opinion. I know people will say, "BUT MODS", but the problem with Mods is they usually ramp up the difficulty to 11, and try to make battles last for hours because "realism". But, hey, maybe a good mod will come around which won't strangle the casual player for booting up the game! I do wish to get back to some historical. I haven't been able to enjoy a historical game in a long time...
The best TW made even better!
Victory for Melkor!
I was so excited to hear about this! I wonder if Egypt is going to be a weird, ahistorical mess again. Still, this looks amazing!
Yep, Egypt is still stuck 2000 years behind everyone else :)
@@MelkorGG I mean, I wouldn’t expect anything less ;) There’s something comforting and familiar about anachronistic Egypt.
Did they add any new units to lacking roosters such as Numidia?
I fucking LOVE your voice Melkor, truly a calming RUclipsr to listen to, and a very AMAZING review! A good addition to the community, I wish I found you sooner.
A change that I'd like, would be a more intense unit upgrade and training mechanism, much like in mount and blade where you have to start with an army of peasants that upgrade over time and change into ranged, cavalry, skirmishes etc.
Are there any more features from BI that they added into the base game?
Also did they flush out the factions with smaller rosters? Like giving Dacia chosen falx men.
I have heard they fleshed out the smaller rosters though nothing about chosen falx men.
the other way to deal with squalor in the original game is forced migration. build peasant units to lower pop. then move the unit to your least populated cities and disband. tedious for sure but also helped to bring faction culture to the outlying cites of the empire.
that last one
Can i retrain my gold-tier hastati into urban cohorts or do i still lose my entire army during the marian reforms?
Squalor was capped at 100% back then.
It didn't need any fix, I have never had to let a city revolt in order to keep it under control.
Hey, thanks for this insightful video! Just quick question, did they update the Egyptian "lore issues"?
Is battle Ai gonna be improved?
"After the failure of 2. The bad PR. Where does that leave CA crawling back to? Back to one."
I'm not really a gamer, RTW is the only one I've extensively played, so this is the first time I'm excited for a game coming out
Same, pretty much. I never got that into gaming when I was a kid, but I loved RTW and M2TW. They're the only games in my Steam library, and every few months I think "I could just blow a weekend conquering Europe again".
@@18Hongo You go you !
good to see the diplomacy changes, i'm very hyped to play this remastered version :D
Thank you for the very informative video! Can you please show us what new units are being added? Thank you so much.
This is awesome! I just need a little bit more to be 100% complete...
*No more indestructible/unconvertible buildings.*
I never built farms in Barbarian Invasion because they upped squalor and couldn't be demolished without modding the game. And also max level governor buildings and walls of an opposing culture were annoying because they provided a permanent public order penalty that you simply couldn't do anything about. Even if it cost an exorbitant sum in game, I'd love the ability to max level governor buildings and walls so they become your own faction's culture. This also helps with your "I hate having to let my capital rebel so I can exterminate them for public order" issue you mentioned earlier.
I think they should've done a remaster of Egypt but kept it as a toggle.
I LOVE this!!!!! Thank the lord ...My favorite total war game ever. You always love your first!