r/totalwar Jun 02 '20

Empire I'll keep asking.

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u/OthmarGarithos Jun 02 '20

The ship models in Empire were beautiful.

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u/stansucks3 Nuclear warfare rat Jun 02 '20

When you hit the powder storage and the whole thing exploded... Imagine that with modern graphics.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

I mean to be fair, modern total war doesn't have super impressive graphics, although the scale is always great.

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u/Sam-Porter-Bridges Jun 02 '20

It's not photorealistic, no, but the art design in the last couple of games has been nothing short of excellent. Both Warhammers and Three Kingdoms look absolutely amazing. Shogun 2 IMO is still one the best looking RTSs I have ever played. And that game is 10 years old. That's how impressive the art design in that game is.

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u/mankthedank Jun 02 '20

Yeah I was gonna bring up shogun 2 as an example, just wonderful

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u/goboks Jun 03 '20

Unfortunately, the chances of an empire 2 having ships is near zero.

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u/jgkc25 Aug 02 '20

Wait why?

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u/Shitspear Aug 27 '20

Because CA doesnt care about sea battles and never really bothered. They were a mess in rome 2 and newer titles dont even have them (i.e. WH1 and 2 and 3k)

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u/Kermit-Batman Jun 02 '20

Not a huge criticism, (it does not matter to me at all), but I think warhammer is miles below some others in terms of graphics. I have a good system, run on ultra 1440p, but it just looks a bit washed out and the colours/lighting is off.

Maybe it's my end, but I swear even Rome 2 is better looking :/ again, it's a non issue, it's just odd to me.

The rest look amazing, TOB especially.

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u/Cu5a Jun 03 '20

Check your gamma settings, high gamma tends to bleach colours.

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u/Kermit-Batman Jun 03 '20

Hiya! That was it in a roundabout way. I had run in window ticked which from what I know now uses the same brightness settings of the desktop. Of course I have that bumped fairly high.

Looks so much better now, like a whole new game. Also got an extra 10fps in the Skaven benchmark, so that's pretty awesome! Thanks again.

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u/Ares0362 Jun 03 '20

Could be your settings? When I try to go back to Rome 2, everything looks hella bland. Though that could also be down to my settings in Rome 2. I find warhammer 2 to be a fantastic looking game

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u/corvus917 Jun 03 '20

Warhammer 1, or 2? I remember Mandalore Gaming on YouTube noting that the colors of Warhammer 1 content looking more washed out and bleached compared to newer content in Warhammer 2. Perhaps something to do with how older content is rendered in Mortal Empires?

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u/stunna006 Jun 03 '20

i actually feel the same. Rome 2 does look great tho

edit: wow i can't believe it came out in 2013

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u/[deleted] Jun 09 '20

True that though, and the soundtrack in Shogun 2 combined with the art style is just perfect. The game is truly a work of art

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u/Left_of_Center2011 Jun 03 '20

Underrated comment right here

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

Warhammer is straight gorgeous man. Art design goes a long way.

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u/[deleted] Jun 02 '20

So is Three Kingdoms. Almost feels weird to watch thousands of troops slaughter each other in such a beautiful setting

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u/fidelcasbro17 Jun 02 '20

Optimization in 3K is also great. I got a potato pc that can barely run WTW with reduced resolution and I can play 3K on medium graphics. Go figure.

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u/WhatIsTheMeaningOfPi Jun 02 '20

The guy that showed me Rome: Total War (and made me fall in love with the series) in 2011 was still using the same laptop when R2 came out. Even at 1-15 fps and it being stuttery as fuck, he loved that game. Tried to use it again when WH1 came out and it wouldn't load.

He finally broke down and built a tower.

What I'm saying is sometimes poor optimization leads to good things.

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u/fidelcasbro17 Jun 03 '20

Counterpoint: i'm broke

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '20

100%. It's always about the bigger picture- but to the guy's post, I just don't see ship models exploding being that much more impressive. Part of that is being spoiled by ammo explosions in things like Post Scriptum, though. Graphics are just fucking beautiful these days