Warhammer Total War: Warhammer 2

While stomping through Hexoatl with 3 rituals still to go, I realised I could just as well forget the stupid vortex race and wipe the major powers instead.

Mors and Pestilens had already been wiped by someone else, I wiped Morathi, Malekith was left with some confederated shitholes from Hag Graef (that kept getting progressively wiped by ritual interventions lol), and Hexoatl was in the process of getting partitioned between me, Exiles of Nehek and Wulfhart's expedition.

This only left Kroq who had obviously conquered his entire half of Africa. However, the other half was conquered by Khemri. And I had very good relations with all of Ulthuan.

So after some clever bribery, Africa is now a fuckhueg battle royal involving me, Kroq, Tiktaqto, Tyrion, Alarielle, some other minor chuj elf and Khemri. I find this very amusing.

It was also p. funny how the remnants of Niggarond were holed up in Fortress of Dong, apparently evading the wrath of what was literally the entire world that was at war with them. When I got there, the city was defended by a battered garrison of Malekith, Crone Hellebron and Lokhir Fellheart + a shitton of bolt throwers, which altogether provided much more impressive resistance than I'd expected. But at this point my absolutely disgusting army of 20 shadow justice walkers, missile chariots and dragons is simply unbeatable r00fles.

 

Vortex sucks in its execution, the final battle though is neat at least. And the endings being grimdark no matter what is fun.

 

Question from someone who is considering buying TWW2: How are it's system requirements compared to TWW1?
By using low graphics settings I could still run that one quite nicely, but don't have much in the way of "spare" capacity.

 

After wiping Kroq, it turned out that to win domination I had to BOTH wipe the major facshuns AND secure 50 provinces. Shieeeeeeet, I thought this was "or" not "and"

Fortunately, with all my allies I had a total of 47 provinces. So it was only a question of getting a military alliance with another sucker, or colonising a few leftover ruins. Turned out I still lacked an alliance with Teclis. He was a little reluctant at first, but a bribe of 176 thousand gold crowns made him see reason.

And with this done, I can safely uninstall this game in peace. Because it's not a game, it's a fucking drug. It's not even particularly amazing, but it's so ridiculously addictive that I don't wanna have anything to do with it anymore. I got it in mid-April and since then I've been going at it like stupid, over the course of 1.5 months I clocked 137 hours of playtime FFS.

 

I can't say much about the system requirements my system ran both smoothly, but if you own TW1 and 2, you can play the Mortal Realms map which needs a lot of power because of the map size / number of factions.

 

I have 16GB RAM, just a weak graphics card. So the number of factions and map size shouldn't be an issue. I was more wondering about, whether the actual battles would require more graphics power.

 

going on a hunch, you probably have a better card than i do, so don't worry. the real killers are loading times (even with an excellent ssd) and turn times on mortal map, which some patches ago could take even 2-3 minutes but they've been improved by some later patch but i don't know by how much.

 

Skaven are going to be a bit more intensive than regular since they have hordes of units (especially with how certain campaign skaven factions literally run around with 4 stacks of skavenslaves - over 10,000 models potentially). Aside from that the game is mostly a side grade in graphics.

 

The skaven benchmark is alot heavier than the other ones.

 

Yikes, sounds like whether my graphics card is good enough or not I should consider another RTW2 campaign instead. Found a new mod to try out, but by then I had just started my first PFKM playthrough. Thx for the info at any rate!

 

dude, try an extended demo first, nobody will look down on you for protecting your investments.

 

The end turn times were horrific pre-patch in TW:WH, since that patch they completely nuked them with some crazy computer voodoo so takes like 20-30 seconds now. I do have install on an SSD of course so YMMV.

 

The fix was to set to bSlowTurn from true to false

 

Wait, when did they fix the horrible lighting in WH2?

 

One of the most epic fan-made videos.

 

Pyrrhic Victory

 

That patch was what made me return to the game.
It's not even comparable to before the patch, really.
Even later in the game, for me the turn time isn't more than 20-30 seconds or so and early game is maybe 10 seconds

 

is the lighting still washed out though?

 

It's better but not completely fixed.

 

thesheeep what "what"?

https://forums.totalwar.com/discuss...esses-up-old-world-models-and-custom-textures

 

Ah, okay.
Well... couldn't have told you, either way.
I don't usually have time on the battlefield to inspect if my troops are properly lighted

 

It really ruined TW:WH2 for me. The first TW:WH looked amazing on the campaign map, and WH2 was suddenly with washed out lights and low-res textures in the jungle.

 

Malus Vortex campaign on H/H. It was exceedingly easy however. Tz'arkan is pretty much a bitch now. The Southlands are so full of factions that you can swoop in and do whatever, then just sit out your victory with a couple of places that give scrolls.

 

Hmm, never tried malus in vortex really. Let me start up a game and play a bit...





>tfw literally ambushed by over 9000 rats on turn 9. From a minor faction too.

 

How do you managed to get 9 shades at turn 9?