Warhammer Total War: Warhammer III

[gerey]

The Chinese are reviewbombing the game for some chink reason or other.

And to think, CA could have spared everyone the displeasure of having Cathay in the game by not pandering to chinks.

 

[Fedora Master]

The Chinese are reviewbombing the game for some chink reason or other.

Does Cathay suck in the game?

Something about who CA gave early access to or something. As I said, Chink reasons.

 

[Raghar]

The Chinese are reviewbombing the game for some chink reason or other.

And to think, CA could have spared everyone the displeasure of having Cathay in the game by not pandering to chinks.

They would have only OGRES and Chaos otherwise... and Kislev. That would be quite bad for release.

 

[tabacila]

Bighuge combined map found in game files

Spoiler

Dude from CA said it's a very old prototype:

 

[zapotec]

Naggarond is really small come on, they should shrink the eastern part

 

[Fedora Master]

The Prologue is nice. Too bad that hitting Escape gives you a black screen there.
e: although just quitting the battle wins it anyway since its a tutorial, lel

 

[FreeKaner]

Prologue was very good, real warcraft 3 vibes.

 

[Lacrymas]

It's the fucking localization and (localized)audio pack that adds around 30gb to this stupid game.

Is it? Most of the audio in the game isn't localized, only the advisor in-game is (i.e. he isn't anywhere else).

RE: Prologue - it's better than the entire rest of the game combined, including the future ultra big map.

 

[FreeKaner]

There are 20gb of localization files yes.

 

[Tyranicon]

All the reviews I see are saying the game is poorly optimized.

A CA game being poorly optimized on launch? I'm shocked. Shocked I say.

 

[Lacrymas]

There are 20gb of localization files yes.

That's ridiculous. Aren't they compressing the audio at all? It's not a surprise I'm playing the game in German, so I know most spoken lines aren't localized. That's true in WH2 and Troy too. Only the advisor speaks in the chosen language. Speaking of language, what the hell is that accent the Kislevites are using? It's not Russian, I'd dare say it isn't Eastern European at all.

 

[Average Manatee]

Started the 3 man coop kislev campaign with some bros. 8/10 breddy gud so far. Kislev cavalry that doesn't have the word bear in the description sucks ass though.

 

[FreeKaner]

There are 20gb of localization files yes.

That's ridiculous. Aren't they compressing the audio at all? It's not a surprise I'm playing the game in German, so I know most spoken lines aren't localized. That's true in WH2 and Troy too. Only the advisor speaks in the chosen language. Speaking of language, what the hell is that accent the Kislevites are using? It's not Russian, I'd dare say it isn't Eastern European at all.

I deleted localization files (except base and English), it was 20gb deleted. Base and English has the biggest files, other languages are relatively small but add up.

 

[Fedora Master]

There are 20gb of localization files yes.

That's ridiculous. Aren't they compressing the audio at all? It's not a surprise I'm playing the game in German, so I know most spoken lines aren't localized. That's true in WH2 and Troy too. Only the advisor speaks in the chosen language. Speaking of language, what the hell is that accent the Kislevites are using? It's not Russian, I'd dare say it isn't Eastern European at all.

GTAV had the exact same issue. They don't compress their shit, because that's extra effort devs these days can't be bothered with. Everyone got great internet and storage, riiiight?

 

[Lacrymas]

There are 20gb of localization files yes.

That's ridiculous. Aren't they compressing the audio at all? It's not a surprise I'm playing the game in German, so I know most spoken lines aren't localized. That's true in WH2 and Troy too. Only the advisor speaks in the chosen language. Speaking of language, what the hell is that accent the Kislevites are using? It's not Russian, I'd dare say it isn't Eastern European at all.

I deleted localization files (except base and English), it was 20gb deleted. Base and English has the biggest files, other languages are relatively small but add up.

I'm not doubting it is, I'm just expressing shock at how they are treating our SSD/HDD space.

 

[Fedora Master]

My GPU shat itself during the prologue and now when I start the game it keeps doing it just from being in the main menu...

 

[Mortmal]

All the reviews I see are saying the game is poorly optimized.

A CA game being poorly optimized on launch? I'm shocked. Shocked I say.

Last one on mortal empire map was almost unplayable until they massively improved it months later, from turns taking minutes to a few sec. I am not touching this till everything is solved.

 

[Tyranicon]

All the reviews I see are saying the game is poorly optimized.

A CA game being poorly optimized on launch? I'm shocked. Shocked I say.

Last one on mortal empire map was almost unplayable until they massively improved it months later, from turns taking minutes to a few sec. I am not touching this till everything is solved.

Pretty standard by now to wait a few months for bugfixes, optimization and for the modders to catch up. I can't wait until the game launches in May :D

 

[Average Manatee]

Optimization seems fine in battles and turn times are low (though of course this isn't mortal empires yet).

 

[fizzelopeguss]

All the reviews I see are saying the game is poorly optimized.

A CA game being poorly optimized on launch? I'm shocked. Shocked I say.

Troy ran really well, pretty sure 3k was fine also. (I really didn't play much of that however)

It's these Warhammer games that are complete dogs.

 

[FreeKaner]

I'm not doubting it is, I'm just expressing shock at how they are treating our SSD/HDD space.

Yes, it is atrocious that the game would download language packs you won't use, these should only be downloaded when you select the language from options. 20gb is no small space, even for 250/500gb SSDs.

My GPU shat itself during the prologue and now when I start the game it keeps doing it just from being in the main menu...

Manually cap your FPS, otherwise the FPS is all over the place especially on the campaign map. Can overheat your GPU and run it at 100% on campaign map.

 

[Average Manatee]

Manually cap your FPS, otherwise the FPS is all over the place especially on the campaign map. Can overheat your GPU and run it at 100% on campaign map.

Unfortunately I don't think they make FPS caps that go down to 20

 

[underground nymph]

Eh, got mixed feelings.
Prologue could have been nice, if only it wasn’t so predictably

Spoiler

it’s Arthas story again

.
My main complaint is that Kislev’s roster looks retarded. Warcraft style footmen that don’t wear any warm clothes, because fuck it KISLEV. Jesus fuck guys you’ve been given an opportunity to add to the lore, yet instead you go full retard with magic ice sleds.
Other than that, there are some improvements as well as some drawbacks, but essentially there’s nothing new. Oh well.

 

[Raghar]

Manually cap your FPS, otherwise the FPS is all over the place especially on the campaign map. Can overheat your GPU and run it at 100% on campaign map.

Unfortunately I don't think they make FPS caps that go down to 20

Turn down resolution, and put your FPS cap to 30, or 50. And if you don't have freesync Gsync change refresh rate of your monitor to 50.

There are 20gb of localization files yes.

That's ridiculous. Aren't they compressing the audio at all? It's not a surprise I'm playing the game in German, so I know most spoken lines aren't localized. That's true in WH2 and Troy too. Only the advisor speaks in the chosen language. Speaking of language, what the hell is that accent the Kislevites are using? It's not Russian, I'd dare say it isn't Eastern European at all.

GTAV had the exact same issue. They don't compress their shit, because that's extra effort devs these days can't be bothered with. Everyone got great internet and storage, riiiight?

Lossy compression looks blurry. And killing sound by using low bitrate ogg/mp3 is QUITE BAD.

 

[FreeKaner]

I think the best improvements are to diplomacy, multiplayer and UI functionality. UI functionality particularly in lord & hero menus. Other than that there are a lot of sidesteps and a few reverse steps taken.

 

[Average Manatee]

Turn down resolution, and put your FPS cap to 30, or 50. And if you don't have freesync Gsync change refresh rate of your monitor to 50.

Non-native resolution looks like shit.