Empire Total War

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Apparently the strategic AI is even more retarded than the one on MTW2 ..[:o]

[Phatguy]

I have succumbed to the dark side...the box sits 2 feet from me, its evil emanating into my pores calling me with it's siren song

[sol_invictus]

ORIGINAL: apathetic lurker

Another bad thing I noticed with steam and E:TW.....No manual, not even in pdf form..Or so many are complaining about..Granted, the manuals that
the Total War series put out werent great, but not including one with a DL? Boggles the mind.....Oh yeah, some complaints about servers being busy and therefore not being able to play....Maybe time for me to get and play a non-steam driven game.

I like the concept of Steam, but somehow the execution is lacking, especially with the "big" releases.. It seems to handle small games fine. Maybe i'll try it out on one of those bargain games first before spending 50 at gamestop and letting Steam control my fun.


EDIT: The no manual part is only for the direct download from Steam, not the boxed version.

Well the actual manual is rather weak anyway. This is without a doubt the thinest TW manual ever.

[Phatguy]

ORIGINAL: Arinvald

ORIGINAL: apathetic lurker

Another bad thing I noticed with steam and E:TW.....No manual, not even in pdf form..Or so many are complaining about..Granted, the manuals that
the Total War series put out werent great, but not including one with a DL? Boggles the mind.....Oh yeah, some complaints about servers being busy and therefore not being able to play....Maybe time for me to get and play a non-steam driven game.

I like the concept of Steam, but somehow the execution is lacking, especially with the "big" releases.. It seems to handle small games fine. Maybe i'll try it out on one of those bargain games first before spending 50 at gamestop and letting Steam control my fun.


EDIT: The no manual part is only for the direct download from Steam, not the boxed version.

Well the actual manual is rather weak anyway. This is without a doubt the thinest TW manual ever.

True, but thats not an excuse....There are probably quite a few new players getting lost and the manual gives you some minor help... The manual showed up on steams' site but too litle too late.

Steam also installed the game in one location.Would not give me an option to install on my "game" drive but only on the c drive..Maybe I am missing something.... Saved game is there, but I found it by searching ALL folders and for some reason found it in a hidden folder..Now I am sure thats a bug or I inenvertantly hit something..I just cant picture CA doing something so idiotic as hide the save game files deep in your system..

[sol_invictus]

Yeah, I haven't even attempted to install yet. I am bracing for the inevitable stress in about an hour. From the sounds of things, SEGA/CA really screwed the pooch with this rediculous Steam activation and the messed up file locations that resulted. People can't even find save files or files needed to mod. I gues this is the brave new gaming world that we must face.[:@]

[Phatguy]

Next time i'm contemplating buying a game with steam activation required is the day I walk in front of a bus....less painfull

[Zakhal]

Huh? I have used steam for over 4 years and never had problems..well except the new euro prices.

[Terminus]

I just installed it this afternoon. Took all of 15 minutes, including activation, and it performed flawlessly. No worries here.

[Phatguy]

Well, I am happy that some have had no serious problems..Mine installed fine but for some connection issues originally but I really dont like the fact that I cant install wherever I like, the original steam DL had no manual whatsoever. Reading the forums over there I notice a lot of people having no issues and a lot having issues with Steam. Seems the huge game releases get nerfed over on Steam. And really, how do you justify having Steam tell me that a bunch of different anti-virus software is not really compatible with it. Yes I can run ETW fine but I do need to close Ad-aware,Avast and Webroot and Xfire...otherwise its a 50-50 shot of running the game..Not good these days..I know a friend has one of the other ones that are on Steam's list but his game works fine...So maybe its my system but doubtful..

[Zakhal]

I have used multiple anti-virus with steam including avast without any problems. I havent used ad-aware, webroot or xfire though. 

[Phatguy]

Well, I havent tested each one seperatley but I know if I close all of them, ETW runs, if I dont close em its a roll of the dice

[Terminus]

Well, I'd have to say that I'd never buy games on Steam itself. I bought both DoW 2 and ETW in box copies, so I only had to do the activation thing. So that's the caveat for my positive experience.

[LarryP]

ORIGINAL: apathetic lurker

Well, I am happy that some have had no serious problems..Mine installed fine but for some connection issues originally but I really dont like the fact that I cant install wherever I like, the original steam DL had no manual whatsoever. Reading the forums over there I notice a lot of people having no issues and a lot having issues with Steam. Seems the huge game releases get nerfed over on Steam. And really, how do you justify having Steam tell me that a bunch of different anti-virus software is not really compatible with it. Yes I can run ETW fine but I do need to close Ad-aware,Avast and Webroot and Xfire...otherwise its a 50-50 shot of running the game..Not good these days..I know a friend has one of the other ones that are on Steam's list but his game works fine...So maybe its my system but doubtful..

Well, I wasn't going to post this but after reading so much about Steam here, I had to. Check this out:
Downloading Games

[Speedysteve]

RIDICULOUS,
 
It says Steam is going to take an ETA of 13 hours to finish updating before I can play ETW....WTF?!? So far been sitting here for an hour[:@]

[Speedysteve]

Brilliant. Restarted and now just the grand total of 5 hours + to update[8|][:@]

[Arctic Blast]

ORIGINAL: Speedy

RIDICULOUS,

It says Steam is going to take an ETA of 13 hours to finish updating before I can play ETW....WTF?!? So far been sitting here for an hour[:@]

I read a number of issues people with physical game copies were having that sounded a lot like this...even though you have a disc in the drive, it still tries to install the downloaded version. If you stop it, and then open and close your optical drive again, it apparently wakes it up to the fact there's an actual DISC in the drive.

[Terminus]

I hate to harp on about it, but mine worked first time, and took about 8 minutes to do the update. Weird...[&:]

[Speedysteve]

I am seriously very miffed at this. Down to 4 hours + now....Sorry Arctic Blast your suggestion had little effect. POS that this is

[Grell]

Has anybody in Canada got this game yet?

Regards,

Grell

[Lützow]

I got both titles and while Empire offers easy accessability and a tidy interface, CoG:EE provides more depth for 'thinking gamers'. However, Steam is a PITA. Couldn't start Empire in the morning as my inet access was out of order.