Why not NTW2?

[Davout GR]

I don't know about you but I'm very disappointed with the online experience of ETW and I won't be playing until a patch comes out. Have we all abandoned NTW2 (unistall, throw the rtw cd in the trash can ) or are there some people still playing or wanting to play until we see a better day with ETW? I know I'm willing to have some good old fights...

[Vanquisher]

My Empire lags in MP for some reason. I suck at NTW though:P Or at least I did against the only person I ever played

[Lord Desaix]

I've never suffered a disconnection or a CTD up today.
Do you really want me to revert to the beloved crash of NTW2 ?

Btw I play Men of War as well, really a nice MP game on the IIWW, so I can cope with Empire MP problems hoping they will be fixed soon.

[Lord Gunner24]

Empire MP (grog) mod is not too bad, but it's not too good either, serious proplems with game play balance and artillery, but connection wise, it's 100x better than GS ntw2......

Re: Why not NTW2?

I don't think I can ever go back to the CTD and bickering about rules (GM/FiM/SBs) caused by the game "engine" faults of Rome.

If Empire is not improved soon, I think it will be an MP "break" for me till the Lordz mod arrives, or LG, which ever gets here first.

[Jakob]

Well SVK trains twice a week, but basically untill KLA's or the Lordz mod or the Grogs mod is finished, its CoH and DoD for me. NTW2 is beautiful, but I just can't go back to it.

[Herr Lindstrom]

KLA's European Wars beta for RTW has just been released but it is way more buggy than last August's release but We can expect 1.0 at the end of this month.... well that's what KLA said... I'm not going to hold him to his word though because of all the setbacks and delays

Also he's making a realism mod for ETW if any of you are interested

[Davout GR]

I don't know about you but I never had much problems in 2vs2 or 3vs3 in NTW2. I prefer to have some rule quarrels than having edited unit stats, intentional disconnects and lag all the time.

[Lord Gunner24]

I don't know about you but I never had much problems in 2vs2 or 3vs3 in NTW2.

There were (generally speaking) NO problems with ntw2 as long as the battle was finished within about 40 minutes, after 40-45 minutes someone would get a CTD almost every time.....if you played fast, charge, all over in 20 minutes battles, then there was no CTD problem, if you like longer battles without the mass charges then they would normally crash just before they were due to end - after about 40-45-50 minutes........this was most of the games I played.

[Lord Hokomoko]

My Empire lags in MP for some reason. I suck at NTW though:P Or at least I did against the only person I ever played

wierd, I have a log of a 3v3 game with you where you actually were on the winning side, with nice kills/killed ratio.

[Somerset]

After 1.5months my both 3v3 and 2v2 ntw2 games crashed after 30-35 mins close to the end
My last night's 3v3 Empire game was laggy but playable but then all of a sudden i dropped.

[Rectunator]

The ETW drop problem could be because you played in a ranked server. When someone leaves a ranked game the whole game ends and you find yourself back in the mp-menu. Nowadays I only host unranked games. Score and achievements be damned, victory itself is enough of an achievement for me. And if you people dont like the arcadeish gameplay of ETW, download the latest DarthMod. That should do the trick.

[Moopere]

download the latest DarthMod. That should do the trick.

Yeah, its pretty impressive eh?

Cheers, Moopere

[Rectunator]

Yes. So very impressive.

[Lord Legless Lannes]

It's probably to late in the day but RTW gold is available on steam, so by that rationale is it possible to play NTW on steam if you have steam's version of Rome.

And if so would MP be more stable on steam than gamespy taking out people's internet connection/hardware as variables which can't be helped whether steam or gs, stable 4v4s would be immense if possible.

[Jakob]

Regardless if you're on steam, Rome would still use GS to play online games on.

[Lord Sean Cappone]

steam is orrible.

[Lord Crow]

From what I read Empire TW doesn't like nvidia drivers especially the new ones. I have nvidia graphics and was getting loads of CTD's enough to stop me playing the game but then I went to the TW Center and found some good help.

I installed the DMUC mod afterwards btw and it is just so cool.

Anyway there is advice about what to do in the nvidia control panel and few tweaks you do in the graphis panel and audio panel in game, worked for me a treat.