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Total War: Three Kingdoms |OT| Pursue the mandate of heaven with your dynasty's warriors!
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I'm glad they went with the Shogun 2 approach of somewhat compensating for a limited unit roster by making them super R/P/S in application. Like getting some shock cav into any unarmored infantry that isn't braced spears just deletes that unit, but if they are braced your cav can vanish shockingly fast.
Thank you, glad I'm not totally missing the boat with the troops!
Yeah I really love when they get these kinds of things right.
Game Debate is pretty good for what you want to optimize graphically.
https://www.game-debate.com/news/27...nt-graphics-options-every-setting-benchmarked
Oh, that's a great graph! I did a bunch of benchmarking yesterday and came up with similar results.
On my 1070 and 6700K, I use the Ultra preset with a few changes: unit size moved up to Ultra, shadows reduced to High, grass detail to High, depth of field Off (just don't enjoy the DoF). Gives me ~75fps in the battle benchmark. Reducing a few of the settings as I did lets me up the unit size and still come out with extra performance on top.
Good to know that trees doesn't offer much performance hit, because reducing it from Ultra makes the pop-in quite jarring.
someone help me, how do you turn the advisor back on? (the top right circle with the character in it that tells you what to do). I am a bit rusty (haven't played a Total War game since Shogun 2) and I clicked the X thinking thiat'd clear the big pop ups beside the portrait but nope, it closed the whole advisor thing.
Now I can't seem to figure out how to get it back, put advice on high, reloaded an older save, nothing...
Now I can't seem to figure out how to get it back, put advice on high, reloaded an older save, nothing...
Is the in-game encyclopedia available online? I'm not at home right now but I'd like to look some stuff up. I know it opens in the Steam Browser so it's gotta be somewhere, right?
You can have children. Your family does not have an upkeep cost, and you can designate them as your heir.
So is it just random or do you do something to get kids? I'm almost worried that my faction leaders dies in battle lol.
Well, you have to do something 😏.
If you have a wife it seems to be random. Not sure if you can increase the chance somehow.
yea it's set to high but the advisor at the top right isn't there anymore and doesn't say anything since I clicked x to close it, no matter what I set tihe advice to it doesn't show up again and I can't find out how you re-open that advisor panel.
I'm set to Large units right now but I might set it to Ultra. My setup handled the benchmark really well so I'm not worried about performance. I'd have to start the campaign over but whatever, I was only two hours in. I think my setup could handle extreme but it's the gameplay ramifications that stop me. It just looks so unwieldy lol.
This game feels a lot more optimized than the Warhammer ones though I guess there are no magic effects in the benchmark (do fire arrows take their place?). Really impressed.
This game feels a lot more optimized than the Warhammer ones though I guess there are no magic effects in the benchmark (do fire arrows take their place?). Really impressed.
It's a diplomatic option. I assume there's a way to marry someone in your own court but I haven't looked to be sure.
Be careful which marriage option you choose, though, as you can effectively give away your kingdom lol.
You can arrange a marriage into your faction or out of your faction. If a faction asks to marry one of your generals etc they will move to that faction. If you ask another faction to marry one of your generals etc they will join you. So don't give away your best generals!
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That's odd. May have found a bug. Been playing for hours and advisor is still there for me. Maybe changing advisor voice to Chinese audio advisor in audio options?
For those interested there's an an unabridged version for R3K (two books from Robert Moss), a podcast from a Chinese guy explaining some aspects of the story to western audience (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-iGpr72MHlk) and also the subbed tv series from 2010 on YouTube.
I didn't realise how bloodthirsty Zheng Jiang was. Her campaign has a really different feel from Cao Cao's.
Stiler Is there an option to reset tutorials somewhere? That might do the trick. I'll check for it next time I'm in game.
Yeah, it sounds like a bug to me, too. I've dismissed a pop-up and had it show up later. (And show the same tutorials in new campaigns.)
Stiler Is there an option to reset tutorials somewhere? That might do the trick. I'll check for it next time I'm in game.
Yeah, that's gotta be it.
It even has a log of all the pop-ups, and full control over what pops up. That's really helpful stuff.
There's a pretty nasty bug that greys out the diplomacy option and prevents you from using it, you can't even choose to negotiate from the characters submenu.
Unfortunately I've been hit with it from the beginning of my Sun Jian campaign. Hopefully they fix it fast.
Unfortunately I've been hit with it from the beginning of my Sun Jian campaign. Hopefully they fix it fast.
Spent about 2 hours playing before taking a break. It's the first time I've ever really sat down with a Total War game so it's fairly overwhelming but I'm still enjoying it.
I think I'll start a new campaign. I've played a good chunk of Cao Cao's. I solidified my position and was moving to claim the former capital/spark a war with Yuan Shu. Suddenly, Dong Zhuo was displaced and lost vassalage of the Han. I had a mission to seek peace, so said "why not, the rest of this supposed coalition already did", but lol they were VERY open to being vassals. Boom, major bump to cash flow and potential territory with none of the consequences.
The next turn I really learned how broken using intrigue to start a proxy war is. Chance my arm starting a war between Liu Bei and Yuan Shao, which gave me +40 leverage (or something close to that), which was more than enough to vassalize him and get a big chunk of regular cash out of him. Seriously, this needs a patch. It's a great ability, but it should be treated the same as a request to a coalition, ie the target will either take it, demand incentives, or just not. I need to just not abuse that because damn was that a strong couple turns.
So yeah, half of China are my vassals (central band from one side, nearly to the other). I can Annex whenever I want and immediately get Liu Bei/Zhang Fei/Guan Yu added to my roster, along with huge swathes of territory.
The next turn I really learned how broken using intrigue to start a proxy war is. Chance my arm starting a war between Liu Bei and Yuan Shao, which gave me +40 leverage (or something close to that), which was more than enough to vassalize him and get a big chunk of regular cash out of him. Seriously, this needs a patch. It's a great ability, but it should be treated the same as a request to a coalition, ie the target will either take it, demand incentives, or just not. I need to just not abuse that because damn was that a strong couple turns.
So yeah, half of China are my vassals (central band from one side, nearly to the other). I can Annex whenever I want and immediately get Liu Bei/Zhang Fei/Guan Yu added to my roster, along with huge swathes of territory.
it's not unless you have vsync on
I thought the same, but I realized that my settings/card just had me hovering around 58-60 fps for most of my playtime
Is there a complete guide to get all of the special characters or at least know how to get them?
It's been beautiful so far for me. Runs well and load times are super quick, even on my old ass HDD. The most annoying part of my performance with TWW2, hangups when pulling up certain UI elements, are also gone, but those could be mod related I suppose.
I'm very curious about the later campaigns. Do we get characters like Jiang Wei, Deng Ai, Zhong Hui and the like? The game seems very focused on the early campaigns, and not much on the later stages when it truly becomes 3 kingdoms.
The dificulty is just bonuses for the AI and penalties for the player. Feel free to reduce it.
Personaly i think having at elast a 17-21 army is a must. To deal with strong enemies + garrisons. I also don't really like a defensive army, if an army is not engaging in battle you are wasting that upkeep. I prefer to lose a city then having to pay an army for 20-30 turns for the possibility of an attack. The money of those 30 turns can pay for a lot of stuff.
extreme units are just slighly bigger then shogun 2. In shogun 2 yari had 200 models, here militia has 240 models. In terms of gameplay it doesn't change taht much from ultra. It sure makes the battles feel much larger.
2 options:
- In your court you need to have a free lady and a free man. (choose the one you want to marry and the option appears in the lower left corner; it costs 2000)
- Outside of your faction you need to find a faction that is available for marriage and convince them to do it.
This game has a much deeper civ-like then all other total wars. If the campaign is what bothers you i'd recomend warhammer total war where the campaign is much simpler.
Missile defense is damaged reduction against arrows which should include towers. It won't protect from artillery.
For me it does 30-40 FPS almost everything at max @1440p.
I have a I7-6700k @4.0 Ghz and a gtx 1070.
How does ambushing work. In the Koei ROTK games, ambushing is handled very inelegantly. You can never really pull off the kind of ambushes described in the novel.
Has CA mentioned how difficulties work? Normal difficulty sure seems like the AI is shackled sometimes.
e.g. my situation. I am Cao Cao, and Wang Lang declared war on me. My primary army is offscreen to the North and Wang Lang has free reign on my territory. The Chen livestock farm couldn't hope to defeat his army--it's a free territory--and yet Wang Lang has sat beside it for a turn without doing anything, fully prepped to go.
Of course, I ask this after having been dismantled as Zheng Jiang so it might just be the AI being weird.
e.g. my situation. I am Cao Cao, and Wang Lang declared war on me. My primary army is offscreen to the North and Wang Lang has free reign on my territory. The Chen livestock farm couldn't hope to defeat his army--it's a free territory--and yet Wang Lang has sat beside it for a turn without doing anything, fully prepped to go.
Of course, I ask this after having been dismantled as Zheng Jiang so it might just be the AI being weird.
You have to be in the ambush stance with your army and then hope that the enemy army does not have the ability to see it.
Even with the tooltips I am thoroughly confused by the campaign map. I just stick in my base for like 5+ turns while my army builds and a few buildings build and once my army's reinforced I blindly march to an enemy hoping that my army is strong enough to beat them.
There's a few ways to tell strength at a glance. The yellow bars on each army tells you its manpower--one yellow bar per unit, I think; with faded yellow bars meaning it's not at full strength. Then, when targetting an army or settlement, part of the pre-battle screen shows relative strength between your selected army and the target. There's a strength scale, where a green bar going left means you're stronger than them, while a red bar going right means they have the advantage. Generally, if you have the same amount of troops it will be pretty close. (With sieges being more unpredictable.)
Note that sometimes you can get better results manually fighting, especially during close/pyrric victories.
For more broad power comparisons, you can see each faction's relative strength in the diplomacy screen. Red chevrons pointing up mean they're stronger, green ones pointing down are weaker, and a yellow line is about equal. Just keep in mind that this includes all armies, which may be hiding or offscreen.
For the campaign map, what's confusing you? The thing that trips me up is how it changes perspective when enemy units move... I keep losing track of the map geography.
Man, heroes can absolutely wreck things and turn a battle. I had a battle that I thought was easily won, I made the enemy's army route except for a single unit and two heroes. I put 3 units of melee on them + my archers while I chased down his main hero with tihe rest. somehow literally his 2 general units + 1 unit of spearman wrecked three units of melee troops and two units of archers I have behind them, I wasn't watching that part cause I thought it'd be an easy win while I en joyed the duel of my main hero unit against theirs.
Can someone tell me, why do spearman wreck halbred users? Makes no sense...you think those would be a fairly even fight since they are similar in reach, heck I'd wager halbreds would be better in a line because you can use them to chop at the spear heads...
Can someone tell me, why do spearman wreck halbred users? Makes no sense...you think those would be a fairly even fight since they are similar in reach, heck I'd wager halbreds would be better in a line because you can use them to chop at the spear heads...
That might've just been a "fighting stronger unit, losing" morale penalty pushing your troops into routing. Towards the end of a battle, units can get pretty fragile in terms of morale.
Like in my short-lived Zheng Jiang campaign, I fought two battles that were certain defeats, yet managed to rout the enemy by sheer morale attrition. When Zhen Jiang kills or routs every (fortunately non-champion) general, it makes a big difference on the battlefield.
NinjaEdit: Oh and not sure on the halberd vs spearmen thing. It's probably due to veterancy or unit quality more than their weapons.
Is there an easier way to marry besides clicking on different provinces and factions to see if they will marry? I wish it was sort of like CK2 where you click your character that you want to marry off and then it shows options on who might me a good choice
I'm playing romance, I like the feeling of having super generals
They are going to make starting dates aka Chapters as DLC, so we could only hope CA will going as far as that.
Honestly I wish Romance mode general isn't full blown Dynasty Warriors unit. I liked having my officers have significant effect to the army, but not single handedly wrecked a thousand troops alone.
I love the romance mode. It's so much more interesting to have characters matter on a battlefield. The alternative is just so... boring to me. Can't go back to a non-Warhammer inspired TW.
And speaking of characters, I love the way they talk pre-battle. It is so good. Enemies even chime in on occasion.
And I should mention, some AI will offer you marriages. Just make note of whether the char is coming to you or going away.
And speaking of characters, I love the way they talk pre-battle. It is so good. Enemies even chime in on occasion.
Tried to figure this out earlier, and I think quick diplomacy would cover it. Quick diplomacy is basically "any diplomatic agreement with a chance of succeeding". Early on the marriagable characters get snapped up, though, so you gotta really be on your toes about it.
And I should mention, some AI will offer you marriages. Just make note of whether the char is coming to you or going away.