

Hi everyone,



Emperor Edition is coming today! But because it’s a mix of new game, DLC and update there’s a bunch of internal and external server and process stuff that needs to happen. This is annoying (I want to play!), but it’s all happening and working its way through at the moment and we will let you know here on this forum, our Twitter and Facebook as soon as the update is live.



In the meantime, we’ve uploaded the update notes for Emperor Edition so you can have an advance look before it goes live later today.



Here's the



And here are the Emperor Edition changes: Hi everyone,Emperor Edition is coming today! But because it’s a mix of new game, DLC and update there’s a bunch of internal and external server and process stuff that needs to happen. This is annoying (I want to play!), but it’s all happening and working its way through at the moment and we will let you know here on this forum, our Twitter and Facebook as soon as the update is live.In the meantime, we’ve uploaded the update notes for Emperor Edition so you can have an advance look before it goes live later today.Here's the Wiki Link And here are the Emperor Edition changes:

Additional Changes with the Emperor Edition

The Imperator Augustus Campaign

Antony’s Rome

Lepidus’ Rome

Octavian’s Rome

Pompey’s Rome

Iceni

Marcomanni

Dacia

Egypt

Parthia

Armenia have also been made playable in the Grand Campaign.

UI Graphical tweaks – Updating the look of the UI to improve immersion and the feel of the game.

– Updating the look of the UI to improve immersion and the feel of the game. Faction Colour Changes – All factions that were in the Grand Campaign have had their colours and icons updated generally to more naturalistic tones.

– All factions that were in the Grand Campaign have had their colours and icons updated generally to more naturalistic tones. Trait Changes – lots of changes to what triggers traits, which ones will trigger and their effects.

– lots of changes to what triggers traits, which ones will trigger and their effects. Character Ages – Changes have been made that mean in the Grand Campaign characters should tend to live for an extra 20-25 years on average.

– Changes have been made that mean in the Grand Campaign characters should tend to live for an extra 20-25 years on average.

Known Issues:

Technical and performance improvements:

Campaign

Fix for some end of turn hangs.

Fixed several crashes that could occur during the end turn sequence.

Fixed an issue related to politics that could cause an end turn crash.

Fix for campaign map stuttering when double-clicking on the terrain to move the camera long distances.

Improved the loading times, loading into Campaigns.

Updated diplomacy for when the Roman factions speak to each other.

AI improvements

Battle AI improvements:

Optimisations for Battle AI tactics for attacking walls.

AI controlled elephant units will no longer kill their elephant as soon as it begins to rampage.

Campaign AI improvements

Campaign AI army management and recruitment adjustments.

Improved Campaign AI budgeting for construction.

Improved Campaign AI army management and recruitment.

Campaign AI controlled armies will no longer remain in forced march stance after being sabotaged.

Campaign AI will no longer ignore threats when attempting to reach their last settlement to defend it from imminent capture.

AI controlled armies on the Campaign map are now less likely to stand in forced march nearby players settlements for several turns.

Increased AI research bonus on Hard and Very Hard difficulty levels.

General improvements

General battle improvements

Added Noble Horse Archers, Kartli Axemen, Persian Hoplites, Persian Cavalry and Elite Persian Archers to Armenia's unit roster.

New custom/multiplayer battle map presets added.

Tweaked mercenary unit caps in multiplayer.

Fixed Hoplite Wall exploit.

Removed Camulodunum and Oracle of Amun Ra battle preset maps.

Added in loose formation to all Iberian melee and spear infantry.

Added new pelt helmets to Germanic Officers and Elite units.

Fix for Bithynian infantry holding swords instead of axes.

Fixed bug with siege holdout skill giving negative effect.

Added Mercenary Dacian Spears to Odrysian multiplayer roster.

General Campaign improvements

Fix for Armenian/Eastern tech military building unlocks.

Updated Imperium Effect bundles.

Fix for a Multiplayer Campaign exploit.

Lots of building effect bug fixing, and religious buildings received big adjustments to their effects.

Quartered base political action costs, but quadrupled the increases from Imperium.

Fix for Epona religious chain for Iberians giving the wrong culture type.

Added replenishment rate bonus for Fortify Stance.

Fix for Remuneration Reform technology giving bigger bonuses than Cohort Organisation; their bonuses have been swapped.

The Egypian victory conditions in the Grand Campaign have been updated.

Certain political actions e.g. "Reduce senators" would increasing characters gravitas and thus power / influence. The influence cost of these political actions has been set to 0 to make it clearer what is happening, instead of showing an increase.

Improved Civil War warning message.

The Rosmerta religious chain bonus to public order from the tax edict will now apply correctly.

The "Good Looking" character trait has been given an effect, and the trigger has been restricted to agents.

Improved the portrait lighting for the advisors and Roman, Barbarian, Eastern, Hellenistic generals.

Fix for oracle event outcomes having the wrong target.

Removed movement range bonuses/penalties from season effects.

Adjustments to eastern building unit recruitment.

Added missing faction income bonuses to Getae and Odrysian Kingdom in Grand Campaign.

Fixed multiplayer campaign exploit regarding taxes and public order.

Added in glass resource to Caesar in Gaul campaign.

Added auxiliaries to Chorasmia province.

Removed happiness bonus from Field of Mars.

Swapped generic Mine Chain penalty from food to squalor.

Fix for missing political parties for Caesar in Gaul Campaign.

Fix for Persian Hoplites not being recruitable for Seleucids.

Fix for Nabia Temple increasing recruitment costs instead of decreasing them.

Bactria region will now colour correctly.

Fixed several text bugs.

Usability Improvements

Battle

Updates to battle grass colours.

Fix for some tree graphical issues on battlefields.

Improved battlefield lighting ambiance.

Updated weather environments for Mediterranean climate, dry and rainy conditions on the battlefield.

Briton Levy Freemen now look less like Celts.

Campaign

Various Multiplayer desyncs have been fixed.

Sea colours edited for all campaigns

Updates to the looks of the campaign map trees.

Fix for Seleucids speaking with Roman voices in the Grand Campaign.

Fixed some character names in the Hannibal at the Gates Campaign

Fixed a bug in Multiplayer Campaign Diplomacy, which allowed the player to accept an offer before it had been made, and in some cases caused the game to lock up when doing so.

The Coliseum now has the correct long description.

Fix for Grand Campaign Persia having wrong mini-map colour.

Reduced the strength of the sun during sandstorms in desert, reduced saturation of night-time environments.

Shrank the font size for unit names when displayed in objectives, so they fit better in the available space in the UI.

Fix for missing % in great marksmen faction trait

General

Fix when opening browser for Twitch EULA agreement.

Various UI tweaks.

Balancing Changes

Campaign

Fix for some wives missing effects.

Tweaks to ancillary effects

Tweaks to when corruption will reach max level.

Reduced anti-corruption bonuses from technology.

Reduced cumulative culture GDP bonuses from technology.

Added hull upgrade bonuses to Poseidon temple line.

Increased Macedon and Seleucid faction income bonuses.

Adjusted public order penalties/bonuses from Influence and Imperium to be more in-line with buildings. These happiness effects are now listed as Faction on the happiness tooltip in the settlement details panel.

Adjusted cost of Legionaries, Principes and Legionary Cohort.

Eastern Horse Archers are now recruitable from level 2 Light Stables.

Balkan factions now have Cultural Affinity bonus with each other.

Adjusted happiness penalty from Imperium to one based on presence of foreign cultures.

Reduced experience gain per turn for agents being deployed or in armies.

Adjusted recruitment of Painted Ones, Naked Swords and Naked Warriors to be earlier.

Adjusted the stats for the branches of the Roman city, Eastern city and Eastern generic town chains to give more clear differentiation between the choices.

Battle

Hoplites speed has been adjusted.

Adjusted pike balancing.

Increased melee cavalry attack.

Big adjustments to unit ability assignments - now fewer units have abilities, and their distribution has been edited.

Increased the ammo of Scorpion and Polybolos units.

Reduced reload time of Scorpion units.

Reduced "attacked in rear" morale penalty to -30.

Reduced winning combat significantly morale factor to 20.

Reduced pike attack cool-down timer to 2.1.

Reduced acceleration and turn speed of super heavy (cataphract) mount.

Increased elephant hit points.

Reduced chariot hit points.

Reduced melee defence of pike units.

Reduced morale of most Peltasts units.

Improved attack of Agrianian Axemen.

Increased melee defence of Round Shield Swordsmen.

Increased attack and charge of Falxmen and Thracian Warriors.

Increased attack and charge of Carthaginian Noble Cavalry.

Removed disciplined trait from Illyrian Thureos Spears.

Increased attack and charge of Sword Band.

Reduced melee defence and hit points of Milita Hoplites, Libyan Hoplites and Late Libyan Hoplites.

Increased attack and defence of Hastati.

Changed shield of Cantabrian Cavalry to one with a bigger missile block chance.

Increased morale and hit points for Etruscan Hoplites.

Reduced cost of Noble Spearmen.

AP damage of Kopis increased by 1.

Reduced damage of recurve bows.

Removed melee defence bonus from Fighting Spirit ability.

Removed unbreakable morale from Force Concentration ability.

Removed fatigue freeze from Relentless ability.

Reduced fatigue penalty from Rapid Advance ability.

Duration of the Spirit of the 10th ability reduced by half.

Reduced speed penalties from fatigue.

Fixed armour type for Naked swords unit (set to no armour).

Reduced stats of higher level pikes by -1 attack and -2 melee defence.

Increased melee attack of Chosen Sword Band, Chosen Swordsmen, Sword Followers, Tribal Warriors, Gallo-Thracian Infantry.

Increased melee defence of Fierce Swords.

Reduced melee attack of Axemen and Kartli Axemen.

Increased melee attack of Scale Throax Hoplites.

Increased melee attack and charge of Naked Swords.

Increased melee defence of Ambushers.

Increased melee attack and charge bonus of Painted Ones and reduced melee defence.

Increased armour of Elite Persian Archers.

Increased charge of Kartli Axemen.



Mac: 14120.589209

PC: 14116.589209





The changes are:



• Fix for Civil War triggering at under 50% influence for 2 party factions.

• Fix for wrong minimum Political Influence causing a Civil War in a 4 Party Faction.

• The Mac Steam version of the game will no longer crash, when the Macs system language is set to Turkish, Polish, Russian or Czech.

• In-game movies will now play correctly at 1380x768 resolution.

• Added traditions to Egypt faction in the Imperator Augustus Campaign.

• Reduced Campaign AI priority for recruiting dog units.

• Added description to Armenias political party in Grand Campaign mode.

• A few incorrect effect icons have been corrected.

• Fix for shadows not being cast properly by barbarian fort walls on the battle map.



http://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Total_War_ROM_II:_Hotfix_Patch_15

Build number:• Fix for Civil War triggering at under 50% influence for 2 party factions.• Fix for wrong minimum Political Influence causing a Civil War in a 4 Party Faction.• The Mac Steam version of the game will no longer crash, when the Macs system language is set to Turkish, Polish, Russian or Czech.• In-game movies will now play correctly at 1380x768 resolution.• Added traditions to Egypt faction in the Imperator Augustus Campaign.• Reduced Campaign AI priority for recruiting dog units.• Added description to Armenias political party in Grand Campaign mode.• A few incorrect effect icons have been corrected.• Fix for shadows not being cast properly by barbarian fort walls on the battle map.

Set during the 2nd Triumvirate and starting in 42 BC, this campaign covers the same areas as the Grand Campaign but with revisions to what settlements and provinces there are. There are 10 playable factions:If you continue an old Grand Campaign save, during or after a Civil War, the new Politics screen in the Faction Overview will not display correctly, due to the civil war mechanics changing to allow multiple civil wars. These saves can still be continued, but the Politics screen will not be useful in this case.=======================UPDATE 01/10/14 ==========================