Total War: Rome II patch reduces AI turn times

The AI spending ages thinking through its turn isn't Total War: Rome II's only problem, but it is one you'll encounter awfully often. The second big patch hit today, with changes including reducing the AI's turn time, bug fixes, bags of balance tweaks, and more.

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The AI spending ages thinking through its turn isn't Total War: Rome II's only problem, but it is one you'll encounter awfully often. The second big patch hit today, with changes including reducing the AI's turn time, bug fixes, bags of balance tweaks, and more.

The 96-point patch notes say the AI turn time improvements have the "greatest effect during early game," but I'd be surprised if developer The Creative Assembly left it at that. You'll also find detailed plenty of crash fixes, performance improvements, smarter AI, and more.

The patch will download automatically through Steam.

Rome II's creative director apologised for the game's poor state at launch, and The Creative Assembly had planned to release weekly patches. That routine may not have lasted even until the second patch but look, do you want the game fixed or not?

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    September 17, 2013 7:00 AM

    Alice O'Connor posted a new article, Total War: Rome II patch reduces AI turn times.

    The AI spending ages thinking through its turn isn't Total War: Rome II's only problem, but it is one you'll encounter awfully often. The second big patch hit today, with changes including reducing the AI's turn time, bug fixes, bags of balance tweaks, and more.

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      September 17, 2013 7:25 AM

      I tried the Beta of this patch and I was still crashing to desktop pretty frequently during battles. I wonder if they changed it much.

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        September 17, 2013 7:43 AM

        how's the game in general?

        Total War Shogun II for me would hang for like 2 minutes-5 minutes going into battles, bleh

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          September 17, 2013 7:51 AM

          I upgraded from a Core2Duo to a quadcore haswell so it's hard to compare but the load times seems really fast in comparison.

          I really can't comment on how the game is. I've played maybe 2 hours and most of that has been replaying the tutorial because it keeps crashing and I have to redo the turn I'm on over and over.

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      September 17, 2013 5:28 PM

      i dont like rts at all
      if you like.... rome....you can try ryse

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        September 17, 2013 5:39 PM

        ryse looks cool but I dunno if there are enough quicktime events for me.

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        September 17, 2013 6:47 PM

        I like to play games though

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      September 19, 2013 1:27 PM

      If they really do fix this game I'm sure I'll pick it up somewhere down the line. I love the setting.

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