Talk:Total War: Shogun 2

steam...

It should really say in the article that the game requires steam to play. It says so on the box in VERY small print, which I only discoverd after purchusing. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.206.3.168 (talk) 15:58, 29 July 2011 (UTC)

This is extremely unfortunate, IMO. I live out in the boonies where no cable provider will ever be able to afford to hook me up for high speed Internet. For Medieval 2 and previous Total War games, I could take a thumb drive to the county library (with high speed Internet) and download patches, etc for the games. Steam does up to multi-hundred megabyte downloads UNANNOUNCED to newer Total War games - at dial-up speeds? Who are you kidding? Creative Assembly lost me as a customer because of this requirement for Steam. MikeCz — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.31.70.43 (talk) 00:09, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Totally agree, how can there not be an item called "DRM" or similar in this article? Several years back this was a smaller issue, but today it is a very important piece of information that should be included in all video game pages in Wikipedia. 183.88.31.166 (talk) 05:19, 27 January 2012 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 183.88.31.166 (talk)

You can disable auto-updates in Steam. Right-click -> Properties -> Updates. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.96.73.70 (talk) 11:23, 22 November 2011 (UTC)

Comments

I'm not sure if it's appropriate to state that the engine will support over 56,000 units (or whatever the figure quoted is) and compare that number to what appeared in Napoleon or prior Total War games - the AI/combat/rendering engine has always supported more troops than actually are allowed in-game. Several cinematics have been rendered for the games using the engine in which more troops appear than what would be possible in most battles. In fact, some multiplayer games of, for instance, Napoleon, allow 8 separate armies operating on the battlefield at one time - as long as each army represents a different faction. The number of troops supported by the Shogun 2 engine doesn't appear to be any different than the other TW games, and ingame footage released thus far shows a limit of 20 controllable "units" (composed of scores of soldiers, scaled by the game options) just like every other TW game.71.61.184.104 (talk) 03:58, 11 November 2010 (UTC)

I took it out, if anyone disagrees please discuss here. Thanks Gunnar123abc (talk) 16:31, 7 March 2011 (UTC)

Shogun 2 title

What's up with that? Shouldn't it be Shogun 2: Total War? Total War: Shogun 2 just seems out there to me. YuriKaslov (talk) 16:02, 17 December 2010 (UTC)

It was only recently changed, around when the official "box art" was announced in November 2010. Check the official website if in doubt. This was done presumably to increase the "Total War" brand awareness (like in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2). Spiritaway5177 (talk) 07:16, 7 January 2011 (UTC)

Hardware compatibility Discuss here

Significantly too many people on Total War Forums were saying this won't run on older systems: Once we have more data, this should be a brief discussion, but wanted to add that I had only minor issues with the following specs: AMD 939 FX55 1 GB PC3200 DDR | 74GB 10000 raptor drive (game installed there) 160 and 500 GB all SATA 1 drives | SATA DVD | HD 4650 Radeon PCI 1GB DDR3 or DDR2 Dx10.1 Pixel Shader 4| ASUS A8N-SLI motherboard (yea the old buggy one: been stable for 3 years) | (dead chipset fan/ but with added fan cooling directed at chipset: sound overload tends to crash computer) | DirectX 9.0c(IIRC) and Windows XP Pro SP3 | game plays online faster than Napoleon Total War. | experienced intermittent problems with the in game encyclopedia might be due to graphics driver or memory limits: that's a minor issue because I'd rather read it in a guide or online outside of game. [SoulCatcher] —Preceding unsigned comment added by 199.208.239.141 (talk) 14:32, 16 March 2011 (UTC)

DirectX 11

There's a minor hoo-haa about the DirectX 11 compatibility, or rather, the lack of it. For those who don't know, despite the box giving 'AMD Radeon 5000 and 6000 series graphics cards or equivalent DirectX 11 compatible graphics card' as one of the recommended specs, the game, as of right now, is not actually compatible with DirectX 11. A DirectX 11 patch was promised 2-4 weeks after release, that came and went, then the patch was promised for the first week of May, but now it's delayed again (slightly) until Monday (9th May). As far as I can see, it's only really annoyed a few folk on the Total War forums, so is it worth trying to track down reliable sources to bung it in, or is it too minor to bother? 86.161.121.19 (talk) 22:10, 6 May 2011 (UTC)

the clans

Im curious to the reasoning behind the removal of the clans section, i find it to be informative and helpful, its not controversial, it doenst hurt anyone, what gives? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.214.4.21 (talk) 04:43, 7 May 2011 (UTC)

Units

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, I am kinda new to Wiki :) anyway, how about saying something about the units? We could just say most clans have mostly the same units. And what is the policy about non-wiki links? Because I found this unit list thing and it seems quite good: http://shogun2.heavengames.com/info/units/ I am asking so I don't just edit it in then get told off. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Shogunapple (talk • contribs) 14:52, 24 August 2011 (UTC)

Demo Release Date

According to the Steam website, the free demo version was released on the 23rd not the 22nd. I cannot be sure which is correct, so someone please notify me if someone finds out. I am Commandandconquergenerals.

Advertisement?

Not sure if it's just me, but it seems that the Release, Downloadable Content, and FotS Expansion sections go beyond encyclopedic relevance with the extensive listings of new and special features. I didn't want to do it unilaterally, but I think this stuff should be quickly summarized and cut down, as this feels like blatant promotion and that's not what Wikipedia is for. Milhisfan (talk) 08:53, 25 July 2012 (UTC)

Deleted. --Niemti (talk) 22:48, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

Multiplayer

I would like to add a multiplayer part to this article since it is an important part of the game. I have a lot of multiplayer experience in this game and would like to give a brief explanation about S2 multiplayer. — Preceding unsigned comment added by The Marvelist (talk • contribs) 23:14, 30 January 2016 (UTC)

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