Don’t get me wrong; great video of an even greater game. But seriously, the closed captions kept on saying imperium’s rectum. Anyways, after I wiped the soda and snot off of my phone’s Otterbox (and turned off the subtitles 😂), I was still very much entertained. Keep up the great work!! Lmfao 🤣😂😂😭🤣🤣😭🤣🤣
It looks like what we have all been waiting for 15 years. A truly huge map, countless detailed settlement, many factions , good battles gameplay Thank you To all the team Modding this game
I wish they had taken the time to fix the ai (pathfinding/responsiveness) when they remastered the game, because then this would be absolutely perfect. I swear they somehow made it worse in the remaster
They are excellent, I repeat myself but these guys do an extraordinary job out of their passion, which is the main motor, vs the producers who just do it for money and we see the mediocre result: less than 100 regions from Hispania to Mesopotamia, Iran and Transoxiana and northwest India are completely absent
See, I wouldn't mind of they reduced the visuals on the campaign map if it meant there were a lot more settlements and all the other aspects are more in depth. In my opinion, it always felt silly that you could conquer an entire country by sometimes just occupying one city. I'd much rather see them toning down the campaign map visuals and made it more intriguing gameplay wise. I think I speak for a lot of people if the perfect strategy game would be the campaign map and mechanics of a paradox game combined with the battles of Total War.
That would Genuinely be the greatest representation and cost effective safe practice of Statecraft and Generalship! Always have dreamt of this. I am definitely taking note of your comment for the future!
I spent the last month playing imperium surrectum and its SO. GOOD!!!! Amazing amazing amazing! The map is complex, the units are diverse and the cities brought tears to my eye, so well done. It is better than modern TW games, so much attention to detail.
Or CA finally do a interesting historical Total War again. Seems like they are so focus on fantasy the past years. With Troy, Warhammer and Three Kingdoms
I think it's pretty likely we'll get Medieval II remastered since it was just recently released on mobile which was the same cycle as for Rome Remastered.
Do you see CA? Do you see? This is what we wanted for a Rome Total War. This! Oh and i'd also like cinimatic scenes for all types of Diplomacy and interactive Senate Sessions when choosing new tech, making declerations of war. And all the intrigue between the factions. In each civilisation. I can dream can't I? xD
Damn, looks like I am actually going to have to purchase Rome: Remastered at some date soon then. I didn't expect that to be happening if I'm honest with you.
@@AndysTake True enough, it was just prior to this I couldn't have seen myself purchasing the remaster as.. well frankly it didn't seem worth the price tag, as pretty as it is (no denying that). However now that the mod scene seems to be properly taking hold with it and they seem to have far, far fewer restrictions than is normally associated with modding TW games. I feel I am going to have to just to be able to try whatever comes out for it. This mod in of itself looks absolutely lush and I for one and loving the greatly expanded map and regions. That was one of the few detriments to R:TW imo, the world felt too small for what it was trying to represent. Anyway dude, also wanted to say that I'd not seen any of your content before, but I'll be sure to sub as you seem to be really on the ball and as I don't really personally have the time to hoover through near enough every mod being made ever as I did as a teen, being alerted to them through channels like yours is a total boon. Hope you're doing well dude, really appreciate your bringing this to my attention!
Damn straight, lol, and there's apparently a medieval mod for it too, Chivalry, from what I've read here in the comments. Dunno about you bud, but I think I'll wait till it's on sale... ;o)
@@SuperChoronzon Oh I'll undeniably wait for a sale as I wouldn't be able to afford to purchase it otherwise, the benefits of being a full time carer for a parent is you get virtually no support from the Government (speaking about the UK here), that is despite saving them tens of thousands of pounds a year on social care. Like I get less money in a week than an average care worker receives in less than a day. Still I didn't start doing it for money, forgive my moaning, let's just say that the cost of living crisis is really, really, REALLY starting to become an issue. So who knows I may not have to worry about purchasing it the next time it goes on sale as I could well be homeless by then. Anyways, I really didn't mean to divert this into a sob story, very cool to hear there's a Medieval mod in development for it, I will be sure to check that out.
@@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS Yeah, £25,(I'm UK too), doesn't buy much in the way of groceries, so no need to apologise bud, and I'm really sorry to hear about your circumstances. It sickens me, what tptb are doing to people, as imo all this BS is part of a bigger plan. Now it's me who's gonna apologise for making this political, sorry... If it's any consolation tho', it doesn't look like I'll be purchasing it either as I'm still running win7, and min-spec is Win10, so I'll just need to make do with the original too, lol Anyways, stay safe & take care bud, lool it just clicked with me where I knew "VALIS" from, nice one ;o)
@@MsSirAndy 100% Medieval 2 remastered will come at some point if there is popular demand for it. At least a Med 2 remastered would be able to open new heights for TW modding. As for Med 1? Not sure. At this point CA needs to announce a new historical title and I for one, really want to start caring for a new title once again.
@@TheSentientsix Aye I'm more excited for Vic III at this point. I am certain that there is a historical tw coming...but please for the love of God just announce it. Ubisoft is going to revel six or several AC games tomorrow for the next years ahead...I'm more excited for that.
Well, time to go back to the roots. Just finished Rome campaign in DEI, seems Seleucid campaign is born for this mod. Great video and thanks for recommending! 👌🏻🔥
Its beautiful and I want it now... I know people will say its way too many regions but I don't care. I love the added challenge of taking even parts of the map. I especially love it because I always had the idea of a future Rome or Medieval Total War being on the same scale as the Kingdoms campaigns but on a full map.
People that say that are casuals , they really think there were only 50 cities back in the days or sth lmao, this is much closer to reality which means , better
@@parkyamato9450 No one thinks that. Siege battles in old-engine total wars were just very bad and I fear this will become an absolute siege slog. Too much of a good thing is still too much.
@@parkyamato9450 There were tons of settlements, yes, but the fate of entire countries could be changed by one or two battles. You shouldn't need to manually conquer 50 different settlements just to take over Italy lol
Your video convinced me to invest in TW Rome Remastered. I owned the original on disk years ago, probably can't find it now even if I tried, so the $20 bucks was worth it based on what I've seen of that incredible mod coming up that you describe so glowingly. I look forward to the mod coming out and to hours of enjoyment, so thanks again for all your efforts on this.
That’s a massive compliment, thank you so much! Owned the Gold Edition on disk myself, was absolutely breathtaking. And “invest” is a good word indeed, as this is truly a project worth following. I hope you enjoy the game and the mod when this next major update releases, and I hope to see more of you in the comments :)
Now I can wage a real war against Carthage over dominion of Sicily. And imagine launching the Gallic Wars with this map? Where you can spend days of gameplay on just 1 campaign.
this is what is getting me to download again. i had preordered it. played it when it came out and it was disappointing to say the least. Now that there are good mods i have reason to download.
I completed the Seleucid campaign in RTWR a while ago and it was already quite challenging.... GOOD f****** LUCK trying to manage the hugeness of it now 😂😂
A multiplayer campaign mode in this would be the peak of the total war experience. I always preferred the OG army system in RTw over the field army/garrison system in Rome 2. With all these new settlements and freely being able to raise army’s, working with another player would be more satisfying
The only thing I really didn't like in TW Rome II is that you have just few cities in a large region, which in real history had dozens of them. Many historically famous cities, such as Miletus, Corinthus, Byzantium and other are missing in that game, and most of cites which you already have on the strategic map, are incomparable with their real prototypes and look like small towns or even villages. Imagine, how would look Rome II, if we would have several times more cities on map, and most of them would have their own unique appearance
Rome II battles were garbage. Rome I is way better in that regard. Formations actually hold, heavy infantry units will actually push light infantry units back when they clash. Rome II battles were just mob fights with no strategy involved. Units get better by toggling moronic special ability buttons which is just dumb. In Rome 1 you don't have that nonsense, and its more down to you outplaying your opponent on the field rather than timing special abilities correctly.
@@teemuvesala9575 Medieval II is the TotalWar pinnacle when it comes to unit movement, formations, animations even. Apart from bugs with navigation. Rome 1 still has this wonky walking animation and cavalry on the rails feel.
That campaign map truly is a thing of beauty, I just wish this was a mod for Rome 2 over Rome remastered, I’ve always favoured the bigger more localised maps, such as Hannibal at the gates, rise of the republic or Caesar in Gaul, over the grand campaign, as I just don’t think it’s very realistic to be able to invade and occupy an area the size of italy in the space of just a couple of turns by taking 6 or 7 badly defended settlements. This might actually give me a reason to play Rome remastered which I haven’t really played again since about a week after it first released.
@@dummythicc6660 I loved Rome 1 when it first came out, it was one of the greatest games of all time and it was such a huge leap forward from medieval one, I remember spending hundreds on a new gaming pc just so I could play it on decent graphic settings and huge unit scale, and in some ways it is better than Rome 2 but in others it just doesn’t stand up in 2022. On balance I prefer Rome 2 because it’s more historically accurate, better graphics, I like naval battles, joint naval/army port city assaults and battles, etc. I understand why some people prefer Rome 1 though and maybe if they’d have fixed some of the issues in Rome remastered, like the terrible path finding, I’d still be playing Rome 1 as well.
@@87PLS I discovered the total war series over two years ago now, and my first game was rome 1, its wonderful, i have 600 hours in it now and nowi have most of the series aswell. But i hate the general army system and automatic garrisons so so so much, they ruin the newer games in my opinion, a full stack will always beat a garrison, and a city with an army will always beat an attacking army, if you are needed two places, you must choose and let the other burn. After many hours in many of the games, empire is probably my favourite though, followed by rome 1, medieval 2, warhammer 3 and three kingdoms.
@@dummythicc6660 I do agree that is definitely a problem with Rome 2. There’s nothing you can really do against even half a stack with those basic 6 unit garrisons, when 5 of your 6 units are completely useless (normally 1 good unit, 1 cheap spearmen that can’t hold against anything for more than a minute, 2 mob which are so useless that you might as well not even bother with them and 2 cheap skirmishers or slingers which would actually be useful if you had enough units to pin the enemy down and get around their flanks, but you don’t so they’re also useless). I used to use a mod that removed mob and doubled the garrisons sizes of cities, which would really help with that problem, but unfortunately it stopped working with the last big updates a few years ago. Where as in Rome 1, I like how even some cheap peasants can be useful if you can flood and surround enemy units and cause a mass route.
If you haven't done so already, DO NOT turn off the fog of war and look at the Seleucid Empire. It is Terrifying. Made me want to just sit in my settlement and hope they ignored me. Seriously, though, this is an amazing mod. I actually feel uncomfortable calling it a mod at this point. It's like a whole different game. Playing Lusitani and taking the Iberian peninsula felt like a complete game just by itself. Loving it.
"Playing Lusitani and taking the Iberian peninsula felt like a complete game just by itself." As it should be. I don't like playing a barbarian faction in the same imperialistic way i play Rome, and paint the map. I much rather to play defensive and stick to a small portion of the map.
This game and mods like this really are the future of Total War. I wouldn’t have bought this game without these mods. I hope CA sees that and keeps supporting this game and it’s mod authors. Even better they could release Medieval 2 remastered. *Even better* they could release map editing tools for past total war games like Rome 2 and Atilla.
I think the greatest improvement that Total War games will have will be the introduction A.I analysis of realistic battle combat in the details of the soldiers. If we look at the mechanics of the soldiers in combat in the battlefield they look artificial and dumb. With A.I tech of analysis of real life combat of 100 vs 100 soldiers in hand to hand fighting with a birds eye view camera this will completely change the immersion aspect. This step can be expanded into the campaign storyline, enemy A.I behavior, settlement design and interaction, etc.. There's massive potential for A.I tech to improved the authenticity and immersion of games in a revolutionary way and its mind boggling. The future is amazing.
This is basically the Rome Total War I used to dream about as a kid/teen, but thought would be impossible to ever make reality. It blows my mind to see this now. Just wow. It might have taken awhile, but damn if Feral Interactive didn't deliver in the end with this remaster.
@@CsStoker the AI is famously dogshit and gets repetetive after a couple playthroughs. Other players are less predictable and far more fun to play against as you actually have to change your strategy and tactics and react to them in a far different way. Its why Ive sunk so many more hours into Rome 2 than any of the others, multiplayer campaign made
Downloaded this mod after watching this. Very much keen for the 30th of September update. Once thats released I'm definitely going to give it a playthrough! Thanks for reviewing it!
Wow! Glad i clicked this. Man this is what Rome lacked and its been fixed. Note to all developers open games up to modding and your game will live on forever
It would be great if the old map is also maintain in some way, sometimes you just want to play a short campaing, however the fact that I could do a hystorical accurate camping of sicily or a syrian war just gives me a buzz! It's truly a awesome job.
This looks so sexy. I was afraid rome remastered modding would die fast. I hope someone makes a medieval mod for this game. This would make me really really really happy. Maybe even CA will announce a medieval 3? Who knows
I can only imagine this map being used for Medieval mods. It's a literal dream come true. You could have an amazingly detailed near East for crusades. Very fleshed out and detailed France for large scale wars between the French and English. A dynamic iberia for a long term and challenging reconquista. Even the British Isles could be an interesting challenge. Scotland and Ireland could have a decent number of settlements and not be conquered in 2 turns.
There is already Chivarly remastered, it's a really good mod, sometimes i'm more inclined to play it instead of 1212AD or 1100 ad for atilla and rome 2
I hope the naval combat hasn’t been removed with this mod (though I think it has with channel crossings) as I like to play Mediterranean countries and building up a strong navy to funnel enemy troops through tight mountain corridors or forests… or to just simply conquer a country like Italy and then sink any approaching enemies while I deal with Greece.
Modders save every game. Much more often than we ever give thanks for. The level of dedication they have for a game on less than or even no pay, compared to big ass studios, is inspirational. I've never worked at a big studio but I fail to see how such simple logic eludes them. I hope and pray these modders get their time's worth. I can't afford this game anymore, but I will still from the bottom of my heart offer thanks to them and every other modder out there. Hopefully some day I'll have the time and money for myself to play this again.
This is how I imagine the map of the Medieval 3. No stupid provinces just actuall regions - cities. Permanent castles could be built in place of temporary fortresses. Their number in the region would be limited....
I wonder what's stopping CA or whoever produced the new version of Rome TW from making this themselves. If a few people can do this basically for free on their spare time. I guess they're not hiring the right people or their bosses don't have the mental capacity to understand that a better game will make them more of a profit.
i think a lot of people talented people worked on this in their spare time. Or even full time. Depending on their situation. A big company like CA has multiple projects. have you looked at WH3 immortal empires? that is akin or even better than this of course. Still this mod deserves praise and is amazing. But developing a game costs time. and if it is your work it is also money.
Very different priorities. Empty spectacle is what sells, which is why like many people I stopped playing new TW games a long long time ago. This appears to be carrying forward the work of Roma Surrectum, which is the antithesis of what the series has become.
Its Amazing is what im waiting for from the release of the remastered version after i ser the unit i was thinking about this mod with the new unit model and here we are! I dont know why CA dont make a game like this we dont need too many animation but a good looking units like this and campaign mechanics thats all well done to modders the true heart of total war ♥️✌️
I downloaded Eras Total War which is a greatly expanded mod based off of Medieval 2 Total War. It is really good... but this! This looks even better! This map is HUGE, there's tons of new cities and territories and the graphics look incredible. I wonder if my computer can handle this level of awesome?
Excellent video Andy. The mod really looks awesome. Can't wait to get my hands on it. So, where can I find the Macedon preview you talked about towards the end of the clip?
Thank you so much, Scott, and thanks for reminding me. I added it to the video where I mention it now. It’s in my channel, just look up Macedonia preview dev diary Imperium Surrectum and you’ll find it
Roma Surrectum was my go to Rome Total War mod back in the day. I loved paying with the named and numbered legions for Rome, or the Ptolemaic Kingdom which is my favorite Diadochi Kingdom. I hope they do a Late Roman Empire mod as well on this map, I need that in my life.
I think they need to make it so that major rivers like the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, Danube, Rhine, Deniper, Don and the Volga are navigable so you can sail ships up them. People of the ancient world depended heavily on these waterways wherever they able to use them for both trade and mass transportation. I would also love to see the Canal of the Pharaohs in Egypt allowing connection between the Nile and the Red Sea en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_of_the_Pharaohs#/media/File:Canal_of_the_Pharaohs_Map-en.svg
@@AndysTake Like, i GET that CA assigns each faction a "color" even in modern games, but for GOD SAKE add some LAYERS! Like Ogres or onions, a good uniform has layers.
Wish Napoleon Total War got a overhaul like this, scale like any other. I mean, the battles during the Napoleonic time period were the biggest in scale and global before any of the World Wars.
Been playing this recently. The power bar showed that i was pretty balanced with Carthage, so with twoish armies in sicily (post the syracusan extinguishment) I was pretty confident. I maybe had one to two armies cumulatively spread throughout the rest of my settlements (mostly in the north). Carthage then landed 6 or 7 full armies at Lilybaeum. I could hardly recruit outside of Messana because it takes years to build the recruitment buildings (6 turns at something like 3800 or 4800 a pop). Many bitter tears were shed. I think the power bar was way out of whack, because there’s no way they could land that kind of force and still have troops available to garrison the rest of their empire. Also, army spam is real. Not as bad as other mods for sure, but it was still ridiculous. They should probably adjust the build time and costs (for their unique buildings and troops) slightly, because if you’re not one of the major powers there’s almost no way you can do anything other than build troops given how expensive they are.
Yea, like you DD, I was 'content' with the original, but now having seen this mod... f'n WOW, it never ceases to amaze me what modders can do when given something they can really get thier teeth into, and that map, fahk-me... it looks f'n epic, and more like how a campaign-map should look, lots of smaller settlements, so you're having to fight for every inch of territory... just awesome !!! gl & hf DD.... " We came, We saw, and then...We got our wallets out"... ;o)
@@SuperChoronzon it almost Screams either Rome 1.5 or a true Rome 2, and Aye it is Fn epic. Sorry I'm stealing that quote for myself, I just woke and that has made my day all ready 🤣. GL and HF yourself pal 🙂
in the current version , rebels create massive armies , to take northern Italy as rome i had to kill 4-5 full stacks so i hope with adding more towns we wont see like endless hordes of rebels armies because it gets tedious very fast , also i would like o ask the devs to relax on giving free money to the AI, its ridiculous a faction like Syracuse with one city can give up to 15000 gold for a peace treaty in medium campaign difficulty as well because there is no fucking way they can make so much money.
I'm very grateful to the people that have created a mode like this. I hope they make it even greater than this but just thinking about conquering more than 1000 city is exiting me. but I hope they add a function so that you can gather 40 units in one army too.
By far my favorite mods are those that make taking an area a campaign in itself. DEI makes that border town you want a real endeavor. RS makes Sicily what it was historically, battle ground for regional supremacy between 2 super powers. Poor Syracuse caught in the middle. I actually like how finances are handled, armies are expensive, there to defend lucrative places, take a prize, or punish the enemy for random blockade on my port for tye 10th time. Burn Epiros to the ground
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Don’t get me wrong; great video of an even greater game. But seriously, the closed captions kept on saying imperium’s rectum. Anyways, after I wiped the soda and snot off of my phone’s Otterbox (and turned off the subtitles 😂), I was still very much entertained. Keep up the great work!! Lmfao 🤣😂😂😭🤣🤣😭🤣🤣
are hoplites still one handed pikemen?
@@markcorrigan3930 No, they're one-legged pikemen. They don't hop that well, hence "hop-lites".
It looks like what we have all been waiting for 15 years.
A truly huge map, countless detailed settlement, many factions , good battles gameplay
Thank you To all the team Modding this game
Indeed, it’s glorious!
I wish they had taken the time to fix the ai (pathfinding/responsiveness) when they remastered the game, because then this would be absolutely perfect. I swear they somehow made it worse in the remaster
They are excellent, I repeat myself but these guys do an extraordinary job out of their passion, which is the main motor, vs the producers who just do it for money and we see the mediocre result: less than 100 regions from Hispania to Mesopotamia, Iran and Transoxiana and northwest India are completely absent
CA should hire all this guys to make Rome 3, seriously.
See, I wouldn't mind of they reduced the visuals on the campaign map if it meant there were a lot more settlements and all the other aspects are more in depth. In my opinion, it always felt silly that you could conquer an entire country by sometimes just occupying one city. I'd much rather see them toning down the campaign map visuals and made it more intriguing gameplay wise. I think I speak for a lot of people if the perfect strategy game would be the campaign map and mechanics of a paradox game combined with the battles of Total War.
And that’s exactly what they’re doing, or rather, bringing even more beautiful visuals AND the massive amount of cities!
That would Genuinely be the greatest representation and cost effective safe practice of Statecraft and Generalship! Always have dreamt of this. I am definitely taking note of your comment for the future!
What about paradox meets mount and blade meets total war :0
Absolutely agree. A game with those two features combined would be the greatest strategy game of all time
Couldn't have said it any better.
I spent the last month playing imperium surrectum and its SO. GOOD!!!! Amazing amazing amazing! The map is complex, the units are diverse and the cities brought tears to my eye, so well done. It is better than modern TW games, so much attention to detail.
are there any dynamics or new things you can do that weren't present in the original roma surrectum?
@@MsSirAndy i don't quite know, i only played the last version
Glad to hear it, this version will be even crazier!
Does game lose a lot of fps with this mod?
@@marko0marko0marko01 nop, the version i got was a bit buggy but saving it every 5 min solves the problem
I hope medieval 2 can get remastered so we can get a mod like this 😢
I feel you man 😢
Yes indeed..and eventually an Empire Remastered..the modding potential would be vast.
Or CA finally do a interesting historical Total War again. Seems like they are so focus on fantasy the past years. With Troy, Warhammer and Three Kingdoms
I think it's pretty likely we'll get Medieval II remastered since it was just recently released on mobile which was the same cycle as for Rome Remastered.
@@Robin-sf3gk three kingdoms is fantasy?
Do you see CA? Do you see? This is what we wanted for a Rome Total War. This!
Oh and i'd also like cinimatic scenes for all types of Diplomacy and interactive Senate Sessions when choosing new tech, making declerations of war. And all the intrigue between the factions. In each civilisation. I can dream can't I? xD
CA should just hire this guys to make Rome 3, seriously.
Damn, looks like I am actually going to have to purchase Rome: Remastered at some date soon then. I didn't expect that to be happening if I'm honest with you.
Well, it’s all thanks to the modders :) and the opening up of the engine done by the devs I guess!
@@AndysTake True enough, it was just prior to this I couldn't have seen myself purchasing the remaster as.. well frankly it didn't seem worth the price tag, as pretty as it is (no denying that).
However now that the mod scene seems to be properly taking hold with it and they seem to have far, far fewer restrictions than is normally associated with modding TW games. I feel I am going to have to just to be able to try whatever comes out for it.
This mod in of itself looks absolutely lush and I for one and loving the greatly expanded map and regions. That was one of the few detriments to R:TW imo, the world felt too small for what it was trying to represent.
Anyway dude, also wanted to say that I'd not seen any of your content before, but I'll be sure to sub as you seem to be really on the ball and as I don't really personally have the time to hoover through near enough every mod being made ever as I did as a teen, being alerted to them through channels like yours is a total boon.
Hope you're doing well dude, really appreciate your bringing this to my attention!
Damn straight, lol, and there's apparently a medieval mod for it too, Chivalry, from what I've read here in the comments.
Dunno about you bud, but I think I'll wait till it's on sale... ;o)
@@SuperChoronzon Oh I'll undeniably wait for a sale as I wouldn't be able to afford to purchase it otherwise, the benefits of being a full time carer for a parent is you get virtually no support from the Government (speaking about the UK here), that is despite saving them tens of thousands of pounds a year on social care. Like I get less money in a week than an average care worker receives in less than a day.
Still I didn't start doing it for money, forgive my moaning, let's just say that the cost of living crisis is really, really, REALLY starting to become an issue. So who knows I may not have to worry about purchasing it the next time it goes on sale as I could well be homeless by then.
Anyways, I really didn't mean to divert this into a sob story, very cool to hear there's a Medieval mod in development for it, I will be sure to check that out.
@@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS Yeah, £25,(I'm UK too), doesn't buy much in the way of groceries, so no need to apologise bud, and I'm really sorry to hear about your circumstances. It sickens me, what tptb are doing to people, as imo all this BS is part of a bigger plan. Now it's me who's gonna apologise for making this political, sorry...
If it's any consolation tho', it doesn't look like I'll be purchasing it either as I'm still running win7, and min-spec is Win10, so I'll just need to make do with the original too, lol
Anyways, stay safe & take care bud, lool it just clicked with me where I knew "VALIS" from, nice one ;o)
I am glad we got Rome Remastered, because now we can get the mods we always wanted
Do you agree that probably they will also make remastered versions of medieval 1 and medieval 2?
@@MsSirAndy 100% Medieval 2 remastered will come at some point if there is popular demand for it. At least a Med 2 remastered would be able to open new heights for TW modding.
As for Med 1? Not sure. At this point CA needs to announce a new historical title and I for one, really want to start caring for a new title once again.
@@MedjayofFaiyum For real, last one I was excited about was Attila, AGES ago. Seven hells ned!
@@TheSentientsix Aye I'm more excited for Vic III at this point. I am certain that there is a historical tw coming...but please for the love of God just announce it. Ubisoft is going to revel six or several AC games tomorrow for the next years ahead...I'm more excited for that.
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Well, time to go back to the roots. Just finished Rome campaign in DEI, seems Seleucid campaign is born for this mod. Great video and thanks for recommending! 👌🏻🔥
Its beautiful and I want it now... I know people will say its way too many regions but I don't care. I love the added challenge of taking even parts of the map.
I especially love it because I always had the idea of a future Rome or Medieval Total War being on the same scale as the Kingdoms campaigns but on a full map.
Exactly, me too! Too many regions? NEVER!
People that say that are casuals , they really think there were only 50 cities back in the days or sth lmao, this is much closer to reality which means , better
@@parkyamato9450 No one thinks that. Siege battles in old-engine total wars were just very bad and I fear this will become an absolute siege slog. Too much of a good thing is still too much.
@@parkyamato9450 There were tons of settlements, yes, but the fate of entire countries could be changed by one or two battles. You shouldn't need to manually conquer 50 different settlements just to take over Italy lol
Your video convinced me to invest in TW Rome Remastered. I owned the original on disk years ago, probably can't find it now even if I tried, so the $20 bucks was worth it based on what I've seen of that incredible mod coming up that you describe so glowingly. I look forward to the mod coming out and to hours of enjoyment, so thanks again for all your efforts on this.
That’s a massive compliment, thank you so much! Owned the Gold Edition on disk myself, was absolutely breathtaking. And “invest” is a good word indeed, as this is truly a project worth following. I hope you enjoy the game and the mod when this next major update releases, and I hope to see more of you in the comments :)
Now I can wage a real war against Carthage over dominion of Sicily.
And imagine launching the Gallic Wars with this map? Where you can spend days of gameplay on just 1 campaign.
Every day, God and his modders bring us closer to an official Paradox Interactive style game with Creative Assembley style battles.
No thx
Great video. RTR -IS is fast approaching the perfect TW game I've always wanted !
This might just be what gets me to buy RTWR
Welcome home, brother ;)
this is what is getting me to download again. i had preordered it. played it when it came out and it was disappointing to say the least. Now that there are good mods i have reason to download.
I completed the Seleucid campaign in RTWR a while ago and it was already quite challenging.... GOOD f****** LUCK trying to manage the hugeness of it now 😂😂
YES hahaha
No wonder it fell apart after a while.
@@Ironication fell very quickly to 🤣
A multiplayer campaign mode in this would be the peak of the total war experience. I always preferred the OG army system in RTw over the field army/garrison system in Rome 2. With all these new settlements and freely being able to raise army’s, working with another player would be more satisfying
Holy crap, can't believe this. I'm gonna buy Rome remastered quickly and install this. I needed this so hard.
Big company with hundreds of developers makes a game
A few indie developers with passion: hold my beer
Warhammer fans: too many siege battles!
Roma Surrectum: hold my beer.
The only thing I really didn't like in TW Rome II is that you have just few cities in a large region, which in real history had dozens of them. Many historically famous cities, such as Miletus, Corinthus, Byzantium and other are missing in that game, and most of cites which you already have on the strategic map, are incomparable with their real prototypes and look like small towns or even villages. Imagine, how would look Rome II, if we would have several times more cities on map, and most of them would have their own unique appearance
Rome II battles were garbage. Rome I is way better in that regard. Formations actually hold, heavy infantry units will actually push light infantry units back when they clash. Rome II battles were just mob fights with no strategy involved. Units get better by toggling moronic special ability buttons which is just dumb. In Rome 1 you don't have that nonsense, and its more down to you outplaying your opponent on the field rather than timing special abilities correctly.
@@teemuvesala9575 Medieval II is the TotalWar pinnacle when it comes to unit movement, formations, animations even. Apart from bugs with navigation. Rome 1 still has this wonky walking animation and cavalry on the rails feel.
@@reav3rtm The animations and the movement are fine. Stop nitpicking and enjoy the fact we can now have more than 200 regions.
@@reav3rtm medieval 2 cavalry feels horrible compared to rome 1 imo
Looks to me like a massive upgrade (so far) on my beloved Europa Barbarorum.
Might have to get Remastered now, which I didn't think I would do.
Alright this mod has got me reinstalling Rome remastered
That campaign map truly is a thing of beauty, I just wish this was a mod for Rome 2 over Rome remastered, I’ve always favoured the bigger more localised maps, such as Hannibal at the gates, rise of the republic or Caesar in Gaul, over the grand campaign, as I just don’t think it’s very realistic to be able to invade and occupy an area the size of italy in the space of just a couple of turns by taking 6 or 7 badly defended settlements. This might actually give me a reason to play Rome remastered which I haven’t really played again since about a week after it first released.
what nooo, rome 1 is so many times better then rome 2
@@dummythicc6660 I loved Rome 1 when it first came out, it was one of the greatest games of all time and it was such a huge leap forward from medieval one, I remember spending hundreds on a new gaming pc just so I could play it on decent graphic settings and huge unit scale, and in some ways it is better than Rome 2 but in others it just doesn’t stand up in 2022. On balance I prefer Rome 2 because it’s more historically accurate, better graphics, I like naval battles, joint naval/army port city assaults and battles, etc. I understand why some people prefer Rome 1 though and maybe if they’d have fixed some of the issues in Rome remastered, like the terrible path finding, I’d still be playing Rome 1 as well.
@@87PLS I discovered the total war series over two years ago now, and my first game was rome 1, its wonderful, i have 600 hours in it now and nowi have most of the series aswell. But i hate the general army system and automatic garrisons so so so much, they ruin the newer games in my opinion, a full stack will always beat a garrison, and a city with an army will always beat an attacking army, if you are needed two places, you must choose and let the other burn. After many hours in many of the games, empire is probably my favourite though, followed by rome 1, medieval 2, warhammer 3 and three kingdoms.
@@dummythicc6660 I do agree that is definitely a problem with Rome 2. There’s nothing you can really do against even half a stack with those basic 6 unit garrisons, when 5 of your 6 units are completely useless (normally 1 good unit, 1 cheap spearmen that can’t hold against anything for more than a minute, 2 mob which are so useless that you might as well not even bother with them and 2 cheap skirmishers or slingers which would actually be useful if you had enough units to pin the enemy down and get around their flanks, but you don’t so they’re also useless). I used to use a mod that removed mob and doubled the garrisons sizes of cities, which would really help with that problem, but unfortunately it stopped working with the last big updates a few years ago. Where as in Rome 1, I like how even some cheap peasants can be useful if you can flood and surround enemy units and cause a mass route.
@@87PLS the flow of battels were much better aswell, rome 2 is about casualties, but rome one is about controling the battlefield
If you haven't done so already, DO NOT turn off the fog of war and look at the Seleucid Empire.
It is Terrifying. Made me want to just sit in my settlement and hope they ignored me.
Seriously, though, this is an amazing mod. I actually feel uncomfortable calling it a mod at this point.
It's like a whole different game. Playing Lusitani and taking the Iberian peninsula felt like a complete game just by itself.
Loving it.
"Playing Lusitani and taking the Iberian peninsula felt like a complete game just by itself." As it should be.
I don't like playing a barbarian faction in the same imperialistic way i play Rome, and paint the map.
I much rather to play defensive and stick to a small portion of the map.
Hey man awesome vid 👍, I've been looking to get back into a total war campaign and this will be first on my list :) thanks very much!
Thanks, Anthony, great to hear it! :D
This game and mods like this really are the future of Total War. I wouldn’t have bought this game without these mods. I hope CA sees that and keeps supporting this game and it’s mod authors. Even better they could release Medieval 2 remastered. *Even better* they could release map editing tools for past total war games like Rome 2 and Atilla.
you can just feel the passion of these people just by looking at the map
truly a work of art
I think the greatest improvement that Total War games will have will be the introduction A.I analysis of realistic battle combat in the details of the soldiers. If we look at the mechanics of the soldiers in combat in the battlefield they look artificial and dumb. With A.I tech of analysis of real life combat of 100 vs 100 soldiers in hand to hand fighting with a birds eye view camera this will completely change the immersion aspect. This step can be expanded into the campaign storyline, enemy A.I behavior, settlement design and interaction, etc.. There's massive potential for A.I tech to improved the authenticity and immersion of games in a revolutionary way and its mind boggling. The future is amazing.
CA AI is insanely stupid
This is basically the Rome Total War I used to dream about as a kid/teen, but thought would be impossible to ever make reality. It blows my mind to see this now. Just wow. It might have taken awhile, but damn if Feral Interactive didn't deliver in the end with this remaster.
Very true, my friend! So glad they opened up the modding restrictions
now, if only there existed multiplayer campaigns on that kind of map. That would be something
I keep thinking and mourning this..
Who in their right mind would buy Total War just to play multiplayer?
@@CsStoker the AI is famously dogshit and gets repetetive after a couple playthroughs.
Other players are less predictable and far more fun to play against as you actually have to change your strategy and tactics and react to them in a far different way.
Its why Ive sunk so many more hours into Rome 2 than any of the others, multiplayer campaign made
Downloaded this mod after watching this. Very much keen for the 30th of September update. Once thats released I'm definitely going to give it a playthrough! Thanks for reviewing it!
Total war maps should be that big in the first place!
This is amazing. The only thing missing is a little faction in South Arabia and Axum.
So far
Dacians, a couple more in Britain, a couple more in Sarmatia, a few in India
Etruscans and other some minor Italic
they'll be filled eventually for sure
@@morrowgan8930 great❤️
Wow! Glad i clicked this. Man this is what Rome lacked and its been fixed. Note to all developers open games up to modding and your game will live on forever
It would be great if the old map is also maintain in some way, sometimes you just want to play a short campaing, however the fact that I could do a hystorical accurate camping of sicily or a syrian war just gives me a buzz! It's truly a awesome job.
Modders to the rescue. Yet again....
This looks awesome, guess I'll have to wait for Rome:recashgrabbed to go on a 75% sale or something xD
This looks so sexy. I was afraid rome remastered modding would die fast.
I hope someone makes a medieval mod for this game. This would make me really really really happy. Maybe even CA will announce a medieval 3? Who knows
I can only imagine this map being used for Medieval mods. It's a literal dream come true. You could have an amazingly detailed near East for crusades. Very fleshed out and detailed France for large scale wars between the French and English. A dynamic iberia for a long term and challenging reconquista. Even the British Isles could be an interesting challenge. Scotland and Ireland could have a decent number of settlements and not be conquered in 2 turns.
@@nutyyyy Oh yes this would be freakin awesome
It looks sexy as f*** my dude. And I’d love a Medieval 3 already. I’d even take Medieval 2 Remastered at this point.
There is already Chivarly remastered, it's a really good mod, sometimes i'm more inclined to play it instead of 1212AD or 1100 ad for atilla and rome 2
there is a wonderful medieval mod for Rome remastered. It is called chivalry total war.
there goes another 150 hours of my life. And I'm looking forward to it!
This is art
Holy guacamole !!! That’s insane! It looks like a reason to buy the remastered version! 😮😮😮
Great video and great mod! Will check it out.
Thank you, man!
It's like the "Immortal Empire" experience of Total War: Warhammer III but for Rome : Total War!
I hope the naval combat hasn’t been removed with this mod (though I think it has with channel crossings) as I like to play Mediterranean countries and building up a strong navy to funnel enemy troops through tight mountain corridors or forests… or to just simply conquer a country like Italy and then sink any approaching enemies while I deal with Greece.
With this new 0.5 version the mod got PERFECT
It’s a damn fine update from last time :D
very buggy
Hope the multiplayer community of this mod will flourish as well. Battles not campaigns that is
Modders save every game. Much more often than we ever give thanks for. The level of dedication they have for a game on less than or even no pay, compared to big ass studios, is inspirational. I've never worked at a big studio but I fail to see how such simple logic eludes them.
I hope and pray these modders get their time's worth. I can't afford this game anymore, but I will still from the bottom of my heart offer thanks to them and every other modder out there. Hopefully some day I'll have the time and money for myself to play this again.
Wow 3 weeks later this pops up in my recommendations, time to go install it
Is it even legal that this mod is free?
This is how I imagine the map of the Medieval 3. No stupid provinces just actuall regions - cities. Permanent castles could be built in place of temporary fortresses. Their number in the region would be limited....
I wonder what's stopping CA or whoever produced the new version of Rome TW from making this themselves. If a few people can do this basically for free on their spare time. I guess they're not hiring the right people or their bosses don't have the mental capacity to understand that a better game will make them more of a profit.
i think a lot of people talented people worked on this in their spare time. Or even full time. Depending on their situation.
A big company like CA has multiple projects. have you looked at WH3 immortal empires? that is akin or even better than this of course. Still this mod deserves praise and is amazing. But developing a game costs time. and if it is your work it is also money.
@@TheSegert I think you're right, I'd say it's company policy to do the bare minimum so they can focus on many things at once.
Very different priorities. Empty spectacle is what sells, which is why like many people I stopped playing new TW games a long long time ago.
This appears to be carrying forward the work of Roma Surrectum, which is the antithesis of what the series has become.
Its Amazing is what im waiting for from the release of the remastered version after i ser the unit i was thinking about this mod with the new unit model and here we are! I dont know why CA dont make a game like this we dont need too many animation but a good looking units like this and campaign mechanics thats all well done to modders the true heart of total war ♥️✌️
Oh my God. This is the best news I've heard this decade !!
Huge map yes, give us a realistic map yes, accurate factions yes, this is what we wanted, this is Rome.
I downloaded Eras Total War which is a greatly expanded mod based off of Medieval 2 Total War. It is really good... but this! This looks even better! This map is HUGE, there's tons of new cities and territories and the graphics look incredible. I wonder if my computer can handle this level of awesome?
I call this update the mundi victoria update or world conquest update
Holy shit those city layouts look sooooo much better than base rome.
Hmmm, very well I shall give this game another shot. Since the mod looks so amazing.
Looks sick af! I hope they will downscale the time and passing of seasons (hardly imagine how an army have to take on full year to walk 400km)
This is incredible, a dream come to life.
Excellent video Andy. The mod really looks awesome. Can't wait to get my hands on it.
So, where can I find the Macedon preview you talked about towards the end of the clip?
Thank you so much, Scott, and thanks for reminding me. I added it to the video where I mention it now. It’s in my channel, just look up Macedonia preview dev diary Imperium Surrectum and you’ll find it
this + hot seat campaign and you have a perfect total war
yes, or online multiplayer campaign, but hotseat would be sweet
Now I have to get this game..
I’ve heard others say the same ;)
I'm going to cry, this is what I've wanted for so long! It's beautiful.
Oh my! That's positively breathtaking!It seems soon I will say goodbye to the modern world... Maximus, I am coming 😎
Great mod indeed.
Honestly, though I would prefer fewer settlements and a more aesthetic map. But that's me.
I can’t wait this sort of improvement in medieval 2 or Napoleon 😭
I love this and I don't want to be the killjoy but all I want is just the old RTW UI back lol
looks amazing, do they still have a penalty on 'distance to capital'?
It’s there, but it’s severely decreased as far as I know.
Yep but changed ofc.
Holy fuck, this is amazing!
Roma Surrectum was my go to Rome Total War mod back in the day. I loved paying with the named and numbered legions for Rome, or the Ptolemaic Kingdom which is my favorite Diadochi Kingdom. I hope they do a Late Roman Empire mod as well on this map, I need that in my life.
The entire vanilla map can probably fit into the new Iberian peninsula in this mod lol
your cat meows at 9:02
I think they need to make it so that major rivers like the Nile, Tigris, Euphrates, Danube, Rhine, Deniper, Don and the Volga are navigable so you can sail ships up them. People of the ancient world depended heavily on these waterways wherever they able to use them for both trade and mass transportation. I would also love to see the Canal of the Pharaohs in Egypt allowing connection between the Nile and the Red Sea
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canal_of_the_Pharaohs#/media/File:Canal_of_the_Pharaohs_Map-en.svg
Will they expand the map?
6:13 they are moon walk experts
They also need to add China, India and Mongolian Steppes into the map!
New cities is great, but if the AI decides to build them all into huge cities like in previous games it will ruin immersion and be a pain in the ass.
Can't wait to see where this mod goes
WOOOOOOOOOOW, that unit detail, and its so colorful too. SHAME CA! SHAME! (look i know its Rome 1 but, this puts them to SHAME!)
I KNOW!! :D
@@AndysTake Like, i GET that CA assigns each faction a "color" even in modern games, but for GOD SAKE add some LAYERS!
Like Ogres or onions, a good uniform has layers.
Wish Napoleon Total War got a overhaul like this, scale like any other. I mean, the battles during the Napoleonic time period were the biggest in scale and global before any of the World Wars.
that's exactly the reason why we need M2TW remastered!
WTF? Have those maniacs LOST THEIR MINDS?
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I love it.
I love this mod.
I loved rtw way to much compared to rtw 2
Been playing this recently. The power bar showed that i was pretty balanced with Carthage, so with twoish armies in sicily (post the syracusan extinguishment) I was pretty confident. I maybe had one to two armies cumulatively spread throughout the rest of my settlements (mostly in the north). Carthage then landed 6 or 7 full armies at Lilybaeum. I could hardly recruit outside of Messana because it takes years to build the recruitment buildings (6 turns at something like 3800 or 4800 a pop). Many bitter tears were shed.
I think the power bar was way out of whack, because there’s no way they could land that kind of force and still have troops available to garrison the rest of their empire. Also, army spam is real. Not as bad as other mods for sure, but it was still ridiculous. They should probably adjust the build time and costs (for their unique buildings and troops) slightly, because if you’re not one of the major powers there’s almost no way you can do anything other than build troops given how expensive they are.
Damn this look incredible. I wonder how they handle the distance to capital squalor penalty lol
This has the potential to be one of the greatest total war mods of all time...
This is absolutely huge!
IT IS!
THis looks amazing!!! Only crap! Do you know when this will be released? Relatively soon I hope :/.
30th of September
I've not got RTR, I'm comtempt with the original. After this showcase, I'm currently hunting for my wallet 🤩
That’s the spirit hahaha
Yea, like you DD, I was 'content' with the original, but now having seen this mod... f'n WOW, it never ceases to amaze me what modders can do when given something they can really get thier teeth into, and that map, fahk-me... it looks f'n epic, and more like how a campaign-map should look, lots of smaller settlements, so you're having to fight for every inch of territory... just awesome !!!
gl & hf DD.... " We came, We saw, and then...We got our wallets out"... ;o)
@@SuperChoronzon it almost Screams either Rome 1.5 or a true Rome 2, and Aye it is Fn epic. Sorry I'm stealing that quote for myself, I just woke and that has made my day all ready 🤣. GL and HF yourself pal 🙂
@@Deffy_Dhuck LOL, have a good 'un buddy :o)
@@SuperChoronzon Aye, you too pal 😁
Rome beat 2 and Attilla hands down.
Do I have to ask NASA for a spare computer? This mod looks like it uses TONS of resources.
Just imagine having to manage hundreds of settlements as Rome, or having to take a nap between turns 🤣
in the current version , rebels create massive armies , to take northern Italy as rome i had to kill 4-5 full stacks so i hope with adding more towns we wont see like endless hordes of rebels armies because it gets tedious very fast , also i would like o ask the devs to relax on giving free money to the AI, its ridiculous a faction like Syracuse with one city can give up to 15000 gold for a peace treaty in medium campaign difficulty as well because there is no fucking way they can make so much money.
awesome
I'm very grateful to the people that have created a mode like this. I hope they make it even greater than this but just thinking about conquering more than 1000 city is exiting me. but I hope they add a function so that you can gather 40 units in one army too.
This mod is the only reason to buy this game. But strong reason indeed!
They should make it so that each year takes 4 turns now that you have much bigger distances to travel
I'm worried about mods that get too ambitious, that they'll never be finished.
By far my favorite mods are those that make taking an area a campaign in itself. DEI makes that border town you want a real endeavor. RS makes Sicily what it was historically, battle ground for regional supremacy between 2 super powers. Poor Syracuse caught in the middle. I actually like how finances are handled, armies are expensive, there to defend lucrative places, take a prize, or punish the enemy for random blockade on my port for tye 10th time.
Burn Epiros to the ground