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OS X Any news of the next Total War for Mac?

Solomani said:
I remember you are French, from previous posts. How is Napoleon TW? I am still tempted to buy it from MAS. The reviews on MAS are very mediocre (3 stars out of 5) but most complaints are about initial installation problems. What's your impression of the game?
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Sorry just good old fashioned USA! I love the period and play the game all the time. With a few mods you can really dress up NTW to enhance the enjoyment. Empire is a "larger" game but I prefer the Napoleonic period.

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Plutonius said:
I'm really missing the down vote button :D.
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Me too!
 
Oudinot said:
Sorry just good old fashioned USA! I love the period and play the game all the time. With a few mods you can really dress up NTW to enhance the enjoyment. Empire is a "larger" game but I prefer the Napoleonic period.
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Oh my apologies, I must have gotten you mixed up with another poster with a French-sounding name who was crazy about Napoleon TW.

I also like the Nap period, although I may know more historically in the Empire time frame, having extensively played past Europa Universalis games (musket-era period).
 
Solomani said:
Oh my apologies, I must have gotten you mixed up with another poster with a French-sounding name who was crazy about Napoleon TW.

I also like the Nap period, although I may know more historically in the Empire time frame, having extensively played past Europa Universalis games (musket-era period).
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Oudinot was a French Marshal during the Napoleonic Period. He was wounded approx. 44 times during his career. Years ago built his II Corp in the 1812 Russia Campaign in miniatures. Although not as famous as Davout, Ney or some of the others he was a "lead from the front kind of General".
 
Oudinot said:
Oudinot was a French Marshal during the Napoleonic Period. He was wounded approx. 44 times during his career. Years ago built his II Corp in the 1812 Russia Campaign in miniatures. Although not as famous as Davout, Ney or some of the others he was a "lead from the front kind of General".
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Yeah, the Napoleonic era, where France had it's best leader... Now we have ********** Francois Hollande.
 
old-mac-man said:
It is? Can't say I had any trouble with the OSX version.
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I wouldn't say it's buggy, but the interface is a giant hack, leading to some annoying things like stoplight buttons that are from Leopard and don't match the OS color, a windows-style app browser, ugly scrollbars without rubber band scrolling, etc. It needs to be updated with a nice cocoa interface. Hopefully, someday...
 
Cougarcat said:
I wouldn't say it's buggy, but the interface is a giant hack, leading to some annoying things like stoplight buttons that are from Leopard and don't match the OS color, a windows-style app browser, ugly scrollbars without rubber band scrolling, etc. It needs to be updated with a nice cocoa interface. Hopefully, someday...
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Getting away from Flash-dependency would also be nice.
 
Cougarcat said:
I wouldn't say it's buggy, but the interface is a giant hack, leading to some annoying things like stoplight buttons that are from Leopard and don't match the OS color, a windows-style app browser, ugly scrollbars without rubber band scrolling, etc. It needs to be updated with a nice cocoa interface. Hopefully, someday...
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Skins are your friend. I'm sure someone will have done a more OS X-esske version. I use Metro for Steam which helps Steam feel more at home within Windows.
 
Solomani said:
I remember you are French, from previous posts. How is Napoleon TW? I am still tempted to buy it from MAS. The reviews on MAS are very mediocre (3 stars out of 5) but most complaints are about initial installation problems. What's your impression of the game?
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I haven't played it on a Mac. But I have spent some 1,700 (according to steam) hours playing it over years. It is in my opinion the best TW game.
The muskets and rifles add so much more variety to tactics and strategy. Much better than R2TW's "rock, paper, scissors" approach. But the AI is absolutely terrible, so the campaign is mostly "auto resolve".
Multiplayer is where the game really shines.

Shogun and FOTS were ruined by the stupid Avatar mode which made the game terribly unbalanced in multi player.

After R2TW was released almost everyone stopped playing NTW, but now there has been a resurgence of late and and the lobby is generally full of games now.
 
Cougarcat said:
Skins can only do so much. It's more the behavior of the interface than the look.
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What do you mean exactly? I can't say I've ever had a huge problem or come across any noticeable bugs using Steam in OS X, Windows and Linux. And skins have the full ability to fully change the interface as the developer wishes. Just as long as they keep them up to date with any new features Valve may introduce, there is never a problem with them either.
 
roadbloc said:
What do you mean exactly? I can't say I've ever had a huge problem or come across any noticeable bugs using Steam in OS X, Windows and Linux. And skins have the full ability to fully change the interface as the developer wishes. Just as long as they keep them up to date with any new features Valve may introduce, there is never a problem with them either.
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I mean, skins can't add cocoa features to Steam. Skins can't change the windows-based
app browser, add drag-and-drop organizing, fix the annoying modal dialogues that take over the interface, or add rubber band scrolling.

In other words, skins can't do very much to make Steam feel like a native Mac app. To do that Valve needs to ditch its cross-platform UI kit. I'm not even really talking about the appearance. It can retain its look--or better, the look of the iOS app / big picture -- and feel like a Mac app.

And yes, there are UI bugs--the tooltip bug is one that is really annoying (tooltips get invoked even when steam isn't the frontmost window.) this has been there since the beta in 2010, and I don't think it'll ever go away as long as they are using their cross-platform UI kit.

Dirtyharry50 said:
Please tell us this and Hitman are coming to Steam. Pretty please? :D
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They are, they are in the SteamDB. Just hoping Shogun is SteamPlay.
 
roadbloc said:
What do you mean exactly? I can't say I've ever had a huge problem or come across any noticeable bugs using Steam in OS X, Windows and Linux. And skins have the full ability to fully change the interface as the developer wishes. Just as long as they keep them up to date with any new features Valve may introduce, there is never a problem with them either.
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I see Steam as sort of a unique and ugly animal but a whole lot better than it was once upon a time. Remember the old military green look? Talk about spartan. The current look is deluxe in contrast to what it once was.

To each their own but I couldn't be bothered skinning it and then having to chase down updates from time to time. It is what it is. Other than shopping times, I usually fire my games up from desktop icons in Windows or Launchpad in OS X. Actually in OS X I keep the two or three games I am currently fooling with right on the Dock for convenience. So I don't need to see the ugliness too much anyway.

Just my two cents not that anybody asked for it. lol :D
 
Dirtyharry50 said:
I see Steam as sort of a unique and ugly animal but a whole lot better than it was once upon a time. Remember the old military green look? Talk about spartan. The current look is deluxe in contrast to what it once was.
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Agreed. That old green look was awful. Back when Steam barely managed to function on Windows.
 
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