14 DAY TRIAL // The development team at The Creative Assembly and publisher SEGA are delivering patch 10 for Total War: Rome II, which is designed to add three new units to the Beasts of War downloadable content pack, while also improving overall game performance.
Players who have bought the DLC can now use the Wolf Warrior in Germany and the Suebi, the Sobek Cultists in Egypt and the Nubian Leopard Warriors in the same area.
A number of units have also received balance changes and all berserkers will now wear bear skins instead of wolf pelts.
The general performance improvements posted on the official forums are:
Additional Support for AMD Crossfire multi-GPU configs. Further improvements to GPU performance and reduction in CPU-bottlenecks for all configs. Improved core Battle performance scenarios. Resolved CPU core-affinity threading issue. Implemented borderless window when running at desktop resolution in Windowed mode. There is no longer an upper limit on the graphics settings that a user can select in the frontend. Previously if the game determined that a user’s machine was low-end then it would not allow them to select high graphics settings. This limitation is now gone. Note that selecting high graphics settings on low-end machines will negatively affect performance. Improved consistency of reflections on shiny textures. ‘Unlimited Video Memory’ option improvements Eliminated battle pathfinding performance spike which caused battles to stutter. Addressed a crash in siege battles which occurred on some maps after breaching walls with artillery. Addressed a crash in Egyptian Large City battle caused by the map data. Addressed a crash caused by squads within the same unit attempting to use different formations. Fixed a UI lock-up when opening the Steam overlay during the introduction sequence at the start of an ambush battle (while defending).
A number of other changes have been made to the battle Artificial Intelligence, the combat mechanics, the campaign and the audio of Total War: Rome II.
Patch 10 is delivered just ahead of the launch of the Hannibal at the Gates campaign expansion for the strategy title, which will arrive on March 27 and will introduce new factions and a new historical battle, while allowing gamers to re-create the Second Punic War.