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Anonymous12/01/25, 22:56No.2273922
Does anyone know wtf happened during Total War Empire's development? It really looks like they just made half the game and mechanics and called it a day (like when you get succession wars or the heir born event even though there's not even a royal family tree or royal characters anymore)
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Anon12/01/25, 23:11No.2273938
They started making napoleon
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Anon12/01/25, 23:15No.2273943
Even though it's an unfinished mess, I still love Empire and I wish we got a sequel.
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Anon12/01/25, 23:23No.2273956
they ran out of money
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Anon12/01/25, 23:39No.2273972
Empire was the first game on a new engine. The new engine was necessary for a couple of reasons, there was a generational shift in happening around that time and everybody needed to make sure their shit would be compatible with the new standard, which ultimately became a very expensive endeavor that sank a lot of companies.CA had to find a lot of partnerships to get their new engine made, which also meant a lot of factors complicating the process, and ultimately ran out of production money with a half-baked product on a half-baked engine and had to rush the game out the door just to avoid bankruptcy. They ended up lucky that the good will from Rome and Medieval 2 carried Empire to a successful launch despite the many issues, but then they thought it would be cool to rush out Napoleon with a much smaller (yet no more detailed for it) campaign and paywall all the bugfixes and improvements behind it.They're still on the same engine, by the way. It's been updated so much you'd hardly recognize it but they haven't moved on in the intervening 16 years.
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Anon12/01/25, 23:40No.2273974
it was a little too ambitious
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Anon12/01/25, 23:46No.2273980
I'll never forget the absolute disappointment I had playing ETW on release, but then I had hyped myself up a lot
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Anon12/02/25, 01:37No.2274093
The AI in this game holy shit
>start game
>every major power declares war on me within the first five turns guaranteed especially if France or Austria
>fighting battles without cavalry is pointless since routed AI units will come straight back unless ran completely off the field
>Sea battles are an absolute boring slog with no real strategyCould go on and on about how shit the AI in this game, amazed CA made it past this one.
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Anon12/02/25, 20:58No.2275741
Shit game, the only reason it's played today is because of mods.