Hey all!
I just wanna say I love RoL so far. It runs great at full graphics settings and in MP. I love the unique factions and the balance is decent for being a couple weeks old.
Anyway, I do have 2 issues with the game. Bik movies including the menu screen video stutter while audio plays fine. This makes the menu screen insanely difficult to use. The mouse stutters with the movie so its very annoying trying to setup options. I would like to know what would cause bik files in general to stutter. The dozens of forums I visited were less then helpful.
The other issue I have with RoL is how it limits certain settings due to hardware short comings. My system has 2 1600Mhz processors, not just 1. My system could run animated buildings and character models just fine, but the game reads it as being under the 1700 requirement. This paternal limitation really bugs me. There is no reason someone shouldnt be able to at least try to run those settings. If it doesnt run right, the customer who bought and paid for their copy can always turn it off. But I dont like to be limited in a purchase that I paid for. Anyway I really hope that functionality will be returned to the players control or at least have the game read for multiple processors. I would really like to play with dynamic buildings without having to drop another $2k into a new system.
Neither of these are game breakers luckily and the bik problem is more general then just RoL. I would just like to have the full functionality that I paid for.
One last thing that I miss from RoN that really made that game for me was the world domination campaign. Being able to play the game like Risk and use real strategy across the map was fun. These campaigns are fun, but they lack the expansiveness and replayability that kept me going back to RoN. I do hope it will be added later in a patch or expansion.
Thanks again for a great game. This is a quality title unlike many that have been released recently and I can tell alot of hard work went into making it. Keep up the great work! Please do pass along my suggestions to the dev team as well