Total War Attila No More Torches Announcement

Hey, what's up guys, it's Oakley and I have some pretty awesome news in the latest rally point They just announced that they are gonna be doing away with the flaming torch mechanism for burning down gates So the reason they had to do this is because flaming torches were game breaking in two ways. The first was immersion It just wasn't at all Immersive to have any type of unit stand 10 feet away throw sticks at a gate and have it be destroyed Especially when you're dealing with cities like Constantinople where you could just bypass the defenders now The second point was it was actually gameplay breaking It meant that you could as I said bypass the defenses of Constantinople and you could do it Most importantly with just about any unit everyone throws the same torch everyone does the same amount of damage You can take out the you know, the biggest city of the Eastern Roman Empire just with peasants throwing flaming sticks So they're gonna be addressing this They're gonna be addressing both of those issues Immersion and gameplay by having a new feature and the way this works is you actually break down the gates now That's gonna fix the first problem with immersion because you're actually gonna have troops run up to the gates and chop away at it Yes, it probably won't have the most convincing animations But at least it'll be more believable because they're actually getting up close to the gates and you know Sort of kind of attacking it now. The second part is gameplay Not anyone can destroy gates. They're gonna do in tiers different tiers do different amount of damage So the top tier the most effective tier is gonna be your axes Then you're gonna have swords and maces and that at the bottom you're gonna have spears pikes and skirmishers I think that is an awesome system It means that you can't take these big cities with just crap troops You have to actually bring specialty axmen now, I'm sure CA won't necessarily get the damages, right? I'm guessing axes will chop through a little too quickly same with spears pikes and skirmishers But because it's an you know, it's it's something that can be modded I think people will eventually get it right and hopefully CA will you know be able to tune in tweak it to the point where I think it's very very acceptable. So I'm looking forward to this. They said they're gonna implement it within a week So we'll have to wait to see if that works out go ahead and check out the whole rally point if you're interested in The rest of the video. This is the biggest news about it. I will leave you guys here. Thanks so much. Peace out