A Proper Empire: Terra Incognita v1.1.0 - Installation and Downloads [Changelogs]

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The latest version of APE:TI, the best and most ambitious modding project for Empire: Total War. APE:TI significantly alters most aspects of the game we have access to and offers you a wholly different gameplay designed to allow you to make much more interesting and difficult decisions as befits a proper strategy game.

A Proper Empire: Terra Incognita balances combat, morale, and battlefield effects. Pricing changes in units, buildings, and research costs will challenge you but new units, new technologies, and new methods of controlling your Empire will be available.

Enjoy exciting new features like Manpower and Supply, a completely rebalanced economy and, most importantly, an exhilarating new gameplay feeling. The aim is to present the player with ways to employ diverse strategies and present him with interesting decision that offer meaningful choices.

Thanks to major contributions from members all across the community the mod now contains additional unit textures, improved smoke and sounds, historically accurate battalion/naval flags. Also included; over half a dozen new units, with more to come -- there are even compatible additional unit packs provided by members of the community!

Quick Overview of Features

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

While we do make some historical changes and try to bring a level of realism to the game we prefer not to label the mod; if we were to do so we'd call it a 'gameplay mod' more than anything else.


Overview

• Realistic recruitment
• Balanced combat
• Balanced economy
• New technologies
• New historical units
• All factions playable

Partial List of Features

• Manpower and supply govern how many troops you can recruit.
• Whole economic structure of the game reworked; unit costs, buildings costs, and more.
• Research now costs as schools have an upkeep, whether they are researching or not.
• Completely reworked morale system for both land and naval battles.
• Completely reworked naval combat; turning, ranges, speed, acceleration, and a lot more.
• Resistance plays a huge role and prevents steamrolling the world in most cases.
• Tech tree and related research times completely reworked. Simpler technologies are easier to aquire, and some of the later philosophical techs will take some time to finish.
• Removal of fire and advance and volley fire.
• Artillery made much more effective; ranges increased based on shot type, accuracy adjusted with reload speed. Shots are much less accurate after 350 meters.
• Infantry weapon ranges increased. Muskets do less damage at ranges over 50 meters.
• Platoon fire now available only for Ferguson riflemen.
• Tighter unit formations.
• Light infantry doctrine and rank fire are lower in the tech tree and require less points to research than before making them easier to get earlier in the game.
• All non-emergent factions playable.
• Historical units - Potsdam Giants, Zeiten Hussars, Marines, Swiss Guards, Decanni Lancers, Douaniers, Regimiento Inmemorial del Rey, and more; more being compiled every week.
• Balanced combat; Reload bonuses for firing drills are evened out, square formation more realistic, morale levels due to flanking and rear attacks more of a problem than before, units tire more quickly when running over long distances.
• Light infantry now equipped with bayonets.
• Experience caps (number of kills or deaths needed, etc.) lowered. Units gain experience quicker this way.
• Fixed Taxes and other bugs that CA hasn't patched yet.
• Revamp of Empire's numbers; Charge increased for cavalry and infantry; morale adjustments based on level of training, movement and morale on terrain or in weather, misfires, etc.
• Redone/expanded descriptions for several units.
• 3 turns per campaign year.
• Increased recruitment and build times to suit the longer turns.

New Land Technologies
- Advanced Reloading Drills - Grants a 5% reloading bonus; grants access to optional Fire by Rank and Platoon Firing.
- Advanced Live firing Drills - Grants +2 Morale in battles; required to progress in the tech tree.

New Ordinance Technologies
- Standardized Calibers - Precursor; required to progress in the tech tree. Requires Measuring Tools economic tech.
- Standardized Ammunition - Precursor; required to progress in the tech tree.
- Standardized Production - Final result of standardization; reduced costs for all artillery. Requires Interchangeable Parts tech.
- Horse Artillery - Grants access to horse artillery. Requires Selective Breeding tech.


Community Contributions

• Trasibulos UI, Naval & Land Flags (Republic/Monarchy) Retextures
• MechDonald's Blood, Smoke, and Sound Mod
• Captain Cox's Load screens
• Remo's retextures
• Sinuhet Formations
• Waronmar's pipmod
• Swiss Halberdier's AUM

Installation

1. Preparing your ETW installation

Before installing, please make sure you have no other mods installed.

Remove any older versions of APE: TI.

2. Download

You're now ready to download the installer from one of the following locations:

A Proper Empire: Terra Incognita v1.1.0 - MediaFire *NEW*
A Proper Empire: Terra Incognita v1.1.0 - FileFront *NEW*
http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/e...mod/44826.html

HOTFIX A Proper Empire: Terra Incognita v1.1.0 - MediaFire *REQUIRED*
HOTFIX A Proper Empire: Terra Incognita v1.1.0 - FileFront *WAITING FOR UPDATE*
http://www.strategyinformer.com/pc/e...mod/44827.html

3. Installing

To install A Proper Empire: Terra Incognita simply run the installer. It should automatically detect your Empire: Total War directory. If it doesn't, please point it to the correct place. This method works for the main install as well as the patches.

You can now use the new icon on your desktop or the start_apeti.bat or the start_apeti_late.bat in your Empire Total War folder to start APE: TI!

4.Important Notes

The mod will create a file called mod_saves.txt – please don't delete this!

APE:TI is not compatible with most other mods out of the box. The Additional Units Mod by Swiss Halberdier does have an APE-compatible version, however.

Uninstalling

If you would like to uninstall the mod at any point simply use the uninstaller.exe from your Empire folder or remove it through the Control Panel.

If you don't need your savegames anymore you can also delete mod_saves.txt inside your ETW folder.

Note for Windows 10 users:
Sometimes when launching the game, it results into an unexplained CTD, before the trailer. To fix this, follow the solution suggested by Tablemat:

I believe i have found the workaround for getting this mod to work in Windows 10, using Steam

Whilst in the steam client, right click the E:TW entry, and go to 'properties'
In the subsequent window that opens, select 'SET LAUNCH OPTIONS ...'
put in "mod apeti_customcampaign.pack; mod apeti_modcore.pack; mod apeti_skins.pack; mod apeti_graphics.pack; mod apeti_DLC.pack; mod mod_smokeblood.pack; mod mod_xstraps.pack;" (without the quotes)
Then start E:TW (not the APETI program)

This comes from the .bat file that the APETI_launcher uses.
The above options are for the early campaign option. If you want to use the 'Start Late Campaign' option, use "mod apeti_customlatecampaign.pack; mod apeti_modcore.pack; mod apeti_skins.pack; mod apeti_graphics.pack; mod apeti_DLC.pack; mod mod_smokeblood.pack; mod mod_xstraps.pack;" instead (without the quotes)


Note: this is the first time i am playing this mod, so i don't know if things are missing or not, but it appears to be running as intended.

All credit goes to him.
~Abdülmecid I