Hello EB2 community! It has been a while since I've helped out here, mostly because I migrated to linux, and Medieval Total war 2 is not supposed to run well on the newest WINE (1.7.50 right now) - only with the stable 1.6.2, which is rather dated frankly
Before installing EB2 I went into the main game, and it opened, BUT anywhere where there was video, there was immense lag - im talking 1 frame per 20 seconds.
I installed EB2 with not much hopes, made a little script to execute the game
Code:
#!/bin/bash
cd .wine/drive_c/Games/SEGA/Medieval\ II\ Total\ War/
export WINEPREFIX=$HOME/.wine
wine-development kingdoms.exe \@mods/EBII/EBII.cfg
I am running debian, that is why it is wine-development, not just wine.
.... but the intro movie ran smoothly! Navigating menus is smooth (maybe because no background movies); but it froze after clicking Quick battle (or i ran out of patience?).
So I thought I would have a go at seeing how the game plays, and post feedback.
Please note I did not max out the settings, this was just a test so I ran it in wine's emulated desktop so its in a nice little window- saw some old game-play bugs I know and love as well (AI skirmishers endlessly running forward and back from my spearmen because their skirmishing aggro range is too big)
I'm glad to report that, gameplay wise, its exactly the same as in windows, so congrats EB2 team for building a mod that runs better than the vanilla game on a linux system!
Also I'm super happy that progress is being made in the game's scripting, as promised I said I'd contribute more after my thesis, so that will be happening soon.
Cheers,
TwigV