It's got to be simple, right?

[Dubious Drewski]

All I want to do is make my mortar unit have lots of range and damage. Just for fun.

I've patched my game to 1.3, unpacked all of the data, found the export_descr_unit.txt, edited all the stats for the mortar.

But nothing happens when I run the game. There's no change, even when I make drastic, extreme changes to the txt file.

Ok then, so I read some more forums and found out about the MedManager. Is this thing absolutely required? Do I really need it? Because I figured it out, but when I use it to launch my newly-created mod, only the game's intro and menu run; it won't go into battles.

I just want to change one little stat. What a nightmare this has been already. 4 hours with no result. Argh.

What is the simplest way, step by step, to change my mortars so they are more powerful?

[alhoon]

You need to add the filefirst to config in order for the game to read the changes.

[Dubious Drewski]

Ah, thank you so much. Why is this little bit of information barely mentioned anywhere else??? Anyway, it runs, but there's still no change to the unit. Does this line from export_descr_unit.txt look like it should do something noticeable?

stat_sec 65, 3, mortar_shot, 3000, 300, siege_missile, artillery_gunpowder, blunt, none, 25, 1

See how I changed the range from 300 to 3000 and the number of shots from 30 to 300. This isn't happening in game. This file is sitting in my "D:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\data" directory and I'm running the EXE using a batch file in the main directory like the readme says I should. What am I missing?

[alhoon]

How you entered the filefirst command? It should be like

medieval2.exe --io.file_first @[NAME OF MOD GOES HERE].cfg for Medevial.
For Kingdoms it should be

Kingdoms.exe --io.file_first @[NAME OF MOD GOES HERE].cfg

[Dubious Drewski]

Ok, I've got MedManager. Im using that. It creates the folders and the cfg file for me and I don't have to use the .bat file. I ran it fine and It has created the proper folder and cfg file for me. Good. I put my modified Export_descr_unit.txt and descr_projectile.txt in the new data folder. I increased the range of mortars from 300 to 3000 and I made their area of effect 5 times as much.

But nothing happens. I use medmanager to launch my mod, and nothing is different. My mortars are exactly the same. What am I missing?

[Dubious Drewski]

duplicate