EB-Twitter updates Discussion

[The Kybrothilian]

Yeah, sorry about that.
Playing around to get rid of the 240 soldier limit of M2TW and for now reached a new one of 300.

And here I thought that you could not increase the amount of men a unit can have in M2TW past 250. This is amazing. Is there any known limit to the number at all?

[atheniandp]

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Those unit sizes. Those models. I'm lost for words!

[Lуra]

That's good news!

~Lyra

[alin]

And here I thought that you could not increase the amount of men a unit can have in M2TW past 250. This is amazing. Is there any known limit to the number at all?

Well normally it's not, since it's hard-coded.
Only after "touching" the .exe the current limit is 300 and I will try to go past that, if it's possible then the unit size will probably be unlimited.
But I don't know if it's an internal reason for that 300 limit, when I managed to bypass some checks to have more than 300 the game CTD.
It's still WIP.

Anyway discussing about modifying the .exe is tabu on TWC.
So when Eb2 will be released we will let you know about the unit sizes, if CA allows us to use this small altered .exe of Kingdoms.

And of course it will still require an original copy of the game!

[The Kybrothilian]

Well normally it's not, since it's hard-coded.
Only after "touching" the .exe the current limit is 300 and I will try to go past that, if it's possible then the unit size will probably be unlimited.
But I don't know if it's an internal reason for that 300 limit, when I managed to bypass some checks to have more than 300 the game CTD.
It's still WIP.

Anyway discussing about modifying the .exe is tabu on TWC.
So when Eb2 will be released we will let you know about the unit sizes, if CA allows us to use this small altered .exe of Kingdoms.

And of course it will still require an original copy of the game!

I see. It would be great to be able to have for example the Roman cohorts at full size of 500 men, and field an army of 10000 men in a single stack.

It can only be hoped that CA will allow doing that. The game is already quite old.

[Admiral Piett]

It would be even nicer if CA would allow us to expand the faction limit.

[Lуra]

It would be even nicer if CA would allow us to expand the faction limit.

Though it would, I think a limit helps keep the team more focused on the current ones.

~Lyra

[BroskiDerpman]

I am actually more worried about the unit limit of 500 (Same as RTW) because the faction limit is higher.

Wow, 300 men, I bet I can only run up to 60-80 unit sizes.

[Coldfire88]

Can the M2 engine even handle those numbers with full stacks fighting each other? even when running on a above average PC, it could get messy.

[Lуra]

RTW had a bigger problem with that than M2TW, but I think it will be able to handle at least 4 full stack armies without too much lag and those aren't very likely battle numbers anyways.

~Lyra

[Coldfire88]

That port for carthage is bigger than some cities, lol

[Admiral Piett]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Looks quite nice.

Love that Punic army model on the campaign map. Only thing I don't dig is the lush greeness in North Africa. I know its fertile but it shouldn't be the same lushness of Europe.

[Stath's]

The campaign map, the cities, the models, all the details look excellent!!

And the port, quite huge, as it should be, for a city like Carthage

[Admiral Piett]

Yeah I corrected my post. I was looking at the wrong picture.

[Aleksander the Average]

its been a while since i checked the twitter. the previews are looking amazing, ebII team!

[alin]

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Looks quite nice.

I know, it could be better but I was in a rush.

Love that Punic army model on the campaign map. Only thing I don't dig is the lush greeness in North Africa. I know its fertile but it shouldn't be the same lushness of Europe.

Everything you see is a WIP and the map will probably suffer some changes to make use of the new tile textures I created.

And the map was done before I've changed those.

That port for carthage is bigger than some cities, lol

Yes, like it was in that time:

[Admiral Piett]

Everything you see is a WIP and the map will probably suffer some changes to make use of the new tile textures I created.

And the map was done before I've changed those.

Awesome, well that answers everything. Thanks for that, Alin. I'm glad that it won't be like EB where Iran, Africa, and Baktria basically look like Europe.

[smoesville]

I can't see any of them

[Admiral Piett]

I can't see any of them

What do you mean? If the pictures don't display on the forum, just go to their twitter page. Link is on the first page.

[acsc2000]

Hi everyone!
Since I`ve been in China for quite some time now and thus don`t have access to twitter, could someone please update me? Or is it actually true that there haven`t been any twitter updates for a while now?
Thanks!