RS2 BETA8 UPDATE 2

[dvk901]

Here's the link to the lastest update people. This installs over RS2 Beta8, and includes all previous updates:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9YSAPLXF

http://depositfiles.com/files/c8m8llcom

I couldn't get to filefront, and I'm having 'issues' with my PC again. Grrrr.

As usual, this installs in your RS2 directory, and this can be installed over the top of ANY RS2 BETA8 install. It will not, however, be save game compatible.

Many, many changes and improvements.

1. Named character cloning fixed.
2. Historically correct Dacian leaders.
3. New stats.
4. Temple descriptions finished except for Parthia.
5. Improved, in place, building descriptions....with some issues fixed thanks to Squid.
6. Many missing unit cards in place, and other 'localized placement' issues fixed.
7. Tons of map refinements and fixes in pathfinding and dead ends.
8. New interfaces and some corrections.
9. Some new horses by Argent Usher (?) sorry if I got that wrong...I'm going from memory.
10. New legion and auxilia shields by Pacco and Leif.
11. Many intial steps taken to make the 'Rebel' faction (thrace) also behave as a Roman Rebel faction. Roman regions that rebel will rebel to them, recruit either mercs and\or Roman units (eventually).
12. Beefed up Carthage's ability to recruit and be a major nuisance in northern Italy.
13. Fixed, for the most part, the issue of the Barbarian Oppida walls turning into eastern walls when they are destroyed. You'll still see some flashes of roman or eastern wall animations, but there's just no way around this.
14. Existing RTW events should now work, I redated them to work with the new start date.
15. Fixed one of the Custom battles that wasn't working.
16. Many mercs and AOR units added to recruitment.
17. Numerous tweaks and adjustments to the economy.
18. Many new and\or corrected unit descriptions.

VERY IMPORTANT THINGS TO TEST AND WATCH FOR:

1. Length and fun-ability of battles. Difficulty, lack thereof, etc.
2. Economic issues....not enough money...too much money...population issues....quality of opposing armies.
3. If a Roman settlement rebels.....I want to know that it rebels correctly to the 'Rebels', not the Free Peoples (slave). Any related CTD's in this regard.
4. If there are CTD's in the Strat part of the game I need to know during whose turn it occurs. ("I got a CTD in year whatever" is worthless without knowing whose turn it was also.)
5. Because of the many mercs and AOR units added to recruitment, I need to know if you get any CTD's whilst looking at the recruitment ques in any city...and of course, what region\city that may be.

[tone]

I've produced a spreadsheet in Excel which will allow people to record battles, settlements and so on. Please use this as much as possible in addition to posting screenshots so that we as developers get the best idea we can of what's actually going on in peoples' games and how the AI is doing.

There are seperate sheets for recording:

1) Faction overview - which faction you're playing, what difficulty level (we recommend M/M at the moment just to get an idea of balance), family member names, etc

2) Battles fought: which faction? army compositions? ease of battle? units lost / killed, outcome, time of year, which region

3) Enemy settlements (either spied out or taken): population level, barracks level, other buildings present, units garrisoned there

4) CTDs - where? why?


If you don't have Microsoft Office, then download Open Office (from www.openoffice.org) which does exactly the same thing for free. In fact, that's what I use.

[Douchebag]

sorry im late, spent about 3 days watching EUREKA 7. downloading now.

[tone]

Watch the "Unit stats" thread for updates to the unit stats.

Please also make sure you play campaigns with Fog of War set to False in the preferences.txt file.