Unlocking Additional Factions - Work in Progress

I've been looking at trying to learn how to unlock factions (Specifically the Ottomans) in the "Coalition campaign", right now by referencing earlier ETW resources and seeing what works in NTW.

I have managed to apparently make the Ottomans selectable in the Multiplayer European Campaign, but not the Coalition campaign:

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I cannot verify if this actually would work since I don't have someone to do a multiplayer campaign with.

This is the resource I am referencing, however applying it without doing any of the "Emergent stuff": http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=242764

nice WORK!

I would note that it's -possible- they already were selectable in the multiplayer campaign and I neglected to check & am too lazy to check. But I am fairly sure they weren't.

Doing what the link proscribes does not seem to make the Ottomans playable in the regular European campaign, but there's also a possibility that Napoleonic European Campaign and Coalition European campaign are different.

My guess is that it'll take more work than the past to unlock any others for the Coalition campaign, and you cannot as far as I know circumvent it and just do a multiplayer campaign with no other players (Just AI)

And so begins the March of Progress. Thanks Ahiga!

what about singleplayer campaign.

I wanna make the Euros tremble at the sound of the mehter from the legions of Nizam-i Jadida's and Janissaries.

EDIT: Oops, the singleplayer campaign is what you are working on. My bad.

• I am fairly confident the eur_napoleon startpos references both "nap_europe" and "eur_napoleon" (Being Napoleon's european campaign and the coalition ones respectively).
• There are only victory condition menus for the playable five factions, and I do not know how to add more myself. That may play a part in a faction being playable.
• That being said, under campaign_env - campaign setup - campaign player setup - player arrays (For each faction) you do see categories of "campaign victory conditions" for each player/faction array.

Yet those player arrays for Russia and the Ottomans are almost identical in values, so I can't think that's the problem. It's quite possible there's something in the pack files which has to be changed too, I am pretty sure you had to make a faction playable that way in ETW.

In which case we can't do anything until modders create tools which can open up those pack files.

Have you tried the one that people use for ETW's pack files? Or are these different pack files?

They do not work because the db files are different. I could open it in a notepad or excel, but good luck making any sense of that madness.

It pretty much just means we'll have to wait until people begin to make those file programs compatable with the new dbs.

Damn, oh well at least there are 4 other factions to play with in the mean time.

Yeah, I haven't had any luck either. The usual method doesn't work. It's possible there's some other file restricting it to those four factions: you'll notice France is playable according to the esf data, but it's not selectable in "campaigns of the coalition."

So much for "they will quickly unlock all the other factions" from Kiernan


LOL joking of course-keep on it lads!

Kiernan said we would have the other factions unlocked in a week. So there you go modders one week from today is your deadline

Originally Posted by SunofVich

Kiernan said we would have the other factions unlocked in a week. So there you go modders one week from today is your deadline

Dude, the game is only out yet in America. I say the week starts from the 26th, when it's unlocked for everybody.

Originally Posted by ♔Oggie♔

Dude, the game is only out yet in America. I say the week starts from the 26th, when it's unlocked for everybody.

He was in Los Angelas when he said it. Soooooo a week from the American release

Oh okay have it your way.

I expect to be able to start my Ottoman campaign on March 5th.

Offtopic but, so there IS a full multiplayer campaign mode, not just the drop-in mode? I read some other dude on these forums who claimed that "waah sucks there is no multiplayer campaign as they promised" :o

Yes, there's a full multiplayer campaign mode.

I was able to play as portugal as a single player campain by editing startpos.esf in both eur_napoleon and mp_eur_napoleon as you would in Empire to unlock a minor faction. Hope this helps

edit: although portugal replaced russia as playable

Phantom: Did u used the EsfEditor from ETw? If yes, that cool and bad (because NTw is the same as moddable as ETW...)

yup i used the esf editor from ETw

Great initiative and good work so far,thanks Ahiga +rep