Game crashes after unpacking data to fix Venetian archers.

[Leto Atreides]

I have Medieval 2 Gold Edition 1.05.

The game was running fine until I played as Venice and got annoyed with the armor bug that displays Venetian Archers in full plate armor before they get the upgrade and vice-versa.

I unpacked the game files in order to change the faulty line in "export_descr_unit". I fixed it and now whenever the game has finished loading a battle, it CTDs with this message: Medieval 2: Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit."
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OK, I reinstalled the Medieval 2 game, but kept the fixed "export_descr_unit file" in the data folder. Now the game works, but the venetian archers are still bugged.

What the hell?

[Ishan]

Moved to Modworkshop>Text Editing and Scripting

You unpack the game and open the EDU(export_descr_unit.txt) file and then interchange the models for it in it's EDU entry for venetian archers.
Like this:-

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

type             Venetian Archers
dictionary       Venetian_Archers      ; Venetian Archers
category         infantry
class            missile
voice_type       Light
banner faction   main_missile
banner holy      crusade
soldier          Venetian_Archers, 48, 0, 1
attributes       sea_faring, hide_forest, can_withdraw
formation        1.2, 1.2, 2.4, 2.4, 4, square
stat_health      1, 0
stat_pri         9, 2, composite_arrow, 160, 25, missile, missile_mechanical, piercing, none, 25, 1
;stat_pri_ex      0, 0, 0
stat_pri_attr    no
stat_sec         9, 2, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, piercing, sword, 25, 1
;stat_sec_ex      0, 0, 0
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  5, 2, 0, metal
;stat_armour_ex   5, 6, 0, 0, 2, 0, 0, metal
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        3
stat_ground      1, 0, 2, -2
stat_mental      5, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 30
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 510, 150, 50, 115, 510, 4, 150
armour_ug_levels 3, 4
armour_ug_models Venetian_Archers_ug1, Venetian_Archers
ownership        venice
era 1            venice
era 2            venice
;unit_info        9, 9, 7
recruit_priority_offset    0

After that you are done now what you have to do is make some changes to make it work that is tell the game that read the modded file how?
In the Medieval 2 Main directory you open the medieval2.preference.cfg file and then put this command in it to read the modded file.

[io]
file_first = true

Now save changes to his .cfg file and set it to read only so that this edit that you made in the .cfg file doesn't vanish and stays permanent when you exit the game.

So that how you do it right.

And why was your game crashing in battle map after unpacking coz you didn't read the read me.txt file in the unpacker folder.
It tells you that after we unpack we need to delete 2 files from the data folder that are:-

• data\descr_geography_new.txt
• data\descr_geography_new.db

And Welcome to TWC btw.
Enjoy!

[Leto Atreides]

Thank you. It's so simple when you know what to do.

Shame on Creative Assembly for never fixing small and obvious bugs after 5 patches.

[Ishan]

You're Welcome bro.

And remember this is the place to ask modding questions not where you opened the thread previously that is for general discussion only.
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