How to Unlock all Factions

**jpanside** · March 16, 2011, 04:08 PM

Can someone give a step by step on how to unlock all factions? I want to play the Asai.

Btw I am greatly enjoying the game and the optimization of the retail version is first class!!!

**YD23** · March 16, 2011, 04:09 PM

Moved to the Mod Workshop/Text Editing & Scripting.

**Pontifex Maximus** · March 16, 2011, 09:07 PM

Steady on...

**ParthianWarrior** · March 17, 2011, 02:32 AM

I wouldn't mind playing as the Ikko-Ikki either. Anyone take a look at this yet?

**Funkyrobbie** · March 18, 2011, 07:32 PM

This is something im looking into although i cant find the descr-strat like the old game i go to data and only find campaign maps click on that and get display hmm it must be somewhere else or they stopped it

UPDATE!
Searched my pc for descr_strat and only got stuff for medieval and rome might have to wait for a mod but i heard they made this game basically unmoddable =/

**Syrex88** · March 18, 2011, 09:47 PM

thats because if you look around at the file setup --

Shogun2 file setup will resemble empire and napoleon ... NOT Rome and medieval1&2...

**Funkyrobbie** · March 19, 2011, 06:09 PM

never played empire or napoleon to a great extent so i wouldnt have a clue how were they unlocked or was it impossible?

**YD23** · March 20, 2011, 02:39 AM

Use pack file managers to open the game packs. For example, the data.pack will have a bunch of different documents to edit. They are all similar to medieval and rome, just packed neatly.

**ghostinthemaxim** · March 23, 2011, 10:48 AM

Obviously, Shogun 2 does not have a startpos.esf file, as Empire and Napoleon do (at least I couldn't find it). Then it was relatively easy to make minor factions playable.

However, since the special and collector's editions of Shogun 2 contain an additional clan made playable (the Hattori), many people who bought those editions would be pretty pissed if a simple mod would do for what they paid extra money (already for Empire mods added way more units than any DLC could offer).

Accordingly, I'm afraid there's a good chance that it's hard-coded this time around.

Please, someone tell me I'm wrong on this one...

EDIT: Oops... maybe should have read YD's post more closely. Going to try to find something in the pack files...

**ghostinthemaxim** · March 23, 2011, 11:01 AM

In fact there is a startpos.esf. You can find it - as YD said - in the data.pack by unpacking it.

**mokwhy** · March 27, 2011, 02:59 PM

oke i unpackt it and now how can i get it to work in the game

**vermicious knid** · March 28, 2011, 10:18 AM

A question concerning unlocking factions, upon investigation there are at least three startpos.esf's that I've found, one in the campaigns folder under benchmarks, one in the data pack, and one in the patch pack. Would all three require changes or would the one located in the patch pack override the others, also would changes need to be made to the correspoding lua? What other changes that I'm not aware of, might be required?

Admittedly, I know very little about this topic, but would at least like to initiate a serious conversation concerning getting the factions unlocked. Any thoughts?

Also, as part of the dialogue, potentially what's at issue here, has CA gone beyond simply not going out of there way to make the game modder friendly or have they actively taken steps to prohibit modding?

**ParthianWarrior** · March 23, 2011, 12:07 PM

Yeah...I don't think it's just about the Hattori clan. Obviously that can be avoided as a public download. I think people just want access to other factions that are of historical interest (Asai, Ikko-Ikki, Ashikaga Shogunate, Imagawa, etc).

**Funkyrobbie** · March 24, 2011, 04:08 PM

so can u guys manage to do this or is it impossible?

**mr.playa** · July 29, 2011, 09:42 AM

so can you guys unlock it ?

**Lord Willy** · September 02, 2011, 09:52 AM

Any News or progress?

**Dwizzle** · September 03, 2011, 01:16 AM

I am afraid not atleast to what I have tried to find. This is pretty hard to make any other clan playable. Why I know this you ask? Well I have been working for many hours just these last couple of days just to see what I could do and so far... no avail. The problem I am having is that the startpos.esf files will simply not save and the two startpos.esf files that I am aware of need to be modded a bit for the clans to unlock but without them saving at all... well I can't do much but I am still trying a bit and I bet others are trying too. Heard of people unlocking the clans but they don't want to release them due to unknown reasons, but this is what I heard... not a fact. Just like alot of people I sure hope someone soon can crack this because I don't even play shogun 2 SP camp. anymore because I find it dull and want the other clans!!! Besides me though how is the progress with others?

**Fikol55** · September 08, 2011, 09:50 AM

Do you think that if someone sent me a save with hattori game would it work for me when I opened it? you know, sth like game begining 1st turn on certain difficulty level?