Need Help

[lacrossepl9]

Hey Guys so I finally got my new computer in yesterday and I've been installing everything, so far Empire is all ready to go and then Steam decided to suck as usual and has taken almost 24 hours to update Shogun 2!! JUST AN UPDATE!!! Anyway I want to avoid using Steam ever again and I have the discs to install Medieval 2 and Kingdoms or so I thought, finds out I have every CD except for DISC 2 of Kingdoms, I have checked everywhere and it is nowhere to be found, I downloaded Medieval 2 and Kingdoms on Steam but I don't want to upload them in fear of being bogged down for another 48 hours of nothing but installation, is it possible to install enough of Kingdoms with just Disc 1 and play Third Age since that is the only reason I am installing Medieval 2 in the first place?

[scouter535]

Not 100% sure but I am pretty sure that you will need both disks. It is true that you only need 1 of the kingdom campaigns but I think they are spread out in a way that you won't be able to get a complete install without the second disk.

[StealthFox]

Not 100% sure but I am pretty sure that you will need both disks. It is true that you only need 1 of the kingdom campaigns but I think they are spread out in a way that you won't be able to get a complete install without the second disk.

I agree, I think you need both discs. Try it though and see what happens. Worst case scenario is you uninstall it and wait on steam. Or you can install regular M2TW and play a vanilla campaign while you wait for Steam.

Also....

Moved to Technical Help Forum.

[lacrossepl9]

Thanks for the replies guys! But crap I had a feeling that was the case, I had a shimmer of hope lol well I am going to tear my house apart looking for the disc tonight if I don't find it I am probably just gonna go out and hope I find kingdoms in stores somewhere even if I have to get Medieval 2 Gold it'll be better than waiting all week for steam to download it lol

[StealthFox]

Are you by any chance an Amazon Prime member? M2TW Gold edition ships with free 2 day shipping, and for only $3 more you can overnight it.

[lacrossepl9]

I saw that deal and I was going to take it but I am not an Amazon Prime member, instead I caved and bought gold edition (AGAIN) lol and I bought the digital copy from gamestop, it's downloading at around 500 KB/S so I'll leave it on all night and it should take a few hours since its all 12 gigs but its fully updated and patched and it was only $10 so in total I spent $17 to buy two versions of games I've already had since they were released lol but tomorrow it'll all be worth it when I finally get to play Third Age again, it's been a year since my last computer died and I am going through so many withdrawls I have looked at every screenshot of the custom cities and I cannot wait to finally play them, been playing third age since 1.0s release

The speed went up now its going at around 3 MB/S probably be around 3 hours to download this is so much better than Steam!!

[lacrossepl9]

Ok I installed Gold Edition and everything is working great except I downloaded patch 1.5 (cus I saw I am playing on v1.04) and it says that the patch is for retail games only and not for impulse? Is there any way I can get patch 1.5 for my downloaded game? I mean I paid for it through Gamestop, should I just install Third Age without the patch?

[StealthFox]

I'm not familiar with the gamestop version, so I don't know what to tell you about updating to 1.5. Third Age is supposed to work fine with 1.4, although some people have reported that 1.5 seems to fix some stability issues.

[lacrossepl9]

I looked it up and Gamestop said that patch 1.05 was "unoffical" so I started downloading off steam and steam is running really fast today I'll just use friggen steam now and eventually I am going to get out of this damn nightmare of bull all to play a free mod lol

[Stylix]

Gamestop is pulling your chain. The patch v1.05 was an official release by CA.

Some of the patch features:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

The official update includes the following fixes:

- Forts in the Crusades campaign are now made of stone.
- Fixed various units having incorrect shield values.
- Fixed a number of inconsistencies between units' speech and their unit cards.
- Fixed deployment zones being in unreachable locations on some river crossings and bridge battles.
- Byzantine Gunners are now available to be recruited in the Crusades campaign.
- Denmark now has Norwegian units available to them when the Kalmar Union is formed.
- The Kingdom of Jerusalem can now construct King's Stables.
- Byzantine can now construct a Marksmanship Range.
- Mangonels can now be constructed at Siege Works in the Teutonic campaign.
- Swordsmiths' Guild Headquarters now gives the correct bonus to Knights trained in the Crusades campaign.
- Fixed Lithuanian Arquebusiers firing too frequently.
- Fixed various units having incorrect banners on the battle map.
- Fixed exploit that allowed certain characters' stats to be raised by repeatedly saving the game.
- New Faction Leaders in the Teutonic campaign now have the correct model.
- Crusading Nobles can no longer become the Faction Leader in the Teutonic campaign.
- Fixed Wales not receiving reinforcements when capturing bordering English settlements.
- Requirements of various Apachean units have been reduced allowing them to be more easily obtained.
- Fixed the Norwegian banners displaying the Novgorod symbol when out of fog of war.
- The Baron's Alliance no longer re-emerges after taking control of England.
- Assassination missions targeting Crusading Nobles no longer expire when they are successfully carried out.
- Dead wives no longer produce children in the Crusades campaign.
- Faction heirs in the Americas campaign have had their loyalty increased to fix them rebelling early in the game.
- Players no longer receive incorrect event messages in hotseat games.
- Unique models on characters are removed when they change faction.
- Fixed the family tree disappearing when a princess is married to General who becomes the Faction Leader.
- Fixed Scottish family tree in the Britannia campaign.
- Fixed soft-lock that occurred with multiple armies on the battle map.
- Fixed crash that occurred when disbanding a unit whilst merging two armies.
- Crash after auto-resolving a siege battle from a hotseat save game no longer occurs.
- Crash that occurred when loading a battle from the campaign map edge no longer occurs.
- Kingdoms no longer crashes when playing battles after unpacking the game's data.
- Fixed unique unit recruitment in the Crusades campaign.
- Small black rectangles no longer appear on the campaign map.
- Improved siege auto-resolve for the Britannia, Crusades and Teutonic campaigns.

[ElvenKind]

Capitalism, everyone wants his piece of cake. So does Gamespot.

[lacrossepl9]

Oh I know it was I've had kingdoms since it was released I just lost the friggen disc 2 so I had to go through this crap lol but NH steam version will be done in 35 minutes