[BC 2.4.2] : Standalone Patched Version - [Preview + Download] RELEASED!

[Nikiforos XMike]

Great job,
the textures of the Orthodox bishops are not included in the pack?

Introduction

Broken Crescent team presents you a new version of Broken Crescent - 2.4! It includes several improvements, all listed below, which we hope you find refreshing. We also hope you will have a good time while playing 2.4 and waiting for subsequent releases. Enjoy!

Main features

• Map extended to the North and the East
• 7 new factions
• More than 80 new units and new models
• Improved Strategic map
• Rewamped economy, religion and recruitment features
• A lot of new events, traits and ancillaries
• A lot of new UI and eyescandies

[FIELDSET2="Info pictures and loading screens"]New Info Pictures:

New Agents models

Armenia



Byzantium agents


Vladimir agents


Makurian agents



New Byzantine models
Orthodox bishop & Oecumenical Patriarch


Church of the East: Nestorian bishop and nestorian patriarch



Jerusalem agents



Paramara agents






Preview videos (thanks to Geoffrey of Villehardouin)

Eldeguzids - faction preview





Zengids - faction preview

A quick videoclip with one of the new factions, the Zengids.

Installation

Requirements:

1. [*]Medieval 2 Total War + Kingdoms + Patch 1.5 - all installed outside Program Files directory (for the sake of your peace and quiet)
2. Download ~3.5 GB of free HD space for BC 2.4 zip file. You need 4 GB free space.
3. Installation path of BC 2.4 should be "M2TW/mods/Broken_Crescent_kingdoms2.4" (no more, no less)! Zip file adds "/Broken_Crescent_kingdoms2.4" to the path chosen by you, so watch out to not to set "/mods/Broken_Crescent_kingdoms2.4/broken_crescent_kingdoms2.4"!

2.4 installation will not affect any other mods and do not need BC 2.3 to work. 2.4.2 is a "stand alone" version.

Install steps:

1. Download the .Zip -> Here
2. Unzip it into your M2TW/mods folder in order to have (MTW2/mods/Broken_Crescent_kingdoms2.4/data)
3. Go into MTW2/mods/Broken_Crescent_kingdoms2.4 and launch the bc_launch.bat file

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The credits

Broken Crescent 1 & 2 Team - establishing this excellent modification
Broken Crescent 3 Team

Direct contributors to 2.4:

Byzantineboy (Project leader)
Vatar (testing bug reporting)
Geoffrey of Villehardouin
Ryousan
Sumskilz
Alejandro Sanchez
TMK




Credits:
Units: (models and textures)
- Shaoding Team
- Mount&Blade12th Team
- ChenyJR (main part of the roster)
- Rev. (main part of the roster)
- Yelü Dashi (Nomad aux; Tarim warlords)
- Koultouras (Uyghur militia)
- Sumskilz (Naimans)
- v1499 (Uighur cavalry, heavy spearmen)
- RusichiTW (for textures)
- Aura (new turkoman units)
- Byzantineboy (Naiman textures and shields)
- Cedric37 and S.S team (UI interface engine)
- KaraIslam (new turkish units)
- Koultouras (new turkoman and arabs units)


Unit descriptions:
- A_Su
- DonnyBrasko


Special thanks to:
- Shaoding Team (again)
- Stainless Steel Team
- Againster
- IGdood
- Faerrum Aeternum Team
- Gigantus
- Byzantineboy (project leader)


TMK - Unit Modelling, Skinning and Coding
ALFAJI - Arabian Researcher
Wudang_clown - Team Leader
Sumskilz - Unit Modelling and Skinning
Matmohir - Research
_Capper_ - Faction Symbol
Also Tureuki, Jermagon and all the others who supported this with comments and advice.

*If you helped anyhow but don't see yourself on the list - PM Byzantineboy.

Chanegelog of Broken Crescent 2.4

In progress

If you have any technical (CTD's, installation, bugs) problems with Broken Crescent 2.4 - report them here and only here, otherwise they will be ignored!


Download 2.4.2 standalone
-> HERE<- (megaupload) or
-> HERE<- (Mediafire) .

Please, could someone upload this file to another free uploader? It would help us a lot.






* As a last resort you can also try here

[Khevsur]

in Georgian campaign where is Kartlian Spearmen and Metsikhovne spearmen ? This is chaos . Units are in inappropriate places .

Georgian Aznauri Horse archer In Baku? lol

you think Georgian aznauri cavalry and aznauri horse acher is peasants?


this is bad version bc

[isa0005]

in Georgian campaign where is Kartlian Spearmen and Metsikhovne spearmen ? This is chaos . Units are in inappropriate places .

Georgian Aznauri Horse archer In Baku? lol

you think Georgian aznauri cavalry and aznauri horse acher is peasants?


this is bad version bc

I'd like to see you do it better buddy...

[The Despondent Mind]

delete

[Three63]

I have the Steam version with Kingdoms. How do I check which patch it has? Will it only work as designed with a 1.5 patch?

[Jurand of Cracow]

i've got a Steam version and it works.

[Three63]

I'm really confused, you got two different links and what I uploaded has no installer which one is which download and please help me out.

[selv]

I'm really confused, you got two different links and what I uploaded has no installer which one is which download and please help me out.

The instructions seem clear enough? I don't know the mod but if it doesn't have a installer, you put it directly in your mods folder, which is as simple.

Install steps:

1. Download the .Zip -> Here
2. Unzip it into your M2TW/mods folder in order to have (MTW2/mods/Broken_Crescent_kingdoms2.4/data)
3. Go into MTW2/mods/Broken_Crescent_kingdoms2.4 and launch the bc_launch.bat file

If Steam is different, I can't say, I don't have it.

[Geoffrey of Villehardouin]

I don't see much that is wrong with DLV 6 or with Sicilian Vespers. The mods have not died, there is just no more modding work on them because they are good enough. I still play them. Mods that have died are mods like All Under Heaven or East of Rome or The Great Conflicts that became lost in a developing limbo.

[Jurand of Cracow]

I don't see much that is wrong with DLV 6 or with Sicilian Vespers. The mods have not died, there is just no more modding work on them because they are good enough. I still play them. Mods that have died are mods like All Under Heaven or East of Rome or The Great Conflicts that became lost in a developing limbo.

I didn't mean the unfinished mods as EoR or TGC. There're of course plenty of them but they were simply unfinished.
I really meant DLV and SV (or SS-BftB, or SS-BGR). I've recently (in the summer) played a couple of DLV games and it feels really outdated even with the latest submod (which changed many things in the right direction). I've had a look a the SV and the units or the map looks outdated. Besides, the community is discovering what works and what doesn't (like here) and these mods should be updated as well. I don't mean the accents of the Greek speech but much, much more basic features.
So I think it's sad there're no moders who would continue to work of the old guys.

[AnthoniusII]

I don't see much that is wrong with DLV 6 or with Sicilian Vespers. The mods have not died, there is just no more modding work on them because they are good enough. I still play them. Mods that have died are mods like All Under Heaven or East of Rome or The Great Conflicts that became lost in a developing limbo.

The Great Conflicts lost in a developing limbo? Why haven't I nottified about it?
Seriously now. Delayed mods or unfinished ones have too many parameters. _Tartaros_ have reached TGC in data 0.89 patch 2 and two more factions are about to be revealed in the new year (Great Moravia and Serbia).
Many mods completed or put their solid bases in the Golden Era of M2TW modding 8 years ago. Now we are living in an other TW game modding golden era.
Many mods are great from many prospectives. But some of them discouraged further modding by the way they were developed. Luckily BC is not one of them because it covers an era and area that other mods simply do not.
Personaly i prefer solid (even delayed) mod patches with limited submods in the "fealing" of the basic mod than a mod with thousands submods that actually lose the basic mod's essence (like TATW that anyone does what he wants and transformed the basic mod to a labyrith of submods with no standard quality ).

You cannot know otherwise, but the secret BC Dev forum is still in movement.
I have seen what WG has done, it is a very good work.
If we plan a coming 2.5, it would surely based on Buff and Shine, and also on Dolen units improvements.

I hope not with Dolen's horses though. If the "new" BC will need some realy good horses i could provide some basic MARKA horses placeholders that with difrent textures of cloths and armors could fit in BC's units (see my MARKA horse tutorial in my sig).

[Three63]

Is there any mod I can combine this with to have more historical based, realistic long battles, rather then vanilla type battles? Can someone help me out? Great mod btw, so many units! Great map, great theme. I like it better then Rome 2 on it's own merit.

[Three63]

Also I played a part of a campaign game, and I wanted to ask this. Are there any scripted events in Broken Crescent based on what's going on? For example, if I take Jerusalem as Saladin do I get a special message, or if I conquer as a Mongol nation a huge empire I'll get a special title for my faction leader or a message or whatever?

[Napoli]

Getting the "cannot find kingdoms.exe" error. I assume the bat isn't correctly directing, because the exe is where it should be.

[Jurand of Cracow]

Getting the "cannot find kingdoms.exe" error. I assume the bat isn't correctly directing, because the exe is where it should be.

Sometimes you need to check if it's not "read only" and sometimes running in the administrator's mode helps.

[WeekendGeneral]

If you have the steam version this is a common problem for all mtw2 mods. Arguably the easiest way of addressing this is make a copy of mtw2.exe in the mtw2 folder and rename the copy kingdoms.exe. Now all mods will run correctly when you rum their respective .bat files.

[Napoli]

I made a habit of always running as admin these days, but I did tick off the "read only" box, but it still didn't work.
I was still able to get the mod to run anyway by just naming the BC folder "americas" and running that from the launcher, so it isn't a big priority to fix anymore, except that such a method is not as efficient.

[Napoli]

It is not a Steam version however. Does the mod need the kingdoms.exe to have the same target as mtw2 or something? I already have a kingdoms.exe as is.

[uos_spo6]

I have same problem as Napoli and had to use same work around (thanks for the idea!), used Crusades folder though. Is Steam version so I had no kingdoms.exe. Not sure if referenced mtw2.exe a few posts up for fix ideas as short for 'medieval2.exe' or not because the latter is what mine is named.

Have checked that medieval2.exe is not read-only, have tried to run BC launch bat as admin, have copied medieval2.exe and renamed kingdoms.exe and left in same place, then tried putting a copy of it about everywhere else as well. Only thing that works is simply renaming Broken_crescent folder to an original Kingdoms mod folder name and launching that mod (in my case Crusades) through Steam. This makes BC mod work, and it's of course an incredible work of art! Much obliged to entire team for such a great game!

[craze123]

im getting an error when trying to extract files.

Compressed(zipped) folders was unable to create the specified directory. ensure that the directory does not already exist and that the path entered is valid.

the file does not already exist and file path is correct as far as the instructions go,
C:\Program Files (x86)\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\mods\Broken_Crescent_kingdoms2.4

went to the origin folders of my MTW2 (installed on disc) into mods, and moved the unzipped file there.

any one know how to fix this????