M2TW Config File How To's

[Axeman]

I know this sounds kinda noobdy but how do you change units stats?

I went to the export_ unit file and I changed the stats, and it doesnt work, however I can change the ammount of soldiers in a unit and it works, im really at a loss as what to do...

[SoulBreaker360]

how do you use this with the new patch?

[ssfsx17]

You add/edit in something like this to your cfg file:

[multiplayer]
playable = 1
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0
hotseat_disable_console = 0
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 1
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 1
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1

New to the latest patch is password protection, so that you can (more safely) turn your back to your opponents. However, this may be annoying in a co-op style game where your friends may actually trust you to play for them.

[SoulBreaker360]

so I make that change in that file and where do I go ingame and what do I do?

[Duke_of_Bavaria]

Another Q; what IS hotseat mode?

[ssfsx17]

Conterintuitively enough, you do the Single-Player Grand Campaign. However, you may notice that when you click on a faction's coat of arms, you "turn on" that faction to be playable by human. You click on the coat of arms again to turn off human control for that faction. You'll see what I mean.

Hotseat mode means multiplayer Grand Campaign using one computer. Each player gets one faction. At the beginning, you set a password for your faction so that (hopefully) nobody else can make your decisions for you. I used to play hotseat mode with my friends all the time until we realized that the shield bug made it very hard to have any interesting battles.

[Samir]

I found hotseat the best cure against SANC (Start a New Campaign) Syndrome.

I started as England, took faction control of Egypt. When the Moors went down the tube, I took over and revived their empire and afterwards gave control back to the AI.

In between I took a glimpse on Hungary and Polands gameplay, while always focusing on Egypt and England.

Sometimes it is confusing to be at war with yourself, of finding yourself attacking a province that you basically own yourself with a different faction, but it is 2000x better than starting a new campaign every time I want to know what the unit rooster looks like.


Also diplomacy gets way better (harharhar!! )

In general funny to play. The only thing I did not find out so far was how to continue a battle (chasing down routers) after the "official" end of the battle, somehow it always ends and there is no option to go on.

[Yorkiesand23]

Sorted.

No reply required had to change the med2 preferences aswell

hi

i'm trying to use hotseat mode and also use the dev console to auto run a campaign. It keeps on coming up with the dev console as disable, which I can see when I'm typing in the password so hotseat mode is working. Even though in my config file hotseat_disable_console = 0 i.e. false - so it would be disabled.

am i missing something??

thanks in advance

by the way i'm using a mod config file to which I've added

[multiplayer]
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = false
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0
hotseat_disable_console = 0
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 0
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 0
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1

[Duke_of_Bavaria]

Conterintuitively enough, you do the Single-Player Grand Campaign. However, you may notice that when you click on a faction's coat of arms, you "turn on" that faction to be playable by human. You click on the coat of arms again to turn off human control for that faction. You'll see what I mean.

Hotseat mode means multiplayer Grand Campaign using one computer. Each player gets one faction. At the beginning, you set a password for your faction so that (hopefully) nobody else can make your decisions for you. I used to play hotseat mode with my friends all the time until we realized that the shield bug made it very hard to have any interesting battles.

Woah that sounds friggin awesome! Too bad I'm the only one playing Medieval II on this street. I think . When are CA making this something that you can do over the internet ?

[Duke_of_Bavaria]

I'm not 100 % sure here but I think you have to do this:
[multiplayer]
playable = true
hotseat_turns = true
hotseat_scroll = true
hotseat_autoresolve_battles = 0
hotseat_disable_console = 0
hotseat_disable_papal_elections = 0
hotseat_save_prefs = 1
hotseat_update_ai_camera = 1
hotseat_validate_diplomacy = 1

[avesta]

how do you disable the screen where it asks for the password each time a faction's turn comes up?

[Evil Weasel]

WHERE is the config file you edit?

[Lusted]

medieval2.preference.cfg located in the SEGA\Medieval II Total War folder.

[Phoenicia]

Hello

I'm trying to make the mod switch work with 1.2 by doing it the same way i did with 1.1 ,
and it does not work

so i wonder if i forgot something or is it a different way with 1.2 ?

[Pivra]

How is it like and how can I get it?

[stormbringer951]

Cool.

and add this to your medieval2 preference file

[multiplayer]
playable = true

[hotseat]
autoresolve_battles = 1
disable_console = 1
disable_papal_elections = 0
save_prefs = 1
update_ai_camera = 0
validate_diplomacy = 1
turns = true
scroll = true

[AnatolyChekov]

doesnt work

[Kiki52]

I don't know what is really different than the other one, but this one works for me.

[multiplayer]
playable = true

[hotseat]
autoresolve_battles = 0
disable_console = 0
disable_papal_elections = 0
save_prefs = 1
update_ai_camera = 0
validate_diplomacy = 1

If you use this, the console in the hotseat mode will be enabled so you can use cheat codes. If you use this with another player though, he will see the console is not disabled so he will suspect you're cheating in a hotseat game

[MIG]

Can someone explain to me what is hotseat...I know it's some kind of multiplayer campaign mode, but is it online?

[Pivra]

Is there somewhere i can dL this mod?