Problems

**Karl_Franz** · February 22, 2016, 10:39 PM

In Medieval 2 Kingdoms (Vanilla) I have tried to start a multiplayer game (PC) with a friend (Mac) and they were incompatible. I know Med 2 has just come to Mac, but, will this feature be fixed or does it stay that way? If I can also ask if this is the same with other games like mount and blade: warband and Attila?

The other day I had my first taste of Third Age Multiplayer, which was great. However, when I went to play it in singleplayer most of the files were missing including the .bat file to run it. Also pretty much all of the files and folders in data were gone, including all the historical battles from the base game and the ones from youtube, I installed. Instead in the Third_Age_3/data/world/maps/battle/custom (which is the historical and multiplayer maps) there were two folders: (2v2)_lake_peipus_mp and (2v2)_village_vilnius_mp these are new, I did not put these here. So my question is, was I hacked, or is this common practise in multiplayer servers?
I have since deleted third age and reinstalled it.

I have also saved a seige replay in the mod: Westeros: Reign of Petty Kings. However, the AI attacking me acts differently, how is this possible if this is a saved replay?????????? Any Ideas??

Any help in these matters would be appreciated

The top two of these problems were posted in steam's discussion, with no answer.

Thanks

**Karl_Franz** · February 22, 2016, 11:06 PM

Sorry about last post, I copyied and pasted from steam and it did not come through. So what my post should say:

1. I have tried to play Med 2 Kingdoms (Vanilla) Multiplayer (PC) with a friend (Mac) and they were incompatible. I know Med 2 has just come to Mac, but, will this feature be fixed or does it stay that way? Also is this the same with Rome 2 and Atilla?

2. The Other Day I had my first taste of Third Age Multiplayer, which was great. We played Minus Tirith and Osgiliath (the later my game CTD) However, when I went to play Third Age Singleplayer, most of the files were missing. These included; .bat file and the maps for multiplayer and singleplayer custom and historical battles (including the ones I got off youtube (Pixelated Apollo)). Instead in the Third_Age_3/data/world/maps/battle/custom (where these maps were located), there were two folders: (2v2)_lake_peipus_mp and (2v2)_village_vilinius_mp these are new, I did not put these here. So my question is , was I hacked, or is this something that can happen in Multiplayer?

3. I tried a custom battle (seige) in the mod Petty Kings and saved the replay. I then replayed (watched) it so I could record it for someone else, and the stangest thing happened the AI acted differently. eg. I was down to a few units in the town centre, which were being attacked and I had brought my archers around their flank to shoot them from behind. However, replaying it the AI attacked anotherway, yet my aracher unit still went around to flank them, but there units were not there??????

The first 2 of these were posted in Steam Discussion with no replies.

Any help with any of these would be great, and if you refer me can you give the link.

Thanks in advance.

**Karl_Franz** · February 22, 2016, 11:09 PM

I have since reinstalled Third Age and all is well but an answer on the why this happened would be nice.

**Frunk** · February 23, 2016, 07:12 AM

You're more likely to find solutions to your Third Age related problems in their official forum: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forum...-Age-Total-War

Feel free to create a new thread there after looking for answers.

This forum is for more general Medieval 2 technical support. I don't have an answer for your first question, but I'm sure someone else will.

**lolIsuck** · February 23, 2016, 08:15 AM

Replays don't actually record the game as you played it and the feature is therefore pretty useless. I don't remember how it works exactly but I think it has something to do with saving your decisions and replaying them.

**Gigantus** · February 23, 2016, 10:18 PM

1. From what I have seen what is necessary to make the game MAC compatible I would think that it is not possible to have a solution for the required compatibility check for multiplayer.

2. From where I stand this should not happen, I do however don't think that it was anything malicious - rather a case of synchronizing two set ups. The guys in the multiplayer forums might know more about this.

**Karl_Franz** · February 24, 2016, 08:42 PM

Thanks guys for your help. Gigantus if you mean the sub forum multiplayer, I cannot access this???? If not that forum thread can you please give a link to Multiplayer.

Thanks