History of DarthMod_M2TW Lite

[DARTH VADER]

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[JaM]

Great to know you are working on this game.

[Preskinn]

Have you given the Demo Billmen Animation some thought? Instead of the fix? Look at the mod threads forum.

[NoRbAk]

Oh captain my captain!!!

I offer you my help, my free time, my life...

And more realistically, maybe we could start a donations system?

Or start a web page and make some deals with advertisers?

I bet there are hundreds of mtw2 players that would nicely give 5$ or 10$ tokens to you to thank you for your work...

What do you say? Wanna make a serious mtw2 darthmod?

I would love to participate ... would it be real.

See you!

_Norbak_

PS- We all know your mod is gonna be 10 times better than official CA version! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!

[The Border Reiver]

Darth....might I just say how pleased I am to see you back at work. I look forward to keeping an eye on this thread as it grows.

[PurpleScotch]

Good news! Darth for M2TW, thats simply AMAZING! Thank you man!

[JuliusCaesar83]

good news!!

can you please add a new campaign map too? would be very nice! (Spirius or dragees map)

[wipeout140]

good news!!

can you please add a new campaign map too? would be very nice! (Spirius or dragees map)

Been talking to darth about Anno Domini Map and Shaba Wangy's Diplomacy Mod

So you may see a larger map in DM2TW

[Bumbar]

Great news, can't wait to test it.

[Kye]

nice work! ive been a fan of your mods since 1.0

[DARTH VADER]

Thanks all!

I will add the diplomacy mod if I get the permission from its creator (Shaba Wangy).
I will not add a new map yet since I cannot do much beta testing for CTD checks and do not like CTDs in my mods.

About the animation fix.
I have implemented the Lusted's method since it is visually not problematic and does the job without CTDs.
I cannot check right now if I use the new method if in the process is problematic but will do in the future.

The mod will be save game compatible to any of your save games you have with the original game as long as you copy the save games to my mod-switch file I will provide.

You can witness only gameplay changes and hopefully for the better.

In the next version I will more thoroughly correct any unit attribute unbalances and maybe find new gameplay methods.

Right now I use CA's balance and tweak it to play more efficiently.

The mod will be released late tonight or tomorrow.

Tell me more ideas if you want.

[ConstantineVII]

you... you... you... lil.... untrustworthy Darthy.... Nice to have you back!!!

[DARTH VADER]

All 2handed units corrected are the following:

Varangian Guard
Tabardariyya
Berdiche Axemen
Dismounted English Knights
Dismounted Noble Knights
Dismounted Portuguese Knights
All Billmen units
Norse Axemen
Free Company Men at Arms
Galloglaich
Woodsmen
Croatian Axemen
Mutatawwi'a
Religious Fanatics

Is there any other unit I missed?

[Taneda Santôka]

Yup!
-The "Crazy japanese-wanabe-fan beating the crap out of his gong with a huge two-handed drummstick out of utter pleasure and delight witnessing your return"!

[Pietrak]

Darth, I played a few battles and I think the Armour Piercing ability for infantry should be improved. And it should be a bit reduced for javelin-armed cavalary like Polish Nobels. They can take out 3/4 of a general's unit before their ammo runs out.
And may the Dark Side of the Force be with you, just a it was when I served under you in the Roman times !!

[CelticPagan]

Ahh this is why I you Darth

[wipeout140]

A very nice wallpaper Darth

[The Border Reiver]

Darth

One thing to consider with the use of the Shaba Wanga Diplomacy Mod 1.4 is the extended periods of "peace" between what should be warring factions.

Now I am not a 100% historical nut, but there should be lines that are not crossed. Now I mentioned this to Shaba who did not see it as an issue!

I point to England, Scotland and France as an example. In 120 turns (60years) not one battle was fought by me playing as English, not one blockade or anything. Also checked out a report for Byzantium, someone playing them had been at peace with the Turkish for 100 years with not one battle. i tried this myself and gave up bored to death after 40 years!

My point to this is, you may need to look at modifying this (for certain factions) as the campaign map stalls with extended periods of peace. It would be like DarthMod 8 having peace between the Julii and the Gauls...or the Gauls and Germans for 100 years with no battles.

One of the best parts of DarthMod is the impending doom presented by an unyielding AI hatred of you. If you use Shaba 1.4, this will not be reached.

Anyway that's my two cents worth, and I'm sure other people like peace all the time, but I want to know my enemy hates me and wants to attack me like DarthMod is famous for.

[Havoc04]

Darth mate... I Played youre Mod in RTW and seasawed between you and RTR. IM absolutly DELIGHTED and elated that you came on to M2TW.

And after reading that you set up shop here and that you were working on a mod i was excited.. And to log in today and see BAM a mod from you i almost keeled over LOL.

Great job mate, as far as im concerned M2TW can only get better now youre on board with it

Cheers

PS chk ya PM's Darth

[repman]

@darth vader
so the old boys are back from retirement
3 people are working now on battle dynamics, so we will see some results. i Will include parts of your mod in my mod...

@the border river
You don't get the peace stall if you use only the 2 files descr_campaign_ai_db.xml and descr_diplomacy.xml from the 3 in Shaba 1.4. This is happening in my mod. Italiano is talking about creating a Ai-hates-You version of his AI mod .

repman