M2TW in 3rd person mod

[Used2BRoz]

Battle Immersion mod

Pixelated Apollo has posted a video on YT of him playing a new M2TW mod which enables players to control the general in the army and move around the battlefield as that general.

Looks fun.

Can now work with generals on foot as well as mounted.
Also now works with the Steam version.

It does have certain limitations and you'll need to adapt your playing style a little but it certainly looks cool.

Pixie's voice-over ofc makes it sound even more fun.

https://youtu.be/La8hXeXqP7E

The modders links :

https://youtu.be/1mbw4Na_87o

[zachman1201]

Okay so I'll be honest. I have not tested this with Third Age or any huge M2 mod yet. But the install for this third person mod for Medieval 2 is very easy and worth it. Because it makes battles so much fun! The controls are a little janky but easy to get the hang of. Please let me know in the comments if you run into any issues.


Imagine if this would work for multiplayer, 8 individual generals can now battles it out!

[Gigantus]

It's a single soldier unit in 'follow' mode from what I can see initially - but then the BG soldiers appear to get detached.

Edit: this is the BAT file which is steam only at the moment but can easily be made compatible and has to be adapted to individual mods for use in there

@echo off
cd ..\..
start medieval2.exe @mods\Third_Person_Mod\mod.cfg
ping -n 10 127.0.0.1 > NUL
mods\Third_Person_Mod\DefEdition.exe
pause

And here the CFG file which hides the battle interface and disables unit markers, which can easily be done within a mod's cfg file:

[video]
show_banners = 0
[game]
allusers=1
disable_arrow_markers = 1
event_cutscenes = 0
[ui]
SA_cards = show
buttons = slide
full_battle_HUD = 0
radar = hide
show_tooltips = 1
unit_cards = show

It would appear that the executable file does the required modifications

Edit2: I have not been able to make it work, but then I had only the 0.9 link from the first post - would appreciate a direct link to the moddb download page.