TLR v1.9 Beta 2 - Archive

[tornnight]

TLR version 1.9 Beta 2 available

Updated Feb 06, 11:30 EST
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Your splash screen should look like this.


There is no installer. This is just a simple zip file with the files in it.
Just unzip it to C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War
It won't overwrite your current game.
Execute it by running
C:\Program Files\SEGA\Medieval II Total War\The_Long_Road_Beta.bat

What's new
- Armor based Era System
- Era System for bigger walls
- Era System for gunpowder
- New Building Scheme for barracks (Option 3 from the poll)
- Portugal Map Fixes
- Improved Battle AI
- Fixed Cardinals
- Population growth lowered
- Biggest Castle at start is a Wooden Castle (Keep style)
- Biggest City is a regular stone wall city.

Whats new since Beta 1

- Fixed Building Tree
- All new Campaign AI and Diplomacy
- Only Militia has free upkeep
- Crossbowmen can fire better from walls
- Improved AI Siege Formations
- Fixes to Cavalry getting stuck on rocks
- Additional minor fixes.

Whats not in yet
- Unit Balance (It's taking more time)
- New Units

Remember, I can't guarantee that the saves for this will be compatible with the final. Please give me plenty of feedback on playability, enjoyability.

Let me know if (Specifics please)
-the difficulty is more/less difficult than 1.8.
-the era system needs balancing
-diplomacy needs balancing
-recruitment needs balancing
-build tree is broken
-battle issues

[Lapata]

Hi ,so far no change in battle AI will keep checking.

[Phil Stanbridge]

Okay trying Beta whilst I'm working..

Playing as Portugal (new faction to me) and not sure what to expect. 1092 and have captured Sevilla, but want to play this beta very slowly and not rush into anything before I can cope.

One oddity I guess, Scotland have allied with the Moors? I didn't think was this was supposed to happen? I'm playing H/H for the first time as well.

[Phil Stanbridge]

woooah is this right? Alchemist's Lab before 1100 and before any type of gunpowder etc?

[tornnight]

Okay trying Beta whilst I'm working..

Playing as Portugal (new faction to me) and not sure what to expect. 1092 and have captured Sevilla, but want to play this beta very slowly and not rush into anything before I can cope.

One oddity I guess, Scotland have allied with the Moors? I didn't think was this was supposed to happen? I'm playing H/H for the first time as well.

Using the new AI it can. It will just be more rare than christian alliances.

woooah is this right? Alchemist's Lab before 1100 and before any type of gunpowder etc?

They have to be renamed to a more generic school. It is as intended. Those buildings give you siege and missile upgrades.

[Máel Coluim]

Have you found it easier to sue for peace against factions that bear you no real grudge?

[Baeksen]

Hi

I'm still having trouble accessing sovanto.com, so I can't download the beta.
This week is my vacation, Monday I start a new semester and after that I will only have time to play 2-3 hours a week. Therefore I would be very happy it you could upload it somewhere else.

Cheers Baeksen

[CONK]

I can't start the mod. when i execute The_long_road_beta.bat it opens the original game. did I do something wrong? Only unzip it to the game folder right?

[tornnight]

I can't start the mod. when i execute The_long_road_beta.bat it opens the original game. did I do something wrong? Only unzip it to the game folder right?

Hmm that should be it. I just looked over the files and I don't see anything wrong. Anyone else have problems?

[CONK]

Hmm that should be it. I just looked over the files and I don't see anything wrong. Anyone else have problems?

I've tLR 1.8 and LTC installed. I uninstall them and unzip 1.9 again but nothing is changed. :hmmm:

[Sol Invictus]

Did you run Setup again after you unzipped the Beta 2 files?

[CONK]

Did you run Setup again after you unzipped the Beta 2 files?

Nope! Is there a setup?

[tornnight]

Thats weird. What part of the world do you live in?

Ill see what I can do tonight. Can't do it from work.

[Baeksen]

Ill see what I can do tonight. Can't do it from work.

Sounds good. Thanks

Thats weird. What part of the world do you live in?

I live in Denmark. (I've just found this weird smiley named "denmark", who is holding a flag that looks more like the flag of Switzerland)

[badapple]

Tornnight on the map there is a wood resource south west of Hamburg near the river where I can't get a merchant able to use it. Also a wood resource northwest of Magdeburg near the river and a wool resource just bellow that one. Any resource with the river just east of it can't be used.

[borschwanger]

is the current addon install compatable with the beta version or will installing it mess something up?

[Ivniciix]

FWIW, regarding Spain and the attack then ceasefire, I've had that happen in earlier versions of TLR to the extent that a faction will attack (seige) then break the seige in the next turn as well as accept a ceasefire offer from me. Sometimes, I've had them accept the ceasefire in the same turn that they seige me and just leave...and not attack me again any time soon.
This makes me unsure whether your experience is strictly related to 1.9 beta 2.

[Averroës]

I may be looking at this wrong, but in my current game as the Scots in 1.9 beta 2, the building requirments screen shows the requirements to build an archery range (range 3) in a castle to be both a drill square and a militia drill square. The militia drill square, of course, can only be built in a town. For a town, the archery range shows no requirements at all. Perhaps the requirement for militia drill square was meant for towns?

[tornnight]

is the current addon install compatable with the beta version or will installing it mess something up?

As far as I can remember, it should be fine.

I may be looking at this wrong, but in my current game as the Scots in 1.9 beta 2, the building requirments screen shows the requirements to build an archery range (range 3) in a castle to be both a drill square and a militia drill square. The militia drill square, of course, can only be built in a town. For a town, the archery range shows no requirements at all. Perhaps the requirement for militia drill square was meant for towns?

Hmm. Are you certain you can't build it? It is supposed be an OR thus allowing it to get built in either settlement. I just double checked and it is an OR.

[whitewolfmxc]

i really think that the era system should be chosable by players from installation , cause some plaeyrs like me dont like the idea to wait some thing to happen (events that takes years) to get new units ....