Chivalry total war:archers special ability

[nknight20]

Does anybody know how to get the fire arrow special ability in chivalry Total war for archers like in Rome Total war?

Is it possible or how to do it?

I did not find any post on this?

[DaVinci]

... is a question for our Drak, who provided the modding of the responsible file.
However, it was common in the middle-ages, that flamable arrows were used partly but only in sieges! The AI though would use it always if the ability is enabled, so we decided to take it out.

[nknight20]

Is there any way I can get the fire arrow ability back in chivalry TW. Because it was one of the coolest feature in Rome total war

[drak10687]

I'll look into it... I am not actually sure about this question... well, I'm sure there is a way you can enable it, but I'm not sure how... though as DaVinci said, fire arrows are not very realistic to be used on a regular basis, though I do agree that they look quite nice...

[DaVinci]

@nknight
If you want to have this back by all means do the following...

Enable arrow fire ability:

- open chivalry/data
- find the file descr_projectile_new.txt
- open it with notepad or wordpad or whatever txt-editor
- find there the section projectile arrow_fiery (6th section)
- see that there is a semicolon ; in front of every line of this section (first line and the block of the ones below this first line)
- remove all the semicolons ; (don't do anything else than that)
- close and start a custom battle to check it out

[Garnier]

I assume I could comment out these lines in M2TW's descr_projectile to remove fire arrows from that as well? Or at least it would make sense, you needn't guarantee it of course.

[nknight20]

I followed and removed all the semicolons in the part flame arrows. But still the special ability did not work. Here is the following:

projectile arrow_fiery

flaming arrow
effect fiery_arrow_set
end_effect fiery_arrow_explosion_set
effect_offset -0.85
damage 0
radius 0.1
affected_by_rain
fiery
min_angle -60
max_angle 70
velocity 48
display aimed
triangle
texture data/textures/arrow_test.tga
tail 0.3
length 2.5
tail_tex0 0 0.0
tail_tex1 0 0.25
head_tex 1 0.125
end

[DaVinci]

You are right, that doesn't work, i also tested it, and i remembered now the reasons behind it.

We modified the archers to getting the arrow2 code in the edu file, due to other complex relations with other files, and i guess (no, i know), that is the reason, that the simple change above isn't enough (it would need much more changes of codes in other files).
I can only say, that Chivalry isn't designed to have fire arrows, due to our historical approach and with this together, due to other code relations.