Rome II

[mikeck]

Radious is working again but no other mods unless they're updated by the authors. All my fancy unit cards and 3D Buildings cards are dead. Glad I didn't have like a hundred mods installed. Nothing like this happened with the Shogun 2 or Skyrim mods. Makes me want to fire a Bee-Hive Catapault shot at somebody.

Did you try what I did? When you start the game, instead of hitting "play" , hit the button "mod manager" and activate them. I noticed the seasonal graphics mod no longer works so that blows. Once again, CA delivers a patch that screws everything up. Such a love-hate thing with them

[Nefaro]

Yeah, you gotta use the Mod Manager on the startup menu and uncheck the boxes next to old mods to disable them.  Unsubscribing, alone, will not work.

On a positive side, the battle mod I'm using was updated tonight already. 

On a negative side, I buckled and bought the Punic War DLC.  Then I started a game as the Roxolani to see how things were running after the big update.  I should've done the latter first.  While I didn't crash, I experienced a few annoying bugs in the first few turns.  Once again the city interface having all the buttons disappear - and this time I couldn't get them back after clicking about elsewhere, on that turn.  >:(  My horse archers' Fire-At-Will command was also repeatedly shut off without my doing so, causing my hordes of horse archers to never fire a single goddamn arrow.  For some reason, the AI horse archers could do so.

*le sigh*

[undercovergeek]

Whilst I love the game I'm going to put it aside a while to I'll this all settles down.... I'm becoming frustrated with the restarts and that's not fair to the game

[Gusington]

Thanks for the above Nefaro. Not sure how much more you have for a new thread but by all means start a new one if you wish.

IIRC the Rome 2 mod manager was also updated, that may be part of the issues.

[sandman2575]

On a positive side, the battle mod I'm using was updated tonight already. 

Which mod?  A good combat mod (either stand-alone or integrated into one of the big mods) is my Holy Grail.

[Gusington]

Just got my key for Hannibal at the Gates.

[Nefaro]

On a positive side, the battle mod I'm using was updated tonight already. 

Which mod?  A good combat mod (either stand-alone or integrated into one of the big mods) is my Holy Grail.

Been using the Volcano Battle Mod.

I believe it has also been divided into three separate parts, but I've been using the combo package since it also lowers the lethality of elephants and has a couple other tweaks I didn't mind adding.

The combat adjustments are fairly minimal.. just some weapon damage, health, and fatigue adjustments IIRC.  It makes combat last longer but not boringly so.

[sandman2575]

Will have to give this a try -- thanks

[Nefaro]

Why in the hell did they add seasonal stuff to the campaign yet not change the turns per year?

I know it was mentioned before but I realized how damn ridiculous it is to have it snow for a whole year, once every few years, when I played last night. 

I realize that they were probably throwing a bone to the modders who have been clamoring for varied seasons to use with their mods, but why not just go ahead and make the change themselves?  Or just not activate seasonal changes in the vanilla game, and let the modders do so in their mods? 

They also look to have (re)introduced some bugs in this update.

This game is certainly a Love-Hate relationship for most of us, no?  >:(

[Gusington]

Intensely. I can't remember another game that made me want to make sweet love one to it one second and then punch my monitor in the next. Usually from modding and patching issues.

[Martok]

Why in the hell did they add seasonal stuff to the campaign yet not change the turns per year?

A damn good question, Nefaro.  I suspect it's one a lot of folks have been asking the last day or two. 

Intensely. I can't remember another game that made me want to make sweet love one to it one second and then punch my monitor in the next. Usually from modding and patching issues.

I have a love/hate relationship with the series in general, but (I have to admit) not with Rome II specifically.  Of course, I've also not played the game with many mods (at least not yet), which obviously cuts down on my frustration factor. 

[Nefaro]

Farksticks!  The interface bugs have certainly become worse since this update & DLC.  You know how the info bar for cities would just go blank sometimes?  Happening way more often now.  What's more, it also nukes some of the tooltips on it, even when you get the icons to show back up. 

For instance, I just had the culture tooltip in the city info tab just refuse to pop up and tell me how much it is currently changing every turn.  I absolutely need this info to decide what kind of temple to upgrade to in each settlement and it just refused to pop up for a couple of them, two turns in a row.  >:(   

One step forward, two back.

I don't need mods active to be frustrated with it right now.  I disabled all my mods since the DLC activated today, deleted them entirely, and begun a fresh vanilla game as Carthage.  Didn't matter.. it's the same bugs in vanilla.  :-[

Feel... frustration... growing.

[mikeck]

I haven't experienced this. Maybe it's related to the issues you were having with the campaign map? I thought I remembered you mentioning tearing or something. I wonder if the game doesn't like the driver? Dunno. Not much help. Sorry. I haven't played a lot with the new patch but I immediately grabbed the radious campaign mod with the 4tpy.

Now however, the seasonal effects mods won't work. *sigh*
Apparently, this patch was designed to make the game ready for Hannibal at the Gates. I don't know about that but I DO KNOW that I am less than impressed with what this patch has done to mods and the 1 year seasons. Who thought that up?

[Nefaro]

I haven't experienced this. Maybe it's related to the issues you were having with the campaign map? I thought I remembered you mentioning tearing or something. I wonder if the game doesn't like the driver? Dunno. Not much help. Sorry. I haven't played a lot with the new patch but I immediately grabbed the radious campaign mod with the 4tpy.

It wasn't really "tearing" but getting those disjointed lines across the screen when moving the camera.  From the framerate being out of sync.

I shouldn't get that effect if the vsync setting is working properly.  Their graphics engine, especially on the campaign map, has felt shaky, experimental and poorly optimized ever since they started adding new stuff back in Shogun 2.  I recall some people couldn't even run the game due to their tinkering, for awhile.  I think such issues are causing my UI to bug out like this and it has become worse.

[mikeck]

Yeah, for a long time shogun 2 wouldn't run on certain nvidia cards I believe. If it ain't broke and all that. I haven't had the issues you have ( I know MANY have)but I have had some plain old all American vanilla CTDs