Do I need a patch for M2:TW?
Hello everyone.
Yesterday I bought M2:TW. It installed fine on my computer and runs beautifully. But experience with other games has taught me that new games often need a patch.
I plan to play only Single Player. Would I need a patch if there is one, and if so then where do I download it from?
Does this forum have a discussion of the patch?
Thanks.
stwils
Re: Do I need a patch for M2:TW?
Welcome to the Org stwils ~:wave:
The latest M2:TW patch is 1.1. You don't need it, but it fixes many bugs including (from Sega):
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- Battle AI, Siege AI and Campaign AI are no-longer passive
- Close-range AI attacks are more consistent
- Cavalry Charge and Cavalry power are more consistent
- Merchant trade values no-longer drop after load / save
- Elephant Artillery does not cause problems in Campaign Battle
- Reduced Inquisitor power
- Morale effects tweaked
- Autoresolve
- Increased effectiveness of naval invasions
- MP lobby crashes removed
- MP in-game soft-locks removed
- Added support for international MP
- Minor issues with deployment lines / zones have been solved
- Tweaks made to Diplomacy mechanic
- Sieged Settlements no-longer showing as sieged even if besieging army has been defeated
- Gunpowder units do not get stuck re-forming
- Siege equipment does not disappear while zooming
- Removed Assassin exploit
- Tweaks made to unit pathfinding in settlements
- *Command line switch added to remove 'reinforcements delayed' message
- No-longer possible to open gates with siege towers or embed them in walls
- Minor UI changes
- Added missing Audio triggers
- Controls and Camera tweaks
- Added ModTool - Unpacker
If you want the 1.1 patch you can find it here.
Re: Do I need a patch for M2:TW?
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Originally Posted by Avlvs Libvrnivs Britannicvs Maximvs
You don't need it, but it fixes many bugs including (from Sega)
What he said.
Re: Do I need a patch for M2:TW?
Will it make playing M2:TW better? More fluid?
Or is there a chance it will cause my computer to crash?
stwils
Re: Do I need a patch for M2:TW?
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Originally Posted by stwils
Will it make playing M2:TW better? More fluid?
Or is there a chance it will cause my computer to crash?
stwils
Well there's always a *chance* any new patch will cause a crash, but in this case the risk is pretty negligible -- there's been very few problems reported thus far, at least in terms of stability. And by most (if not all) accounts, yes the patch is definitely an improvement on the vanilla game. I help moderate the Citadel (the forum for Medieval 2), and people's response to the patch there has generally been very positive. :yes:
Re: Do I need a patch for M2:TW?
It fixes a lot, but thers a lot more to be fixed. Personally I'm waiting for the next one. It's being released in February, right?
Re: Do I need a patch for M2:TW?
Yes, that is the plan, although there's no reason not to get the current patch in the meantime...
Re: Do I need a patch for M2:TW?
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Originally Posted by Mithridates Seleukeias Babyloniakes
Welcome to the Org
stwils ~:wave:
The latest M2:TW patch is 1.1. You don't need it, but it fixes many bugs including (from Sega):
If you want the 1.1 patch you can find it
here.
Unfortunately The Total War website wont let me enter because it says I dont have Flash. I do have it but just to please the site I started to download it again and Adobe said - no point you have already correctly installed it.
So I go to Google and find a place to download the update, It self extracts but then does nothing since my M2TW still says I only have version 1.0 . So this time I install it directly into the game folder. Still doesn`t work. It beats me hoew such clever programmers seem not to understand how to make life simple for the rest of us.
Andrew:furious3:
Re: Do I need a patch for M2:TW?
I don't like their website.:no: It wants me to install stuff just to look at it. I have a new Dell XPS 410 fully equiped, but I am not going to download stuff just to look at a site.
stwils:juggle2:
Re: Do I need a patch for M2:TW?
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Originally Posted by Bellum
It fixes a lot, but thers a lot more to be fixed. Personally I'm waiting for the next one. It's being released in February, right?
does anyone know what the new patch is gonna fix? I hope it fixes the Billman bug, because watching a unit of 60 billman losing to a unit of mounted sargeants is just depressing.