Update 2 Released!

See here for details:

http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic...-.html?page=-1

Have fun! :smash:

Using gamershell, no reg req UK mirror, 45 mins.

Woot!

http://www.gamershell.com/download_19011.shtml

Using gamershell UK mirror at work - 13 minutes......

Going to be a good May bank holiday!

First X-Fire adds support for Europa Universalis 3 and now this! Happy times! :2thumbsup:

Using the German site, taking about an hour but that's cool.

Sweet... More 1.2 goodness for all this time... Shame my HRE campaign must end, but I have the leaked patch so I suspect I must reinstall...

Hot damn! A good end to a bad week!

Now, if I installed the leaked 1.2, will I have to uninstall and reinstall the game?

Edit: from the .com forums: "If you have previously installed the "unofficial" Update 2, you will need to reinstall (sorry!) or unexpected behaviour could occur"

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Edit: from the .com forums: "If you have previously installed the "unofficial" Update 2, you will need to reinstall (sorry!) or unexpected behaviour could occur"

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Very good thing to point out, I'm guessing this will end up biting a lot of folks who don't think about it.

*off to the download waiting line*

Thanks for the headsup Jambo.

Mama Mia,terrible D/L speeds on Euro servers, using Israel 200kb/s.
How cool is that ? Not very ... but it beats crummy 10kb/s.

Dammit ! Now I'll have to re-mod my whole frekin game. AGGGGGGGGG !!
LOL joking, no worries, should'nt take me more than 10 hours.

ENJOY THE WEEEEEEEEEEEEEKEND !!!!

....dbl post.

Good. I can at least start removing M2TW while I wait for the download.

Wish the shield bug had been specifically mentioned in the list of fixes.

Apparently it's fixed, but from what I've read, some people think that 2Handers are now underbalanced.

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Originally Posted by Sinan

Apparently it's fixed, but from what I've read, some people think that 2Handers are now underbalanced.

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Thanks. I hope the religious fanatics for crusades/jihads are of some use now. They were bitten by the 2h bug too.

Medieval 2 Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

:sad:

Does anyone know whether we can continue our existing campaigns on 1.2? I did not seem to have a problem continuing a 1.1 campaign on unofficial 1.2.

I know some changes may only be applied if you start a new campaign, but we are in the middle of a 12+ man four month+ PBEM in the Throne Room and want to patch but only if it does not break our campaign.

Gamershell UK mirror was too slow for me even while living in the UK...20kb/s.
Using a German mirror (exp mirror #2) at 150kb/s :)


Btw, I read over at the official forum that some people seem to have problems running M2TW even after reinstalls. Hopefully that isn't another leaked patch with the final tag on it :p

Downloading now - 66% atm. Looking forward to trying a new game with this!

613 Mb! Good heavens, gone indeed are the days of floppy disks.

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Does anyone know whether we can continue our existing campaigns on 1.2? I did not seem to have a problem continuing a 1.1 campaign on unofficial 1.2.

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Yes you can, i was able to continue a 1.1 Venice campaign.

I'm using the "Leaked" 1.2 patch at the moment so I'm going to remove and reinstal the complete game. Once I've done that can I instal 1.2 directly onto 1.0, or do I have to instal 1.1 again, first?

Cheers :beam:

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Originally Posted by Grod Tepes

I'm using the "Leaked" 1.2 patch at the moment so I'm going to remove and reinstal the complete game. Once I've done that can I instal 1.2 directly onto 1.0, or do I have to instal 1.1 again, first?

Cheers :beam:

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I'll tell you in about half an hour.

Edit: Oops... Release notes for the Unpacker, not the patch itself...

Can't seem to find release notes for the patch itself...



Release Notes:

I took this off to stop causing confusion...

Thanks for posting.

This "Licensed copy of Medieval II: Total War version 1.1" means you need clean, vanilla 1.10, then patch to 1.20.

So will there be problems if I install the official 1.2 over a clean 1.0 installation?

Probably... because it says in the notes to install over 1.10.
Try and it on 1.0 and let us know what happens ? Personally I;d just clean install 1.10 then patch to 1.20.

I can't get faster than 16kb/s, having tried all the GamersHell mirrors. 11 hours! And yes, I am on 2mB broadband. (actually should be 8 but the phone line isn't good enough).

Try Israel, I was getting 200kb there, 10MB here though.

It installed fine over 1.0 for me.

Yeah I edited my post to take the notes out, I had listed the Unpacker notes and not the patch notes... I can't actually find release notes for the patch...

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Medieval 2 Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

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im receiving the same error message...im reinstalling MTW2 and reloading the patch...does anyone else have the same problem???

Why is the patch so freaking huge?

New sounds in it.

Such as ? ... blaaaaaaaaaarg! ... ?

:P

Lol no the new sounds you hear in battles, like "My lord only half the enemy force remains!".

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im receiving the same error message...im reinstalling MTW2 and reloading the patch...does anyone else have the same problem???

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yup. The only thing which I modified on the vanilla 1.01 was the timescale...

Would there be another solution besides uninstalling and reinstalling 11 GB?

:beam:

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Originally Posted by Lusted

Lol no the new sounds you hear in battles, like "My lord only half the enemy force remains!".

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Oh cool. :inquisitive: :2thumbsup:

Wonder if they also fixed the sound mix ups with France, HRE and Scotland which I didn't bother to report as Lusted menioned they are aware of all bugs in the game ~;)

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The patch is so large because it contains all localized patch versions too.

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Originally Posted by Daveybaby

Medieval 2 Total War encountered an unspecified error and will now exit.

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Seems like several people encountered this problem. I've opened a thread for this in the Apothecary. Any help or advice can be posted here.

Btw, I'm currently patching but noticed something strange:
It recognizes my M2TW version as 1.00.000 instead of 1.01. Telling it to patch anyway, but still...odd.

If the fix/feature list of official patch 1.2 the same with the leak patch?

Didn't see one inside...

Wow. The patch has been out for more than six hours and there are no "OMG, the new patch is HORRIBLE!" threads.

I'm enjoying this while it lasts.

Seriously, the first thing I'm going to do when I get home is attack some spear infantry with some peasants and see what happens. The second thing will be to attack some low-grade infantry with religious fanatics.

Well lets see I just tried running it and get an unspecified error...

In addition, I tried unpacking a few files and to my surprise all files I unpack seem to be from version 1.1 or 1.0....

Seems like your installer didn't run properly. If the installer doesn't take long, it hasn't worked properly. If the installer takes ages, it's installed properly

It took ages unpacking everything into my C temp folder and then installing it to my D drive and annoyingly also installing stuff like net framework without prompting me

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Originally Posted by Doug-Thompson

Wow. The patch has been out for more than six hours and there are no "OMG, the new patch is HORRIBLE!" threads.

I'm enjoying this while it lasts.

Seriously, the first thing I'm going to do when I get home is attack some spear infantry with some peasants and see what happens. The second thing will be to attack some low-grade infantry with religious fanatics.

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Let us know what your impressions are. I was really enjoying 2H units now I hope they are not over-weakened. It's not an issue though should'nt take too long to restat even if they are. I agree it's pretty quiet around here, better not jinx it.

:laugh4:

I will have to wait a few days before I can test the patch.

Gah and it's released the day after my day off GAAH, why CA why?

Place 69 out of 87 for a 650mb download. Gonna be awhile anyways :juggle2: .

On second thought, it does look like the installer terminated somewhere without telling me. It was unpacking medieval2.exe and installing it and then installing net framework without prompting, then directx which suddenly terminated after a second or two and told me "go restart" which I did. Found an oddity that I now had another user on my comp (ASP.NET) which I promptly got rid of.
Then checking files, which are still 1.1 for some weird reason (note that M2TW patcher thought I have 1.0 ... I had 1.01 though) and now noticing that although I got the launcher, i still have an old exe and old other files.
Something seems really odd.

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Actually it did update my exe. It just reads created on nov 11 2006 and last modified 25.04.2007. But the version number as per windows seems to be 1.1

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Originally Posted by Doug-Thompson

Wow. The patch has been out for more than six hours and there are no "OMG, the new patch is HORRIBLE!" threads.

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Could be because a) some people can't get it to work at all; and b) those who can are still playing! :laugh4:

Well, I just patched it over my "patched" install again.
Starting the patcher it took ages for it to unpack into my C drive temp folder and then told me I already have 1.02 installed and whether I want to install it anyway. Pressed yes, it did the same thing it did last time and in the end asked me to reboot. Didn't this time but unpacked a few files instead (traits, vegetation, skeleton) as I know those were changed from 1.1 to 1.2 and even after my 2nd patch they are still 1.1 (or maybe its because my unpacker is 1.1, but doubt its that).

Sooo I guess I get to uninstall and reinstall? Any other tips?

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Could be because a) some people can't get it to work at all; and b) those who can are still playing! :laugh4:

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That never stopped anybody before.

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Originally Posted by Sinan

:beam:

Oh cool. :inquisitive: :2thumbsup:

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Yeah but the announcement every time your troops take missile fire gets damn annoying :p

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Originally Posted by Lusted

Seems like your installer didn't run properly. If the installer doesn't take long, it hasn't worked properly. If the installer takes ages, it's installed properly

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Yep. The leaked 1.2 took a good half hour to install. This one was done in about ten minutes.

Yes, took me exactly 10-11 mins but still not working ...

Well after something went wrong before at 89%, I finally got it downloaded and installed, and both took forever - I'll test it out tomorrow!

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Originally Posted by FactionHeir

On second thought, it does look like the installer terminated somewhere without telling me. It was unpacking medieval2.exe and installing it and then installing net framework without prompting, then directx which suddenly terminated after a second or two and told me "go restart" which I did. Found an oddity that I now had another user on my comp (ASP.NET) which I promptly got rid of.
Then checking files, which are still 1.1 for some weird reason (note that M2TW patcher thought I have 1.0 ... I had 1.01 though) and now noticing that although I got the launcher, i still have an old exe and old other files.
Something seems really odd.

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Actually it did update my exe. It just reads created on nov 11 2006 and last modified 25.04.2007. But the version number as per windows seems to be 1.1

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The game uses .NET and thus it installs it... If you have IIS installed then it will setup ASP.NET which includes creating a user called ASP.NET... This is normal .NET stuff, nothing special for CA or SEGA...

Whats up with the .Net 1.1 install (I already had it) and the Direct X install ( I already had the latest version and update) ?? :inquisitive: Now when I restart I have to log in as myself before being taken to the desktop whereas before I just went straight to the desktop :inquisitive: I dislike any patch which changes how my PC is setup and works without my prior intervention :whip: Game works fine though :)

Pretty much what The Marcher Lord said. I would rather be prompted instead of it just installing it, especially as I had it already.

As for getting rid of it: just delete the user account

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Edit: Oops... Release notes for the Unpacker, not the patch itself...

Can't seem to find release notes for the patch itself...

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Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Medieval II: Total War README

Last Updated: 2007-04-16
v1.2


Medieval II: TW v1.2 contains the following changes:


AI

Units do not clump together when told to complete a 180 degree turn.
Janissary Musketeers now fire consistently.
Enemy AI army formations in bridge battles now allow their own artillery to fire.
Enemy cannons do not fire at unbreakable walls.
Grouped archers out of ammo will attack enemy units in melee combat when ordered to do so.
AI does not deploy outside of enemy gates.
When defending an enemy settlement with multiple exits, taking your army out of the side/back door does not make it easier to defeat the enemy.
Improved Siege AI.
Cavalry can now charge a spearman army.
General's bodyguard unit now marches correctly outside castles.
AI now effectively assaults 2nd tier of a Fortress.
Sallying AI army now reacts properly to being assaulted from 2 sides
Attacking Siege AI concentrates on taking the settlement rather than chasing down units outside the settlement.
Generals are now more effective at chasing down routing units.
Enemy AI reacts to being bombarded with Trebuchets while inside a settlement.
Siege AI now more difficult to defeat if player places missile units outside the walls.
AI controls it units more effectively in a Citadel
AI artillery more decisive in its positioning
Remaining AI army now advances to use siege equipment
AI Cavalry can now flank a Spear Wall
AI now responds to missiles when sieging settlements
AI now crosses bridges to attack
AI responds more quickly to gates that have been opened by Spies (while sieging).
Units do not break formation when chasing routers
Enemy AI effectively attacks when player's units in a settlement square
Enemy AI now utilises spare rams
Improved enemy AI response to stakes
Shortened Siege attack timers
Enemy AI will no-longer send out General's bodyguard on a suicide mission while defending


Diplomacy

Improved responses to monetary offers
Bribery attempts do not always fail after an unsuccessful first attempt
Diplomatic 'Just Rejected' response no-longer to 'Not Interested' response to counter-offer, no matter how generous
Aztecs now appear in the correct year (for diplomacy actions)
Generals in a Crusade do not get inquisition
Improved diplomacy mechanic - AI Factions now stick with alliances and/or attack 'more intelligently'


Crash

Soft-locks in MP Lobby no-longer occur
Host random hangs fixed
Resolved issue with client CTD when host ends game that client is joining
Auto-resolve Siege battle hangs fixed
Siege tower catching fire no-longer causes random hangs
Random hangs after loading Campaign save game


Pathfinding

Battering Rams no-longer stuck in gates
Ship movement area fixed
Ram crew no-longer stuck between rams
Northern European Castle terrain fixed to allow docking of towers
Improved use of ladders
Southern European Fortress wall fixed to allow docking of towers
Improved the way units use Way-points
Siege of Setenil slow-down tweaked
Units no-longer become stuck on canyon walls on 'Canyon' map
Units do not ascend/descend invisible ladders
Units do not get stuck on Siege towers
Cavalry pathfinding improved when sallying out from a Fortress
Bridge battle pathfinding improved (units do not constantly reform)
Citadel and Fortress paths fixed so that units can avoid assaulting inner walls
Breach pathfinding tweaked


Combat

Enemy spearmen do not charge with raised spears
2H axemen attack tweaked, inc. Attacking Cavalry
Defending units can no-longer enter a siege tower as soon as it docks with the walls


Mechanics

Mouse Cursor position now updates when scrolling with the arrow keys.
Assassination exploit fixed.
Mission "Reinforce Region" now functions correctly
Attacking an enemy army from inside a sieged settlement no-longer causes the enemy to lose all built siege equipment
Fixed two family members (brothers) with the exact same name
Rudder event now triggers at the correct time
When an enemy sallies and is defeated you no-longer have to wait for the timer to run out in-order to win.
Assassin mechanics tweaked
Mercenary recruitment tweaked
Diplomatic Information scroll updates correctly.
Online replays now match
Slowdown fixed on Desert Sanctuary
Metallic Resource now support Mines
Cavalry charges do not fail when charging skirmishing/moving units or if a knight is out of position
Units can now withdraw on the Eifel Mountains Battle Map
Construction queue exploits fixed
The carroccio standard can now fit through the gate on a sally out battle.
Southern European > Fortress: routing Enemy AI now leaving the map
Printing press event triggers at the correct time
Ladder docking/undocking tweaked
Faction standings tweaked
Priests no-longer convert to heretics if traveling on a fleet
Upper limit added on how long units stay in loose formation for.
Traits/VnV triggers tweaked


Camera

Camera height does not drop under bridge in River Po Custom Battle map.
Camera does not drop below water's surface in Palm Beach, Andalusia and Italian Wars map/scenarios.
Camera does not show the underneath of a bridge when General is killed on the bridge


Controls

Drag Deploy functionality tweaked
RTS camera functionality tweaked


Graphics

Princess character now greyed out upon death on Family tree
Venice battlemap ambient building placement tweaked
Fixed issue with trees disappearing when panning camera
Added paths to doorways in Southern European Large City
Added paths to doorways in Southern European City
Fixed minor lighting issue in Southern European City
Fixed misaligned platforms in Southern European Large Town
Tweaked Crusade Army banner
Fixed texture gaps and unwelded verts on Middle Eastern Huge City buildings.
Fixed incorrect Tower Path in Mesoamerican City
Fixed path through wall in Mesoamerican City Wall
Fixed floating buildings above the battle map in Aztec Gold Scenario
Fixed floating spikes in Mountain Redoubt scenario
Added correct image for Paladin ancillary
Fixed grey reinforcement area that states that 'This army cannot fight in night battles' even though the current battle is not a night battle.
Added correct image for Aztec Rebel - Native Archer
Added correct image for Aztec Spearmen
Fixed floating torches in SE Citadel courtyard
Garrison quarters no-longer change to Town Guard when in Construction queue
Armoury building image in construction queue no-longer changes to an armoury
Fixed issue with Trebuchets sometimes disappearing when zooming in close
Fixed maps have the winter option but don’t have winter texture on the battle map
Night attack selection tick and reinforcements do not disappear if user selects night attack option and then views enemy army details.
Fixed officers not animating while riding
Removed trees in the water in The Battle of Otumba.


Deployment

Units can no-longer be deployed on inaccessible sections of wall
Fixed deployment issues with Southern European Wooden Castle on either side of the main gate.
Units no-longer deployable in buildings in Mesoamerican City


Collision

Ballista collision improved
Southern European Citadel gate collision improved
Middle Eastern Gatehouse collision improved
Issues with units getting pushed into areas that can't be deployed into.


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Battle Editor

This tool is unsupported by either Creative Assembly or Sega, it is
provided as is and there are no guarantees that it is free from bugs.

You can run the Battle Editor in two ways:
1. Run Medieval2.exe with the commandline switch:

medieval2.exe --features.editor

2. In the config file add the following option:


[features]

editor = true

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Cinematic Editor

This tool is unsupported by either Creative Assembly or Sega, it is
provided as is and there are no guarantees that it is free from bugs.

NOTE: When viewing movies created in Cinematic editor in pro applications.
e.g. Premiere, the Alpha channel will always be set at 0. As a result you
must ignore the Alpha channel setting in the application. Unedited movies
playback normally in standard Media Player apps such WMP or VLC.

To run the Cinematic Editor you must create a new config file with any
filename (e.g. CineEd.cfg) and launch medieval2.exe with the following
command line switch:

Medieval2.exe @CineEd.cfg

The Config file must contain the following:

[video]

windowed = true

movies = false

tga_width = 800 #tga capture size



[capture_tga]

fps = 20



[misc]

tga_front_buffer_capture = true



[audio]

disabled = true



[cine]

show = true

width = 800

height = 600



[replay]

play = true

file = replays/replay.rpy

camera = cameras/cam1.cam #default camera to load



#The file will also need to contain one or both of these options:


[cine]

capture = true #captures the movie as .tga files using the default camera (required)

avi = true #use this if you want an AVI instead of .tga files

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UI

Mission scroll hotkey added
Financial Details hotkey functionality and tooltip added
Reveal/Advance advice hotkey functionality added
Battle Tutorial Dismiss advice functionality added
Magnifying glass added to Disaster Strikes scroll
Princess appears correctly on family tree
Chat Window errors fixed
Family Tragedy scroll triggered correctly
Console text appearance tweaked
Now possible to launch game from autorun launcher
Fine Grain time control added (accessible by holding Shift and clicking + and - on battle UI)


Save/Load

Loading saved game of the same turn no-longer allows user to keep both allies when they declare war
Russian and Czech autosave fixed


Audio

Movement_Embark speech now triggered correctly
Allies breaking through gates of citadel now triggers correct speech
Battle ending in draw when timer runs out now triggers correct speech
Campaign Map interface sounds added
End Turn sound now fades out nicely
Win/Lose music is now representative of the Faction
Enemy King killed speech now triggered
Enemy Reinforcements arrive speech now triggered correctly
Player Army Tired Battle Event Speech is now triggered.
Player Army Half Gone Battle Event Speech is now triggered.
Enemy Army Half Gone Battle Event Speech is now triggered.
Player Under Attack Idle Battle Event Speech is now triggered.
Player Winning Combat Battle Event Speech now triggered correctly.
Player Losing Combat Battle Event Speech now triggered correctly.
Leaves Fleet speech now triggered correctly.
Player Tide Of Battle Up Battle Event Speech now triggered correctly.
Player Tide Of Battle Down Battle Event Speech now triggered correctly.
Muslim Enemy General Killed Battle Event Speech now triggered correctly.
Christian Enemy General Killed Battle Event Speech now triggered correctly.
Allied General Captured Battle Event Speech now triggered correctly.
The "spy infiltrated our settlement" audio/speech is now played when "Start battle" is pressed during cutscene
Correct region music plays when loading a saved campaign game.
Added sound trigger for planting archer stakes in ground.
Clicked-on characters on the Campaign Map no-longer stack their audio response if clicked multiple times.
In the Historical battles, Battle of Otumba and the Battle of Hastings the music speeds up when you attack
Other minor audio tweaks also carried out.


Text

Minor grammar/spelling errors fixed


Medieval II: TW Update 2 also contains fixes that were included in Update 1:

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


*To remove the Reinforcements Delayed message use the following command line switch:

medieval2.exe --game.unlimited_men_on_battlefield true


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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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I. INTRODUCTION
II. MANUAL ADDENDUM
III. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
IV. INSTALLATION & SET UP ISSUES
V. VIDEO ISSUES
VI. GAMEPLAY ISSUES
VII. WINDOWS® SPECIFIC OPERATING SYSTEM ISSUES
VIII. LEGAL INFORMATION

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I. INTRODUCTION
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Refer to this document if you encounter difficulties with one or more
aspects of installation or running Medieval II: Total War.
Many of the most commonly encountered issues are covered here.

If you experience any problems please make sure that you have the
latest drivers for your PC installed.

http://www.nvidia.com/
http://www.ati.com/
http://www.microsoft.com/directx/

For the latest information on this product please visit the following
websites:

http://www.sega-europe.com/
http://www.creative-assembly.com/
http://www.totalwar.com/

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II. MANUAL ADDENDUM
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- An additional control option is available for controlling the
camera in battles. Holding down button 4 (not available on all
mouse devices) will allow the player to control their view
directly with the mouse. While doing this, the cursor will
disappear until the player releases button 4.

- After printing the packaged Unit Chart, some minor changes were
made to unit statistics in order to improve game balance. The
correct unit statistics can be found in game.

- Under the heading 'The Battle Control Panel' there is a reference
to clicking the portrait of your commanding General or Captain
which moves your camera to a position behind the General's unit.
This feature has been replaced with a button of your faction's
flag that highlights the position of all troops on the
battlefield,marking your forces in green, enemy forces in red, and
allied forces in blue.

- Under the heading 'Agent Class Characters > Priests / Imams', the
text states that this character type can "perform a heresy trail",
this should read "heresy trial".

- Under the heading 'Faction-Specific Buildings', there is a
reference to a faction specific building list appearing under a
"Factions" heading in the manual, this information is now located
in the in-game building browser.

- Under the heading 'The Battle Control Panel' the reader is
referred to a section named 'How to Use Groups and
Group Formations', this section does not exist and the reader
should instead refer to the 'Groups' section of the manual.

- Units that 'Fire by Rank' by default can be made to use standard
volley firing if the player enables skirmishing for that unit.

- In addition to the instructions in the 'Using Defensive
Fortifications' section of the manual, note that settlement gates
can be captured by the attacking army having more troops on the
wall above the gate than the enemy.

- Multiplayer 'Historical Battles' have been replaced with two
types of 'ready-to-go' battles: 'Scenarios' - battles that players
can deploy their forces as they wish, and 'Quick Start Battle'-
battles where deployment has already been assigned to the forces
of all players.


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III. SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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The MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS are as follows:

- English version of Microsoft® Windows® 2000/XP

- Celeron 1.5GHz Pentium 4® (1500MHz) or equivalent
AMD® Athlon 64

- 512MB RAM

- DVD-ROM Drive

- 9GB of uncompressed free hard disk space

- 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatible 16-bit sound card and latest
drivers

- 100% Windows® 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest
drivers

- DirectX® 9.0c

- 128MB Hardware Accelerated video card with Shader 1 support
and the latest drivers. Must be 100% DirectX® 9.0c
compatible*. The Nvidia® GeForce 4 Ti 4400 or the
ATI Radeon® 9600 SE is the recommended minimum video card.

- Monitor must be able to display 1024x768 resolution or
above


The RECOMMENDED SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS are as follows:

- English version of Microsoft® Windows® XP

- Pentium 4® 2.4GHz (2400MHz) or equivalent
AMD® Athlon 64

- 1GB RAM

- DVD-ROM Drive

- 9GB of uncompressed free hard disk space

- Sound Blaster Audigy or equivalent

- 100% Windows® 2000/XP compatible mouse, keyboard and latest
drivers

- DirectX® 9.0c

- 128MB Hardware Accelerated video card with Shader 2 support
and the latest drivers. Must be 100% DirectX® 9.0c
compatible*. The Nvidia® GeForce 7300 or greater, or the
ATI Radeon® X1600 or greater is recommended.

- Monitor capable of displaying 1280x1024 resolution or
above


* Important Note: Please refer to your hardware
manufacturer for confirmation of 100% DirectX® 9.0c compatibility.

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IV. INSTALLATION & SET UP ISSUES
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DirectX® Installation

The Medieval II: Total War installer provides the option to install
DirectX® 9.0c on your computer. If you already have this
version or a newer copy of DirectX®, this will be detected and the
update will exit with no changes made to your system's DirectX® files.

You can manually install the latest version of DirectX® by going to
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/directx and downloading the latest
version available.

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V. VIDEO ISSUES
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Onboard / Motherboard Integrated Video Chipsets

If your system features an onboard graphics solution, ensure that it
is configured to access at least 128MB of system memory.
Certain graphics chipsets are configured to use 64MB by default,
for example, the Intel GMA950, which will prevent Medieval II from
running correctly. This setting is typically configured via a
motherboard BIOS setting. Please refer to your hardware manufacturer
or motherboard manual for instructions on configuring this setting.

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VI. GAMEPLAY ISSUES
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Tutorial Battle Advice

When playing through the tutorial, if you complete the requested
action before the advisor finishes speaking, the advisor will be
interrupted and will move on the next piece of advice. To ensure that
you hear all of what the advisor has to say, listen to the advisor
before performing the required actions.

Please note that you will not be able to hear the advice again once
you interrupt it unless you restart the tutorial.

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VII. WINDOWS® SPECIFIC OPERATING SYSTEM ISSUES
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Windows 2000/XP

You must have Administrator rights to install and play the game.


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VIII. LEGAL INFORMATION
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War and the Total War logo are trade marks or registered trade marks
of The Creative Assembly Limited in the United Kingdom and/or other
countries. SEGA is registered in the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
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I havent got it yet (still downloading and taking years!) but i hope its as good as you people say.

:medievalcheers:

This is good news. I'll probably give it a day or two before DLing it. That'll give most people the chance to rush out and grab all the host download servers broadband then by the time I get around to it I wont be fighting so many people for broadband. :laugh4:

Seems like the downloads are going well, but if you need a torrent, here's one Im seeding:

http://cache.torrentspy.com/download.asp?id=1159848

or

http://thepiratebay.org/tor/3680958

Wonderful... installed over a vanilla 1.1, never tried the leaked patch, never had any crashes before. Now the patched 1.2 game crashes on load with "unspecified error."

How well did they say they were testing this thing? :inquisitive:

Installed the patch but the game won't start. It puts up the initial screen for a second then the whole screen goes black and I get a rotating hourglass that just never stops. Bah.

Worked fine for me, (Right over 1.01, no mods.) but took so long to install in places that I got worried several times. I'm not implying that the problems being reported aren't happening. Just warning people not to panic if the progress bar looks like it's never moving.

One thing that might or might not have helped: I downloaded the patch at the office, burned it to a cd, took the CD home, dragged the patch to the desktop (which was almost certainly unnecessary) and loaded it from there.

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Militia spears beat peasants now. Peasants still cause >40 percent casualties to the miltia and take a long time to kill, which is fine with me. They can hold up spears until help arrives.

Religious fanatics (which were victims of the 2H bug) are now a worthwhile unit. I had HRE fanatics fight some Saracen Infantry, and it was a close-run thing. Very powerful initial charge, but then the fanatics had to fight it out against a unit with shields. The battle wasn't really decided until the HRE captain got killed. It was a face to face charge, so the fanatics could have won if they'd had some ground advantage, were better rested or had some morale advantage to exploit.

Router chasing is MUCH improved.

Horse archers don't seem harmed in any way. If anything, there appears to me MUCH less straggling.

either change back your imperial campaign folder changes or do a clean install. either should work. i found out the hard way.

Finally finally finally got it upgraded, time for a serious game.

I just watched part of the credits. I wonder if the poor sods that crawled through so much mud, blood, and disease could believe how romanticed they've been. Very nice, brings tears to my eyes.

AI has definitely gotten smarter...Mongols are a b***h to take down.. nice....
I replayed an old save as the Russians on vh/vh, so comparing the patches is more definite. VH/VH is much more challenging, AI is very aggressive and more cunning (them Mongol heavy cavs even laid a few ambushes, behind the hill!?!)... well satisfied.

Okay, completely removing the game, wiping the leftover folders, re-installing and then the new patch did work. I can't believe they didn't catch that. Too many people here are reporting it, and not everyone will be looking in game forums to find the answer, or have the patience to re-install the game from scratch.

can someone plz tell me how to use the battle editor i cant get it to be on M2tw

Use the Dutch Mirror.

I'm getting 650kbits/sec

Took forever to download from Israel. Finally got it! Now it is Installing Direct X or something.

I have a 150gig 10 000rpm SATAII very damn fast HD and it took me nearly 15 minutes to go through the install!!

That is one hell of a patch!!

Played campain and tactical as the Moors for several hours. Nothing very important to share.

Haven't had any crashes. If anything, it runs more smoothly than it did before.

Shields do appear fixed. The improvements to spear infantry are very noticeable, especially in sieges.

Haven't had a massive siege yet, but no problems with framerates so far.

Ran a little custom battle in 1.01 before installing the 1.02 patch: English peasants have 45 men left to the Scottish spear militia's 14 in 1.01. Tried it again after the patch, and their were only 5 peasants left compared to 38 spear militia survivors. Something's been fixed. I assume it's the shield bug.

As mentioned before, religious fanatics aren't exactly world beaters but they are much better, making Jihads and Crusades more worthwhile. Also, my initial impression that router chasing is much improved still holds.

Thanks for the info Doug.

How about Zweihander, Folorn Hope, Eastern Halberd Militia. Tabardariyya etc vs spears & pikes and more importantly sword & shield ? Has anyone run some tests ?

Is there any news on the patch for steam users? I am still waiting for my game to be updated.

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Originally Posted by Drago

im receiving the same error message...im reinstalling MTW2 and reloading the patch...does anyone else have the same problem???

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Uninstall, reinstall, patch - worked here great.

Happy to report that existing saved games don't seem to be broken. :) My old russian campaign (v1.1, with carl's problem fixer installed) seems to be just fine.

Everything seems just that little bit more... polished, somehow. UI seems more responsive, game seems to run smoother. Chasing down routers seems to be fixed. Great patch.

So what would be the safest approach to getting the patch to work? Do a complete uninstall, reinstall, then go from 1.0 to 1.2, and don't bother with 1.1?

Weird. Im not getting the new battle announcements like I did in the leaked 1.2.