Wait for 1.3 before beginning M2:TW?

**orgo.love** · 03-18-2008, 00:27

EDIT: 1.4, not 1.3!!

Hi. I've explored all that I could explore in R:TW. As a result, I'm planning on beginning with M2:TW. However, I've seen that there are a lot of epic bugs and crashes. Hopefully a majority of them will be fixed in a patch...

I've seen that 1.4 is coming up sometime soon. Should I begin playing M2TW immediately, or wait till 1.4 comes out? How long has this patch been in the making?

How soon will the next patch be out?

**Nebuchadnezzar** · 03-18-2008, 06:13

As far as we know there are no more patches for M2TW. The state its in now is most likely its final state. The patch in the works is for Kingdoms so I would suggest playing rather than waiting.

As mentioned in another thread we have been waiting 6 months for the Kingdoms patch. I would find this very funny had it not been me waiting.

**orgo.love** · 03-18-2008, 07:29

Let me get this straight:

Even if I wait for the new patch for Kingdoms, my original game of M2:TW will have zero changes?

How different is the original and the expansion? If I mod something in the original, will it still be reasonably applicable in the expansion?

**Nebuchadnezzar** · 03-18-2008, 07:35

The Kingdoms expansion is 4 new mini campaigns that are totally separate from the M2TW grand campaign. It doesn't affect the original game in any way.

If you want to mod you will need to mod each and every campaign in Kingdoms separately as well as the original game.

**orgo.love** · 03-18-2008, 07:40

Hm. I still don't understand one thing.

1. How buggy is the original game?

2. In R:TW, the expansion not only had all the qualities of the original but also had a few extras in terms of coding that allowed swimming units and night fights. How is the situation for M2:TW?

3. Will the upcoming patch change anything on the original game? I read that there's 600+ bugs in total-will the coming patch fix any bugs in the original game as well? Or is the patch/bugs only on the expansion?

**Nebuchadnezzar** · 03-18-2008, 07:49

Thats 3 things!

There are people who play the original game and haven't noticed a single problem and there are others who find it very buggy. To me its very buggy. It is the buggiest game I have owned but its true that I haven't owned many like some others.

As for RTW:BI it didn't add night battles or swimming to the original, this was only available in the BI campaign. The BI expansion added nothing to the original RTW game other than a very bad patch (patch 1.3). Night battles were available in the original by modding.

I repeat. As far as we know the upcoming patch will not change anything to the original game. We have heard nothing from the developers except that it will be for Kingdoms. Maybe, just maybe this out-of-the-world wait will give us a surprise.