Patch 3!

[Beskar]

This is on loading a new campaign right? you sure you don't have any mod packs installed and being run when you load the game?

Only uncertainty was the startpos.esf but since that's now been deleted and replaced by steam through that method you said. I am certain.

[Jack Lusted]

Only uncertainty was the startpos.esf but since that's now been deleted and replaced by steam through that method you said. I am certain.

Do you have any files unpacked?

[seireikhaan]

Jack- My empire game is no longer registered on Steam after the patch. The game is utterly and literally unplayable. I would very much like a reason as to why this would happen.

[AggonyDuck]

Jack- My empire game is no longer registered on Steam after the patch. The game is utterly and literally unplayable. I would very much like a reason as to why this would happen.

Try to launch the game through other means. Try right clicking on a friend of yours that's playing ETW and choose 'Launch game'. That should start it. Once you've managed to get it run once it will appear again. (atleast that was the case for me)

[Beskar]

Do you have any files unpacked?

I don't. Only modifications I had were to the startpos.esf file from the vanilla extended mod. The second part of that mod was done through that .pack mod launcher, but I am only booting up the game through Stream icon.

[Jack Lusted]

Jack- My empire game is no longer registered on Steam after the patch. The game is utterly and literally unplayable. I would very much like a reason as to why this would happen.

I would suggest reporting that problem to Steam.

I don't. Only modifications I had were to the startpos.esf file from the vanilla extended mod. The second part of that mod was done through that .pack mod launcher, but I am only booting up the game through Stream icon.

Could you try deleting the .pack files that came with the mod just to be sure.

[Beskar]

I would suggest reporting that problem to Steam.

Could you try deleting the .pack files that came with the mod just to be sure.

I done that, and am I re-doing stratpos.esf and patch again at this moment. Will edit this message when that is completed with the results that the game is working right, which I hope it does.

Edit: LOL.. the game is just crashing the desktop now, just before the Sega intro. Deleting and re-verifying to get files....

[Slaists]

I would suggest reporting that problem to Steam.

Could you try deleting the .pack files that came with the mod just to be sure.

Well, on my part: the game post-patch runs fine (no zero tax issue). On the same note I wanted to state the following before my mind gets clouded by any negative stuff.

So far, played a few turns as France (on H, just to test what's going on). It's WONDERFUL! The campaign AI does all kinds of "stuff" now... Wars are happening left and right and even the barbary pirates have started to raid my trade ports in earnest...

As a highlight of the day: the pesky Dutch declared war on Spain (hoping to take Belgium). I guess, they did not expect France to join. Anyway, France (me) is besieging the capital in Holland. The Dutch sally. There is a small Spanish outfit in the nearby town, but the do not join the fight. "Cowards!" I think to myself...

I soundly defeat the Dutch, but... alas, a few battered militia units escape. Siege continues. What do you think, happens on the Spanish turn? They attack the town with their small outfit that refused to fight the big battle. Even with me backing out of the battle they take the city!

Sneaky Spaniards! ...

I say: it's a wonderful patch! Great work CA! Great work, Lusted!

[nafod]

Well, on my part: the game post-patch runs fine (no zero tax issue). On the same note I wanted to state the following before my mind gets clouded by any negative stuff.

So far, played a few turns as France (on H, just to test what's going on). It's WONDERFUL! The campaign AI does all kinds of "stuff" now... Wars are happening left and right and even the barbary pirates have started to raid my trade ports in earnest...

As a highlight of the day: the pesky Dutch declared war on Spain (hoping to take Belgium). I guess, they did not expect France to join. Anyway, France (me) is besieging the capital in Holland. The Dutch sally. There is a small Spanish outfit in the nearby town, but the do not join the fight. "Cowards!" I think to myself...

I soundly defeat the Dutch, but... alas, a few battered militia units escape. Siege continues. What do you think, happens on the Spanish turn? They attack the town with their small outfit that refused to fight the big battle. Even with me backing out of the battle they take the city!

Sneaky Spaniards! ...

I say: it's a wonderful patch! Great work CA! Great work, Lusted!

Just so you know, the event you just described occurred often prior to the patch. In fact there are a few threads complaining about this behaviour....

[Ethelred Unread]

People will complain about anything it would appear. Seems perfectly reasonable behaviour to me.

The next thing will be a load of posts complaining that the AI is too aggressive on VH/VH.

[nafod]

It also seems trade functions more on a supply vs demand then previous, where it seemed to focus more on your proportion of available resources.

I control all but one of the Ivory trade nodes, and Ivory is trading at 15. I never saw it this low pre-patch. Spice and Sugar are also around 13. Highest are Tobacco and Cotton at 19 and 20 respectively.

[Fisherking]

Look all the economic changes have gone too far!

And it is not only at the higher difficulty setting!

Last night I loaded up a game set on E.

I had just sent about 6 stacks and strong fleet into India in 1775. I had been making 105000 per turn for about 4 turns.

What do you think I was making after the patch?

-56000! And of course with the AI aggressiveness upped the next turn Russia, a long time trading partner declared war. After destroying the fleets which interdicted my trade and needing troops in the new area, but not daring to build them… I was now netting -66798 and that was after taking two regions in India.

Started two new campaigns as GB. One Easy and one VH. The AI was a bit more aggressive in the VH but otherwise all was the same!

[t1master]

did the patch address the ability to play with modded stats online, and give us some more maps to play, or an editor?

[Ritterkreuz]

Well I am an extremely happy camper! The end of turn bug I was experiencing (CTD when the AI was thinking at the end of turn) which had ruined my two campaigns is now fixed, meaning that I can now continue on (I've only tried one of them so far).

I am now bankrupt, however, as the increased unit costs appears to be ruining me, but that can easily be addressed and is of course the price to pay for save game compatibility. I am simply blown away that the improvements are save game compatible - many thanks!

Very early feedback as I haven't had a chance to get back into the game yet, but very positive signs so far.

[Beskar]

Now my game has stopped working all together. Awesome.

[Vlad Tzepes]

Early feedback from me as well:

Visual - noticed new path lines (?) in naval battles, not sure about what extra meaning they have, if any.
Audio - I like the new cannon/mortar sound effects in battle. Minefields give a bigger bang when exploding. Musketfire seems to be now synchronized.
Gameplay - shorter lag when clicking/selecting fleets, no CTD yet (was my major CTD reason until now).
Structures now more expensive to build/upgrade (I hate inflation )

This was on an old GC as France.

Looking good for now, back to game

[Monsieur Alphonse]

First impressions after the patch

Playing the Brits:
The AI is now way more aggressive. Central Europe is one huge battlefield. The Prussians seemed to be destroyed having only Brandenburg left but have now destroyed Saxony and have four regions. The Native Americans are now very aggressive, maybe even to aggressive because they almost destroyed the Thirteen Colonies. Both the Iroquois and the Cherokee attacked in the same turn the Thirteen Colonies. Because they were unable to keep what they captured the USA have just appeared and have three regions. The Hurons attacked me as usual but can no longer deploy lots of stacks. It seems that recruiting lots of stacks and going on a rampage is no longer possible.

The games feels a lot smoother now, although there is still some stuttering on the campaign map. I have almost 1.5 times more FPS now.

One negative thing. the Hurons wouldn't accept peace when almost defeated and are now history.

[Graphic]

The games feels a lot smoother now, although there is still some stuttering on the campaign map. I have almost 1.5 times more FPS now.

What driver version are you running?

[Beskar]

LOL, this is amazing in a way.

Foreign policy = Far Easier
Home Management = Harder

I am playing on a Russia game and everyone is Friendly with me or above, apart from Barbary States. Everyone is at war at each other and killing each other, so when I have to fight, I can easily defeat them. Because of this, I am not getting massive territorial expansion penalties like I used to get which used to be a massive thorn in the side.

Problem is, all my home regions seem far more prone to revolt, which I can handle and I used to handle things like this easy by just lowing the tax slider however, with the changes in tax, I am also getting far less money per province than I used to anyway.

[Monsieur Alphonse]

What driver version are you running?

Nvidia 182.06. I have been running this one from the start although CA stated that this one was not tested. Since my performance was OK and I didn't have a lot of CTD's, I never installed a previous driver version. On campaign map I have an average of 60 FPS with a lot of options on ultra etc. My battles seem to look better and run smoother.

My specs:
Intel E 6600
Nvidia 9800GTX
Windows XP
2 GB Ram


@Beskar

I haven't seen the easier foreign policy. Where I usually started a GB campaign with buying Ceylon from the UP in exchange for Rupert's land, today that didn't work. My long lasting trade with Maratha was stopped by them. I don't know why. My be they didn't like it that I wanted to trade with the Mughals as well. Now I am not trading with any one in India .

Questions
1. Has anyone had a small faction willing to accept a peace deal? I usually had to destroy them to get rid of them. At the moment I can't even make peace with Prussia (a major faction), although we are hardly fighting.
2. Has anyone seen that peace was restored after years of fighting between two AI factions?

[Graphic]

Nvidia 182.06. I have been running this one from the start although CA stated that this one was not tested. Since my performance was OK and I didn't have a lot of CTD's, I never installed a previous driver version. On campaign map I have an average of 60 FPS with a lot of options on ultra etc. My battles seem to look better and run smoother.

My specs:
Intel E 6600
Nvidia 9800GTX
Windows XP
2 GB Ram

Before you replied I got excited and went to see what it's like on the latest official drivers. It does seem a fair bit bet better. I clicked the shiny ULTRA button, then went and made a custom battle with 2 full armies. It was playable, if choppy. Before that would have been a total mess I think. I'll go back to custom settings though...HDR in ETW is actually pretty annoying and distracting.

[joe4iz]

Moving one ship off of a trade node stack then nerfs the remaining trade ships and renders the entire stack unmovable...still. I just did it by accident again.

[Tillan]

Moving one ship off of a trade node stack then nerfs the remaining trade ships and renders the entire stack unmovable...still. I just did it by accident again.

Duely noted - Is that in a saved game, or a fresh campaign?

[Mailman653]

I had the no tax problem, followed Jacks advice and deleted my startpos, verfiy game integrity, loaded up saved campaign and no tax problem solved! Awesome! In my next campaign instead of editing the starpos to enable four turns per year I'm just gonna mod the save file using the ETW Turns editor.

BTW, I do have several texture and sound mods runing plus the BSM light mod. I also had the Darthmod but I disabled it pending the new post patch version.

[joe4iz]

Duely noted - Is that in a saved game, or a fresh campaign?

saved game.

Also any income is pretty much gone, but in reading the notes, I guess that is to be expected. I had to get rid of all of my garrison units (I only put two units in any one capitol anyway), so that was annoying to say the least. I am only operating 3 combat stacks of any degree size anyway (only one is a full stack). Went from making 30k per turn to making 500. Even with me controling most of the trade nodes and having trade agreements with every major power and most of the minor powers.
Somewhat annoying....


Annoyed by the overly aggressive AI now also. The 'AI' was unreasonable before and has gotten even worse now.


But hey, at least it did not crash to desktop!