Patch Available

[Zawath]

http://www.sega.com/support/support....port_romepatch

Spear bonuses against cavalry have been increased (they were previously hard coded and are now moddable, in addition to mount_effect)


Braced spearmen (standing ready) now reflect part of any attacking cavalry’s charge bonus back on the horse


Adjusted most units’ charge bonuses to improve play balance (especially for cavalry) in response to charge code changes (which fixed an issue for higher bonus values)

Reduced archery attack for some elite units

Reduced secondary non-phalanx attack for stronger phalanx units

Adjusted incorrect shield attribute for several units (to reflect models)

Fixed Egyptian desert axemen armour

Fixed bug for early and late Thracian and Scythian generals

Reduced archer attack from chariots and elephants, and reduced dog attack

The Load Save bug has been addressed

The speed on the campaign map has been improved

Improvements to the Campaign map AI

Better mix of rebelling units, including mercenary units and fewer peasants
Fewer brigands, more pirates and the ability to mod the rate that these
appear
Fixed issues with the faction graphs where a dead faction was still receiving income

Improvements to the battle AI
Pre-battle speeches for the Roman factions now include sections on previous meetings with that facti

[Kekvit Irae]

*goes to update the Useful RTW Links thread*

[Kekvit Irae]

Spear bonuses against cavalry have been increased (they were previously hard coded and are now moddable, in addition to mount_effect)

This is good news for modders.

[Uriel]

Do 1.2 saves work?

[Kekvit Irae]

Thank god for good publishers.

Indeed

[econ21]

Fewer brigands, more pirates and the ability to mod the rate that these appear

I don't usually mod my games, but this is just too tempting.

[Ciaran]

Very nice, but 104 MB

[Uriel]

104MB is big for a patch but compared to downloading a demo it's nothing.

Eee - when I were a lad David Braben used to fit an 'ole galaxy ont' a floppy...

[player1]

Well patch v1.2 was around 55MB, I'm not suprised since v1.3 is supposed to include previous patches too.


P.S.
For dial-up users I suggest using some download acclerator and downloading during night. It should be done in one or two nights in worst case.

Or just buy expansion.

[Uriel]

I'm guessing it won't be long before it appears on some magazine cover discs too.

[frogbeastegg]

It's good to see a few of the changes BI made officially named, so I can stop suspecting and start knowing. There are some very nice ones on that list.

Fewer brigands, more pirates and the ability to mod the rate that these appear

Where? How?

[player1]

Look at the descr_strat.txt file.

[Kraxis]

Do I understand this correctly that if you have BI this is not for you, right?

[TB666]

Do I understand this correctly that if you have BI this is not for you, right?

Yes, if you have BI you don't need this patch.

[frogbeastegg]

Thanks

[Rodion Romanovich]

This is great! It shows that CA's new publishers have a deal that gives good support for products. Looks like the change to Sega as publisher will have a good effect in the long run. And the new modding abilities and bug fixes are great. I haven't opened the R:TW campaign since getting BI, but as this patch is included in BI, and I didn't see the list of changes until reading this thread, I've changed my opinion and might decide to do so .

[Jambo]

Near the start of the respective descr_strat files there's a value for brigand_spawn and pirate_spawn. In BI they are 10 and 12 respectively and in RTW they are 10 and 28.

Essentially these numerical values are divisors and therefore, the lower the number the more rebels/pirates will spawn, the higher the number the less likely they'll spawn. For example, a value of 20 for brigand_spawn will reduce the likelihood of rebels spawning by a half.

[R3dD0g]

Well, I downloaded the patch - twice. First time the dl finished and the zip was corrupted. Seconded time I could unzip it and read the readme. But when I run the exe I get an InstallShield Wizard error window talking about closing running programs (as clean as a Windows machine can be), emptying my temp folder (done that, only 2 perf files still in use) and checking my connection (that just downloaded 104 MB!) and mentioning error code -6001.

The exe file is 102 MB (106,955,778 bytes).

Has anybody experienced any similar difficulties with the patch?

[vastator]

I get an InstallShield Wizard error window talking about closing running programs (as clean as a Windows machine can be), emptying my temp folder (done that, only 2 perf files still in use) and checking my connection (that just downloaded 104 MB!) and mentioning error code -6001.

The exe file is 102 MB (106,955,778 bytes).

Has anybody experienced any similar difficulties with the patch?

Yep, I'm getting exactly the same error message - that's after running disk cleanup, defragmenting, running a full virus scan and disabling my anti-virus program (which used to interfere with patch 1.2).
So - any suggestions?