Short Campaign doesn't Unlock factions?

**Forward Observer** · 12-21-2006, 04:06

Originally Posted by Skott

I didnt have a problem when I did it. I played a short English Campaign and it unlocked all the others for me.

Likewise

**sapi** · 12-21-2006, 04:11

You can unlock them manually by following these instructions:

Originally Posted by frogbeastegg

To do this you can either complete a campaign (on any difficutly, long or short setting) with one of the five starting factions, or you can edit the preferences file. To do this open your Sega/M2TW folder/data\world\maps\campaign\imperial_campaign, find the file called "descr_strat" and open it with wordpad. Now find the section which says

Code:

campaign      imperial_campaign
playable
   england
   france
   hre
   spain
   venice
end
unlockable
   sicily
   milan
   scotland
   byzantium
   russia
   moors
   turks
   egypt
   denmark
   portugal
   poland
   hungary
end
nonplayable
   papal_states
   aztecs
   mongols
   timurids
   slave
end

Change it so it reads

Code:

campaign      imperial_campaign
playable
   england
   france
   hre
   spain
   venice
   sicily
   milan
   scotland
   byzantium
   russia
   moors
   turks
   egypt
   denmark
   portugal
   poland
   hungary
end
nonplayable
   papal_states
   aztecs
   mongols
   timurids
   slave
end

**Rilder** · 12-21-2006, 06:15

Originally Posted by sapi

You can unlock them manually by following these instructions:

I wish for you to read my post. If you had read it you would of knoticed that I didnt wan't to unlock the factions via file editing at all, at least for now...

Yunus, it was short campaign I won, anyways if I have to beat all the factions myself to play them its no prob, just started a M/M Venice game and im getting my behind handed to me... everyone wants to betray me, even the pope it seems, my popularity keeps going down....

**sapi** · 12-21-2006, 07:11

Hmmm - sorry mate, i was skim reading and missed that part :(

And if you won the short campaign, then they should be unlocked, so i'd see no problem in doing it manually since you've definitely earned it (but this is from a guy who unlocked them from the word go)

**Rhedd** · 12-21-2006, 07:39

Yep, winning the short campaign should definitely unlock everything. I wonder why it didn't for you.

When I played my first campaign (short), each country that I defeated became available to play IMMEDIATELY, and all of them were unlocked as soon as I'd beaten the campaign.

I know, I know, you don't want to mod anything even if you deserve it, but if you change your mind, there is a WAY easier way to do it. Just go to your medieval2.preference.cfg file (in the MTWII root directory), and add the following lines to the end:

[misc]
unlock_campaign = true

That will tell the game you've finished the campaign (which you HAVE ^_^). The next time you start the game, everything will be as it should be, and those two lines will even magically disappear from your file!

Regardless of your choice, have fun!

**PureFodder** · 12-21-2006, 14:50

Hmmmm, did you finish it after installing the new patch? Possibly there's been a change in the rules now?

**Rilder** · 12-21-2006, 21:43

yea it was after the patch. it would be interesting if they turned off the unlock all factions after finished campaign, might make the campaign a challenge to get the factions you want to play the hardway, lot funner too. :D