Do I need a patch for M2:TW?

[stwils]

Hello everyone.

Yesterday I bought M2:TW. It installed fine on my computer and runs beautifully. But experience with other games has taught me that new games often need a patch.

I plan to play only Single Player. Would I need a patch if there is one, and if so then where do I download it from?

Does this forum have a discussion of the patch?

Thanks.

stwils

[MSB]

Welcome to the Org stwils

The latest M2:TW patch is 1.1. You don't need it, but it fixes many bugs including (from Sega):

- 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

If you want the 1.1 patch you can find it here.

[naut]

You don't need it, but it fixes many bugs including (from Sega)

What he said.

[stwils]

Will it make playing M2:TW better? More fluid?

Or is there a chance it will cause my computer to crash?

stwils

[Martok]

Will it make playing M2:TW better? More fluid?

Or is there a chance it will cause my computer to crash?

stwils

Well there's always a *chance* any new patch will cause a crash, but in this case the risk is pretty negligible -- there's been very few problems reported thus far, at least in terms of stability. And by most (if not all) accounts, yes the patch is definitely an improvement on the vanilla game. I help moderate the Citadel (the forum for Medieval 2), and people's response to the patch there has generally been very positive.

[Bellum]

It fixes a lot, but thers a lot more to be fixed. Personally I'm waiting for the next one. It's being released in February, right?

[andrewmuir]

Welcome to the Org stwils

The latest M2:TW patch is 1.1. You don't need it, but it fixes many bugs including (from Sega):

If you want the 1.1 patch you can find it here.

Unfortunately The Total War website wont let me enter because it says I dont have Flash. I do have it but just to please the site I started to download it again and Adobe said - no point you have already correctly installed it.

So I go to Google and find a place to download the update, It self extracts but then does nothing since my M2TW still says I only have version 1.0 . So this time I install it directly into the game folder. Still doesn`t work. It beats me hoew such clever programmers seem not to understand how to make life simple for the rest of us.

Andrew

[stwils]

I don't like their website. It wants me to install stuff just to look at it. I have a new Dell XPS 410 fully equiped, but I am not going to download stuff just to look at a site.

stwils