Unlocking factions .... is the natural game method broken ?

**grapedog** · 02-14-2007, 20:58

i just finished my first campaing, short with english, and nothing new was unlocked...none of the factions I defeated or any other factions. I'm using v1.1, since it's not working, i'll just use the work around...bah!

**heroic hungarian** · 02-14-2007, 21:11

i'm totaly sure you only have to complete a short campain ut maybe i am wrong

**Lorenzo_H** · 02-16-2007, 13:00

Originally Posted by heroic hungarian

i'm totaly sure you only have to complete a short campain ut maybe i am wrong

Doesn't sound like you're totally sure then

**Snoil The Mighty** · 02-16-2007, 20:34

It is supposed to unlock all playable factions by winning a short campaign. It worked fine for me. Finished a Spanish short back when I got the game and all the factions were then playable.

**sbroadbent** · 02-18-2007, 08:21

Originally Posted by heroic hungarian

i'm totaly sure you only have to complete a short campain ut maybe i am wrong

That is odd. In my game (completly unpatched and unmodded), I haven't even completed a campaign (meaning I'm in the middle of my current first campaign, and I can start a completly new campaign and have Milan and Scotland as a starting choice. I expected to have Egypt, because they have also been eliminated (by the Mongols). It's important to note that I didn't defeat Milan, they just got killed off by the Black Death. I was threatened by the Pope with excom if I attacked Milan, and was waiting it out, and then got a notice that the Pope didn't care what happened to Milan anymore because they no longer existed.

In any event, it seems that I can atleast start a new campaign with either Scotland or Milan without having to finish off my current English campaign. I'm currently looking forward to eliminating the Danes.

**grapedog** · 02-18-2007, 10:40

sounds like a patched game vs. non patched game issue...mine was patched and i didn't get the choice. Seems like most people who are not patched have it working fine...

**ObeliX** · 02-18-2007, 11:50

Completed short campaign with hre with a patched game and haven't messed around with any of the files. Stopped on gaining victory conditions and unlocked all factions fine.

**Philbert** · 03-12-2007, 17:16

I am still within my first within my first campaign (with the HRE) and when I go to the menu to start a new campaign, I can now choose between the default factions plus the factions that I have destroyed during my current campaign (Danes, Hungary, Scots).

My army is building up to conquer Rome so I will have completed this campaign shortly, and if I read this thread correctly that will also unlock all of the other factions.
I find that a bit of a shame to be honest, because it seems quite a challenge to destroy all factions one by one and that way get the full scope of the game by achievement (except papal states, mongols etc. that is). So I would prefer it to be the 'natural' way. People that donot feel they are up to this challenge could then resort to the easiest mod there is in this game.

**The Outsider** · 03-13-2007, 05:51

Yep it is true when i tried to unlock the factions playing as england in a short campaigne they were not open and in many places i heard that finishing the game on a short campaigne was supposed to unlock them. I suppose that there is a bug involved