Activision vs Sega, Is this why I can't play all factions?

[IceWolf]

Kindly forgive me for re-visiting this but it's driving me nuts (why doesn't my stuff work as good as other's ?)
It has now come to my awareness that there are versions of RTW produced by Activision. Mine is the CA-Sega version of RTW Gold. I've tried installing the 1.5 patch and overwriting the playable factions file. It still doesn't farkin work Is the Sega version resistant to this mod? This is drivin me up the wall, kindly help, thanks

IceWolf

[Warmaster Horus]

If you've got Gold I don't think you need to instal the 1.5 patch.

[caravel]

Gold is patched up to v1.5 already. Post up the contents of the file you're trying to edit inside [ code][ /code] tags.

[Omanes Alexandrapolites]

Hi IceWolf,
I too have the SEGA DVD version of R:TW Gold, yet it works for me. As last time I am still utterly confused as to why. May I request information about what files are in your C:/Program Files/Rome - Total War/data/world/maps/campaign/imperial_campaign folder. Is there a file called descr_strat. If there is then it will look like this:

All you have to do is change it to (the spaces at the front are tab keys):

Hopefully that should enable you to play as all factions.

Thanks for you patience about the pictures, cheers!

BTW, Cambyses II, I think you can disable that code thingee from working by typing [noparse][/noparse] and inserting the tags between the noparse tags.

[The Foolish Horseman]

Kindly forgive me for re-visiting this but it's driving me nuts (why doesn't my stuff work as good as other's ?)
It has now come to my awareness that there are versions of RTW produced by Activision. Mine is the CA-Sega version of RTW Gold. I've tried installing the 1.5 patch and overwriting the playable factions file. It still doesn't farkin work Is the Sega version resistant to this mod? This is drivin me up the wall, kindly help, thanks

IceWolf

It workd for me Icewolf and half heartedly swearing
like this:

farkin work

or you will end up with a warning point before you say Incompatible language

[IceWolf]

Sorry Brittanicus, this has been an ongoing frustration for me,

Icewolf

[IceWolf]

Ok, I uninstalled the thing, reinstalled and I ended up with 4 different descr notepads, they now look like this 1st is the original

; Custom campaign script generated by Romans Campaign Map Editor

campaign imperial_campaign
playable
romans_julii
romans_brutii
romans_scipii
egypt
seleucid
carthage
parthia
gauls
germans
greek_cities
macedon
pontus
armenia
dacia
scythia
spain
thrace
numidia
britons
end
unlockable
end
nonplayable
romans_senate
slave
end

THEN there's patch 1.2 original


; Custom campaign script generated by Romans Campaign Map Editor

campaign imperial_campaign
playable
romans_julii
romans_brutii
romans_scipii
egypt
seleucid
carthage
parthia
gauls
germans
britons
greek_cities
macedon
pontus
armenia
dacia
scythia
spain
thrace
numidia
end
unlockable
end
nonplayable
romans_senate
slave
end

THEN there's 1.2 Alll factions playable

; Custom campaign script generated by Romans Campaign Map Editor

campaign imperial_campaign
playable
romans_julii
romans_brutii
romans_scipii
egypt
seleucid
carthage
parthia
gauls
germans
britons
greek_cities
macedon
pontus
armenia
dacia
scythia
spain
thrace
numidi
end
unlockable
end
nonplayable
romans_senate
slave

end

FINALLY THERE's 1.5 All Factions playable

Custom campaign script generated by Romans Campaign Map Editor

campaign imperial_campaign
playable
romans_julii
romans_brutii
romans_scipii
egypt
seleucid
carthage
parthia
gauls
germans
britons
greek_cities
macedon
pontus
armenia
dacia
numidia
scythia
spain
thrace
end
unlockable
end
nonplayable
romans_senate
slave
end



I didn't download anything these are what pops up with the original installation and then I did cut and paste work. i made some progress, I started off with the normally lockked factions appearing immediately, not the basic 5, but
macedon
pontus
armenia
dacia
numidia
scythia
spain
thrace

STILL DO NOT APPEAR. SO basically i have what I had before after winning a campaign but now my saves are gone Any ideas? Thanks
Icewolf

[IceWolf]

Ok correction (I can't edit posts for some reason) apparently it didn't do a full uninstall, even though I went through add/remove programs b/c my saved stuff is still there, but should this mattter? thanks
IceWolf

[Barbarossa82]

You can't have four different descr_strat.txt files with the same name in the same folder. If you have just reinstalled the game and not done anything else, then whichever one is just called descr_strat.txt is the perfect, original 1.5 file. Make a backup copy and then alter it exactly as Omanes has shown you.