The Remaster meanwhile doesn't work on Windows 7, so if you still use a decent Windows, you gotta stick with the original (which works fine).
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"Helps out modding" is quite an understatement. Many important hardcoded limits are now gone and it even adds at least one Medieval 2 feature with different armor and weapon tiers being able to have their unique unit graphics. Here are the patch notes just for modding:
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Removing the hard-coded limits on factions and adding M2 features (ie. unit equipment variation) is nice and all, but it remains to be seen whether it'll actually save this game. I have my doubts, especially since the Europa Barbarorum team dismissed making a mod for Remastered altogether. That mod made Rome 1 for me, and there's only so much porters can do.
Even if EB got a real installment made by the EB team on the Remaster, that UI would probably still kill it for me. It's impressive how ugly, cluttered, and yet simultaneously completely lacking in ability to convey necessary information it is, even after the "fixes". Letting an AI upscale the original would've unironically been a better choice.
Even if EB got a real installment made by the EB team on the Remaster, that UI would probably still kill it for me. It's impressive how ugly, cluttered, and yet simultaneously completely lacking in ability to convey necessary information it is, even after the "fixes". Letting an AI upscale the original would've unironically been a better choice.
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He's also doing a little campaign playthrough of a pre-release build of the mod:
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My most anticipated Rome Remastered mod, the Lord of the Rings mod, is out -
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2839671916
I'm going on vacation tomorrow, but I'll play it when I come back.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2839671916
I'm going on vacation tomorrow, but I'll play it when I come back.
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I suddenly remembered this game's existence and wanted to see how it was doing since I thought it was just about a year since it was released. Imagine my surprise when it turned out that it actually came out in 2021 and not 2022. Time really flies.
According to SteamCharts the game seems to consistently average 1000 concurrent players which is pretty much just the same as the classic RTW version. Meanwhile Medieval 2 manages to hover between 4000 to 5000 players. Hardly surprising since it always had far more campaign mods on top of simply just being a better game (imo) that was a straight upgrade to RTW in almost all aspects. Even if there's no guarantee the modding scene will follow, I do hope M2 also eventually gets a remaster since the original version is starting to feel dated. Its mods are partially held back by the hardcoded limitations that were removed in the RTW remaster, so it'd be nice for them to be removed in a hypothetical M2 remaster. Even if people won't create elaborate overhauls or custom campaigns there's almost guaranteed to be one guy somewhere who'll add something like a hundred different factions instead of the generic rebels.
Coincidentally, this seems to be just what someone's working on doing in RTW. I checked the Steam workshop and came across https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2672689065 which seems to be a remastered version of Chivalry Total War, one of the original campaign overhaul mods for RTW. I played around in the remastered version for about an hour and it's quite clearly still a work in progress but the creators have definitely made use of the lifted hardcaps. The map's full of all sorts of factions down to small sized kingdoms and duchies with (seemingly) their own units, followers, traits et cetera. Unfortunately it's also undeniably a Rome mod wearing a Medieval skin, and I honestly don't think I personally would enjoy playing it for an extended period of time when it's missing M2 features like many of the agent types, castles, religion mechanics and so on.
I'm going to give Imperium Surrectum a try instead since that seems to be biggest of the mods for the remaster. Based on its description it seems like much more of a RTW remake since the base game essentially has been massively upscaled to apparently include nearly a thousand regions distributed across both lots of small factions and large empires. I don't know how in depth it is in terms of traits, buildings and general management, but I'm certainly impressed by its scope.
According to SteamCharts the game seems to consistently average 1000 concurrent players which is pretty much just the same as the classic RTW version. Meanwhile Medieval 2 manages to hover between 4000 to 5000 players. Hardly surprising since it always had far more campaign mods on top of simply just being a better game (imo) that was a straight upgrade to RTW in almost all aspects. Even if there's no guarantee the modding scene will follow, I do hope M2 also eventually gets a remaster since the original version is starting to feel dated. Its mods are partially held back by the hardcoded limitations that were removed in the RTW remaster, so it'd be nice for them to be removed in a hypothetical M2 remaster. Even if people won't create elaborate overhauls or custom campaigns there's almost guaranteed to be one guy somewhere who'll add something like a hundred different factions instead of the generic rebels.
Coincidentally, this seems to be just what someone's working on doing in RTW. I checked the Steam workshop and came across https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2672689065 which seems to be a remastered version of Chivalry Total War, one of the original campaign overhaul mods for RTW. I played around in the remastered version for about an hour and it's quite clearly still a work in progress but the creators have definitely made use of the lifted hardcaps. The map's full of all sorts of factions down to small sized kingdoms and duchies with (seemingly) their own units, followers, traits et cetera. Unfortunately it's also undeniably a Rome mod wearing a Medieval skin, and I honestly don't think I personally would enjoy playing it for an extended period of time when it's missing M2 features like many of the agent types, castles, religion mechanics and so on.
I'm going to give Imperium Surrectum a try instead since that seems to be biggest of the mods for the remaster. Based on its description it seems like much more of a RTW remake since the base game essentially has been massively upscaled to apparently include nearly a thousand regions distributed across both lots of small factions and large empires. I don't know how in depth it is in terms of traits, buildings and general management, but I'm certainly impressed by its scope.
Imperium Surrectum is pretty great. Roma Surrectum was my favourite mod for the original, so it's a treat.
According to the devs they'll finish their overhaul of the Hellenic factions with the version they'll release in a few months and then it's back to focusing on Rome, baby!
According to the devs they'll finish their overhaul of the Hellenic factions with the version they'll release in a few months and then it's back to focusing on Rome, baby!
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does imperium surrectum add anything new gameplay wise to the usual total war formula?
Imperium Surrectum is still a wip but it's pretty impressive already. Best factions to play are Hellenistics at the moment as they had the most work put into them, and Greece is super crowded with mini-factions. Meanwhile the barbarian areas, Africa, Arabia and India are still mostly empty (but will receive new factions eventually).
Gameplay is classic TW, just with a bunch of additions that add more micromanagement to the campaign gameplay. Your income is harder to raise up, there's culture groups now (they work like religions in Barbarian Invasion), and some other minor things.
Gameplay is classic TW, just with a bunch of additions that add more micromanagement to the campaign gameplay. Your income is harder to raise up, there's culture groups now (they work like religions in Barbarian Invasion), and some other minor things.
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