Posts from AllCampaignsRemastered - Updated mod for all Campaigns

Any replacement of the original garrisons or neutral creatures is no longer just a fix; it's a rebalancing of the original maps. Many aspects can be examined, and it can be decided that it's easy to add more content, boost the stats of enemy heroes, or change the types of troops – simply because one wants to. But then, ideally, there should be a separate version specifically with rebalancing, if the player simply wants to play the campaigns without bugs, but with the original balance of power, as it was originally intended.

I agree that this is a rebalance, but it’s a mild one. Here, we can throw another stone at all versions of the mod for all campaigns – this is the ability to upgrade to alternative creatures, their recruitment; the appearance on the map of neutral squads with alternative creatures, squads of orcs and dwarves, where they shouldn’t be in theory.

And there is another nuance – when they break the basic characteristics of units or make foot units flying. They add new creatures, new heroes, etc. In my opinion, this is a greater disruption of the balance than replacing some creatures with basic characteristics with other creatures with basic characteristics in the garrison, if this does not contradict the lore.

In my mod for all campaigns, a lot has also been changed, but I did not change the characteristics of all creatures, I did not change the specializations of heroes, etc.

My version of the mod does not claim to be 100% original to the old campaigns; in terms of the visual part = videos and scripts, it does claim to be as the missions were originally intended, but not in terms of gameplay.

I agree that this is a mild rebalancing. The main thing is that the basic game mechanics have not been affected – the stats of units, the special abilities of heroes. If the overall game design of the mission remains the same – a neutral garrison, whose function remains the same, with approximately the same balance of power – then there are no questions, this is more of a cosmetic change.

Regarding alternate upgrades – ideally, they should also be removed in the campaigns if the goal is to preserve the spirit of the original.

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If you had initially planned to make changes to the gameplay as well, I didn't notice, and I apologize. I can only wish you good luck with the mod. In any case, a huge amount of work has been done, especially in the part about fixes, and I respect that.

But how do you disable the Necromancer's ability to resurrect alternative creatures?

In DefaultStats.xdb, remove the alternate upgrade from the list of items that can be picked up.

No, everything is different in DefaultStats.xdb, I forgot. There is no alternate upgrade in the transformation. The alternate upgrade is linked to the regular upgrade.

I don't know. I thought it could be done through DefaultStats, but I was wrong.

 

Then I won't touch it. I'll mention this nuance in the mod description, and let the players decide whether to revive the alt-grade in these campaigns or not.

I don't know how to do something, I'm not familiar with it. But as an idea, I can suggest creating an additional .h5u file in your campaign pack, and adding only DefaultStats to this file. Then, you can create 2 simple batch files to enable and disable the file, and in the mod description, indicate that this file should be enabled during the original game + Lords of the North (and it will not be possible to raise alt upgrades), and during the game in Tribes of the East, disable this .h5u file through a batch file, and then you can raise alt upgrades again. But this is just a random idea on practice, this will be a hassle for many.

I don't know how to do something, I'm not good at it. But as an idea, I can suggest creating an additional .h5u file in your campaign pack, and add only DefaultStats to this file. Then you can write 2 simple batch files to enable and disable the file, and in the mod description, indicate that this file should be enabled during the original game + Lords of the North (and it will not be possible to raise alt upgrades), and during the game in Tribes of the East, disable this .h5u file through a batch file, and then you can raise alt upgrades again. But this is just a random idea on practice, this will be a hassle for many.

So, how do I remove it, colleague? Let's say I need to disable it on all maps of the original campaigns and the Lords of the North campaign. And there are also original scenarios and Lords of the North scenarios.

If you remove the alternate upgrade from the files of regular undead creatures, data.pak\GameMechanics\Creature\Creatures\Necropol is, the alternate upgrade will not appear in the resurrection menu after a battle. The button "choose an upgrade for the resurrected creature" is there, but it does nothing.