After 257 days of waiting its finally here... The first full release of Rising Sun Bakumatsu
THIS FILE IS FROM AUGUST 2017, New version releasing sometime in December 2022.
README
Rising Sun is a mod for Mount & Blade: Warband based on the Gekokujo mod set during the late Bakumatsu and Boshin War periods of Japan (1867 - 1869). Fight to restore the Imperial Court or retain the Tokugawa Shogunate.
NOTE: This Mod incorporates a large amount of content from the old version of Blood & Iron (B&I II OSP). ALL western style UNIFORMS and some FIREARM parts contained in this mod were made by Parrot, Willhelm and the Blood & Iron team and CREDIT should be given to them for this content.
NOW WITH ALL THAT SAID AND DONE :)
Rising Sun is a mod based on the wonderful and much loved Gekokujo mod by marty4286 and uses much of its original content so 100% credit should be given to him for all of the content not added by this mod. Think of this mod as a sort of unofficial free dlc or expansion to the main module, a sub-mod. The mod is set during the late Bakumatsu - Boshin War period in Japan where Pro-Imperial and Pro-Shogunate forces battled with some foreign support for control of Japan.
This mod retains all the features incorporated in the Gekokujo mod such as Diplomacy and Freelancer
Also it is recommended you play this mod with battle sizer for battles with up to 1000 troops
FACTIONS:
Satsuma Domain
Choshu Domain
Tosa Domain
Tsu Domain
Aizu Clan
Tokugawa Shogunate
Nagaoka Clan
Jozai Domain
Nobeoka Clan
Takamatsu Domain
Sendai Domain
Kuwana Domain
Saga Domain
Amako Clan
Tsuruoaka Domain
Okayama Domain
Kofu Domain
Morioka Domain
Joseon Dynasty
FEATURES:
A wide variety of period accurate firearms muzzle loading, breech loading and cartridge loaded
Pro-Imperial & Pro-Shogunate Factions
Foreign Troops e.g. U.S. Marines, French Marines, British Royal Marines
Smoother Ragdolls and Death Animations (Ragdolls must be enabled to play this mod)
Asymmetrical Warfare, unlike Gekokujo which has almost 100% balanced factions, clans and domains in Rising Sun will have very different weapons and equipment. Most Imperial factions will have vastly superior technology to the Shogunate factions however this will not always be the case.
Less focus on armour and heavy troops and more on weapon effectiveness. Historically during the Edo period the use of Armour decreased drastically as it was a time of relative peace overall.
More swords
Updated Map including the land on the other side of the sea if you know what I mean ;)
Content Sources:
Blood & Iron II OSP Content for all uniforms and a lot of essential firearms and firearm parts
Kengeki Gaiden Animations (Dead mod since 2011 which apparently also uses OSP Papas Animations and animations made by Dain Ironfoot)
Sounds compilation by Pylorama: All Japanese war cries and death sounds. Also credits to Treyarch and Antimatter games since I think most if not all of the sounds are from CoD: WaW and Rising Storm originally. (100% credit to him for war cries)
Bunroku mod (2 Jingasa meshes)
Napoleonic Wars DLC for some firearm bases
World Map HD v1.2
Not Finished Yet:
Lords
Troops - All factions have adequate troops, but some lack uniqueness
All clothing - I intend to add more clothing varieties and hakamas instead of just the Gekokujo samurai armour.
Foreign Troops - At the moment they are faction based, but I am considering making them very tiny separate factions or mercenaries. France and UK will definitely be in the game in some form or another and the United States and Prussia I will try and give at least 1 or 2 troops (probably only officers or advisors)
Changing the Module System (gotta learn python first)
NPCs are the same
CONTENT:
This mod contains a large amount of content from other sources which I can't freely give away, but I listed them in content sources. The Gekokujo creator made his content available to use so I'll have the same sort of policy in his honour.
Installation:
Once you download the zip file open with Winrar or whatever program you use to unzip and extract the Rising Sun folder to your modules folder.
If your a bit of a newbie what this means is.
Once you download the zip file open with Winrar or whatever program you use to unzip. Copy the Rising Sun folder in the zip file and paste it in the fllowing directory C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steamapps\Common\MountBlade Warband\Modules
Or if you don't have the steam version your path will look different but its the same process.
Launch Mount and Blade Warband launcher and select the Rising Sun Module
NO RISING SUN FLAGS:
I know some of you would rather not see the Rising Sun flag so I including alternate flags and textures in a folder called "Optionals" read the Readme and it should tell you what to do.
******* amazing good job.
THE SHOGUNATE WILL RISE AGAIN!
haha who doesn't love sabaton. +1
Yes thanks for setting the mood. 40 seconds left on my download...
Wow pretty good video with Sabaton.
Amazing, thanks for this release. I haven't launched it yet but I already know it is going to be good.
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your a legend !!
Awwww shux! <3 much love man! Can't wait to play!
Hooray finally!
Great mod! I can finally play FOTS in first person :D Can you add visible troop trees in the Reports section? That would be really helpful. Cheers!
Thanks for the mod, it's great!! Is it possible to include permanent death of character,companions and generals?if yes is it possible to include hitokiri missions
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omfg I love this I stayed up all night playing it, No issues so far
will an update corrupt my save file
This is gonna be a very nice Mod!! Keep the work up! Its fantastic!
I need default Gekokujo for play this mod?
nope just download the patch as well.
does i need gekokujo in modules for this mod?
No you don't this mod is standalone, just download the patches as well.
this mod is great the only problems i have seen is markets dont want to sell pants, and if you or your enemy have certain troops in their army which im thinking its the emperial infantry an error message pops up saying something about usa uniform textures however its possible to make it go away by holding alt+tab and closing the error message, and also you cant look at the west half of korea, those are the only real problems i know of, but really great mod
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Time to fight for the Sastuma Rebellion!!