Age of Empires 2 - QOL MOD

AOE2 QUALITY OF LIFE

DATA MOD

POSTED HERE AND IN STEAM WORKSHOP
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IT WAS A LOT OF WORK FOR ME AND FOR ALL THE MODDERS. THANK YOU ALL AGE COMMUNITY

NEW FEATURES

It’s a quality of life patch mod. IT IS A COMPILATION MOD, IT MEANS THAT IT HAS MANY HELP FROM OTHERS. It features a improved experience without changing too much the original gameplay, adding new cool stuff, change some stats, being sort of compatible with older saves. It not changes drastically the gameplay. I ‘ve chosen some of the best mods and some graphic changes I did.

IT IS A DATA MOD:

SO YOU CAN USE FOR DATA MOD HD EDITION “RISE OF RAJAS” 5.8 “AOE2_QOL_MOD”

AND FOR HD EDITION AOK – THE CONQUERORS(retail version used in Age of Kings and the Conquerors Campaigns): “AOE2_QOL_ AOK” (some changes down here are not applied to retail version)

GRAPHICAL CHANGES

• Unique Civ skin for the respective some units from unit lines: spearman line, knight line, scout cavalry line, long swordman etc.
• Byzantine and Spanish share a architecture from Mediterrain set. Unique monastery for both civs.
• Chinese, Koreans and Mongols new buildingsets, expecially Mongols.
• Slavs and Magyar have updated buildingset
• Vietnamese has now Chinese Building set.
• Persian Architecture has changed to Central Asian.
• Mongols, Vikings, Incas, Mayan, Hunnic Architectures changed a bit.
• Some rocks, grasses, bushes or trees will appear on terrains, emblishment.

GAMEPLAY CHANGES

• Changed train time of some units, some stats, some techs. you can explore more changes on editor or in random map.
• Cavalry Lancer is avaliable for almost all civilizations in Castle Age (it represents the Steppe Lancer from DE)
• Petard avaliable before researching chemistry
• Many buildings now cost a small amount of gold or stone to build starting on Castle Age.
• Fix on god own sling and bad neighbor attack animation.
• Hostile animals stats changed based on their size, strength: like age of empires 3.
• Boar type units, small changes on hp, food. Example: Elephant, Water buffalo hp up.
• Heavy units now have slower turn rate: Siege lines, Elephants, Carts etc

CHEAT UNITS

Changed to more efficient and useful:

-Penguin-> Abrapha Elephant (Siege Ballista Elephant);

-Alpaca -> Elephant (OP)

-Monkey Boy ->Warwolf(Catapult);

-Cobra Car changed a bit

-VMDL -> Can build buildings and faster and has more line of sight

-Observation: I have maintained the old cheat units in another IDs

MISC AND CAMPAIGN UNITS

• Minimal graphical and stats changes to Heroes and some special units and buildings.
• Many walls and tower graphics, and misc buildings.
• Many trainable units from custom Fortresses (will not affect standard gamelplays. It usefull to custom made maps.). Ex.: Landsknetch, Plate soldier, Cavalry Lancer, Heavy Pikeman etc.
• New Special units Galley (Aoe1); Galleon (beta); little John (hero arquebusier); much more...

RECOMMENDATIONS

MODS to add with the AOE2 QUALITY OF LIFE PATCH MOD THEY ARE VERY IMPORTANT, some are optional but strongly recommended.

You should use all these mods in this order of priority to work properly:

-=-=MORE PRIORITY UP ^-=-

AOE2_QOL-Campaign

AOE2_QOL-Graphics

AOE2_QOL-RM

AOE2_QOL-Buildings (OPTIONAL)

AOE2_QOL-Units (OPTIONAL)

AOE2-MusicAOK (First AOK music and last TC tracks with 2 trial musics) (OPTIONAL)

AOE2-MusicAOKTC (First TC music and last AOK tracks with 2 trial musics) (OPTIONAL)

AOE2_QOL (DATA MOD FOR RAJAS)

AOE2_QOL_AOK (DATA MOD FOR AOK and TC)

-=-=LOWEST PRIORITY-=-

CREDITS, THANKS!

(if missed someone, let me know), it has many mods from Heavengames and Steam Workshop for years of playing

• Made by Galecgo / Mitcss. Mod idea and all changes made in some years of hobbie, photoshop and modding work.
• Inspiration and many models from Age of World Empires MOD (.dat and graphics Edited used as Base) - made by Ivindor and Huanglukuzhu/Zhizhou Zhang - moddb.com/mods/age-of-world-empires
• Many mods and creators (more from Steam workshop): Age of World Empires, DE graphic mods, Campaign cap fix, Abejin, Omar_gg, Alpha buidlings, Independent Architecture, Silent Ape, julianbaba4, gagman, Balam Ajaw, Saint_Michaels_, Allendi, Gaudio, Ian Hunter, Gwotyng, Ozhara, TriRem, Hann3o, YuenHsiaoTieng, Hodayc, LordGood, Terminus Est, Whakahoatanga, Euron_AoC, Kalaaver, jorgito, Gaius....
• Thanks to Advanced Genie editor creator.
• Thanks to Age of Empires, Ensemble studios! PLEASE BUY AGE 1, 2, 3, DE, Myhtology....

PLEASE CHECK MY OTHER MOD:

Age of Empires 1 - QOL MOD (QUALITY OF LIFE MOD FOR AGE 1!) - moddb.com/mods/age-of-empires-1-qol-mod

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DETAILED CHANGES

TIME TRAIN

Spears, Knights, crossbow, cav archers, increase time to create

skirmisher increase time to create; -1 range

Scout line train speed 31

VILLAGERS

• Lumberjacks – 20% eficiency

SWORDSMAN LINE

• +longsword and two handed swordsman +1 meelee armor

KINGS

• Lower: 1.2 SPEED

TRANSPORT SHIP

• 6 loadspace
• +6 loadspace careeing tech
• +11 loadspace dry dock tech

MISC

• Bombard galleon and tower missile cannonball faster speed. Some small changes on speed and graphics of cannon balls projectiles, cobra car projectile.

Changed

• Bolts, arrows, attack of melee units sounds changed a bit
• Trees have 50 and 65 woods instead of 40 and 75.

CIVILIZATIONS

• Spanish has now Crossbowman but have not Heavy Cav. Archers.
• Spanish Conquistador have crossbow and Turkish Janissary has a bow. The elite counterparts stayed the same, their stats changed a bit..
• Decreases the bust on HP and ARMORS of villagers on Spanish tech Supremacy