Installation:
1. Unpack to your Medieval_2_directory/mods
2. Run VK2021.bat to play
Changelog:
FINAL PLUS:
- Improved building and unit progression (availability, build times)
- Set matchlock event 10 years earlier
- Added 1 building line in cities (Fief Grant and Estate Grant, allows recruitment of 1 feudal cavalry and a bit of immersion)
FINAL HOTFIX:
- I fixed some remaining errors in family tree and names
- HRE and Venice each have two intercurrent ruling dynasties now
- added 1 extra starting merchant to Venice, Milan and Novgorod
- changed some strat models (middle eastern factions, mongols and novgorod)
- buffed Spain and nerfed Moors a little
FINAL:
- CTDs fixed (character_record and some halberds lacking phalanx animation)
- some UI tweaks
- renamed some units for consitency and immersion
- revised projectiles
- some starting armies/buildings changed
- added big bad crusader army (4th Crusade) near Constantinople. Bribe 'em or destroy 'em.
- other changes I forgot
SAVEFIX:
- buffed some horse archers and javelinmen, nerfed reiters
- loading saved campaign shouldn't crash the game anymore
- added Late Crossbowmen unit to England, France, Spain and Portugal
- nerfed crossbows (globally) a tiny bit
- made AI slighly more willing to recruit priests
- fixed battlemap selection voice of English Pikemen and Musketeers
- moved matchlock and pike and shot events about 10 turns later
- made southern european factions handgunners available longer (till pike and shot event)
- added garrison scripts to Toulouse, Toledo and Vienna as well
- changed some texts
COMPLETE
- changed some starting territories
- effecively removed AoR for Jinetes
- included some new regions in black death events
- made CAI aggresive and consolidate armies again
- moved some settlements
- renamed some starting leaders
- renamed some factions
- renamed some cities
- renamed some units
- restored mesoamerican music
- tweaked AI diplomacy costs
- tweaked mercs pool
- other changes I forgot to mention
FULL Patch
- restored English pikemen and French musketeers
- moved matchlock event 50 years later (unlocking arquebuses and late pikemen)
- created pike and shot event 60 years after matchlock (unlocking muskets and disabling handguns - if a faction has a newer alternative)
- extended some mercenary pools availability
- added garrison scripts to all starting capitals (nothing extreme, just 3-4 units)
- revised BAI (mostly reduced ranged units aggresion and increased their contact distance)
- effecively disabled some critical units' AoR (like highland nobles or sodeer archers)
- added spoilers to welcome screen
PATCH Prolly Final
- redone AI recruitment priorities, also added them to ships
- made unit availability from buildings' upgrades more gradual
- increased monetary rewards slightly
- some AI tweaks
- fixed rebel army position at Galway
- redone welcome event
FULL
- tweaked some buildings bonuses/construction time to make them more useful
- changed winter unit markers reddish for visibility
- further standardized some unit stats
- fixed some units recruitment
- changed some starting kings/armies
- renamed Granadine Lancers to Moorish Lancers and removed its AoR
PATCH3
- Fixed a typo and removed uncommented sections of the Skynet's CAI
- Assigned more points to stratmap pathfinding calculations
- Few units stat tweaks, mainly armour upgrades sequences
- Increased battlemap speed by 2-5% to match units animations (on grass)
PATCH "Petty"
- Changed that ugly southern european campaign ui I put there before
- Renamed "King's Purse" to "Royal Purse"
PATCH2
- fixed Kievan family tree, increased Turkish son's age, added 1 named Turkish general
- tweaked some campaign map textures
- tweaked AI
- tweaked 2 ui pieces
- restored phalanx formation to halberdier units, fixed speed
- some minor unit stat tweaks
PATCH1
- slightly increased global morale stat_mental by average of 2 pts a unit, and buffer zone by 30. A tiny change, but it will lessen the domino effect that causes battles being a total mess most of the time.
- adjusted stats of several units for coherence
- increased battlemap units' speed by 5% on some surfaces
RELEASE CANDIDATE 1
Misc:
- game starts in 1200 AD to justify Teutonic Order... somehow
- 1 turn per year, with proper ageing script
- adjusted everything
- 9 new regions (Angora, Bari, Bajadoz, Belgrade, Bristol, Fez, Lund, Siauliai, Vladimir)
- 12 hidden resources (12 areas of recruitment for 76 units)
- post battle loot script
- changing capital cost (1000) script
- foreign king death info script
- renamed some factions, characters and units
- increased siege units stratmap speed to 90%
- slightly reinforced gates and defences
- retouched and remixed UIs
- added faction logos in victory conditions spots
- added better campaign textures
- fixed weather (less rain and fog, no snow in tropics)
AI:
- fixed ai personalities, made factions more aggressive (thanks to Fynn's research on discord)
- fixed CAI in general, using edited z3n's Skynet
- fixed BAI, based on z3n's Skynet
- fixed diplomacy hate bug
- distributed and diversified ai recruitment priorities, AI will recruit balanced armies
- changed lithuanian ai_label switch to catholic after conversion
Unit stats:
- varied some standardized infantry sizes where it made sense (eg. more soldiers in pike units etc)
- varied and adjusted unit formations to reflect their type/quality (eg. 2handers swords stand more apart, peasants are scattered)
- fixed charging distance
- fixed stat_ground making some units useless
- nerfed all damage, increased armour
- nerfed pikes and spears slightly
- fixed all projectiles to kinda realistic level
- adjusted all missile ranges, increased longbow range
- added 2 turn recruitment to elite archers and slaves
- standardized infantry mass (based on: weapon length, morale, equipment and class)
- removed wedge formation from poor/unsuited cav
- removed cantabrian_circle from mounted crossbowmen
- removed phalanx from halberdiers (unit speed was unfixable)
- replaced cannot_skirmish with start_not_skirmishing on javelinmen
- removed armour piercing capability from all javelins and 2h swords (nope)
- pikemen keep their pikes. stats reduced accordingly
- added lock_morale to some fanatics/superb elite guards
- redesigned morale while maintaining it on the same level
- standardized ammo count among foot (4) and mounted (6) javelinmen
- standardized ammo count among poor units and mounted crossbowmen (20)
- fixed Kingdoms units stats discrepancies
- added some unused units in
Mercenaries:
- adjusted availability dates
- made arquebusiers require new matchlock event
- added slav mercs to Russia, Poland and Steppes regions
- added landsknechts to Northern Italy
- removed swiss pikemen from Sardinia
- removed balkan archers from Greece
- made pikemen and free company maa more expensive
- made crossbowmen, greek firethrowers and some javelinmen cheaper
- added Lithuania pool
- included 9 new regions
Economy:
- doubled merchant income, reduced agents limit a bit
- increased upkeep by ~30%. Amount handcrafted to every unit based on it's peformance, class, faction strengths etc.
- added free upkeep slots to castles (half the cities' capacity)
- some buildings (taverns, blacksmiths, jewish communities) add a bit of a fixed income
- adjusted everything for 1 tpy
- slightly increased tax income in castles
