The first official release of the Age of Bronze campaign, featuring two fully playable factions: Egypt and The Hittites!
A shadow falls over the lands of the eastern Mediterranean...
Age of Bronze 2.0 is here!
This update brings the first version of the long-awaited campaign mode, featuring two fully playable factions - Egypt and The Hittites! Each faction is complete with their own roster, technology tree, buildings, and government actions! In addition is a staggering set of new content, including fantastic new UI art pieces, 3D art assets, new and unique campaign features, and a host of balancing changes!
This milestone has been long-awaited and certainly a marathon effort for the Age of Bronze team. We are beyond thrilled to finally be bringing you this update, and though our campaign ambitions are far from ended, it is a massive relief to finally have this milestone met. We are incredibly proud of what we have made here, and everything you see in Age of Bronze today is the culmination of years of work from an outstandingly passionate team. We hope you enjoy this as much as we have enjoyed bringing it to you.
Installation: Extract both files to your Rome II data folder, and enable the file Age of Bronze.pack in the mod manager when launching the game. We strongly recommend that all other mods are disabled.
Patch Versions
29-08-2023 | 2.0.1:
- Fix a number of issues that were causing crashes
- Fix missing building visuals on the campaign map
- Fix a number of missing and incorrect text strings
- Fix some cases of unit cards being missing
- Fixes to some building and faction effects that were incorrect
- Fix a number of small miscellaneous visual bugs
- Campaign introduction prompt should now correctly show when a new campaign is started.
27-08-2023 | 2.0a (Hotfix)
- Fix crashes caused by a missing data file.
FINALLY! Praise the gods for this masterpiece!
Thanks for making this!
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My experience after playing 2.0a for a few hours:
Bad:
- (!!!) Crashes are still common, even with hotfix.
- (!!) Generals and Agents don't gain any experience. Whole system is disabled or broken it seems.
- (!!) Diplomacy doesn't exist; almost every faction that you will encounter will declare war on you, even if you have good relations with them or non aggression pacts. So it's impossible to play the mod in a peaceful (for a Total War game) way. It feels like Attila TW WRE on Legendary. Let me expand those mines and farms a bit! ;)
- (!) Army stances like Forced March and Raiding are partially broken. Forced March is too weak and has wrong name.
- (!) Optimization is off during battles and the game suffers from high vRAM usage even on lower settings.
- Lot's of missing text and empty descriptions.
- Balance is a bit off; some buildings are useless, but others are too strong, Chariots are OP, you can steamroll almost anything with them, Egyptian Archers are OP too. Most regular infantry units sucks.
- Music during battles is too loud. You have to decrease it to 50% to have vanilla Rome 2 sound experience.
- Settlement maps are off. For example, some African settlements are basically European Barbarian settlements from vanilla game.
- Tribesmen have wrong animations.
- Sanitation covers only the city, not the whole region, so you need to spam it in every settlement, which is weird and unbalanced.
- Only 2 factions are playable (Egyptian Empire and Hittite Empire) but even these 2 are not fleshed out.
Good:
- Most models, textures and units are well made. Good job. Who knows, maybe these models will even beat TW: Pharaoh models?
- Unit cards are also well made. You can feel Bronze Age like atmosphere. They truly feel like they were created by a professional studio for a commercial game. UI reskin is also good.
- Map is well made.
TLDR:. Currently the mod is very good for custom battles, but the campaign needs a lot of work.
Thank you guys for all the work you have done for this mod.
And let's remember that it's a free mod made by passionate modders in their free time.
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Good mod.
Ah yes I like that instead of paying full price for Pharaoah i can just download a mod like this for free. Good job team.