I am glad to announce the release of the King's Return enhanced Beta version 1.01
The King's Return is a free fan-based mod for AOE III. It introduces 4 new Civilizations (Persians, Timurid Mongols, Kongo Kingdom and Oyo Kingdom). Additionally, the mod introduces many new game concepts like Religion System and Slavery. For more information about the mod you may visit the Official website or visit the mod pages on Facebook, YouTube, ModDB , Twitter.
This a Beta Version 1.01 of the King's Return.
I am glad to announce the release of the King's Return enhanced Beta version 1.01. It is available to download from the link here.
What's there?
The Beta is greatly polished & enhanced. Many bugs and issues have been fixed. The King's Return now plays a standalone new expansion as you can easily switch to original game. However, there is a small problem that you will need to do in order to go back to the original (see the readme file included).
For any modder who had experienced and solved this technical problem please let me know. It is namely the protounitcommands.xml , abilitis.xml and powers messing up things when included in the DataPY bar archive though if put as xml files under data folder they work perfectly.
how do you create bar archive file(eg: DataPK.bar)? Could you tell me, pls?
yes, I also would like to know.
How to Install the King's Return?
The mod must be installed on a fresh installed AOE 3 game (for those who have installed Beta 1.0 you must uninstall and reinstall the whole AOE III before you can install Beta 1.01).
a. Requirements:
CD Version: before you install the mod you must be sure that you have both expansions installed (The Warchiefs and The Asian Dynasties) and all the whole game is game is updated to the latest official patches: Vanilla 1.14 , TWC 1.06 , TAD 1.03.
Steam Version: for steam you must have the Age of Empires III Complete Collection installed and the game is updated.
b. Installation:
Follow the Installer steps. Make sure to choose the folder where the game is installed on your PC:
• For CD version it is usually .../Program Files/Microsoft Games/Age of Empires III.
• For Steam version is usually under C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Age Of Empires 3\bin
* Switching to Playing the Regular Game
The King's Return mod is intended to be player-friendly by playing it as standalone mod/expansion for AOE III. However, since there is a small technical problem (namely the abilities-powers and protounitcommands messing-up things) there is a small trick to be done to be able to switch back and forth between playing the King's Return Mod and the AOE III Official Game.
How to do it?
Once you install the Mod it is fully playable as a standalone. To switch back to the regular game, there are 3 files that must be deleted as follows :
1. Go to the folder where AOE III is installed. Under this folder you will find a folder named Data.
2. In the Data folder you need to make a backup of protounitcommands.xml and a folder named abilities (with 2 files under it named abilities.xml and powers.xml) anywhere on your PC (Note: once you install the mod these files are already backed up for you under folder named _backupfiles in the original folder of AOE III installed game) .
3. After you made the backup, delete these 3 files from the game folder and you can play the Official AOE 3 as usual.
4. To play back the King's Return mod you must copy the files back to data folder.
Nice Cant wait to see more progress!
WOW!
Damn this came out of nowhere!
Following&good; luck with development!
Thanks a lot. Have fun with the mod.
Wow, great to see one of my favorite games getting some mod-love! Will definitely play and follow development!
Wonderfull mod you are making. I would really like to play it, but the program says that it cant start because "RockallDLL.dll is missing from your computer. try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.
I really dont understand what i should do now?
You probably installed in the wrong folder. Make sure to install the mod in the right folder where aoe3 is installed (also make sure your game is updated). For steam version, aoe3 folder is usually under C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Age Of Empires 3\bin OR C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Age Of Empires 3\bin
please i need your help and support to solve this issue , when i try to install Age Of Empire 3 on my PC ((operating system :windows 7)) i get this message " the procedure entry point GrannyPWNGT34332VertexType could not be located in the dynamic link library granny2.dll" , i get 3 errores before this errore message and this error is (( granny2.dll / deformerdll.dll / binkw32.dll )) i already solved those 3 errores andi installed thos DLL files and put it in ((C:\Windows\System32)) and now i get this error message when i try to install the game " the procedure entry point GrannyPWNGT34332VertexType could not be located in the dynamic link library granny2.dll" so please i need your support and help , your promp response and support is highly appreciated
I am really not sure about this error. Try to uninstall the whole game and reinstall it again.
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I can use the voices of oyo
and kongo
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