AoP CT: Historical Immersion Mod v5.0 Standalone file

Age of Pirates: Caribbean Tales

Historical Immersion Supermod

Version: v5.0 Release

Overall Mod Content:

Ships:

- 13 New Ships Added:

• Light Sloop - fast modestly armed military vessel. (one mast)
• Sloop Of War - fast heavily armed military ship. (two mast)
• Xebec - fast heavily armed military ship. (three mast lateen rig)
• Barquentine - Lighter Barque with good cargo capacity. (three mast square rig)
• Grand Caravel - Outdated Trader Ship, but good mileage and durability. (three mast square)
• Light Frigate - Fast and modestly armed frigate. Old Model Replaced with HMS Mordaunt - 1681 from de Zeerovers Group (three mast square/lateen rig)
• Heavy Frigate - Decently fast and heavily armed frigate. (three mast square/lateen rig)
• Replaced the stock Lineship with a new model. (three mast square/lateen rig)
• Replaced the Stock Battleship with HMS Resolution -1667 from de Zeerovers Group (v5.0)
• Replaced the schooner with a more accurate version than the Colonial Schooner from GOF Eras (v5.0)
• Added the 2nd Rate Ship of the Line "Trinity" to the game as an intermediate step between the battleship and the manowar.
• Replaced the Stock frigate with HMS Oxford - 1674 from de Zeerovers Group.
• Replaced the stock brig with a better version, also added the brigantine and Bermuda sloop
• Replaced the stock Manowar with the HMS Prince -1670 from de Zeerovers Group

- Ships statistics have been rebalanced to accommodate the new ships.

- All ships now have historically accurate cannons.

- Ship descriptions and ship type names are indicative to British rating/type naming system used in 16-17th centuries.

- Added COAS Dutchman (flyingdutchman1(GOF ERAS))

- Edited stats for COAS Dutchman - Same HP as a manowar with 92pdr mortars maximum calibre.

- A New ship naming system will allow for ships to have names more historically accurate to the period. Also changed the text system to allow country specific accented letters to be shown in both text types.

Music/Sounds:

• Made five new different sound schemes based on the old version of mod (Original, Mod Content, Epic Music, Classical Music, No Music). NOTE: Mod Content will be the default scheme. A "Music Options Key" text document will tell you which scheme equals which labeled button (trust me you'll need it).
• Added unique sounds and definitions for cannon fire for each calibre. (as of version 5.0 added better intermediate and ending cannon sounds for larger calibres)
• Re-mastered "cannon reload" (Left, Right, All) and "reload cannon with ___ shot" sounds for historical accuracy. Courtesy of Age of Sail II: Privateer's Bounty... now an alternate scheme. COAS reload sounds are now used.
• Recorded new sounds for pistol, musket and blunderbuss
• Added new sounds for the naval battle
• Added new music for each town theme. Adjusted the sound schemes accordingly.
• Added new sounds for the 12 pdr cannons as they weren’t powerful enough.
• Cleaned up the 8pdr sounds so they are louder.

Videos:

• Logo Videos Return (1C Logo, Playlogic Logo, Akella Logo given sound)
• Added new intro videos (PiratesAhoy.net Logo and Mod Intro)
• Videos Re-mastered into 1080p HD
• Changed order of videos in Seadogs.c to accommodate 5 videos (1C, Playlogic, Akella, Pirates Ahoy, Mod Intro)

Abilities:

• Waste Gold at Brothel - Visual content removed.
• Use the bank and take on debt.
• New redeem codes (you will know what they are when you loot the body of a certain pirate at Isla Mona)

Engine Enhancements:

• Updated game engine to STORM ENGINE 2.8. This fixed a lot of issues with the older storm engine and allows for interface scaling and support for higher resolutions.

Game/Bug Fixes:

• Some English Showing in Russian and French.
• All Patches up to 1.5 added to the supermod.
• Fixed the alpha maps of some ships textures that were incompatible with the new engine.
• Fixed the Dutchman quest dialog to open the dialog to Beatrice as well
• Fixed voice files in sound alias file.
• Fixed ship pictures for new ships.
• Got sailorspoints and walk files for all ships
• fixed some appearance issues for some of the new quest items
• revamped the music aliases for better compatibility with the engine and the new music files
• Fixed the problem where shipyard music doesn't play and the sound engine doesn't distinguish between day and night sailing. (spokplavine stands for day and enplavine stands for night now)
• Fixed the issue where ship pictures were deformed due to interface scaling issues.
• Fixed the Dutchman quest which fixed the exploit glitch.
• Fixed the common.ini not displaying apostrophizes (now in UTF-8 format).
• Fixed English Showing in Russian for Governor Ask For Help Messages
• Fixed the incorrect common.ini defs for the special_cannons (32,36,42,48pdr). They are now known by the Historical type "Demi-Cannon".
• Further streamlined the music alias files for better usage in game.
• Changed the sound_alias files for the new flintlock sounds. All modification type aliases will use the mod's flintlock sounds and other new general sounds, while the 'original' alias scheme will use the original schemes and sound files before the mod is installed (excluding the new cannon sounds which will be included regardless of the version).
• Sound and program files overhauled again. This change has fixed the following bugs:

1. Music Stacking issue
2. Random crashes during game videos
3. locations_loader.c Stack Error (directsail is not supported by CT and thus was causing problems)

• Fixed the incorrect cannon calibers being sold as default on ships that are supposed to carry higher caliber cannons than 24 when bought.
• Fixed the brothel and brothel_room loading screens on Barbados, Antigua, Curcao, La Vega, Monsterrat, Nevis, Petit Goave, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, St. Eustatius and St. Kitts.
• Fixed a particle Issue when fires and other related particle effects were incorrectly being displayed at random.
• Main menu scales with resolution now. This will allow players to look at one resolution throughout the game.
• Fixed an issue with STORM ENGINE 2.8 not playing 3d sounds related to sail setting/furling, turning and floating in seawater sounds.
• Fixed an Issue with animations not playing correctly for main characters
• Fixed an issue with the store and crew hiring screens not working correctly. Now they work correctly.
• Fixed an issue with the manowar's jib sails.
• Fixed an Issue with the incorrect dialog showing for the characters interaction with their nation's home colony soldiers when the nation was at war.
• Fixed one of the new town themes as it wasn't representative of the respective nation.
• Fixed a Storyline Error where the grotto can be seen, but the player not able to make landfall.
• Also fixed the cannon calibers on Bloody Michelle and Le Mona to have their minimum calibre on spawn as originally the calibre was random.
• Created and added the missing sailorspoints for the new Light Frigate and Frigate vessels (not included in the original de Zeerover's archive).

Gameplay Improvements/balancing:

• Made unique Swords (Astralaid) and Guns (Duelist's Dream) do better damage.
• Increased damage for musket/musketoon
• Increased charges for Duelist's Dream (Now 4)
• Now made minimum ranks for spyglasses.
• Made Blunderbuss more common to receive and is no longer unique. Increased damage.
• Revamped Dialog Files
• Added historically accurate flags.
• Edited starting ship for Beatrice and Blaze Sharp - Both get a Sloop.
• Edited starting money - they both get 40,000 gold.
• Added Dutchman encounter quest
• Rebalanced the ships for historical accuracy and improves game-play against ships that load bombs
• Rewrote item descriptions making them better
• Added logbook entries for the Dutchman quest
• Rewrote ship descriptions and ship names.
• Fixed the Dutch Flag (no longer has the WIC markings)
• Added worldmap port flags corresponding to new ship flags
• Added nation flags in relations menu and when creating a new character synonymous with the new ship flags
• A New ship naming system will allow for ships to have names more historically accurate to the period. Also changed the text system to allow country specific accented letters to be shown in both text types.
• Added small flags for the battleinterface synonymous with the new ship flags
• Revamped the damage values of all swords and guns in the game (now more balanced by level)
• Revamped the cost of ships in the game (some ships were more expensive for their class than others so they were changed accordingly)
• All dialog files corrected from showing piastres or piasters. Gold is the currency across all dialogs....
• Reworked the Item names and descriptions for "Blackbeard's Sword" and "Black Blunder". Now renamed "Morgan's Blade" (as in Henry Morgan) and Blunderbuss. Changed the descriptions accordingly for these names for period accuracy reasons.
• Fixed inaccuracies in the Frigate, Light Frigate, Royal Frigate and Royal Lineship models as they were out of period (18th century or fake). New ships are:

1. Light Frigate = HMS Mordaunt - 1681 -46 guns (courtesy of de Zeerover's Group)
2. Frigate = HMS Oxford - 1674 - 58 guns (courtesy of de Zeerover's Group)
3. Royal Frigate = HMS Resolution - 1667 - 70 guns (courtesy of de Zeerover's Group)
4. Royal Lineship = HMS Prince/Royal Prince - 1670 - 102 guns (courtesy of de Zeerover's Group)

• Discovered some of the ship HP values at low tiers was not correct. They are now corrected and edited to a better progression among the tiers.

Acknowledgements:

• Danny2007 for patch combination and language bug fixes.
• CyberOps for Abilities column.
• TheBlackKnight for AOP Compatible historical flags.
• ChezJefrey for the STORM Engine 2.8 Upgrade
• Modder01 for new videos, new music, new sounds, new ships, historical accuracy, ship balancing and code fixes.
• Hotshot and Chezjefrey for Bug Fixing

NOTE: Add credit, when applicable, to any person who adds to this mod.

INSTALLATION:

This game is now a standalone version of the original game. Since it is no longer bound to a Windows registry, it is now portable... This allows you to take this game on the go without much modification to core windows files. This game requires at least 16GB of flash storage to fit on a standard removable disk.

Although the game is standalone and portable, there are a few configuration steps to get the game working on the machine you are playing on:

1. If you have a Windows Windows Vista/7 or Later Operating System:
2. Right Click "START.exe", select properties and navigate to the compatibility tab.
3. Click the "Run as Administrator" check box
4. Check "Enable Compatibility Mode" check box and in the dropdown below that check box set the Operating System to Windows XP (Service Pack 3)
5. If you are still running Windows XP.. Just remember to enable running the program as an administrator.
6. In start.ini there is a setting called useMM. This is for audiophiles and others who have better audio hardware. For your convenience, this setting has been turned off by the binary value of 0 being used. If you want to turn this setting on, replace that value with 1 and save the ini...
7. Check to see if you have Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2012 on your machine. If not, a installer directly off of Microsoft's website is provided in the main game directory for your convenience. Filename: "vcredist_x86.exe"
8. Make sure Direct X 9 and related End-User Runtimes (June 2010) is installed on your machine. If not, an installer is provided in the main game directory for your convenience. Filename: "directx_Jun2010_redist.exe"

The Following is the Remainder of ChezJfrey's instructions for users of Malestrom:

Place the Maelstrom directory with these three subfolders contained, somewhere on your hard drive and make a shortcut to the START.exe in the Maelstrom folders (DX8/DX9 and/or 32 bit/64 bit) for each mod you intend to play (e.g. ERAS, City of Abandoned Ships, GOF 1.2, etc.), but Target: is the <path>\START.exe in the Maelstrom location. Change the properties of the shortcut to 'Start in:' <path to mod> it is supposed to play. Also, the config.exe changes/manipulates the start.ini for each mod, so don't run the one in the Maelstrom directories, but copy the whole config.exe executable to each mod you have, which should contain the appropriate start.ini and run it from that mod directory to change any config properties it provides for change for that particular mod you intend to play/change.

You can also copy START.exe, config.exe, modules folder, Buccaneer's Reef file and fmod.dll/fmod64.dll to each of the mod folders if you wish, but the above method reduces consumed file space on your drive, allows the itch client to automatically update, simplifying updates and such.

Further Configuration (Disable or replace the intro videos):

The Starting Videos are as follows:

1CLogo.wmv

PlaylogicLogo.wmv

AkellaLogo.wmv

PiratesLogo.wmv

Intro.wmv

These videos will play when you start the game.

If you want to overwrite them you must create new videos using the same video standard and overwrite the existing files contained in this directory.

Make sure they are 1080p stretched to fit the screen in order to be consistent.

If you want to disable the Intro videos entirely:

1. Go to Program folder from the main game directory
2. Go to the seadogs.c file.
3. Using Notepad ++ (a free GNU Open Source coding program) find lines 266-269.
4. Eliminate the /* and */ to make this code active.

To re-enable the videos:

Restore the /* and */ to lines 266-269 in the seadogs.c file

Note:

If you look through the game files hard enough you might find an Easter Egg in the files.

Changelogs:

Changelog v3.5:

- Fixed storyline error with Bloody Michelle and escort ship. Escort now renamed "Le Mona".

- Added Historical Flags
-English: Red naval ensign with St. George's cross
-French: Blue and white fleur-de-lis royal ensign
-Spanish: Burgundy cross
-Dutch: Horizontal tricolor with West India Company markings
-Smugglers: Stock AoP flag
-Pirates: Worn skull and cross swords flag

- Changed ship descriptions and ship type names. Now closest to British rating/type naming system used in 16-17th centuries.

- Added more church music, desert island music and town themes.

- Made unique Swords (Astralaid) and Guns (Duelist's Dream) do better damage.

- Increased damage for musket/musketoon

- Increased charges for Duelist's Dream (Now 4)

- Now made minimum ranks for spyglasses.

- Made Blunderbuss more common to receive and is no longer unique. Increased damaged also.

- Made/Re-mastered unique sounds for every cannon type.

- Made more historical references to unique swords and guns in the game.

- Re-mastered historical accuracy on ships.

- Remastered cannon sounds and reload (unique for every cannon and two schemes for reload)

- Drunkard quest in Bridgetown tavern premastered (20,000 gold or experience = win or time to take a walk = lose)

-Greetings from townsfolk are simpler and more understandable

Changelog v4.0:

- Added COAS Dutchman (flyingdutchman1(GOF ERAS))

- Edited stats for COAS Dutchman - Same HP as a manowar with 92pdr mortars.

- Edited starting ship for Beatrice and Blaze Sharp - Both get a Sloop.

- Edited starting money - they both get 40,000 gold.

- Made 7z file a self extracting archive.

- Replaced schooner (ColonialSchooner(GOF ERAS))

- got sailorspoints for all ships

- revamped dialog

-revamped voice files

- added EasterEgg in files (bonus videos)

- added better 8 and 12 pounder gun sounds

- added Dutchman encounter quest

- Fixed some English showing in Russian and French

- Replaced "all music" scheme with a custom music scheme from COAS (classical music mod)

Changelog 5.0:

- Rebalanced ships for historical accuracy and longer battles with ships that load bombs

- Updated the game engine to storm engine 2.8

- Fixed the battle interface showing of random ship pictures for the mod ships.

- Fixed the alpha maps of some ship textures due to it being incompatible with storm engine 2.8

- Added new music

- Added new cannon sounds

- Added new pistol/musket/blunderbuss sounds

- Revamped the sound system and fixed the alias files

- Updated the videos to 1080p HD

- Fixed the ship picture battle interface scaling issue that was present in the storm engine 2.8

- Rewrote the item descriptions for improvements in clarity

- Fixed the improper display of the mod items

- Revamped the Dutchman quest.

-Added logbook entries for the Dutchman quest

- Added 3 new ships (schooner_l (for schooner replacement), Trinity and Bellona (for battleship replacement)) while removing the redundant Royal Navy Brig

- Fixed the walk file folder.

- Fixed the Dutch Flag (no longer has the WIC markings)

- Added worldmap port flags corresponding to new ship flags

- Added nation flags in relations menu and when creating a new character synonymous with the new ship flags

- Added small flags for the battleinterface synonymous with the new ship flags

-Replaced the stock brig with a better version, also added the brigantine and Bermuda sloop

-Replaced the stock Manowar with the HMS Victory from POTC/COAS (RN_First Rate/Victory)

-A New ship naming system will allow for ships to have names more historically accurate to the period. Also changed the text system to allow country specific accented letters to be shown in both text types.

-Fixed the French Flag (all three types) to reflect the historical flag used in the 17th century (white flag for mast pennant, white with fleur de lis for everything else.)

- Main menu scales with resolution now (it was a bit of code that fixed that - thanks to ChezJefrey). This will allow players to look at one resolution throughout the game.

- Fixed an issue with STORM ENGINE 2.8 (ChezJefrey credited) not playing 3d sounds related to sail setting/furling, turning and floating in seawater sounds.

- Fixed an Issue with animations not playing correctly for main characters (ChezJefrey Credited)

-Fixed an issue with the store and crew hiring screens not working correctly. Now they work correctly.

-Fixed an issue with the manowar's jib sails.

-Revamped the damage values of all swords and guns in the game (now more balanced by level)

-Revamped the cost of ships in the game (some ships were more expensive for their class than others so they were changed accordingly)

- All dialog files corrected from showing piastres or piasters. Gold is the currency across all dialogs....
-Fixed the issue that the schooner had 1 less cannon on both starboard and port sides due to incorrect ships_init defs.

-Added new music for each town theme. Adjusted the sound schemes accordingly.
-Fixed the common.ini not displaying apostrophizes (now in UTF-8 format).

-Fixed English Showing in Russian for Governor Ask For Help Messages

-Fixed the incorrect common.ini defs for the special_cannons (32,36,42,48pdr). They are now known by the Historical type "Demi-Cannon".

-Further streamlined the music alias files for better usage in game.

-Changed the sound_alias files for the new flintlock sounds. All modification type aliases will use the mod's flintlock sounds and other new general sounds, while the 'original' alias scheme will use the original schemes and sound files before the mod is installed (excluding the new cannon sounds which will be included regardless of the version).

-Added new sounds for the 12 pdr cannons as they weren’t powerful enough.

-Added new sounds for the naval battle.

-Cleaned up the 8pdr sounds so they are louder.

-Sound and program files overhauled again (Chezjefrey). This change has fixed the following bugs:

1. Music Stacking issue
2. Random crashes during game videos
3. locations_loader.c Stack Error (directsail is not supported by CT and thus was causing problems)

- Fixed the incorrect cannon calibers being sold as default on ships that are supposed to carry higher caliber cannons than 24 when bought.

-Fixed the brothel and brothel_room loading screens on Barbados, Antigua, Curcao, La Vega, Monsterrat, Nevis, Petit Goave, Puerto Rico, Santo Domingo, St. Eustatius and St. Kitts.

-Fixed a particle Issue (chezjefrey) when fires and other related particle effects were incorrectly being displayed.

-Fixed an Issue with the incorrect dialog showing for the characters interaction with their nation's home colony soldiers when the nation was at war.

- Fixed one of the new town themes as it wasn't representative of the respective nation.

- Fixed a Storyline Error where the grotto can be seen, but the player not able to make landfall. Also fixed the cannon calibers on Bloody Michelle and Le Mona to have their minimum calibre on spawn as originally the calibre was random.

-Incorporated Chezjfrey's update to the FMOD sound system.

-Incorporated Chezjfrey's update to the engine, thereby attempting to fix the random bug where the background of the dialog interface is displaying incorrectly.

-Incorporated Chezjfrey's update to the engine that allows for task switching without CTD or other adverse effects.

-Implemented Chezjfrey’s update to the sound system which fixed crackling in the sound system.

- The previous change also fixed undefined and missing sound files along with fixing the undefined music scheme for jungle.

-Fixed an issue where the energy of jungle bandits was nonexistent.

-Incorporated Chezjfrey’s update to the engine fixing the brothel and ship to ship dialogue problems. This update also fixes the following problems and adds the following features:

1. Changed speak feature to match GOF. Presumably, that one is vetted and works better. The calcs and speak options remain Caribbean Tales.
2. Changed the erroneous 'vagabond' encounter models to match the random selections for bandit encounters. I looked in original CT, and turns out every single model listed in the original for both vagabonds and bandits was also non-existent in the model/characters directory.
3. Copied citiz_12.gm to citiz_14.gm to give that character defined for Martinique, so you don't get that missing model error.
4. Officers will no longer shoot you in the back during a fight (their friendly fire is eliminated) In old CT, if you are closer than the enemy, it was not an accident, they would actually target you due to proximity
5. Flag motion will actually change with the strength of the wind.

-Reworked the Item names and descriptions for "Blackbeard's Sword" and "Black Blunder". Now renamed "Morgan's Blade" (as in Henry Morgan) and Blunderbuss. Changed the descriptions accordingly for these names for period accuracy reasons.

-Fixed inaccuracies in the Frigate, Light Frigate, Royal Frigate and Royal Lineship models as they were out of period (18th century or fake). New ships are:

1. Light Frigate = HMS Mordaunt - 1681 -46 guns (courtesy of de Zeerover's Group)
2. Frigate = HMS Oxford - 1674 - 58 guns (courtesy of de Zeerover's Group)
3. Royal Frigate = HMS Resolution - 1667 - 70 guns (courtesy of de Zeerover's Group)
4. Royal Lineship = HMS Prince/Royal Prince - 1670 - 102 guns (courtesy of de Zeerover's Group)

- Created and added the missing sailorspoints for the new Light Frigate and Frigate vessels (not included in the original de Zeerover's archive).

- Discovered some of the ship HP values at low tiers was not correct. They are now corrected and edited to a better progression among the tiers.

-Fixed the new Manowar’s armament to 100 cannons.

-Reworked the tonnage of all the ships in the game (also tested a crew revamp, but found it ineffective)

-Reworked the Capacity of the ship holds. Now progression is smoother.

- Fixed the waterlines of all ships to make sure the gun-ports aren’t exposed to the sea when turning at battle sails setting.

-Enhanced the Flying Dutchman to POTC specs in an attempt to make it easier to sail against the wind.

- Switched the Warship and Battleship (Original AOP defs for the “Royal Frigate” and “Lineship” respectively in game) descriptions and names from common.ini to fit the progression.

- Switched the models, textures, pictures and init defs of the Frigate and Heavy Frigate to make a smoother progression between the ships. Originally a 58 gun Frigate with a 32pdr max caliber lead to a 56 gun Frigate with a 36 pdr max caliber.

- Fixed missing or mismatched cannon defs across all the ships resultant of replacing said ships.

-Although switching the Barque (12cannons – 16 pdr max) with the Barquentine (16 cannons – 12 pdr max) would make partial sense, the Barque is an evolution of the Barquentine so in this way (and because it is a trade ship) it makes sense.

-Fixed the sailorspoints files for The Xebec, Cutter, Schooner and Bermuda Sloop.

-Replaced the Tartanes, Barque and War Galleon Models with their GOF 2 Counterparts to correct bow wave problems, missing cannons and problems with integrating new sailorspoints file for the tartanes.

-Fixed More Sailorspoints for the War Galleon, Barque and Tartanes.

-Added More Town, Sailing and World Map Themes.

-Added the New Credits Roll with Mod Development Credits at the End.