My mod.

[Armored Baron]

Hello good people of the forums and fellow fans of the series who still visit this game's forums on here, I have returned and have made good on my promise to make a mod for this game, and finally after a few months (it only took me a month to make it) and some playtesting today I deemed it worthy to post it here.

So here is the download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hd3y120tm649rav/mods.gs1?dl=0

You just simply have to put it in your game directory, and that's it.

Here are some screenshots I took today: http://imgur.com/a/JVVbd

Everything should be working properly for you as it's working properly for me.

The mod features: Cossacks' pallisade walls, a missing passive defense I thought was needed in order to combat the Native American AI.

Indian Trade post now is also available for all European nations.

Experimental Guard Tower only for England taken from Hawk's European Warfare, so credits to them for the assets.

Issues: Sadly like with anything else, the mod has issues. One of which is a missing icon for the transformation of the gate, at the current moment it's just a black box, as well as the Open/Close ability for the said Gate when it's built, I cannot change these for now because I can't access the .gp file containing the icons which the game uses.

Strangely enough the AI didn't attack me due to some unknown reason so it might be because it can't outflank my forces or my town anymore, or the walls are just messing with it, I am not really sure.

The Guard tower is only limited to England, but since it's role is sort of the same like the Level 2 Blockhouse I didn't make it available to anyone else as I said, it's just an experiement, I might remove or leave it in the future.

A friend of mine who also playtested the mod for me reported that once he tried to delete the wall he crashed, but after I tried it today nothing happened so I am not sure of what's causing that as well.

The AI cannot attack the walls, and I have no idea or time on how to modify it.

The walls, trade post and Guard Tower are not touched by any upgrades, meaning you will always build them at the same speed and they will always have the same Armor/Defense and Hitpoints, listing custom structures to upgrades in order to improve them has turned out to be quite time consuming and confusing for me however, I might change them in a future update.


Future plans: For now this is only a Prototype or as I like it call it "Phase 1", Phase 2 will contain a few more changes such as buildings providing bigger population caps as well as European Nations being able to produce 17 Century muskets from the Lvl 1 Blockhouse and 18th Century muskets from the Lvl 2 Blockhouse, improved music and so forth, and Phase 3 is going to be polish like different and more music, improvement on sounds and so forth.

I highly suggest you guys also use the musket sounds and music from my sound pack assembled from HEW and HDN here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzLFE2mZAMHrfm14cjlqWWxNNFY4UllRRTZQb3V2V2JES1RxdlRZQktlb3VONk51ZFpqOU0

Since the default sounds are like a horse dying or something, it's harsh on the ears at least to me.

This is all for now, I am unsure that I will continue to work on the mod but this is what I had planned for it, my main problem is limited knowledge on the engine and how to fix bugs and limited time, but if anyone wants to try his hand or wants to modify my work, go right ahead. However I do respectfully request that you provide proper credits if you are going to post it anywhere, that is all.

Cheers and have a nice day!

[Baron of Castefa]

Hello Soldier, Your Mod is looking good! Great to see people still play this game!

I'm having an issue with GSC File Utility. I can't launch it because it says that COMDLG32.OCX is not correctly registered.Do you know how to resolve this issue?

[Armored Baron]

Originally posted by topping_castefa:

Hello Soldier, Your Mod is looking good! Great to see people still play this game!

I'm having an issue with GSC File Utility. I can't launch it because it says that COMDLG32.OCX is not correctly registered.Do you know how to resolve this issue?

Yes, I encountered it as well. It seems like the tools were meant to work with Windows XP, so Windows 7 and Windows 10 users need to manually download and install the said file(s).

Google for the file(s) and put them in your program's directory as well as your Windows' directory.

So for example if you're on the 32 bit version of your Windows, put it in System32, if you're on the 64 bit one put it in a folder called WOW64 or something like that, it's basically the 64 version of the system32 folder, google it if you don't get it.

[Baron of Castefa]

Thank You!

[TΩKSYK]

Hello people, does AC: Fight Back need AI patch/mod as the original AC?

[Armored Baron]

Originally posted by Artaxeus:

Hello people, does AC: Fight Back need AI patch/mod as the original AC?

No? And anyways why do you ask here instead of making a topic about? Doesn't make sense.

[TΩKSYK]

Originally posted by 82DK A. Soldier:

Originally posted by Artaxeus:

Hello people, does AC: Fight Back need AI patch/mod as the original AC?

No? And anyways why do you ask here instead of making a topic about? Doesn't make sense.

I asked here because you are a modder and may know better, anyway, the AI does not use formation in skirmish and that's why I asked.

[Armored Baron]

Originally posted by Artaxeus:

Originally posted by 82DK A. Soldier:

No? And anyways why do you ask here instead of making a topic about? Doesn't make sense.

I asked here because you are a modder and may know better, anyway, the AI does not use formation in skirmish and that's why I asked.

Wait, do the Native Americans even have formations? And I only made 1 small mod which I can't even fix, I'm hardly an in-depth modder.

[TΩKSYK]

Originally posted by 82DK A. Soldier:

Originally posted by Artaxeus:

I asked here because you are a modder and may know better, anyway, the AI does not use formation in skirmish and that's why I asked.

Wait, do the Native Americans even have formations? And I only made 1 small mod which I can't even fix, I'm hardly an in-depth modder.

No, I was referring to European factions.

[Armored Baron]

Originally posted by Artaxeus:

Originally posted by 82DK A. Soldier:

Wait, do the Native Americans even have formations? And I only made 1 small mod which I can't even fix, I'm hardly an in-depth modder.

No, I was referring to European factions.

I suggest you try the Native Americans, they're more fun and challenging. Even with formations the AI in Cossacks is subpar.

[TΩKSYK]

Originally posted by 82DK A. Soldier:

Originally posted by Artaxeus:

No, I was referring to European factions.

I suggest you try the Native Americans, they're more fun and challenging. Even with formations the AI in Cossacks is subpar.

Not in Cossacks 2 though, formations are crucial in Cossacks 2.

[Armored Baron]

Originally posted by Artaxeus:

Originally posted by 82DK A. Soldier:

I suggest you try the Native Americans, they're more fun and challenging. Even with formations the AI in Cossacks is subpar.

Not in Cossacks 2 though, formations are crucial in Cossacks 2.

As far I know you can't make units without formations in C2. They come out in formations already.

[TΩKSYK]

Originally posted by 82DK A. Soldier:

Originally posted by Artaxeus:

Not in Cossacks 2 though, formations are crucial in Cossacks 2.

As far I know you can't make units without formations in C2. They come out in formations already.

Units in Cossacks 2 comes out without formations, C2 is one of my favorite games, really great and unique rts game, sadly it doesn't work on modern OS without issues.

[Armored Baron]

Originally posted by Artaxeus:

Originally posted by 82DK A. Soldier:

As far I know you can't make units without formations in C2. They come out in formations already.

Units in Cossacks 2 comes out without formations, C2 is one of my favorite games, really great and unique rts game, sadly it doesn't work on modern OS without issues.

Same with most old games sadly.

[Armored Baron]

The mod is also available here: http://www.americanconquest.info/mod.html
under the title "Pallisade Walls and Trade Post", someone was nice enough to upload it there without my permission or at least crediting me.

[Batman]

Too bad you don't have time anymore. The fishing boats from the other versions would be nice. And an option to make forts so that peasants inside can repair them.