Unoficial Patch

[DeVeteran]

Soo, did they fix the spelling errors in the English edition that the Unofficial patch does?

As well as... can we run the HE edition WITH the Unofficial Patch? Won't be buying it otherwise, seeing that they f-ed up the DirectX version and some other things...

...leave it to Ubisoft to make a "remaster" edition of something... without many bugs at launch.

[James_the_1st]

I don't know if the patch got used. I saw somewhere that the guy who did the unofficial patch said that Ubisoft or Bluebyte never contacted him about it for the Historical Edition despite contacting him in the past about it apparently. He posted a comment on the 1404 blog post saying they are free to use all his work if they like.

[James_the_1st]

Now the bad news, you can't install the Unofficial patch over the new version. The removed the patch rda file that the unofficial patch used. Now this doesn't mean that the unofficial patch is incompatible, but it cannot be installed in the same way. It looks like one would need to go and recompile the patch files in the main rda files.

[DeVeteran]

Originally posted by James_the_1st:

Now the bad news, you can't install the Unofficial patch over the new version. The removed the patch rda file that the unofficial patch used. Now this doesn't mean that the unofficial patch is incompatible, but it cannot be installed in the same way. It looks like one would need to go and recompile the patch files in the main rda files.

Lovely... let it to Ubi to make a "great" remaster :( could you please give me a link to that 1404 blog post? Or where you saw that, anno union or what forum? :) such a shame, hopefully some people on nexusmods will create something.

[Doctor Hades]

Just shows how little effort the developers put into the History Edition if the spelling and grammar fixes were offered for free but they didn’t bother correcting anything. Utterly lazy in my opinion. The guy who made the unofficial patch had even done all the damn work for them!!!

[Valkyria]

The patch had a lot of issues with it that caused game crashes, using it wouldn't of been wise.

[Doctor Hades]

Originally posted by Valkyria:

The patch had a lot of issues with it that caused game crashes, using it wouldn't of been wise.

Not saying they should have used the patch, but the patch comes with extensively detailed notes on pretty much everything that was changed so they could have used that in conjunction with a patched version of the original to fix the grammar and spelling in the History Edition. Even some of them would have been an improvement.

I thought some other remasters were lazy but many of those were at least free upgrades. This is not even a remaster but for the amount Ubisoft are charging for such an old game, they really could have put more effort into it. Graphically it's fine - still looks great now even with the non-functional Transparency setting - but the original game had other issues that they have not bothered to fix or improve on such as the translation.

Adding 64-bit support and scaling the U.I. for higher resolutions is all this new version offers and that could easily have been offered as a patch for existing owners. I would wager that the people most interested in this game are those that played the original so more could and should have been done to make the double-dip more attractive at the price they are charging for it.

[DeVeteran]

Originally posted by Valkyria:

The patch had a lot of issues with it that caused game crashes, using it wouldn't of been wise.

The UN patch had some things that made gameplay much easier, such as replenish all norias, and many others. Those could have been taken out, mostly those were ones that made crashes, IF they did that (in my tens of hours of gameplay with the patch, only had crashes due to memory leaks).

I don't think that copying the text that was fixed from the UN patch would have made the remaster unstable. Or putting some aditional tooltip text showing the chains of production.

What I'm miffed about is that they made this harder to mod. Screw their greediness for money and they unwillingness to make a great game for gamers.

[Valkyria]

Originally posted by Doctor Hades:

Originally posted by Valkyria:

The patch had a lot of issues with it that caused game crashes, using it wouldn't of been wise.

Not saying they should have used the patch, but the patch comes with extensively detailed notes on pretty much everything that was changed so they could have used that in conjunction with a patched version of the original to fix the grammar and spelling in the History Edition. Even some of them would have been an improvement.

I thought some other remasters were lazy but many of those were at least free upgrades. This is not even a remaster but for the amount Ubisoft are charging for such an old game, they really could have put more effort into it. Graphically it's fine - still looks great now even with the non-functional Transparency setting - but the original game had other issues that they have not bothered to fix or improve on such as the translation.

Adding 64-bit support and scaling the U.I. for higher resolutions is all this new version offers and that could easily have been offered as a patch for existing owners. I would wager that the people most interested in this game are those that played the original so more could and should have been done to make the double-dip more attractive at the price they are charging for it.

The Team at Ubi said updates will be coming for 1404 as early as today. So fear not!

[commanderryalis]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one wondering about this, I would be fine not needing the patch as long as Ubisoft would fix the game themselves.