Are there any "golden" mods?

[illusions mr. anderson]

Like things that simply improve the game. A better AI or something like that.

Also feel free to suggest content mods as well if they balanced!

[Augustus]

Unofficial Crusader Patch.

Not necessarily a "mod" in the modern gaming context, but it can drastically improve the gaming experience. After years of playing RTS games, I found Skirmish extremely easy. UCP has all sorts of settings to change AI castle layouts, aggressiveness, AI unit composition, etc. The game can be quite a challenge now when the enemy can send well over a thousand troops at you.

If you do install, I recommend you use Crusader Extreme (For the much higher unit cap) and just delete all the Extreme maps and replace them with base game ones. There is a setting in the UCP Installer to disable the "magic" in Crusader Extreme, so in a sense it becomes the regular game but with a much higher global unit cap.

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https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7201410311
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This is a mod made with UCP tools. Basically, it maximizes the strength of AI without changing the game mechanism.

In order to reflect the character characteristics of each AI, the (original) game makes a great specialization and differentiation on the economy and fighting style of each AI. In fact, the optimal solution to maximize combat effectiveness is single, although the optimal solution of AI and the optimal solution of players are different (the APM of AI is just cheating, and AI does not spend stones when they repair walls).

[illusions mr. anderson]

So between this and crusader mod, which do you suggest?

[illusions mr. anderson]

Originally posted by Augustus:

Unofficial Crusader Patch.

Not necessarily a "mod" in the modern gaming context, but it can drastically improve the gaming experience. After years of playing RTS games, I found Skirmish extremely easy. UCP has all sorts of settings to change AI castle layouts, aggressiveness, AI unit composition, etc. The game can be quite a challenge now when the enemy can send well over a thousand troops at you.

If you do install, I recommend you use Crusader Extreme (For the much higher unit cap) and just delete all the Extreme maps and replace them with base game ones. There is a setting in the UCP Installer to disable the "magic" in Crusader Extreme, so in a sense it becomes the regular game but with a much higher global unit cap.

does this mod change how AI builds castle in skirmish also?

[GRhin]

Changing how the castle are built is chnaging aiv files, unofficial patch has options to do this for you with some preselected packs, or you can download packs from heaven games. If you dont want them, unofficial crusader patch does not force you to do so

[Lebhleb]

Originally posted by GRhin:

Changing how the castle are built is chnaging aiv files, unofficial patch has options to do this for you with some preselected packs, or you can download packs from heaven games. If you dont want them, unofficial crusader patch does not force you to do so

Now that its brought up again, the unnoficial patch/mod hasnt been updated in over a year, kind of a shame, hope it aint forgotten tho.

[GRhin]

Its not, you can easily look at the PRs on the github, or join their discord to keep up with it. People have just been caught out being busy, and they dont have many testers to check new features work and dont break something else, so its a slow process.

[Lebhleb]

Originally posted by GRhin:

Its not, you can easily look at the PRs on the github, or join their discord to keep up with it. People have just been caught out being busy, and they dont have many testers to check new features work and dont break something else, so its a slow process.

And its out, ahhh, was worth the wait, Laddermen finally see themselves fixed.

[johnnydoy95]

stronghold crusader extreme mods ?