Stainless Steel - Real Recruitment /Real Combat 2.0 setup takes forever

[Pluto☭]

Hello, how long will it take to set up the files, I've been waiting for like 75 minutes to set up the campaign and still isn't it finished. How much longer?

[Chthonic Guardian]

I just installed SS 6.4 and had no problems. Where exactly are you at in the process? It took probably around 10 minutes from start to finish as I remember. There is a part where it goes to a DOS type screen and asks you to hit any key to continue. Maybe that is where you are at and you haven't hit a key?

[Pluto☭]

Perhaps I wasn't clear enough, I was talking about a submod called Real Recruitment / Real Combat 2.0, it doesn't need installation as it is a standalone mod for Stainless Steel. I extracted files and then there is a similar setup to customize your campaign like which AI you like and so, I did that and it takes forever to set up. I use early campaign (1100).

[Chthonic Guardian]

Oh, sorry. My fault. Yeah, no knowledge of that mod. Good luck.

[Pluto☭]

Nevermind, thank you for trying to help anyway.

[Chthonic Guardian]

Originally posted by Pluto☭:

Nevermind, thank you for trying to help anyway.

Did you get it to work?
I did the same mod installment for the sub mod Titanium and it worked fine.

[Pluto☭]

Nope, it has been 3 hours now and it is still setting up.

[Chthonic Guardian]

Originally posted by Pluto☭:

Nope, it has been 3 hours now and it is still setting up.

Ouch. Maybe try to find another download source, or re download it. Sounds lie something went wrong in the unpacking or file was missing something.

[Pluto☭]

That might be the case, I am going to reinstall the game and re-extract the mod.

[Artorath]

If reinstalling doesn't work, make sure you aren't selecting any options marked WIP in the setup.

While this submod has arguably the best combat adjustments of any M2 mod ever made, it is very much a fixer upper: there are important crash fixes in the release thread you need to edit yourself, the always on machine gun wall defenses are quite unbalanced (requires editing descr_walls), and a bugged growth script pushes AI settlement levels up too fast for the timescale. If you are looking for a polished plug-and-play experience this isn't it.

[Pluto☭]

It was loading the entire night and the noon today I canceled it. I selected only finished options and it loaded immediately but some error popped out. Anyway no matter what I select, the game won't open because kingdoms.exe is unable to be located...

[Gigantus]

kingdoms.exe fixer (included in my repack for Stainless Steel, second guide):

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=859017394

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=861485547

[Artorath]

You might want to use Gig's SS6.4 repack or something else more finished (if you are playing a campaign and not custom/historical battles), come back to RC/RR2.0 if you are interested in the file system and how the game actually works :)