Nerevarine
Keeper of the Watch
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Whenever I hear about TW mods, it sounds like only Rome gets mentioned. Were not the other games modded to the same extent? I'll try to dig up my R:TW cds to that I can give EB a try.
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You are right, the other games were also modded as well. Unfortunately, the best "mod teams" that were responsible for the best of the R:TW mods didn't move on to the newer games; they either kept updating the excellent Rome mods or called it a day after finally completing their ambitious projects. The EB team is apparently working on an EB2 for Medieval 2, but I wouldn't expect that to come out anytime in the near future; EB1 took quite some time to get completed (finished in 2009 I believe).
M2:TW has a few decent mods, but the few that I've tried squander their potential by trying too hard to be "hardcore" to an extreme extent without proper balancing. Basically, in mods like Stainless Steel, there is a wonderful amount of new gameplay tweaks and little details that add depth to the campaign, but it's so focused on being an "epic challenge" that it is really poorly balanced, leading to a very grind-like, unrealistic experience where the opposing forces just keep on coming regardless of how many of their armies you destroy. Just not my cup of tea, i guess.
Empire never had as much of a vibrant mod community - I believe CA and Sega had something to do with that - so there isn't a lot to choose from there, and Shogun 2 is probably too new to have any great overhaul mods.
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