Since then, he has added the villager distributionper resource, global command queue, improvements for the display of technologies in the game, and new hotkeys. I didn’t understand the code but he made a functional patch that implemented that functionality. Then, one day in September, someone by the name of katsuie wrote a post with some code that, allegedly, implemented autofarming.
We developed the installer that checked for legitimate copies of the original game and throughout the summer, I added the four new civilizations.
#AGE OF EMPIRES 2 GRAPHICS MOD MOD#
Obviously they had been waiting for someone to do exactly that: a mod with the balance changes from DE that could be played on Voobly. I uploaded the mod to Voobly before going to bed and next morning I already had a message from Voobly staff. After a day trying to understand how DE did it and realising that I couldn’t port it as direct copy, I figured out a way to adapt it in a way that kept the spirit of the original one and worked within the limitations of userpatch. The one that made me decide to publish it was the Khmer farming bonus. In a couple of days I had copied most of the balance changes that were basically changing numbers in the code. Indeed, through that program you can modify unit stats, costs, research times, and so on. So I did a bit more research and discovered that mods are created using Advanced Genie Editor. Of course I found DE Balance but that one didn’t have all the civilizations. I took a look at the mod center several times, thinking that, if adding balance changes was as easy as I suspected, someone must had have the idea to add stuff from DE already. However, my girlfriend’s computer is not powerful enough to run Age of Empires 2 DE so all we played was WololoKingdoms. Despite not being able to go outside, my girlfriend and I like Age of Empires a lot so we had things to do together. With that knowledge, I assumed that adding balance changes like +1 armor for certain units or faster research time for a technology had to be easy.ĭuring that time, Europe was going through the worst of the covid pandemic and several countries, mine included, where on lockdown. I have a basic understanding of programming and assumed that there was a big file somewhere storing unit stats, technologies and so on.
#AGE OF EMPIRES 2 GRAPHICS MOD HOW TO#
Back in march 2020 I had no idea how to create mods.
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