Can you tell me what version number you have played?

Thank you. It was fun writhing it. It's a shame I never did studied English in school, because I could have made it a lot more immersive (I write stories in my native language, for fun, not for money... not that I could make any money this way in my country, but that's another story). Oh, well...

I think it's the first version of the map. I started playing the same day you guys released it, lost the first try and then started a new game on a lower difficulty, if I remember correctly.

I haven't started a new game yet, but I'm planing to do so. Maybe I'll play with Siberia next... I don't know. Anyway, I'm sure you made a lot of changes to the map, so it will be a completely new game.

Wow. I'm amazed that there's still this much activity here, after all this time...

Feel free to join discord channel - even more there:

Discord link

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

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Happy New Year!
Let's hope 2021 will be better than 2020.

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Hi,

Its look very good!

Can you please add the prerequisites installs links to your main post?

Can I still use BNW with U1.6?

I must admit I did not try U1.5 & MPE,from the posts I understand that MPE is very popular!

My last plays include U1.4 & BNW 3.2.
I loved Kirky Picardo heroes in BNW.

I can help with this "Some small C# task (picture resizer based on SDK)" please send me the information.

In the pictures it look very promising
Thank you

It's a workbuild for now (full playable with one map in the pack) but when we stop adding and attuning stuff - I'll make the cumulative all in one installer with no prerequisites needed.

Prerequisites:

1. I assume nowadays everybody play GoG or Steam version (otherwise Patches 1.1,1.2,1.3 should be installed)
2. Unofficial Patch 1.4
3. MPE with working Mod editor
4. Unofficial Patch 1.5

Please join the discord, it's easier to communicate there.

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hello
I want to join your Discord server but I can't use your earlier invites.
Can you make a new one?

Sure:

Channel 1
Channel 2











to Venom_TDA:

we have the solution if the game runs slow with those large animations:

If playing with hardware rendering (CTRL+R when fullscreen) fullscreen "Alt-tab" it once - FPS dramatically increase (press F9 to check)

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Hi I was amazed with this mod, I downloaded it, but I don't know if it's working. The initial menu has not changed at all, I entered a common map and saw no improvement. Do you have a tutorial on how to install?
Discord channel link is invalid, if anyone can update I appreciate it ...

Discord

Changes appears only on maps made especially for UP1.6. There's one which comes with UP1.6. Main menu stays the same as standard MPE evolution menu (though you can check if you selected UP16 in bottom right corner). If somebody is up to making new cool one - we highly appreciate that.

It's a workbuild so for now installation is easy only for modders, but still it's more or less ok:

1. UP1.4,UP1.5, MPE should be installed.
2. Archives should be unpacked in AoW dir and C: MPE mod dir
3. Select UP1.6 with MPE mod selector.

When we finish the patch, or at least pause our work - the cumulative installator would be built, just to install everything one click.



A second 4 players PVP map by the Groll included in the pack:

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You mentioned that 1.6 fixes some of 1.5 bugs. I'm not a big fan of mod-like content so I'd prefer to have fixes only. Is there any way to install 1.6 over 1.5 with only bug fixes activated/installed?

Thank you.

The bonus content will only appear in the editor, or in maps where the user deliberately placed 1.6 content. You can install 1.6 and play for example the campaign without seeing any of its new content at all.

Thank you for a clarification. I'll try it then.

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If playing with hardware rendering (CTRL+R when fullscreen) fullscreen "Alt-tab" it once - FPS dramatically increase (press F9 to check)

Thank you for this. I will try it the next time I play.

I haven't played AOW since... last year, I guess, but I always come back to it. However, now I'm busy trying a mod for another game, Warlords Battlecry 3.

Unbelievable ! thereīs still activity here
after almost 8 years and probably too much Corona I decided to install all the old content and to play a bit and it was again fun ! I even plan a PBEM for my old 1.5 patch map with some friends and one of them found out that here is still work ongoing on a 1.6 patch ongoing - cool!!
Itīs still a pearl of a game - always has been and always will be my favourite strategy game!

that new 1.6 stuff looks fantastic !

oh - just one question : after I re-installed the whole hgame including all the patch I need (1.3,1.4,1.5, Dwiggs...) on my WIN 10 PC I face an issue that I never had on my old PC: IN the Editor (only there) things look strange (no matter with patch I select in the setup) i.e. water is green instead of blue, desert is red... has anybody experienced such issues?
if not I should maybe uninstall everything and try again

I'm so glad to see you morgul666! So many times I've played your Secrets of the Runeblades map (the best map for UP1.5 in my opinion). I've also managed to fix spirit quest bug there (it's presented by queststones overlapping with area triggers on marshlands near dark elves).

As for strange colours no need to re-install - in windows compitiblity mode should be set to Win 8 on any .exe file you use (even settings to be able to set proper resolution) and also better 65000 colors compitiblity also. There are also guidelines for smoothplaying (so if after alt-tab colors glitch- double altenter, to turn on rendering and colourful glow and fog of war - ctrl+r, to increase fps - double alt-tab, to check FPS - F9).

There's pretty lively community with online/pbem games in discord, please join -
discord1
discord2

Also we would be honoured if you join our UP1.6 development channel we have Meister Groll and Beastfeast with us! (I'll msg the invite to you on discord)

We have pretty vast update this week (40 units added, and some deco) - updated and uploaded to main link:

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Thanks for the appraisal
aaah - compatibility mode...Iīd never thought about this - thank you for the hint!!!
Now it looks like it should !
regarding your offer to join the 1.6 team - I donīt think I would be any help honestly... people like master Groll are the real geniuses in regards to creating new content - the only thing I can do is making maps.
Not sure if Iīd have the time to do another map - maybe a smaller one but donīt know
But I really would like to play a PBEM especially on my own map as Iīve never had a chance to try in in a real PBEM which is sad.
Iīll check out these sites

Hello Morgul666 my old friend.
Indeed we are very busy and the development speed in compare to upatch 1.4 and 1.5 is "super fast" even with so less people working of new stuff and content.
I promise you if you install the new workbuild and start to play around with the editor you will be addicted to mapmaking again.
I have already made two maps for this fantastic upatch 1.6 and it is still under construction.
So maybe and hopefully we will stay in production for a long time even when we are so very productive as we are now.
the new upatch 1.6 development have added more content as 1.4 and 1.5 together and brought more unique ideas to life. Now special things are possible that I ever wish to get.
I recommend to play the two new maps. It is a new feeling but stay the old fun playing AoWSM.
Come to Discord and have a look.

My second map is updated now and within the latest workbuild I think.

"The Bridge" have a true sky now.
No more swimming units on the run through the air...

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A bit off topic:

I just went back to 1.4 to maybe win a new member for the MMBEM Project Germany.

The Germany Map still looks nice but a little poor now for my eyes who is bombed with such breathtaking stuff since the start of upatch workbuild 1.6
So if the new mapmaker for the Germany map likes to join we will raise from the dead with this project and build a new Germany step by step.
It is time to do this because the Germany we live in is... a little poor today and even 1.4 resources are much more beautiful as the real live these days...

But when the project maybe proceed and if it can be finished we make a 1.5 map from it and after this we maybe switch to 1.6.
So we have two maps then maybe. And then even good old Germany will shine again in new fantasy realm colors.

The possible new mapmaker had a genius idea for the new unfinished country states.
I hope this mapmaker will join.

Back to topic:
this units look great and all the surrounding is looking so great. tRIADASOUL and at least I donīt see all the beauty anymore even when I am always flashed by the new things but if you switch back to 1.4 what really was great for its time you see the gigantic differences between 1.,3 then breathtaking 1.4 and 1.5 and then now the 1.6. It is near impossible to believe but it is true.

Great work here!

Hah, looks fantastic! Good to see two monster mapmakers like Groll and Morgul commenting... *waves* Oh man, these maps are going to make heads explode!

Hello Professor Swolte!!!!!

So nice to see you here at HG!

I am missing you and some old patch team members like PawelS only to name one but see what we have made here and on Discord (more and faster news).

A mad head of the upatch team, tRIADASOUL... yes sometimes his head seams to explode.
I canīt imagine why... sometimes...

Maybe it has to do with mad ideas from a crude mapmaker that never rest to ask for more and new things and sometimes...

only sometimes come up with impossible looking thoughts and ideas...
Like the new true sky where only flying units can be now or the shallow water where even ground units can walk in, while sharks (pure swimming units) are around their legs.

We are really productive.
While tRIADASOUL kick off megabytes and even break gigabytes meanwhile I was forced to pull out two new maps for the new UPatch_1.6. A third one is under heavy construction and it is a monster of a map.

Would be so nice to see you more often.
If you drag & draw to much and often on synapses of your patients they will not heal. So come and sit down for a while with us.

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AAAh master Swolte
Heya - every three days another old well known name pops up somewhere in the AOW realm
It feels a bit like a timetravel
yeah who knows - for now Iīm happy to start at least a pbem game during these ENDURING DAMNED times but once I found the muse to install 1.6 there is for sure some chance to be caught by the mapmaking viru ah donīt say this word... fever...
looking forward to reading the name (and comments of) Swolte (and maybe also one or the other of the good old times) more often

As long as HG doesn't allow big pictures in the thread anymore converting them to [GIF.size] link in the post - I'll post the gifs the link under the picture.

Click the picture - to see the buzzing hive!

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