Empire 2 does a lot of really great stuff for the game that for me makes it one of the best mods you can play. The combination of lots of different mods here, the great changes to UI, unit visuals, various mechanics and scripts are super impressive. The only thing I'd want now is completely unlocked map modding to add more regions, cough France cough. Hopefully one day that actually happens. Also, seriously the installation is not easy, consult the doc in the download or ask for help in the discord or here in the video if you're having issues.
They should add faction specific UI style like Imperial splendour. Btw how well it stacks against IS when comes to unit historical accuracy and graphics?
It also does a lot of awful things I can only hope that when they finish working in it they release it in parts so that we can install the good stuff and remove the bad things
One of the most forgotten problems of Empire that must be solved: cities being depicted in the battlefield as two random farms and a town hall or just a hollow fort.
There actually are bigger cities if you look outside of battle arena. I think it more represent battles near these locations. For example Battle of Vienna didn't actually took place directly in Vienna. Also from technical perspective, AI struggles at pathfinding, especially during siege battles.
@@ppp-vz1mi I know, and it makes actually sense as 18th century battles were mostly on the countryside, but the almost total absence of buildings in a game that included the revolutionary mechanic of garrisoning houses and firing through windows, makes sieges and city battles quite hollow. AI problems in sieges are evident but I think that does not justifies the lack of houses.
@@ppp-vz1mibut fort sieges and assaults were common, some of them extremely famous, and there were at least some major battles in urban areas so there should be something at least
Yeah exactly at least Napoleon Total War did a better job at dividing the country into different provinces. Plus it's ridiculous how your troops have the same uniforms going into the 19th century. Rome Total War 1 at least updated the unit roster once you achieve the reforms.
All I ever wanted on this game was a map expansion to be honest. East Asian and South American input in particular are sorely needed to make Empire have the global feeling it deserves. That said, knowing that they solved the glaring gameplay issues to that degree is phenomenally impressive, especially considering how negligent CA have been with making their AI act effectively within the same parameters as the player.
I fear unless we'll get a Full Exe hack/rebuild it'll never be accomplished, I wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment it always has been my biggest letdown that Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands got shafted by not having their Colonial Holdings in full, especially the lack of Brazil is a major nerf to Portugal
The big problem is the pathfinding.esf as it's impossible to make one without official tools. Unless you can backwards engineer the Shogun 2 tools you can't update it.
What I liked about Rome II, would have loved to have seen in NTW is NGFS (Naval Gunfire Support). For instance if I wanted to blockade the port of Cadiz, or send ashore a regiment of Royal Marines to take the port, particularly if it is unmanned. Or if I am engaging in a costal battle against the French and I have fleet nearby. Having some 32lb guns from HMS Victory supporting my army could be quite useful.
Cohesion is just plainly an inferior mechanic to exhaustion, it totally unbalances the moral, you see all those comments complaining about how moral is all out of the place? That’s because of cohesion Don’t let yourselves be fooled with the 4500 units, almost all of them are just obscure line infantry battalions with +1 or +2 stat By the 1700s pike and shot was already death, is not realistic to have it, with few exceptions like Sweden or Spain but most of Europe had already abandoned such idea The Naval battles are painfully slow, if you love the waiting game is for you, if you don’t like to just wait a third of an hour for the ships to be close enough to fight then dont play naval battles (which in vanilla are some of the best and more fun) Also the vanilla economy doesn’t need a fix, is actually pretty good (obviously not Vic 2 levels but it does it’s job very well, if anything the game needs more towns to grow and that’s it)
Hard agree on the cohesion bullshit they added. I will often have full strength cavalry units break when chasing down routing enemy troops. It's probably the worst morale mehcanic I've ever seen in a mod. Darthmod has the same problems with unnecessary clone units. You'd think modders would have realized this a decade after Darthmod's final release but the bloated roster of ten different militia and line infantry units that have exactly the same stats but with different uniforms lives on. Not that you would actually recruit them since the economy in this mod allows you to make multiple elite unit only stacks ridiculously early.
Honestly all I really want from empire is 40 unit armies and blue uniforms for post revolution France, and that’s too much to ask from what I can find, or empires map on napoleon, and it drives me crazy they took out the build fort function for napoleon
Probably my favorite game of the series, but I was always disappointed that America didn't make the cut, no that side campaign doesn't count. I get it, we were total nobody's and I'm perfectly fine with that. Lock us diplomatically with uk, make it so we can only make militia and keep the indian raids rolling. Challenge accepted! But just disappointed that we could finally make the cut and then didnt.
Also a note to add to this... I'm the creator of the Multiplayer version (Empire 2 Generals). I will be developing that up to version 1.0 (its currently 0.7) and then we will be merging with Empire 2. So eventually you'll have the best of both world, multiplayer and singleplayer.
Do you mean campaign multi-player, or battle multi-player? I always wanted to throw down during a full campaign with a friend controlling another faction....
I remember putting in hours into this game when it launched. It felt surreal at the time to see that I could have an empire that spread from the Americas to India.
lol.. was a god game. i did the same ... after you got past a certain point though it just becomes unlosabl.. piles of money.. too easy & a bit boring. if only they had added a few extra twists to the endgame it could have been the best game ever ! just needed something to give the last added incentive
I really loved Empire total war, but it suffered from so many issues due to the technology that was available at the time. Now, when I look at the map size and different faction-mechanics, etc of Warhammer 3, I really hope we get an actual Empire 2 Total war sometime "soon".
@@Mordacitas7 Yep, it's game breaking for me. Countries as huge as Spain or France that could be conquered in literally one siege, nott counting the colonies? That's ridiculous.
@@jak00bspyr72, @5erase, I dunno what you guys are talking about, playing as Britain and wiping out France in the first couple turns is 100% realistic, France was basically an insignificant minor in the 1700s, no reason to buff it up at all, no sir, this does not bother me at all, and I’ve never found myself pointlessly mad about it late at night when I try to sleep…
Europe as the home continent need the same level of detail as all other total war games. The colonial maps (Asia Americas Africa) can be vast and sparse with fewer cities.
Your efforts are bringing a breath of fresh air to Empire! May I ask, as we know, the mod still suffers from a considerable amount of bugs and crashes, how is the team planning to overcome those issues?
@@RubCal96 Thank you! We have a lot of beta testers, including me when we aren't working on something specific.(for example I wrote most of the factions descriptions and others). Some bugs get fixed even in a day max, depending on the urgency or importance.
@@IceniTotalWar We have work around it a lot of times, and since we started from scratch. It's mostly solved. Although the game in itself is freaking difficult to mod and annoying to modify. But, respect to vanilla and older versions, yes, it had improved a lot. As far as we worked, I didn't work in sfx, I wasn't the one tasked, they were all copyright free tho. Since the copyright law doesn't cover stuff that are more than 40 years old after the death of the artist or composer. It's a whole overall, so as almost any of this type, won't work out with the mod. Since it modifies everything on a base level. But we have other optional mods that can be used. But you can always ask for compatibility patches and similar to the developer team.
@@DucaCremisi Thanks for taking the time to answer and for giving us this great mod. I watched an install video for it last week as I'm just finishing up a Darthmod campaign. Darthmod is great but no longer supported.
Agreed. I wish could play Napoleon with the campaign map of empire. I just started playing total war again after years away. Started playing Nap for 1st time and steamrolled France n GB w/ Prussia before I got bored w/ limited map. Playing Empire for 1st time now as Sweden on hard but finding diplomacy annoying as everyone declares war for no reason yet on normal the other faction's armies too easy to plow thru..
Dude, I ALWAYS play on Extra hard and yet win as Sweden OR GB everytime. However playing Prussia is almost impossible on X HARD AS THE ENTIRE WORLD WANTS YOUR ASS. 'Empire's' biggest flaw IMHO is the overpowered Maratha Empire attacking the rest of the world by 1725/30. Rediculous but still my 3rd favorite game after TW Medieval II and Rome I. Napoleon is just less interesting to me being so less expansive and narrow focused.@@Dick_Sanormus
I downloaded it yesterday. I've been playing with the Thirteen Colonies. I must say this is by far the best mod I have ever played for a total war game. There are minor things to be fixed. Some units cannot replenish, cant build walls in settlements and some generals and family tree are missing either their title, or their names. The mod is very playable, no lag and no crashes. I am already in 1720, which I love how each year takes 4 turns. The amount of new units is amazing. The sound of the shots for both land and naval are impeccable. Feels like a totally new game. 10/10 for this mod!
Units cannot replenish, it is part of the realism. They should be merged. However, generals can and ships can be repaired, as a contributor to the mod, this is a fact, not an opinion.
@@TheBonzol Incorrect and I was not stating an opinion. Replenishment can be enabled with one of the official submods that comes with the mod (not even a submod, just delete IT_norepl). Installation is meant to be customized to each players' preferences. And @juangudelo, you're welcome for the actual answer I bothered to give you.
@@coloradoing9172 Honestly no surprise, if it's unchanged the upgraded Walls ends up Useless for Defenders, and the regular ones doesn't give much either
Just installed after work and hopped into a custom battle. I immediately love how the formations are tighter and how the entire 3 ranks of line infantry fire a single mass volley
Mods mods mods! So many great wonderful mods coming out and just in time too. Not a fan of CA lately. Loved that feeling when playing this game, having my regiment be pulled off the line in Europe and send them to America's or India. Shift my different units around the world to fight in whatever theatre of war I'm in involved in
Yeah. Not to take away from the hard work of the modders, but we really need an actual Empire 2 (meaning brand-new engine). You can put as much cream and frosting on a pile of horse manure as you want, it's still a pile of horse manure.
Thanks for the spotlight, I went and tried it, but, sadly, the number of units makes UI so cluttered that it became almost unplayable for me. And those are mostly just pointless same units with different name.
There must be trading points for tar & timber some of the most important raw materials for sailing ships time period and some of the points must be around/at the Nordic & Baltic states it was a large part of trade during the 1600s-1800s can't believe the original game missed it altogether & the same with the modder guild.
@@TheTerminatorGaming I liked a lot of things they did with the mod (especially the graphical improvements) but the modders made the battle AI way more unbalanced then it should have been. A lot of the time I would have enemy militia units beat my regular line infantry in firefights and once I had 6 regular infantry units chainriute in a mele with a single unit of the AI. Also the mod performs a lot worse than other mods
The morale is the only thing I dislike about this mod. I’ve had similar situations to what you have described happen to me too. Indians throwing axes just walk up, toss and bunch of axes and before I know it my well trained infantry is broken.
I would say Imperial Destroyer with VDM is the best so far I would agree with floppy about the unbalanced combat with empire 2 and vdm also is not meant for it either it needs to be that extra help you need to survive with a mod like imperial destroyer
I find your videos a bit overhyped. What "impossible" did they achieve? Empire's AI was garbage making the game almost unplayable for veterans of total war games. Does the computer now flank you? Does cavalry break through lines and chase down routers properly?
If only any mod could make AI armies in battles actually behave like a real army might. Just give us line infantry battles where the infantry is actually in a damn line!
BE CAREFUL USING THIS MOD, yes its hella fun and good. But its actually a copy from a Russian version, thus there are bugs which they cannot fix. Ive started countless campaigns that eventually crash around 100, making a huge waste of time. This happens to other players too in their Discord. With no solution at all.
Yeah, almost everthing that the Empire 2 mod is being praised for, was taken (stolen) from the Pirates Uber Alles mod. That mod deserves more recognition.
What about the melee AI? And musket units having to fully turn, reform and only then being able to fire? And siege battle AI? Has the number of battle maps (settlement & fort) increased?
None of these matter as long as the campaign has like 30 settlements with hugely important countries like France and Spain having only their capital. As long as Empire's map can't be modded, all effort is in vain.
Sadly the AI still seems to be dumb as fuk...they walk around in front of your fireline, ocassionaly shooting back after 4 Minutes of getting into position. : / Only an info for everyone who expect significant changes in this area.
Me: "Diving into this game during my mid 30's years" .....lol Actually back in 2010 when I got a new computer, I saw this game on the shelf in Walmart and thought "oh cool"...bought it and went headlong into Total War....until Atilla. So it's not on Steam!?
Tried playing, but honestly what IS the deal with thousands of different line infantry? Impossible to even try to scroll through all the units to find which you want to recruit. Gave up after an hour.
Love it great improvement on the original game . Now I have it can someone tell me if there is a way to get the research all done FAST . Cheat mode is fine
Had to stop playing this mod because I had a weird glitch where my ships couldn't travel between theatres but I remember playing it for the first time after actually getting it working. The visual upgrade was the thing that hit you first but then technology changes, faction changes and map changes all came in and made such interesting game after game as I replayed each faction. I think this mod basically made the game what I would have wanted from Empire so i'm just glad that skilled and passionate people also had those ideas almost a decade before me to start working on the mod lol Might have to give it another go if it's been updated.
@@jensskjeld2598Mam ten samy probem, mod je uzasny ale nemuzu cestovat lodemi mimo evropu coz je skoda a nevim jestli je to uz opravene? Max se muzu dostat do indie pres cely blizky vychod coz je utopicke valecne tazeni :D
When I played 3.4 I cannot pass beyon 90 turns when its spain's turn game closes down I hope they fixed that and about unit balance reformed turkish infantry(giving us right at the beginning of the game) in terms of stats is much better than Nizam-i Cedit infantry(late game infantry have to research ton of technology) why is that what is the point of having Nizam-i Cedit if I can do much better with Reformed Turkish Infantry?
I'm so glad you mentioned the instability of the mod now, because in the Empire II video a year ago I received information about an amazing mod (superlatives only), which I immediately went to try, to find out the mod is unplayable. I will try again and hope!
Judging by the thumbnail of this video, I tought the point of it would be how they stole a LOT of things, from units to ideas, from a muuuuuch more fleshed out mod without even asking for permission, called Pirates Uber Alles. Check it out Terminator. You'll love it! :)
Glad I found the PUA mod after playing Empire 2. Almost everything that Empire 2 is being praised for, was taken from the PUA mod. Those modders deserve the recognition being given to this mod.
At 4:45 and for about a minute afterwards, every time you show the map, I see a Central Asia region, and then I also notice the Americas are all filled in. Like time I checked this mod, it did not have that, and only Imperial Destroyer had it. Does this mod finally fill in the empty regions like ID does? Does it include the Bajar Sultanate in the East Indies trade theatre like ID has? Do any other trade theatres have occupiable regions in them? Are all factions playable? Sorry for the many questions. I've Loyally stuck with ID for years because of the extra regions, and now that I see them here, I want to know more. But was thrown off that some parts in the video the campaign map looked like vanilla. Lastly, what's the orange circle in the Sahara at 4:45? Is that a new region as well?
@@noblesseoblige7112 What are you talking about? ID added 5 regions in the Americas, a region in Arabia, a region in Central Asia, and a region in the East Indies.
@@noblesseoblige7112 The "other trade regions" not having regions being Brazil, Ivory Coast, and Madagascar? Okay good to know. What about that orange Circle-looking area in the Sahara at 4:45?
Most annoying thing (other than random declarations of war like Prussia declaring war on the British), was that you were often forced to say, conquer France as the British to end the war, what you need is a Napoleon feature where you can make them a vassal.
I wish whole world map could be reshaped again. Conquering whole France, Spain, Turkey and etc with only one battle makes everything ruined. Big countries must be divided into much more provinces to be realistic 😢
You've already clicked it and even posted a comment. The engagement has been charted and RUclips will now be pushing this video ever so slightly harder. The thumbnail and title succeeded whilst you failed in your protest, I'm afraid.
Great Video!!! Thank you for the update to my favorite TW (Other then Rome II) game. 75K views speaks for itself. You deserve more then 33K subs. Total War, Stellaris and HOI4 are all you need ... IN A LIFETIME!
Thank you for your work, Termi. Let me just express a bit of criticism here. I hope you don't get offended or something. As an old TW fan, I only want the best for this RUclips channel and TW community in general. So, my point is that I think the variety of the footage that you use in the video production can be increased. Those short video clips that the whole video is made of start repeating too early and sometimes are repeated too often. In my opinion, it makes the final product look a bit more boring than it should be. I know that it takes quite a lot of time to make it as it is. And I am grateful for whatever content you produce, my friend. I just want to draw your attention to this problem.
Another amazing video buddy 👏 I haven't had the chance to try out the new update due to life reasons, but I did install it and have played the previous version quite a lot. Can't wait to see what has changed. The thing I like the most about the mod is the fact that we finally got unique factions on the battlefield with the massive amount of units added, like you have mentioned. But everything about it is amazing and you are soo right. Just a little bit more work and it will be among the greats such as DEI.
A lot of time has passed since the game was released and many things have changed. Seeing what WH3 looks like I think they have the technology, the basis, to make an awesome ETW 2 game. But unlike WH3 I would like it to have old mechanics and features and not to be streamlined.
I got TAR (the American Revolution) Mod working and its been cool to see so many units for the factions (The US faction got a Fairfax County unit, which is where i'm from.)
It's unclear a bit to me in regards to the multiplayer. Does it allow now to play a coop campaign where in battles you can play Player vs AI instead of forced PVP? (Currently If you play MP Campaign, other player will have to take control of AI units in battle so it's always Player vs Player)
Empire has been, and might always be, my favorite and most played Total War. If been waiting, and may never get an Empire 2. Darth Mod was a great mod but my biggest frustration with Empire has always been the AI. Nothing sucked the wind out of me more than having the enemy throw their cavalry at me in the beginning then engage me with a broken formation. Many battles began and ended with me just creating a solid formation, even with inferior troops and numbers, and waiting for the enemy formations to just partially throw themselves at me. I had a handful of battles in my Empire Campaigns with Darth Mod that were truly nail bitters that came down to the last few army groups being paired with my general for the morale boost just to steal a victory. Those battles were few and far between but I will download this Mod.
Napoleon 2 is still the one I'm holding out for. Would love a Grand Campaig that lets you fluidly take Revolutionary France through the Consulate, across the First Empire and towards a fictional 1816 should France manage to endure.
Empire was the first time I was disappointed by CA. Not the last, of course, but it was the worst. Having the enemy general streak across the battlefield to go down in a hail of musket shot blew my teenage mind. I was so jazzed for naval warfare (even today, the ships rocking in the water after a broadside barrage gives me chills) only to find the rest of the game was so lacking. I will check this mod out. Maybe these modders can give me the experience I was hoping for at 17.
I can't forget Empire Total War either. It's the last game I've purchased from the TW series, and my first sign, that the industry is about to start a nose dive that we still haven't pulled out of. What a broken, unfinished, unplayable piece of shit this game was.🖕
isnt it funny how Creative Assembly has become so disillusioned with what we want, that modders have to step up and give the experiences we want. I never wanted that limited game Troy. I never wanted this new Egypt campaign (which too, is limited). We want huge maps with huge empires to conquer the world....
The problem of the Empire is poor AI, both in strategic and tactical mode. A small global map despite the presence of three regions of the planet. The map of Europe should be exactly more detailed, there should be more provinces, France, Spain and a number of other regions should be divided into other subregions, as was done at least in the same Napoleon Total Var. Extremely weak diplomacy, there is no way to invite another faction to join the war that has already begun. Taking into account the historical period, it should be possible to negotiate not only between individual factions, but also coalitions, so that wars begin and end immediately between all parties to the conflict. There are no governors, there is no focus on domestic policy, as it is implemented though in the same Attila. A weak ground battle, there is no possibility of participating in one battle, for example, in a siege, both the ground army and the fleet, at least truncated. A lot of things have not been implemented, and they will already be implemented. The problem is in the mechanics. The graphics in it are decent even today.
Empire 2 does a lot of really great stuff for the game that for me makes it one of the best mods you can play. The combination of lots of different mods here, the great changes to UI, unit visuals, various mechanics and scripts are super impressive. The only thing I'd want now is completely unlocked map modding to add more regions, cough France cough. Hopefully one day that actually happens. Also, seriously the installation is not easy, consult the doc in the download or ask for help in the discord or here in the video if you're having issues.
I have an awful time of trying to get it to work on my pc
I got rid of it because my units run out of ammo before I can get anywhere in a battle.
In my case I can’t replenish units, recruit new generals, or advance in tech
They should add faction specific UI style like Imperial splendour. Btw how well it stacks against IS when comes to unit historical accuracy and graphics?
It also does a lot of awful things
I can only hope that when they finish working in it they release it in parts so that we can install the good stuff and remove the bad things
One of the most forgotten problems of Empire that must be solved: cities being depicted in the battlefield as two random farms and a town hall or just a hollow fort.
There actually are bigger cities if you look outside of battle arena.
I think it more represent battles near these locations. For example Battle of Vienna didn't actually took place directly in Vienna.
Also from technical perspective, AI struggles at pathfinding, especially during siege battles.
@@ppp-vz1mi I know, and it makes actually sense as 18th century battles were mostly on the countryside, but the almost total absence of buildings in a game that included the revolutionary mechanic of garrisoning houses and firing through windows, makes sieges and city battles quite hollow. AI problems in sieges are evident but I think that does not justifies the lack of houses.
@@ppp-vz1mibut fort sieges and assaults were common, some of them extremely famous, and there were at least some major battles in urban areas so there should be something at least
@@Rynewulfespecially in the napoleonic wars which I know falls out of the scope of empire but the problem persisted in NTW also
I cant think of a major battle fought in a heavy urban environment. I think they would just siege a city at that point.
Honestly one of the worst sides of Empire was always one province France. It just felt so horrible how easy it was to destroy France
And how easy it was for you to be dragged into dozens of conflicts from turn one. Made playing big factions early on undesirable
And England having like 7 towns and 5 ports
Yeah exactly at least Napoleon Total War did a better job at dividing the country into different provinces. Plus it's ridiculous how your troops have the same uniforms going into the 19th century. Rome Total War 1 at least updated the unit roster once you achieve the reforms.
@@rc59191 Not to mention Med 2 where unit appearance depended on the armor upgrades they had
Does this mod add more provinces or was that impossible?
All I ever wanted on this game was a map expansion to be honest. East Asian and South American input in particular are sorely needed to make Empire have the global feeling it deserves.
That said, knowing that they solved the glaring gameplay issues to that degree is phenomenally impressive, especially considering how negligent CA have been with making their AI act effectively within the same parameters as the player.
I fear unless we'll get a Full Exe hack/rebuild it'll never be accomplished, I wholeheartedly agree with that sentiment it always has been my biggest letdown that Portugal, Spain and the Netherlands got shafted by not having their Colonial Holdings in full, especially the lack of Brazil is a major nerf to Portugal
Opening up East Asia for the Opium wars would be awesome
The big problem is the pathfinding.esf as it's impossible to make one without official tools. Unless you can backwards engineer the Shogun 2 tools you can't update it.
What I liked about Rome II, would have loved to have seen in NTW is NGFS (Naval Gunfire Support). For instance if I wanted to blockade the port of Cadiz, or send ashore a regiment of Royal Marines to take the port, particularly if it is unmanned. Or if I am engaging in a costal battle against the French and I have fleet nearby. Having some 32lb guns from HMS Victory supporting my army could be quite useful.
honestly this feels like a whole new game im trying to redownload and get the traveling between theaters to work.
Cohesion is just plainly an inferior mechanic to exhaustion, it totally unbalances the moral, you see all those comments complaining about how moral is all out of the place? That’s because of cohesion
Don’t let yourselves be fooled with the 4500 units, almost all of them are just obscure line infantry battalions with +1 or +2 stat
By the 1700s pike and shot was already death, is not realistic to have it, with few exceptions like Sweden or Spain but most of Europe had already abandoned such idea
The Naval battles are painfully slow, if you love the waiting game is for you, if you don’t like to just wait a third of an hour for the ships to be close enough to fight then dont play naval battles (which in vanilla are some of the best and more fun)
Also the vanilla economy doesn’t need a fix, is actually pretty good (obviously not Vic 2 levels but it does it’s job very well, if anything the game needs more towns to grow and that’s it)
Hard agree on the cohesion bullshit they added. I will often have full strength cavalry units break when chasing down routing enemy troops. It's probably the worst morale mehcanic I've ever seen in a mod.
Darthmod has the same problems with unnecessary clone units. You'd think modders would have realized this a decade after Darthmod's final release but the bloated roster of ten different militia and line infantry units that have exactly the same stats but with different uniforms lives on. Not that you would actually recruit them since the economy in this mod allows you to make multiple elite unit only stacks ridiculously early.
I’ve been playing this mod alot this week.
Gonna break a computer by upping that campaign unit size modifier to 4.
This material made me your subscriber. :-)
Aww thanks! ❤️
Honestly all I really want from empire is 40 unit armies and blue uniforms for post revolution France, and that’s too much to ask from what I can find, or empires map on napoleon, and it drives me crazy they took out the build fort function for napoleon
check out imperial splendor rise of the republic 1.2 it has some napoleon type looking units when you become a republic
Probably my favorite game of the series, but I was always disappointed that America didn't make the cut, no that side campaign doesn't count.
I get it, we were total nobody's and I'm perfectly fine with that. Lock us diplomatically with uk, make it so we can only make militia and keep the indian raids rolling. Challenge accepted!
But just disappointed that we could finally make the cut and then didnt.
Also a note to add to this... I'm the creator of the Multiplayer version (Empire 2 Generals). I will be developing that up to version 1.0 (its currently 0.7) and then we will be merging with Empire 2. So eventually you'll have the best of both world, multiplayer and singleplayer.
your efforts guys is epic. No community would expect such a mod on such an old game but fine as times goes.
Thank you for all your hard work!
This is amazing news thank you!😊
You have done something amazing, feel proud of yourself NOW
Do you mean campaign multi-player, or battle multi-player? I always wanted to throw down during a full campaign with a friend controlling another faction....
I remember putting in hours into this game when it launched. It felt surreal at the time to see that I could have an empire that spread from the Americas to India.
Yea me too. I did a basic Prussian campaign first of course lol
lol.. was a god game. i did the same ... after you got past a certain point though it just becomes unlosabl.. piles of money.. too easy & a bit boring. if only they had added a few extra twists to the endgame it could have been the best game ever ! just needed something to give the last added incentive
i loved that buggy mess... then i loved napoleon even more
I really loved Empire total war, but it suffered from so many issues due to the technology that was available at the time. Now, when I look at the map size and different faction-mechanics, etc of Warhammer 3, I really hope we get an actual Empire 2 Total war sometime "soon".
I feel you man, hopefully it happens since the tech can basically do it now
same im tired of the magic/fantasy stuff hope they get back to their historical totalwar roots
It's not gonna happen bro
Hopefully, with the map modding now a thing, someone goes in Empire and finally makes it the map it should've been.
one that is workshop defult added on to.
If only they were able to miraculosly increase the number of provinces like the 1212AD team recently did...
Lol, what, still cranky after over a decade that France is one province?
(Me too)
Seriously. Why the hell did they make France one province.
@@Mordacitas7 Yep, it's game breaking for me. Countries as huge as Spain or France that could be conquered in literally one siege, nott counting the colonies? That's ridiculous.
@@jak00bspyr72, @5erase, I dunno what you guys are talking about, playing as Britain and wiping out France in the first couple turns is 100% realistic, France was basically an insignificant minor in the 1700s, no reason to buff it up at all, no sir, this does not bother me at all, and I’ve never found myself pointlessly mad about it late at night when I try to sleep…
Europe as the home continent need the same level of detail as all other total war games. The colonial maps (Asia Americas Africa) can be vast and sparse with fewer cities.
Part of the developer team here!
Glad you are liking our job!
Your efforts are bringing a breath of fresh air to Empire! May I ask, as we know, the mod still suffers from a considerable amount of bugs and crashes, how is the team planning to overcome those issues?
@@RubCal96 Thank you!
We have a lot of beta testers, including me when we aren't working on something specific.(for example I wrote most of the factions descriptions and others).
Some bugs get fixed even in a day max, depending on the urgency or importance.
Is the Ottoman end turn bug fixed ?
Does it have copyrighted music ?
Can it be run alongside other mods ?
@@IceniTotalWar We have work around it a lot of times, and since we started from scratch.
It's mostly solved.
Although the game in itself is freaking difficult to mod and annoying to modify.
But, respect to vanilla and older versions, yes, it had improved a lot.
As far as we worked, I didn't work in sfx, I wasn't the one tasked, they were all copyright free tho.
Since the copyright law doesn't cover stuff that are more than 40 years old after the death of the artist or composer.
It's a whole overall, so as almost any of this type, won't work out with the mod.
Since it modifies everything on a base level.
But we have other optional mods that can be used.
But you can always ask for compatibility patches and similar to the developer team.
@@DucaCremisi Thanks for taking the time to answer and for giving us this great mod.
I watched an install video for it last week as I'm just finishing up a Darthmod campaign.
Darthmod is great but no longer supported.
I'm one of the people who actually liked Empire, before I saw how much Napoleon improved on it 😂. So it's great to see people are still working on it.
Good times: for me it was the APE-TI mod...
Agreed. I wish could play Napoleon with the campaign map of empire. I just started playing total war again after years away. Started playing Nap for 1st time and steamrolled France n GB w/ Prussia before I got bored w/ limited map. Playing Empire for 1st time now as Sweden on hard but finding diplomacy annoying as everyone declares war for no reason yet on normal the other faction's armies too easy to plow thru..
Dude, I ALWAYS play on Extra hard and yet win as Sweden OR GB everytime. However playing Prussia is almost impossible on X HARD AS THE ENTIRE WORLD WANTS YOUR ASS. 'Empire's' biggest flaw IMHO is the overpowered Maratha Empire attacking the rest of the world by 1725/30. Rediculous but still my 3rd favorite game after TW Medieval II and Rome I. Napoleon is just less interesting to me being so less expansive and narrow focused.@@Dick_Sanormus
Napoleon is a shell of Empire, Empire is a far superior game in any way you can think of.
@@Dick_Sanormus
"...Napoleon with the campaign map of empire...."
👍
THAT would be Awesome !
I downloaded it yesterday. I've been playing with the Thirteen Colonies. I must say this is by far the best mod I have ever played for a total war game. There are minor things to be fixed. Some units cannot replenish, cant build walls in settlements and some generals and family tree are missing either their title, or their names. The mod is very playable, no lag and no crashes. I am already in 1720, which I love how each year takes 4 turns. The amount of new units is amazing. The sound of the shots for both land and naval are impeccable. Feels like a totally new game. 10/10 for this mod!
Units should be able to replenish so long as you're using the submod, and settlements don't have walls by design. Forts, however, should have walls.
Units cannot replenish, it is part of the realism. They should be merged. However, generals can and ships can be repaired, as a contributor to the mod, this is a fact, not an opinion.
@@TheBonzol Thank you!
@@TheBonzol Incorrect and I was not stating an opinion. Replenishment can be enabled with one of the official submods that comes with the mod (not even a submod, just delete IT_norepl). Installation is meant to be customized to each players' preferences. And @juangudelo, you're welcome for the actual answer I bothered to give you.
@@coloradoing9172 Honestly no surprise, if it's unchanged the upgraded Walls ends up Useless for Defenders, and the regular ones doesn't give much either
As long as a new map with new provinces cannot be created, we cannot speak of an unofficial Empire 2.
Just installed after work and hopped into a custom battle. I immediately love how the formations are tighter and how the entire 3 ranks of line infantry fire a single mass volley
A Empire 2 with mixed naval/land battles , cannons +/ships defeding trading ports for free so block is hard, etc would be a massive hit
Been playing it for awhile, it is amazing... empire is the best total war out there.
Does this mod bring in all the improvements napoleon had over empire?
Unmodded it's mediocre crap. With mods it's great.
Best Total War out there? Not even close. You need mods to even make it playable, lol. Napoleon was way better even if it lacked scale.
@@wtice4632no it doesn't.
@@noblesseoblige7112 big sad
I can't explain this, but there's a charm to Empire that no other TW has, except maybe Napoleon but I'm not too sure
Playing with tin toy soldiers sort of aspect on a Risk Board.
Mods mods mods! So many great wonderful mods coming out and just in time too. Not a fan of CA lately. Loved that feeling when playing this game, having my regiment be pulled off the line in Europe and send them to America's or India. Shift my different units around the world to fight in whatever theatre of war I'm in involved in
I just can get this, says I need to insert a Disk 🤔 at the end of the setup before installing from Downloading.
100% will give it a shot tonight. Also mad respect to modders that provide install videos
Please stop using AI art on those thumbnails!
Why
Yeah. Not to take away from the hard work of the modders, but we really need an actual Empire 2 (meaning brand-new engine). You can put as much cream and frosting on a pile of horse manure as you want, it's still a pile of horse manure.
Mods must be easier to install
Thanks for the spotlight, I went and tried it, but, sadly, the number of units makes UI so cluttered that it became almost unplayable for me. And those are mostly just pointless same units with different name.
There must be trading points for tar & timber some of the most important raw materials for sailing ships time period and some of the points must be around/at the Nordic & Baltic states it was a large part of trade during the 1600s-1800s can't believe the original game missed it altogether & the same with the modder guild.
I hope someone can add more settlements to the mod so we can have way more to conquer and build are empire
Got banned from the discord for criticising the morale system, i wouldn’t recommend this mod
Sorry to hear that mate :( Modders aside and the morale issue aside did you enjoy the mod or nah not really
@@TheTerminatorGaming I liked a lot of things they did with the mod (especially the graphical improvements) but the modders made the battle AI way more unbalanced then it should have been. A lot of the time I would have enemy militia units beat my regular line infantry in firefights and once I had 6 regular infantry units chainriute in a mele with a single unit of the AI. Also the mod performs a lot worse than other mods
@@floppypancakes9509what would you say is still the best mod for empire? Darthmod still?
The morale is the only thing I dislike about this mod. I’ve had similar situations to what you have described happen to me too. Indians throwing axes just walk up, toss and bunch of axes and before I know it my well trained infantry is broken.
I would say Imperial Destroyer with VDM is the best so far I would agree with floppy about the unbalanced combat with empire 2 and vdm also is not meant for it either it needs to be that extra help you need to survive with a mod like imperial destroyer
Selling dreams again? I will wait for a year but thanks for posting.
Am I the only one that wants another Napoleon game?
But how did the modders solve France being a single province so if you conquer Paris, you conquer France? Genuinely curious.
Well... that's the neat part, they didn't
Nice effort! This mod shows more love given than CA...
I always prefered Napoleon total war, i wish they could expand the map to include the Americas for NTW :(
Yeah Empire got shafted by it's map, and Napoleon got an even Worse map...
America was even involved in the Napoleonic wars as a combatant nation with some crazy amphibious battles that happened near the Great Lakes.
I find your videos a bit overhyped. What "impossible" did they achieve? Empire's AI was garbage making the game almost unplayable for veterans of total war games. Does the computer now flank you? Does cavalry break through lines and chase down routers properly?
If only any mod could make AI armies in battles actually behave like a real army might. Just give us line infantry battles where the infantry is actually in a damn line!
BE CAREFUL USING THIS MOD, yes its hella fun and good.
But its actually a copy from a Russian version, thus there are bugs which they cannot fix.
Ive started countless campaigns that eventually crash around 100, making a huge waste of time. This happens to other players too in their Discord. With no solution at all.
Nooooooo
Yeah, almost everthing that the Empire 2 mod is being praised for, was taken (stolen) from the Pirates Uber Alles mod. That mod deserves more recognition.
What about the melee AI?
And musket units having to fully turn, reform and only then being able to fire?
And siege battle AI?
Has the number of battle maps (settlement & fort) increased?
None of these matter as long as the campaign has like 30 settlements with hugely important countries like France and Spain having only their capital. As long as Empire's map can't be modded, all effort is in vain.
Sadly the AI still seems to be dumb as fuk...they walk around in front of your fireline, ocassionaly shooting back after 4 Minutes of getting into position. : / Only an info for everyone who expect significant changes in this area.
Me: "Diving into this game during my mid 30's years" .....lol Actually back in 2010 when I got a new computer, I saw this game on the shelf in Walmart and thought "oh cool"...bought it and went headlong into Total War....until Atilla.
So it's not on Steam!?
Tried playing, but honestly what IS the deal with thousands of different line infantry? Impossible to even try to scroll through all the units to find which you want to recruit. Gave up after an hour.
But does it give the British an industrial edge with science, technology, mercantilism? Or is everyone starting equal for gamification balance?
It would be great for Empire Total War to expand the map of the Americas, Africa and Asia precisely to be able to colonize!
Love it great improvement on the original game . Now I have it can someone tell me if there is a way to get the research all done FAST . Cheat mode is fine
I find it disgusting, how ruthless modders pirate the work of a small indie developer like CA...
😂😂
India had 540 princely states and we just get one wish we had more options and cultural diversity in the game
Had to stop playing this mod because I had a weird glitch where my ships couldn't travel between theatres but I remember playing it for the first time after actually getting it working. The visual upgrade was the thing that hit you first but then technology changes, faction changes and map changes all came in and made such interesting game after game as I replayed each faction. I think this mod basically made the game what I would have wanted from Empire so i'm just glad that skilled and passionate people also had those ideas almost a decade before me to start working on the mod lol
Might have to give it another go if it's been updated.
Yep, me too. A newly built trader ship could travel (it seems) but when it arrived nothing happend. Too bad, hopefully it's fixed now...
@@jensskjeld2598Mam ten samy probem, mod je uzasny ale nemuzu cestovat lodemi mimo evropu coz je skoda a nevim jestli je to uz opravene? Max se muzu dostat do indie pres cely blizky vychod coz je utopicke valecne tazeni :D
Empire total war was a total disappointment.,..i can never understand how people liked it even at the time.
When I played 3.4 I cannot pass beyon 90 turns when its spain's turn game closes down I hope they fixed that and about unit balance reformed turkish infantry(giving us right at the beginning of the game) in terms of stats is much better than Nizam-i Cedit infantry(late game infantry have to research ton of technology) why is that what is the point of having Nizam-i Cedit if I can do much better with Reformed Turkish Infantry?
Do sieges grind to a 5 fps halt in this mod?
Yep
Did he just breeze by 4.5k units like it’s not the most bar shit crazy thing in that list?
sadly the ai is still braindead even on highest difficulty, so the mod is practically useless in singleplayer
I'm so glad you mentioned the instability of the mod now, because in the Empire II video a year ago I received information about an amazing mod (superlatives only), which I immediately went to try, to find out the mod is unplayable. I will try again and hope!
Those naval battles alone were next level back then. Happy memories!
Judging by the thumbnail of this video, I tought the point of it would be how they stole a LOT of things, from units to ideas, from a muuuuuch more fleshed out mod without even asking for permission, called Pirates Uber Alles. Check it out Terminator. You'll love it! :)
Glad I found the PUA mod after playing Empire 2. Almost everything that Empire 2 is being praised for, was taken from the PUA mod. Those modders deserve the recognition being given to this mod.
At 4:45 and for about a minute afterwards, every time you show the map, I see a Central Asia region, and then I also notice the Americas are all filled in. Like time I checked this mod, it did not have that, and only Imperial Destroyer had it. Does this mod finally fill in the empty regions like ID does? Does it include the Bajar Sultanate in the East Indies trade theatre like ID has? Do any other trade theatres have occupiable regions in them? Are all factions playable?
Sorry for the many questions. I've Loyally stuck with ID for years because of the extra regions, and now that I see them here, I want to know more. But was thrown off that some parts in the video the campaign map looked like vanilla. Lastly, what's the orange circle in the Sahara at 4:45? Is that a new region as well?
There's only the region in the west indies ID added.
@@noblesseoblige7112 What are you talking about? ID added 5 regions in the Americas, a region in Arabia, a region in Central Asia, and a region in the East Indies.
@@parthiaball sorry all the regions ID added are also in this mod but the other trade theatres don't have occupiable regions.
@@noblesseoblige7112 The "other trade regions" not having regions being Brazil, Ivory Coast, and Madagascar? Okay good to know. What about that orange Circle-looking area in the Sahara at 4:45?
Most annoying thing (other than random declarations of war like Prussia declaring war on the British), was that you were often forced to say, conquer France as the British to end the war, what you need is a Napoleon feature where you can make them a vassal.
I wish whole world map could be reshaped again. Conquering whole France, Spain, Turkey and etc with only one battle makes everything ruined. Big countries must be divided into much more provinces to be realistic 😢
kinda clickbaity thumbnail. It caught me off guard, and in protest I won't watch this video!
You've already clicked it and even posted a comment. The engagement has been charted and RUclips will now be pushing this video ever so slightly harder. The thumbnail and title succeeded whilst you failed in your protest, I'm afraid.
Impressive work! Thanks for the heads up.
Will be looking into this myself :)
Great Video!!! Thank you for the update to my favorite TW (Other then Rome II) game. 75K views speaks for itself. You deserve more then 33K subs. Total War, Stellaris and HOI4 are all you need ... IN A LIFETIME!
I really hope they manage to add a royal family mechanic like the previous games had and Empire had originally planned
So battles against AI are still broken and stupid :/ :(
that is just impressive, specially that you can build an Empire of the Pirates!
Empire was great only thing that prevented me from finishing a campaign was the fort lag. Too frustrating bombarding walls. Such a shame.
Trick was to bombard the fort without making a breach, which triggered the bug.
Mortars firing Quicklime ftw
Thank you for your work, Termi. Let me just express a bit of criticism here. I hope you don't get offended or something. As an old TW fan, I only want the best for this RUclips channel and TW community in general.
So, my point is that I think the variety of the footage that you use in the video production can be increased. Those short video clips that the whole video is made of start repeating too early and sometimes are repeated too often. In my opinion, it makes the final product look a bit more boring than it should be. I know that it takes quite a lot of time to make it as it is. And I am grateful for whatever content you produce, my friend. I just want to draw your attention to this problem.
Constructive feedback is always welcome mate, I appreciate it. I’ll work on a better variety of footage :)
Another amazing video buddy 👏
I haven't had the chance to try out the new update due to life reasons, but I did install it and have played the previous version quite a lot. Can't wait to see what has changed.
The thing I like the most about the mod is the fact that we finally got unique factions on the battlefield with the massive amount of units added, like you have mentioned.
But everything about it is amazing and you are soo right. Just a little bit more work and it will be among the greats such as DEI.
A lot of time has passed since the game was released and many things have changed. Seeing what WH3 looks like I think they have the technology, the basis, to make an awesome ETW 2 game. But unlike WH3 I would like it to have old mechanics and features and not to be streamlined.
did they fix the game breaking issues with sieging settlements?
There are too many units to recruit on the ground, that's what I never liked about mods.
Yeah and they differ with like 1 point of morale, feels like at least 70% of units are useless.
dude got a diglett as his youtube account picture lmao
darth mod was crap, seriously broke the game
But why does prussia have 30 half baked units 50% without description and lots of redundance? Did i install it wrong? Do those units disappear?
you dont need empire 2, you need a mod that fixes AI so you don't have to constantly feel like you're playing against horse with lobotomy
Mods can only do so much to change core systems like AI.
I got TAR (the American Revolution) Mod working and its been cool to see so many units for the factions (The US faction got a Fairfax County unit, which is where i'm from.)
It's unclear a bit to me in regards to the multiplayer. Does it allow now to play a coop campaign where in battles you can play Player vs AI instead of forced PVP? (Currently If you play MP Campaign, other player will have to take control of AI units in battle so it's always Player vs Player)
Empire has been, and might always be, my favorite and most played Total War. If been waiting, and may never get an Empire 2. Darth Mod was a great mod but my biggest frustration with Empire has always been the AI. Nothing sucked the wind out of me more than having the enemy throw their cavalry at me in the beginning then engage me with a broken formation. Many battles began and ended with me just creating a solid formation, even with inferior troops and numbers, and waiting for the enemy formations to just partially throw themselves at me. I had a handful of battles in my Empire Campaigns with Darth Mod that were truly nail bitters that came down to the last few army groups being paired with my general for the morale boost just to steal a victory. Those battles were few and far between but I will download this Mod.
Modders, doing “almost” everything we wish Creative Assembly would do
If CA ever make a Empire 2 I think it should be set in the same sort of time period as Fall of The Samurai was. Somewhere inbetween 1850 and 1899
Biggest problem is territories in Empire, just take Paris and France is gone. Should have been somewhere close to Med 2 territories
Napoleon 2 is still the one I'm holding out for.
Would love a Grand Campaig that lets you fluidly take Revolutionary France through the Consulate, across the First Empire and towards a fictional 1816 should France manage to endure.
Empire was the first time I was disappointed by CA. Not the last, of course, but it was the worst. Having the enemy general streak across the battlefield to go down in a hail of musket shot blew my teenage mind. I was so jazzed for naval warfare (even today, the ships rocking in the water after a broadside barrage gives me chills) only to find the rest of the game was so lacking.
I will check this mod out. Maybe these modders can give me the experience I was hoping for at 17.
I can't forget Empire Total War either.
It's the last game I've purchased from the TW series, and my first sign, that the industry is about to start a nose dive that we still haven't pulled out of.
What a broken, unfinished, unplayable piece of shit this game was.🖕
What new regions?
I just want a historical European gunpowder game based on fall of the samurai architecture
Yup I second that and I would not mind getting medieval 3 based on normal shogun 2. it is good enough to this day.
Which is better Empire 2 or Darthmod?
The lack of provinces especially in Europe was disappointing. One settlement for France and Spain. Really?
I wish CA would fucking get their shit together and realize how many want a freaking Empire 2
Sounds good. We should really need the original game creators to make a second game here including the entire world and maybe have provinces like EU4.
Could never get into this game. Take one city and take pretty much all of france? lol. Game was bad
So, can you do a comparison vid about darthmod vs empire 2?
Sure I could do!
Been playing nonstop since yesterday. I think it could use some changes but i made those myself instead. LOVE this mod... so immersive!!
What/how did you change?
Hello !
Where can I download this game and the mod?? 🤔🤔🤔
The game is Empire Total War you’ll have to buy that on steam or a 3rd party vendor. The mod is linked in the video description
isnt it funny how Creative Assembly has become so disillusioned with what we want, that modders have to step up and give the experiences we want. I never wanted that limited game Troy. I never wanted this new Egypt campaign (which too, is limited). We want huge maps with huge empires to conquer the world....
The problem of the Empire is poor AI, both in strategic and tactical mode. A small global map despite the presence of three regions of the planet. The map of Europe should be exactly more detailed, there should be more provinces, France, Spain and a number of other regions should be divided into other subregions, as was done at least in the same Napoleon Total Var. Extremely weak diplomacy, there is no way to invite another faction to join the war that has already begun. Taking into account the historical period, it should be possible to negotiate not only between individual factions, but also coalitions, so that wars begin and end immediately between all parties to the conflict. There are no governors, there is no focus on domestic policy, as it is implemented though in the same Attila. A weak ground battle, there is no possibility of participating in one battle, for example, in a siege, both the ground army and the fleet, at least truncated. A lot of things have not been implemented, and they will already be implemented. The problem is in the mechanics. The graphics in it are decent even today.