Yo, it's the newest noob, on the forums. Thanks for havin' me.
I spent most of my night tonight searching for the Stronghold 2 Manager, the one that let's you add AIs to multiplayer matches, as my friend and I wanted to coop against AI's in Stronghold 2 (which he prefers over Legends, due to a bad experience with Siegfried's frost giants crushing his everything), and, as you probably already have guessed, the short investigation turned up very few leads, most of which lead nowhere.
The fact that the manager existed and that people claimed that it worked proves one of the following: It's possible to enable multiplayer AI, or a long time ago, there was a modding conspiracy that a bunch of people were in on that still manages to make people look stupid today.
Rdkill claimed that it was as simple as changing some 0's to 1's and that anyone could pull it off, but where are these 0's, and why can't I pull it off? For the life of me, I could not find any decompilers for the .dlls or .dat files that are in the stronghold 2 folders (not that's I've been trying for that long), so am I looking in the wrong place? Has the answer been staring me right in the face the whole time? Am I stupid, or is it not as simple as Rdkill claimed? Am I extremely tired having been up four hours longer than I meant to be? I can answer one of those questions, and the answer is yes, very much so.
Anyway, can anybody help me out here; answer my questions? Where would I look to enable the AI in multiplayer, and how would I go about editing the correct files, or am I just coming about this all wrong?
I'm new to modding games in general, let alone modding a game without mod support from the devs, so sorry if this whole thing just sounds absolutely noobish.
At this point, I've considered searching for the actual SH2 Manager to be a pointless effort, so I'd like for everyone to focus on the enabling AI thing above, but if somebody can get me the version of the SH2 manager for 1.4.1, I'd appreciate it.
Thank you for your time.
I spent most of my night tonight searching for the Stronghold 2 Manager, the one that let's you add AIs to multiplayer matches, as my friend and I wanted to coop against AI's in Stronghold 2 (which he prefers over Legends, due to a bad experience with Siegfried's frost giants crushing his everything), and, as you probably already have guessed, the short investigation turned up very few leads, most of which lead nowhere.
The fact that the manager existed and that people claimed that it worked proves one of the following: It's possible to enable multiplayer AI, or a long time ago, there was a modding conspiracy that a bunch of people were in on that still manages to make people look stupid today.
Rdkill claimed that it was as simple as changing some 0's to 1's and that anyone could pull it off, but where are these 0's, and why can't I pull it off? For the life of me, I could not find any decompilers for the .dlls or .dat files that are in the stronghold 2 folders (not that's I've been trying for that long), so am I looking in the wrong place? Has the answer been staring me right in the face the whole time? Am I stupid, or is it not as simple as Rdkill claimed? Am I extremely tired having been up four hours longer than I meant to be? I can answer one of those questions, and the answer is yes, very much so.
Anyway, can anybody help me out here; answer my questions? Where would I look to enable the AI in multiplayer, and how would I go about editing the correct files, or am I just coming about this all wrong?
I'm new to modding games in general, let alone modding a game without mod support from the devs, so sorry if this whole thing just sounds absolutely noobish.
At this point, I've considered searching for the actual SH2 Manager to be a pointless effort, so I'd like for everyone to focus on the enabling AI thing above, but if somebody can get me the version of the SH2 manager for 1.4.1, I'd appreciate it.
Thank you for your time.