Friday, October 25, 2013

Patcher Update

As many of you have noticed in the past few weeks, the patcher got broken... This was actually pretty normal to happen at one point, the same happened with the version 5.2 patcher and the same would have happened in the future.

Now, I'm not good with this stuff so I can't explain it perfectly but basically the web host on which the mod was hosted for updates has an IP change from time to time and so it brakes the patcher.
We looked for alternative hosts but couldn't find anything good for free, because, well, a paid host was not a very appealing option for me for several reasons.

Anyhow, after a lot of searching, testing and work on the patcher itself, Shyke, the programmer which made the patcher and to which I am owe a lot for his help, said we should use GitHub and so we did.

The result? A new patcher which downloads and updates the mod faster but takes a bit longer to set up the first time you run it. After that first time everything should be fast and clean. Well, maybe not that clean, the patcher will make some additional folders and files inside AoE3 in order to function as it is, but it's nothing to worry about.

So, download the newest patcher version, put it where you have the game installed, run it (as administrator) and update!
How can you know if it worked? Simple, I've added some new gameplay soundtracks, so go start a skirmish match and listen if the first song you hear is new! Also tell me if you like it, I found it on YouTube and maybe you think it doesn't fit the game very well.

Thank you everyone for playing and many thanks to Shyke for his amazing work!


Because of obvious reasons I now have to put the UI warning/fix in every new post that I make so I'll have less people asking me all the time how to fix the resource icons being messed up...

If you have problems with the UI not displaying resources correctly go to "Options" and press the "Restore Defaults" button!