Comments - ProtoWario

Hellatorius Victorialis?
Erastus Necessitas?
Honararius Despondeo?

What awaits us, War continues on..

Forgot to mention about an "Easter egg", found way back in Changhan.
Go to the prison of this Capital City, head further in and break down the door.

When you find yourself in a deliberate designed maze,
where one reaches the final destination like a mouse for cheese.

You'll wind up in the Royal Tomb with 2 giant guard statues and
an empty treasure chest for perhaps a secret something of the future..

You can use this site to download the song from.
Else I'll just sent it to you as mediafile.

Going to my fourth playthrough of "Rise of Three Kingdoms".
This mod has some of the most fitting OST for the campaign map.
But I suggest more war themes for the battles as there aren't as many.

1. ROTK TV 1994: "Three Sworn Brothers vs Lu Bu"
About 4 mins long, I'm not sure how you download songs from this site.

2. ROTK TV 2010: "Horse General Ma Chao vs Tiger General Xu Zhu"
Less than a minute, I recommend extending the soundtrack by three times.

Here are the epic battle scenes from both TV series.
https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnlwceJj50g
https: //www.youtube.com/watch?v=xO_aS50uKno

ProtoWario's Supersized Tweaks & Edits Mediafire.com

1. Tinkered with the party sizes without the Lords Army ballooning (high stats).
Starting Troop Size = 100
1 Leadership = 15
15 Renown = 1

1 1/2. Morale tweaked to accommodate with the levy increase.
Tinkered Villager and Mercenary recruitment to match China's large constription.

2. Emperors get 10 strength & agility, meanwhile Princes getah 5 increase.
Food that goes bad have had their amount halved, its eating increased & price decreased.

3. Units won't run away straight as the battle starts.
Doubled to 90 seconds for the cowards before routing

4. Recruiting Prisoner is half a day instead of a full one.
Prisoner Recruitment cost one morale instead of three.

5. Relations & Right to Rule have been increased
Bandits spawn less frequently, doubled the time to 72 hours.

6. Tournaments bets and prices have been increased to reasonable amount.
Arenas also give you more cash if your up to doing it.

7. All Ammunition have at least 50% increase, Neutral/Evil Parties have their amount doubled, edited Faction Colours to match those of Chinese Culture.

8. Other stuff that I forgot to mentioned since this was weeks ago into my "Lets Play". Really hope "Mad Science Development Studios" will check out some of my edits (hourlong searches) to perhaps improve the F.D.A.T.K. mod.

9. Decreased the battle lag by turning off dust.
You can now crouch, proceed to see crossbowmen do so.

10. Horse charge, fall damage, couch lance has been damage lowered.
Shock damage is now 5, which mean you won't be stunned by a butterknife.

0. I only got companions to shut up after a battle, couldn't get them to do so indefinitely. I don't know how the author adjusted the Garrison sizes with his own secret method.

One can use a program like "winmerge" to compare said text files even after many updates, but someone of vast experience no doubt already knows this.

Example: game_get_party_companion_limit -1
26 2133 2 1224979098644774912 360287970189639680 2133 2 1224979098644774913 "100" (30) 2170 3 1224979098644774914 1369094286720630785 1224979098644774912 2172 3 1224979098644774915 1224979098644774912 3 2107 2 1224979098644774914 "15" (10)

Recommend naming the "Princes" into "Grand Prince", because they're technically Kings in titles, linguistics also supports my proposal.

Even though viewed by later Historians as just Warlords, many ruled territories and populations bigger than most European Countries.

Just as "Grand Duke" can denote equivalence of a King, so can adding the prefix Grand to Prince makes it look/sound more splendorous.

For any readers wondering you can do such changes in the "troops.txt" file.

This mod has so far chosen some excellent soundtracks.
Further have 2 more theme suggestions for the overworld.

1. "梦回大唐 Back to Great Tang" song Youtube.com
One can feel as though they've been teleported to a former glorious Capital, ahh Changan was once such but now largely in ruins..

2. "Chamomile Chinese Harp" music Youtube.com
Favourite instrumental for traveling across the map. I tell ya hwat, players will pause it by the listening of this play.

Supposed the closest comparison for this mod in terms of gameplay would be "Gekokujo" (Warlord era). It takes place in the second worst period in all of Chinese Historia (10th century).

Fall of the "Great Tang Dynasty", was as miserable affair as the "Byzantine Dark Ages".
Certainly a most unique setting being made by an already self-proven modder.

Would say that this one is in late Alpha stage, the base game is however there. Not much variety yet namely in terms of weapons, presently the armour show colour swaps of each other.

Another thing I would like to see reworked is the weather, lack of snow in the North or rain in the South can feel quiet jarring. Restructuring the aimless Geography like Sichuan province should be on the list.

Haven't encounter much of any campaign breaking bugs, although the giant reinforcement wave (forced glitch) was a great pain with no cure in sight, had to set "battle size" to 70 to mediate any 400+ unit lag.

In its current form with constant updates from the creator,
I'll want to give it a score of 6 with an extra 1 point in keeping-up effort.

This review was written after a complete playthrough of version 1.3,
looking forward to this ambitious project as his previous done-work.