Re: Stronghold Crusader 2 Crack Only 110
Josephine Heathershaw
While I waited for the Pig to finish my poor stronghold off, I was just wondering, is there any way to get people to start coming back to the stronghold? Of it it hits zero, and you have no money and materials left, then are you out of luck?
Basically, if you have your font size in windows set to something different than the default, it causes the game's window to not display properly as in: it shows up but only partially or is in the corner of the screen for some reason and only the few lowest resolutions work which is annoying because the GUI is huge and the only way to actually see anything else than your keep is to zoom out which reduces the level of detail by quite a lot. The way to fix this and use your default resolution again is to either change the font size in the windows settings to default or to go into the mod's executable, right click on the file, go into properties, compatibility and there is the "run the tool for fixing problems with compatibility" or something along those lines option. You run the tool and when it asks what's wrong you choose the option where it says that the programme does open but isn't displayed properly and then you click on the option that states that there are issues when using different font sizes in windows. You click on that and click on the testing button to see if it works. After making sure you can use your desired resoultion properly you exit the game and save the settings in the tool. Done! You can now enjoy the mod properly!
Other than that there are three real flanks to worry about. The northeast, the southeast and the southwest. Generally speaking the northeast will only be ranged units which can be easily dispatched, this means you will not need to defend this flank very heavily.
You simply have to use the catapults to knock down the walls and kill the archers on top. Going with only one is silly as it will get easily destroyed. This mission is a balance of pushing in on the enemy and sitting back to defend random spawn pushes.
About half way in you are going to want to begin building a second army that is only for the west. This army should be composed of pikemen, footmen, knights, and crossbowmen. It will need far less units, but they will also be far more expensive. Since they only have two flanks to cover they can just sit in between the two points.
With your wood once you have all of your stone and iron production you should focus on food. Some milk and some meat production will be valuable. But the real money will be in bread. Lay down wheat fields, a mill, and some bakers. Throughout the game this is the one resource you will be constantly expanding on as it is the only one that will provide decent income.
You can send your forces in and simply bypass them (like two trains passing in the night). At this point you just try and slow down their advance while your own ball of units pushing in and kills the lord. You only need 10 surviving footmen to kill a lord, so the number you should have by this point will be ample.
I have been trying to get strong hold crusader hd to launch in a 720p
window mode all evening the game does not support windowed mode by default
and d3dwindower no longer seems to work with the HD patches. So I started
playing with dxwnd. It will launch the game but only allow screen
resolutions of 1024x768 / 800x600 with any settings I have tried.
The experimental version was meant to support just these two resolutions. I'm glad to hear it worked.
There is no problem to add whatever you may need, please just reply with a list of proposed resolutions and I will add them: from the game point of view it should be no problem, since the screen is virtualized and the actual screen resolution never changes.
You can pick from here ( _display_resolution#FHD ), avoiding to propose all of them (they're so many!).
The only concern is about very high resolutions: it has no meaning to blit to a virtual high resolution screen to render then the surface to a smaller window: you may easily get just poor performances.
I've one interesting release candidate version, so if you post the list I could release an official release quite soon.
I am having a problem with this stronghold as well. But it isnt the same problem. I completed the quest. Rang the bell. It gave me the renown and shows as complete. However enemies infinite spawn there and there is no waypoint or NPCs.
The final really big change that fans of the original Stronghold games will notice is the overhaul of tactical powers. A bar down the right side of the screen gradually fills up as you play, and you can use a certain amount of this bar to unleash various tactical powers on your enemy. The simplest power, using only a small chunk of the bar, is a volley of arrows - but spend more of your bar and you could summon reinforcements instantly to a besieged area, or bombard an enemy building with catapulted rocks. It's not exactly a nod to realism, but these powers live up to their billing by providing you with brand new tactical options in tight situations.
Stronghold Crusader Extreme also deserves its "Extreme" name not only due to the huge number of units unleashed, but also because it's extremely hard. Rock hard, in fact. Although by no means a green recruit to PC strategy gaming, your humble correspondent got his arse kicked quite thoroughly by the very first battle in the campaign in the space of about two minutes. A few attempts later, with my head around some of the basic concepts - and the insane pace of initial base-building - I managed to hold out for almost ten minutes before watching my buildings burned, my peasants murdered and my fields ploughed with salt. Probably.
However, Firefly does still have newcomers in mind, and Stronghold Crusader Extreme will actually ship with a full version of Stronghold Crusader in the box. In addition, you'll also get all of the add-on content that's been created for Crusader since its launch, including the content from the "Warchest" pack, which was previously available only in North America. As such, it's certainly the definitive edition of Stronghold Crusader - and there's something here for new players intrigued by the combination of castle management and strategy, as well as for the hardened veterans of many siege campaigns.
In 2003, the game was included in a US-only compilation with the original game, titled Stronghold Warchest, with a unique build and an exclusive extra singleplayer trail. In 2008, the game was re-released as Stronghold Crusader Extreme with a special executable featuring new singleplayer content and poorly received gameplay changes, but with the Warchest version of the original made available internationally for the first time. Both were updated to the HD version in 2012 with bug fixes and widescreen support.
No, there is no way to do it through the cfg file. To change the resolution to a higher one, it has to be done throw exe and other files - simply because of how changing resolution in Crusader works. (That is, the game just had to be patched to an HD version.) It adds something to corners which in lower resolutions wouldn't be visible - among other things.
On the bright side, you're not the only one playing "on 10% of your power". Others see less in the 1024x768 resolution too. :)
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The conscript is a fast and cheap unit available at the barracks. He has low health and a very little damage output, as he only wields a blunt club, suffering against armored units. However, he has a fast movement speed and is unique, being the only Crusader unit that needs no weapons from the armoury, only gold and a free peasant. With little investment, a player can quickly accumulate a force of conscripts.
The primary Crusader unit, which is the only one which does not require a weapon to hire - all you need is a tiny amount of gold. It's, unfortunately, connected with the fact, that the unit is one of the weakest in the game - it won't be able to kill anything on its own, and even sending a huge group of them won't be able to deal any significant harm.
The successor to Stronghold, Crusader, will improve on the original game by including only the best parts of the original game--besieging and defending castles--and it won't bother with any purely economic missions, which tended to be a bit too straightforward in the original game, anyway. Stronghold: Crusader will instead focus mainly on battles loosely based on the Crusades, the campaign in medieval Europe that brought the likes of Richard the Lionheart into the Middle East to do battle with Saladin, King of Syria. You'll be able to play through one of four single-player historical campaigns on either side of the Crusades and will also be able to play through an additional crusader campaign, which will consist of a whopping 50 scenarios. And Crusader will also feature the original game's sandbox mode, which will let you build either a classical European castle or one of the game's new Arabian castles.
Historically, the Crusades were characterized by invasion and siege campaigns. Though European armies had previously swept eastward and captured the holy city of Jerusalem, the Syrian ruler Saladin and his armies besieged and sacked the city in 1187 AD. Two years later, King Richard of England set forth to retake Jerusalem, but his campaign was unsuccessful--the siege ended in a stalemate. The first three campaigns of Stronghold: Crusader will follow these events. In the first campaign, which will comprise the first Crusade, you'll play as the European armies on their mission to seize Jerusalem, while in the second campaign, you'll play as Saladin's armies, and you must drive the crusaders out of Palestine. In the third campaign, you'll take up the standard of Richard the Lionheart and attempt to retake Jerusalem, while the fourth and final campaign will consist of fictitious skirmishes among various nobles who fought to control small crusader states after the major campaign came to an end.
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