Lord_Chris

I'm hosting it but it depends on how many players there are as to whether we can play in teams or not.

Great to hear it! :) The password and username can be found here

OK, though it is far from perfect yet, I have only briefly looked, and I haven't really got concrete details on what you want I have got something small working. 1.) Go to /stronghold 2/meshes/units/models/ and find "dagger_outlaw.GR2". Copy and paste the file "spear_lo.GR2" and rename it to the first name. 2.) Go to /stronghold 2/meshes/units/animations/soldier/ and find the files: "outlaw_attack_dagger.GR2" -> "outlaw_attack_dagger_backup.GR2" "outlaw_attack_spear_e.GR2" -> "outlaw_attack_spear_e_backup.GR2" "outlaw_defend.GR2" -> "outlaw_defend_backup.GR2" Copy and paste the file 3 times: "outlaw_attack_spear.GR2" Rename the copies to the files: outlaw_defend.GR2, outlaw_attack_spear_e.GR2, outlaw_attack_dagger.GR2 Tell me if this is similar to what you want. If you can answer the following questions it will help more. 1.) Would you like the outlaw to defend themselves with the dagger when they get in close proximity to an enemy and hold the spear the remainder of the time, or would you just like them to fight with a spear all the time 2.) If the answer to the last question is the latter option, would you want them to fight in the same way spearmen do when they get close, or would you want them purely to always throw?

OK, unfortunately our DNS was being updated when sh4d0wknight474 replied to this topic and he posted to the old server so the reply was lost. Luckily, I still managed to get the reply notification, and know what version he is using. For the benefit of other people following this topic, the response is shown below. Apologies for your post being lost, I assure you though it won't happen again. I'll attempt to find the files and change it now, however, please do note that because it is the 1.4.1 version if it is a heavy modification it may not work.

If you would like to join in with the event, please post here so we know how many lobbies to set up. Otherwise, we cannot guarantee you a place!

We are currently moving servers, and our name servers need updating. For that reason, this afternoon I will be placing the site in maintenance mode to make sure that the transition happens correctly and without any chaos or loss of data.

They are pretty useless without them, I would agree there, but I suppose no unit can be invincible. Before I attempt anything could you tell me which game version you have? The medal is based on your rank, yours currently is a Squire so you have a red one. With every increase in your rank, your medal becomes more decorative. Just a nice add-on really :) You upgrade your rank based on your post count. Your rank also affects what privileges you have on the site; the higher your rank, the more privileges you have. See here for more info on that.

To increase the Outlaws' javelin speed, do you mean you want to decrease the time between it being thrown and spawning again? You can definitely do it in Stronghold Legends (which I've been meaning to do a tutorial on actually), so there will be a way in Stronghold 2 as well. But, it is different, I'll have a look for it and let you know when I find it. By that, I take it you mean a new topic. You go to the forum you want to post in, and click the "New Topic" button on the top right of the forum.

I personally apologise for the unexpected 6 and a half loss of our site both yesterday and today. We have now permanently fixed this issue.

I knew that it wouldn't just be as easy as changing file names, but at least we have an answer now. At the time I was busy, I didn't have a lot of time to check it out properly and figure out exactly what to change - then forgot about it afterwards. Another Note: I don't know whether you've seen my tutorial on adding units from stronghold legends into stronghold 2 - if you have, when you open up the UNI files in notepad or a text editor, you can do the exact same with the BDG files to see what files are required for that particular building. However, in theory that should be no different to changing the ".BDG" files because they are the equivalent of the .UNI files from the units. Are you talking about the GR2 files, DDS files or both here? - I would take it that it should be both, but just to confirm. Could you post them here in the forum, they sound great? :)

Is Letchy joining in?

Please also remember that if you would like to join it would be easier to post here so we know how many lobbies to setup. We will only wait a maximum of 10-15 minutes after the start time (5:30 GMT). If you do not post, we cannot guarantee you a place!

I've sent @Black_Knight a PM, and I'm waiting for him to respond. He's the real C++ expert here. If you only colour part of the .dds file in you will still be able to distinguish which troop belongs to which lord. Take a look at Stronghold 2 Heaven Miscellaneous Files, premade by users. You can see how users have coloured parts in, but not all so that people can still distinguish which troop belongs to which lord. There are also one or two in our Download Central, but not as many. You are also welcome to upload any mods you make to our site here. But, obviously as Doomsword has said above it may corrupt your game: So you'll have to be careful if you do still want to do it.

OK, hope you get better soon, I'll see you later.

There should be something that can be done really. I thought I was losing the connection, and I was about to leave because it just froze. I suppose when you're playing without a password, that's all you can expect. Shall we have a one between the two of us or shall we leave it at that?

It's a bit inconsiderate in my opinion. I don't know how they caused it, but they should have at least warned us first.

Oh, I thought you could pause it by just pressing escape or clicking "menu". You're the expert online though ;) You can't even send messages, I've tried.

Really badly... I think they've pressed escape and paused it.

Yep still up for it I'll see you then. I'll post an announcement out temporary until then.

Issue fixed. Thanks. Full event link: http://www.stronghold-nation.com/community/events/4/23-03-2014/stronghold-2/multiplayer-match

OK, that's fine. Let me know when you've set it up :) As a note: Have you decided what time the game for the 23rd will be yet?

I take it Friday now, I'll be ready for 4 in case we decide to start then.

Ok, I'm fine with either of those providing it's about half four again, so whatever's best for you two.

I've played it for many years as well. The issue I'm having is that because I've being creating the site for that long now, I haven't actually had much time to play stronghold 2 and when I do normally play it, I'm still working on my campaign without gong, rats.etc so I forget how to play it properly and get so used to doing certain things that when it comes to play... It's much more of a challenge multiplayer, I like it. When shall the next match be?

How do you do it so fast? :o