AOE-II WololoKingdoms Update 5.7.4

[T-West]

Edit: Hotfix to fix a bug with the Khmer building bonus has been pushed. The version is now 5.7.4. The autoupdater has also been disabled.

Hello! TriRem is on vacation, so I'm handling the updating of WololoKingdoms files this time around. This update is version 5.7.3 5.7.4, which will be ranked on Voobly shortly after this post is made.

This version was originally supposed to be released alongside HD's update to version 5.8, but unfortunately HD has not been updated as we expected it to be. Version 5.8 will now be a separate release when HD does update, and 5.7.3 5.7.4 will now include several bug fixes, including the correction to Battle Elephant splash damage. This version requires the most recent beta version of UserPatch 1.5.

Please rerun the WololoKingdoms installer for this update. Make sure that you are not in the 5.8 beta on Steam when installing (double check that you have opted out of all betas when running the installer).

As always, the installer and changelog are available here: https://github.com/AoE2CommunityGitHub/WololoKingdoms/releases

Changes with this version:
* Battle Elephant splash damage only deals half damage now
* Demo Ships placed in the Scenario Editor self-destruct properly.
* Unit groups have been seperated further: Slavs&Byzantines remain as the 70k group, there is a new 160k group with Huns&Mongols, and a new 170k group for Magyars. Thanks to YuenHsiaoTieng for feedback!
* Thanks to AbductedPlatypus, there are new&improved DLC terrain graphics. No flickering of Mangrove terrains in the fog of war, less weird patterns and other improvements
* Tooltips etc. updated for the 5.8 balance changes. Note: This means some of the tooltips show changes that haven't happened yet until 5.8 is official. It would be too much work for little gain to change this.
* Included two additional Data Mods at request: No Collision Trade is a data mod that makes Trade Cogs/Carts have almost no collision size. Additional Editor Units is for scenario designers and unhides units in the scenario editor, with better names/

Installer improvements:
* Resource files should now be loaded correctly if the exe is called from another directory (Thanks to Greg_Stream for the feedback)
* Two instances fixed where users got incorrect/not useful error messages (such as "age2_x1.xml" not being found)

 

[_5_]

Thank you. I am just curious. What does this mean.

Unit groups have been seperated further: Slavs&Byzantines remain as the 70k group, there is a new 160k group with Huns&Mongols, and a new 170k group for Magyars. Thanks to YuenHsiaoTieng for feedback!

 

[OrnLu528]

* Battle Elephant splash damage only deals half damage now

And a million voices of players attempting Malay Battle Elephant rushes suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

 

[T-West]

Thank you. I am just curious. What does this mean.

Just like was done for the Independent Architecture mod, the graphics files for units have been split up so that different civilizations can now have different graphics (e.g. Aztec and Japanese champions can now look different if you use visual mods). However, civilizations were split into pools that share the same units. This change separates out some of the civilizations so they are in separate pools.

There is an Independent Unit graphics mod if you want to check out some of the changes. https://www.voobly.com/gamemods/mod/1017/Independent-Unit-Compilation-for-WK

 

[TriRem]

Thanks a lot for your help T-West <3

 

[teutonic_tanks]

is it possile to fix the small wall option? for me still half of the civs dont have it.

 

[Jineapple]

Thanks for pushing the update T-West Hopefully everything goes smooth with the update phase. It should be ready for 5.8 as well, so when that update goes live, there should be no change to the installer exe needed, just a couple of file updates. Nothing needed from my side then.

Thank you also to AbductedPlatypus, A1357, hhirsch, thewolfs, millerTB, a453712990, YuenHsiaoTieng who reported the issues that were fixed in 5.7.3. Big thanks also to scripter, who provided the battle elephant blast damage fix and was an invaluable help debugging another error as well <3

is it possile to fix the small wall option? for me still half of the civs dont have it.

I assume you're using the WK architectures mod? The changed wall graphics there will override the small wall graphics. If you want to fix that locally, you can copy the small wall graphic files from the WololoKingdoms 5.7.3/resources/short_walls folder and paste them into the the Voobly Mods/AoC/Local Mods/WK Architecture Showcase mod, replacing the files there. You also might want to rename the folder afterwards so an update to the mod doesn't undo your local change.
If someone wants to, this could also be uploaded as an alternative architecture mod to the voobly mod centre.

 

[HyunaOP]

And a million voices of players attempting Malay Battle Elephant rushes suddenly cried out in terror, and were suddenly silenced.

Now they're no longer the most uncounterable unit in AOE2 Kappa

(Khmer battle ele rush are still better Keepo)

 

[The_Philos]

Thank you very much for this update!

@Jineapple
https://www.aoezone.net/threads/a-goodbye-for-now-and-a-request.141270/#post-574421

 

[teutonic_tanks]

I assume you're using the WK architectures mod? The changed wall graphics there will override the small wall graphics. If you want to fix that locally, you can copy the small wall graphic files from the WololoKingdoms 5.7.3/resources/short_walls folder and paste them into the the Voobly Mods/AoC/Local Mods/WK Architecture Showcase mod, replacing the files there. You also might want to rename the folder afterwards so an update to the mod doesn't undo your local change.
If someone wants to, this could also be uploaded as an alternative architecture mod to the voobly mod centre.

I did that, but sadly everyhing remains the same. SOme civs have small walls, while others dont. It's completly random, even civs like sara or franks, where everything stays as it is have big walls.

 

[robo]

I did that, but sadly everyhing remains the same. SOme civs have small walls, while others dont. It's completly random, even civs like sara or franks, where everything stays as it is have big walls.

Sounds like the wall mod hasn't been updated for the new civ identifiers?

 

[MembTV]

Just like was done for the Independent Architecture mod, the graphics files for units have been split up so that different civilizations can now have different graphics (e.g. Aztec and Japanese champions can now look different if you use visual mods). However, civilizations were split into pools that share the same units. This change separates out some of the civilizations so they are in separate pools.

There is an Independent Unit graphics mod if you want to check out some of the changes. https://www.voobly.com/gamemods/mod/1017/Independent-Unit-Compilation-for-WK

Hey, im testing this and it changed also the font in the ingame, for overview, spec overlay, notifications from overlay in chat, basically changed full the font, why this affect to the font? it use some font pretty cool but small probably for the stream.

 

[teutonic_tanks]

Sounds like the wall mod hasn't been updated for the new civ identifiers?

how can i update that?

@Jineapple pls upload that mod, it would help me a lot <3

 

[robo]

how can i update that?

@Jineapple pls upload that mod, it would help me a lot <3

No idea, I assume whoever made it/the wk devs need to update it.

I could be wrong, but if its acting inconsistently between civs using the same architecture style, thats all I can think of that would cause it.

 

[TriRem]

how can i update that?

@Jineapple pls upload that mod, it would help me a lot <3

I will look into it later this week, I think there are some files missing in WK.

 

[Jineapple]

I did that, but sadly everyhing remains the same. SOme civs have small walls, while others dont. It's completly random, even civs like sara or franks, where everything stays as it is have big walls.

Hey, thanks for the feedback. Robo is mostly right, there was code in the installer to handle the new independent architecture identifiers. At some point during refactoring, it seems I broke this code (Guess I should've documented this more :P)
I uploaded a fix for this now, please try it out (included in the auto-updater too). Note that the conflict with the WK Architecture showcase mod still exists. You'd need to delete any slp files from that which end in:
324
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345
347
349
351
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And now I'll heed my own resolution and head out again, thanks for the reminder.

 

[ChriSt]

No idea what you did, but it broke hotkeys. Also the khmer bonus is broken, as in you need a barrack to build a stable.

 

[Ruubenstock]

Khmer building requirement bonus is not working

 

[teutonic_tanks]

Khmer building requirement bonus is not working

+1 for me it isnt working neither

 

[_Melkor]

That really messed up my build for a 1v1 with khmer 111

 

[Jineapple]

Sorry guys. Update coming soon. Guess we'll have to go straight to 5.7.4 to avoid any OOS.

I'm not experiencing any issues with hotkeys though, can someone confirm?

 

[Flow]

Some of my hotkeys got changed as well, but I feel like that happens to me every WK update

 

[Jineapple]

Well unless this about the new hotkeys for Palisade Gate, Feitoria etc. it's not related to the data anyway. If you do encounter that your hotkeys are otherwise changed, please try to submit a bug report that's as detailed as possible.

I uploaded 5.7.4 now. Can someone who played a game with Khmer please test if they can play back that rec on 5.7.4? @ChriSt @Ruubenstock @teutonic_tanks @_Melkor

 

[Rgeadn]

I get this error "An error occured trying to save the data file. Error Message: stoi" when running the 5.7.4 installer, any ideas?

 

[teutonic_tanks]

installer isnt running now....
please dont make it instantly rated if it isnt working (no offense )