dannyldd: All of these AI bugs for single player campaigns are finally fixed up !!! Please take a look in my little mod (harder difficulty) campaigns mod for Warcraft 2 called DAIFE. It's verison 6.0 is already release and fully playable ! This mod will include several new custom features for the game and to make it look more fresh.
The mod also contains a finally made plugin and done by a russian developer.
All information you need to know is here:
https: //gamebanana.com/mods/288680
Good luck & have fun if any of you give it a try !
Malcador77: Danny, does this work with the new GOG Version?
Are these fixes also included in your brutal AI mod too?
Has it been fully play-tested?
Also, I would like to have the brutal AI but don't want the new interface or music, I want everything just like old times except the AI, can it be done?
Hey there bud, sorry for late response.
My mods ONLY work through war2 Combat Edition provided by russian community in
https://en.war2.ru GOG version is inferior in terms of modding since Blizzard does not allow the usage of plugins like Combat Edition, but also besides the fact GOG version I really doubt would give to any people the support that this game used to give back in the days. Combat Edition in the other hand, have my support and a russian developer friend which makes possible most of these enhancements still in 2022-2023+
Yes, these bug fixes for AI are also present in my Insane Edition mod. I tried to fix as many bugs from the original computer behavior as possible. I'm a human so there may be some remaining bugs out there but I tried what I could to get ride of them... Be adviced though, because Insane Edition mod is intended to be the Ultimate Warcraft 2 challenge and so then, you need high speed and quite some experience through the game with advanced strategies if wanna take a try on it.
Yes, DAIFE and Insane Edition alongside all the other mods have been tested up quite severely. Hopefully there may be the less amount of bugs as possible. I specifically gave a ton of time testing up those 2 mods, since they were my first two ones I ever did.
If you want to play DAIFE without the music or new interface, you can take a look within DAIFE up to v6.940 mod thread and within the last uploaded packages in there, you can find this one called as "war2_daife_bne_v6941_vanilla.rar" which only contains the maps and improved AI but no audio/visual enhancements.
I haven't made a pack for the insane edition mod containing just only the maps + harder AI difficulty. But if you want to try this out, just don't place the Plugin files into Plugins folder and simply do not place install.exe into main war2 folder.
If it's about to remove the remaining files from the mod to just have the maps + harder AI, then you need Ladisk's mpq editor and take a look inside war2patch.mpq, which is another file required to play this mod. Into this file, just remove all files except the folder "Campaign" and within "Rez" just keep in there the file called as ai.bin.
That's it.
Install.exe can be excluded from either DAIFE or Insane Edition since this file offers the customized music I added up for those mods. Simply discard that step to play the mod if you just want the base game to be played.
dannyldd: All of these AI bugs for single player campaigns are finally fixed up !!! Please take a look in my little mod (harder difficulty) campaigns mod for Warcraft 2 called DAIFE. It's verison 6.0 is already release and fully playable ! This mod will include several new custom features for the game and to make it look more fresh.
The mod also contains a finally made plugin and done by a russian developer.
All information you need to know is here:
https: //gamebanana.com/mods/288680
Good luck & have fun if any of you give it a try !
Lucian_Galca: Is there a mod that just fixes the AI and nothing else? I tried your "bne regular v69" which makes the AI better, but I don't like the changes that limit how much gold is in the mines, restricts what buildings and units you can make, damage levels, etc. I just want the AI fixes, but everything else like original vanilla Warcraft 2 as this would be my first time playing it.
Yes, like answered to previous guy here, I got asked this to be done before with DAIFE mod.
Take a look in
https://gamebanana.com/members/submissions/mods/1738346 DAIFE up to v6.940 mod thread and download:
war2_daife_bne_v6941_vanilla.rar which is the package that only contains the maps + harder/improved AI
If I just tweaked the AI to be harder and fixed up its bugs, the maps would be broken because:
Original intended difficulty by Blizzard which can be showcased into this mod is already way, WAY harder than what all people have experience with the original campaigns since forever. Besides of that I added up my own little boost of difficulty which would not make possible to complete the objectives in several missions.
Besides any of that, some people have said this is way too hard or way too easy. The fact, difficulty is such an arbitrary feature to actually balance good enough for all tastes and all people.
About restricting buildings, as far as I remember most of the maps have still the same amount of restrictions whether are units or buildings.
