Coop Campaign

Age of Mythology: Retold Mod Discussion
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Took a bit longer than expected, but scenarios 1-6 of The New Atlantis campaign are now available to play.

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Hi everyone,

The entire The New Atlantis campaign is now available!

The latest update also adds some fixes for a few Fall of the Trident levels.

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That’s awesome to hear! Thank you so much for your hard work!

Could you write a disclaimer that Extreme and Legendary difficulties don’t work? They do launch, but throw an AI error at start, and the AI is afk. We got misled by the description that says “All difficulties are available”.

Better yet, if you could add AIs for those difficulties that would be amazing, because Titan is pretty easy with 2 players so far. I know it is quite a large amount of work though.

Also I noticed some missing cutscenes, in particular the intro with Arkantos’ dream and all the post-victory cinematics. Is it possible to add them back in? The story gets fragmented otherwise, especially for people who play the campaign for the first time. Maybe edit the triggers, so it plays the cinematic first, then triggers the victory? And about cinematics that are standalone maps, just add them, so players can watch them together and understand the story better, then instantly trigger victory after they end.

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Thanks for taking the time to give this constructive feedback!

I have tracked down the cause of that AI error: every AI script loads a set of global modifiers from a shared file based on the chosen difficulty. These modifiers control factors such as the delay before the first attack wave, the number of units to send in each attack wave, and how frequently to send attacks. However, no modifiers were being set on Extreme or Legendary difficulties and so other AI scripts would fail to load.

Fortunately, this means I can easily add modifiers for those difficulties, to increase the size and frequency of enemy attacks across all levels. The most annoying part will be updating all triggers that currently occur on Titan only to also happen on Extreme and Legendary.

In terms of cutscenes, the Arkantos’ dream and all post-victory cinematics are separate levels. I’m planning to add all of those at some point so you can watch them together. Unfortunately, you’ll need to host those separately, so it won’t be as seamless as the singleplayer campaign, but at least you will be able to watch them together and understand the whole story.

Not sure when all of these things will be done, but I’d say my current order of priorities would be:

  1. Add The Golden Gift campaign and the Reginleif mythical battle
  2. Make all levels playable on Extreme and Legendary difficulties
  3. Add all of the cutscene levels, so they can be watched together

Again, thanks for providing details in your comment - it’s much easier to fix things when people explain exactly which parts aren’t working :smile:

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Sounds awesome! Super excited about these!

Glad to hear the Extreme and Legendary difficulties won’t be as impossible to do as I first assumed. I thought they were entirely new AIs, but turns out they are just Titan AI with more cheats and modifiers ontop.

I had no idea post-victory cinematics were separate maps, but it makes sense - way easier to make than to do the cinematic on the same map, where the player might have armies and buildings in the way.
I’m okay with hosting them separately, just make sure they are named clearly, so people who don’t wanna watch them can skip them. :slight_smile:

Keep up the great work! <3

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Extreme and Legendary difficulties should work now.

These difficulties are essentially the same as Titan difficulty, but the AI will attack more often and with larger armies. As such, you won’t notice any difference on levels where the enemy doesn’t have a base, but at least you won’t get an error when trying to play :slight_smile:

Let me know if you encounter any issues.