Vinlandsaga

I can’t upload or download any Mods recently due to an error. Would like to try your scenario :slight_smile:

Can you download stuff from other sites?

Yeah just the game bugging out. I made a report regarding that. Have you uploaded your scenario elsewhere?

Download this and put it in your local mods folder. Then dearchive. If you don’t have the software for that you can find some pretty easily.

To get to your local mods folder simply go to your Mod Manager in game and click Open Directory. This will take you to the main mods folder, where you’ll see 2 subfolders: Local and Subscribed.

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I encountered the same issue with the kraken, it’s too speedy you can’t evade it. Losing because of it is frustrating.

Other than that, the objectives weren’t not that clear, I first thought I had to build a village center…

The first part of the mission felt long, it took something like 10 minutes to train soldiers with little to do around.

Other than that, the map is cool and I didn’t encountered bugs so it was nice.

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Weird. I tested the Krakens and it was possible to kill one in 1 on 1 combat with the ship without the ship dying. Even though it leaves the ship heavily damaged. I guess running away is letting the kraken get too many hits in on your ship while you’re not dealing any hits back?

About the objectives. You said you thought you needed a Village Center. But the objective clearly says Town Center. Besides that were any others confusing to you?

Well I thought I wasn’t supposed to fight it in the first place ^^"

You’re right, your objectives said town center but seeing how the native one was fortified I kept searching for another one, I thought it was not meant to be attacked without siege

I was honestly worried siege would make it too easy.

1.6 Changelog

  • Added sound effects to chat messages and unit conversions to better alert players of what just happened.
  • Modified Objectives 4 and 5 to provide clearer instructions and hints to the player.
  • Reduced requirement for being able to build additional buildings in the New World from a Town Center to a Town Center OR a Village Center.
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So how do i properly install this?

You don’t need to do anything other than installing it through the ingame mod browser. Just open up the mod browser and search Vinlandsaga.

After it installs you’ll need to restart the game, as with all mods, but once you do you’ll find it in the Custom Campaigns section of the Campaigns menu.

Ya it fixed itself. With there were more Innit easter eggs

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I played it a while ago but haven’t got around to reviewing it yet so here it goes.

Pros

  • I was playing on titan and I haven’t really got any problems with enemies since if you use your ship you can clear them quite easily,
  • There is quite a lot of things to discover,
  • I always do love mixing other culture units like priests in this one.

Cons

  • Firstly I wasn’t able to load any saves I made on the campaign when I played it. Maybe it is changed now I don’t know but wanted to let you know,
  • I am assuming you choose Freyr because of his unique tech but slow research makes beginning a chore after the first time just makes you wait around basically,
  • If you tribute the second you have enough gold you don’t get the ship. You need to wait for your characters to tell you that you can buy it now. So you need to gather again waiting,
  • You can kill a kraken 1v1 even you can kill 2 of them back to back but after that again you need to wait for your ship to regen otherwise you need to do the beginning again,
  • I accidently beat the map after building the second TC. I assumed there was going to be more missions since map was only half discovered,
  • So I open it up again and used cheats to look and there was a lot of thing I have missed. Optional missions to guide payer towards these would be a good idea, although that might be added now since you mentioned hints.

So overall I liked it but there was a lot of waiting around. And I do recommend checking AoE 2 custom campaigns / original campaigns centered around same themes. You can get a lot of ideas from them if you want to continue the series. Thanks for your hard work!

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This is a known bug with retold. Nothing to do with the Vinlandsaga map.

This was fixed in the last patch I made.

There aren’t any more objectives because you’re supposed to be able to approach exploring the new world in any order you wan. It’s not really linear, so there’s no objective guiding you along one specific
path.

There is actually dynamic dialogue that changes depending on which order you discover things in.

Too much waiting, gotcha. :rofl:

Ironically I was inspired by the Vinlandsaga scenario from Age of Empires 2 The Conquerors. Though I didn’t want to just remake it. So I thought I’d do Leif going to Labrador and Newfoundland. With that small bit of Baffin Island at the top.

Anyways. Thanks for the review and encouraging words!

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1.7 Changelog

  • Replaced Freyr with Odin so that people without the DLC can play.
  • Replaced Freyr’s Gift with Dionysia (still named Sanctity).
  • Replaced Draugr with Mummies just to be sure the DLC won’t be needed to play.

These changes are currently only found in the English version.