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It would seem there is a range threshold where the probability of calling for the push animation shoots up, and this range is increased for two-handed units, but since the push animation doesn't actually push enemies back, the unit can never get in proper range where it only calls for its optimal attack animation, in that case, it looks like pushing is a half baked game feature LOL

It works like a charm! Finally i have a reason to make use infantry other than spears.

I think its solely a stats issue. Did you compare two-handed units to sword and shield units by modifying their stats to be the same?

I wonder if Stainless Steel, Tsardoms and other overhaul mods are using this.

Now the game just crashes 😢 How do I rebuild the pack.dat and skeleton.dat?

CA should have fixed the two-handed and pike issues 15 years ago. God I DESPISE videogame developers.

Do you think it would be possible to make 2 sepparate push animations named push_oh and push_th , and allow one handed units to keep their original move pool but change it for two handed ones only? Just a tought 😅

Was the glitch fixed in the DLCs? Canons of the Holy Sepulchre is the best infantry ever.

This doesnt seem like a blatant error in the same sense as the pike swordsmen

My left ear appreciated this commentary.

is it not possible to fix the animations instead? Like make the push animation deal the base damage?

Bravo sir. I had drastically changed the anims on a overhaul mod I made already to address these non-attack nerfs but your scheme is wonderfully straight forward and has got me interested in how I can utilise it as well. Cheers!

Im pretty new to Pike & Shot tactics so heres a dumb question: Are the Pike squares in front of the Arquebus lines set up on purpose so they pin the enemy down while theyre being shot at through the gaps? If yes, how do you deal with enemy Cav in such a situation?

Some years ago I gave the halberd units the pikemen's behavior and formation, including French voulge . It made halberds viable.

Awesome! Not only fixes the issues but also speeds up the terribly slow pace of battles. Thanks!

Most of the unit balance issues in this game stem from the fact that shields where bugged at the games launch. The shield stat wasn't being taken into account in melee combat. The whole game was balanced around that bug, they eventually fixed the bug but never rebalanced the base game. Basically units with a shield dominate all other units now. That's why your elite cav like Lancers, gothic knights etc suck compared to chivlrics. Pikes don't suck, it's just that they don't do enough damage against units like DFK to resist their charge. Pikes work perfectly fine against 2 handed units. If you want to rebalance the game you pretty much need to lower the defense of units like DFK etc and up the defense of your 2 handed, pike, non shield cav etc.

if CA ever were to decide to make a medieval 2 remastered, removing push animatons and the swords from pikemen would elevate the game immediatly.

I deleted all the secondary weapons from the pike units (no more dropping of the pike when enemy is in range) and gave them 3, 5 or 6 attack (ealry, mid, late campaign) to balance them Did the same to halberd units as well but gave them 5, 8 and 10 to balance them, since they have shorter reach and the weapon should have more "oomph" than a pike Also increased the minimum attack time beween animations for them from 25 to 100, since they would just spam the attack otherwise and perma stun lock the enemys in front of them (if i didnt do these balance changes, ealry game pikes could beat dismounted knights when in wide pike formation) After that did the same to all other units who could use the pike formation and balanced them based on how long reaching their weopon is now these units perform as they should do: beat same era units that attack them from the front, but get slaughtered by missile fire and rear attacks im curios how these awesome changes in your video will affect this, probably it will work out even better, since the other units will attack them more efficient from the sides and rear and not only bash them from the front they still should have a hard time since they wont reach the pikeman easily gonna keep you updated

I know this is an older video, just curious. I started a new campaign game last week and I would like to try this. Do I need to start a new game to fix this bug? thanks!

ok now fix spear_bonus_2 lol probably hard coded but this is a big bummer for me in stainless steel which would be OP with spear_bonus_4 but without any spear bonus the spearmen feel awful against cavalry

Question: I did quite a few tests with 2 handers against chivalric knights and while they do beat the crap out of them, they still use the push animation albeit to a lesser extent. Is this supposed to be happening or is it a different animation that's just similar to the push animation but actually does damage? Also what's the difference between the punch and the push animations? Sorry if it's too much of a bother to answer all the questions.

Haven't they already been fixed in kingdoms expansion?

The two handed bug was fixed many years ago with Retrofit mod, which is essential when playing vanilla. Another great mod for vanilla is Real Combat Mod.

I was hoping someone can answer this question; a long time ago, I attempted modding my Medieval 2 but I messed up somewhere and may have screwed up the running speeds in the game (some units began to run unnaturally slow whilst others would run unnaturally fast on the battlefield). I own the game on steam btw. I have attempted to uninstall and reinstall the game many times but I kept on having the same recurring issue of the unit running speeds being wonky. (There’s a chance I might be tripping though and that in the base game, units do unnaturally run very fast and very slow.) Any of y’all have any tips on how to get a fresh new clean install of M2TW from steam?

Amazing!

How a do it in the mobile

I have the mobile version and it seems like the same problem, puts me off playing as some factions

Honestly I always felt the shields bash was annoying because of how many times it was used and ended up doing nothing so finding out that removing it not only made certain units work better but made the whole game much more enjoyable is a nice thing to find out about. Thank you so much for making this video and helping to keep this game alive.

Two handed units need new faster animations and sword and board units need nerfing. Another thing is to make so that knightly units have smaller numbers

Great video! Thank you. Something is wrong with the audio tho. It is fine on my phone but if I connect to my car radio I can barely hear you. It’s not a big deal tbh just thought I’d lyk. When I first clicked it was extremely off putting, thinking this was like a video from 2002 with terrible audio but when I unplugged I heard the magic.

Hi, im not sure but, Putting Heavy billmen on guard mode makes them superior to armoured sergeants.

My game crashes when the Animation packs are not in the animation folder, i have both the filefirst and no_animedb lines written in my cfg file. any tips?

Is this compatible with the Kingdoms Grand Campaign mod?

old vid, but would this work with dlc or other mods? Theres a mod i use that adds kingdoms content to base so I wanna know if this would work with it

This is not a fix, this is a major gameplay change. Stainless Steel has custom animation for 2H uints, it turns out. So I am now looking how to import that into the vanilla game.

I just implemented this and ran a trial of Scottish Highland Nobles vs French Armoured Sargents and for the first time playing this game I absolutely destroyed the Armoured Sargents!!! Normally they are a huge pain to dislodge but the Highland Nobles just kept cutting through them. Thank you so much for this fix. After implementing this fix and the Pike fix from "To Nerd is to Human TNH" my Scottish campaign is going to be absolutely epic!!!! Thanks again :) !!!!

umm could you make a video about how to set up the config file since i am totally confused by the description you made besides that nice job

Great idea, but I can't get any 'yari wall/spear wall' etc. mods to work. Including this one.

Does this work with the Amaricas expansion?

no_animdb = true, game doesnt even read that. Just FYI TATW having this fix since the beginning explains why the combat always felt better ^^

thks for the mod this really help me :)

How did u make the custom animation (removed switch to katana)?

the yari ashigaru man animation (shogun_man_yari_pike) includes switching to katana when engaged in 1v1 melee, but also seems to make them do unengaged (formed_attack) much more often. Idk what the skeleton_melee changing from spear to pike does tho

The animation, did you mean the man_animation or the skeleton_melee?

how does this change the balance between infantry and cavalry? im interested but worried it might make cavalry underpowered in anything but the charge

this is why i use them purely as flanking units

I s2g this is going to be essential if I ever get back into this game and play as Holy Roman Empire, fantastic work.

Very interesting video!! I wonder why the ashigaru animations made the yari sam perform worse. I'm guessing you made a mod to change these animations-- is it available on the steam workshop? Having the Yari Samurai be able to use Yari wall would make for an interesting campaign. Lastly, is the Yari square ability available to all spear units in vanilla?

Great video and thanks for explaining your research and working. What does it mean if after extracting the folder in data, that when I go back to data, as you do at 9:33, that my data folder is just composed of 5 folders and no loose files, so there is no descr_skeleton to replace there?