Cold War Mod Alpha: Download, Input and Feedback Thread

**Kalelovil** · 15-02-2011 15:16

Cold War Mod 0.9.0 for Victoria 2 1.4 26 September Beta
Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?v34o3ofpd80d3kr

Installation Instructions:

Copy your Victoria 2 directory.

In your new Victoria 2 directory delete the common, decisions, events, history, interface, inventions, localisation, poptypes, technologies and units folders.

Inside your gfx/interface folder delete all files beginning with "unit_folder".

Extract the mod into your Victoria 2 directory, overwriting whenever prompted.

Delete all files inside your map/cache folder.

Start the game.

Completed: The map, units, starting wars and diplomacy
Partially completed: Country history, new reforms, starting militaries, interface, rebels, decisions, events, poptypes, localisation
Not touched yet: Pops

(Since Helios Ra has not responded to my PMs I have started a new thread in order to have an up to date download link on the first post).

Less crashes than previous versions, but it still crashes randomly around once per four ingame years.
If anybody could find out why it is crashing that would be very helpful.

Archive:
Cold War Mod 0.88 for Victoria 2 1.3 Final and 1.3 Beta 7th April.
Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?mtuqturvbx37chb
Cold War Mod 0.8
Download Link: http://www.2shared.com/file/093n61rE/ColdWarMod08.html
Cold War Mod 0.85
Download Link: http://www.2shared.com/file/G5slMhr5/ColdWarMod085.html
Cold War Mod 0.86
Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/file/k1ss7s...WarMod0.86.rar
Cold War Mod 0.865 for Victoria 2 1.3b 17th March.
Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?1dgk8my5v8gwt3l
Cold War Mod 0.867 for Victoria 2 1.3b 29th March.
Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?jttk5ajousi4c5b
Cold War Mod 0.868 for Victoria 2 1.3b 29th March.
Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?ro3fxh9qx4eqmfy
Cold War Mod 0.87 for Victoria 2 1.3b 7th April.
Download Link: http://www.mediafire.com/?d3h1q5a18xhhd7r

**Kalelovil** · 16-02-2011 14:59

Feedback, input and suggestions are welcome.
Especially if somebody can figure out what is causing the occasional crashes.

**xHawkeyefan64x** · 16-02-2011 23:37

I broke my Personal Laptop so I can't download and I got some tips on Europe about the Germany Break-Up. The Idea of making The Allies owning the land isn't historical but I guess it makes it a little different.

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) was the combination of the UK, France, and US Zones. This country could also just have the Germany Republic Flag and it be a Satellite of the USA (not because I'm a redneck and say "O the USA is the best country in the world, were #1) but because before the US joined the war France had been conquered and UK was being constantly bombarded.

East Germany (German Democratic Republic/DDR) was the USSR Zone and this should have the Germany Communist Flag and it is just what it is.

Austria I don't know anything about that area of the Cold War because some things tell me Vienna was also divided but other things tell me the entire Austrian State was on the NATO side of the 'Iron Curtain'.

**Kalelovil** · 17-02-2011 02:42

Originally Posted by xHawkeyefan64x

I broke my Personal Laptop so I can't download and I got some tips on Europe about the Germany Break-Up. The Idea of making The Allies owning the land isn't historical but I guess it makes it a little different.

Germany was still under Allied military administration at this point in time so the current setup seems historical to me. The British and American zones had merged so I have abstracted this as both zones being under American occupation.

Originally Posted by xHawkeyefan64x

West Germany (Federal Republic of Germany) was the combination of the UK, France, and US Zones. This country could also just have the Germany Republic Flag and it be a Satellite of the USA (not because I'm a redneck and say "O the USA is the best country in the world, were #1) but because before the US joined the war France had been conquered and UK was being constantly bombarded.

I'm not sure about having West Germany as an American satellite. Since Victoria 2 only has one definition of satellites this would give West Germany no more political freedom than East Germany, which seems wrong. West Germany will at least start in the American SoI.

Originally Posted by xHawkeyefan64x

East Germany (German Democratic Republic/DDR) was the USSR Zone and this should have the Germany Communist Flag and it is just what it is.

East Germany will be a satellite of the USSR.

Originally Posted by xHawkeyefan64x

Austria I don't know anything about that area of the Cold War because some things tell me Vienna was also divided but other things tell me the entire Austrian State was on the NATO side of the 'Iron Curtain'.

Austria was divided into zones in the same manner as Germany and Vienna in the same manner as Berlin. At this stage Vienna is abstracted as being entirely under Soviet control. I may add a seperate West Vienna province in the future.
There will be an event chain leading either to Austria's historical neutraility from superpower politics or alternatively the division of Austria into Soviet East Austria and Western West Austria.

**xHawkeyefan64x** · 17-02-2011 03:04

Alright I was just posting a suggestion

**ZomgK3tchup** · 17-02-2011 04:31

This looks very nice. What has been done exactly?

If you really can't find why the game crashes, try replacing mod files with vanilla ones until the game stops crashing. The last file you replaced should be the culprit.

**Kalelovil** · 17-02-2011 05:04

Good news. I'm pretty confident the crash is being caused by something in the map folder. Now it is merely a process of elimination.

Originally Posted by ZomgK3tchup

This looks very nice. What has been done exactly?

Done: The map, units, starting wars and diplomacy
Partially done: Country history, new reforms, starting militaries, interface, rebels, decisions, events, poptypes, localisation
Not touched yet: Pops

**birdboy2000** · 17-02-2011 19:27

Loaded up as the Soviets and had a lot of trouble balancing the budget - went bankrupt in september. Is this common and needs to be fixed, or did I just play poorly?

**Seek75** · 17-02-2011 21:29

So then maybe we could have some kind of decision to make West Germany/East Germany independent, but in the spheres of their respective guardians/overlords? I just don't really like the idea of Germany being represented by Allied-controlled provinces for very much longer than what was historical.

**Kalelovil** · 18-02-2011 00:19

Originally Posted by Seek75

So then maybe we could have some kind of decision to make West Germany/East Germany independent, but in the spheres of their respective guardians/overlords? I just don't really like the idea of Germany being represented by Allied-controlled provinces for very much longer than what was historical.

Yes, of course there will be events added to represent that.
At the moment I am still trying to figure out what is causing the game to crash.

Originally Posted by birdboy2000

Loaded up as the Soviets and had a lot of trouble balancing the budget - went bankrupt in september. Is this common and needs to be fixed, or did I just play poorly?

The mod is still far from finished so be patient.

**Helios Ra** · 19-02-2011 20:25

Wow. To say I feel bad about the way I stopped posting on my thread is an understatement. Clearly you are much more competent/devoted.

I do have roughly ten countries completed that werent in the version I made available, which I would be happy to send you as my (probably) final and (very) late contribution. Good luck.

**13e thr33** · 19-02-2011 21:33

I can't seem to download it.
The link apears to be broken.

**Seek75** · 19-02-2011 22:46

Something that's got me wondering is whether or not French Indochina should be directly controlled by France (as it is in the screen), or if it should be a satelite of France (as the Indochinese Union). I would think that making it a satelite would perhaps make it easier for a potential Vietnam War (as well as other such conflicts against colonial rule in the area), but I'm not completely sure.

Thoughts?

**Kalelovil** · 20-02-2011 01:32

Originally Posted by 13e thr33

I can't seem to download it.
The link apears to be broken.

It is working for me, make sure to click download where it says "Save file to your PC: Download" rather than the big download button in the middle.

**Seek75** · 24-02-2011 19:19

Any word to be had about the progress of the mod so far? It'd be nice to know the status of such an interesting mod.

**Kalelovil** · 25-02-2011 00:52

I'll have a new version up in a couple of hours.

Patch 1.3 appears to have fixed one source of CTDs but either introduced or made apparent another one which happens less often.

**Kalelovil** · 25-02-2011 11:54

New version uploaded. Link in first post.

**ZomgK3tchup** · 25-02-2011 23:13

http://wapedia.mobi/thumb/9ac5499/en...png?format=jpg

The occupation zones in Germany prior to the foundation of East and West Germany.

Just a piece of reference material if you wanted to make changes.

**rdlp123** · 05-03-2011 04:52

For me the game stops when it is loading flags...and then crashes for some unknown reason.

**jii** · 05-03-2011 15:36

I'm not quite able to tell by the screenshot, but is West Germany divided between America and France?

I realize that it was historically occupied but the obvious problem with this would be they player can't play as Germany from 1949.

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