Anniversary Maintenance Patch - 2.0.4 (Open Beta)

[Lord Shrapnaks]

Unrelated, but Paradox, can you PLEASE fix your wiki? I'm trying to update the Imperator Invictus wiki and I LITERALLY cannot because after I clicked "edit" it got stuck on the final third of the loading bar and can't finish.

EDIT: And yet even when it does work, when I edit it, it can't save the changes and I get the message "invalid response from server!"

SAS- Edited language

 

[Don Wing]

Is this patch official and being apllied to the game actualization??

 

[Lord Shrapnaks]

Yet one more thing to complain about. Paradox.

PARADOX. PLEASE!

Fix your achievements, I, as Boihaemia, conquered and colonized ALL of Boihaemia, and yet no matter what I do, "the Bois are back in Town" achievement NEVER EVER triggers! I play in Ironman Mode, I make sure to load the save, open and close the game's achievement menu on Steam, and I've fulfilled the requirement for the achievement A DOZEN FRICKIN' TIMES! Your whole ass achievement system is broken to the point that some refuse to even trigger no matter what you do!

FIX IT!

EDIT: Okay, it took me an embarassingly long time to realize this, but the achievement wasn't triggering because it was broken, the achievement wasn't triggering because you needed to be Boi, not Boihaemia, in order to get said achievement. Needless to say, there's no problem in that front.

And on another note, I saw someone ask about the implementation of unique names for cohort types being different across cultures, you mind finishing up the implementation of that one?

 

[zorgoball]

I am already so thankful with what has already been done, but if I could ask for a couple of tiny things that would add a lot to flavor, it would be the ability to name cities, the ability to change a terrain type (forest to farmlands, for example) and if I'm being greedy, expanded defensive league options.

 

[avareat]

Hi @PDX_Gorion first of all, thank you kindly for your work on I:R

I wanted to ask, are there any news on when the patch may be available for other platforms such as GoG? Is it even possible we may end up receiving this beta patch in this platform?

Thank you in advance for your response and wish you the best!

 

[darkyodada]

It's been months since we've had any news, it still smacks of abandonment without explanation. One more time.

 

[Sir.Dr.X]

As a devoted fan of Imperator who plays the version without mods, I would like to submit a proposal to add to this update events illustrating the crisis that led to the fall of the Maurya Empire. Currently, the Maurya Empire has the irritating ahistorical habit of uniting India and conquering the Seleucid Empire, which never happened. Moreover, Rome led by artificial intelligence could stick more closely to its historical path of expansion. In most of the games I played, Rome led by AI never conquered Gaul, but it was very involved in Germania and Dacia. It would be nice to see AI Rome forming borders that are at least close to historical ones at least once in a while.

 

[HowPow]

As a devoted fan of Imperator who plays the version without mods, I would like to submit a proposal to add to this update events illustrating the crisis that led to the fall of the Maurya Empire. Currently, the Maurya Empire has the irritating ahistorical habit of uniting India and conquering the Seleucid Empire, which never happened. Moreover, Rome led by artificial intelligence could stick more closely to its historical path of expansion. In most of the games I played, Rome led by AI never conquered Gaul, but it was very involved in Germania and Dacia. It would be nice to see AI Rome forming borders that are at least close to historical ones at least once in a while.

Sir, I know you said you play without mods, but consider changing that. The fall of Maurya is implemented beautifully in Invictus. There is also a mod for more historical expansion: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=302043469&searchtext=

 

[HowPow]

Hello Gorion, Katten, Niels, Johan and Arheo,

thanks for the great Beta patch. This shows that with a tiny amount of dev time you can achieve great results and solve long-standing issues like the tag limit.

With the current Imperator event renewing interest in the series, I would like to lobby for a tiny little bit of dev time more that can also have a great result. Can you make the elections and successions in Republics more moddeable? As of now, the choice who becomes the next archon/republic leader, and also of the next party leader, is completely opaque to the player. When I wanted to make a mod to make this more visible and interacteable, so you can influence more who becomes the next archon, it turned out that this is hardcoded and not visible in the game files at all. Appearantly the game takes popularity, prominence and party allegiance in account according to the tooltip, but it is neither transparent nor moddeable. There are only some values in the defines under NSuccession but it is a far cry from the open and understandeable game files and mechanics that enabled modding so far.

I believe this routine of chosing the next archon should be very simple to transform into a scripted effect or an svalue or even an event. This way the community could mod it and make it more influenceable and create a better game experience. The same for the party leaders.

My idea was to make a mod which adds an additional tab in the government view (very cool that gui modding is possible in Imperator btw, great) that shows the next three candidates for the Archon office and the stats they have. This way the player would be able to influence the elections much more and much better than just spamming "smear reputation". If I as the player know how much prominence or personal power plays into the election, and I have a candidate that I don't want to be next archon, then I know much better on how to throw a wrench into his plans.

Also cool would be a way to set your friends up to be party leaders. And if you have especially loyal/bribed party leaders, you get bonus approval. I wanted to mod that too, party approval seems to be set up in Svalues and scripted effects and thus moddeable. But the election of the next party leaders is similarly opaque and hardcoded. There is also the set_party_leader effect in the effects list, but no info on how it works and nowhere is it implemented in the current version or the 1.0 version of the game, so no way for me to use it.

Lastly, the wait time between repeated archon terms seems to be hardcoded to 10 years. It would be cool if this could be an Svalue or something different as well, so I can mod a law that can change that time between 10, 5 and 0 years. This would allow players to roleplay as a character that tries to get reelected every single time in a row, kind of like Orban, Erdogan or Merkel (not trying to be political here). This would allow a playstyle that is more family/character focussed.

TL; DR: Pretty please, can you make elections moddeable, maybe in a scripted effect please you would allow a lot of modding possibilities with little effort

 

[Sir.Dr.X]

Sir, I know you said you play without mods, but consider changing that. The fall of Maurya is implemented beautifully in Invictus. There is also a mod for more historical expansion: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=302043469&searchtext=

Invictus does not have a Polish translation. I prefer to play in my native language. Besides, in Invictus my favorite tribe, the Sarmatians, was destroyed and their name was changed. Moreover, the ancient history of Poland was not taken into account, in which there were no Germans but Celto-Sarmatian tribes. Invictus is based in this respect on outdated eugenic presumptions of Anglo-Saxon scientists, while completely ignoring the studies of Slavic scientists. The Lechites, Vistulas, Masuria and masses of other tribes present in today's Poland in the times of Roman civilization were forgotten. The rapidly developing Celtic civilization in Biskupin was forgotten. About the amber route, Sarmatian Celtic culture, which left behind numerous Sarmatian mounds and Celtic places of worship, such as those in Masuria, which are only slightly inferior to Stonchange.

 

[HowPow]

Invictus does not have a Polish translation. I prefer to play in my native language. Besides, in Invictus my favorite tribe, the Sarmatians, was destroyed and their name was changed. Moreover, the ancient history of Poland was not taken into account, in which there were no Germans but Celto-Sarmatian tribes. Invictus is based in this respect on outdated eugenic presumptions of Anglo-Saxon scientists, while completely ignoring the studies of Slavic scientists. The Lechites, Vistulas, Masuria and masses of other tribes present in today's Poland in the times of Roman civilization were forgotten. The rapidly developing Celtic civilization in Biskupin was forgotten. About the amber route, Sarmatian Celtic culture, which left behind numerous Sarmatian mounds and Celtic places of worship, such as those in Masuria, which are only slightly inferior to Stonchange.

Very informative answer, wow. I didn't know about that.
About these issues, consider bringing these points up with the Invictus team at their Discord, they are some very open people that love discussions about history. Or maybe here in the Forum. There have been multiple peoples approaching the team saying "hey, I wish X was better" and they then recruited that person, taught him the basics of modding, and that new person then added the content that was missing. I'm sure with your knowledge of this domain you would be a valued addition!

If you now think "oh modding is difficult", the most recent addition was Izn, who did a lot of additions in religions, gods and history in the Indian/Pakistan area. He started just adding deities, singular gods, which is just changing some lines of text. Adding countries and changing their cultures is similarly easy to get in to, expecially writing a few introductionary lines about their culture is literally just writing text like in this forum. Check it out!

With the language part, they have written a program that translates the mod into multiple languages using deepl. So maybe you could ask them/volunteer to consider adding a Polish translation?

 

[DonJulan]

Avē!​

First, I’d like to introduce myself, I am not one of the previous Game Directors, Johan or Peter, but I am Niels Uiterwijk, the original tech lead on the project.

If you could unlock warscore for modding we, the modding community, would fix some more stuff.
Otherwise it would be nice if you adjusted the equation that, in it's horrible current state, favors stackwiping 0,5k units with a 50k army for a 3% warscore over any legendary battle ending with a smaller force victory. IMHO you should add to the current equation the ratio of fighting forces: winner/loser and divide warscore gained by that ratio.

E.g.:
1.
winner: 10k
loser: 5k
ratio: 2
warscore: x% divided by 2
2.
winner: 5K
loser: 10k
ratio: 0.5
warscore: x% divided by 0.5 (so basically multiplied by 2)

This way equation would favor big battles over small battles and heroic victories over deathstack wipeouts of tiny forces.
Ofc if you could add to such equation bonus warscore for the difference of military tech levels that would be even more awesome...

Hopefully you will get this msg and implement this tiny, yet huge, idea for all those who spent their hard-earned money and still play and/or mod this game.

@PDX_Gorion
(please forward to) @PDX_Niels_Uiterwijk

 

[Froozigiusz]

@PDX_Gorion: Is there any chance of getting the beta patch released for Linux and Mac as well, please?

Yeah, the waiting has been unbearable recently. The whole Imperator day, requirements from more recent mods and lack of mod–enabled achievements have been really hard to live through. And I'd like to hop back into the game…

 

[SheepGod]

Since the Beta update I have been able to install the game, select the 2.0.4 update and launch/play the game. After qutting Steam and trying to launch again I get the message: "An error occurred while updating Imperator: Rome (invalid app configuration)"

Think the Mac M1-chip might be the problem or maybe just Steam. Does anyone have the same problem?

For anyone that will look "invalid app configuration", you can still play on mac for the new 2.0.4 beta.

First without mods,
Just update the game
Then go to the game files via the steam properties
binaries>Launch Imperator

Note: steam will not recognize you playing

With mods
Load and launch the game before patch with the mods, then do the steps above.

If you want to play multiplayer you have to login to your paradox account and join via server ID. Make sure you have the same checksum.

Hope this helps anyone on mac

 

[olivenkranz]

Some mods may crash with the beta patch 2.0.4 but not without... yes, I also don't know why

 

[Alumni]

As some others have reported, the 2.0.4 beta patch is a bit broken on Linux. Launching Imperator through steam results in a "invalid app configuration" error message. A work-around is to run the binary/executable directly with the terminal or file manager. Posting this here as a reminder to the devs.

 

[ZeroOne]

Please push this to a GOG beta channel so I can play with the same mods everyone else has on steam.

 

[Ivankovsky]

Please push this to a GOG beta channel so I can play with the same mods everyone else has on steam.

So that's the reason mods aren't working on the GoG version?

 

[PDX_Gorion]

Ave!

We've definitely noticed the community events and followed them with interrest. It was really cool seeing all the streams, videos being made and ppl playing + the community reacting to that again. So much that we've decided to make another push for the 2.0.4 patch being actually released. A year ago I've made it an open beta on steam, and for various reasons I couldnt get it released on the other platforms (turns out tech doesn't stop and old tech doesnt work anymore). However we decided that we need to gather resources from the internal paradox studio's (tinto, green & gold) to make an effort into releasing this patch.

I can't promise a date, but it does seem very likely that we will be able to actually release it (all platforms & all stores we support)!

I have to stress though, there is no internal team working on this game, and we are not planning to start one up. But we do want to give back to the community, so the 2.0.4 patch is also being expanded a little bit with requests coming from modders.

Once we are closer to knowing when we can release it, we will make a new forum post & share on socials as well

 

[CountCristo]

So much that we've decided to make another push for the 2.0.4 patch being actually released.

I must say that's rather swag of you