Heart of Darkness on OS X : What's the word on the street ?

[Super-Soviet]

You are aware that HOD is perfectly playable on both OSX and Linux using Wine, right?

Not always. I can't run the Sengoku demo on wine, I doubt HOD would work.

 

[Super-Soviet]

*sigh* Mods are still broken, I thought since they'd fixed that with TFH it would have been done so with HOD. Well, here's to a whole new era of copying the entire vanilla game and pasting mods over it every I want to try something out.

 

[General_Smith]

It's a lot easier to use Boot Camp and install Windows on a partition.

 

[Jepaan]

Not always. I can't run the Sengoku demo on wine, I doubt HOD would work.

Never tried Sengoku, so can't really comment on that, but V2, including AHD and HOD works perfectly.

 

[Niptium]

I finally came around and bought it off D2Mac. I will try this baby on my Macbook Pro Retina now.

 

[DoktorNumbers]

Just in case there's someone out there who doesn't already know, HoD is now available from Virtual Programming at the Mac Store. I bought it and have been playing for a few days now, and it's pretty great. (First V2 experience!)

 

[podcat]

*sigh* Mods are still broken, I thought since they'd fixed that with TFH it would have been done so with HOD. Well, here's to a whole new era of copying the entire vanilla game and pasting mods over it every I want to try something out.

in what way is it broken?

 

[jp78]

in what way is it broken?

You cant use mods on mac, it just doesnt work if you try to use the folder. The mod folder is broken.
The only solution as already mentionned is to paste the files of the x mod you want to use over those of vanilla...

Which may be a quite stressful and annoying task...

 

[unmerged(486880)]

You cant use mods on mac, it just doesnt work if you try to use the folder. The mod folder is broken.
The only solution as already mentionned is to paste the files of the x mod you want to use over those of vanilla...

Which may be a quite stressful and annoying task...

I wouldn't call that broken, just the cost of playing on a Mac, ie the compatibility issue. The mods are written for/with Windows versions. A Boot Camp or Crossover version of Windows, with Windows version of HOD would enable one to affect the mods.

Not arguing that it isn't a pain, just that it isn't "broken" per se.

 

[Ayetach]

I wouldn't call that broken, just the cost of playing on a Mac, ie the compatibility issue. The mods are written for/with Windows versions. A Boot Camp or Crossover version of Windows, with Windows version of HOD would enable one to affect the mods.

Not arguing that it isn't a pain, just that it isn't "broken" per se.

I would argue that it is broken, since EUIII: Chronicles for OSX has the same or atleast strikingly similar manner of functions regarding mods and does work as intended. One would expect Victoria 2, which has virutally the same layout, would work in the same manner.

 

[Super-Soviet]

in what way is it broken?

When you load up a mod, it doesn't create a mod folder in Application Support/com.vpltd.Victoria2HeartOfDarkness/GameDocuments/Paradox Interactive/Victoria II as it should. The result is that everything is exactly the same as vanilla, only it has "Random Mod Version 23" written in tiny writing in the corner of the main menu.

It used to be this way with HOI3, but not anymore. I'd though if it had been mixed for one game it would be fixed with them all.