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XtraDeconstruct: Legacy of Magic

by Primal Savage et al.

1. XtraDeconstruct: Legacy of Magic
1.1 Latest News (Changelog)

(12 November 2017) Patch 2.0.p.6, see #2123

(4 July 2017) XtraDeconstruct 2.0.p.3 - Repackaged Edition, see #2003

(15 February 2017) XtraDeconstruct 2.0.p. - BMB Compatibility Edition, see #1930

1.2 Compatibility Snippet (Extended List)

Compatible w/ LH 2.1, all DLC, Children of Storm 1.8.c, Black Market Bazaar 2.1, Champion Bonanza 1.3...

NOTE: XtraDeconstruct makes Children of Storm compatible w/ LH 2.1 and DLC05 (Leader Pack DLC).

1.3 Features (Extended Description)

Expands LH in a myriad of ways.

1.4 How-to Install (User Guide)

See A_UserGuide.txt

1.5 Endorse XtraDeconstruct (History)

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1.6 Download (NexusMods)

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1.7 More...

CutscenePack fix [Info]

2. Credits & Feedback

(Hellions) ::: (davrovana) ::: (Heavenfall) ::: (Dhuran) ::: (attackdrone) ::: (Vithar133) ::: (Stardock)

Many users gave valuable feedback, this is so they realize that their contribution is appreciated.

Quoting Jon_Archer,

reply 2098

Well I'm not sure where to post this.  I'm using this mod with Black market bazaar, champion bonanza, children of storm and monument xp bonus.  Started my first game as Denizens faction with Lord VI's army and all my hp bonuses like Monstrous +8 hp per level and Endurance 1, 2 etc are all showing up twice so I'm getting double hp for each one.  16 hp a level for monstrous.  End 1 * 2 , End 2 * 2. etc.  I'm only level 6 and have 178 hp already   It's not just this hero either. I got Bacco the Beggar and gave him endurance 1 and it's showing up twice too so getting 20 hp for it on him as well.

This is a bug right?   This is my first game with these mods.    Anyone else having this issue or know how to fix it?

Hello Jon_Archer,

This usually happens when step 2 of the installation guide is skipped/missed. You then get trait bonuses from the mod file AND the core files, so 2x.

2. Installation (Copy+Paste)

	Locate the 0_NO folder:
	...\Mods\0_NO\

	Copy all files found in said folder (Ctrl+A, followed by Ctrl+C)

	Locate the Core folder:
	C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FE Legendary Heroes\data\English\
	or
	C:\GOG Games\Fallen Enchantress - Legendary Heroes\data\English\

	Paste all previously copied files (Ctrl+V)

	If/When asked what to do, click "Copy and Replace"
	If/When asked if you still want to merge folders, click "Yes"

Doing this will fix the issue for future games. Your current game can't be fixed. In other words, you need to restart LH and start a New Game for the changes to apply.

Also, if you have a 1920x1080 (or greater), read section "H1. (UI\Optional) - XW_1920x1080_Primal".

If you have less than 1920x1080, then read H2. to H10., but particularly "H10. (UI) - XW_UnitDetailsWnd".

If you run into other issues, just post, likely something someone ran into at some point.

Most item descriptions in the mod are literary more than anything. Pocket Dagger is an accessory from BMB Mod. Pocket Crossbow, Adept's Rod, etc. are "shields", as seen when you hover over the item (Top left icon). Thus, you can only use them w/ 1H weapons. There's a few 1H Staffs in BMB Mod, but I don't remember any in Vanilla FELH.

With that said, I can see it would be confusing to see "with their primary staff" when most staffs are 2H weapons and won't work w/ the Adept's Rod. Even if flowery, descriptions shouldn't confuse the user. I can probably change the description to indicate "primary weapon" instead which, while not perfect, is an improvement.

EDIT: Here's an example of a 1H staff from BMB (And also, the top left shield icon)

Hello KcronCT,

Beer Resource problem will be fixed the same way the trait values x2 is fixed (That is, by doing step #2 of the installation!).

After having done step #2, make sure to restart FELH and start a New Game.

The recipes can be found in the user guide (A_UserGuide.txt in XtraDeconstruct folder) toward the end of the document. The document is also available online. Look for (Using Ctrl+f) the expression "III. Crafting" without the quotes. You should find two occurrences of it, the second one is where you want to go.

The same information is also available in-game in the Hiergamenon, "Game Concepts" section, "Forging and Enchanting" subsection.

As a rule of thumb, crafting requires two steps. (1.) The champion w/ adequate forging power forges an item (Using a spell) and then, (2.) the champion w/ equivalent enchanting power consumes the forged item and enchants an item (Using a spell). Collar recipes are as follow:

III.3.2. Collars

(Forged Collar + ...)

Amethyst Collar (Abjuration + 1 Orange Arcanium + 2 Purple Arcanium)

Bone Collar (Necromancy + 3 Orange Arcanium)

Iron Collar (Geomancy + 1 Grey Arcanium + 2 Purple Arcanium)

Primordial Collar (Summon III + 1 Yellow Arcanium + 2 Purple Arcanium)

Scale Collar (Volcanic Rites + 2 Red Arcanium + 2 Purple Arcanium)

Studded Collar (Summon Wisp + 1 Green Arcanium + 2 Purple Arcanium)

Be aware that you can only charm lesser dragons w/ such collars. Generally, that's the non-flying kind, e.g. Drake/Slag.

With that said, the way missing resources are shown in-game [e.g. resource_XL_Beer (Beer) and resources_x_A4 (Red Arcanium)] is not very user-friendly which is somewhat annoying to me... I'm going to have to try and track them down to see if I can put something more user-friendly. I'm not entirely sure this will be possible at this point without modifying many files, will have to see if it's worth it.

You would be right, Farm/Windmill are not showing because you're using the dead.

I don't mod much these days, but will try and see if graves-related outpost improvement(s) can be added for the dead w/o too much effort.

Thanks for the feedback.

Hi,

Run into an annoying issue.  I'm like 120 seasons into this game and under Foreign Relations the "Relations With Us" part of it has disappeared.  Only showing Active Treaties and then Foreign Policy.   Checked all my saves for this game and all of them have the same issue.  Not sure when it started  but I check that part pretty often.

Any ideas?

(Edit:  Hmm. I just checked a couple turns later and it's back.   I went back thru 3 hours of saves though and it was missing from all of them. )

Well I'm using GoG ultimate and it says 2.0 in the main startup menu at the bottom?  I haven't seen any mention at gog of an ultimate version update to 2.1?

Here's a saved game if you want to check it out.  LH "Relation to Us" missing.  It's the first time I've noticed it happening.  Seems to have corrected itself somehow still.

Quoting Primal_Savage,

reply 2112

GoG LH 2.1 should be available. I know I've updated my GoG version to 2.1 (and you should definitely update yours as well)... However, the issue was already there in LH 2.0 if you're still running LH 2.0.   At any rate, I looked at the saved game, saw the missing relations, and as soon as I clicked "Turn" they came back. Not sure what to make of it, nothing in the debug.err that I can relate this to.

While I was looking around, trying to find a cause, I noticed two problems w/ the mod. There is some display issue w/ the UnitStats in your unit screen. It's all messed up really, they're all over the place, using the old nomenclature, and are missing icons. I think you've installed the 2.0p.5 patch, so I'm going to look into it and see if the patch needs a patch *shrugs*. Also, you're bleeding Fame because of Verga, shouldn't happen, he should be neither giving you some nor taking away some. For some reason the Broken Spirit weakness has an extra -5 Fame hidden in it on your installation (It should be +5 and -5, but yours is +5 and -10). I will have to check some stuff this weekend.

For the UnitStats screen I just deleted the file as you suggested in your FAQ part of the readme to return it to vanilla instead of trying to figure out which stats I wanted.    The screen looks "normal" on my end as far as I can tell.  Show's 14 stats.  My computer can only go to 1280*1024  4:3 resolution so I had alot of stat bleeding into equipment page as it was.  Only played 1 campaign mission and a few attempts at sandbox before I installed the mods. 

I wondered about that "Fame" issue.  I thought maybe these mods changed that on purpose.   I had like -130 fame until I built a +100 fame wonder.  I think it was like -30ish in that save.   Didn't realize he was the cause.   Did a steal spirit and went back to normal.

Talking about hero/sovereign's is it normal that most of them have Gravelord / Bard instead of warrior as part of there  path's to pick at lvl 2?   My last couple games I think I've only seen 1 warrior option to pick?  This last game I wanted to try something different so I went with angel's faction that can't utilize death shard's at all and yet my angel Colopatiron sovereign had Gravelord path again instead of warrior.  Are those path options assigned when those sovereign's are created?  Not sure what's going on.

Very Nice!  I was wondering about Shamans and Sorceress since I never saw those path options

Is it easy fix maybe I can put in my game quick.  Was gonna start over on Challenging difficulty since normal seemed a bit easy.  I still don't see how the AI gets so many resources so quick.  I had it on Dense resources but even in my last game (with normal resource setting) that I didn't finish the AI had hundreds of crystal and iron and horses when I hadn't even started collecting horses yet.  They probably tech straight to horses but still  I don't see how they accumulate the crystals, iron and horses that fast.

My first vanilla sandbox game I was last in power even at normal difficulty.  But seems a bit easier with mods or I'm getting used to game.

Quoting Jon_Archer,

reply 2115

Very Nice!  I was wondering about Shamans and Sorceress since I never saw those path options 

A whole new world of possibilities just opened up

The fix I will publish this weekend will be doing something different than what I'm going to write right now, but if you need a quick fix, rename this file (You will have to undo this when the fix is published.):

...\Documents\My Games\LegendaryHeroes\Mods\XtraDeconstruct\X_AI\XAI_Illustrious_Abilities.xml

to:

...\Documents\My Games\LegendaryHeroes\Mods\XtraDeconstruct\X_AI\XAI_Illustrious_Abilities.NO

Or edit said file w/ Notepad, and change the -5 to 0 (You will have to undo this when the fix is published.).

AI gets resource bonuses from the Mod. It's just doing a very poor job of using these resources until you ramp up the difficulty because it doesn't tech fast enough on lower difficulty settings.

It's just my personal experience on these map sizes, your experience may be different, but I prefer to let players know so they don't get angry if they start crashing every 2-3 seasons mid game.

Also, if you're playing versus challenging AI, you may be able to have a lot of AI on these map sizes, but if you're playing against Insane AI or XSavage AI, you will probably not want that many. The tougher AI expands fast and they build massive quantity of units, this will slow down turn time quite a lot and increase crashes as they decide what to do w/ their gazillion armies.

In summary, huge+ maps should be vs reduced number of AI if strong AI. However, you may be able to face numerous challenging AI w/o too many issues, it's not a setting I usually test much.

 BTW In the last game I found that removing a wonder from the build Q doesn't refund any of the materials used to start it like 50 beers.  Is this by design?

 I've noticed alot of ninja weapons but I don't see how to become a Ninja.  Did a search and found a mod for a Ninja path.  Is there a way to gain those bonuses from ninja weapons in this mod currently?

UPDATE

Beware, there's two different versions depending if you play w/ Children of Storm (CoS) or not.

Patch 2.0.p.6 [Dropbox]

Patch 2.0.p.6 (for CoS users) [Dropbox]

[*] Description of Adept's Rod clarified

[*] On difficulty setting Challenging or less, AI Sovereigns no longer reduce Fame (-5) every season when converted

[*] Patch 2.0.p.4 and 2.0.p.5 files included

Extract in ...\Documents\My Games\LegendaryHeroes\Mods\

You will need to start a New Game for the changes to apply.

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