Stainless Steel 6.3 Released!

Post by Gracul here


Stainless Steel 6.3
a Medieval 2: Kingdoms mod
(Standalone - does not require previous SS installations)

Download:
Part 1: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=XX980K4C (596mb)
Part 2: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LGHWNQ9S (599mb)
Part 3: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J30SFYDG (599mb)
Part 4: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=9SQYCWSS (599mb)
Part 5: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=O1MZI6OD (66mb)
Part 6: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1ZROF9WD (3mb, installer)

MD5's (for those who want to check their download):
SS6.3-1.bin
MD5: c9d89c66600fb09513ce0a3c6e6b071f

SS6.3-2.bin
MD5: f2e26b7ccc07219199f6706ca2add985

SS6.3-3.bin
MD5: dd1788d2b3a7058cb11ee9f44e6348e9

SS6.3-4.bin
MD5: 3b953682675c7ba9d60013cab32f791e

SS6.3-5.bin
MD5: 1a529616bf9f3cd097f3f80264f51537

SS6.3.exe
MD5: 78c08a1f107fcfa9b85b0e607ccfc044

Mirrors to follow in a couple of days.

Installation:
Download all the parts and run SS6.3.exe.
DOES NOT REQUIRE PREVIOUS SS INSTALLATIONS!

Features over 6.1 version.

1. General

*- Auto borderless mode - ALT+TAB in and out of the game without any loadings.
*- New epic loading screens.
*- New music by Kevin MacLeod, Jon Sayles & Bill Hudak, vanilla MTW2 music was also brought back. (now we have 141 music files + vanilla music, compared to 89 in 6.1 and no vanilla music, thats a hell lot!)
*- New main menu background & splash screen by Y2day.
*- Faction selection crash fixed.
*- All factions accessible in custom battle and hotseat.
*- External campaign chooser - for easy hotseat and CTD reduction.
*- External launcher application - taking care of things the user would normally do.
*- CBUR with most of its features implemented.
*- Riczu trade carts removed.
*- Parts of Awellesley's 1100AD mod integrated.
*- SSTC by Chimaeira implemented.
*- Real Horses by Argent Usher implemented.
*- CBUR and Unit Card improvement projects by Agis Tournas implemented.
*- Animations updates.
*- Y2day's new faction shields & banners.
*- New Quotes.
*- Proper character ageing.
*- Byzantine and Kievan Rus unit cards by akvilonn.
*- Tax auto-manage should now work properly.
*- Added Patriarchs for Orthodox factions.
*- All factions now have their one-liner pre-battle speeches active (more speeches for existing factions, and no mute norway,kwarezm,etc. generals)
*- Unbelievable amount of fixes, small and big ones, too mny to mention...

2. The Campaign Map

*- Resources are now better balanced, a couple of new resources were also added.
*- AI friendly map, no longer should the AI get stuck with its armies.
*- Work of an art coastlines, instead of the square 'vanilla' ones.
*- All resources were moved away from roads, to ensure merchants peaceful life.
*- Tight mountain passages were widened enough so agents can freely pass, while armies would still be blocked.
*- Missing ports added.
*- Inaccessible terrain in which rebels spawned fixed.
*- Rebel ship spawn in small lakes removed.
*- Agart's great city & castle models.

3. The Campaigns

*- Rebalanced victory conditions.
*- Rebalanced building bonuses.
*- Guild's HQ's always offer some kind of a faction wide bonus.
*- Rebalanced and new missions.
*- New building - placeable in locations with long rivers.
*- Removed Ireland.
*- Added a new region below Kiev (Ireland is now 2 regions).
*- AI factions tend to stick to their Royal Blood for many generations.
*- Alberi di Famiglia Regal implemented.
*- New Faction Economy scripts.
*- Knight's Templar & Kingdom of Jerusalem is now Crusader States (with mixed units).
*- Mongols are finally made pagan.
*- 1TPY Early Era campaign.
*- Slave faction now a lot more active - including the ability to use merchants, spies and assassins.
*- New troubadours event.

4. The Battle Map & Unit Balance

*- Davide.cool grass mod implemented.
*- Water looks now a whole lot better!
*- Smoother steppes modification by wolfslayer implemented.
*- New war horn sounds by wolfslayer implemented (hand picked by me).
*- Ambinent sound files for Muslim temples by wolfslayer implemented.
*- Magus Crismon Tide implemented (the no-dirt version).
*- Award winning BAI by Germanicu5.
*- Swagger's Skymod included.
*- Knights Templar units from Lord_Calidor's KT mod implemented.
*- BTFB units by Caesar Clivus implemented.
*- For God and St George mods by AWellesley
*- Lord Condormanius's Mailed Knights
*- Polish Units by MADTAO included.
*- Rusichi mod units implemented.
*- Real Recruitment's AOR system included.
*- RR's system nearly fully integrated. (please refer to RR/RC OCT 30 post for more detailed changes)

5. Traits & Ancillaries

*- Rebalanced merchant traits for 1TPY
*- As merchants get older, they lose movement points.
*- Generals are now a lot easier to educate in settlements with schools etc.
*- Faction Leaders can now acquire a set of traits affecting all settlements and generals.

And these ones are just the ones i remember/important ones.
MANY MANY MANY other changes made, which i cannot remember because of 2 years of mod development.





Torrent: SS 6.3 Torrent (posted by bane_tw)