Normally the edges would have been hidden by rises, however on the really flat maps they are visible.
There is one drawback to flattening the maps, I’m not sure if it was one of the other mods I was using but the edges can look pretty ugly. This doesn’t detract from battles in the mountains though, they still remain very up and down requiring a bit more thought before engaging the enemy. If you are fighting on the plains then you can usually see the enemy right from the outset, whereas before you might have had to do a bit of searching. GE 2.5 smooths these out creating some pretty beautiful rolling vistas. Some of the battle maps in vanilla M&B can be pretty bumpy, even though you may not be near any mountains. The most noticeable of these is the addition of lots of grass and a slight alteration to the generated battle maps. Graphical Enhancement 2.5 makes a lot of general improvements to M&Bs visuals. Fortunately the clever pixies have done this. Rather than drawing on separate sources, possibly running into compatibility problems, I thought it best to get as much as possible in one package. Let’s face it, M&B is not the prettiest of games, so I was looking for some graphics mods. This mod is simple to install, it has it’s own installer and can be adjusted any time the game isn’t running. These battles can get pretty messy, but I prefer having a more accurate representation of the army sizes involved. I have since scaled it back to 200 and get around the 40s, but I haven’t had a battle that tested it to the limit yet, so I’ll have to keep my eye on it. I first tried setting it to 350, this resulted in lowering my high-50s to 60 FPS down to 10 and possibly lower once the fighting got close. To put it in perspective, I have a Q6600, 8800GT and 4GB RAM. This mod lets you increase the total to a colossal 1000, although your computer wont be able to cope. Extra soldiers appear in the form of reinforcements. Normally you are limited to 100 combatants at a time, total army sizes can be bigger, but once you engage in a battle, you can only have one hundred. This mod allows you to increase the maximum amount of troops in a single battle. I’ll probably try some of them one day, but for the moment I am still enjoying the base game, so this post shall be focusing on minor or cosmetic changes. More modern combat is available featuring muskets, there is even a Star Wars mod. A quick look at the mod section on TaleWorlds forum shows you many large-scale mods, some focusing on a specific type of combat, others changing the games setting. The mods for M&B can be split into two categories, total conversions\expansions and individual changes. This means that there are already plenty of refined mods to be tried, I am going to cover some of them now. M&B has been available to play for a long time now due to the open testing development model, mods were being created long before the final release.
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