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Here's our statement about Paid Modding:
... And, on the Second Day of Paid Modding, we say : Let There Be WAR.
WARZONES 2015.2
The largest, most comprehensive combat and random-encounter mod updates today!
ANIMALS NO LONGER FLY!
FOLLOWERS WILL FOLLOW!
YOUR BLOOD WILL PAINT THE SNOW!
The complete ONLINE DOCUMENTATION can be found here. I encourage you to read it.
WARZONES is a big mod with many options and can be impacted by many things, so by saying "encourage", I guess I'm being polite - because I really mean "insist".
At minimum, please follow our handy-dandy INSTALLATION CHECKLIST:
INSTALLATION CHECKLIST : Do Everything Right
and/or
MANDATORY INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS and SAVE GAME PREPARATION page or you may run into problems.
If you are UPDATING from 2015.1, please click here for proper installation directions.
Otherwise... ENJOY!
- MyGoodEye
... And, on the Second Day of Paid Modding, we say : Let There Be WAR.
WARZONES 2015.2
The largest, most comprehensive combat and random-encounter mod updates today!
ANIMALS NO LONGER FLY!
FOLLOWERS WILL FOLLOW!
YOUR BLOOD WILL PAINT THE SNOW!
The complete ONLINE DOCUMENTATION can be found here. I encourage you to read it.
WARZONES is a big mod with many options and can be impacted by many things, so by saying "encourage", I guess I'm being polite - because I really mean "insist".
At minimum, please follow our handy-dandy INSTALLATION CHECKLIST:
INSTALLATION CHECKLIST : Do Everything Right
and/or
MANDATORY INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS and SAVE GAME PREPARATION page or you may run into problems.
If you are UPDATING from 2015.1, please click here for proper installation directions.
Otherwise... ENJOY!
- MyGoodEye
NEW in 2015.2:
- WARZONES COOLDOWN : This great new function ensures that namedWZs don't respawn immediately upon leaving a nearby interior. The default is 24 in-game hours. Via our MCM, you can change the timing as you like. Should you prefer to see a particular WZ "again", you can override this by entering MCM and re-enabling the WZ should you prefer more carnage.
- WARZONES ARMORY TOGGLE : Don't like the Armory? Turn it off!
- PERFORMANCE ENHANCEMENTS : Updates to scripts and NPC placement for a better, faster, smoother WARZONES experience.
- PERFORMANCE MODE : For users with "lower-end" systems or users who believe their rigs are "in-between" our preset SpawnCounts. Let's say that our preset of 2 is a little "too much" for your system, but you'd like to see a few more NPCs than our preset of 1... now you can. For instance... with a SpawnCount of 2, you are likely to see 2 NPCs per point... of course, the points are invisible to you, but generally speaking in large WZs, there are 3 SpawnPoints per Faction for a total of 6 SpawnPoints and therefore a possible total of 12 NPCS. PERFORMANCE MODE increases the chances of a "randomNoSpawn", effectively putting the SpawnCount at 1.5 from a SpawnCount of 2. 2.5 from a SpawnCount of 3. And, of course, .5 from a SpawnCount of 1. While I can't say a WZ will really be a WZ at .5, this option will allow more users to enjoy WARZONES!
- DEADCOUNT : Too many corpses clogging your battlefields and choking your performance? Turn 'em down! Corpses disappearing too quickly depriving you of your ill-gotten gains? Set them to stick around longer! (please note, we will not support this feature and recommend you leave them as is, but it is up to you)
- UPDATED CIVIL WAR BATTLES : Bigger and more randomized Civil War battles are now at your fingertips.
- More Random WZs! Kill 'em all!
FIXED THE FLYING ANIMALS!
Thanks to all the Guinea pigs that helped us to isolate and mitigate the FLYING ANIMALS issue.
WZ 2015.2 now includes the "cure" - at least as regards WARZONES. With the help of a good many of you, I believe I've found a stable way to "raise the threshold" at which it occurs - and that "fix" now exists in WZ 2015.2 - since WZ seems to be the tipping point for many. This "fix" is harmless to those of you who don't know what they heck I'm going on about and those that have never seen the FLYING ANIMALS bug.
Basically, this means that if you continue to run your game at 60FPS or lower, you should now no longer see FLYING ANIMALS. If you do, please take the time to comment here and please be willing to be helpful.
To be clear:
Animals Flying is a vanilla issue that manifests for some at high frame rates (along with other things like flying plates and the like).
It is therefore ABSOLUTELY STILL RECOMMENDED that your enable your VSYNC and be sure your FPS does not go above 60.
The issue will likely still exist at high frame rates for some of you. This is more likely to continue to happen in the area of Whiterun, Morthal, Solitude and Windhelm. This is NOT a Warzones "bug".
In order to cure it, I'd have to literally delete some vanilla items tied to Civil War Fort Sieges. This may or may not be a wise course of action overall, but I am willing to create a "patch" to do so should the issue persist. If you continue to see FLYING ANIMALS once you've installed 2015.2 properly, please let me know WHERE you see them, what your frame rate is, and the secret word of compliance. I will provide you with a "patch" that you can try, but that I will consider "unsupported" as it is not a WZ "thing".
A NOTE ON PAID MODS FROM ME, MYGOODEYE:
This FREE AND MASSIVE UPDATE being released the day after the news about "paid mods" should suffice as "Our Statement", but just in case you want more:
WARZONES 2015.2 is free to Nexus users.
It will remain free to Nexus users.
It would not be what it is without Nexus users.
Period.
Making no declaration, pointing no fingers and not speaking for the other team-members:
I cannot say that I could live with myself after promising 2015.2 to the users here - taking full advantage of the "Nexus Dynamic" of in-kind give-and-take as regards our amazing Beta-testers - only to turn around and sell the update exclusively on Steam.
To be impolite, in my opinion, that'd be very fucked up... in many ways I'd be rather deserving of the shit-storm if I'd been leveraging your good will for months only to say "Hey, remember that update? Want it? Go to Steam and pay for it! Thanks for the help! Peace."
My suggestion to anyone is to consider DONATIONS via the NEXUS as being a direct conduit to the mod-authors. If it becomes possible to earn some income via the Nexus and the donations therein, it is potentially less likely that modders will turn to Steam for income. It is well known that split of revenue is 75/25 "in favor of" Steam. So, if you are inclined, please think of any donation you may be inclined to make as a 75% discount off Steam-retail pricing.
Whatever you decide to do, please conduct yourself in a manner you won't be embarrassed by in the future. The internet has grown more hostile than usual today and I'm sad to see it. I understand the anger and the sense of betrayal, but none of that is worth your dignity.
- MyGoodEye
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(on a related note as it is unmentioned) Chekso makes awesome mods and does not deserve all this hate.