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XtraDeconstruct: Legacy of Magic

by Primal Savage et al.

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

(22 February 2017) Patch 2.0.p.2., see #1940

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

1.2 Compatibility Snippet (Extended List)

Compatible w/ LH 2.0, all DLC, Children of Storm 1.8.c, Black Market Bazaar 2.0, Champion Bonanza 1.3...

NOTE: XtraDeconstruct makes Children of Storm compatible w/ LH 2.0 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...

Patch 2.0p.2 [Info] [Download] (Extract in ...\Documents\My Games\LegendaryHeroes\Mods\ )

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.

@Primal_Savage It is a shame that you are unlikely to finish the remaining Faith factions. On the other hand, you have created a lot of content for mod users and have been doing so for a long time. The game is relatively old now, and not getting enough feedback to be encouraged to do significantly more is completely understandable. There are a few 'nice to have' items on my personal list, the top being Faith Water to balance Fire, and, more randomly, enabling the Wolfmen for Faction/Sovereign editing. Honestly, I have no right to ask you for them though. Any continued maintenance support in the future is appreciated. Thanks for everything!

I will switch the CoS custom male skeleton sovereign to werewolf (for faction creation). The current skeleton sovereign will remain in, but when creating new undead faction you will be able to use the werewolf-ankis-wolfmen model. And since there's already a male skeleton sovereign in DLC04, won't lose the ability to create a skeleton sovereign either.

I wonder why some of equipment images don't load/are blank in my version, I don't know if you seen this in the save i had sent.

There are many things i didn't yet tested (like new factions, gray magic, republic) and there is no detailed guide, so hard for me atm to tell about those. But they give new oppurtinites to try the game definitely.

Download and install:

Black Market Bazaar compatible with - Children of Storm - XtraDeconstruct - and friends (2.1)

Champion Bonanza compatible with Children of Storm (1.3)

And the missing images problem should be gone once you restart FELH.

Do note that this is only required because you downloaded "XtraDeconstruct plus DLC_MOD Compatibility Files" main file, so you need to download and install the compatible mods (BMB, CB, CoS, but you previously mentioned you downloaded and installed CoS, so now you only need to do the same thing with BMB and CB).

Returning to this great mod and thank you! If I wanted to get rid of all AI cheats (Such as the AI Sell Spells and the 150 Gildar AI bonus at game start how would I do this? Any other AI bonus cheats to know about? Seems like the AI can produce more units faster? Just looking for an easier game.

Also I don't think a lot of people know about copying your files into the core files. I just did this and it fixed a lot of crashing issues for me! A lot of people probably just don't pay attention and put all the files into the mod folder only like I did. This would be my first tip if people have crashes!

Delete

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

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

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

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

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

...\Documents\My Games\LegendaryHeroes\Mods\XtraDeconstruct\X_Spells\XSS_Sell.xml

...\Documents\My Games\LegendaryHeroes\Mods\XtraDeconstruct\XX_ThinkingMachines_AI\XX_TM_AI_Abilities.xml

...\Documents\My Games\LegendaryHeroes\Mods\XtraDeconstruct\XX_ThinkingMachines_AI\XX_TM_AI_Spells.xml

Will probably cripple the AI.

The easiest way to do this is simply to unlock the wolf head for all models. This doesn't, so to speak, create a "wolfmen", but it certainly gives you a Sovereign w/ a wolf head. The reason why I would switch the CoS male skeleton sovereign to werewolf is to make it a bit more unique in terms of abilities and equipment it can use. I will try to put up a Dropbox link at some point today. If you want to unlock the head for all races, just edit with notepad:

...\Documents\My Games\LegendaryHeroes\Mods\XtraDeconstruct\M_ChildrenOfStorm\XM_CoS_Heads.xml

Find:

<GameItemType InternalName="Wargmanhead1">

And add the following supported models:

<SupportedUnitModelType>AmarianMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>BroodCustom</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>EmpireMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>FallenMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>IroneerMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>KingdomMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>MancerMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>QuendarMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>TarthanMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>UrxenMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>WraithMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>Centaur</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>DrotaMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>DwarfMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>ElfMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>LizardmanMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

<SupportedUnitModelType>FaithEarthMale</SupportedUnitModelType>

 I didn't test it extensively, but it should work.

EDIT:

Werewolf Sovereign (Dropbox)

Requires Children of Storm Mod.

There is a section at the end of A_UserGuide.txt that describes what most files that can removed do, but as long as I will be around I can certainly answer these questions to, so keep asking, I'm sure other users would like to know.

Z1. (Guide) - Customizing your XtraDeconstruct installation

For AI Fame (Champions), delete:

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

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

I don't believe I've added specific bonuses to AI Champion XP (although that would be an interesting AI bonus). Generally, I can keep up with them through adventuring/war. That said, the AI doesn't improve (much) its champions equipment unless it's a party leader, so at some point it doesn't really matter if they are 5-10 levels above you as your equipment will balance things out.

Regarding stationed units, city hubs provide XP based on city size and city specialization. At the "outpost" level (CityHub1), units gain 1 XP per season, so obviously you will gain more by adventuring, the exception being when you start in a really difficult position, in which case it might be advantageous to get to level 2 w/ your trained units while you go around with your sovereign and pick up treasure sites and whatnot). Midgame/Endgame, once your cities grow and the creature lairs become more scarce, then it's often better to leave your newly trained units (and newly acquired champions) in high level fortresses until you need them and adventure with a small number of parties (say 2-4 stacks). You can modify or delete said changes through XI_CityHubsXP.xml and XM_67_CityHubsXP.xml

...\Documents\My Games\LegendaryHeroes\Mods\XtraDeconstruct\M_AlphaCities\XM_67_CityHubsXP.xml

...\Documents\My Games\LegendaryHeroes\Mods\XtraDeconstruct\X_Improvements\XI_CityHubsXP.xml

Unrelated to your post, I've added a Dropbox link for the Werewolf Sovereign (using CoS Custom Undead Male Sovereign) in reply #1985.

Didn't knew i need those too. Thanks, it helped :) 

@Primal Savage: Thanks, that worked and nothing blew up! Last two follow up questions:

1) For enabling on Females I presume I duplicate the overall entry, but use the ___Female instead of ____Male for supported model type? I could refer to another female entry, like Lizardmanheadfemale, to double check my syntax.

2) Is there a different place I can go to force soldier units to also use the Wolfman head? For example, if I was say, running a custom faction derived from Altarians, is there a place where I could switch Altarian unit heads? Or is this a bit more complex than changing a line of text in an XML file somewhere?

Thanks!

Thanks for all of the help!

1. Yes.

2. You need to switch all units head equipment, probably around 20-25 per faction.

( XH_Units, but see also XH_Units_CityDefenders, XH_Units_PioneersSappers, and XH_Units_Specials )

@Primal_Savage:

Thanks! I'll work with your other instructions on my personal copy from there. I also did grab the dropbox file you put up. Cheers!

Edit: Tried to give you some Karma in thanks but the forum is returning an Error 500 message.

Yeah, I've run into the karma issue a couple times, guessing the problem is with LH Modding, stardock.net, elementalgame.com, or something else (I think I covered all bases now) since I've seen karma being given on other Stardock forums. Might also be a problem with ad blocking apps. You can try giving karma directly from profile ( https://forums.elementalgame.com/user/5505675 ) , see if it works from there, but otherwise it's an issue only Stardock can fix. Not sure if they're even aware of it though.

The head internalname is Wargmanhead1 .

Changing this will also modify the trained units for default faction using the same trained units as your new faction. In your example, Altar.

Noted. And Karma does work from the profile.

Nice to know there's a workaround. 

Also tryed that earlier and it didn't work, now i know the workaround and it work fine Thx for your work again. btw one line of text and 5x "work"

Been awhile, got the itch to come back to LH.

Was there a change to how wild creatures act? Playing my first game with a fresh reinstall, while scouting I'm getting constantly attacked from upwards of two tiles out with defending monsters coming out of their lair to attack. I don't remember that being a thing prior.

I'm just wondering if I messed up my reinstall somehow or if this is a feature. It's making scouting pretty difficult, which if that was the intention it's working as intended.

Working as intended!