Black & White 2 PLUS + Old gods Lands Expansion FINAL V1.5+

This is the final version of black & white 2 plus, this is the ultimate way to enjoy plus, it does also become compatible with the new upcoming expansions!

The objective of the mod is to keep the game vanilla as possible but giving it cut content back and much better balance, this includes
balance changes, land changes, building changes, scripting, new dialogues, coding, music, two scrapped lands back and a whole new story with 9 new lands to explore!


Features:

- Enjoy Black & White 2 with a new refreshing balance changes to improve the game.
- New balance system, carefully created to make the game more challenging and enjoyable.
- Cut content restored! Enjoy two new lands in the main campaign, the norse homeland and the aztec sacrificial lands.
- Improved map layouts and make use of new strategies to win!
- Select between seven creatures, Ape, Lion, Wolf, Cow, Tiger, Gorilla and Turtle!
- Enjoy a new story after the events of black & white 2 and battle of the gods expansion: Old Gods Lands.

- Old gods lands expansion is a new story with some new characters and a lot of new features!

- Includes 9 new lands, 13 new miracles, your own powerful temple and much more!
- Return to the past! Revisit the Black & White 1 maps, remade for the second game, explore and see how time has changed these lands!
- Enjoy 13 new miracles, including resource miracles, battle of the gods miracles, cut miracles and much more!
- A new enemy awaits! This new entity is the most powerful god ever existed, face this monster and put an end to his tirany!


A new expansion is currently under development, which will take place after the events of Old Gods Lands expansion!



Please, read all the changelogs to keep up with the game changes, which are a lot!


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>>> BW2 PLUS will keep updating, in case of rare glitches patches will be released and new content will be added in the future!
>>> Special thanks to KnowingOwinga for massive beta testing efforts, also thanks to him to figure out lots of balance stuff!
>>> Special thanks to Herolich1 for help with script testing and some improvements!
>>> Very special thanks to the community for playing and trusting me with the continuation of Black & White 2 Story (and for extension, BW1 Lore), i will try to give this game and the franchise the ending it deserves.
>>> Thanks to Boxhead to give me the first hints to make coding possible! Also, play his mod too! Black & White 2 REDUX

>>> New expansion on the works!

Please, Enjoy!

- BW Blu Creations (Blu)
- If you like this mod, please consider supporting me on patreon <3 ( https://www.patreon.com/BWBluCreations )

v1.5+


Small patch:

- Added a small flag in the code to prevent temple build music interrupt the current cutscene music.
- Added a coloured radius around the W.O.M.D to feedback the player about the influence void (Dialogue added to demon god about this too).
- overhauled the last demon god land (Land 19) that was filled with crashes, now it is very stable and moslty free of crashes and errors.
- Land 19 is still very hard! Good luck here and use all the new miracles mechanics to win! (Catapults will be very helpful here!)

Finally! Black & White 2 got into it's final state, almost perfectly balanced, and a very solid installation, the current definitive version to play plus!

You no need any other version, V1.5 this one replaces V1.0 and encompasses all the patches together, while also adding a v1.5 update new content, new creatures and balance fixes!

How to install?

- Install Black & White 2
- Install the v1.1 and v1.2 patches (Ignore the v1.42 fan patch)
- Install Black & White 2 PLUS - FINAL v1.5
- PLAY!

Remember to cap the game fps to 60, otherwise weird glitches could happen, save often!, and always raise the game volume to max in-game (all sound options) to prevent atmos sounds becoming too loud.

Check the included readme included when the mod is installed!!! Necessary to know all the changelog! It is very important!

What's new in V1.5 Final?

- V1.5 bundled bw2 plus with all the patches already applied.

- Added two new creatures with an enhanced creature selection in the first land of the game, the gorilla and the turtle, now there are seven creatures to choose.

- Increased the kill switch for the Marauders quest to 20 minutes in land 5 (Norse Homeland).

- Fixed a small patch of terrain in land 6 (first japanese land) that had a small navmeshing problem.

- Fixed a dev oversight on land 8 (last japanese land), intro gave 1.000.000 tributes.

- Removed the constant and annoying good advisor hints regarding the oil baron in the last japanese land.

- Fixed a Critical (But funny) error on land 8 - Causing enemy spam eartquakes rapidly until the good brother town is taken.

- Tweaked the land 8 good brother capital layout and terrain to prevent navigation issues.

- Fixed a bug in land 10 (sacrificial land) that causes some problems with enemy catapults and migrations.

- Exact time to save the woman is now 12 minutes and 30 seconds, guards and attacking armies have been nerfed to help the player.

- Fixed some land 10 inconsitencies, tweaked the woman prison along other small issues regarding earthquakes.

- Reduced the soldiers quantities in land 11 (Last aztec land) making it run smoother but the difficulty should be still very hard.

- W.O.M.D Influence void reduced by 50%.

- Replaced the random lava ball from demon god to fire ball, so it is not that hard to beat (second demon god land).

- Fixed a dialogue error stating a false objective in the third old gods lands regarding taking all the towns instead of going directly to the main aztec capital.

- Tweaks to villagers in old god lands that causes memory problems, also fixed some memory problems in the base game (should be solved now, but be careful, more details below!)

- Tweaked land 19 (Last demon god land), now the attacking skeletons are less and now a lot of memory is free (save often!)

- Now plus and all the patches are bundled together in a single file, future updates will still exist if necessary, this final version includes all regulation patches, and will be compatible with the next expansions.

Thanks everyone for your support! I'm currenlty working on the next expansion!

Here is a bundle with the main install of plus + the rebalance update, this is everything you need to play the latest version of plus with all the stability patches applied!

New patch v1.4.1:

- Fixed villagers memory overflow (mostly) by making old villagers die very fast (1 minute) this clears the game memory and prevent crashes.

- Villager balance fixes for several lands, reducing amounts and villager limits to prevent memory issues with villagers.

- Fixed an issue with alignment, lava/fire and some buildings and fields, giving almost infinite evil points if attacking enemy/player ones, this is no longer the case.

(To prevent further memory issues, don't make too many villagers (3000+ in a town) or spam too many temple miracles in short periods of time, this is about game limits and cannot be solved, even with the 4gb patch that's already applied to plus)




Instructions:
- Install BW2 with the 1.1 and 1.2 patches (Ignore fan patch)
- Install the main Bw2 plus, v1.0
- Install V1.4 Rebalance update
- Limit the fps to 60!

Enjoy :> (BLU)

Here is a bundle with the main install of plus + the rebalance update, this is everything you need to play the latest version of plus with all the stability patches applied!

Instructions:
- Install BW2 with the 1.1 and 1.2 patches (Ignore fan patch)
- Install the main Bw2 plus, v1.0
- Install V1.4 Rebalance update

Black & white 2+ V1.4 (Rebalance Update)

This patch include lots of new rebalance, tweaks and fixes for bugs, necessary to play plus and have a much better experience!

(Install plus v1.0 and then install this one, ignore the previous patches!)

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V1.4 (Current)


Fixes:


+- Fix on land 4 in wich norse general does not despawn correctly.

+- Fix for crashes on land 8 (third japanese land) related to earthquakes, now it is done by events, these events happen when you capture/impress the central town and the evil brother town.

+- Fixed overall stability on all base game lands.

+- Fixed (yet again) stability on land 11 (last aztec land).

+- Fixed capacity bugs for "low level" houses.



Tweaks:




+- A lot of the expansion grammar has been improved.

+- Increased resource pickup speed dramatically.

+- Increased God Build ability speed by 20%.

+- Increased villager building speed by 60%.

+- Increased the above Speeds to give more agility to gameplay, but you must mind the resource cost! Godbuild also waste some more resources.

+- Creature now can pass through some tight spaces, preventing him from getting stuck too often, you still need to mind your creature for very narrow streets.

+- Alignment changes no longer decay over time, now it is easier to shift from good to evil or viceversa even in long gameplays.

+- Relaxed road building: Now roads can be placed on totally uneven terrain, this works on mountains and elevations, making it easier to build, works much like a pencil now.

+- Added new descriptions to temple miracles (Old gods lands expansion) with a more fancy UI and explanations, also a new post sign as a temple help in the first land of the expansion.

+- Now all temple miracles have the same physics of the altar miracles, in terms of distance and the same picking up sounds.

+- Increased the power of the lava miracle with more lava spreading around.

+- Increased the power of the decay miracle, the area of effect is much bigger, added new small effect changes and it is more lethal now.

+- Added a special portal in the first norse land to skip all the original story, this have some consequences however and must be done with a very specific tutorial described below.

- You will be send inmediately to the last aztec land of the original story with part of the tributes (2.000.000).
- Your creature will be fully grown up but in a reset state.
- Only for experienced players, don't do this if you haven't finished the game (vanilla or plus, as this mod also includes a 2 new lands in the original story)

TUTORIAL (SPOILERS!):

- Find the small island at the corner of the map.
- Place your hand at the center of the circle and wait 60 seconds, you will hear a sound that you are doing it correctly.
- 5 special stones will appear around the land, these are the locations (just click them and these will teleport, no need influence):
- Near the player mine.
- Near the inmortal guy cave.
- Iceberg behind the norse capital.
- Center land mountain, second most biggest mountain in the middle.
- Blue iceberg near the nut-oil quest.

- When you found all the stones, return to the island and leave your hand in the circle for 60 seconds
- A portal to the last aztec land will be available now.



Building New Abilities:

+- Ampitheatre: These gives huge ammount of impressiveness, buff the happiness in a big radius and also gives huge impressiveness bonus to other buildings. Massively reduce production of factories (render them useless if the building is near them).

+- Temple: Increases impressiveness of buildings near it.

+- Column: Slightly increases impressiveness of buildings near it.

+- Fountain: Slightly increases impressiveness of buildings near it (Very small boost).

+- Workshop: Increases production of the surrounding factories (Medium boost), removed the happiness penalty (works like half an university/prison), no more treated as an evil building, small boost to capacity for houses.

+- Bathouse: Gives a massive happiness to all buildings in a big radius. Massively reduce production of factories.

+- All Markets: Slightly increases impressiveness of buildings near it (small boost).




Building Changes:


+- Fertility Statue: The birthrate increase around it has been increased

+- University: Added a boost to happiness, so this can counter the unhappiness given by factories.

+- Prison: No more gives negative impressiveness. Now it works like an evil version of the university, gives a lot of production boost, gives very little impressiveness and reduce happiness - Tribute and building cost increased to match university.

+- Graveyard: Removed all productivity buffs, gives a tiny buff of happiness in a very large area.

+- Creche: Small buff to birthrate area and power.

+- Pub: Small buff to capacity to all type of houses. small buff to birthrate in a small area.

+- Skyscaper: Increased building cost (4000 per block), for max blocks of 12 for the greeks, and 8 blocks for the japanese one.

+- Streetlamp: Drastically reduced building cost (300 ore per lamp), don't give any impressiveness, very small happiness/production increase, suitable for both good and evil gods.

+- Garden: Slighly decreases factory production rate.

+- Torture pit: No longer decreases impressiveness, now it gives same bonuses as the wells, but gives lots of happiness debuff (for evil gods).

+- Head on spike: No longer gives negative alignment.





Balance:

+- Removed Siege engine, 100 soldiers and 100 archers from tribute menu, as these caused massive problems by spamming the purchase button (Crash and overflow).

+- Decreased impressiveness needed for the enemy capitals to a more reasonable limits to prevent slog and too slow progress.

+- Reduced land 10 (sacrifical land) difficuly to a more acceptable level, there's now a little more time to save the woman, the troops that attack the woman are much weaker and starting troops are much bigger and experienced, do not attack the aztec town near your city, you will lose!

+- Reduced land 11 (Aztec Homeland) difficuly to a more acceptable level, troops are still very strong but their quantities are reduced, drastically reduced the aztec big army, reduced the royal guards strength.

+- Reduced land 19 (Last Demon god land) to a more acceptable level, the final assault now spawn much less enemies.

+- Reduced land 20 (Demon god boss battle) to a more acceptable level, reduced the armies that spawn from the demon totems.



Possible bugs and notes that cannot be solved:

+- Volcanoes and lava can sometimes make your villagers scared forever even when the volcano end, this cannot be fixed, but can be workarounded by saving, quit the game and reload a save before the events happen (voclano), there's not an effective way to make the bug happen or not.
- This is mostly noticeable in land 11 (final aztec land), land 16 (bw1 land 1) and land 18 (third bw1 land).
+- Temple miracles cannot be removed from hand when yhe player keep the mouse action button pressed for a long time in a pedestal... I cannot fix it, the workaround is just clicking , not holding the button.
+- Some parts of the game are very script intensive, please, save ofter in case some weird crashes happen!
+- Remember that you can use modifer key to do a lot of things, straight roads, straight walls, repeat a building blueprint and even pick up soldiers! (you can sacrifice enemy soldiers in the altar with no alignment penalization).



IMPORTANT!: remember to start a previous land for the changes to be effective!

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>>> BW2+ will keep updating, in case of big glitches patches will be released and new content will be added in the future!
>>> This patch is special, to get some of the benefits you will need and i highly recommend to start a new game!
>>> Special thanks to KnowingOwinga for massive beta testing efforts, also thanks to him to figure out lots of balance stuff!
>>> Special thanks to Herolich1 for help with script testing and some improvements!

>>> New expansion on the works!

Please, Enjoy!

- BW Blu Creations (Blu)
- If you like this mod, please consider supporting me on patreon <3 ( https://www.patreon.com/BWBluCreations )