Posted October 09, 2013
I'm posting this thread in hopes that it might help some people with enjoying the e2150 trilogy.
This information applies especially to The Moon Project.
I'm not a fan of Lost Souls, but it's basically a TMP mod and most of the advice should thus work for it.
Escape from the Blue Planet, meanwhile, runs on a slightly different version of the engine and might work differently. The patch information further down thus doesn't apply to it.
Anyway, here's the important stuff:
- The game doesn't work with widescreen. It will start, but crash once you open the research/build menu. So use a non-widescreen resolution (Working out how to disable scaling on your computer might be painful, though).
- The GoG version of the game is 2.1, iirc. (Look in the lower left corner of the main menu)
2.1 and 2.2 is balanced for multiplayer, but multiplayer and singleplayer balance in the game are linked. This means that the campaign is broken. (This is very easy to notice with the ressource distribution in the ED campaign and the fact that one LC mission is balanced around a unit that isn't available at that point due to the 2.1 tech tree)
There's a website with an installer that can change your version at will (1.3 is what you would want to play the campaign), but it's in German and linking to the site makes it look like malware and the tool itself looks like a virus to Windows.
If you are interested, you can search for "surrim". If you are paranoid, you might want to try a virtual machine first (I hope other people will be able to confirm that the site is in fact not shady. My word alone obviously counts for nothing). The tool is a very basic thing and directly rewrites game files, after all. I wish it could just be included as extra in the gog package.
The site also has a nifty tool to make the multiplayer lobby more comfortable to use (called "moos").
I think that I forgot to mention some things while posting this, but it should at least get around the two biggest issues with the game.
This information applies especially to The Moon Project.
I'm not a fan of Lost Souls, but it's basically a TMP mod and most of the advice should thus work for it.
Escape from the Blue Planet, meanwhile, runs on a slightly different version of the engine and might work differently. The patch information further down thus doesn't apply to it.
Anyway, here's the important stuff:
- The game doesn't work with widescreen. It will start, but crash once you open the research/build menu. So use a non-widescreen resolution (Working out how to disable scaling on your computer might be painful, though).
- The GoG version of the game is 2.1, iirc. (Look in the lower left corner of the main menu)
2.1 and 2.2 is balanced for multiplayer, but multiplayer and singleplayer balance in the game are linked. This means that the campaign is broken. (This is very easy to notice with the ressource distribution in the ED campaign and the fact that one LC mission is balanced around a unit that isn't available at that point due to the 2.1 tech tree)
There's a website with an installer that can change your version at will (1.3 is what you would want to play the campaign), but it's in German and linking to the site makes it look like malware and the tool itself looks like a virus to Windows.
If you are interested, you can search for "surrim". If you are paranoid, you might want to try a virtual machine first (I hope other people will be able to confirm that the site is in fact not shady. My word alone obviously counts for nothing). The tool is a very basic thing and directly rewrites game files, after all. I wish it could just be included as extra in the gog package.
The site also has a nifty tool to make the multiplayer lobby more comfortable to use (called "moos").
I think that I forgot to mention some things while posting this, but it should at least get around the two biggest issues with the game.
Post edited October 09, 2013 by vb4
