Have either of the megamods been updated in the last year?

[treblesum81]

Originally Posted by Armistead

I see more mods designed for TMO, certainly more recent mods.

Maybe I'm just looking at the older versions of the mods I used to like? Seems like first posts don't get updated much anymore and there might be some updates buried in the pages of the thread.

[Encrusted_Garlic]

Originally Posted by treblesum81

Maybe I'm just looking at the older versions of the mods I used to like? Seems like first posts don't get updated much anymore and there might be some updates buried in the pages of the thread.

TMO 2.5 was released almost 2yrs ago if i am not mistaken... The last RFB and OpMon were updated in 2010 it looks like, and RSRD and GFO in 2009.... I guess it has been a while... longer than i thought anyhow. Im almost 100% positive that they have been updated in the downloads section as well as wherever else they are posted to the most recent patches. I dont think you need to go digging or anything.

[Sailor Steve]

I'm not sure of the status of the others, but TMO was the sole work of Ducimus, and he flatly refuses to work on mods anymore, due to experiences with his last attempt. There may be small mods designed to work with TMO, but don't expect to see a new update, ever.

to the question of RFB and TMO i think more people have gravitated to TMO and are not as keen on RFB. TMO is just a more refined and smoother running mod IMHO.

the thing with RSRDC is it was already a little old before the final versions of TMO and RFB so it was kinda just "tweaked" to keep up with some of the changes but many feel it would have been fantastic to get a truely updated version of RSRDC before the creator left it as finished but sadly that never happened.

a lot of mods dont really get into compatability until you dig into the mod description so it isnt as easy as it used to be to tell by the names if a mod is TMO compatable.

RFB has the destintion of NOT being other mod friendly and have constant CTD if non-compatable mods are added. mods that would work for it will usually NOT work without it so they are special made for RFB and therefore get an easy to identify name saying its a RFB mod.

like RFB, FOTRS is NOT other mod friendly and has its own built in campaign so RSRDC is not needed and should NOT be used with it. it is even more sensative to being altered in any way because it was designed to be a whole mod needing nothing else with it so very few mods will work with it and if you use that mod DONT use any mods with it unless they specifically say they are made for FOTRS

[treblesum81]

Originally Posted by Webster

to the question of RFB and TMO i think more people have gravitated to TMO and are not as keen on RFB. TMO is just a more refined and smoother running mod IMHO.

the thing with RSRDC is it was already a little old before the final versions of TMO and RFB so it was kinda just "tweaked" to keep up with some of the changes but many feel it would have been fantastic to get a truely updated version of RSRDC before the creator left it as finished but sadly that never happened.

a lot of mods dont really get into compatability until you dig into the mod description so it isnt as easy as it used to be to tell by the names if a mod is TMO compatable.

RFB has the destintion of NOT being other mod friendly and have constant CTD if non-compatable mods are added. mods that would work for it will usually NOT work without it so they are special made for RFB and therefore get an easy to identify name saying its a RFB mod.

like RFB, FOTRS is NOT other mod friendly and has its own built in campaign so RSRDC is not needed and should NOT be used with it. it is even more sensative to being altered in any way because it was designed to be a whole mod needing nothing else with it so very few mods will work with it and if you use that mod DONT use any mods with it unless they specifically say they are made for FOTRS

Thanks for the detailed info. I think based on this, I'll stick with the TMO + RSRDC for compatibility and game performance.

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Webster

RFB has the destintion of NOT being other mod friendly and have constant CTD if non-compatable mods are added. mods that would work for it will usually NOT work without it so they are special made for RFB and therefore get an easy to identify name saying its a RFB mod.

You know, that could explain a few things...

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

You know, that could explain a few things...

i tried doing a few of my mods to be RFB compatable but i soon found there were things he did with the files in that mod that redirect some of the files that get used so with modding the files sometimes certain things dont show up only to find its because different files are being used.

there are also some other things going on i wont get into but lets just say RFB changes the way files are used in the game so modders must use RFB files to make mods for RFB or you will get CTD and other issues.

[Encrusted_Garlic]

Originally Posted by Webster

i tried doing a few of my mods to be RFB compatable but i soon found there were things he did with the files in that mod that redirect some of the files that get used so with modding the files sometimes certain things dont show up only to find its because different files are being used.

there are also some other things going on i wont get into but lets just say RFB changes the way files are used in the game so modders must use RFB files to make mods for RFB or you will get CTD and other issues.

Ahhhhh.... here I was thinking I just really sucked at modding!! I tried doing stuff with RFB and no matter how much i tried or how deep i went there always seemed to be something wrong or out of line.... weird anomalies and so on... that would make sense as to way, i saw that files were redirected but had no clue as to how deeply it was altered.... thanks webster, i dont feel so bad now