Don't get me wrong, I'm not attacking you EMP
I appreciate your remarks
This pack is really hit and miss with me, and while I was still playing NW, I ultimately uninstalled. It's a shame it's in it's final version, because it could really be updated and be a quite nice pack. Well, here are the problems I found with the pack after about 200 hours of testing various versions (all problems have still not been fixed).
1. Some skins are broken, for instance, one of the units has a shoulder pad that does the harlem shake whenever you move, and penetrates your shoulder blade when you crouch and aim. There are also a few other problems with some of the skins.
The shoulder thing was fixed in the last patch. What are the other uniform glitches you noticed? If I get back to this mod I'd like to fix them, but I can't fix them if I don't know what they are
2. The textures are a nice update, they are a "bit" higher res looking, but at the same time, they removed a lot of the color and saturation, and overall, gave the game a more gritty, browner look, which would be okay if the game was meant to be a nitty gritty combat game in the vain of Chivalry, but Napoleonic Wars was never meant to have a dark tone to it, it was meant to be a more colorful, lighthearted war game.
Play the mod with HDR enabled. Playing vanilla NW with HDR enabled makes it a bit more "nitty gritty" as well and not so OTT on the saturation front.
3. The random objects (palm trees, bushes, rocks) are not only glitchy, out of place and ugly, but also put you at an inherent disadvantage against those who are not using the pack.
I've only encountered one instance where a flower was glitchy, the rest of the new plants were fine and looked nice (btw, there are only five new bushes, and two new flowers. The rest are simple replacements for the awful grass meshes of vanilla). The palm tree can be easily removed if you are able to use OpenBRF.
4. The blood is far too obnoxious, and while it looks nice, it is overly exaggerated and tends to get in the way a lot.
How does it get in the way? It was originally supposed to help officers see if their troops are hitting at range. Plus, if you get shot (IRL-ish), there's a lot more blood than M&B offers.
5. The death sounds are far too annoying, and they quite literally sound like they were ripped from porn films. They make my ears bleed, and I know many others feel the same.
Nurdbot had a fix for that, just remove them and they won't play. If I get back to this mod, I'll probably remove some of the longer sounds because they get a bit bugged on deathmatch mode. And what kind of porn are you watching? XD
6. The new animations are entirely hit and miss, some are good, others are not. The reload animation LOOKS good, but does not perform well. Unlike the vanilla reload animation, it does not give you an indicator of when it is safe to move without breaking reload, and it is left down to mostly guesswork and timing, which is easily botched in a heated battle where the reload could have meant life and death. On the other hand, the cavalry animations are just awful, even with the sword. It looks goofy with the sword, and even more so with a pistol or spyglass. Honestly, I think if anyone rode a horse like that with their pistol extended out like it does in the game, they would be flogged by their own comrades for looking like a douchebag.
Use the "unlimited" option for ragdolls to get the best out of the death animations. The reload movement thing doesn't need much guessing, there's a part at the end of the mod's reload there you put the ramrod back into the gun, that's when you can move without breaking it. I have no idea which version of the mod you're using, but the cav animation was removed a version or two back.
7. Finally, the mod pack seems like it really had no goal, and was rather just a random compilation of any old mod there was to add. .
The mod was my own personal version of NW. Nurdbot and a few others said that I shouldn't let it go to waste and share it with the community, I'm sorry that my taste differs from yours
On one hand you add desaturated, grimey textures, realistic smoke, gore and "realistic death sounds", and on the other you add Pokemon and Pirates of the Caribbean songs to the pianos, plus MLP themed admin panels. Which are you aiming for, a darker, more true to life mod pack, or a lighthearted mod pack? Don't get me wrong, the music replacements are amazing, but they do not fit with the other mods at all
Awww, I'm sorry that you don't like fun
I like fun, and Pokemon, and MLP, and PotC... The musician instruments were also never touched, only the organ and piano tunes. Don't like fun? Replace them with your backed up vanilla files.
Overall, it is a fairly decent mod pack for those who want a more atmospheric experience, but I'd rather take the skins and music replacers (and smoke enhancer, cause that was pretty nice) and play NW that way, because in my opinion, everything else in the pack detracts from the experience.
Thanks for the feedback! It was probably the longest feedback I've received (apart from Navy telling me all about the bugs in detail). But remember, this is my own compilation of stuff I want in NW, not what everyone else wants.
