Information about Lords and Heroes submod removal!

Hello Everyone, Team Radious here!

We have sad news for you today. As some of you have noticed, we had to remove our Lords and Heroes Compatibility submod a couple of days back. This has been requested (by very imature threat of banning our work) by some of the authors of the mods which the submod covered, including Mixu. 

First thing before some will attack Radious once again - he is not creator of that submod, only did massive balancing of all needed and heavy testing.

It was never our intention to appropriate the hard work of the original modders when we released the compatibility submod. Full credits, download links and information about where to find the source mods were provided in the description and with each update. We have also explicitly stated that we’ve only done rebalancing, reworking and compatibility work and were not the original authors. 

This submod has been requested by our community numerous times, so we’ve spent long hours making it happen to an acceptable standard. Due to the scale and changes introduced by our Overhaul it is by its very nature highly incompatible and a lot of changes was required to make it work correctly with the said lords and heroes mods. There is a lot of ‘independent’ compatibility mods of this kind on the workshop, but we’ve felt that none of them were up to the required standard.  Work done on that submod was so big, many parts from original completely removed (sole basic reason why whole pack had to be taken if you delete some parts, it no longer possibly can require original mod to run). 

Simply put - mod was so complex that it required to be standalone, with removal of many original scripts there is no way to run it together with original work. It was far more then simple stats rebalance.

Regardless, out of respect (which was not returned) for the original creators we have complied with their wishes/demands and removed our compatibility submod from the workshop.

Unfortunately, this means that all save games created with this submod active will become corrupted and unplayable. We are extremely sorry about that, but there is nothing we can do, almost 5 000 active subscribers will feel that. 

Furthermore, no more compatibility work of any kind will be done on our part, as we have been forbidden from doing so. As such, you cannot expect the return of this submod in any shape or form and are left to make such requests to the original modders, Mixu primarily. This is unlikely however, as most of them has expressly said they are unwilling to do so (which was one of the other reasons why we have worked on the submod in the first place), but they must have really big grudge against us to behave like that, mod was up and running for more then 6 months and no issues or complaints anywhere, we kept it fully updated to all official content and were adding our own updates on top of that.

Sadly some parts of this community again showed us its dark places, very well fitting into our article here - https://www.patreon.com/posts/state-of-affairs-27280835

Sad thing to deal with, but such is a live, there will be always people around who don’t care about community and people actually enjoying mods, but their silly tiny wars are on the first place.

Don’t worry, we have plenty other things for you, our overhauls in every TW game since Shogun 2 and more on the way! Thank you for staying with us and supporting our work! 

Yours,

Team Radious