Empire at War Mirror Mod

Munro Burton · Post by **Munro Burton** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:24 am

http://www.petro-gamers.com/downloads/eaw/mods/#8

Finally, I find it on Petro's own site. I highly recommend it being adopted by the GE:ER, as it'll make ladder matches completely reliant on the players' skills.

steel · Post by **steel** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 5:15 pm

At last. If this is adopted into the ladders then I might consider joining them.

Munro Burton · Post by **Munro Burton** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 6:37 pm

I'm quite agreeable to the idea that this mod should become the "In case of arguments, use this or that" default.

The only problem I could find was that the Ion Cannon's effects wasn't actually replaced. So the "Rebel" Imperials would be firing disabling shots while the "Empire" Imperials are firing shield-bypassing shots. Not a major concern in my opinion, really.

Colestock · Post by **Colestock** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:36 am

Well, I hate to upset you, but the site is not working, saying something about the site being hacked.

Munro Burton · Post by **Munro Burton** » Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:45 am

I just went there again. It's working now.

Additionally, this mod isn't suitable for campaigns. While using the Empire vs Empire variant of the mod and playing as the 'Rebels,' you have the ability to build every land vehicle - Rebel or Imperial. The 'Rebels' also retain the ability to raid and characters are not replaced by their Imperial counterparts.

So, it's just suitable for space skirmishes. That should be sufficient.

Munro Burton · Post by **Munro Burton** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 1:47 pm

I have joined the EaW ladder, however, I will not play matches unless they utilize the mirror mod.

Before you complain, that mod is only 261kb. Even on dialup, that's only a couple of minutes. No reason you can't download it. Also, it comes with a handy readme file(mirrorv09.txt) which tells you exactly how to install it. Unless you can't read, this shouldn't pose a problem.

Yet another afterthought... the readme isn't very good, so here's what you should do.

1) Select all the files in the WinZip dialog, then right-click extract them.
2) Send them to your Star Wars Empire at War/GameData/Data folder.
3) If you did this right, there should be two new folders in the Data folder. One of them will be 'RvsR' and the other will be 'EvsE.'
4) Rename the 'EvsE' folder to 'XML.' If you already have a XML folder, rename it to 'XML_orig'

To undo any changes, rename the XML folder to EvsE and change XML_orig back to XML.