Scouting - does it show items on Adventure map?

BB Shockwave · #1 09-21-2010, 07:45 PM

One of the nice new things in AP was that on the adventure map, you could now see items (runes, gold, crystals, scrolls) shown with a small gold star - that way, I did not miss any stuff obscured by trees or rocks.

I always thought this was dependent of you having level III Scouting, but in Orcs on the March, I got to this skill level and the map still doesn't show anything... So, how does this work?

bladeking77 · #2 09-21-2010, 07:55 PM

There was an official mod for AP that allowed you to see those stuff (Among other things). There still aren't any mods for Crossworlds though. I hope they make some soon.

DGDobrev · #3 09-21-2010, 08:16 PM

BB, you probably played a game on normal difficulty. On easy and normal, treasure and such (flags, eggs, whatnot) show on the minimap, while on hard and impossible they do not show anymore.

BB Shockwave · #4 09-21-2010, 08:22 PM

Oh, I see. So its one of those difficulty setting things - like the leadership-overflow units turning hostile in battle. I wish these were explained somewhere. Thanks!

TheOne · #5 09-22-2010, 12:46 PM

I think you can change it by editing logic.txt. IIRC it was boxradar option where you need to change 0 to 1.

BB Shockwave · #6 09-22-2010, 06:12 PM

Tried, sadly doesn't seem to work.

TheOne · #7 09-22-2010, 06:32 PM

Just tried, it works... but you will need to start a new game, I think.