Para Bellum – Effects

If you want peace, prepare for war.

This mod collection is a total conversion for Rome II with a historical approach, keeping a balance with the gameplay, and aiming for a more challenging and epic experience.

Para Bellum – Steam group
Para Bellum – Discord server[discord.gg]
Para Bellum – Official Mods Collection
Para Bellum submods & Compatible mods
FAQ for Para Bellum

– New set of effects and textures (dust, smoke and blood) to increase the realism in the battlefield.
– Includes a custom adaptation of the Rivers of Blood mod so it is not required with this package.
– Blood & Gore DLC required for the blood effects.

Subscribe and place the different parts of the mod in alphabetical order in the Mod Manager:

1. Para Bellum – Campaign (includes specific instructions and translation files)
2. Para Bellum – Combat
3. Para Bellum – Effects (includes specific instructions)
4. Para Bellum – Factions
5. Para Bellum – Interface
6. Para Bellum – Population (includes specific instructions)
7. Para Bellum – Units (requires the other Para Bellum – Units parts)
8. Para Bellum – Units II (requires the other Para Bellum – Units parts)
9. Para Bellum – Units III (requires the other Para Bellum – Units parts)
10. Para Bellum – Weather (includes specific instructions)

Though I recommend to use all the modules together, they can work separately so you can apply what you want, but keeping the order regardless of the number of subscribed parts.

Para Bellum – Effects specific instructions:

1. Subscribe the mod -> requires Blood & Gore DLC for the blood effects.
2. Choose and download one of the files at:
-> click to download[1drv.ms]
– Para Bellum – Effects movie.pack <- Includes blood, smoke and dust effects.
– Para Bellum – Effects Lite movie.pack <- Only blood effects (less GPU intensive).
3. Put the file in the "data" folder of the game directory, located in: SteamsteamappscommonTotal War Rome IIdata.
4. Go into Options-> Mods in the game menu and enable the use of Movie type mods.
5. Set the terrain quality to Very High/Ultra to prevent blood stains to disappear from the ground.

The effects mod is optimized, though some users could experience that at max setings it can be GPU intensive in certains conditions, like zooming into a big melee in a city battle or with a lot of fire. The issue is that Rome 2 engine doesn’t address more than 3GB vram, and when that limit is exceeded, it will start using system ram to handle additional textures data, which is much slower than the vram, and may bottleneck the cpu.

Even though Para Bellum is designed in a modular way which facilitates compatibility, each part is independent and is specifically designed to work together with the other mods of the collection. Please note that Para Bellum includes lots of new tables and thousands of new entries, and if combined with other mods of the same type or that share content, it will be overwritten and will mess up proper functioning although the game runs apparently fine. Therefore, I only bring support for the mods included in the Para Bellum Official Mods and the Submods and compatible mods Collections that you can find above in the description.

– Multiplayer compatibility only if both players have exactly the same contents (mods and/or GEMFX installed and subscribed). Also the Para Bellum Multiplayer patch is highly recommended (contained in the Para Bellum submods Collection).

– Compatible with all DLC campaigns and contents.

– Ancestral Update (Patch 20) compatible.

This mods collection would have not been possible without the modders who very kindly gave me permission to use their terrific content in this project. My sincerest thanks and appreciation of incredible hours of hard work and dedication, goes to:

Philip – dust effects

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