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Stronghold Crusader 2

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Stronghold Crusader 2
Stronghold Crusader 2 cover
Developers
Firefly Studios
Engines
Vision[1]
Release dates
Windows September 22, 2014
Reception
Metacritic 65
OpenCritic 68
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, DLC
Microtransactions None
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Real-time
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres Building, RTS
Themes Medieval, Middle East
Series Stronghold
Stronghold Crusader 2 on HowLongToBeat
Stronghold Crusader 2 on IGDB
Stronghold Crusader 2 on MobyGames
Stronghold Crusader 2 on Wikipedia
Stronghold
Stronghold (2001) 2001
Stronghold Crusader 2002
Stronghold 2 2005
Stronghold Legends 2006
Stronghold Crusader Extreme 2008
Stronghold 3 2011
Stronghold Kingdoms 2012
Stronghold Crusader 2 2014
Stronghold: Warlords 2021
Stronghold: Definitive Edition 2023

Stronghold Crusader 2 is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view building and RTS game in the Stronghold series.

General information

Official Discord server for game series
Official support portal
GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
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Windows
Developer website
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Windows
GamersGate
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Special Edition also available.
Windows
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Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Special Edition also avaiable.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Windows
Humble Store
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Windows
Steam
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Special Edition also available.
Windows
Amazon.com (unavailable)
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Standard or Special edition.
Windows

Monetization

Type Notes
DLC The DLC includes either new enemy leaders or new missions.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
The Princess & The Pig
Windows
The Emperor & The Hermit
Windows
The Templar & The Duke
Windows
The Jackal & The Khan
Windows
Freedom Fighters mini-campaign
Windows
Delivering Justice mini-campaign
Windows
Players who do not own a leader DLC can connect online to players who do.

Essential improvements

Skip intro videos

Skip intro[2]
  1. Go to <path-to-game>\assets\videos.
  2. Delete or rename the intros folder.

Game data

Configuration file(s) location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Stronghold Crusader 2\Profiles\options.xml
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/232890/pfx/[Note 1]
Any emails used during the sign up prompt will be stored as plain text strings.

Save game data location

System Location
Windows %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Stronghold Crusader 2\Saved Games
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/232890/pfx/[Note 1]

Save game cloud syncing

System Native Notes
GOG Galaxy
OneDrive
Requires enabling backup of the Documents folder in OneDrive on all computers.
Steam Cloud

Video

Video settings.
Video settings.
Advanced video settings.
Advanced video settings.

Input

Keyboard and mouse State Notes
Remapping
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Mouse acceleration
Mouse sensitivity
Mouse input in menus
Mouse Y-axis inversion
Controller
Controller support
Controller types

Audio

The master volume setting may reset on a new startup even if set to a value of zero.
Most sounds may not actually ever be muted even while using the lowest possible values.
Audio settings.
Audio settings.

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Master, music, sound effects and speech.
Surround sound
7.0
Subtitles
Checkbox in the Audio options menu.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Brazilian Portuguese
Russian
Spanish

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Notes
LAN play
Online play
Steam and GOG Galaxy cross-play not available

Connection types

Issues fixed

Flickering shadows

Ambient Occlusion[citation needed]
  • Set the Ambient Occlusion to Off.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 9.0c
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Physics Havok
Audio FMOD
Cutscenes Bink Video
Multiplayer Steamworks, GOG Galaxy

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) XP, Vista
Processor (CPU) Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz
System memory (RAM) 2 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 4 GB
Video card (GPU) Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT
ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT
512 MB of VRAM
DirectX 9.0c compatible
Other Broadband Internet connection


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data (use Wine regedit to access Windows registry paths). Games with Steam Cloud support may store data in ~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/232890/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (232890) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References