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Disciples II: Dark Prophecy

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Not to be confused with The Dark Prophecy.

Disciples II: Dark Prophecy
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy cover
Developers
Strategy First
Release dates
Windows January 24, 2002
Reception
Metacritic 84
Taxonomy
Monetization One-time game purchase, Expansion pack
Modes Singleplayer, Multiplayer
Pacing Turn-based
Perspectives Bird's-eye view
Controls Multiple select, Point and select
Genres RPG, TBS
Themes Fantasy
Series Disciples
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy on HowLongToBeat
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy on IGDB
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy on MobyGames
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy on Wikipedia
Disciples
Disciples: Sacred Lands 1999
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy 2002
Disciples II: Guardians of The Light 2003
Disciples II: Servants of The Dark 2003
Disciples II: Rise of The Elves 2003
Disciples III: Renaissance 2009
Disciples III: Resurrection 2010
Disciples III: Reincarnation 2012
Disciples: Liberation 2021

Disciples II: Dark Prophecy is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view RPG and TBS game in the Disciples series.

General information

GOG.com Community Discussions for game series
GOG.com Support Page
Steam Community Discussions

Availability

Source DRM Notes Keys OS
Retail
Disc check (requires the CD/DVD in the drive to play)
SecuROM 2 DRM
Windows
Publisher website
DRM details are not known
Gallean's Return. Rise of the Elves Gold and Gold edition also available.
Windows
Epic Games Store
DRM details are not known
Gallean's Return. Rise of the Elves Gold also available.
Windows
GamersGate
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Gallean's Return. Rise of the Elves Gold also available.
Windows
Gamesplanet logo.svg
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Gallean's Return. Rise of the Elves Gold also available.
Windows
GOG.com
DRM-free
Gold edition
While Gallean's Return installers are tagged as 2.01, they actually include the 2.02 patch.[1] However, while Rise of the Elves is marked as 3.01, the in-game menu reports 3.0 (as it is partially patched[2]) and is missing the Rise of the Elves Gold content.
Windows
Green Man Gaming
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Gallean's Return. Rise of the Elves Gold also available.
Windows
Steam
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Gallean's Return. Rise of the Elves Gold also available (missing the 3.01 patch).
Windows
ZOOM Platform
DRM-free
Gold edition; all content is contained in the same installer. Currently the only distribution to contain both the full 3.01 patch and the Rise of the Elves Gold content.
Windows
GamersGate (unavailable)
DRM-free after installation (requires an internet connection during installation)
Disciples II: Dark Prophecy
Windows
A free demo version of Dark Prophecy is available from Archive.org.

Version differences

The Gold edition contains the base game (Dark Prophecy) and all three expansions (Guardians of The Light, Servants of The Dark and Rise of The Elves) plus five new bonus quests.
Gallean's Return is a compilation of the base game and two expansions (Guardians of the Light and Servants of the Dark).
Rise of the Elves Gold is a compilation of the base game, Rise of the Elves and an additional 4-mission campaign unique to that version, released months after the retail version of Gold. An upgrade was released by the developers[3].
  • GOG.com users may need to use a tool like UniExtract to unpack the files from the Gold upgrade installer, as it will not recognize the installation. This will also result in the main menu properly reporting the game version as 3.01.
Map editors for Steam versions provide as separate AppID - 1645 and 1635, with same depots

Monetization

Type Notes
Expansion pack The expansion packs are standalone. They include new races, maps, campaigns, and units.
One-time game purchase The game requires an upfront purchase to access.

DLC and expansion packs

Name Notes
Guardians of the Light Standalone.
Windows
Servants of the Dark Standalone.
Windows
Rise of the Elves Standalone.
Windows

Essential improvements

Patches

The latest official patch for Dark Prophecy is 1.41, available from Patches-Scrolls.
The latest official patch for Guardians of the Light / Servants of the Dark is 2.02, available from Patches-Scrolls.
The latest official patch for Rise of the Elves is 3.01, available from Patches-Scrolls.

GL Wrapper by Verok

Changes the graphics renderer of the original version, fixes performance on newer systems.
ModDB mirror (v1.90)
Archive link (v1.87)

Game data

Configuration file location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\Disciple.ini[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1640/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game data location

System Location
Windows <path-to-game>\SaveGame[Note 1]
Steam Play (Linux) <Steam-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/1640/pfx/[Note 2]

Save game cloud syncing

Video

Settings available from config editor
Settings available from config editor
Settings from in-game
Settings from in-game
Ultra Widescreen by Verok's GL wrapper & patch
Ultra Widescreen by Verok's GL wrapper & patch
Ultra-Widescreen by Verok's GL wrapper & patch
Ultra-Widescreen by Verok's GL wrapper & patch

Graphics feature State Notes
Widescreen resolution
Only 800x600, 1024x768 and 1280x1024 are officially supported. More resolutions available with GL Wrapper by Verok
Multi-monitor
Although it can appear on a non-primary display, it does not capture the mouse.
Ultra-widescreen
Possible with GL Wrapper by Verok
4K Ultra HD
Possible with GL Wrapper by Verok
Field of view (FOV)
Windowed
Requires 16-bit color depth in game software mode. 32-bit color in D3D mode or when using GL Wrapper by Verok
Borderless fullscreen windowed
See the glossary page for potential workarounds.
Anisotropic filtering (AF)
Anti-aliasing (AA)
Vertical sync (Vsync)
60 FPS and 120+ FPS
High dynamic range display (HDR)

Input

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

Audio

Audio feature State Notes
Separate volume controls
Sound effects, music, unit acknowledgements, isometric audio environment
Surround sound
Subtitles
Text-only speech in cutscenes.
Closed captions
Mute on focus lost
Royalty free audio

Localizations

Language UI Audio Sub Notes
English
Simplified Chinese
Retail only.
French
Retail only.
German
Retail only.
Italian
Retail only.
Polish
Retail and GOG.com only; download for Gallean's Return and Rise of the Elves.
Russian
Retail only; download for Gallean's Return and Rise of the Elves.
Spanish
Retail only; download for Gallean's Return and Rise of the Elves.

Network

Multiplayer types

Type Native Players Notes
Local play
4 Hot seat, Versus
LAN play
4 Versus
Online play
4 Versus

Connection types

Ports

Protocol Port(s) and/or port range(s)
UDP 34000
Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) support status is unknown.

Other information

API

Technical specs Supported Notes
Direct3D 7 The game has an unsupported option of using Direct3D for rendering in its settings
DirectDraw 7
Executable 32-bit 64-bit Notes
Windows
A Linux port was also planned, but cancelled.[4]

Middleware

Middleware Notes
Audio Miles Sound System
Cutscenes Bink Video

System requirements

Windows
Minimum Recommended
Operating system (OS) 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP
Processor (CPU) Intel Pentium II 233 MHz
System memory (RAM) 64 MB
Hard disk drive (HDD) 1.2 GB
Video card (GPU) 8 MB of VRAM
DirectX 7.1 compatible


Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).
  2. 2.0 2.1 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>/1640/ in addition to or instead of this directory. The app ID (1640) may differ in some cases. Treat backslashes as forward slashes. See the glossary page for details.

References