Tzar: The Burden of the Crown
Developers | |
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Haemimont Games | |
Publishers | |
Take-Two Interactive | |
Italy, Spain | FX Interactive |
Digital | Haemimont Games |
Release dates | |
Windows | January 27, 2000 |
Reception | |
IGDB | 60 |
Taxonomy | |
Monetization | One-time game purchase, Expansion pack |
Modes | Singleplayer, Multiplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | Bird's-eye view, Isometric |
Controls | Multiple select, Point and select |
Genres | RTS |
Themes | Medieval, Fantasy |
Tzar: The Burden of the Crown is a singleplayer and multiplayer bird's-eye view and isometric RTS game.
General information
Availability
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Tzar: El Cid y la Reconquista | Released only in Spain. | |
Tzar: El Rey Arturo y Excalibur | Released only in Spain and Italy. | |
Tzar: El Imperio de Gengis Khan | Released only in Spain and Italy. | |
Tzar: Los Dominios de la Magia | Released only in Spain. |
Essential improvements
Patches
- Official patches that update the game to the latest version can be found here.
- Unofficial patch 1.13, which provides balance changes, is available here.
- Unofficial patch Tzar 1.16b, can be found at https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-the-burden-of-the-crown-116b/downloads/tzar116b
- Unofficial Launcher https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-r2p-launcher/downloads/tzar-ready2play-launcher . You need to add cnc-draw and set it to GDI rendering, opengl CTD-ed on me
- Use use https://github.com/FunkyFr3sh/cnc-ddraw/releases for stability.
- Digital music Ogg format = true
- Digital music Ogg format = https://github.com/dippy-dipper/ogg-winmm. Rip the music to ogg, put the files in Music folder, configure ogg-winmm
- Patch with cnc-draw, music in digital format, all campaigns
https://mega.nz/file/mNsHWYCR#fJgFkTuFzSw_7Vitym-o64BxwQo1ElUy1mgNTMHRyA8
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\tzar.ini[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/825730/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | <path-to-game>\Save[Note 1] |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/825730/pfx/[Note 2] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Widescreen resolution
Widescreen resolutions support[1] |
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Install HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200). |
Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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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 |
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Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Sound, Music | |
Surround sound | 5.1 | |
Subtitles | ||
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost | ||
EAX support | EAX 2.0 | |
Royalty free audio | ||
Red Book CD audio | On Windows, CD music might not play correctly; see the troubleshooting guide for solutions. |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Bulgarian | Local retail version only. | |||
French | Local retail version only. | |||
German | ||||
Italian | Local retail version only. | |||
Polish | ||||
Portuguese | ||||
Russian | Local retail version only. | |||
Spanish |
- Steam version is available only in English.
Mods
https://www.moddb.com/mods/tzar-and-the-legend-of-the-return-of-the-crown/downloads/early-access-campaign-release n level 6, the extremely difficult one where you have to fortify the Keanor city across the river as well as defend against the enemy on your shore, you can let Keanor fall, in which case Sartor will be captured. The next "secret" level then will be of you rescuing Sartor, after which the game will proceed as normal. Pretty nice.
The game was a big succes in Spain and Italy, multiple campaigns were released for these markets, this is the original site where you cand download the campaigns legally and free. The audio is in spanish. https://www-fxinteractive-com.translate.goog/p004/tzexgengis.htm?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=es&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=pt-PT
Alternatively, tou can download the campaigns transalted to english, only without voices. See here the post on gog https://www.gog.com/forum/tzar_the_burden_of_the_crown/expansion_campaigns_and_fan_missions_english_translations .
Since these campaigns were only released in Spanish (and Italian?), I have provided an English translation of them. For three of the campaigns, the translations are incorporated into the campaign file already; since "Excalibur and King Arthur" is still for sale, I have only provided translated text files that must be manually imported into the mission files. (Instructions are in the README file in the zip archive.) The zip archives below for "El Cid and the Reconquista" also includes a translated fan mission written by the author of the campaign. I hope to translate some other fan missions later and post them here. (Many fan missions--in Spanish--can be found on FX Interactive's website here.)
Official Campaigns
El Cid and the Reconquista: 2.0 With Spanish voices: https://www.mediafire.com/file/3fzg2624hpy7vpx/The_Reconquista_2.0.7z/file Unvoiced: https://www.mediafire.com/file/1scyrb7kr8fmxas/Tzar_The_Reconquista_English_2.0_Unvoiced.7z/file
The Empire of Genghis Khan: 1.0 Both voiced and unvoiced included: https://www.mediafire.com/file/ad599r9x1a20nxe/Tzar_The_Empire_of_Genghis_Khan_English.7z/file
The Domains of Magic: 1.0 With Spanish voices: https://www.mediafire.com/file/8c1uyrfdviemwo4/Tzar_The_Domains_of_Magic_English_1.0.7z/file Unvoiced: https://www.mediafire.com/file/fazfyw9zqcm1mme/Tzar_The_Domains_of_Magic_English_1.0_Unvoiced.7z/file
Excalibur and King Arthur: 1.0 Translation Patch: https://www.mediafire.com/file/dn8oss83kqin88o/Tzar_Excalibur_EnglishTranslationPatch_1.0.7z/file
Network
Multiplayer types
Type | Native | Players | Notes | |
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LAN play | 8 | Versus |
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Online play | 8 | Versus https://tza.red/ Online matchmaking |
Connection types
Type | Native | Notes |
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Peer-to-peer | ||
Dedicated | ||
Self-hosting | ||
Direct IP |
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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DirectDraw | 7.0 | |
Software renderer | GDI |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | ||
Operating system (OS) | 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000 | |
Processor (CPU) | 200 MHz Pentium | |
System memory (RAM) | 32 MB | |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 202 MB |
Notes
- ↑ 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). - ↑ 2.0 2.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (825730) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ Tzar - Burden of the Crown HD Patch (1280x720 - 1920x1200) - last accessed on 2022-08-22