Battle for Middle Earth 2 Thread

demo's been out for awhile now and i like it despite some total disobedient ai from units

discuss.

Its kinda horrible in my opinion, a failed copy of Warcraft3, with like you said shitty AI, and hard game play and basically no relavance to LOTR, and im usally a fan of their games.

I'd hardly describe it as a copy of Wc3 - it's basically BfME, based on the war in the north from the novels (with a bit of liberal interpretation) - a large part of the features were requested by the community (such as wall building and independent structures). The demo doesn't really reflect the final product very well. It's not a bad game when it comes down to it, but at the moment, multiplayer is a little off - hopefully that'll be fixed right up by the release.
It is however, the best damned engine for RTS modding we'll see for a little while

Did you guys see Moddb.com this mod?

Why Visions?
We believe that EA Games delivered a fun RTS game in BFME2 but abused the newly gained Book License. They made up units and heroes, most of them making no sense when placing them in Middle Earth.

That's were Visions comes in. The goal of this mod is to make the game more fun, more real and more appealing. We intend to make the game more faithful to the source material, and also to the realistic designs of WETA workshop in the movie. We also intend to improve the quality of art assets, removing chunky dwarves, and replacing awful re-used assets from BFME1.

took me a couple days to dl
then it doesnt work
damn i need a new vid card

edit: first one was fun tho, specially in multiplayer

Edited by: Tomato-Killer

What is the model that you currently have?
Also i have yet to play the demo. I thought it looked promising but from what you have all said it sounds dissapointing

Edited by: Baza

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The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them.

VAU: amateurs with proessional standards

Don't base your entire opinion of a game off of two people, Baza. If that was the case, then no one would like any game in the industry. Everyone has something to gripe about, but in this case, try the demo first before forming an opinion. That's all I can recommend.

IGN_Hegemon wrote: Did you guys see Moddb.com this mod?

Why Visions?
We believe that EA Games delivered a fun RTS game in BFME2 but abused the newly gained Book License. They made up units and heroes, most of them making no sense when placing them in Middle Earth.

That's were Visions comes in. The goal of this mod is to make the game more fun, more real and more appealing. We intend to make the game more faithful to the source material, and also to the realistic designs of WETA workshop in the movie. We also intend to improve the quality of art assets, removing chunky dwarves, and replacing awful re-used assets from BFME1.

I'd mostly ignore it, the big hitters for BfME II are likely to include Rise of Rome in their ranks, but I'm hardly bothered about the game being more faithful to the limited book material