Comments - Nuvendil

Yep, still plugging away :)

Yeah, we're taking the mix approach rather than the loop approach. Looping music is really hard to do so while I enjoy that myself - Xenoblade 1 and 2 have dynamite looping field music - we decided it best to go in a different direction.

Looping music also tends to become a more assertive aspect of your presentation, which fundamentally changes the atmosphere of the game. Not necessarily making it less immersive, but altering the feel of the immersion, if that makes sense.

Some of it could be settings on this particular rig. Also, on folliage some of it is due to LOD distances, which we will continue to tweak in order to balance performance vs visuals.

Nice. Hope you guys can do well.

Fiddled around with the alpha build and definitely see some potential here, like the aesthetics and such. I do have an issue with my vehicle pulling to the left, not sure if that's a bug or my controller may want to check that out.

I wish you luck going forward, but I do find it odd to have a seemingly multiplayer focused racer as a PC only game. Now obviously, cost of entry is lowest on PC but this does feel like a game with a good bit of console potential.

I think looking into either a PS4 or Switch version would be wise. PS4 because of the userbase and performance. Switch because 1) dev kit costs are apparently quite low (something like $500?) and 2) there seems to be the beginnings of a little futuristic racer ecosystem there with FAST RMX at launch and Redout in the Spring so you may find synergy with those titles sales wise.

Best of luck! I'll have my eye on this one.

Hey, just want to drop a message here that we are hard at work and things have been a little quiet here, but we are working on stuff to hopefully show you soon.

Not really. Shields stayed in use for quite a long while. And this armor has just enough vulnerabilities to make it worth having. Plus, heater shields are commonly used by people in full plate due to their thickness and durability. Men in full plate are vulnerable to mace, bardiche, halberd, etc blows and so the heater is well designed to deflect those.

Depends on the spear of course ;)

It would be quite neat actually if it were possible to win them over to the side of the Free Peoples rather than Sauron since they are not inherently evil. Like how the Dunlendings came to live peacefully as a protectorate of sorts of the Reunited Kingdom.

Don't know if that's possible.

Project is looking really good.

Yeaaah...sorry about that :P . We haven't been idle as you can see but there were a lot of things going on. We hope to show even more soon ;) .

Happy New Year! Keep your eyes open for some new content coming out in the coming days and week!

Yeah, I'm not going to moan over the winner, CoC is at least very ambitious and well made.

I am FAR more miffed that Enderal was completely and totally snubbed by the Editor's Choice. Like, what the crap?

You can thank Kevin, one of our 3D Artists and Level Designers for that. He did exceptional work creating the foundational textures for the heightmap.

Ah, this was a mood sketch so don't read too much into that. He was more going for the feel of the town than any detail.

It's likely a lighting snafu. We've been fiddling with the lighting for a while.

Here you can see Voshellas, the tallest peak in Thenodar.

The complete and utter lack of Enderal: Shards of Order is...shocking. Really shocking honestly :/

For those who are following, we are alive and we are hard at work. We have something big planned for the near future, so stay tuned.

Mistakes are made but hey, you won and you totally deserve it!

Well, the ideal lore-accurate approach would indeed have them be OP. Of all the various peoples attacked in the War of the Ring, only Lothlorien and the Woodland Realm managed to not only hold their defenses firm, but launch devastating counter attacks. Dale and Erebor were beaten back into The Mountain and were desperately holding on before the Ring was destroyed. And while Gondor and Rohan together indeed had tens of thousands they could muster in time, they certainly weren't in as good shape as the Elves.

Well there's hard and then there's impossible. And Sauron lost, twice, while he had the Ring. Ar-Pharazon's army was so mighty that all Sauron's fled and he didn't even try to fight. And in the War of the Last Alliance he fought Elendil and Gil-Galad and while he killed both, he was mortally wounded. So clearly, he isn't impossible to kill and having him capable of singlehandedly taking down entire armies is silly.

While the mod unfriendliness is unfortunate, comparing Bannerlord and Total War is apples to oranges. They are entirely different games and entirely different experiences. One is an RTS, the other is an RPG with RTS elements.

I know this is unusual, but I'm just going to put this out there: if the campaign aspect is going to be a snag for now, it might be a good idea to maintain traction and demonstrate progress to release a version when all units, factions, custom battle maps, etc are done that is mainly for custom battles and either has no campaign or the campaign just takes place on Europe. not as a full version, but as a sort of beta/alpha/demo to show off units, balance, settlements, UI, etc.

Congratulations on completing and releasing Enderal, SureAI! Out of the "big four" as I like to call them (that is, MERP, Ethas: Embrace of Destiny, Andoran, and Enderal), I am glad to see at least one of us made it. Wish you the best going forward with Enderal and your future works, you guys are among the best.

PS: I remember a long while ago you brought up the idea of going indie. Is that still on the cards? I think you have the organization skill and experience to do it.

Must say, SureAI, I am very impressed with the quality of what I have seen so far. Excellent work on this

First, SureAI members have spoken before and at least some are fluent in English. Many Europeans are bilingual. Second, you can find translators. Third, they have English footage out of their WIP English version. Translated and English voiced.

Fully voiced, iirc

Some people prefer to have original language VO so the subs provide that possibility.

Sorry about the silence these last few weeks. We are still at work and are looking to have a good update out soon.

In other words, no, not unless MS an Bethesda get together with SureAI and make it so :P