Middle-earth Extended Edition returns with the long awaited updates to the AI as well as numerous balances changes, several new maps and changes to camera height. The AIs of both vanilla and new factions have been updated to utilize the new features added in this mod.
Before installing this mod, make sure that you:
- have patch 1.06 installed (1.03 and 1.05 should work too, but I cannot guarantee it nor provide support if you are using them).
- have no mods installed in your game's install directory (those installed in the "My Battle for Middle-earth Files" folder are fine).
- launched the vanilla version of the game and made sure that everything is working correctly.
To install the mod, please follow these steps:
- Copy and unzip the dowloaded archive in your "AppData\Roaming\My Battle for Middle-earth Files" folder.
- Move the "Middle-earth Extended Edition 0.99" shortcut to your Desktop.
- Right-click the shortcut and go to "Properties".
- Change the value in the "Target" box to:
- "PATH_TO_BFME1_ON_YOUR_COMPUTER\lotrbfme.exe" -mod ExtendedEdition0.99.big
- Change the value in the "Start" box to:
- "PATH_TO_BFME1_ON_YOUR_COMPUTER"
- Example:
- Target: "D:\Games\The Battle for Middle-earth (tm)\lotrbfme.exe" -mod ExtendedEdition0.99.big
- Start: "D:\Games\The Battle for Middle-earth (tm)"
If you are using a Linux-type Operating system, do the following to launch the mod:
- Open Bash
- Type "wine lotrbfme.exe -mod ExtendedEdition0.99.big"
- Press Enter
Credits
palladoya
Nerthea.
Radspakr.
Lauri.
GothmogTheOrc.
Haldir.
Fudge.
M@tt.
Turin Turumbar.
MorguLord.
RiderofRohan.
Dickenson.
Deezire.
ddc_3188.
BFME+ mod team.
LGDA5 mod team.
QFME mod team.
WKK3 mod team.
MathijsRevora and the former Shadow and Flame mod team.
The Third Age Net (and all the authors of the models and textures used in this mod).
HDR HQ.
And others whose names I may have forgotten...
Names are listed in no particular order.
Feel free to post your suggestions and report any bugs you encounter via comments or private messages on this site.
Enjoy,
Rohirim91
Thank you for your continued work! I like what you do
Im glad that you do. Thank you for your kind words :)!
Hello,
First of all, you managed to make a very good game-mode and thank you for your effort!
Secondly, I installed the game with the Patches on the Revora site, respectively 1.02, 1.03, 1.05 (copy paste in BFME Folder) and 1.06 (not T3A Online) and please tell me if it is good what i installed!
Thirdly, Boromir, Legolas and the bonuses from Moria have no color, they are white, without facial shapes without details ... and I don't know why ...
What did I do wrong and what can I do?
I'm still using Win Xp ... if it matters!
Thank you very much for your understanding and help!
As long as you installed the game and the patches in English, you did everything correctly.
What do you mean by "bonuses from Moria"?
That issue might be related to your graphics settings. Try setting them to high (if your PC can handle it) and see if the problem is solved.
Since the game is quite old, I work on it using max settings so if any visual bugs are happening on lower settings I wouldn't know about them unless someone finds and reports them.
I was aslo getting that error a time ago. Try with installer of mod or use a "clean" reinstall of game. It was solved my problem ;)
And as I know you don't need to install patch 1.02 before patch 1.03. You need to isntall patch 1.03 - 1.05 and 1.06 .
Thank you!
I reinstalled the game, the one from the Revora site, I installed the 1.03, 1.05 and 1.06 patch (also from Revora) and ... Boromir and Legolas are still white ... I don't know what else to do with them!
I really don't know the cause of this. One thing you could try is to install BFME HD Edition mod. It is compatible with this mod so you wont have problems with it.
You can download it here:
Moddb.com
Edit:
HD Edition IS NOT compatible with this mod. To fix this or similar graphical issues do the following steps:
1) Set your graphics setting to Very High
2) Set them to Custom
3) Uncheck "Dynamic LOD"
thanks for game
Hello,
I restarted the game, and noticed that in Lothlorien (where I am now) the Ground Command does not work properly for Heroes ... I command them to stand guard over the elven archers and they (Gandalf, Aragon, Gimli etc) leave and fix the middle of the bridge, whatever I do! What's worse is that they don't even react correctly, receiving blows without hitting them too, so that in a short time they die ...
What can be done?
Thanks for your understanding and help!
Sorry for the late reply. I will investigate this matter and reply in a few days.
I have done some testing and from what I saw, heroes do stand idle occasionally in Lothlorien. However, I couldn't find the cause for this as the map-specific code doesn't make any changes to unit reactions or guard radius.
My guess is that this bug may be related to map pathing. What you could do to minimize the issues caused by it, is to assign heroes to control groups (select them and the do ctrl+1 for melee heroes, ctrl+2 for ranged etc). That way you can easily micromanage them so they don't stand idle.
Thank you very much for the explanations and help!
There are other commands with the keys, and if so, where can I find them?
I really like the game-mode made by you, as I said I started it a second time! :)
Do you make any more changes to this game? I am especially interested in the Campaign Game! :)
You can find a list of commands and hotkeys here:
Gamereplays.org
Campaigns have been updated with some new content. It's best that I don't spoil them for you, but in case you want to see a list of changes done to the campaigns you can find them here:
Moddb.com
You can also search through the news articles for any changes that interest you.
Cheers! :)
hello everyone,
im very new, and i really love the games of the lord of the rings, I got the copy of BFME1 and 2, however don't know how, I cant play those games, is that my windows problem, cause even I change the other computer still don't work... till I found this web page, is there any file or update I can use to play this games again?
im seriously not good at computer, if possible could anyone tell me the step? many many thanks.
just love this games too much.
Best regard
mike
Sorry for the late reply friend.
You can download BFME games here:
Forshire.blogspot.com
It's pretty much the official community download site.
Hi, first thanks for the great mod.
It looks like I have issue with spells "rain of fire" and "sorcery of orthank" in multiplayer game.
I want to play via LAN with my brother as good against evil, and when ai used one of these spells game crashed. We do some experiments and looks like when we play as evil and have these spells we cant use it in multiplayer game. I think it is beacause we should "look" exactly at the same point at map to spell works corectlly, but it is hard in multiplayer.
In fact in singleplayer game when ai use one of them it still work as "point of view" so we can still just looks at enemy army, and they hits themself.
Actually we just dont play against Mordor and Isengard ai to avoid crashes, but if you planned release final version, you can remember to check it.
It will be nice to be able to play against all faction without crashes :)
Thanks for reporting this. Those two spells will sadly have to be removed and replaced with something else. The game engine is a limiting factor as the underlying mechanism for those spells is hardcoded and can't be edited.