Wars of Arda Demo - The Return of Shadow
Dec 25, 2007 Demo 18 commentsThe Wars of Arda has been in development for over a year now, in its current form, and this is our first public release. All going to plan it will be...
The Wars of Arda is a (very) large expansion mod for the EA Games title "The Lord of the Rings: The Rise of the Witchking". We will first be heavily reworking the existing factions (adding Rohan and Harad and merging the Goblins into Isengard) and implementing a "minifaction" system where you begin a skirmish map with a "Core Faction" which contains a variety of units and heroes, and you purchase "Mini Factions" as the match prgresses, giving you access to new units and heroes.
The Mod will also be implementing several "Eras" into the mod. This will NOT be an Empire Earth style system where you upgrade from one era to another, but a system where each era is a seperate set of skirmish factions and campaign missions (however all factions will be able to play against each other). The eras of the mod will be as follows.
The War of the Jewels
The Last Alliance
The Rise of the Witchking
The Wainriders Invasion
The Quest of Erebor
The War of the Ring
The New shadow
Each era will consist of between 2 and 7 factions, each with between 3 and 5 "mini factions".
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The demo is available in the download section now.
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The mod also has a new feature called "Be-A-Hero". Wherever possible we are adhering to a mix of the LoTR movies and the works of tolkien, but in many cases there are not enough characters to adaquetely fill the required numbers of Heroes for each faction (10-15 heroes per faction), so we are allowing people to submit designs for their own personal Avatar to appear in the mod. This can be voiced by you and you can even appear on the skin/unit portrait.
Examples of current heroes are Calintz of Rhun, and the black Numenorean General Eraus, commander of the defence of Barad Dur against the Last Alliance (mod team get the most impressive characters!).
I cannot guarantee youll get the character you want (were FULLY stocked with Elves already im afraid) but within reason I will try and include your character, until all the spaces for new Avatars are full.
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Hey, Well, that is it for Ossirand and the Nandor for now, and by moving onto Doriath there is alot more interesting and unique stuff, especially in the Court Section, but more about that later.
Heres Thingol, enjoy!
Elu Thingol unarmoured:
Elu Thingol Armoured:
He also has a brand new/ very unused mounted animation in is heavy armoured form!!
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EHL
The Wars of Arda has been in development for over a year now, in its current form, and this is our first public release. All going to plan it will be...
This is the first official trailer of the Wars of Arda mod. Its by our awesome mapper Digital general and features many new maps and units.
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Well boy I advise you to join their community and wait until you die for the new beta, but she ain't coming.
@EHL : Respect for your models they are great it is just bad you waist it with those losers.
I'm not in THAT hurry pal XD
For me you can take all the time you want it's neat and even fair for people who works for free at such a great project...
ok maybe they took 2 years but maybe they're working on more eras at the same time
i think we don't need just a new beta like a bone to make us content for a while, but the completation of the full work.. and they can make it HOW THE F**K they want XD
i will be content even if you all take another two years... i don't care... only one thing... don't abandon the project now that you've done all this work :(, it would be a shame not only for us who follow you but mainly for yourself you would have wasted such a massive work :(
so don't end up like BH says, prove he is wrong!!! XD
@BHFanatic
The mod is, as EHL said, an epic scale which hasn't been attempted before. Mordred, the mod leader, must do ALOT more work than you think he does, he hasn't done much recenty (As far as I am aware anyway, haven't seen him on MSN) but the amount of coding required for this mod is huge.
IF you can be bother waiting for the next release (Could be this year) then behave, if you can't then f*** off
This mod is on an epic scale , not seen before in bfme series. The amount of new stuff is phenomnal. I am the skinner and modeller( EHL) and let me say that the head coder is doing loads of work, sorting and finalising wotr factions as we speak, there is also many more bugs to sort out, and new bugs arise, especially with all the new in game content, and also there will be a fully functional wotr mode ( unlike most mods). Such tasks take time, and patient as we cant be working 24 7 on this mod, but do what we can. If, you have not checked out the new site, there has been a huge influx of renders and 2d art concepts for other eras. We do not appreciate unjustified comments, like this for unnecessarily, and clearly for me to be working on other eras suggests that wotr is nearing completion
So were many who joined their community, but it prowen fact that if you exclude the skinner no one of the team does anything, and that is why there is no new beta, and they try to conceal it with new models because those for WoTR era are already finished.
>:( Non-believer. What else can you expect from a giant mod like this which includes campaigns AND new and replacing skins AND new gameplay? I would be fine with just a WOTR version coming out.
That is all nice and good but these guys are working more than two years on a new beta and it is not to be expected in this year neither. Instead of making new models for character in the first age, you should try to finish your new beta so that you don't lose those couple of fans who remained waiting on this new beta which in the opinion of many will never come. If you are a fan of the game and intend in maybe checking their site or maybe joining their community my advice is not to do it. They are not doing anything to get new beta done, except of course their modeler and skinner EHL who is brilliant but simply waists time with the rest of the team that is not doing anything.
This mod is huge, and thank god it is so active. I have very little doubt it will die :).
The private Beta is the Beta for the BEta Testers who test the releasses so there are no bugs in the releases.
The Beta Giveaway is going to be a competition, but thats all I know for now.
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