Comments - normandy135

Are there plans to release this before or after the Misty Mountains Faction is released.

Any chance us fans could get something like a road-map of what all you guys have left to work on that's planned so far? Nothing to specific but something small to get up interest or something perhaps. I feel it would give the community and perhaps even yourself more a sense of accomplishment or anticipation when you guys could mark off things, as well as potentially solving the never ending the when is the next patch coming questions.

How are you guys handling unit combat in this mod? The combat logic in the BFME games is pretty interesting in alot of circumstances, if not a bit comical even. Are you building a system based off that or are you planning on developing something more modern.

This is interesting as hell.

Hot damn these look amazing.

For some weird reason my power points menu is ****** up beyond belief, the like artwork is all funky and out of place, but the powers are there and stuff any idea how to fix this?

I like to think that Sauron used caragors and these graugs to help breed his creatures. For example Graugs and Hill/Mountain Trolls when bred together become what we today call Olog-Hai. Now caragors are a bit harder to explain but I'd say they were somehow bred into wargs somehow or something.

For all this 5% tolkien bs we get you have to realise that Shadow of Mordor simply cannot use the trolls and wargs we see in the movies because this game has the literature license.

Apparently the license for the movies means that any likenesses that exist in the movies cannot be reproduced in games with the lit license. Alexa Ray Corriea wrote an extensive piece that examined the tiptoeing that devs have had to do while making Tolkien games. After reading that, I'm highly impressed that any good videogame has been produced under such constraining contracts.

Link to the article im talking about
Polygon.com

Could there be any way to implement something where you can spend power points after you are maxed out on spells?

I don't know about the weapon switch, but I think it would be interesting to have the Healing of Theoden have more impact besides just what it does now. To give Rohan some more flair. Perhaps when you unlock the power it also gives you a short global wide armor and damage buff for a small amount of time or something to show Rohans moral increasing with the return of their King.

This looks nice :P

Have you guys looked into the Command Point bug in Epic Battle where after an AI is defeated, sometimes your Command Points Disappear? They also have a chance to reappear after killing another AI.

Any progress towards fixing the Dwarfs desyncing problems?

As dwarfs I was playing as Iron Hills and when my ally got dropped, I could build Erebor Heros from his base, double the king dain was interesting as ****.

The bug where if you kill an enemy with epic battle activated still happens, I was playing isengard and killed a gondor on a 8 player map and it removed my command points completely.

So whenever I play edain, once I have the game open, If I minimize my game once or twice after I maximize it it wont let me minimize again, any thoughts on why this is happening? Its really annoying if Im not in an actually battle

How exactly do you counter dwarf battle wagons as angmar? They insta kill with much damage from hillmen spears and by the time you get out your super expensive tier 2 pikes your already screwed over alot. Especially if you don't have enough map control because of said battlewagons.

Edit:Have been told wolf riders do pretty good against them and haven't tried that yet.

Has anybody watched the extended edition of BOTFA? It actually explains alot of the bs that makes no sense in the uncut version. Aka why half the elf and dwarf troops went awol before the orcs showed up, and where the goats came from. It also added in some cool af **** dwarf inventions, which considering the dwarfs had been at odds with the elves ever since the whole Thingol thing(which is why Dwarfs and Elfs dont like each other)

What kind of program do you use for animated these models? I go to school for animation and i can't imagine animating the blades would be too difficult. Though I don't know if that's the only thing that needs animating.

Do you guys find 3ds max or maya easier to use for modeling characters?

For some reason dwarf castles build funk sometimes, I've had on 2 or 3 occasions only parts of the walls be built, afterwards you can still build expansions on those places even though theres no wall

I can build axe throws of erebor at lvl 1 hall of warriors and the tooltip for dwarf statues is wrong on the building plot but not on the actual building itself

I've also had this happen to mogul riders and mogul orcs very very often.

Oh ya I mean the steel works, and the current problem with it is that in most MP games, Isengard builds lumber mills and then rushes a Steel Works which only costs 1000 when 4 I think lumber mills are bought, this is really hard to counter if not impossible because 4 lumber mills do not cost very much money, as well as how hard the steel works is to kill. The large amount of resources the steel works provides easy allows isengard to quickly rush straight to the mid-game producing uruks and easy crushing any other faction. Its near impossible to kill the steel works because of the arrow towers on it and the massive amount of hp it has you usually need seige units which take a massive chunk of money you could be using to build units to fight uruks which without you will be overrun.

Also another thing, do you guys have any plans to change gothmog's leadership now that lvl 2 makes units invulnerable to fear and sauron's influence makes having lvl 2 orcs easily available?

Personally I and many other online players think isengard steel mill rush is too strong. Perhaps to remedy this you could change the mill to start with low hp and no towers, and after each upgrade you purchase at the mill the mill will gain hp and a tower?

Balance wise we don't see trolls used much because they die so often and thus don't really give much benefit even after the most recent patch, how do you guys feel about giving their armor upgrade a passive ability that reduces damage from ranged damage and perhaps heros by 50% or some percent that wouldn't be to op. All the while keeping the current pike vulnerability, this would give the trolls back their main roll of being meat shields for the orcs. Perhaps you could include a taunt like ability or something for the troll that forces archers to focus on them or something. Another idea is to allow Saruon's influence to not only allow the purchasing of troll armor but automatically applying it to the trolls when built. Perhaps make certain mordor buildings able to be infulenced twice? Once for armor and another time for free automatic armor?

All my osteer units have their tooltips and names missing, they are replaced with no range text, how can I fix this?

Im pretty good with installing stuff usually the problem is its not detecting that I already have patched to 2.01 so it keeps giving me the error. I am not completely sure the mod was what turned my game pink.

Well after installing to the ROTWK folder it refused to believe i was running 2.01 and then after trying to get it to work for several hours and various installs and uninstalls whenever I tried to play ROTWK it made the map previews and everything once you got in game pink with no models, however it did not crash. To fix this I had to reinstall both BFME 2 and ROTWK

I agree with this guy, installing this map ruined my games :/ had to reinstall to be able to play.