Patch 1.06 required, French and English supported
GENERAL BALANCE
- General and complete rebalance of the game, everything got new fresh stats
- Random is now revealed
- Leadership have been standarized and nerfed to +25% Damage and/or Armor from +50/60...%
- Spells have been standarized and nerfed to +30% Damage and/or Armor from +50/60...%
- Buffs (Spells and Leadership) no longer affect Monsters or Siege engines
- General movement speed increased
- Loosing units with evil factions no longer grant you PP (no longer needed for the new balance)
- Hordes are now bigger (like it was originally intented by EA):
Base Units now 10 per Horde from 5 for Good and 10 for Isengard
Mordor Warrior and Archer now 15 per Horde from 10
Cavalry and Elite Archers stay 5 per Horde - Power points have been standarized to 1pp/4pp/8pp/16pp
- Combo Hordes can now be split (Currently disabled because it caused problems)
- Aragorn moved to Gondor from Rohan (for balance but also because originally intented like that)
- Witch-King now on foot
- Berserker can now level up and can no longer be buffed
- AOD can no longer be buffed
- Saruman get a new special power at level 10: Thunderbolt
- All Heroes start at level 1
- Grond enabled (limited to 1)
- Battle Tower/Keep can now be garrisoned
- Rohan Battle Tower enabled
- Isengard Battle Tower added to Mordor
- Isengard and Mordor Castle now have defensive fences
- Isengard and Rohan Armory now need to level up
- Mordor now have Forged Blades and Heavy Armor
- Mordor and Isengard can now also build a Furnace on Settlements
- Slaughter Houses, Farms and Furnaces from Settlements now give more money
- All camps and castles Citadels shoot arrows and must be repaired manually
- Devastation now provide a speed debuff
- Fuel the Fires is now castable and reduces cost of Infantry
GAME CHANGES
- Game back at 30fps from 38
- Intros reenabled (If you want to disable some of them, rename/delete their files in the Data\Movie folder)
- Removed 1.06 splash
- Gondor Archers broken animations were fixed
- Heroes now have emotions
- New FXs
- New random visuals for multiple units
- Added Haradrim/Rhun combo
- Devastation for Mordor replaced with Summon Haradrim Archers
- Gandalf the White for Gondor replaced with Rebuild (Gandalf become white at level 5)
- Rallying Call added for Gondor and Rohan in place of Elven Allies for Gondor and Anduril for Rohan (Aragorn get the bonus at level 5)
- Enabled Rohirrim Archers/Peasant combo
- Intended but unused art (button, texture...) are now correctly used (some exemples below)
- Added new colors
- Starting units are disabled
- Tons of diverse Bugfixes
- Fortresses maps (currently only Helm's Deep)
RESTORED CONTENTS
- Horses have more random colors (black and white enabled)
- Enabled 2 new random skins for Orcs warriors
- New Ent variant: Ent Oak
- Fellbeast and Eagle now crash on the battlefield instead of exploding
- Restored original Effects/FX for Arrows and Siege Rocks
- Restored uniques powers for the Witch-King on foot
- Gondor Soldiers now use their original animations
- Orc Warriors now play more animations
- Orc Archers now play more animations
- Heroes now use their respawn icons
- Heroes now use their uniques leadership icons
- Mumakil now rampage
- Berserker get an attack and speed boost when they get on low health
- Uruk Crossbowmen now use their intended textures
- Enabled tons of unused sounds, FXs and anims
- Enabled Sam Frying Pan ability
- Enabled Gimli Dwarven Grudge ability
- Enabled Boromir Last Stand ability
- Enabled Lurtz Stealth ability
- Rohirrim at level 2 now have a chance to become riderless when "dying" and can be replenished at a Stable
- Restored the original more detailed Rohan Archer model you can see in cinematics, texture made by ROR
- Restored the original Uruk Hai models based on the older cinematics
- Restored Gothmog for Mordor and Grima for Isengard as originally planned by EA but left unfinished
- Improved Campaign (not currently complete)
EXTERNAL CREDITS
- ROR for his Rohan Archer Texture
- NDC for BFME2 Animations Conversion, that were used to complement some sets
