Patch 1.4 Preview
Hi all,
to reduce the questions and rumors what the content of 1.4 will be, here's a little preview:
New Units
- The Balrog
- Uruk-hai cleavers (name is WIP)
- Guards of the Orthanc
- Troll-men or half-trolls of Harad (name is WIP)
- Improved Ithilien Rangers
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New Heroes (by bilwit)
- Boromir
- Faramir
- Glorfindel
- Elladan and Elrohir
- King Aragorn Elessar
New Settlements and Reskins
- New Castles for all orcish settlements (based on Teutonic order castles)
- no civilian buildings
- no farms
- a lot of space to fight in the castles
- Minas Tirith reskinned
- Probably all Gondorian Cities will be reskinned
- Gondor uses south european, dwarves northern european models
Map Changes
- Many new and changed strat map models
- Rammas Echor for Minas Tirith with attackable forts
- New hero strat map models
- New strat map models for orcish castles
- Settlement model sizes adjusted
- New dwarven strat models
- New terrain and map textures
- Geography more to middle-earth lore
- Reworked mountain and forest areas
- 5 new settlements
- Small climate changes
Changes of Settlement mechanics
- Citadels limited to Minas Tirith & Barad-dur, Isengard
- Huge Cities only possible at Dol Amroth, Bree, Umbar, Kelepar, Khand, Dale, Erebor
- less and varied population growth
- less order & happiness for the player
- less income through farming
--> a harder game for the player and more difficult to manage empire happiness, population growth and income.
Other Features
- New Battle AI by Germanicu5
- 6 New regional videos if certain regions are reached
- Video if the One Ring is found
- reeinforcements are now controllable on the battlefield
- Different Bodyguards for several Heroes
- ancillary/trait changes
- public baths/aqueduct for elves deleted
- archers sligthly weakened
- some interface changes
- a few new animations
- slightly changed missions rewards
- darker nights
- some balance changes
- some recruitment changes
- more little things...
Bug Fixes
- Evil factions won't die because lack of family members
- many small bug fixes
Credits
bilwit - All new hero models
MasterBigAB - all new videos
Germanicu5 - New Battle AI
NSFW - for his hints, tips and research about the sudden death of evil factions
HGLordKoal - for telling me the reeinforcement feature was missing
Please give some rep to those guys!
Thank you all for your support and your help!
Originally Posted by Devils_Advocate
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