The Official WIP Screenshot Thread

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Great news, on both counts!

[Casual Tactician]

I guess this counts as a screenshot...

I've been too busy lately to do a proper preview of the non-gfx department of the mod, so here's a little something for you.



Province set-up is WIP. One (emergent) faction missing. Have fun guessing!

No joke. 17 factions in DoM in total.

Only a certain smiley is able to express, what I felt like when seeing this:

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Whoa!

Keep up the good work on this already grand mod, guys. And those custom battlemap environments are dazzling! +rep

[Deutschland]

Cool. What is the light green colour in the shire? The hobbits? For real?

[Aradan]

Yep.

[Thangaror]

We still haven't figured out who the emergent faction is...

[Aradan]

It's not very hard to guess, if you listen to the first dev diary, there's a large-ish hint about it.

[Legio]

Nomadic Uruk-Hai cavalry. It's got to be.

Jokes aside, the mini-map really does look very good. Lots of interesting starting positions from what I can tell!

[Stark1]

It's not very hard to guess, if you listen to the first dev diary, there's a large-ish hint about it.

I just listened it, but found no clue. RK, Harad, Adunabar, Rohan, Dunland, Tharbad, Rhun, Elves, Dwarves and Dale were described there, but I haven't noticed anything about an emergent faction.

[Deutschland]

How about the Orcs as an emergent faction? No longer under Adunabar command they form a faction and reconquer mordor and the misty mountains..

[Aradan]

Nah, Orcs were disqualified as a full faction long ago.

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Harondor? It's mentioned as declaring its sovereignty, although it's a faction from the start?
Less likely, but mentioned, would be an Elf-friend faction. Don't think so though, as the Dev Diary hints them as part of the Elven faction (the men recruitable by elves that have been mentioned quite a few times now) rather than a faction on its own.

[Aradan]

Harondor is already on the map...

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Yeah, thought so.

Then I can't think of anything
I've listened as close as I could, waiting for any mentioning of something from outside the map or unrest in a specific faction (which then might trigger the emerging of a rebellious faction a la Adunabar-RK) but I haven't heard anything in that direction.

[Casual Tactician]

It's not very hard to guess, if you listen to the first dev diary, there's a large-ish hint about it.

I've got it, hurray! Do I win anything? The hint is actually very straight forward... in retrospective. It's no emerging Orcs or Elven-kings gone mad etc. If you have a look at the first dev video from 5:41 onward, you'll probably find out for yourself. Anyway - for everyone who wants to know now:

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It's...

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...the renegade eastern lands of...

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...the Kingdom of Dale...

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Lady and Gents, the emerging faction in Fourth Age Total War - Dominion of Men is:

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... Dorwinion - The Land of Wines.

Located at the western side of the Sea of Rhûn bordering Rhovanion in the south-west.

[Themea]

You speak in riddles. Explain thyself

[Bull3pr00f de Bodemloze]

Of course! Casual Tactician is right; how could I have missed that?!

[Thangaror]

Dorwinion is a pretty small region and already a province of Dale. It's that province just north of Ered Rhûn were Celduin flows into the inland sea.

[Casual Tactician]

Well I'm not 100% sure if it's Dorwinion, though the only "large-ish" hint (as Aradan said) referes to the Kingdom of Dale possibly breaking apart. Perhaps it's not Dorwinion, but in the dev diary it's stated that the "eastern lands" of the Kingdome of Dale may "seek their independence". And on the map Aradan posted sometime earlier, the eastern part of the Kingdome of Dale is the area where Dorwinion is situated. So Dorwinion seems the most plausible candidate to me. It could be any other people or dominion, but I'm pretty sure the emerging faction will be located somewhere around the area of the eastern lands of the Kingdom of Dale.

[Thangaror]

I listened to the Dev-Diary again, and I think I agree.

[StealthEvo]

It's obviously teh ebil Elves