Rise of Persia Download

[Nero666]

Rise of Persia beta release - RTW 1.5 version

Hello people, we have finally converted our Public Beta to RTW 1.5 and finished polishing it for release. Basically, it's the same as the 1.2 version we had before, but with lots of improvements. For instance, we're using sprites now, and have packed all textures, for better performance. Also, the cultures for factions are now correct. No more Roman factions! All factions have their own unique set of victory conditions now too, each based on their historical achievements, or neighbouring factions. For instance, Persia needs to conquer 60 regions, including the Babylonian, Lydian, Kemetic, Median and Macedonian capital cities. We got permission to use EB's animations as well, so no more silly vanilla animations anymore!
Also, the campaign map has been overhauled with more than fifty new regions in Italy, Greece, Asia Minor, Thrace, Scythia and northern Africa.

Of course, this beta is far from complete. But personally, I prefer calling it a Demo version. The big release we have planned for in a few months, will feature lots more playable factions. This includes Babylon, Lydia and Media, to finish the most important factions. Persia and Kemet will get an overhaul, Skythia and the Massagetes will also get units, as well as Macedon and the Thracian faction. Also, I will heavily modify the buildings, so we've got a nice recruitment system suiting our time, and I'll implement religious buildings for all factions, maybe together with the BI feature religions, which I've been testing lately. We will keep you updated with previews as much as we can in the months to come, and will of course release patches for this beta if and when it is necessary.

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Install Instructions

-Make sure you've got a clean installation of RTW 1.5. No mods whatsoever applied.
-Download the beta from riseofpersia.com, Mirror 1, or the torrent.
(InfoHash: 8d9058d1c5622fb43efa7507b411c1e10370e4d5 - 38.588 KB)
-Install ROPbeta_RTW15.exe to the root directory of your RTW installation

Thanks to:
Marcvs Traianvs, profithost.net and medievalTW.com

Note: Herkus has tested if this mod works with JSGME, and this was a success. This is recommended for users who don't want to use 3 GB of their harddrive for every mod.

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Here are some screenshots of the demo/beta. The first slideshow shows the use of the overhand spearmen animations by some of our Greek troops. The second one shows recent changes to our campaign map.






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The Team:

Nero666 - Team leader, lead coder, tester, mapper, saviour
Rez - Lead Historian, Texts, tester
Goscinio - Lead graphics artist (2D and 3D), tester
FliegerAD - All round Historian, tester, otherwise known as superhistorian
Zenith Darksea - High quality Greek historian
Spurius - Jack of all trades
Celtic Man - Head of Music
Kallikratis - 2D/3D Artist
Kaweh K - 2D Artist

Special thanks:
CA - for making the wonder that is RTW
Faeghi - Creator of Rise of Persia
Rome Total Realism - for allowing the use of several models
Europa Barbarorum - For their animations pack
Dark Fenrir - For several models and skins
Lupus_Gr - For several faction Icons
Swampthing - For his stats balancing system
Uranos - For Mapping
King Louise Assurbanipal - For skins/Models
Alxcruel - For Skins/Models
The Lordskinner - For original Forums
Julius caesar - For coding
Irish Lord - For Skins
Bananafish - For research
Swordfish - For early Website development and Music
Darkragnar - For Indian Music
Mr Jones - For research
VandalCarthage - Historian
wipeout140 - For coding
Antiochus Epiphanes - For skinning
Lentonius - For skin/model
Marcvs Traianvs - For hosting the beta

Conditions of use:

This mod is for personal use only, anyone who wishes to use parts of our mod in a modification of their own must obtain the express permission of the full Rise of Persia team first.

Enjoy!

[Shaun]

Nice!

I was going to DL the 1.2 beta, but prefer the improvements of the 1.5 patch.

BTW- the way you make the pics n this thread change is awsome

[Fresco]

I'm downloading ROP 1.5beta,but his speed is low,with my ADSL(ca.13-14 kbps,ca.45 min)!!!

[MegaScorpion]

says it will take about 3 mins for me

[Bullfrog]

Great now downloading. Will try to play through the campaign this weekend. Thanks.

[wipeout140]

Amazing work guys

[Gunno_Desk]

As of this moment, all so good

[Eudorus]

Very Nice cant wait to give it a go, DL now

[Turnus]

Great job guys. Hopefully I'll have time to get into it. :original:

[King Edward I]

the medievaltw.com link is wrong - should go to medievaltw.com!

-Marcvs

[SARMATIAN LEADER]

looks like ROP is back in the game for good!lexcellent work porting your mod to 1.5 looking forward to try your beta!

[Selahedîn]

Thanks for this great mod! I'm having a lot of fun playing with Athens. :original:

[Anarius]

I'm having trouble installing, (looks like I'm the only one) when I finish the installation, nothing happends.

[Anarius]

Nevermind, forgive my stupidness. Great mod, having fun as Greek colonists in Italia right now.
A little sparse unit selection, though. Do you get to play other civilizations as you conquer them?

[Mirconus the Great]

This is REALLY COOL, guys!!! But a single question: When are you going to get some more cavalry in?
Don't take me wrong... I like it very much. Just asking...

[rez]

The cavalry nations are on their way my friend, Media, Bactria and the Skythians are some you can look forward to.

Lydia is already finished and that will be the nation with some of the most spectacular cavalry - the Lydian nobles!

Also the reason there is a sparse amount of cultures to choose from is because we haven't made them all yet!

[Mirconus the Great]

Oh, now I notice that Placeholder Infantry and cavalry are just temporary units to be replaced by the ones you are going to create, aren't they?

[rez]

Yes thats right. A little patience friends and soon you will get to kill warriors from all types of nations!

[Mirconus the Great]

This makes me very happy!!!
I'm looking forward to play Babylon and create a second neo-empire...
Oh.. And I will crush Persia and all those cavalry factions... :wink:

Now talking about the campaign map, isn't the Baltic Sea a little too much to the South. I mean, it shouldn't be on the map...

[FliegerAD]

The map has quite a notable tilt counter clock-wise, so the baltic sea is on the map and looks like it is more in the south.
We think about reworking the map however, centering even more on the middle east.