DCI: Last Alliance - Open Beta released, NEW: 10 October 2020 new patch released, contains Ents - Wolves - Spiders crashes fix! (and more)

[Ngugi]

Luckily they don't read this thread.

They better not! They should get back to work!

[Gratzy2]

they'll most likely be wearing helmets anyway

[Withwnar]

since NK and Harad share the same culture, most portraits should be dark-haired.

But they don't share the same religion. It is possible to have different portraits for different culture+religion combinations.

[Bercor]

they'll most likely be wearing helmets anyway

They'll still have facial hair, and, if Harad's númenórean units are anything like NK's, some parts of the hair are still visible:

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But they don't share the same religion. It is possible to have different portraits for different culture+religion combinations.

Oh, I didn't know that.

[Jacob251]

Hello Guys:-) I am really looking forward to the release of your mod!!! Are there any news? Is the beta release going to come soon?
Thx for your time

[Ngugi]

Hi J'
We're on the last pre-beta big hunts and stress-testing now, while we still develop some planned but not yet implemented feature of secret character (), so things go fine.
A beta then? Months yet, but I've no doubts during the year (I won't make the blunder of promising to much this time )

Still, why not just toss out a screen shot or two from a test campaign, where the player NK fight on the borders of Arnor against beastly foes:

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[Gratzy2]

Hi J'
We're on the last pre-beta big hunts and stress-testing now, while we still develop some planned but not yet implemented feature of secret character (), so things go fine.
A beta then? Months yet, but I've no doubts during the year (I won't make the blunder of promising to much this time )

Still, why not just toss out a screen shot or two from a test campaign, where the player NK fight on the borders of Arnor against beastly foes:

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

i thought that was snow for a second then... looked again and i realized it was wolves lol

[Jacob251]

Wow:-) Great pics man:-) I am sure this mod is gonna be magnificent!!! Take your time guys :-) Great looking wolves btw!!!

Thx for your reply Ngugi and keep up this awesome work

Gratzy@ I thought at first that there was snow too :-P Nice looking wolves!!!

[Old-Greybeard]

This mod looks amazing! Will it also include some of the custom settlements of places which have already existed in the Second Age?

[Ngugi]

Wow:-) Great pics man:-) I am sure this mod is gonna be magnificent!!! Take your time guys :-) Great looking wolves btw!!!

Thx for your reply Ngugi and keep up this awesome work

Gratzy@ I thought at first that there was snow too :-P Nice looking wolves!!!

This mod looks amazing! Will it also include some of the custom settlements of places which have already existed in the Second Age?

Thanks for the kind words, gent's


@ Gandalf-the-Grey
Many settlements were established during the Second Age that we know from the Third, so concerning those the answer is leaning toward a yes.
It will not have any high prio for betas, since it's a matter of eye candy, but we will keep settlements from TATW, or replace them with leo's if those play better, or add leo's if there's none and we want it, but prio one will always be game play. If a custom map is pretty but unmanageable for tactics and battle, then we will use a generic settlement instead.

[Old-Greybeard]

Will there be several scripts you can choose between like in MOS? And have you already decided in which year the campaign will start? And one more question: Will you use the giant DaC map or the smaller one being included in MOS?

Can't wait to play this great mod as the end of the Second Age is a great time period in the history of Middle-earth!

[Withwnar]

No. There are only a couple of options at campaign start, and one of them is for NK players only.

2980 SA from memory.

It's the vanilla TATW map with some minor customisations.

[Old-Greybeard]

What does NK mean?

[Veteraan]

Númenórean Kingdoms.

There is a list of playable factions in the first post of this thread.

[Ngugi]

The campaign begin 3429 SA, 2980 (TA) is when TATW kick off so no wild guess however

That year Sauron initiated the war through a surprise assault that captured Minas Ithil; and so our campaign begin, with M. Ithil in Mordor's grasp and the war initiated.
Isildur went to Arnor to ask for aid, and in the following year 3430 the League that is remembered as the Last Alliance was formed when Elendil held council with Gil-galad.
In 3431 the first armies marched east.
These events will be given attention in different manners during the campaign.

[Old-Greybeard]

Will you also include some of the armor designs of the Hobbit movies? E.g., it is very likely that at the end of the Second Age the elves of Eryn Galen wore the same armors as in the Third Age.

[Ngugi]

No, not at all.
Eryn Galen's roster is already previewed, you find the link in the OP.

[Gratzy2]

and it looks excellent

[Bercor]

No, not at all.
Eryn Galen's roster is already previewed, you find the link in the OP.

And Eryn Galen's units look a million time better than those of the "The Hobbit" films .

[francis86]

Hi, is hillmen of the North a mix of existing hillmen units and rhudaur units or is there some new ones?

Thanks in advance