RS: Barbarian Invasion?

**Nick_Since_1985** · April 16, 2008, 06:06 AM

Hello all, I would like to know from the developers if they have any plans to make a RS remake for Barbarian Invasion after RS 2.0 is done?

This would be really cool, imagine all the hordes bashing against the Western Roman Empire defences, the endless large battles against barbarians, every time outnumberd,... but now in RS style and not like crappy vanilla...

We could have a timeline from 400 AD to 550 AD, 4 turns a year...

**century x** · April 16, 2008, 06:59 AM

The last thing I remember the RS team saying about what they will be doing after RS2 is that they don't know what there are going to do.

Many thread like this one have come up asking this question and they all finish with I don't know.

But maybe something new has come up. Who knows.

**Coldcall** · April 16, 2008, 07:29 AM

As a genius once said: "in the future we will know more" :-)

**Taelok** · April 16, 2008, 07:46 AM

A cool idea, maybe a little unfair to ask more of the RS team than they are currently doing, but still a very cool idea.

**cherryfunk** · April 16, 2008, 08:44 AM

Well first of all everything is a bit up in the air after RS2.0 -- how much of the team remains and what they want to do is uncertain. Some of us want to move to the M2 engine, some want to go back to modding the Shogun: TW engine, some, seeking a less taxing hobby, plan to destroy their computers and start chasing Norwegian whaling vessels and acting as human shields for our cetacean brothers.

However, dvk has expressed interest in a couple of time frames that aren't quite 'Barbarian Invasion', but are much later than the 3rd century BC. RS2.0 will be the last mod in this timeframe that this team will do -- which is why we're pulling out all the stops and improving every single aspect of it, from the map to the units to the battlefields to the traits to the music to everything else we can think of.

By the time we're done, we'll all be so burned out on Rome vs. Carthage vs. Celts vs. Successors that the very thought of modding a new Hastati or Levy Pikeman will make us run far, far away...

**century x** · April 16, 2008, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by cherryfunk

By the time we're done, we'll all be so burned out on Rome vs. Carthage vs. Celts vs. Successors that the very thought of modding a new Hastati or Levy Pikeman will make us run far, far away...

Thats understandable. What makes this mod so interesting and fun and all. Is the Team that makes it of course. Since its a small team people are fearing that they will disband and then there will be no one to continue the mod. The shogun engine will be very interesting to see as will M2 Engine.

Me personally. I don't want to see the RS team partly disband or a couple of them leave or the whole team leave. But that is not my call. But only time will tell.

**Worm** · April 16, 2008, 11:21 AM

To the music

New music, hooray. On a more serious note, RS 2 will easely be enough to make us happy about the Roman era. If you are going to switch game/era then i would love if you made a "Etruscan era" mod with a map from the alps to bactria, but thats just me.

**Taelok** · April 16, 2008, 12:01 PM

Thanks for the info Cherry, it will be interesting to follow each members progress after RS2

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**Oli** · April 16, 2008, 12:54 PM

surely the next step is to make the map that goes to china like dvk has always wanted.... who cares what era

**cherryfunk** · April 16, 2008, 03:18 PM

The Shogun:TW bit was a joke. But tone will be out protecting the whales.

**naeblis** · April 16, 2008, 03:52 PM

Nick_Since_1985 said "but now in RS style and not like crappy vanilla..."

if vanilla is so crappy, why play? I love vanilla, but RS IS better.

**Nellup** · April 17, 2008, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by naeblis

Nick_Since_1985 said "but now in RS style and not like crappy vanilla..."

if vanilla is so crappy, why play? I love vanilla, but RS IS better.

Crappy if both subjective and relative.
Subjective as what you find to be crappy is different to what I might find to be crappy, and we might rate different things to have different 'degrees' of crappiness.

Relative, as compared to RS, vanilla is crappy, but compared to many other vanilla games, it is not crappy.

**Nick_Since_1985** · April 17, 2008, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by Nellup

As compared to RS, vanilla is crappy, but compared to many other vanilla games, it is not crappy.

That's basicly what I meant...

**bohema** · April 17, 2008, 02:45 PM

Originally Posted by Nellup

Crappy if both subjective and relative.
Subjective as what you find to be crappy is different to what I might find to be crappy, and we might rate different things to have different 'degrees' of crappiness.

Relative, as compared to RS, vanilla is crappy, but compared to many other vanilla games, it is not crappy.

Thats deep

**HMonk** · April 16, 2008, 05:59 PM

I would think the RS team would be happy to take a well deserved break after RS2

**naeblis** · April 17, 2008, 04:02 PM

Wow, i was only joking though, wow deep though.

**Jingles** · April 18, 2008, 11:18 AM

Crappy if both subjective and relative.
Subjective as what you find to be crappy is different to what I might find to be crappy, and we might rate different things to have different 'degrees' of crappiness

Relative, as compared to RS, vanilla is crappy, but compared to many other vanilla games, it is not crappy.

lol, I had to read that a couple of times to get it straight in my head

**Xavier Dragnesi** · April 18, 2008, 11:24 AM

Well, I have to say the RS team truly deserve a well earnt break after RS2. They've put in many thousands of hours of work on it. However, I am sad to think that this is the end of classical age mods for the RS team. I wouldn't really mind other eras, but classical is simply the best.