Patch 1.4 Preview

[King Kong]

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
.....


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!

[Plumo]

O

M

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Just broke my jaw.

I quote: You have to spread some more reputation before giving it to King Kong again

[Matthias the great]

Great job.!!

[MasterBigAb]

Nice to see the preview...well doen, as always mate

[zmv]

As always GREAT!!!

[Devils_Advocate]

*sigh*

*got 'motivated' - hurries desperatly to milkshape*

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[MasterBigAb]

*sigh*

*got 'motivated' - hurries desperatly to milkshape*

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*hopes D_A really does*

[Kovas]

Wow! It's just... wonderful! I like these new castles for orcs, better than before.
Thanks KK!

[GrumpyBean]

I LOVE THE RAMAS ENCHOR!!!!

[Muffer Nl]

lock eyes from across the room...

[Muffer Nl]

what a perv!

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and you are not even original

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I was the first one in this thread...

lock eyes from across the room...

Spoiler for for the newbies: 

Lock eyes from across the room
Down my drink while the rhythms boom
Take your hands, skip the names
No need here for the silly games
Make our way through the smoke and crowd
The club is the sky and I'm on your cloud
Move in close as the lasers fly
Our bodies touch and the angels cry

Leave this place go back to yours
Our lips first touch outside your doors
The whole night what we've got in store
Whisper in my ear that you want some more
And I jizz in my pants

This really never happens you can take my word
I won't apologize
That's just absurd
Mainly your fault for the way that you dance
And now I jizz in my pants
Don't tell your friends or I'll say you're a slut
Plus it's your fault
You were rubbing my butt
I'm very sensitive
Some would say that's a plus
Now I'll go home and change

I need a few things from the grocery
Do things alone now mostly
Left me heartbroken, not lookin' for love
Surprise in my eyes when I looked above
The checkout counter and I saw her face
My heart stood still so did time and space
Never thought that I could feel real again
But the look in her eyes said I need a friend
She turned to me that's when she said it
Looked me dead in the face, asked cash or credit
And I jizzed in my pants

It's perfectly normal
Nothing wrong with me
But we're going to need a cleanup
On aisle 3
And now I'm posed in an awkward stance
Because I jizzed in my pants
To be fair
You were flirting a lot
Plus the way you bag cans makes me
Bothered and hot
Please stop acting like you're not impressed
One more thing
I'm gonna pay by check

Last week, I saw a film
As I recall it was a horror film
Walked outside into the rain
Checked my phone and saw you rang
And I jizzed in my pants

Speeding in the street, when the red lights flash
Need to get away, need to make a dash
A song comes on that reminds me of you
And I jizz in my pants

The next day
My alarm goes off
And I jizz in my pants

Open my window and a breeze rolls in
And I jizz in my pants

When Bruce Willis was dead at the end of Sixth Sense
I jizzed in my pants

I just ate a grape
And I jizzed in my pants

I went to. . .
Ok seriously you guys, can we. . . . ok?

I jizz right in my pants
Every time you're next to me
And when we're holdin hands
Its like havin sex with me
You say I'm premature
I just call it ecstasy
I wear a rubber at all times
Its a necessity
Cuz I jizz in my pants
(I jizz in my pants, I jizz in my pants (x3))
Yes I jizz in my pants
(I jizz in my pants, I jizz in my pants)

[Jopo]

JUST FANTASTIC!!

[Plumo]

yay !

A road from osgiliath to Minas Tirith without being defenseless against Mordor & Harad!

Question: will Visual Enhancement be included?

[Seleukos_I.]

Amazing

[Incan]

Yes KK is so great half trolls new map rammas echor its all great.

quick question everyone does that new isengard unit guard of orthanc look like he is from dunland

[Seleukos_I.]

quick question everyone does that new isengard unit guard of orthanc look like he is from dunland

As it should be. The Guards of the Orthanc were humans.

[Incan]

As it should be. The Guards of the Orthanc were humans.

thats what i thought but couldnt remember thanks for quick answer

[confused german]

Thanx KK, and a big "Restecpa!!" to the whole team!!

If you keep up improving TATW, for me this is without question going to be my most beloved computer game ever and i admire the tough and unpaid work, you seem to do here purely out of a certain fascination. (And that you certainly share with all the fans here on the forum here.)
If i only could help, i'd do it.

(Although i believe, this is the raeson why this game does outclass others. Things tend to be better, if made not to gain some special reward (money), but purely out of one's own fascination, or am I wrong?)

Ah! Gone off-topic again, sorry.

Anyway, love the half-trolls and the way you managed to change the settlements looks!!
Glorfindel and Aragorn are also impressive to the bone!

[Isildor]

Wonderful, but:

- Geography more to middle-earth lore

Why is there still a Barrow-Down settlement? Why not adding Combe instead.

[Myshkin]

Looking forward to this! Well done!