The Official WIP Screenshot Thread

**Nelduin** · March 02, 2016, 02:43 PM

Nice city!

**The Angry Greek** · March 02, 2016, 04:45 PM

Something tells me all that nice green grass is going to be buried under the heaps of dead Dunlendings

**Thangaror** · March 03, 2016, 11:05 AM

Very nice.

**demagogos nicator** · March 03, 2016, 01:33 PM

Looks great

**SnuggleBunnies** · March 03, 2016, 04:10 PM

I'm wondering how you guys are going to balance the strength of the towers in the main keep. Too strong, and the rams, moving single file, will never make it. Too weak, and there is little point in assaulting the wall. Thoughts?

**webba84** · March 03, 2016, 05:31 PM

By adjusting the firing rate, range, and damage of wall ballistas. Testing has confirmed that if you send 2 rams 1 will reach the gate, and 2/3 siege towers will reach the wall below.

**SnuggleBunnies** · March 03, 2016, 08:24 PM

But correct me if I'm wrong, but the ai only ever sends one ram at a time, so in defensive battles the fight will always be for the wall. Not that that's the end of the world or anything.

**webba84** · March 03, 2016, 08:56 PM

You are correct, but we really can't balance everything around AI stupidity (the player will not always be defending). Besides which, it's probably better that the ai go for the wall rather than the gate because even if it did bring two rams it would get slaughtered because it won't try to capture the gatehouse and towers there (the first thing you should do after breaking down the gate). It does much better if it goes over the wall and comes up the back pathway, out of range of the towers.

**CapnDan** · March 04, 2016, 07:21 AM

Looks pretty neat.Town center I guess ends up just behind the main gate?
Also, main question, did you manage to get this set up so that a defending AI will figure out to actually use the Deeping Wall? I remember this was a problem (and one that was never really resolved) when Seth was doing the HD custom city for LotR-TW.

**CountMRVHS** · March 04, 2016, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by CapnDan

Looks pretty neat.Town center I guess ends up just behind the main gate?
Also, main question, did you manage to get this set up so that a defending AI will figure out to actually use the Deeping Wall? I remember this was a problem (and one that was never really resolved) when Seth was doing the HD custom city for LotR-TW.

Yes, the central plaza area is behind the gate.

In my tests, I've just seen the AI defend the higher portion of the settlement - i.e., not the Deeping Wall - but that's probably not a terrible thing for it to do, since the attacker must still pass the tower fire and climb up all the way to the plaza, which tires you out.

**Stath's** · March 04, 2016, 07:15 PM

Fantastic!!

**webba84** · June 13, 2016, 07:49 AM

Sadly haven't had much spare time to sit down and put some solid hours into this but work has not stopped by any means. Here is the Tower of the Moon - Adunabar's resurgence manifest in granite and marble.

**webba84** · June 13, 2016, 08:54 AM

And in game at dusk, just for fun. Rest of Minas Ithil layout is WIP, but we're getting there -

**webba84** · June 13, 2016, 10:38 AM

Also, the Dunedain have finally learned how to light their buildings at night. Weird that the Haradrim and Easterlings were able to do this earlier than them but anyway...