Dev blog - Last Alliance: TW - Alpha v0.1.6

[Sara Temer]

This is article from moddb page

Mae govannen!

At the beginning I would like to apologize that from few months I didn't publish here any new article about progress in work on mod. Well, you can say that I'm lazy because even I didn't publish article when v0.1.5 has been released month ago... >.<


Anyway, the next patch will be not too large, but it's just a stop on the road to next large update (where probably you will see elves, I hope ^^). Main goal of v0.1.6 it give you more lands in Middle-Earth to play on them. You will not find new playable cultures, but Numenorean and Haradrim will receive some changes.


Main changes in Alpha v0.1.6:
- 20 new provinces in Gondor, Enedwaith and Calenardhon (later Rohan)
- New armor for Nizar (Haradrim Black Snake Clan faction leader) (thanks Edred for great concept)
- New armor (still WIP) for Ikrimah (Haradrim Golden Lion Clan faction leader) (thanks Edred for mask concept)
- Nizar and Ikrimah now have own bodyguards (avaiable in campaign and custom battle)
- More variants of movemment animations for spearmen with shields by CherJair
- Some new building icons (for Numenorean) by Mareon
- New campaign settlement models for Haradrim
- Changes in economy - now some buildings basically generate less wealth, but other building can increase it
- Unplayable Wildmen factions in campaign (avaiable in custom battle, but it only few units - so I suggest to not play as them)


So, in Alpha v0.1.6 you will have campaign map with 72 provinces - it more than Shogun 2 vanilla campaign. Here you have map with marked avaiable lands:


About changes in economy, I have to test how it works now + I want to expand it in next patches - I hope that this system will be works good (atm, I found one bug, for some reason local bonus not working, but I will try fix it). Here you have example how it works:





+ Here you have some additional screenshots and one video:

Nizar, Shah of Harad



Ikrimah, Warlord of Golden Lion Clan
(WIP, when I will finish this armor probably I will upload video from work)



Model of Haradrim settlement for lvl 5 on campaign map:


Spearmen with more variants of movement animations:

And this is all, I hope that you will see patch in close days. See you next time ^^

[alhoon]

Sara, perhaps post the other new Haradrim settlements as well?

[Collateral_dmg]

You are doing incredible work Who would've thought something like this would be possible in shogun 2. Keep it up!

[Sara Temer]

@alhoon here you are

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I wonder to optimize it a bit, because some details are too small in game