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[Fudge]

Oooh, its great to see people are taking an interest. Thanks Phil 

[Fudge]

All right I'm still tweaking this bloody thing and near enough everything is running as it should but I occasionally get out of synch errors when playing the map online. Is there anything I can do in worldbuilder to try and stop this from occurring or is it that the cinematics are screwing me over? It's even more bizarre as not very long ago I wasn't getting these synch errors.

[Devon]

That's generally caused by people playing other maps with a map.ini, and then playing your map without restarting bfme as far as I know.

[Fudge]

Okay quick update, I'm going mad because it's so hard to test online as nobody (bar those I know here) are willing to wait during the painfully difficult process of loading the map through gameranger, I have tried T3A online but because of the time difference there aren't many online when I need them. The single player version runs fine but the multiplayer version is a bit of an unknown, the last test I did (which was a while ago) I encountered an out of sync error. Overall I'm still testing but it's really slow going.

Sorry if I sound a little deflated but it's so frustrating to be so close and not be able to finish due to the possibility of a bug which I cannot verify without the help of (quite frequently) impatient people.

[MattTheLegoman]

What is the best time for you, I could timetable 5 hours for you at any time. But I do not have Gameranger (I have T3A:Online).

[Fudge]

About 6.00 PM GMT is generally when I'm online. I'm more than happy to play on T3A online it's merely that people are infrequently online at that time.

Edited by Fudge, 03 October 2013 - 06:08 AM.

[MattTheLegoman]

You have me as your servant from 6pm GMT Thursday to 11pm GMT Thursday.

 

Unfortunately 6pm GMT is when I have been going to sleep on most days, so I am going to have to change my sleeping pattern a bit to accomodate. ;p

[Fudge]

Really? Well hopefully we'll test today and it'll go fine and you can go back to sleep. Although we're still going to need another player before we can play.

[MattTheLegoman]

I am unable to do anything today, sorry. You have at 6pm GMT (tomorrow for me). =D

[MattTheLegoman]

Okay I am going to set up now.

[Elric]

In about 2 hours from posting this i will have time to test

[MattTheLegoman]

I have been waiting in the chat on T3A:Online.

[Fudge]

Sorry Matt, because you said you weren't coming online I didn't bother to check, so sorry.

 

Scratch that, Matt was still waiting for me and along with ICT (KingCrwn). We played the level right the way through with minimal bugs (there where the odd few near the end) meaning that after a few tweaks the map can be FINALLY released.

My thanks to both MattTheLegoMan and ICT for there patience with the delays I caused and an extra thank you to Matt who got up super early just to play with me.

I'm on such a jolly right now

Edited by Fudge, 03 October 2013 - 11:08 PM.

[ICT]

It was great fun!

The only thing that comes to my mind is, that the levels where the heroes are alone are too easy (except on the path of the dead)

 

If you want to work on that, you could make that harder. (eg harder different enemys/combos and allow some of the superpowers in different situations)

 

As from scenery and stuff i am no modder but it looked pretty awesome

Edited by ict, 04 October 2013 - 10:11 AM.

[MattTheLegoman]

Paths of the Dead were pretty difficult. ;p

[Fudge]

Yeah I'm going to leave POTD Alone but maybe I'll give the enemies at Amon-hen, Fangorn and Rohan upgrades to increase the difficulty a bit

[Fudge]

Finally after god knows how long I can finally say that this map is officially released and both versions are now available to download, I'd like to say a huge thank you to all the testers and those who assisted me throughout this painstakingly long undertaking. Below is just the generic bollocks I post everywhere but it's got some new pictures for you to look at and the download link is at the bottom of the post.
 

The Movie Map Updated

This is a remade version of NordicSoldier's "Movie Map". I'd like to say that I remade this map not because it wasn't enjoyable to play but because it was so different, fun and just generally great that it warranted a visual update so that the rest of it can be appreciated in its entirety.

 The map features several locations in the following order:

 

• Moria - Balins Tomb, Dwarodwelf (tiny), Khazad-dûm
• EastGate
• Amon-Hen
• Rohan
• Fangorn
• Helms Deep
• Isengard
• Ithilien
• Paths of the Dead
• Minas Tirith
• Shelob's Lair
• Cirith Ungol
• The Black Gate
• Mount Doom
   

There's a bunch of screenshots in here for those who'd like to have a look at the map.

Spoiler

                                

 

Throughout the level there are several fancy cinematics, but don't worry in comparison to the size of the map they don't slow you down or cause de-synch errors (provided your computer isn't super slow).

Each of the "Iconic" locations (Helms Deep e.t.c) contain a large scale battle each of which requires constant monitoring to ensure victory, communication within teams is important in this regard. Each battle also has a huge amount of audio (and music) to make each battle feel more like that of the films.

There are two versions of the map included, the multiplayer version & the singleplayer version. Both are identical, other than the cinematics which are more fancy in the singleplayer as there's no chance of a de-synch error.

There's also a download link on The 3rd Age site with a list of credits, http://www.the3rdage.net/download-1730

 

P.S the singleplayer version has to be loaded twice to get rid of the double soundtrack error

Edited by Fudge, 05 October 2013 - 07:15 PM.

[ICT]

#great work!

[Fudge]

UPDATE - Well more like a proper release as it appears that the multiplayer version of this map has simply not been working. Luckily a group of kind, understanding and helpful individuals (sarcasm intended) brought this error to my attention. Despite the animosity I do still have an obligation to do right by those who supported me in making this map and all those who attempted to play but couldn't.

 

I have altered the initial cinematics in the multiplayer version and all appears to work fine so I can only presume they where the cause of the problem. The map is being re-uploaded and once MODB authorise it I shall change the links both here and on T3A.

Sorry once again.

[Fudge]

Okay I've updated the T3A page with a new link: http://www.the3rdage.net/edit_item