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[Mullers_11]

A little late, yes, I could agree. The team here at Visions hopes you all had a Merry Christmas and have good luck in the forthcoming year! But without further ado, we have some new renders to show you and some changes have been made.

To start off with we have the brand new Brand. He's been changed to look more 'royaly' and the old model/skin will become Bard II.


Next, we are proud to show the Canal Guard (formerly the Channel Guard, just a name change ). I know for a fact that Matias has put so much effort into these, so be gracious. Guarding the waterways of Dale I believe. You may have already seen these before in a screenshot I showed you all:


Now something for the fans. We want you to come up with some ideas as for what we could use the following building for, as we're undecided:


As for this. Some slight modifications to the common farm you will often find in use. Your resource gatherer for Dale. Nothing special but a slight and attractive variation:


And this one was done by OrcMaster. Originally being used as the Sniper/Hunter it's now being changed to the Mountaineer. Venturing into the mountains they will venture in groups of three. Great attack but poor defence. Think of them as a hit and run:


Just to add to the diversity and possible infantry units Dale has to offer to you, this is the spearmen. Or they are also thought of as the Halberdier. These anti-cavalry spearmen are upgradable and will come in very handy at times:


Your average sentry defence tower. Will be used to defend and fight off any intruders. Can be upgraded with fire arrows, but at a dear price. Often used to guard the outer perimeters of your base, they will be of great use to you, when all else fails:


The last two I will do as one. Firstly we have decided to change our fortress. The old one will be replaced with the following (the one you see is completely unupgraded). And furthermore, the Laketown Outriders. Able to switch between sword and spear, both having advantages and disadvantages for each weapon. This very powerful unit has been modelled and skinned by OrcMaster too:


As I said, we all hope you have a good New Year here at Visions. Comments are welcome and we hope you enjoy the update!

Credits

Mountaineer + Outrider - OrcMaster
Canal Guard - OrcMaster and Matias
Everything else - Matias

[zimoo]

All looking great

About the Dale Building, it doesn't really look like a unit production building of any kind. I think it may be suited to being a house-type building, which increases your CP limit.

[Bebbe]

Ok , here what I think.
Brand - Awesome skin , really makes him look royal.
Canal Guards - Looks even better ,, I love that skin. Good work.
Dale Building - Saw it some time ago . The design still amazes me.
Farm - Pretty sweet. Nothing else to say really.
Mountaineer - Nice skin ,, though the nose looks kinda big . You won't see that ingame anyway. So good work.
Spearmen - Are those the same as in the beta ? The only thing I can "complain" on is that the Belt looks kinda wierd.
Tower - Looks awesome ,, Matias just showed that to me. Really cool.
Fortress - This ,, is REALLY awesome. Best in this update tbh.
Outriders - The skin isn't the same as in the beta is it ? Cause then it was really bright. Looks cool now anyway.


And there ya go

BebbEdit : Oh , and about the building ,, I say : just add alittle fence and a thing that you shoot arrows at.(You know what I mean ) And it's a Archery Range.

Edited by Bebbe, 30 December 2006 - 08:45 PM.

[Mathijs]

Yeah, the Outrider skin is the same as in the beta, the brightness lies in something else. Mullers is looking into that.

Also, I just noticed that the Dale Halberdier render is wrong, in the latest version (the one that is ingame as well) it actually holds a halberd instead of the spear it has there. Just to prevent Dain from complaining about that.

[Lauri]

one word



AESEOME!

in other words, AWESOME! reallly really nice fortress, and awesome Brand! although, he looks evil! *gasps*

[N19HtmAr3]

All looking really good... Loving Brand and the Canal Guards

[Bebbe]

Oh , and I would suggest that you darken the Outriders clothes just alittle bit anyway.
Just like a Dark royal blue. mmm Sweeeet.

[Mullers_11]

All looking great

About the Dale Building, it doesn't really look like a unit production building of any kind. I think it may be suited to being a house-type building, which increases your CP limit.

I like that idea. However, if we were to implement that I would make it expensive and as a player you would be limitted to only a few. Prevents unfairness IMO. Your thoughts?

[mattpalmer]

You mean like a statue?

[cahik_]

great job. everything looks great i really like the Brand and all the buildings.

[Mathijs]

Well, Mullers and I have come to a decision about that building.

Dale Outpost - Cost: 800
Increases CP by 20.
Commandset contains 2 buttons, the first being:
Fortify - Cost: 1000
Fortifies the Outpost, giving it the ability to fire at enemies and grants it a +30 armor.
The 2nd being:
Trade - Cost: 1000
Allows the purchase of builders at the Outposts and allows it to gather a decent amount of resources.

We are trying to have it so that purchasing one upgrade disables the other.

Opinions?

[mattpalmer]

i like that idea alot actually.

[zimoo]

Yeah me too, sounds a bit more interesting than my idea of "building which raises CP"

[Bebbe]

Nice Idea ,, Contact me if you need any help what-so-ever.

[Mathijs]

The fortified model... just a teaser.

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[Bebbe]

Looking pretty good ,, Is it Dwarven design or are my eyes failing me ?

[Mathijs]

Aye, I had a Dwarven design in mind.

[Lauri]

nice building, nice idea!

[Mullers_11]

Thought you might like this:


A small defence group of Dale defending a kay position.
Taken by me fighting Matias online.