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[Servant of Sauron]

Nice, pretty scary! Are you going to do Morgul Archers(hopefully with a poisoned arrows toggle)?

Any chance the Black Uruks might be receiving any randomised weapons?

Any chance you might consider giving standard Orc Warriors some helms?

Also, consider calling the "spider riders" Cirith Ungol Spider Riders. I think it fits slightly better.

Edited by Servant of Sauron, 25 May 2007 - 09:17 PM.

[IthronAiwendil]

Black Uruks may get some randomised weapons, since that isn't too hard to do...

Morgul Archers are going to be added, and the idea of poisoned arrows sounds good.

About the orc warriors... They will get helmets if someone will donate me a model for them

Spider Riders will definitely be renamed

Thanks for the comments & ideas, keep them coming!

[Bruno62339]

holy shit batman!!!!! the new mordor stuff looks great!!! however i was wondering if you could not use CAH stuff? i don't really like it when normal units get that stuff, makes them stick out and just feels weird..... but i guess it's fine for shagrat since he's a hero. i just want to see new weapons/armor, instead of the CAH ones i have seen many times.

[zimoo]

Time taken to get a CAH object: A few seconds.
Time taken to create brand new weapons: About half an hour.
IthronAiwendil: Someone who does all the textures/code/models for his mod himself, so probably lacking time.

[Bruno62339]

didn't know that, so you don't have to be a jerk

[Lauri]

He isn't
He's just pointing it out....

[IthronAiwendil]

27/05/07

Today I have put together a rather large update, including the Mordor and Evil Men factions. Hope you will enjoy the update

Another Black Uruk model, I will make the unit randomise between the two models:


Pikemen of Morgul Vale and Orc Spearmen:


Gorgoroth Berserker, a mid-game unit trained from the Dark Tent:


Gorgoroth Berserker using his Earthshaker power:


The following shots are taken from Evil Men battles. It's nothing new for the beta testers, but others haven't seen this so I'll post the screens now.

A fully upgraded Evil Men fortress:


Vronkhar, the leader of the Variags:


Axemen of Khand:


War of the Ring mode, with Evil Men:


Two Were-Worm screenshots:




Credits

Orc Spearmen:
Model - zimoo
Skin - IthronAiwendil

Vronkhar:
Model - Makaveli
Skin - IthronAiwendil

[Juissi]

Great update Oh that Vronkhar The guy who did that must be a really nice modeler And I like how you will have two different models for Black Uruks

[Eonwe]

Will the WOTR map be edited alot. Eastern Middle Earth, or the Misty mountains and land east of it.

Like you can be Dorwinnion (With Elves, Men, and Dwaves)

Then fight Mordor, Goblins, Evil Men, Isengard.

All have land and starting location.

[IthronAiwendil]

To make today's update even better, I have 2 more screenshots:

Black Uruks in-game:


Spider Riders are now Cirith Ungol Spider Riders:


For some reason there's only one Black Uruk who has a hammer in each horde... I have no idea why

[Servant of Sauron]

Wow...that looks amazing! (kinda feel bad for the Uruk-hai that are getting slaughtered though )

Could you perhaps take a fully zoomed in screenshot of the Gorgoroth Berserker if it's not too much trouble?

What are you going to be doing with Black Orcs?

Edited by Servant of Sauron, 27 May 2007 - 06:52 PM.

[Caluadan]

amaaaaazing both of these nice little updates

[Bruno62339]

sweet updates morgul pikes and the black uruks look even better ingame.

[Eonwe]

Ithron can you tell me is that Wereworm a summon?

[Mathijs]

What are you going to be doing with Black Orcs?

Remove them, I hope.

[Gherrick]

Why hammers? Can't you do something with CAH and give Black uruks scimitars ?

[Dindi]

nice updates, but dont use cah stuff to much as they greatly increase the poly count and file size of each unit and will cause lag when you have lots of units with cah stuff

[IthronAiwendil]

30/05/07

Today's update isn't big, but I think some of you have been looking forward to seeing Shagrat in-game.

Gorgoroth Berserker (zoomed shot):


Gorbag, Boldog and Shagrat in front of the Dark Tent:


Shagrat using his Rampage power:


Here's the new radius cursor for one of Shagrat's powers, Summon Garrison of Cirith Ungol:


For those of you who want to know, Shagrat's powers are:
1 - Knife Throw (Ranged attack at a single target)
2 - Rampage (Boost speed, armor, damage and attack speed)
3 - Rousing Chant (Gives experience to Black Orcs, Spider Riders, Black Uruks and Gorgoroth Berserkers)
4 - Summon Garrison of Cirith Ungol (Summons battalions of Black Uruks and Cirith Ungol Spider Riders)

For the Knife Throw power, I have animated the knife model myself. It is fully functional and looks cool, I just have to make a FX for it.

Credits

Shagrat:
Model - IthronAiwendil
Skin - IthronAiwendil
Hero Button art - Caluadan
Hero portrait art - IthronAiwendil
Knife Thow & Rampage button art - Caluadan
Cirith Ungol summon button art - IthronAiwendil
Knife throw model - EA
Knife throw animations - IthronAiwendil

Wow... That was a long list of credits for one hero

[Caluadan]

yay those buttons came to some use eventually
good work!

[GilGalad]

Wow!!!It's awesome!!!