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[bkraft4637]

PS, is that the new PDF in the screenshot section? its been so long, i dont remember what the old one looked like...

[Nazgûl]

No there's only one PDF, but everything in Beta 4.5 will be in this DC version =)
Don't remember you from before... maybe you had another user name? Regardless, thanks for your encouraging words about our project We might need you as a playtester, since you really seem dedicated indeed. testing should be ready to commence shortly after new years or so. Drop me a PM and tell me a little about you. Age, location, how long youve been playing BFME and SEE and how much time you have to test.

[Tower Guard]

Nazgul I am a huge fan I have been playing battle for middle earth since the first one and I must say thanks to you and your team for making such an excellent mod and helping make battle for middle earth 2 what it should of been. I just had one question and or request. As taking from my name I am a huge fan of the tower guard from battle for middle earth 1 with their shields and shield wall formation. I was wondering even though in the books and the movies they do not have the shields and they are mixed up in the game with the fountain guard, would you be able to bring them back with their shields and formation. After all they are suppose to be the elite infantry unit of Gondar and bring them back and have a starting pikeman to replace them as an anti cavalry unit and instead make them the elite unit for men of the west like they once were in the first battle for middle earth. If you could do that I would really appreciate it cause I have not found a mod that does that And I much rather see if you can do it cause this mod is fun to play please let me know if you can.

[Tower Guard]

Also I know alot of people dont like them but since you added the hero units to many of the factions could you also add knights of dol amroth to the men. I hope im not offending in any way just a big fan of the mod and figured id ask.

[Nazgûl]

Don't worry friend. You are very polite indeed Afaik the "Tower Guard"is the same unit as the Fountain Guard, no? In SEE we have chosen the latter since they look like the movie version. We also made a completely new model for this, which is absolutely breath taking in quality. I so agree that the BFME1 tower guatd model looks cool though, but the anims are limited in comparison. We will use the anims for other units though. And I suppose we theotetically could make a second fountain guard unit, carrying shield, and calling it Fountain Guard - Assault Battalion or something... we'll see when we get to Gondor faction.

Knights of Dol Amroth will be in though, as a summon instead of rohirrim...

[Tower Guard]

Thank you Nazgul I really appreciate your responce and that sounds great being able to summon dol amroth knights will be pretty terryfying on the battlefield. Also its good to have you guys back i know you have just been busy. But the fact that you still enjoy this game and are working on a new mod five years later speaks volumes. Well the other thing to about the fountain guard was their cool formation if you do make a battalion called assult briggad. and give them shields would you also be willing to give them their old formation a.k.a. the shield wall i know ea originolly put it in the game then took it out. Also i know its a little riged but you know your balancing and know how to make it fair. Once again thanks for responding to my request/question good luck in the beta Nazgul.

[njm1983]

As Naz said there are always options.

We have
Fountain Guard - Guarding the white tree
Citadel Guard - guarding the 7th level of minas tirith

Tower guard - could be another potential unit they could be guarding the Tower of Ecthelion. A creation of our own, but could still fit.

Naturally these would all be elite and limited units, the Citadel guards would be most numerous followed by Tower guards then Fountain guards.

As Naz said: we will look into this when we work on Gondor.

[Nazgûl]

Very well said =)

Edited by Nazgûl, 17 December 2012 - 09:35 PM.

[Tower Guard]

Thanks guys appreciate the break down good luck on the mod

[HelluFU]

I'm so glad to see that youre back to continue the epicness you once brought. I usualy don't like strategy games(I do not like gaming that much at all lol) but BFME are games based on one of my favourite movies. Your mod makes the game look the way it should've been made from the begining by EA. You should just call your mod Battle For Middle Earth 3, people! From time to time I was checking these forums hoping that S.E.E. team will return and you did! I never lost faith in your mod and I support your efforts. I bet new "Hobit" trilogy will inspire you even more and make good old BFME series popular again. Just keep up the good job and "May The Force be with YOU!"

[Nazgûl]

Thank you so much =) We're putting special attention inti this new version for sure. Last night I spent 5 hours just trimming dust FX for instance... hehe. Realism and attantion to detail are the essence of SEE... I'm sure you'll like it when it's out. Erebor's next, then we'll release the first beta.

[Nuramon]

Nazgul. I cant find any word to say thank you to you and the SEE Team! I finally downloaded the SEE Mod 2 days ago. I was not sure if I'd like it, but its just awesome. You were totally right. The older LOTR Games were just not realistic...Buildings crushed in 5 seconds and and and.
Im a huge fan of the game as I spent a lot of time playing BFME1,2, and ROTWK too. My name was Kribelinho in the Online Games and I had about 1900 victories. No quick tower wars wins or so, didnt like them at all.. I nearly cried when I heard about the shut down of the servers. A world was destroyed for me. I red all the LOTR books and also the Hobbit. I can remember when I was a younger boy and I got my first BFME Cd as a Christmas Present from my Mother. I dont know anyone else whos a fan like me in my City or so :-) I went to the cinema last week to watch The hobbit and I was thinking about: Damn it, I really miss the old, good strategy time. Battlefield 3 is fun, but nothing can ever reach the strategy fun of the lord of the rings. You brought everything back to me! Im bored now shooting guys in Battlefield, since there is a way to play this awesome SEE mod. You really dont know what you have done to me! Cant find any words to say thank you. Id totally donate money to you, and im pretty sure, im not the only one who wants to!!!
Your work is just awesome and im totally looking forward to your new DC Mod. I'd appreciate it to test ur beta if that would be ok. I got some time because im a student at the moment ;-)

P.S Did you ever think about adding "Radagast the Brown"? would be awesome to play with him with his bunnies hehe :-)

A big Thank you to you and your team! Keep it going like this, there are 9 others who play the SEE Mod now in my City, thanks to you.
I got an other question to you : Whats the best way to play Multiplayer with friends? Are there any programms?

Enjoy Christmas and im looking forward to your mod. Best wishes

Chris aka Nuramon aka Kribelinho

Edited by Nuramon, 20 December 2012 - 02:42 PM.

[Ridder Geel]

At this point in time I would advise you use Hamachi to play via a "virtual" network.
And thanks for the awesome comment, we appreciate it

[fagerstrm]

What would BFME be without the 3rd age community? Brilliant and hat off for the S.E.E team!

[njm1983]

Thanks to the fans for coming out and giving there support. We appreciate it!

[Nazgûl]

Thank you so much guys, for all your encouraging words! If you're that into SEE, you're gonna LOVE this new beta... I'm fairly certain of that Beta 4.5 is "nothing" compared to the effort I put into this, along with my awesome team, the unbeleivable help from contributors and the always so helpful forums Never before have we given so much attention to details as we do now, so even though progress is slow (as usual) it's faster than before cause of the methodical planning and executing of step by step modding - something we didn't do before when my former head coder was all over the placing leaving some things unfinished and somewhat buggy, lol. Im taking special care into incoproprating all of his work that was fully functional, and in the process look for anything that could cause bugs and crashes. So far so good, and Moria is about 95% finished. From here it's mostly polishing and balancing before we get to Erebor =)

I might be looking for Beta Testers of your dedication, so drop me a PM if you're interested...

EDIT: Radagast will be in one of the "evil men" factions btw, as a Ring Hero.

Edited by Nazgûl, 20 December 2012 - 10:34 PM.

[Bofur]

Radagast, Evil? Just wondering what your thinking was behind that?

[njm1983]

Probably a typo.I think he would be cool for erebor. tbh. Or a summon. since he had no real allegiance to anything but nature.

[Nazgûl]

Indeed, I mean Allathar and Pallando off course... lol! Rad will be somewhere for good

[Troudabour]

You know Naz, some screenshots of the Moria faction would be a great Christmas gift!
Would love to see some of that sexy smoke FX