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[Bofur]

Same

[Fudge]

Well I gave it a quick test and everything was going to plan until wave one arrived and there where far too many uruks and ladders, I got wiped out out within about five minutes. I'll probably reduce the amount of uruks by probably 40% and double the amount of elves (You can never have too many elves).

[Fudge]

Well I'm off for a day out tommorow and cheeky me may have spent the last day and a half playing TDH (damn it's fun) so any scripting work has been postponed until monday.

[Fudge]

Helms deep's sort of almost there I reckon a day or two, so far i've got all the fancy stuff (Audio, cinematics etc) working, Elves arriving, uruks arriving and attacking so all I've got left to do is make gandalf arrive and then I'll be on to Isenguard.

Also I thought I'd say now that due to the fact that both TEA:CE and TDH have new heroes and units I'll be making a vanilla, TDH and TEA:CE versions (luckily it really isn't that much more work it's just editing and adding things mostly).

[Rob38]

Looking very nice. I enjoyed playing the original version. Actually, the first time I ever opened WB was when I was trying to edit the multiplayer version into singleplayer. I did not know at the time that a singleplayer version existed. When I could not figure out WB, I hosted the multiplayer game on the EA servers. When the game started, I left the computer for like 15 minutes. When I came back, everyone else had quit (and did not have many pleasant things to say ), and I recruited their heroes. And that is how I played singleplayer.

[Fudge]

Oh you sneaky bugger

[Fudge]

Well i have been slightly side tracked though all that's left to do for helms deep is get the beserker to set off the bomb, have a fiddle with the timers and make a few more horsemen for gandalf (They all got wiped out in the last test I did).

[Fudge]

Right I have a question for you guys due to the fact that currently during Helms deep when Eomer and Gandy arrive they and their accompanying army are obliterated by Uruk pikemen, so I can either plod along slowing down my progress trying everything in my power to make enough horseman to beat this overwhelming mass of spears or make the current twelve Rohirrim hordes Invincible.

Obviously making them invincible makes this problem much easier to fix though it also means you can't lose.

[Kwen]

So.. Using cloud break doesn't make them unable to use porcupine formation? I would think that as long as they aren't in formation some very high powered Rohirrim could still win... Especially if you get them to turn to the sides and go around the pikes.

[Radspakr Wolfbane]

Is it possible to make a unit invincible via scripting.
I haven't scripted in a while and I can't remember.
If so then make the invisibility temporary.

[Fudge]

Nope they aren't in formation and the rohirrim that arrive are fully upgradable though I've decided to make them invincible anyway

[Bashkuga]

With "Invincible" you guys mean "Indestructable"? It's possible to make them indestructable and then destructable through scripts, it's a very easy one too .

[Fudge]

Yeah that's what I'm doing.

-Edit scratch that, bloody helms deep is really trying my patience

Edited by Fudge, 07 April 2012 - 06:55 PM.

[MattTheLegoman]

Scripting and a brilliant looking map.

[Fudge]

Thanks well currently I'm taking a break from it, Helms deep is really tiring to get working.

[Fudge]

Alright seeing as Helm's Deep has practically brought this whole thing to a halt I'm going to leave it as it is now, upload some photo's of it then and continue on to Isenguard.

Everything but Gandalf's arrival and The Bomb actually blowing up is done so it seems silly to let these two little things pause the map's progression.

[Fudge]

"Helms Deep" (So Far)

Right well anyone who read my previous post will understand why I say "So far", (Sorry for the large amount of photo's but I thought I'd make up for the long wait for this update)

The Calm Before the Siege

Once Fangorn has been completed the camera fades to show you the Helms deep (I didn't take any screenshots of the Cine as anyone who's played the campaign will have seen it before) and after a cinematic your instructed to have your forces ready for an impending Isenguard army.









Elven reinforcements arrive to support the forces of rohan in their defence (quite a few of them actually).









Positioning Elves along the wall and yeomen along the (I'll just call it tall wall) tall wall gives a very good protection to the whole fortress.





Isenguard arrives

Uruk Hai arrive in masses and advance onwards to the deeping wall.








Though the Elves have come fully equiped and pose quite a problem for any Uruk without a crossbow.





After the first wave has been thinned a second arrives, this wave has come prepared and can take what ever rohan can throw at them.



















They couldn't be kept off the walls for ever and soon the elves are overrun.





A bomb is carried up towards and deployed on the culvert and soon afterwards a beserker wielding a lit torch sets it off (Well he will when he's scripted correctly).












Now as I stated Gandalf doesn't arrive so there's no screenshots of that which means that's the end of this update, I hope you enjoyed what there was of it.

[MattTheLegoman]

Looks awesome! Almost like the campaign, although I will say more realistic! Coz you've only got the Yeomen and Galadhrim on the walls!

[Fudge]

Thanks very much

[Rob38]

Looks rather nice. How is the lag?