This video is model footage of the Rise of Mordor alpha, clocking in at almost 6 minutes...but the models are really impressive and full conversion mods for Attila TW are not that common.
I thought many of you would appreciate this.
Those of us alive to see the rise of Pong... would we ever think we'd live to able to play something like this? :smitten: :smitten: :smitten:
I know! Greatness.
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Incredible trailer and cinematics. :clap:
I saw that at the Total War Center. Very impressive. That's what I'm Tolkien about! :clap:
Please don't start that here -smh- Isn't there a whole thread devoted to torturing me with that crap? And you even ruined the master's name with your filthy puns?!?!?!?!?
Just trying to throw a little levity on the subject. I guess that doesn't 'ring' with some people. ;D
Next time you want to 'throw a little levity,' throw a hobbit instead.
Quote from: Gusington on January 16, 2017, 08:34:30 PM
This video is model footage of the Rise of Mordor alpha, clocking in at almost 6 minutes...but the models are really impressive and full conversion mods for Attila TW are not that common.
I didn't think people were still doing Full Conversion mods for the latest Total War versions.
From what I understand, CA has been making it increasingly difficult to make such mods with the newer TWs. Reported to be intentionally so.
I find that hard to believe since they have created such a vibrant modding community in their own official forums.
Looks very nice.
Holy crap - that looks amazing :notworthy:
That will definitely be the lord of all mods for the TW series.
Hobbit we all get a copy once it's out of alpha!
>:D
Quote from: MetalDog on January 16, 2017, 11:52:23 PM
Next time you want to 'throw a little levity,' throw a hobbit instead.
Done!
Here's to hoping the full campaign will live up to the promise of those images.
Looks like a LotR marching simulator. :bd:
Elf we do that, it'd be really cool.
Quote from: JasonPratt on January 17, 2017, 08:18:13 AM
Hobbit we all get a copy once it's out of alpha!
>:D
Quote from: MetalDog on January 16, 2017, 11:52:23 PM
Next time you want to 'throw a little levity,' throw a hobbit instead.
Done!
Yeah, you got to wonder how far off the mod is and what the campaign will be like. A LoTR Battle simulator wouldn't be hard to do quickly but a full campaign would be something else entirely. Still it worked damned well for M2TW's "Third Age" mod so..... it's 'shire' been done before.
We need Mordor screenshots and videos!
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Ouch.
Quote from: Gusington on January 16, 2017, 08:34:30 PM
This video is model footage of the Rise of Mordor alpha, clocking in at almost 6 minutes...but the models are really impressive and full conversion mods for Attila TW are not that common.
I thought many of you would appreciate this.
That takes me back to the days of Operation Flashpoint. You'd go to various forums and see these reports by "production teams" about their Eastern Front and Sicily mods, and they'd have all kinds of screenshots of Tigers and U.S. paratroopers and Joseph Stalin tanks. Some of them even had project management slides, with nifty bar graphs. But as volunteer efforts they never seemed to actually come to fruition. Was also in the days before YouTube.
^ I have felt the same way about many, many, MANY mods. But every now and then miracles happen.
As a modder, I prefer to not hype it up. Work silently then surprise people with the finished work.
^Your track record around here proves that :)
That's the thing with voluntary mod teams. One day they're there, the next they aragorn.
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I stopped following the various Attila total conversion mods, the progress is glacial and the finished works always introduce a good amount of bugs. If I check one day and there is a stable release of something I am interested in, ya for me. Otherwise, I don't pay attention. Besides, these total conversion mods leave campaign development to the end and it often shows. Longevity is achieved through good campaigns, not pretty textures and fancy shaders.
As far as Rise of Mordor specifically, I'll check back in a few years and see what happened.
There is one mod for Attila that I haven't tried but has very high ratings on Steam which adds the Byzantine Theme of Sicily as a playable faction. Along with unit additions, reskins and custom fireship mods, it looks to be most dope 😎
And of course there are radically successful total collections conversions for Medieval 2 for Lord of the Rings that are legendary, with 100s of thousands of downloads.
Outside of TW I had a recent brush of greatness with Enderal for Skyrim...probably the greatest mod I have ever experienced. So it can be done.
And the Enderal Mod just got a new patch. Not that I'd heard anything 'buggy' about it previously.
It crashes with regularity in between city areas but other than that is pretty stable.
Quote from: Swatter on January 19, 2017, 10:59:59 PM
I stopped following the various Attila total conversion mods, the progress is glacial and the finished works always introduce a good amount of bugs. If I check one day and there is a stable release of something I am interested in, ya for me. Otherwise, I don't pay attention. Besides, these total conversion mods leave campaign development to the end and it often shows. Longevity is achieved through good campaigns, not pretty textures and fancy shaders.
As far as Rise of Mordor specifically, I'll check back in a few years and see what happened.
That's long been my impression of Total War mods in general. Rise of Morder looks fantastic, but I'll wait til there's a finished product before I get excited about it.
There are one or two overhaul "mega" mods for switching TW Attila-Charlemagne into the Medieval period with full-sized campaign map & such.
Never know when, or if, such things will ever be finished. May still be in the works a decade from now.
Yeah one of them is called '1212' IIRC and looks good, but we may see Medieval 3 before the mod itself is released.