I ABSOLUTELY can not stop saying this, you guys are fucking absolute legends, and i love you all for all your effort, i am so happy you take all the time you need for completing your vision
I can’t even articulate how excited I got when you said “Remnants of Angmar”. Angmar is my favorite evil faction and I’m so pumped to see what you guys do with them!
Can't wait to see LOTR themed Bannerlord with my own eyes, I'm sure I'll be playing for hundreds of hours. Should we expect to see something playable this year or is it for the next year?
@@MacbethofGondor after im seeing this video and others, im scared sir not gonna lie, for me a release is good enough doesnt matter how long it takes, but please we are all eager
This is an absolutely ambitious and monumental project. I hope it's development goes smoothly for you and your team. Even if it takes years, I will be waiting eagerly. Take as much time as you need. Your time and passion will surely pay off into something truly amazing.
The quality of this video alone tells me this mod is going to be great. I like how you talk about even the things that you guys are not going to put into the mod.
there are good reasons not to include certain creatures to the game, especially if they didn't play a big role... gameplay and balancing is more important and better done with the most common creatures.
Idea for Beornings (if possible): Make two seperate models for them: 1) Bear, 2) Strong and tall human. Their battle model should be a bear and his "civil" model human (hall, tavern, tournament, etc..).
I support all of your decisions. Truly represents a sound, thoughtful, and objectively true plan for a mod we did not ask for, but we are definitely grateful for.
Although i agree with what you said about the team not willing to make pigs, rams or elks as mounts in the mod but i think it just belongs together really... i mean as dwarf going in to the battle on an armored pig or a ram could be very iconic. Maybe it will be an option to add them too to the mod! Cheers!
The reason we are not including them is because they would make the dwarves be imbalanced as hell. Dwarves already field the mightiest infantry, slow and heavy. Cavalry with small hitboxes completely defeats the point of their army composition
This mod is my biggest hypped project since the first image and Every video gets the hype higher ! Keep up the good work and have fun working on this gigantic project o/
Since I watched LotR The Return Of The King first time, I've been dreaming of playing this kind of war-action game and your mod can make my dream comes true!!! Bannerlord is amazing game but I wanted more fantasy things too.
for flying creatures I think it would be cool to include them in the overall world map. For example look at the seaguls in rome 2 total war and the way they fly around cities and islands. So it would be cool if for example we could see bats flying above moria or fellbeasts near Barad-dûr
I love the ambition as well as your measured approach to this mod. It will be a very enjoyable experience to jump back into the world of Tolkien in this capacity. A world that left such a major impression on my youth. I wish you and your team continuing success. And, of course, thank you.
You crazy lads, I've just discovered the channel and I can't describe how excited it got me. Also total respecto to you and the team for the massive undertaking of this project.
I really appreciate that you are going to add giant spiders, skin-changers, ents, oliphaunts and even the legendary Balrog. I can't even imagine how hard it would be to model and code such complex creatures. It's a shame that you considered to not add dwarf ram cavalry, because I think it would be really good to have these in company. You guys should reconsider ading them, maybe like a really rare units. But of course, I know that it's not part of Tolkien books and you don't really like them, so I can understand if they will not be there. In any case I really like your work and the concept of the whole mod. You guys already did fantastic job and I look forward to any new features. I love that you are even doing your own soundtrack based on Howard Shore's original. Keep on doing stuff like that. Im sure this mod will become legendary once it's finished.
Thanks for the update, my friends and I are looking forward to this. If it takes too long to get the spiders or anything else to work then please feel free to skip it. I'd rather get to play this game a week or a month sooner than have some broken spider units in the game. There is so much to this world that you guys could get lost in content and never actually finish. Please be careful to not burn out by putting too much on your plate.
Very cool; thank you for taking the time to lay out an overview of the creatures. I'm curious about the planned Isengard warg redesign. Are you able to give us a general sense of it at this time? Are they being brought more in line with The Hobbit or something else entirely?
The current concept art have been remade quite a few times. I would say it looks closer to The Hobbit designs. The team felt the wargs in lotr looked kinda derpy. Personally I don't mind them
@Macbeth of Gondor I have always rather liked the LotR wargs as they were in the original trilogy, but I can certainly understand why people would not. Thank you for your prompt reply. I look forward to seeing the KoA team's interpretation.
Great video my Lord Macbeth of Gondor. Question, will there be a possibility of a Remnants of Angmar to play as, if so it will be there to add chaos to the lands of northern Eriador who will not have any enemies. Thanks, Kingdoms of Arda team!
Yes there will be quite a lot of option for Angmar, but since it's far away in the future I will avoid to be specific as it could change. Right now we got some very interesting stuff planned.
@@MacbethofGondor I am excited for every aspect of this mod, I just have a keen interest in Angmar. Thank you, Kingdoms of Arda and Macbeth. I look forward to more beautiful work of Tolkien lore.
I'm excited about all the creatures that you're planning to implement Now when you say that they are only available in story mode does that mean that there's no character or creature customization in the story campaign? Beornings sound like an exciting faction if you can fully implement the skin changing mechanic When can we expect a showcase of character customization and will you be able to play as a custom character in story mode? How many mount types will be available? Will certainly cultures or races have bonuses to mounted combat? How much of a challenge has reworking the map been for the team? What locales can expect to be able to visit? Sorry for all these questions but I'm just so excited for you to release this mod and I want to thank you for answering my questions in the past best of luck to you and if your team is working on or planning to work on future mod projects I'm sure that your other viewers would love to hear about them as well
There's sandbox campaign and then there is story mode. If you don't know what it is I recommend you to watch my video about story mode. The normal sandbox is very similar to Bannerlord with few chances in terms of options/ customization. Story Mode is something completely different - I guess LOTR Conquest is the closest comparison I can make. We are currently holding back stuff, but we have some done concept art on how you can create your character, race, culture etc. In story mode you don't create a character you rather participate in a story/ historical event, where you pick a fitting character - Like being Frodo and walking through Moria with the fellowship, but you could also be a regular Gondorian soldier defending the gate at Minas Tirith. There's still options for what type of unit you pick and such though. Plenty of mounts planned, not gonna go further into that. Time will tell. Not sure what you mean by reowrking the map, we make middle-earth from scratch, which is a huge challenge. We got a very skilled guy working on it though. First release will inlcude Gondor, Rohan, Mordor, Isengard, Harad and Dunland and you can expect several settlements and battle terrains in each region. There will also be some bandit-like factions here and there. You can find much more info in the FAQ on our moddb page and on our Discord (link in the description). thank you :)
I don't really see how big siege maps like Helm's Deep, Isengard, Towers of the Teeth or Minas Tirith could work at all. I know it's probably possible to make them look amazing and visually appealing, but making the whole map open to walk around would be a bit weird. Imagine Minas Tirith and you can walk around the inner city, but there's a siege going on outside of the walls where 150 Orcs crowd together trying to climb the wall at one tiny point, or 200 orcs coming out of the huge Black Gate. That would be a bit stupid. :D It would be incredibly amazing with smaller settlements, though! How will you approach these sieges? Will there be premade sections where you can fight, like in Lord of the Rings online, where you have "fight at the wall", "fight in the inner ring", "fight in the castle" etc. sessions where you have smaller scenes with visual effects? So you get the illusion that there's a giant battle going on somewhere in the background? LOTR: Conquest was a pretty stupid game but it captured the visuals very well, made tiny spaces and a lot of characters running around in the backgrounds. I remember the Helm's Deep fight there being pretty epic because you could see all the Uruks at the foot of the walls
I hope the big strong creatures like trolls and Mumakil will be hard for the AI to get a lot of. It would suck to amass a great strong force/nation just to get steamrolled by a stack of 100 trolls.. I know the mod team knows what they are doing but its still something to think about.
Obviously I love the ambition behind the project, I just hope there are also some realists in the team. Great vid and there can be value in hype, but I find talking about 3 different kinds of trolls a bit excessive at this point. Would love to see some architecture assets or campaign map stuff whenever possible though :)
An early draft of the campaign map is shown in one of the videos, can't remember which one exactly. Also you can see rohirrim architecture in the Rohan video. We are currently holding back stuff from the public
I think its all good, except i love the idea of being able to ride a hog into battle as a dwarf, or even a goat. I think its silly to remove an aspect of the game because you dont like the films, especially as i feel it would add a lot to the game and an interesting twist and incentive to go dwarven, making it more interesting other than just generic ponies or horses as that can get a bit boring after a while.
There is no need of having elks or pigs in there. But I really like the idea of having goats, as a primary mount for dwarfs. I also think it would give us much more variety into battles. Of course it's fully up to KoA team to consider, if they will ad them. I admit that they are not mentioned in Tolkien's books. I think they should be used like really rare units in the mod. It would be great to have small dwarf goat cavalry in the company.
Personally i found these mounts very childhish and high fantasy like when i saw the hobbit. It just doesn't felt it belongs to lotr universe in my opinion. Would fit better in warhammer d&d or other very high not so serious fantasy worlds
Hi! The Last Days mod for the original Mount and Blade featured the giant spiders in Mirkwood. TLD has been declared open source, and perhaps their models and animations can be helpful to you. Just a tip!
Suggestion regarding Fellbeast: Maybe make it a siege engine or mechanic or something along those lines for the evil faction? Raising Garrison attrition or morale or something along those lines. I have no idea if coding would allow such a thing for specific factions. Same for Eagles but for good side.
well fellbeats are overrated in the films, in the books they appear super weak. Also there are rather few of them and only as mounts for the ringwraiths. At the same time they appeared rather poorly in The Last Days and we want to avoid something similar.
It would be cool to hear the fellbeast in the background of battles with the ring wrights. Or during battles near where they are from since they can’t work in the mod:) just a thought
Great video! I'd like to know even more how the recruitment mechanics are going to work now, to try and understand the process of getting these important units. The other question I have is what will be in the first release as planned? You mentioned isenguard in this video, so I assume that it sil be Mordor, Isenguard, Rohan and Gondor? Connected to that, do you have any kind term plans of where you will expand to on the map and when? Thanks!
You can see a lot of our plans on Moddb and by reading the FAQ. If you go through the old articles there will also be a list of factions and maps with settlements (though it has been updated since). You can also join our Discord and ask - would take quite some time to answer here
Trolls range from 10-50 ft tall. Seeing the Balrog, gave me a Warsword Dungeon mod vibes back in Warband. Gollum shouldn't really be a combat character in my opinion, but it's up to you guys. If that GOT mod pulls off the flying animation for dragons really well, that might change your team's perception
10:15 Actually lore wise the giants were much much smaller, the people who made the movies just wanted to get some extra 3d stuff so they made them enormous
evil side seems rather OP, they got balrogs, Oliphant, trolls and so on while the good side has a bear, it's a good bear but it's still just a bear. hope you give the good side some other extras to even the sides a bit more.
the evil side is meant to have such creatures. And the good side has Ents btw. and It's not 'a bear' and if you think Beorn it's even more wrong as he is dead at this point :P His son Grimbeorn is meant to transform into a bear though and also a few other Beorning Lords. The good side has some pretty OP lords as well and if the ring is destroyed Mordor will be destroyed
Could you all release some smaller mods first? Like faction packs or something? Keeps the interest of people and introduces new peoples to your future mega mod. Also I really wanna see the Uruk-hai armor, also the other type of helmet they have, the flat helmet that the bomb carrier has in the movie. Also how the Uruk-hai are the only race to use crossbows
@@MacbethofGondor damn sad days, just saying I really love Lord of the Rings and Tolkien's work. I think yall are doing God's work right now and will be happy to endorse you, just don't want the project to fall flat
You won't - As I mention in the video there will only be 1 (Durin's bane), but in custom battle you can probably add it several times. Also no magic for players and not to mention, what you just suggested goes against the lore hahahaha
The reason we are not including them is because they would make the dwarves be imbalanced as hell. Dwarves already field the mightiest infantry, slow and heavy. Cavalry with small hitboxes completely defeats the point of their army composition
You are a Legend! The developer of this mod take from best of lotr Word (Peter Jackson film , the original books ,the lotr videogame like Battle of middle earth , lotr mod for Total war and other) Only One thing,plese not take nothing from new Amazon series Is not lore friendly than your Project 👍
Are the custom skeletons and animation available in mod tools now? Aren't you effraid of the actual very slow progress of bannerlord we never see you talk about the subject, or what you think about the game atm. Thanks
There are a lot of issues with mod tool right now and some hard-coded stuff, but I have hope that TW will improve it in time, as it's in their interest to have good and popular mods like this for their game.
i really love this project! You guys should work together with the modders of Battle for middle earth. They have great models! Iam not sure however it those models could fit in your mods but it would be awsome and safe you guys work on some great models. They have such realistic fur etc in their project. Its called Battle for middle Earth Reforge
I wonder in 2001-2003 if you said anything about the ending to the story would you get harassed by your friends even if the books been out for 50 years?
Evil: Five thousand years old Balrog, Good: Ponies
Seems like a fair fight XD
Bill could take any creature. Anytime.
You underestimate the ponies, the Hobbit stew slingshot will set you straight.
Ents are the strongest tbh
@@PP-pz5tk are you saying ents are stronger than balrogs?
I hope you won't abandon this project, looks very promising.
This mod is more exciting to me than any video game release
I ABSOLUTELY can not stop saying this, you guys are fucking absolute legends, and i love you all for all your effort, i am so happy you take all the time you need for completing your vision
you're ruining your own commendation and sentance by putting in an unecessary and contradicting swear word
Cool cool
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j 😂😂😂 wtf how old are you? 11?
@@user-wq9mw2xz3j get your test levels checked weirdo
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I can’t even articulate how excited I got when you said “Remnants of Angmar”. Angmar is my favorite evil faction and I’m so pumped to see what you guys do with them!
There's some really cool stuff planned for it right now, but sadly it's far into the future ;)
The idea of actually ruling that old citadel of ice and steel is orgasmic
Now that I have conquered all of Calradia, I am looking forward to saving Arda.
Saving Arda, yes... saving... BY CONQUEST!!!
@@CardSharkOfficial the Celembribor tactic, i see!
@@nickpapadopoulos9978don't fix what isn't broken
@@pattonramming1988 I mean, that was king Celembribor's plan to stop sauron in a nutshell in Shadow of Mordor
Yes for Beornings!!
Can't wait to see LOTR themed Bannerlord with my own eyes, I'm sure I'll be playing for hundreds of hours. Should we expect to see something playable this year or is it for the next year?
I highly doubt the first release will come out in 2021. Doesn't mean it comes out in 2022 though. It will take some time
@@MacbethofGondor after im seeing this video and others, im scared sir not gonna lie, for me a release is good enough doesnt matter how long it takes, but please we are all eager
@@placerdemaio There's still plenty of work to be made
@@MacbethofGondor thats exactly my fear, please dont give up
@@MacbethofGondor take your time good sir! Your work is amazing.
really want to play this mod, damn it is incredible, waiting anxiously, hug from Brazil.
This is an absolutely ambitious and monumental project. I hope it's development goes smoothly for you and your team. Even if it takes years, I will be waiting eagerly.
Take as much time as you need. Your time and passion will surely pay off into something truly amazing.
The quality of this video alone tells me this mod is going to be great. I like how you talk about even the things that you guys are not going to put into the mod.
there are good reasons not to include certain creatures to the game, especially if they didn't play a big role... gameplay and balancing is more important and better done with the most common creatures.
Idea for Beornings (if possible): Make two seperate models for them: 1) Bear, 2) Strong and tall human.
Their battle model should be a bear and his "civil" model human (hall, tavern, tournament, etc..).
we might do something like that if we don't want them to transform on the battlefield
This mod is like a dream come true, thank you so much Mcbeth of Gondor and thank you to all the awesome people in the development team too ❤️
I support all of your decisions. Truly represents a sound, thoughtful, and objectively true plan for a mod we did not ask for, but we are definitely grateful for.
yeah im super excited for this. gaming in general has been so terrible lately for me and this is what i need in my life.
Although i agree with what you said about the team not willing to make pigs, rams or elks as mounts in the mod but i think it just belongs together really... i mean as dwarf going in to the battle on an armored pig or a ram could be very iconic. Maybe it will be an option to add them too to the mod! Cheers!
The reason we are not including them is because they would make the dwarves be imbalanced as hell.
Dwarves already field the mightiest infantry, slow and heavy.
Cavalry with small hitboxes completely defeats the point of their army composition
This mod is my biggest hypped project since the first image and Every video gets the hype higher !
Keep up the good work and have fun working on this gigantic project o/
Since I watched LotR The Return Of The King first time, I've been dreaming of playing this kind of war-action game and your mod can make my dream comes true!!!
Bannerlord is amazing game but I wanted more fantasy things too.
I dreamed about leading great armies.
Looks like we’ll need to play tactically, while also bringing good firepower. I’m very excited to try your mod! I wish you the best on your work.
You guys are absolute badasses, you’re doing loads for the banner lord community, keep it up!
Honestly the amount of effort you guys put in makes me more than content for whatever you add or don't.
for flying creatures I think it would be cool to include them in the overall world map. For example look at the seaguls in rome 2 total war and the way they fly around cities and islands. So it would be cool if for example we could see bats flying above moria or fellbeasts near Barad-dûr
I mention something like this when I talk about the Great eagles
@@MacbethofGondor I thought you were talking about usin them when in a battle in the background
@@awkward7777 Nope; "We have discussed if we could feature the great eagles, as some sort of background creature to improve the look of some scenes"
I love the ambition as well as your measured approach to this mod. It will be a very enjoyable experience to jump back into the world of Tolkien in this capacity. A world that left such a major impression on my youth. I wish you and your team continuing success. And, of course, thank you.
You crazy lads, I've just discovered the channel and I can't describe how excited it got me. Also total respecto to you and the team for the massive undertaking of this project.
glad you found it welcome on board ;)
Man this is amazing, don't stop please!!!
Don't stop believin'
Hold on to that feelin'
I really appreciate that you are going to add giant spiders, skin-changers, ents, oliphaunts and even the legendary Balrog. I can't even imagine how hard it would be to model and code such complex creatures. It's a shame that you considered to not add dwarf ram cavalry, because I think it would be really good to have these in company. You guys should reconsider ading them, maybe like a really rare units. But of course, I know that it's not part of Tolkien books and you don't really like them, so I can understand if they will not be there. In any case I really like your work and the concept of the whole mod. You guys already did fantastic job and I look forward to any new features. I love that you are even doing your own soundtrack based on Howard Shore's original. Keep on doing stuff like that. Im sure this mod will become legendary once it's finished.
Looking forward to following this
Thanks for the update, my friends and I are looking forward to this. If it takes too long to get the spiders or anything else to work then please feel free to skip it. I'd rather get to play this game a week or a month sooner than have some broken spider units in the game.
There is so much to this world that you guys could get lost in content and never actually finish. Please be careful to not burn out by putting too much on your plate.
When the story mode is more sandboxy than the sandbox
Nice video, Just to clarify, the troll men of harad concept was by a 2d artist Jack Hodgkinson, not me :)
Ahh fair enough!
I'm really looking forward to this mod
“You can fight multiple Balrogs in custom games” *pees pants in Gondolindrim High Elf
Very cool; thank you for taking the time to lay out an overview of the creatures.
I'm curious about the planned Isengard warg redesign. Are you able to give us a general sense of it at this time? Are they being brought more in line with The Hobbit or something else entirely?
The current concept art have been remade quite a few times. I would say it looks closer to The Hobbit designs. The team felt the wargs in lotr looked kinda derpy. Personally I don't mind them
@Macbeth of Gondor I have always rather liked the LotR wargs as they were in the original trilogy, but I can certainly understand why people would not. Thank you for your prompt reply.
I look forward to seeing the KoA team's interpretation.
what you do is really awesome! Stick to it, make many people happy and add a donate butten when u are done :-)
Countdown until TW are going to improve treir game into fully modable state: ∞
Really looking forward to this mod. Keep up the good work!
This is just great.
I hope TW do what the modders asked for in their open letter, anything to make it easier for modders to bring their visions to life.
So excited
I'm Hyped af
another great vid man, also congrats on getting featured on resonant! hopefully youll get the attention you deserve mate. Keep up the great work!
Oh I didn't know! Thank you though!
Looks like it's going to be interesting taking down olog hai 's. Maybe the pike are finally going to be useful!
Would be cool to have the eagles flying around on the campaign map but you couldn't interact with them.
Hell yeah
You answered my comment on Resonant's video where I said I was super excited for Kingdom of Arda, I didn't make the connexion until now xD
Hahahaha well glad you did
@@MacbethofGondor I am too haha but I don't know how I missed this as I've watched tens of your videos 🤦🏻♂️😂
11:30 - Gollum fighting in the mod would likely require some kind of grappling/stealth system to be good.
He will not fight in the mod
Hypeeee
Great video my Lord Macbeth of Gondor. Question, will there be a possibility of a Remnants of Angmar to play as, if so it will be there to add chaos to the lands of northern Eriador who will not have any enemies.
Thanks, Kingdoms of Arda team!
Yes there will be quite a lot of option for Angmar, but since it's far away in the future I will avoid to be specific as it could change. Right now we got some very interesting stuff planned.
@@MacbethofGondor I am excited for every aspect of this mod, I just have a keen interest in Angmar. Thank you, Kingdoms of Arda and Macbeth. I look forward to more beautiful work of Tolkien lore.
I'm excited about all the creatures that you're planning to implement
Now when you say that they are only available in story mode does that mean that there's no character or creature customization in the story campaign?
Beornings sound like an exciting faction if you can fully implement the skin changing mechanic
When can we expect a showcase of character customization and will you be able to play as a custom character in story mode?
How many mount types will be available? Will certainly cultures or races have bonuses to mounted combat?
How much of a challenge has reworking the map been for the team? What locales can expect to be able to visit?
Sorry for all these questions but I'm just so excited for you to release this mod and I want to thank you for answering my questions in the past best of luck to you and if your team is working on or planning to work on future mod projects I'm sure that your other viewers would love to hear about them as well
There's sandbox campaign and then there is story mode. If you don't know what it is I recommend you to watch my video about story mode. The normal sandbox is very similar to Bannerlord with few chances in terms of options/ customization. Story Mode is something completely different - I guess LOTR Conquest is the closest comparison I can make.
We are currently holding back stuff, but we have some done concept art on how you can create your character, race, culture etc. In story mode you don't create a character you rather participate in a story/ historical event, where you pick a fitting character - Like being Frodo and walking through Moria with the fellowship, but you could also be a regular Gondorian soldier defending the gate at Minas Tirith. There's still options for what type of unit you pick and such though.
Plenty of mounts planned, not gonna go further into that. Time will tell.
Not sure what you mean by reowrking the map, we make middle-earth from scratch, which is a huge challenge. We got a very skilled guy working on it though. First release will inlcude Gondor, Rohan, Mordor, Isengard, Harad and Dunland and you can expect several settlements and battle terrains in each region. There will also be some bandit-like factions here and there. You can find much more info in the FAQ on our moddb page and on our Discord (link in the description).
thank you :)
Welp that sucks. I preferred the Wargs from the LOTR films instead of the hobbits...
Same
can't wait for this mod!
Guys this is a dream mod. It would be better than vanilla game
I don't really see how big siege maps like Helm's Deep, Isengard, Towers of the Teeth or Minas Tirith could work at all. I know it's probably possible to make them look amazing and visually appealing, but making the whole map open to walk around would be a bit weird. Imagine Minas Tirith and you can walk around the inner city, but there's a siege going on outside of the walls where 150 Orcs crowd together trying to climb the wall at one tiny point, or 200 orcs coming out of the huge Black Gate. That would be a bit stupid. :D It would be incredibly amazing with smaller settlements, though! How will you approach these sieges? Will there be premade sections where you can fight, like in Lord of the Rings online, where you have "fight at the wall", "fight in the inner ring", "fight in the castle" etc. sessions where you have smaller scenes with visual effects? So you get the illusion that there's a giant battle going on somewhere in the background?
LOTR: Conquest was a pretty stupid game but it captured the visuals very well, made tiny spaces and a lot of characters running around in the backgrounds. I remember the Helm's Deep fight there being pretty epic because you could see all the Uruks at the foot of the walls
Will there be limitations for how many creatures can be in a army/party?
I don't think we have discussed that yet
Can’t wait to see what you guys do when the mod tools are out of beta
Fantastic
This is so epic
Ever since I heard about this mod I stopped playing bannerlord because I didn't want to burn myself out before this mod came.
I hope the big strong creatures like trolls and Mumakil will be hard for the AI to get a lot of. It would suck to amass a great strong force/nation just to get steamrolled by a stack of 100 trolls.. I know the mod team knows what they are doing but its still something to think about.
Don't worry that will not happen
Obviously I love the ambition behind the project, I just hope there are also some realists in the team. Great vid and there can be value in hype, but I find talking about 3 different kinds of trolls a bit excessive at this point. Would love to see some architecture assets or campaign map stuff whenever possible though :)
An early draft of the campaign map is shown in one of the videos, can't remember which one exactly. Also you can see rohirrim architecture in the Rohan video. We are currently holding back stuff from the public
Epic!
I think its all good, except i love the idea of being able to ride a hog into battle as a dwarf, or even a goat. I think its silly to remove an aspect of the game because you dont like the films, especially as i feel it would add a lot to the game and an interesting twist and incentive to go dwarven, making it more interesting other than just generic ponies or horses as that can get a bit boring after a while.
There is no need of having elks or pigs in there. But I really like the idea of having goats, as a primary mount for dwarfs. I also think it would give us much more variety into battles.
Of course it's fully up to KoA team to consider, if they will ad them. I admit that they are not mentioned in Tolkien's books. I think they should be used like really rare units in the mod. It would be great to have small dwarf goat cavalry in the company.
Dwarves don't have cavalry. In the lore it's even stated they don't really like animals
Personally i found these mounts very childhish and high fantasy like when i saw the hobbit. It just doesn't felt it belongs to lotr universe in my opinion.
Would fit better in warhammer d&d or other very high not so serious fantasy worlds
Great video :)
11:47 I didn't realise this was a Dragon Age crossover mod!
Hi! The Last Days mod for the original Mount and Blade featured the giant spiders in Mirkwood. TLD has been declared open source, and perhaps their models and animations can be helpful to you. Just a tip!
Sadly they don't like up to the quality we aim for :)
Suggestion regarding Fellbeast: Maybe make it a siege engine or mechanic or something along those lines for the evil faction? Raising Garrison attrition or morale or something along those lines. I have no idea if coding would allow such a thing for specific factions. Same for Eagles but for good side.
well fellbeats are overrated in the films, in the books they appear super weak. Also there are rather few of them and only as mounts for the ringwraiths.
At the same time they appeared rather poorly in The Last Days and we want to avoid something similar.
It would be cool to hear the fellbeast in the background of battles with the ring wrights. Or during battles near where they are from since they can’t work in the mod:) just a thought
Yes!!
Great video! I'd like to know even more how the recruitment mechanics are going to work now, to try and understand the process of getting these important units.
The other question I have is what will be in the first release as planned? You mentioned isenguard in this video, so I assume that it sil be Mordor, Isenguard, Rohan and Gondor? Connected to that, do you have any kind term plans of where you will expand to on the map and when? Thanks!
You can see a lot of our plans on Moddb and by reading the FAQ. If you go through the old articles there will also be a list of factions and maps with settlements (though it has been updated since). You can also join our Discord and ask - would take quite some time to answer here
Trolls range from 10-50 ft tall. Seeing the Balrog, gave me a Warsword Dungeon mod vibes back in Warband. Gollum shouldn't really be a combat character in my opinion, but it's up to you guys. If that GOT mod pulls off the flying animation for dragons really well, that might change your team's perception
I doubt they will :P
Lessssss ggooooooooo
good video
10:15 Actually lore wise the giants were much much smaller, the people who made the movies just wanted to get some extra 3d stuff so they made them enormous
Not really sure where you get that from? You have a source?
Ay Oliphaunts are coming
evil side seems rather OP, they got balrogs, Oliphant, trolls and so on while the good side has a bear, it's a good bear but it's still just a bear. hope you give the good side some other extras to even the sides a bit more.
the evil side is meant to have such creatures. And the good side has Ents btw. and It's not 'a bear' and if you think Beorn it's even more wrong as he is dead at this point :P
His son Grimbeorn is meant to transform into a bear though and also a few other Beorning Lords.
The good side has some pretty OP lords as well and if the ring is destroyed Mordor will be destroyed
I have a hard time watching these sometimes. Makes me wana skip a year so i van play it alreay haha
hahaha understandable. If you join our discord you can try and become an alpha tester when we begin to recruit those again :)
@@MacbethofGondor ow sweet. Im in for that! Ill join discord thanks for all the good work!
Really nice video! Is there any information about when the mod will be released?
Thank you! No sadly not, but I doubt it will be in 2021
Could you all release some smaller mods first? Like faction packs or something? Keeps the interest of people and introduces new peoples to your future mega mod. Also I really wanna see the Uruk-hai armor, also the other type of helmet they have, the flat helmet that the bomb carrier has in the movie. Also how the Uruk-hai are the only race to use crossbows
There will be a faction review video of Isengard, when more assets are done. We won't release some small mod for the public.
@@MacbethofGondor damn sad days, just saying I really love Lord of the Rings and Tolkien's work. I think yall are doing God's work right now and will be happy to endorse you, just don't want the project to fall flat
@@cameronhofstetter4936 It won't be started in 2015 and got a lot done already
I hope I can have Balrog as a summon. Imagine summoning Balrog on battlefield. I will feel so powerful.
You won't - As I mention in the video there will only be 1 (Durin's bane), but in custom battle you can probably add it several times. Also no magic for players and not to mention, what you just suggested goes against the lore hahahaha
I don't like the Hobbit that much either, but it's kinda sad that we don't get to have rams :(, but you guys are doing a damn good job! Can't wait :D
The reason we are not including them is because they would make the dwarves be imbalanced as hell.
Dwarves already field the mightiest infantry, slow and heavy.
Cavalry with small hitboxes completely defeats the point of their army composition
@@felix9711 its like the nords of warband they were strong but boring to play they don't even have a scout line
it would be very cool to play as a dwarf riding a ram
Could we have a display on how the units work?
if you cant at the moment could you in the future?
There will be a video when it’s ready, no worries
Guys, you can make situation when we can call nasgul or eagles. When enemy in your gates no matter balance because all your land is captured
no flying creatures
You are a Legend!
The developer of this mod take from best of lotr Word (Peter Jackson film , the original books ,the lotr videogame like Battle of middle earth , lotr mod for Total war and other)
Only One thing,plese not take nothing from new Amazon series Is not lore friendly than your Project 👍
But unfortunate about the elk not being rideable but I can’t wait for the mod
I'm sure someone will make a sub-mod eventually. There's a bunch of people saying the same about the goat/ ram cavalry as well.
Holy sh*t
i cant wait for it anymore... so painfull
Are the custom skeletons and animation available in mod tools now?
Aren't you effraid of the actual very slow progress of bannerlord we never see you talk about the subject, or what you think about the game atm.
Thanks
There are a lot of issues with mod tool right now and some hard-coded stuff, but I have hope that TW will improve it in time, as it's in their interest to have good and popular mods like this for their game.
Maybe the hill/stone trolls can be added later in some form of hideout mission with rewards after clearing the cave?
already planned :)
i really love this project! You guys should work together with the modders of Battle for middle earth. They have great models!
Iam not sure however it those models could fit in your mods but it would be awsome and safe you guys work on some great models.
They have such realistic fur etc in their project.
Its called Battle for middle Earth Reforge
We know it, but I'm pretty sure their models are of lower quality than what we aim for
Hey mate, great job with this mod. It is so realistic. When it will be ready to play ?
Not in 2021. There is no official release date
If only talesworlds expands the vanilla's campaign map (probably to the east) and add some proper working elephants that'll be great x)
N canon, Olag hai were shorter than portrayed in movie and had no armor. And could withstand sunlight.
Cave trolls were MASSIVE.
I'd pay for this. Even it was 50 bucks.
I'm LOTR super geek.
as long as my elves one shot everything its ok
This plus the coop mod.
Do we have a release date ? I'm so excited for this
I wonder in 2001-2003 if you said anything about the ending to the story would you get harassed by your friends even if the books been out for 50 years?
I know you probably wont do this but maybe riderless wargs or something like that
That is the plan, we just need to figure out if it's possible