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First off, it is a pleasure to write, as the Dawn of Darkness Mod Team, how much we appreciate your encouragement and love as well as supportive feedback to our mod in the making! All of those who have and those who silently follow us, thank you!
Our journey moving forward hath now started with the sandbox build, as several of you already know. Now that we have received an ENORMOUS number of pieces and results of other artists talents, we are making fine timing with the integrating aspect. However, this is NOT to say we are in a hurry, as there is no deadline set for this mod to be finished nor for even its first release out to the public, the Public Beta.
We are still in our larvae/pre-alpha stages so to speak so much has yet to be complete. To name a few, we still need to incorporate some UI, AI, Tech Tree build, as well as animations for some new units in the future. Nonetheless, we are still making great progress, all thanks to the wonderful artists who made the pieces of work we share for your eyes to see.
So far, we are picking up some momentum as we are working on Thunder Warriors, Solar Auxilia, and still in stages for the Legiones Astartes. But we also got the Talons of the Emperor started as well and right now, it's mainly testing (which we could use some additional Beta testers) to see what the game will allow for without choking the engine, so new units are still being added and will for much of the time to come since we still need AI worked.
Now here's where I need to address something. We have in the past received some negative and invalid opinions on what we are doing in THAT regard. Let me just say that there is NO WAY any full overhaul and added race mod is going to be successful in a timely manner without the approach our team is taking, which is to network with other artists for their 3D content. If you are told otherwise that person is lying through their teeth. To meet the standards of huge and ambitious mods like this one or 40k mods like Ultimate Apocalypse, Unification mod, etc., it is going to require a gigantic joint effort, even from non-team affiliates. The bigger the mod, the more community involvement is needed to pull off what is desired in practical timing. It's unrealistic not to take this approach, I don't care who you are or how good of a modder you may be.
I say this because I have upon browsing this website, seen a comment on one of the trending and popular mods that a dev mentioned something about it being a "shame" for other modders to take content from other mods or locations without the drive to make something new. I have a message for that dev who said this, and you know who you are. The mod in which you are making contradicts that statement 100% since all your mod happens to be is a MASSIVE cargo ship of a byproduct of said content from other created commons, by which you did not authentically create yourself.
Much of the community unfortunately keeps their mouth shut because of their fear or apprehension towards the other DoW mod devs but I for one am not afraid nor worried about said individuals, for they hold no authority to make new rules up as they go, and I will not be silent when it comes to pointing out the obvious truth. This is a COMMUNITY, not a segregated district. With that said, we as DoD hold to integrity AT ALL TIMES. We are very quick to credit the artists for their brilliance and if possible, personally thank them for their generosity, WITHOUT asking for anything in return for monetary gain.
I know and understand that was a lot to say, however, it was something that needed to be addressed due to how many times I have had people from the old dev team I was a part of talk massive amounts of shit about me along with what our team is accomplishing. It still remains unclear why they find it necessary to paint us out to be these bad guys. It won't go unabated, and rest assure we will continue to do our thing THE RIGHT WAY.
Time may yield the opportunity for people to have a change of heart. Who's to say that we won't have more and more interested enthusiasts to join in our efforts? Regardless of who all hops aboard in our efforts, we are several strong and will deliver to the community!
In the meantime, that's what we have for the year 2024 so far! Over the summer, now that most of us are out for the break, there should be a pickup of pace so stay tuned for more action! I'll see you all around and please, if you are new here, please feel free to follow our discord link to the Community server where this mod will be discussed about in deeper detail, as well as much more 30k/40k related topics, discussions, and fan comradery. Discord.gg
Thank you all for stopping by!
-Kim
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Do you have a discord server, it would be easy to follow the developments there
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How will the first version of this mod look? Two legions or two factions maybe? Something else? What about 30k mod which is similar to this mod, maybe a colab?
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Hello.
I plan on releasing the Unification Wars part, first. This will be when the Imperium was at its earliest stages, thus I will name that faction simply the 'Imperium of Man'. The Emperor of Mankind will be their ultimate hero unit at Tier 4, requiring a relic and a critical location. You'll understand why. Techno-barbarians will be a new faction I will create. Rogue Traders will be another new faction but in the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy eras.
The scout unit for the Imperium of Man will be called Genos, the first units which set the stage for the Imperial Army. For the Imperium of Man faction, I will also subdivide branches. For instance, at your barracks, you will be able to choose between Legiones Cataegis (Thunder Warriors) {early-mid Uni} or Legiones Astartes (Space Marine Legions) {late-end Uni}. Both will have melee and ranged units available.
Keep in mind, I'm going to have to figure out a way to balance such a strong faction. If you go with Thunder Warriors, (Legio Cataegis) they are extremely powerful combatants, more than a match for almost anything. They fight like gladiators, way more effective than the Space Marine Legions. Think of it as if a Space Marine is a like a lion, a Thunder Warrior is like a tiger. But the tradeoff might have to be lower hitpoints and numbers due to their shorter lifespan, thinner armor and more primitive engineering.
The Legio Custodes Squad will be the Tier 3 Elite Heavy Infantry option regardless of the branch (practically like terminators). They too will have melee and ranged warriors.
Since there are no traitor marines yet for the Unification Wars era, Chaos as a faction will be substituted with Chaos Daemons, courtesy of gaining permission and giving respect to the Daemons mod team. Given the timelines, Orks, Eldar, Necrons, and Dark Eldar factions will remain but the Space Marines, Imperial Guard, Sisters of Battle, and Tau factions will not in the final release.
I'm not too sure who will be willing to collab with me. The mod devs I used to be with kicked me out but looking at them now, I get plenty of sleep and eat well each day since I've monitored and watched their conversations recently. They rubbed me the wrong way with how some of them talk to people, even to each other, not to mention many of them have arrogant attitudes, are hypocritical as ****, and are not very respectful. So it really was a blessing in disguise leaving them, I felt stupid for looking up to them for so long because I did feel they were my drive but not anymore. They aren't as clean as they'd have one think. The wool is no longer over my eyes with them from those who still kisses their rear ends. I've yet to see them credit the work of other authors and those creative commons, so their credibility is lacking big time in that aspect for sure. Their efforts of putting content in the game is alright, but much of their character sucks. Nonetheless, I've asked a couple of individuals who I think will be fit. But chances are, I will borrow assets for a few things and credit the authors of their work.
Meanwhile, I'm locked in with 3D modelling and finding out how to port my units in the mod.
By the way, I hope that for each race you make interesting buildings, rather than be using the original, about the Emperor, I would suggest in the condition 2 relic points, for Custodes can make a separate building in their style, gold gold and also prescribe there Emperor.
I have a video review on HHMM at the very end I show the buildings, maybe their design will interest you, they are made on a very old terraits on epic, I could not find his pictures so attached modern
these are good horus heresy models, but sailors helmet modeling is a bit problematic but still excellent, wish we could see more 30k content
I see! This is interesting and the buildings do look like a great foundation for this mod but I need to figure a way how to include the design and the authors name so they can be in the credits should this be done. I cannot include other people's work without listing their name. Thank you for sharing btw! =)
By "2 relic points" you mean as in 2 captured relics? That would make the balancing interesting. It could be a reasonable solution to making the Emperor uber-powerful as I imagine him to be.
Is this finally the emperor model that was supposed to be in the Adeptus Custodes mod? As far as I remember, earlier instead of the emperor there was Roboute Guilliman without textures))))
Hi Clyde.
The Adeptus Custodes mod is no longer under my supervision, nor in my ambition as a standalone for 40K mods, instead this mod will include them (the Custodes) and many other characters from the 30K era. I do plan to create every Primarch to my interpretation which will be as close to lore depictions as possible. It will take some time but this is a based mod. I will ensure the community gets what they expect and hope for. =)
So you'll be making all kinds of terminator armor like Cataphract, Tartaros, Aquilon, Allarus, and Saturnine-Pattern? That would be great, I hope your models and their textures won't stand out from the general style of the game or at least the FOK/POK time models.
Too bad you no longer own the assets of Adeptus Custodes mod, not so long ago I was testing it and if everything there was done only by you, it was a good job
You can tell me that the armor model Cataphract already exists and is in several modifications, but I do not consider it as such, this is the most bizarre attempt that I have seen, replace only the shoulders and call it a new armor, I hope that you do everything in the best form)
Yes, I will indeed include those Terminator patterns in this conglomerate modification. I simply plan on doing the models myself if I were to be denied permission. I'll only be limited by such things but since I am now more familiar with 3D modelling, I will have confidence in getting this off the ground. Someway somehow, it will be accomplished.
Don't sweat the Custodes mod. Those assets were not mine at all, rather they were from different authors of old. I'm unsure of but a few who contributed to that. Either way, I'm no longer worried about the mod for present 40K. But I am going to base mine from 30K art and depictions from the lore and the web as proper. They will be designated as the Legio Custodes since this is 30K.
I do agree with that. I personally do not like that Cataphract attempt. i understand it is all about conserving time but we players and modders especially are not stupid. We can tell what was borrowed and used to be a place holder until someone ambitious enough comes along and has the kahownes to pull it off completely. I for one do not plan to use it in my mod, not for the time being. No offense to its author but there is room for improvement, I'm sure.
Glad to hear it, do you think maybe then you'll take up centurions, heresy techs, dreadnoughts... although I think it's already too much, but I'd really like to see it all in execution, not as screenshots)
I may consider it depending on how much room things will fit. Dawn of War is limited with how much you can fit in for one faction but I believe in the future when this mod gets into its bread and butter (hence the Great Crusade and Horus Heresy expansions), much more potential will be had. Since I do plan to include a huge amount of Legions (20 to be exact), there's an enormous chance you will see these units but idk about centurions. Are they pre heresy/heresy era?
They were during heresy, the forgotten empire - when allperson or whatever his name is got into spacemarine's head he read that he wants to become a centurion
spirit of vengeance battle for molech -
Supposedly among those ultramarins who defended the gate to warp along with the eternal maiden was a centurion
Ah okay, nice. In that case, sure why not. They look cool and worth adding! =)