Wars of the Firstborn based on The Ridder Clan Mod for Battle for Middle-earth II: Rise of the Witch King
"Elen síla lúmenn’ omentielvo"
Wars of the Firstborn is a modification based on the discontinued Ridder Clan Mod for The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II and for The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth II - The Rise of the Witch-King, which focuses on bringing to life as much of the Elven world from Tolkien’s epic as possible.
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There has been some time since we had any gameplay updates on the Mirkwood faction for a time. That is because I worked frantically to finish up as much work I could for the mod after my unplanned and prolonged break. The being said, I did reach some milestones that I'm proud to share with you.
Mirkwood 3D Art
I'm proud to announce that, all the planned 3D art has been done for the mod. This took a big chunk of the development of the mod and Mirkwood faction, from the design phase, to animations. There might be some additional changes to the mod, as all things, but for the moment, the 3D art is DONE! Also, there are surprise units that are not shown in the faction plan and you can see them in our new gameplay video!
Multiplayer
Moreover, I was also able to to sort out our multiplayer, which has been in a stale state for some time. This enabled us to test the game in a multiplayer mode! And it works pretty great. The Rc Mod was a bit problematic in the past, but at the new WOTF mod's release we will make a thorough guide in order to get it working!
Combined with what was said above, now that all pieces are pretty much in place, we started to intensively test the mod, and rebalance the Mirkwood faction, see what works, what is overpowered or problematic. Also started an intense bugfixing period (I must admit my older self left me enough bugs) in the event that I might start a closed beta for the mod in the near future.
State of the Mirkwood faction
While there are still many details and a great deal of bugs to be fixed until the Mirkwood faction can be done, I am eager to show you how the Mirkwood faction looks currently! I know there has been a while but I hope the wait was worth it. Below you can see a multiplayer game with me and our betatester, Matt, playing against some AI. While playing we also tried to explain a bit the core mechanics of the faction.
Unfortunately, due to some technical issues we've had in the past weeks, we had to cut the video a bit short. However, we plan to release these kind of videos more often so people can see what Mirkwood is about (or don't, if you want to keep some surprises for the actual release).
This is all for now but more news about Mirkwood will come in the coming weeks. You can share your thoughts in our discord channel you can find the link on the main moddb page or at the bottom of this article. Also, we share there bonus stuff in the #sneak-peek channel for the very curious ones.
Sincerely,
NewErr and the Wars of the Firstborn team
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RC Mod V1.07 - RCModUpdater1.07.exe
Patch 11 commentsThis is for people with previous versions... It should update your .BIG files with the ones from V1.07. People who have no problem installing the "RC...
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Hello, can I ask when can this mod be downloaded? I mean the latest version
Thank you in advance for your reply :)
The latest version is still in development and we can't estimate a release date. Sorry!
However, you can join our discord and check out what we are currently working on.
Ok thanks for the reply.
your mod is amazing , thank you for your hard work :)
I remember that moment then you Started working on your first project.
You was alone and seemed unbelievable that you can du such ambitious project like a ridder clan mod.
You was first who fully understood an importance of hero creator in game and not only tried to reimplement it in game, but mostly achieved that.
I saw then firstly that nothing is impossible and started dreaming about my project.
I know cost of fails and brutal work that needs any project, so was happy to hear that you took this honorable project.
In my life, I met couple of talented people here.
you are one of them and deserve the reputation and trust that you have from your fans.
I am sure that you will do your best to do a great mod.
Thanks for your hard work and my best wishes to your team
Will War of the Ring be in the mod?
We have no focus on WOTR mode for the mod.
I can't beleive it! RC MOD is BACK?!!
The first of the first immersive and visual enhancment team ever here and back again !! :) !!!! WOW!!!
Im not joking ...the another level of modeling and new ideas it came first here. .I play bmfe mods since S.E.E. mod and no other like RC team ever was before the enhancment of bfme series..
1) RC mod
2) AOTR the most realistic models ..of course EDAIN has the most ideas and new stuff more than AOTR but its models except my favorite arnor units are ..lowe level than AOTR and of course the mighty team of Ridder Clan Mod!! Well after many years (3-7_ im here back again plying bfme ( flames and shadow ) bfme 2 ( AOTR most + edain ) and here as far as i saw you made new elven units and most elven theme of the 1 age...So I really hope for Arnor to come here as well with RC theme modeling way of course!! Keep up guys. You and AOTR team in rotw and bfme1 theme made the most epic mods and immortal ones ever then comes edain for me.
PS: the most beautiful and epic noldor units in visual picture I ve ever seen before , even better than total war (rise of mordor units ) !!!! Even AOTR the most immersive after RC mod the noldorians are lower in picture of realism!!! Besides 2 perfect models I remember when I bring in my mind RC mod (Ridder Clan Mod ) these are : Noldor , Rohan , and I remember they had so realistic once units of Gondor soldiers...But Noldor and their ELven units Lindon and Lorien are ff.ng unique , especially Noldor!!!!! <3 like in movie ( tall thin hairy beautiful in face elves .. Just bring Dunedain also with your modeling style guys... Its so motivating after 7 years than run and played a battle with these my beloved old models again...its shame that I don't see anymore your unique Mordor models (orc pikemen...URUKS <3 and rohan and gondor ) ...memmories... IBut I m glad I played with my beloved Noldorians and you brought them back for me is a real LOTR present in virtual world of gaming )
THANK YOU!!
AOTR
RC MOD
and Edain my favorite Mods ever!!
Yeah I'm a supporter of the Edain mod they do good work, but I think they need some serious help for some things. But i still think they're in a better state than most rotwk mod projects that either greatly delayed or straight up abandoned.
Let us not forget, who makes these mods, and why.
Glad to see you back. Enjoy.