>>2319803
Sell me on it.

>>2319803
Are there still rebel factions?

>>2319857
Read the features page, it has features you wouldn't even think were possible, very complex AI behaivor, immersive sounds on map, trade resource raiding, multiple bodyguards etc.
>>2319869
Yes, they also function more like real factions too.

Any recommendations for factions to start with?

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>It's a star wars mod
>It's a LOTR mod
>It's a GoT mod
>It's a warhammer mod

>>2319803
>we proudly present our most advanced mod on this 20 year old garbage engine wahoooo

>>2319803
I played as Reunited Kingdom in V2 and it sucked
>Mordor constantly shits out armies
>all I got from uniting with Gondor was debt (because the AI can't handle cheat armies) and more enemies to worry about
>the RK script isn't actually able to change names everywhere so my armies are still called "Arnorian"
>Bree is still independent

then there is the usual issues with DaC like way to many settlements (Angmar has as much as Gondor) and factions, like why do Dol Amroth and Bree exist again?

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>>2319803
This looks very interesting to me because those fucks at the original DaC can't be bothered to release V6.
Is it good?

>>2319803
Is this good for multiplayer?

>>2320278
Umm actually It uses the Engine Overhaul (M2TWEOP) to expand the capabilities of the game.

>>2320176
Gondor, Isengard.
>>2320211
Agreed, I keep playing ot because it's well done, I actually hate Toolkien.
>>2320383
Thr script issue is probably fixed now.
You can merge dol amroth with gondor now.

>>2320453
>Agreed, I keep playing ot because it's well done, I actually hate Toolkien.
if it's running the same overhaul, why not just play Med2?

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>>2319885
>check features page
>first box is text wall crying about AI

>>2320453
>I actually hate Toolkien.
nigger

>>2320455
It's not, a modder has to actually implement it as a mod. SSHIP update with this will probably release soon. Although I don't particularly like medieval setting either, I prefer fantasy, medieval is based on real world and breaks real word canon, therefore my immersion. It's just that I'm not a fan of Lotr setting.

>>2320506
>first box is a text wall crying about AI
>to justify their use of AI
These faggots would be better received if they just accepted their own compliance.

>>2320397
Funny you say that cause the modders of this mod are the exact same as the DaC dev team since all the old guard left
V6 is delayed as fuck because they were working on this shit instead

>>2320609
>the modders of this mod are the exact same as the DaC dev team since all the old guard left
I don't understand.
Do you mean the devs of AGO are some of the devs that left the original DaC team or that the devs of AGO are the same devs the original DaC has now?

>>2320810
Same devs

>>2320819
Why would the same mods be part of two different mod teams whose mod are seemingly competing with eachother in a hyper-niche space?

>>2319803
Used to play it quite a bit years ago.
What I would like is LotR mod that's all early medieval looking, no plate armor.

>>2320978
Don't worry, the most annoying modderfags imaginable are trying to do just that.

>>2321271
Which ones?

>>2321280
I think SSHIP does that.
It's also extremely retarded to hilarious extents.

>>2321280
Combo of these tards and the GAW devs

>>2320978
That’s completely contrary to lore, just play a different setting

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>>2320211
Yeah, it's always total normalfag shit from these kinds of mod makers. They are just creating mods to pad their CVs in most cases.

>>2323415
What should they create? DAC was the most popular mod and they expanded on it, focused mostly on technical aspect of extending the engine.

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>>2323519
Errrrm aktchually base Third Age has the most downloads of any Medieval 2 mod with 7.4 million total downloads.
Divide and Conquer only has 1.5 million.
This means that Third Age Total War is the most popular mod, not Divide and Conquer.

Looks interesting?

Was the Anduin update for DaC in v4 or v5, I remember being interested in that.

Otherwise prob play Dale.

>>2324269
Dorwinion got the biggest update in this one probably.

>>2324312
I've already played Dorwinion, and besides them only really High Elves and Dunedain

>>2324398
Then Dunland

>>2324421
They do look interesting, but I think I'll do Dale first. Trash-spam factions have never been my forte

>>2319803
I'm just impressed that they created their own engine to fix med2 jank

>>2324269
>Was the Anduin update for DaC in v4 or v5, I remember being interested in that.
V5 I think

>>2324437
They didn't create an engine, they inject shit in engine while it's running.

>>2324437
It's not their own engine, it's a separate piece of software that interacts with the game.
Still impressive.

>>2319803
is there any other mod that uses the engine overhaul?

Some use older versions, but AGO uses the most up-to-date version (V4) because the creator of EOP is on their dev team
Now that the new version of AGO is out, other mods will be allowed to use the latest version of EOP as well.

>>2323406
wtf, no it's not, retard. The movies went against the "lore" by having so much plate armor. They're not canon, they're fanfic. Of course most mods (and future "official" LOTR products) will conform to the Peter Jackson visuals, but that anon's point, they want the canon aesthetic.

>>2323406
There's not one mention of plate in the Hobbit, the Silmarillion, or Lord of the Rings.

>>2327031
There is a mention of vambraces.
There is a mention of lamellar I think, some kind of overlapping plates.

>>2319803
Where to go for old mod versions of mods? i am not interested in the bleeding edge for my old potatoe.

>>2327060
It's Med 2, if you can't run that then idk what to tell you

>>2327064
i can run it but my vid card had to be swapped to a shittier one so a surprisingly high number of games are now arbitrarily just not playable anymore.

>>2327060
Moddb. But this has some performance improvements and may run better. Just switch to rederer 1 in settings and turn off antialiasing.

>>2320978
Fourth Age: Total War does this, but it's not a traditional LOTR mod

Good Lord, what the hell is wrong with hobbit archers?

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>>2319803
> The HUD is still stretch + low res

Yeeah no thanks

>>2326544
correct

>>2319803
did they fix the pikes from stock medieval2?

>>2328452
Pikes are OP as fuck in Divide and Conquer, idk how they changed them for AGO

>>2319803
Why the fuck does so many mods feel the need to remove the big flags from the units? I can barely see shit. Is there any way to add them back?

>>2328535
Press ctrl+q(or is it shift+q) if you can't see.

>>2327948
They ate too little during second breakfast

>>2319803
Just had a battle at the start of a Dol Amroth campaign where my garrison was called into battle by an unit of Gondorian pikes against a mostly ranged enemy.
An uphill battle but completely winnable given I had an unit of mounted squire... except that for some fucking reason my army was under both MY control and the AI?
So I had a couple of minutes where I wrestled against the AI to make my units run from the edge of the map in time to catch the enemy while they were battering the pikes, except that the toaster in charge wanted to make them walk leisurely to the fight...?
Is this the AI trying to be sporting? A freak accident?
I couldn't win against the AI countermanding my orders within a fraction of a second so I gave up the game.

But aside from this hiccup it's pretty good and hasn't crashed on me once. Yet.

>>2319803
>based off DaC v4 and not v5
why

>>2332156
Because V5 is le bad
Don't think about it too hard

>>2319803
does it crash every turn like every single other ME2 mod?

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>>2319803
Fuck LotR, give me a proper overhaul mod that is not centered around a region/period or is a Shitless Shit submod

>>2332196
Sounds like a you problem bud, I barely get any crashes with any med 2 mod

>>2332196
It's the most stable mod in my experience.

>>2319803
Oh gee, Lord of the Rings in Med 2, what an original concept

>>2332164
what is that supposed to mean

>>2332245
Because AGO was first released when DaC V4 was a thing, and has always been based on V4. It won't update to V5 since now it is a standalone project. It does include some of the same content though since AGO and DaC share a bunch of the same devs.

But if you ask the AGO devs they will say AGO is better because its harder and DaC is for babies.

>>2332256
>AGO is better because its harder
I did thought it might be too hard when I started as the goblins and Balin's expedition had a doomstack of decent units while my army was like 70% snaga slaves.
...Only that the bridge of Khazad-Dum wasn't passable so the enemy units had to circle around from the other side, clip through the mountain... and die of exhaustion and javelins as they beelined for the town center.

>>2332290
Other people are having this happen too. Idk when they're going to fix it, whenever someone brings it up it never gets commented on.

>>2332290
>>2332298
Update on this: Will supposedly be fixed next version

>>2332470
Guess Rohan will not ride into a red dawn when the beacons of Gondor are lit then.