Greetings, Companions of the Edain!
Today we released
patch 4.8.2 for the Edain Mod.
You can now easily download this patch via the update function of the Edain Launcher.
If you have not yet installed an Edain version, you must first download the basic version as a complete package by clicking on the banner. Then, you must use the update function of the Edain launcher after downloading to patch the Edain mod to the latest version. Click on Update until no more versions are available - this may take some time.
The 4.8.2 update will also be available through the All-in-One launcher shortly.If you have problems with the installation, please have a look at our support forum!3D Upgrades
Both the Iron Hill dwarves and the Ered Luin dwarves have also gotten a full rework, all their units and heroes have been given new models. From standard units to mithril-clad heroes, the Dwarves shine in a new splendor.
2D Upgrades
Many heroes have received new portraits and new icons. Multiple spellbooks have been visually reworked.
Tooltip Upgrades
The descriptions of abilities in Edain were somewhat outdated and confusing, especially for new players. They are now being gradually revised, starting with heroes and spellbook powers. They now follow a clear structure: first a brief bit of lore fluff, followed by a paragraph on its exact functionality, and finally, the last paragraph contains instructions for use.
Conceptual Upgrades
As with many of our recent patches, we've been taking the time to address some of the pain points we have seen being discussed. In patch 4.8.2 we are focusing specifically on the three following areas: Imladris' early game, Misty Mountains' Fissure and the Dwarven Realm's Travel Camp.
The Travel Camp has oft been complained about as being too much effort to use since it was an external plot that had no purpose until you needed Veterans. As such we have expanded upon its role, you will now also be able to pair standard units with ponies and send them on expeditions to bring back treasures, knowledge or allies.
The Giants and their Fissure was always meant to be a simple outpost capable of recruiting a single powerful unit. However, we want to expand slightly on what the outpost and the Giants can do. The Fissure will now gain new abilities which each level, these abilities allow you to summon untamed lairs, buff your monsters and call forth the wrath of the Mountain Giants upon your enemies. The Giants now passively grant fear resistance in an area around them and interact with eternal strife, gaining a unique bonus depending on which realm is dominant when they are recruited.
Finally, Imladris' early game is getting a small buff in the form of Bounders, these brave hobbits allow the faction to get more bodies on the field before transitioning into either Dunedain or Noldor (or both, there are no rules). The Hobbit summon now calls forth Hobbit Archers and Farmer Maggot accompanied by his dogs.
Miscellaneous
As always, each patch comes loaded with plenty of QoL changes, bugfixes, balance adjustment and small tweaks.
Chief among those, we have released a small official submod which can be found on
Modding-union,
ModDB or the All in One Launcher. This small submod allows you to increase the amount of Command Points available in FreeBuild. For balance reason we prefer to keep FreeBuild limited to 1500 but we've provided an easy alternative for those who prefer more.
Additionally, FreeBuild has been getting many small and large balance changes, many of these are based on the feedback you have provided us. We hope this makes FreeBuild more dynamic and interactive gamemode. For a full list of those changes and a lot more, checkout the complete changelog.
Complete ChangelogChangesGeneral- Tooltips of hero abilities and spellbook abilities reworked to a standard format
- Many of the decals showing the radius of leaderships (e.g for wells and statues) visually updated
- Creep Mumaks added to the game files
- Haradrim Lair in the files fixed for mappers
- Half bases added to the game files, an alternate starting flag that can be placed against other things
- Creep lairs now appear in the fog of war at the start of the game like they briefly did for the freebuild gamemode in 4.8
- The Hidden One's Industry buff now also affects hero recruitment/revive time
- The Hidden One's now summons free build builders
- Lots of new spellbook images
- Lots of new hero portraits and icons
- Sorting of objects in the worldbuilder cleaned up
- New flyer death FX and sound
- FreeBuild: Statues no longer give hero discounts
- FreeBuild: Statues build time from 20 to 40 seconds
- FreeBuild: Button order of buildings in the builder palantir have been re-ordered and standardized accross the board
- FreeBuild: Building now point south or south-ish by default
- FreeBuild: Builder health doubled from 500 to 1000
- FreeBuild: Intact Bastion passive added to FreeBuild fortress, affecting all buildings in a medium range
- FreeBuild: Economy building health reduced by 20%
- FreeBuild: Economy building claim radius increased from 250 to 270
Misty Mountains- Warg Pack acceleration and turn speed reduced
- Goblin-town scaffolding can now be destroyed manually
- The Fissure can now level up and gains abilities with every level
- Giants are now affected by Eternal Strife
- Smaug will gain a small speed boost when charging towards a target
- Smaug damage against flyers reduced
- Untamed allegiance trolls now have the same speed as other trolls
Gondor- Lossarnarch Axemen building armor debuff improved from -20% to -40%.
- FreeBuild: Signal Fires removed from builder
- FreeBuild: New Spellbook power: Erect Warning Station - Summon a Warning Sation. The Warning Station provides vision for a short duration and can be upgraded into a Signal Fire. Cannot be summoned near another Warning Station or Signal Fire in a very large area.
Arnor- Arrow volley warning shot size increased and restored flame/smoke FX
- Arvedui's Veterans of Arthedain now have banner carriers
Belfalas- Lothiriel's Banner no longer plays a sound
- Fishing Boats can now be sold once they've deployed
- FreeBuild: Signal Fires removed from builder.
- FreeBuild: New Spellbook power: Erect Warning Station - Summon a Warning Sation. The Warning Station provides vision for a short duration and can be upgraded into a Signal Fire. Cannot be summoned near another Warning Station or Signal Fire in a very large area.
Rohan- Theoden can now re-cast his glorious transformation if he gets knocked down or is garrisoned
- Pitchthrowers can now bombard an area, this ability can fire over walls
- Pitchthrowers damage type changed from SIEGE to FLAME, scalar against structures removed, now cause buildings to take +100% more damage from melee attacks for 10 seconds
- Yeomen can now use their ability without stopping
Dwarves- Iron hills unit and hero models reworked
- Ered Luin unit and hero models reworked
- Lord Dain trample radius increased
- King Dain's Charge Command banner has a new model and FX
- Durin will respawn as Lord of Moria Durin if he has previously completed the expedition
- Durin will respawn at level 5 if he has previously reached that level
- Ram Riders no longer Elite Equipment to have been researched to transform
- Narin build cost lowered from 1600 to 1400
- Dwarven Realm selection can now be done from the starting units
- Ponies spawned from travel camps can now be paired with standard units to go on expeditions
- Mithril is now unlocked for all heroes when the first time Khazad-dum Veteran return
Lothlorien- Palace Guards are now unlocked by researching Captain of the Watch from the Vault of the King
- Captain of the Watch cost from 500 to 800
- Volume of Singer's Chant reduced
Imladris- Glorfindel's Starlight will now automatically trigger after 30 seconds instead of expiring
- New voices for the Twins in English
- Erestor is now recruitable. This allows him to be used on outposts and fixed the bug where he did not re-appear if supervision was terminated while the citadel was destroyed.
- The Fellowship of the Ring experience requirements lowered
- The Fellowship of the Ring will respawn at level 5 if it has previously reached that level
- New unit: Hobbit Bounders - Expensive early game hybrid unit that can be decommissioned for a significant fraction of their cost
- Reinforcement from the Shire now summons Farmer Maggot and battalions of hobbit archers
- Dunedain can now purchase upgrade globally as long as Halbarad has the correct level and is on the field
- Halbarad can now summon a Dunedain tent near settlements through "Leader of the Dunedain"
- Tom Bombadil passive debuff from -90% to -50%
- Tom Bombadil timer from 90s to 60s
- FreeBuild: Imladris can now recruit two battalions of Wandering Companies from the citadel once Gildor has been recruited
- FreeBuild: Lindon tower cost from 500 to 800, buildtime from 25 to 40 seconds
Angmar- Barrow Wight Lair now has a tunnel entrance
Mordor- Gothmog Release the Prisoners: Duration from 10 -> 30 seconds, range from 300 -> global
- Black Rider Armor buffed against arrows and swordsmen
- Influence of Sauron now grants a large amount of exp rather than a level when used on outposts and freebuild economy buildings. This avoids wasting part of the value when a building is close to the next level
- Damage taken from arrows by flying Ringhunters reduced from 80% to 70%
Isengard- Warg sentries are now available on the outpost plots
- FreeBuild: Building taint should no longer hide cursors
Maps- New Map: Dune Sea - A 3v4 retexture of tournament hills
General- Many strings fixes
- Fixed issue where the citadel of some maps would be instantly destroyed when starting the game
- Horn powers now properly affect cavalry again
- Creeps will now always properly exit the building, no longer remaining stacked inside it
- FreeBuid: Gate geometries fixed
Misty Mountains- FreeBuild: Eternal Strife can once against target the Gundabad tunnel
- The shortcut of units in Goblin Lairs affected by Eternal Strife has been fixed
- Three Troll's hoard no longer repairs like a citadel
- Three Troll's treasure can now be correctly destroyed by enemies
Gondor- Towerguard damage versus infantry corrected
- Freebuild: Guardians of the white city can be properly recruited when the ring is obtained
Arnor- Palantir Watchers summoned on a Lone Tower are no longer controllable
Belfalas- Archery range no longer breaks when upgraded to level 2 with the officer upgrade
Rohan- Rohan Royal Guard model scaled down slightly
Dwarves- Dwarves can no longer build barracks and siegeworks on Defense Line Plots
- Travel Camps are now correctly affected by Murin's Defend the Hall ability
Lothlorien- Internal buildings now have the correct vision range
Imladris- Flying units should no longer get stuck on the Lindon tower
- Elrond revive cost adjusted to build cost
- Dunedain Spearmen passive speed boost now correctly affects the entire horde
- FreeBuild: Erestor now properly leaves military buildings
Angmar- Freebuild: Snow trolls can be properly recruited when the ring is obtained
- Fixed Helegwen's Ice Wall collision
- Orcs from Mount Gram properly cost CP again
- Vassal House now properly grant exp upon destruction
Mordor- Grond can no longer be targeted by abilities that target heroes
- Armor of the Black Riders against CHOP, URUK and CAVALRY_RANGED damage fixed (previously took too much damage)
- Vampire Bats of Tol-in-Gaurhoth fixed
Isengard- Orthanc guards armorset corrected
- Industry can no longer be cast on the steelworks
- Uruk Scouts no longer sometimes play an idle animation instead of attacking when in combat
- Fixed the outpost citadel orientation
- Brutes of Dunland can be properly trampled
Maps- Carrock castle placements fixed
- Dead marshes fixed zoom and weather
- Lorien forest castles now unpack without missing walls
- Horde: Helms Deep lightning effect disabled
AI- Fixed a bug where the MM AI sometimes still managed to recruit Giants before the 10 minutes threshold
- Freebuild: AI now builds more barracks sooner
As always, we look forward to your feedback. Have fun playing!
Your Edain Team
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