Middle-earth: Total War Content Release

[Dúnadan]

Middle-earth: Total War

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Middle-earth: Total War was the first LotR-mod for the Total War games, first started on Medieval, and then ported to Rome. Unfortunately work on the mod was halted some time ago, so Burns from the METW team has decided to put the mod out as a content release. The mod is for Rome: Total War – Barbarian Invasion v1.6, and it is fully modfoldered, so it will not interfere with the original game or other mods which may be installed. The custom battles are fully playable with all 11 factions (see previews below), but the campaign has a CTM (Crash to Menu) error. Other modders are free to use any of the work included in the mod, provided they credit the METW team. For more information and screenshots, check out the METW forum.

Download the mod (installation instructions included) here.

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Also check out the faction previews:

• Gondor Preview
  
  Elven Realms Preview
  
  Erebor and Dale Preview
  
  Rohan Preview
  
  Isengard Preview
  
  Easterlings Preview
  
  Harad Preview
  
  Gundabad Preview
  
  Mordor Preview
  
  Beornings Preview
  
  Eriador Preview

 

[Maniacal]

Cool, I'll check it out, eventually, got a couple of other things on my download list.

 

[obliterate]

Will it ever be fully completed for the Campaign?

 

[Dúnadan]

Some people are working on it over at their forums as we speak.

 

[obliterate]

Great. Is there a timeframe for the full version release date?

 

[Dúnadan]

Not really any timeframe, as the original team stopped working on it a while ago. Those who are working on getting the campaign going, are not affiliated with the team. Hopefully they'll have it working pretty soon.

If you're itching to play a campaign in Middle-earth, you could check out 'The Fourth Age: Total War' (release thread a little further down in this forum) - that should keep you interested until the METW campaign is working

 

[Civfan333]

Do you know why they stopped working on it?

 

[Dúnadan]

In the end it was just one guy doing everything, and he got tired of shouldering all the work. I'm hoping some new life can be breathed into it with this release.

 

[Hasdrubal Barca]

Superb mod, 2 thumbs up

 

[Dúnadan]

And we've got a working campaign ... sort of:

We have an announcement. After some hours of work, Aradan (of the Fourth Age: Total War) has found and eliminated the error that was blocking the campaign and we now have a base campaign map working.

Don't expect much though, this is a WIP version of the campaign map and it's made for modders who want edit or expand the current campaign.

README:
By Aradan:

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These are the files needed to make METW 0.98 campaign playable.
Just copy and paste the contents of the data folder inside your bi/metw/data folder. They will overwrite existing files, so a back-up is recommended.

Using these files won't trigger a CTD, KTM or an error message on campaign start-up or end. That's it though; don't expect to see a mod ready to be played. Far from it actually. Due to the inability of METW Team to have a working map the campaign is by and large a huge WIP with quite a few errors. Experienced or semi-experienced modders should know what to do in order to get the campaign into relevant shape. Thankfully there are also lots of tutorials around and METW right now is the perfect opportunity for experimentation!

Good luck!

KNOWN ISSUES:
- Like said, everything (except for the strat map models) is vanilla. There are no tech trees, no balance, no recruitable units, etc. The only thing these files do is making the campaign playable, nothing more.
- The Mordor ground textures are yet to be included.
- Some wonder/resource coordinates are wrong.

IMPORTANT:
- Just to be completely sure, delete the map.rwm (located in metw\data\world\maps\campaign\middle-earth).
- If the campaign still doesn't load, first try to delete the map_heights.HGT (map_heights.HGT, NOT the map_heights.TGA !!).
- If it doesn't load after that, try to "reinstal" (recopy) your METW mod folder or check your regular vanilla BI installation.

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Download HERE

NOTE: as said, this is a WIP version of the campaign map, so this thread is NOT meant for reporting bugs.

 

[Civfan333]

hmmmmmmmmm...........

I think I'll wait till they get a better one going.

 

[Medievalfreak]

do you need the disk to play this

 

[Traitorfish]

do you need the disk to play this

Yeah- mods simply modify the existing game files, they are not stand alone games.

 

[Kentharu]

nvm xcl xcl

 

[Civfan333]

ummmmm, it specifically states that this mod is for "Rome Total War-Barbarian Invasion

 

[Dúnadan]

Middle-earth: Total War BETA v1.0 has now been released! Go here to read more and download.

 

[Civfan333]

Great news! might wait a little longer for dl'ing though

 

[Longus]

Looks interesting, but has anyone here played the new version? I'm kinda running low on disk space and am wondering if it's worth installing... comments/reviews anyone?

 

[Civfan333]

ok, problem, I did everything right, installed it, and theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen..........................there's no thing to actually LAUNCH the game! wth?

 

[Dúnadan]

ok, problem, I did everything right, installed it, and theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen..........................there's no thing to actually LAUNCH the game! wth?

I believe you may have to manually make the shortcut. Quoting a developer here:

You should be able to copy the shortcut from within the folder (says "METW" in yellow letters) to your desktop - note if you had to change the install path for the mod then you will need to change the "target" and "start in" lines in the shortcut's properties. Otherwise (means you dont need to fiddle with the target and start in lines) copy the bi shortcut, right click and select properties. In the target line, outside of the quotation marks, add

-mod:bi\metw -nm