Round Table of Arkain

[MouMou]

I wonder how much time shar dundred spent working on his human book two

 

[Drake]

A couple of minutes at least.
- But he has been working hard and you have some sweet stuff to look forward to.

 

[MURDER KING]

Glad to see the campaign series is still going on.

 

[MouMou]

I'll play arkain again if shar dundred finishes human book two

 

[Blake8]

I wonder how much time shar dundred spent working on his human book two

3% at a time

 

[Shar Dundred]

3% at a time

Excuse me?

 

[Blake8]

Excuse me?

It was a reference to chapter's seven's progress increasing from 10% to 13% in the first post

 

[Colonel Aster]

I just wanted to say thst i liked this campaign however the story seems somewhat dark and certain chapters are impossibly hard (i barely beat the rebellion mission and had to use whosyourdaddy on the next mission, how are u supposed to beat that mission without having a hero to control until thr very end anyway?)

besides these issues i believe the series is really good. keep up the good work

 

[renegade]

That's pretty much what makes this campaign series so awesome.

 

[Colonel Aster]

That's pretty much what makes this campaign series so awesome.

I enjoy a hard mission here and there but levels like that chapter 4 are just frustrating and deliver no satisfaction at all . The point of making a mission is making it so its fun to play and satisfying to win. chapter 4 is neither

 

[Branden2123]

I enjoy a hard mission here and there but levels like that chapter 4 are just frustrating and deliver no satisfaction at all . The point of making a mission is making it so its fun to play and satisfying to win. chapter 4 is neither

I disagree with you on that. I honestly found Arkain to be too easy in a lot of ways and I cannot wait for Kasrkn mode myself. Not saying it isn't fun or a little difficult, but it is a beautiful part of the series which makes it unique. Enjoy the rage and join the Darkside. Chapter 4 requires you to micro units plus heroes, then force your way down the enemies throat, it's genius. The only thing I would like to see is to maybe have a few more optional quests so I can focus on something else while my resources accumulate.

 

[Colonel Aster]

if you can beat that type of mission without constantly saving and reloading or usibg whosyourdaddy then more power to you however im not thst patient since i dont have loads of free time to play wc3

out of curisity how long does it take u to beat this mission on hard? and what strategies do u use?

 

[Branden2123]

To be honest it's been a while since I have played, I want the second human book to be closer to being done before I redo the series. If I had to guess, I would say about 40 minutes to get Gordan, then 20 to 25 to finish the last base.
If I remember correctly, you have to send waves at the first trebuchet and make a niche in the armor, then you can start on the next one until you cam blow up their bases. Make sure you leave 3 control groups at your base, build appropriate amount of towers to make choke points and just hold for a little while, staying below medium income and then burn everything. Mind you, I haven't played it in a long time so things could have changed and my strategy has a lot of holes in it just due to memory. I'll replay the mission this weekend if I have the time and detail it if you're interested.

 

[Kasrkin]

Here's a tip for dealing with the trebuchet position.

Spoiler

You don't need to send waves at the trebuchets, there's an easier way that'd require a bit of dodging, clearing, and a few catapults. The destructors will follow your catapults for a while so pull them back after every shot.

After that it's easy peasy and thousands of gold isn't wasted on waves, you can now punch orange in the face with all the money you've now saved.

 

[Branden2123]

Here's a tip for dealing with the trebuchet position.

Spoiler

You don't need to send waves at the trebuchets, there's an easier way that'd require a bit of dodging, clearing, and a few catapults. The destructors will follow your catapults for a while so pull them back after every shot.

After that it's easy peasy and thousands of gold isn't wasted on waves, you can now punch orange in the face with all the money you've now saved.

I suppose that one is more economical; however, don't you just wanna kill all the opposition and laugh at the computer?

 

[Kasrkin]

Due to recent events progress on the campaign has been put on hold for now, but it will resume in March. If you're having trouble with any of the campaigns please post on their pages in the map section and I'll see if I can help.

 

[Shar Dundred]

A small update that's been lying around on my PC for a few weeks now has been uploaded.
Nothing big though.

As @Kasrkin already stated, work is put on pause.
We will continue in March.

Version 0.32 released!

Changelog

Chapter One:
- Golden Guard units now turn hostile if you kill one of them

Interlude Two:
- Improved Kasrkin Commander appearance

 

[Graetgames]

i can put on some songs for you....

if you want Shar. I might put/make songs ^^

 

[MouMou]

A small update that's been lying around on my PC for a few weeks now has been uploaded.
Nothing big though.

As @Kasrkin already stated, work is put on pause.
We will continue in March.

Version 0.32 released!

Changelog

Chapter One:
- Golden Guard units now turn hostile if you kill one of them

Interlude Two:
- Improved Kasrkin Commander appearance

What do you mean improved kasrkin commander appearance?

 

[Shar Dundred]

i can put on some songs for you....

if you want Shar. I might put/make songs ^^

No

What do you mean improved kasrkin commander appearance?

New and more fitting model.

 

[Graetgames]

No


New and more fitting model.

ok

 

[Budiman]

This is back? Hell yeah. Praise Shar Dundred, and the Arkain Industries!

 

[Shar Dundred]

Check out these two short stories written by Kasrkin.

 

[LISBOAH]

Check out these two short stories written by Kasrkin.

They are quite interesting

 

[MouMou]

Check out these two short stories written by Kasrkin.

Yay I didn't know we have arkain story now

 

[MouMou]

hey shar what's the difference between honor guard & elite?

 

[Shar Dundred]

The Honor Guards are the elite of the Elites.
The strongest of the strongest, the most experienced of the experienced.

 

[MouMou]

The Honor Guards are the elite of the Elites.
The strongest of the strongest, the most experienced of the experienced.

If you are open for suggestion i would recommend this Royal Knight model to be honor guard.

 

[Blake8]

The Honor Guards are the elite of the Elites.
The strongest of the strongest, the most experienced of the experienced.

Always thought that the honor guard were just troops that were sent on parades, never knew they were the elite of the elite

 

[CY The UnGodly]

Let's just say Honor Guards are just buffed versions of elites

 

[MouMou]

Gut damn it why not shar make it so that honor guard is trainable

 

[Shar Dundred]

Units like the Honor Guards are AI only units.
They aren't meant to be used by players, they are too powerful for that.

 

[Blake8]

Units like the Honor Guards are AI only units.
They aren't meant to be used by players, they are too powerful for that.

I agree, anything that has 1200 HP, critical strike, resistant skin and envenomed weapons all together is way too overpowering,

Forgive me Shar for messing with your campaign using Wordeditor but I was trying to learn to make effective units, anyway there's a unit called Merciless which has 1100 hp, critical strike, resistant skin, and Hardened skin (reduces 12 damage from enemy attacks) and this unit would lose (in one on one combat) to a unit called Bloodfist which also has 1100 hp a bit higher attack, critical strike, resistant armor but envenomed weapons instead of hardedned skin....think about that

 

[MouMou]

Units like the Honor Guards are AI only units.
They aren't meant to be used by players, they are too powerful for that.

Hey shar have you ever though about creating such aura which can reduces enemys armor?

 

[Shar Dundred]

Forgive me Shar for messing with your campaign using Wordeditor but I was trying to learn to make effective units, anyway there's a unit called Merciless which has 1100 hp, critical strike, resistant skin, and Hardened skin (reduces 12 damage from enemy attacks) and this unit would lose (in one on one combat) to a unit called Bloodfist which also has 1100 hp a bit higher attack, critical strike, resistant armor but envenomed weapons instead of hardedned skin....think about that

You are looking at a unit that won't be introduced before the Second Orc Book.
Its current stats are therefore meaningless and object to change.

@MouMou: Such an aura already exists in Arkain.
Not entirely sure if an encountered enemy had it to this point, however.

 

[MouMou]

You are looking at a unit that won't be introduced before the Second Orc Book.
Its current stats are therefore meaningless and object to change.

@MouMou: Such an aura already exists in Arkain.
Not entirely sure if an encountered enemy had it to this point, however.

REALLY!!! I haven't even encountered a single enemy has an that kind of aura which reduce armour

 

[Blake8]

You are looking at a unit that won't be introduced before the Second Orc Book.
Its current stats are therefore meaningless and object to change.

I thought this unit was meant to be one of Van Durce's elite soldiers, that's what it looked like to me at least


BTW Shar if you want the Corrosion Aura to be displayed in red like a negative buff rather than in green re-title it to |CFFFF0000Corrosion Aura|r in the buff editor.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Newstime

The unexpected and unwanted break will be over soon. Next week, work on Chapter Seven will resume.
During the break, we have decided to do some technical changes for the next release (like disabling cheats).
More information about that will come with the next changelog.
It's nothing that should negatively affect your experience when playing the campaign, however.

Also, it's time to share some input about the future of the series with you:
This has all been decided a long time ago, when the thread had been re-opened. It just hadn't been published yet.
The Third Books have been cancelled because we decided that the Second Books already are
already offering an ending to the three series.
Does this mean that you will get less content? Hell no! Kasrkin and I are planning to work on so-called
"spinoff campaigns" when all books are done, focusing on several other stories taking place after the
Second Books.
The Second Books will finish the different main story arks, the spinoffs will either create new storylines or finish
old side stories that we couldn't include in the six main campaigns.
Of course, these campaigns will be shorter than what you got so far, but, to make up for that, there will be more.
We don't know yet how many spinoff campaigns we are going to create, but we expect them to be numerous.

In total, this means you will get even more Arkain than you had thought to this point.
We don't know yet what is going to happen *after* the spinoff campaigns, we are not planning ahead that far.
But if we feel like doing it, the Third Books might happen afterwards - or a replacement, as I said, we don't want to
plan ahead that far. We want 2017 to be the Year of the Second Books, not the Year of Spinoffs.


That is all.

RedCrusader out.

 

[Blake8]

@RedCrusader Sounds good,

Also one piece of advice... in the initiation triggers set

Cinematic - Turn subtitle display override On

This will force players who have their subtitles off to view ingame interaction between characters

 

[Shar Dundred]

Why are you browsing my triggers, maps and object data again?

 

[MouMou]

Why are you browsing my triggers, maps and object data again?

Redcrusader must we really ask for permission be4 we are allowed to edit you custom campaigns cause i don't see why we must ask permission be4 we can edit it as we pls

 

[Blake8]

Why are you browsing my triggers, maps and object data again?

I was wondering why the subtitles never showed up in your campaign but showed up in the log, I learned that there's a trigger that can override the subtitle setting which makes it very useful

 

[Shar Dundred]

For those of you who are into YouTube videos:
@YetAnotherYoutuber, formerly known as Flour, has just uploaded a video about him playing
good ol' Chapter Six.

And here comes Interlude Two.

Enjoy!

 

[Blake8]

Newstime

The unexpected and unwanted break will be over soon. Next week, work on Chapter Seven will resume.
During the break, we have decided to do some technical changes for the next release (like disabling cheats).
More information about that will come with the next changelog.
It's nothing that should negatively affect your experience when playing the campaign, however.

Also, it's time to share some input about the future of the series with you:
This has all been decided a long time ago, when the thread had been re-opened. It just hadn't been published yet.
The Third Books have been cancelled because we decided that the Second Books already are
already offering an ending to the three series.
Does this mean that you will get less content? Hell no! Kasrkin and I are planning to work on so-called
"spinoff campaigns" when all books are done, focusing on several other stories taking place after the
Second Books.
The Second Books will finish the different main story arks, the spinoffs will either create new storylines or finish
old side stories that we couldn't include in the six main campaigns.
Of course, these campaigns will be shorter than what you got so far, but, to make up for that, there will be more.
We don't know yet how many spinoff campaigns we are going to create, but we expect them to be numerous.

In total, this means you will get even more Arkain than you had thought to this point.
We don't know yet what is going to happen *after* the spinoff campaigns, we are not planning ahead that far.
But if we feel like doing it, the Third Books might happen afterwards - or a replacement, as I said, we don't want to
plan ahead that far. We want 2017 to be the Year of the Second Books, not the Year of Spinoffs.


That is all.

RedCrusader out.

So Gardon will dethrone the queen, defeat the golden guard, kill Genethas, crush the demon invasion, and do this in under 6 chapters....now I'm impressed

 

[MouMou]

hey redcrusader what will Gardon do if he captured the queen?

 

[Blake8]

hey redcrusader what will Gardon do if he captured the queen?

He's gonna present her with a "gift" of one of his magical amulets, just like he did to Admiral Seabright, that's my guess atleast

 

[YetAnotherYoutuber]

lolno, my guess is that aridon isnt dead, and saphira is there to steal the queen of all elves title

 

[Shar Dundred]

How many times do I have to tell you?
No raping.

 

[MouMou]

How many times do I have to tell you?
No raping.

LOL sorry redcrusader I'll delete that comment right now.



Ps:you're welcome

 

[Kasrkin]

I would like to apologize to everyone who viewed the thread last night.

But onto better matters as the Overlord promised, work on chapter seven has resumed. I can't give you an accurate timetable because that would be unfair to Shar. Just giving a heads up that it'll be soon (TM).

Again my apologies and have a good day.