Second Human Book of Arkain (Patch 1.29.2 or newer!)

[Tuwnew]

I finished the news chapters.
Impressive.

Feel sad for Blen.
What about Lord Harmos ? Where is he ?

And if in the first orc book, we don't go through the Mountains and we killed Birram ? x)

I didn't destroys the dark elves bases in chapter 6 and I become ally with Undead.
What if I destroyed it ?
Why Saphira offers alliance if we are against her ally ?

And I did not expect that Merlon was ... "romantic" xD

(You killed our main hero from first book in second book... Will Gardon died in Third book ? alert spoiler xD)

 

[Daffa]

I finished the news chapters.
Impressive.

Feel sad for Blen.
What about Lord Harmos ? Where is he ?

And if in the first orc book, we don't go through the Mountains and we killed Birram ? x)

I didn't destroys the dark elves bases in chapter 6 and I become ally with Undead.
What if I destroyed it ?
Why Saphira offers alliance if we are against her ally ?

And I did not expect that Merlon was ... "romantic" xD

(You killed our main hero from first book in second book... Will Gardon died in Third book ? alert spoiler xD)

Blen is kinda meh in my opinion. Still, Harmos might be in the afterlife with Blen, or not. I wonder what hellish torture is going there.

Each book has separated story. They are not connected to each other directly (some events are the same if you choose certain choices).

Just try it yourself
Everyone has motives here.

 

[Tuwnew]

Yeah I know. But it could be funny (or boring maybe) if all the books were in a single file and each decisions changes any missions.

I looking for the "Second Book Trailer". I can't find it.
It was a cinematic or a video (don't remember) where there were some tips about the books for each factions.
Anyone know where I can found this ?

 

[Kasrkin]

Harmos is still around that's all I can say without Shar sending the hit squads after me. Yeah that cinematic was called Revelation of the Dark One.

Spoiler

Also Blen was always going to die either that or just pushed out of the limelight.

 

[Tuwnew]

Where can I found it ?
In one book ? Which one ?

Thx

 

[Kasrkin]

It was just a file Shar had uploaded in the campaign thread for some time. The darn thing is barely canon anymore.

 

[Lord Aiden]

*barely cannon* lmao

 

[Tuwnew]

Erf. It has been delete ?

I think we can see Salomar death. Isn't it ?

 

[Kasrkin]

I still have the darn thing, just have to wait and see what the bossman says.

Yeah, Salomar's death was shown just not the attacker.

 

[Tuwnew]

And, I have a last question.
Is there, or later, a map of Arkain and all kingdoms ?

 

[Kasrkin]

Shar used to have one but it was very old and I believe it no longer exists. As for later, it is a possibility down the line.

 

[Lord Aiden]

Spoiler

Doesn't that death knight erodious kill solamar?

 

[Kasrkin]

Spoiler

Yes, which is unfortunate because Salomar prevented Aedale's initial corruption. Or with your choices, potentially could have.

Also, that's a no go on the old trailer.

 

[Lord Aiden]

Are we gonna see the cursed knight in the human campaign anytime soon?

 

[Shar Dundred]

Enough spoilers, time will tell.

 

[Colonel Aster]

Spoiler

I think that @Azarus1 was right about the player having to defend for a x amount of time in the mission.

 

[Lord Aiden]

I bet this campaign will have a very "fitting" final mission

 

[Championfighter25]

I bet this campaign will have a very "fitting" final mission

Maybe we'll assault the void or something like that.

 

[Lord Aiden]

Wonder what that's gonna be like. . .

 

[Championfighter25]

Wonder what that's gonna be like. . .

You will build-up a large army and attack,you're gonna lose your entire army in less than 5 seconds,then the demons will counter-attack and destroy your entire base,you will regequit and ofcourse just to finish it you will reduce the difficulty and then you will realise it was on easy all along.You will suffer from insanity for the rest of your life and never play this campaign again.NEVER AGAIN.The end.

 

[Lord Aiden]

Ye, an unbeatable missio

 

[Lord Siler]

Wow I played a campaign like that, a mission that could not be beat, whenever you destroy the villain the game would crash, it was unintentional that time but I suspect Shar may do the same thing to frustrate the hell outta the player, lol

 

[Lord Aiden]

Wow, that sucks

I doubt Shar would ever do anything like that

 

[Lord Siler]

@Razorfang, @rep comment; ye , you nailed it

 

[Shar Dundred]

I wouldn't do such a thing
I am a cruel tyrant, not a mad cruel tyrant.

 

[Lord Aiden]

@Shar Dundred : In the 3rd chapter of the 2nd human book (Rebellion) didn't you purposefully put several barracks of the main enemy in a base the player wasn't required to destroy to achieve victory ?

 

[Lord Siler]

It was worse than that, there were 2 enemies across the bridge from the main force you were supposed to destroy, Shar was sadistic and put several structures of the main enemy into their base, now imagine you kill the whole enemy base, and no victory, you're thinking "wtf" you go looking for the remaining structures everywhere till you realize that they were *conveniently* placed in the middle of two enemy bases which are hard to get into because of the bridge.

Arkain. Oh the frustration you'll experience.

 

[DevZ]

ye. that mission really infuriated me aswell. i thought i was done when i destroyed the last farm that i could find. i searched the unoccupied map for any other buildings owned by retkas forces, after ~20 min or so i think i decided to use the see all cheat to scour the map for the remaining building if there was one (by that point in time i assumed the end trigger mightve been mal-formed) eventually i found those barracks. ye i really hated that particular mission

 

[Daffa]

Still better than that catapult mission. Hated those traitors.

 

[Lord Aiden]

Well that's the hardest mission so far; lots of bases to destroy, 2 types of enemy armies, no hero for the most part. . . yeah that pretty much sums it up

 

[ArchDuke]

Just be grateful that elite were enabled for chapter 4, otherwise that mission was truly hell

 

[Shar Dundred]

Hm. Should I remove Elites again, I wonder...

:>

 

[Daffa]

NO PLEASE NO.

Pretty plz w/ cherry on top. DON'T REMOVE ELITES.

 

[Shar Dundred]

Yeah, you are right, Daffa, they make the mission too easy.

 

[Championfighter25]

Shar why don't you remove shadow stalkers and rename the chapter to siege of Constantinople while we are at it?

 

[Shar Dundred]

And add more trebuchets and enemy defenses too?

Actually, let's disable siege weapons for the player as well. Who needs those anyway?

 

[Championfighter25]

Yeah and add walls that cannot be destroyed and make it so that without a fleet you cant enter the capital why not.Dont you know the definition of fun.

 

[Colonel Aster]

Sounds like the plans for Kasrkin mode

 

[Kasrkin]

Sounds like the plans for Kasrkin mode

I still remember some of my ideas for the extra difficulty, and maybe a few more I've thought of as we've made...written? the new books. Heh

Possibilities/ideas/your death may include: Rain of meteors, extra heroes, global poison/debuff effect, upgraded enemies, units taken from your roster, extra demons, extra spawning demons on appropriate missions, putting the un-nerfed human book back in, giving static bases AI, making the trees invulnerable making some of my strategies useless, even more paladins/stargazers, more trebuchet positions ohhhhhh the possibilities are endlessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

Of course these are ideas, Shar is the magic man.

 

[Verb8im]

Are yall still working on the major updates/changes for the First Books, or are you solely focused on finishing this book first?

 

[Daffa]

@Kasrkin quite a list there.

 

[Shar Dundred]

I will update the campaign with fixes for the newest chapter this weekend.
After that, I will focus on the next chapter.

 

[Championfighter25]

Nice,can you provide a little insight on chapter 8?We all know it's going to be painful that is for certain atleast.

 

[Colonel Aster]

It was mentioned somewhere in this topic that you would go after van durce in the next mission

 

[Shar Dundred]

The next mission will be hot.

 

[Daffa]

Awaiting slaughterfest

 

[Tuwnew]

Sound funny because everyone here seem to love the campaign for his gameplay etc...

I largely prefer the story and the plot x)

 

[lekxman22]

My mind is getting hot

 

[MaxHothhowzer]

Always a fun fest to play when a new update comes out. Thank you Shar Dundred

 

[Logan Raynor]

damn, why Blen? I know he plays minor role in this campaign when things turn to hell, but this is just too hard to accept
And in the epilogue of the 1st book Shar said he and Rangul/Aridon are the keys to this long lasting war, now one is confirmed dead. the other one's gone MIA
What'd happend to the he Karskin now? and Harmos, he's dead already?