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The Big Fellowship Quest V.5.7c

Presentation

Select your hero and being your journey thought middle earth!! This map contains all events from three Lord of The Rings movies.Heroes which are available: Frodo,Sam,Merry,Pipin,Boromir,Gandalf,Aragorn,Legolas,Gimli, Boromir.
This map requires the use of teamwork. Do not be negative and work with other players to complete the map. This includes communication, and sharing items and gold with other players.
When picking skills it is recommended to pick the upgrade of your heal or self-heal ability when it becomes available which is normally at the 3rd and 5th levels of a character. If you choose an AoE ability, do NOT use it constantly. It will drain your mana and you will not have enough for your healing ability.



In-Depth

Sauron created the One Ring to control all countries of Middle Earth. But Isildur cut the ring from Saurons hand and took it for him self. The One Ring poisoned his spirit. Later he did get killed by orc troops and the ring was lost. Smeagol found it and he also took it for him self. His spirit has been corrupted, then he lost it to Bilbo who bequeathed it to Frodo. Frodo went to Rivendell, an elf city and the Middle-earth council decided to form the Fellowship of the Ring. Now the story goes on...


Everyone gets one revive per charakter so don't die two times else you are dead forever! Gameplay is simple, pick heal and other skills, heal yourself, team work with others.Kill monsters, orcs, be aware of bosses they have powerfull spells. The map also contains custom scenes and alternative story line of saving boromir at amon hen, LOTR voices,sounds,cutscenes and a lot of exclusive models.Sometimes in game you have to wait for others, its made like that because story has to be correct.Hobbits aren't weak so Don,t be afraid to play as them.

Additional informations

This map also has it's own Discord server all are welcome to join --------------------> Join the WC3 Fellowship Quest Discord Server! <-------- Remember that it's not only cteator who makes map but all people who help him at testing, report Bugs or suggest ideas at this server you can do it.This is also the only one fellowship map which is being updated in 2021

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  • Movie music by composer Howard Shore
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5.7c is also small hot fix
-Last updates didnt work well there were still gaps in pathing near helms its all fixed now
-Fixed bug at alternative isengard balrog no longer can cast spells at fellowship members
-added new item to caradhrass, dropable from black bear and gollum for frodo and sam before death marshes
-bill the pony is immune to magic
-only wolven pups at caradhrass receive dmg bonus from expert/imp mode
-Sarumans staff's bonus is buffed so are the summoned crebains

5.7b small hot fix for 5.7a
-added forgotten path blockers near helms deep at purples mini game and mumakils from ithelien arent kill able anymore. Imp mode gives +9 dmg to all enemies, it has been nerfed. New boss item sarumans staff has been added do not forget to pick it up from saruman after he dies. You have only 8 seconds to do it because teleporting is delayed!


5.7a small hot fix, amon hen didnt work in 5.6e it got disabled by accident and enemy damage is changed to in hard mode+8 dmg and in imp mode +14 dmg


5.6d changelog

New stuff:
-Helm's Deep terrain has been reworked.

Bug fixes:
-Fixed a bug where the charge at Helm's Deep could be triggered twice.
-Orcish helmets and +1 stats items should now drop properly.
-Hard mode should now require the correct amount of votes; something was messed up in the 5.6c version, and it didn't work.
-Rare bug that could occur during the evil hero fight has been fixed; the bug made some heroes invulnerable.

Gameplay changes:
-A checkpoint has been added at the Edoras cutscene. Heroes are set to 100% mana and HP. Additionally, the same checkpoint has been added for Frodo and Sam after repairing the boats at Amon Hen.
-Once again, Crebains after the Troll Path have been reworked. The spawn is removed, but instead, there are two pre-placed groups of Crebains flying around the area.
-Caradhrass's easter egg chance has been increased from 5% to 9%.
-Theoden's E horse skill's damage has been buffed.
-An item called "Half of Lembas Bread" has been added. It heals for 500 HP when used and is available in Lothlorien shop and in the inventory at the start, instead of Lembas Bread, which heals for 800 HP.



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5.6c changelog




New Stuff:
  1. Added arrows that point over the Circle of Powers at Helms Deep.
  2. New low-impact item Orcish Helmet added; it has a chance to drop from Uruk-hai at Two Towers.
  3. Unique item "Bereoning Bow" added, which drops from Bereoning Archer in bear form at Caradrhass.
  4. Minas Morgul added to the game on Frodo and Sam's route before they enter Shelob's cave.

Bug Fixes:
  1. Camera after the Grimma fight now returns to normal; the bug is fixed.
  2. Fixed the bug where villagers were not willing to go to Helms Deep.
  3. Fixed a bug that ruined the Easter egg experience at the Black Gate.
  4. Boromir's save dialogue fixed; there was a sentence that said Boromir is dead.
  5. Aragorn's charge at the Black Gate is now properly synced with the soundtrack.
  6. Fixed the bug that did not give a defeat if Gandalf the White was alive as the last hero and he had already used immortality after splitting.
  7. Fixed the bug with Theoden not dying to the Witch-King at Pelennor Field when owned by light blue.
  8. Fixed the hole in Caradhrass's terrain, and it shouldn't be possible to see part of Helm's Deep keep from Caradrhass.
  9. Fixed the bug where Celeborn did not automatically give the correct amount of remaining heroes at dialogue while entering Lothlorien.
  10. During Boromir's save, as soon as Lurtz dies, all Uruks near the Amon Hen statue will charge at the trio and Boromir.

Gameplay Changes:
  1. Reduced the camera annoyance for Gandalf during the fight with the Balrog; there was action at the start and end of the beginning Amon Hen cut scene that annoyed Gandalf's player.
  2. Changed description for Gap of Rohan at the voting window.
  3. It's impossible to walk around goblin traps at Moria; specifically, the place where goblin archers are located and at least three traps. This affects one of the three random routes at Moria.
  4. Goblin units from paths you aren't meant to go on are now hidden, preventing players from bugging them out and killing them.
  5. Legolas at Caradhrass isn't able to kill the wolven den behind the mountain; there was a gap in the vision pathing.
  6. Camera is less annoying for Gandalf during the fight with the Balrog; there was action at the start and end of the beginning Amon Hen cut scene that annoyed Gandalf's player.
  7. Changed the way the Battle of Helms Deep can be finished. Now, if the charge isn't triggered yet and Gandalf has already finished his quest, then Gandalf can come to Helms Deep and automatically trigger the charge. After the charge is over, a cut scene with Gandalf coming to Helms Deep is displayed. The old way of triggering the charge is still available; heroes can still trigger it.
  8. Maximum possible level for the trio and Purple to gain during the Helms Deep battle is 15 if Caradhrass was played and 14 on the normal route. Also, during the last charge, they aren't able to receive any gold from killed Uruks.
  9. Feather, Orcish Heart, and Flower are stackable up to a maximum of 2 stacks.
  10. Evil's hero War Stomp damage is changed; it's improved from 200 to 450, and stun duration from 4 to 5 seconds.
  11. During the evil's hero cut scene, all alive heroes are invulnerable to prevent their death to orcs or fireworks.
  12. Gandalf the Black is able to summon Nazguls at the evil hero fight.
  13. Sauron's theme is set to 72% of volume when Frodo and Sam are dead.
  14. Heroes are teleported to a safe spot as soon as they enter the beginning of the bridge at Moria; they don't need to go halfway anymore to prevent trolling at the bridge.

Other Changes:

  1. Map's description updated.
  2. Ore's and old shield's description updated.
  3. Removed 2 archers in Amon Hen for Frodo and Sam's route; Frodo and Sam now have vision over the whole Amon Hen for their path.
  4. It's impossible to walk around goblin traps at Moria; specifically, the place where goblin archers are located and at least three traps. This affects one of the three random routes at Moria.
  5. Goblin units from paths you aren't meant to go on are now hidden, preventing players from bugging them out and killing them.
  6. Removed 4 archers and 8 Rohan soldiers from Helms Deep; it sometimes takes simply too long to do the charge and for Gandalf to arrive.
  7. Expert mode requires 6 votes if there are 9 players in the game, 5 if there are 8, 4 if there are 7 or 6 players, and if there are fewer than 3 or equal to 3, then the majority decides.
  8. The table that shows players' points is 1% less wide, and it has been reworked to show only points that are based on players' wins. Normal mode is 1 point, expert is 2, impossible is 3. Winning Caradhrass gives now +1 point instantly after Caradhrass is over (the point is given and saved as soon as Caradhrass is finished). Game wins on each mode are still accessible by typing the command -stats.
  9. Edoras column that was placed accidentally in Ithilien is removed.
  10. Players aren't able to see bears at Caradhrass while they are at the wolven path.

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5.6b changelog

New Updates:
-Theoden's room has a new area, but the gameplay remains the same.
-There is now a 5% chance of a new Easter egg occurring at the normal Black Gate.
-An existing Easter egg in the game also has a 5% chance of occurring during Caradhras.

Gameplay Changes:
-During the charge at Helm's Deep, heroes receive +60 armor, and the number of Rohirrim spawned for the purple is increased from 4 to 7.
-Additional Uruks that spawn in Helm's Deep (those added in version 5.6a) no longer grant experience, preventing heroes from becoming over-leveled.
-Gandalf cannot arrive at Helm's Deep until the last charge finishes.

Bug Fixes:
-Helms Deep charge fixes: All Uruks are properly paused, and invulnerability is correctly removed.
-The bug related to the invisible circle and market at Helm's Deep keep has most likely been fixed.
-Campfires at Caradhras now heal casters; previously, the person who used the campfire didn't receive HP regeneration from it. The last campfire at Caradhras has also been fixed.

Other Changes:
-Soldiers with players' names that spawn around Minas Tirith/Helm's Deep now have a darker color and 150 more HP than other soldiers.
-There should be fewer lags at Helm's Deep caused by Uruk-hai orders.
-Selecting the option to enable map vision before the game is hosted should no longer have an in-game impact.

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5.6a changelog


New Features:
-The appearance of Helm's Deep's keep has been changed. Keep was reworked and is now enterable. Heroes are now capable of leading a last charge when Uruks enter the inner keep. During this charge, a circle will appear. This change is also intended to prevent heroes from hiding and endlessly farming at Helm's Deep. The charge provides a +500% damage boost and a +100% increase in attack and movement speed for 60 seconds. During this time, all orcs also provide experience as usual, allowing players to eliminate numerous enemies quickly.
-Two new Easter eggs have been introduced, each with an 8% chance of occurring at the two towers. Further information will not be provided as these are Easter eggs.
-An old man archer has been added to Helm's Deep. This archer deals high damage but has slow attack and movement speed.

Bug Fixes:
-The Balrog has been reassigned to Sauron's faction. It was a mistake to have it assigned to neutral hostile.
-Using a horn on Nazgul during the evil hero fight should no longer cause desync. This change also places Nazguls on par with other bosses on the map, meaning they cannot be knocked back, for example.
-Leadership has genuinely been removed from Gandalf during the Balrog fight.

Other Changes / Balance Adjustments:
-Most of the in-game texts are expected to be corrected by Crab Lord and DrStrangeluv. I use "expected" because I would like every player to verify whether there are still texts in the map written in poor English. If any are found, please report them in the text fix channel on Discord.
-The duration of Nazguls summoned by the evil hero has been increased.
-The healing skill of the evil hero has been nerfed. Now, it provides an additional +100 HP after healing instead of +290 HP.
-The evil hero receives fewer bonus INT points but more STR points.
-The chance to obtain a knife from goblins at Moria has been increased.
-Flowers that provide +1 INT have a lower chance of spawning from enemies, while the other two items that grant STR and AGI have a higher chance.
-Four orc archers have been added to Gandalf's maze, the one where he has to find riders. This change ensures that Gandalf won't progress too quickly, allowing players to utilize the charge at Helm's Deep.




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5.5f is small hotfix which's point was to balance balrog fight

Changelog for 5.5f
New Features:
-Added 4 new droppable items with a low impact, providing bonuses such as +2 damage or +1 to one of the stats. These items can only be obtained from specific enemies at designated locations and are sellable for 5 gold. Due to this change, everyone now starts with 92 gold instead of 95.

Balance Changes:
-Removed Leadership from Gandalf after the cinematic with Balrog ends, making the game faster and preventing players from waiting for the battle to conclude.
-Balrog fight adjustments: Reduced Balrog's move speed from 185 to 160, resulting in the circle taking 1 second longer to disappear. Defeating Balrog now grants Gandalf 40 gold instead of 25. Balrog's armor has been changed from -2 to -9, and its attack speed is adjusted from 3.7 to 4.2 seconds. Gandalf can't return to downhill of the mountain if the fight with Balrog is enabled. Additionally, one lembas also spawns during the Balrog fight. Gandalf the White no longer inherits Gandalf the Gray's items. Gandalf the White will always spawn with 2 waters, regardless of what items Gandalf the Gray had. Also, Edoras elven water is removed if Gandalf the White is present. Changed ownership of Balrog to neutral hostile to see if it prevents its weird movement during the fight. Balrog's fire circle now has 50 less range, and its animation has been updated. Let me know which animation you prefer.


Bug fix:
-Fixed issue with game timer sometimes not being displayed propley on some resolutions
-Gandalf's worker is invisible during amon hen
-Gandalf the white can't become ranged anymore
-Balrogs and bereoning's spell cant anymore reach other areas in map that they arent supossed to reach

Other Changes:
-Some in-game texts have been modified by Crab Lord and DrStrangeluv.
-Reduced the width of the victory points table for a better user interface.
-After Pippin arrives at Minas Tirith, he now has a permanent Gondor outfit.
-Modified the area at the death path near the King of the Dead. Although this change wasn't necessary, the previous version had visible map borders, giving players the impression of being locked in a tiny room. Please let me know what you think of this modification.


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5.5e is fast hot fix for 5.5d, there was one bug with balrog fight

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Changelog 5.5d

New Stuff:
-Reworked balrog fight and balrog terrain at the mountain. (In the future, gameplay featuring Gandalf vs. balrog at the underground of Moria might be added.)

Balance Changes:
-Dwarven warrior ability now has a 9-second longer cooldown and is now capped. There is a maximum amount of armor Gimli can gain from it. If Gimli reaches the maximum armor, the bonus should be given instantly. Additionally, while using the ability, Gimli experiences a movement speed decrease, so AI should be more willing to target him.
-Gandalf's immortality isn't removed at Caradhras; however, if he dies there, he will lose a level and revive with low mana.
-Sauron's forces have vision of the trio during the boro save after strong Lutrz spawns. The vision is removed if Lutrz dies.
-Bears are removed after the troll path but before the maze with ice. Birds that are enabled after heroes go out from the troll path will now spawn endlessly until heroes reach the beginning of the maze with ice. Only the first bird group gives experience

Bug Fixes:
-Hobbits no longer can become invureable at fangorn
-Purple's victory points are no longer lost if he plays as Eomer.
-Caradhras is no longer available on easy mode.
-There was a chance for characters to be softlocked after the Watcher knocked them out of the playable area.
-The table showing victory points is now wider, allowing the whole rank name to be seen. The bug where the score wasn't displayed correctly at the end of the game is fixed.
-Neutral campfires at Caradhras at the troll path no longer heal heroes; they can heal heroes only if captured.
-Saruman's blizzard should now work properly. Blizzard should fall in the area until its duration is over and not fall just once like it used to.
-more tress have been added to black gate to fix zelot's bug

Other Changes:
-Few Discord members have access to give victory points to people who have lost their points due to a bug.
-Haldir's position at Lothlorien is changed if Caradhras is played.
-It's easier to gain some starting ranks now as fewer victory points are needed.
-This change does not impact gameplay, but the damned warriors at the death path now have level 20 instead of level 25. I noticed that their level was set to 25, even though the maximum possible level for any creep is level 20. The game's engine was sending notifications about it, but it's unlikely to be responsible for the 1 fps bug.





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5.5c changelog
New context:
-New starting ability for gimli

Bug fix:
-Orcs at black gate receive vision of all heroes, i hope that fixs bug where heroes can hide in corner
-One trigger was changed so wolves at chardrass should be now normally knockbacked when people use their spells
-Added replay detector so players wins shouldnt get ereased when they watch replay
-Sarumans casting blizzard fixed at charadrass, it should now be casted all the time at point till its duration ends
-It's harder now for vexenator to troll cut scene at fangorn for trio
-probably fixed bug with grimma summoning heal ward at end of fight which happens at alternative scenario after charadrass
-heroes shouldnt teleport anymore on helms deep wall if they walk near edge of wall.

Balance changes:
-shake effect caused by troll with hammer at charadrass is nerfed
-Cold aura at charadrass is increased by 10% but so is campfires healing power so as final result it isnt nerfed, colds mithril negative aura is litle decreased
-Crebains at charadrass that spawn after troll path spawn now faster by 7 seconds
-Bereoning archer is invureable during fight, all bears have 300 hit points less, final bear boss gets movement speed increased while using his rage.

Other changes:
-Hobbits names were changed
-Win counter:
added title ranks next to player names, rank depends on point normal victory = 1 point, expert mode win = 2 points, imp win = 3 points.
Easy mode isnt viewed at win counter anymore, leavers shouldnt get now their win improved at the end of game, changed colours at win counter table, also triggers responsible for loading / saving win data were slightly modyfited because there was a bug that hardly ever ereased stats for some players. Win counter now shouldnt dissapear and should reappear if someone was afk at start also it shouldnt have bugged double names of players at the end of game.

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5.5b changelog

if merry and eowyn is dead before minas tirith trio can trigger minas its possible now to doodge bereoning archers volley bereoning bear bosses attack was improved by 10 character whos attacked by bear archer bear form no longer will have ! effect on his head 4 ever fixed bug at which chronic got 3 wins on imp mode, previous wins from 5.4f were returned


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5.5a is small hot fix for 5.4f


5.4f is small hot fix for previous ver
-Win counter is fixed i hope, its now available only in multiplayer and it appears again if someone rage quits from game
-Brown and black bears have 1k hp more and 1 armor more
-First wave of wolves strikes fellowship faster by 13 seconds



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New version 5.4e is a hotfix for the previous version. It doesn't fix all the bugs, but I will continue to work on them if I don't forget.

New features:
-Added a feature that counts players' game victories. It doesn't count victories on "very easy" mode. Everyone's score is displayed in a table in the upper right corner.

Gameplay changes:
-People really hated the wild goblin model, so its model and unit's name have been replaced with "black goblin".
-The evil hero gets less intelligence bonus, and his additional heal adds 290 HP instead of 450.
-The Berenning boss fight has been remade. All bears have less HP, and their HP scales with the number of heroes alive. The brown bear has backstab, and bears fart takes away heroes' hit points. The Berenning archer uses the volley spell, and the Berenning archer in bear form uses shockwave and charges at the furthest hero in his position.
-Added a 5-second delay before the game ends at Charadrass when one split team fully dies.
-The text at the voting window between Moria or Charadrass has been changed.
-Saruman uses blizzard and silence faster, but the interval before he starts striking at the Fellowship is increased by 30 seconds.
-At Charadrass, the troll's trap life was nerfed, and 9 seconds of timed life was added to it.
-The camera shake that hammer trolls can do is nerfed. It no longer makes the screen black, and it shakes less. It also has sound, and the buff is displayed over the hero who's being shaken (wine won't work to dispel it).
-Campfires at Troll's Path were reworked. The main point is to make them faster so that the bear team waits less for the troll team. At least 2 heroes need to step near the campfire to enable it. It also displays a message when each campfire is enabled.
-Deep snow, ice pieces, and all the ground traps at Charadrass are no longer knockable.
-Legolas's volley deals less damage to wolven dens.

Bug fixes:
-Items dropped by wolves at Charadrass are no longer endless. I think I also added a message when the item pool at wolves and dens runs out.
-Some heroes weren't able to knockback wolves at Charadrass. I changed some triggers, and it should now work okay.
-Pippin's passive damage against bosses should now work vs bear bosses at Charadrass.
-Raw meat and frozen water no longer share the same cooldown with lembas and elven water.
-Gandalf the White can now be controlled by Gray if gandalf gray died during Charadrass.
-The bug with 1 hero having cold effect after going out of Charadrass is probably fixed.
-I'm still trying to fix the bug that results in 1 FPS for players sometimes. Please inform me if it happens in the new version. I added some basic debuggers, changed a few models in Edoras, and some events. It's really unknown what can cause 1 FPS late game. Also, I fixed the memory leak at Sauron's life drain trigger, but I doubt it's responsible for FPS drop.
-Probably fixed temporary FPS drop during the Berenning boss fight at Charadrass. The drop was caused by some ability, and it has nothing in common with the previous one.
-Heroes no longer become workers when they slide on ice.
-Probably evil Gandalf and evil Boromir should drop the One Ring when they are killed.


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Fast fix for 5.4c i got pissed boromirs tress are still buggged, still theres a lot of more bugs than just this to fix
-Tress during boromirs save should be now removed propley
-Deep's snow slows changed from 100% to 70%
-Ice trap hp changed to 95
-probably fixed bug with preplaced ghosts at cave dissapearing
-Elven wine is now stackable
-Wolven den no longer gives exp but first wave of wolves does
-Less archers at alternative amon hen if someone from Ara/Bor/Lego/Gim is dead
-Talisman has 2 charges
-Probably orc targeting heroes at amon hen is fixed
- Campfires duration changed from 50 to 25 seconds also healing& mana gain was increased by 85% so result should be almost same
- Since campfire lasts less saruman spawns faster by 20 seconds

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5.4c is mostly hot fix for caradhrass update, this is first hotfix second one is coming too
- Bug with bill dying and sam losing life fixed
- Bug with sauron not appearing if frodo and sam died after caradhrass fixed
- tress at alternative save boro path should be removed propley
- if one team fully dies at caradhrass after split game will end
- Its possible to go back into cave with skeletons
- preplaced inv campfire is removed when fellowship unites
- Crebains at north path (the one before bear group) no longer spawn endlessly, 3 groups of them will spawn
- Added more rocks on map to block vision
- Vision given by saruman's voice is reduced
- More exp during caradhrass and at alternative amon hen
- Team that reached preplaced campfire as first will get vision of the opposite team
- Bug with invisible heroes fixed
- Fixed spelling for galardiel and ithelien rangers
- Sliper's name at shop fixed
- Its no longer should be possible to attack enemy from other area at charadrass
- Last enemy group (the one before bosses) is no longer bugable
- Units for purples's minigame at two towers will spawn only if purple is playing theoden
- The way Ara, Lego,Bor,Gim spawn at amon hen is balanced if anyone from them is dead
- Merry and pippin no longer can move after being teleported to fangorn from alternative amon hen
- Sarumans timer showing at right up corner is probably fixed
- Bug with people getting endless screen shake fixed
- Down area the one with bears is less wider, deep snow was added to it, also 1 big bear will charge together with kindnaper bear at fellowship
- Some items gained throught caradhrass are now sellable or have increased cost or are stackable

5.4d should come out in few days! i will fix known issues, keep reporting more or the one that i failed to fix




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Changes in 5.4b, Changelog:

New Additions:

-Added a few new models for enemy units, light blue units, and items.
-A game timer has been added to the upper right corner of the screen, thanks to Tipou.
-A new alternative path called Caradhrass has been added. This path is available to choose at the Caradhrass avalanche cut scene and is designed to be harder than Moria. It is not available in easy mode.

Bug Fixes:

-Fixed some memory leaks, including fixing big leaks when storing enemy units into unit variables at Balin's Tomb, Amon Hen, the ending of Helm's Deep, and Minas. This change may fix serious FPS issues that occur infrequently.
-The exclamation mark over the cave troll will now properly disappear.
-Merry's net can no longer be leveled to level 2 at the start of the game.
-Using Aragorn's ultimate at the evil hero fight near Nazguls will no longer cause desync.
-The bug with the torch and Merry's sword sharing the same cooldown has been fixed.
-The mana shield buff will no longer display on Gandalf's status when he uses his shield.
-Heroes no longer can go out of map when slidding at ice.

Gameplay Changes:

-Enemy units with stronger statistics now have different models from standard units. For example, strong Uruks during the Boromir save have new models to make it more obvious.
-Frodo's Sting Stab now costs less mana.
-Changes have been made for Mountain Trolls. The one from the start of the map may be harder to split.
-Gandalf's staff item has been nerfed.
-Using Legolas's bow item now gives temporary immunity to sliding on ice.
-If easy mode is chosen, players will gain +1 level and +1 revive during the game.
-The cooldown for Merry's net ability has been increased.
-Gandalf's staff item is not available during the evil hero fight.
-Gamling, summoned by Eomer/Theoden, will mount whenever they mount as well.
-Nazguls are now available for any evil hero (except Gandalf).
-Evil is stronger and has more stats, receiving more health whenever he uses his heal skill. This option with heal skill does not support Gandalf.
-Tips about the Sauron fight have been updated and are now displayed at the end of Minas.
-During the saving of Boromir, the trees will open the path to the statue only when Lurtz is already dead.
-Some units now spawn at the first second of the game instead of being preplaced in the editor.
-The description for Gimli's axe has been updated by Tipou.
-The description for Sam's Q spell has been updated.
-Wargs at the start of the game that have bash are designed to be more noticeable by new players.
-The aggro range of strong Lurtz during the Boromir save has been increased.
-Gimli's movement speed has been changed from 259 to 270 so that every enemy shouldn't aim for Gimli as the first target. This is the behavior of WC3 AI, as they aim for the slowest unit. Gimli now has the same speed as other heroes.
-Shire's Slippers have been renamed to Slipper.
-Added Bartoni.






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5.4a , 5.3d and 5.3 are hot fixes for 5.3c

5.3b --> 5.3c


New stuff
-gandalf has got Staff ability
-Merry has new Q W and item ability

Balance changes
-ice at beginning of game is no longer that quick
-fighting at ice is possible
-gimlis axe has 500000 hit points
-ice does not affect bill
-falling ice at beginning of charadrass deals less dmg
-once again balance ofevil hero fight has been changed
-if gray has 2 heroes during evil hero fight then the one that does not have ring gets removed
-gandalfs ultimate is nerfed at evils hero fight, legolas volley is buffed at evils hero fight if legolas is evil hero.
-new spell has been added for some heroes at evil hero fight: cleave and summon nazguls
-bad heroes for pvp during evil hero fight get better buff
-at the evil hero fight only hero with the only one ring can enter mt doom, rest can enter it after cut scene is over


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5.3b is very small version i mostly made it on rush to check if my changes can fix 1 fps drop in game.



Merry and gandalf should be reworked in next ver!


New stuff:
-Slidding ice at chardarss at start
-Mouth of sauron, saruman, easterlings have new models.
-ending of game was added if evil hero manages to kill everyone

Gameplay change:
-Most of buy able items aren't kill able anymore
-Gandalf's blast ability a bit reworked, you can target any point instead of aoe next to gandalf
-Spawn of lb units at black gate is smaller, the time of orc spawn now adjusts with number of alive heroes. more heroes orcs spawn fater, less heroes orcs spawn slower.
-gollum final boss should be more difficult if only 1 hobbit is alive
-balance of evil hero changed, spell book is now added to evil hero it contains 4 abilities, also everyones extra lifes are ereased at evil hero fight. Evil hero gets stats bonus that depends on number of alive heroes and power of evil hero. For example boromir gets less stats because hes powerfull but pippin more.
-minimum range for boromirs bash ability has been removed
-all snow trolls gotta die in order to trigger charadrass cut scene



Bug fix:
-frodo can no longer be soft locked if minas tirith end before frodo got teleported to cirith ungol
-pippins attack no longer enables evils hero shield

Other stuff:
Trying to fix 1 fps drop issue
-Trigger that runs after grimma dies was bit modyfited
-trigger responsible for moria goblins retreating was modyfited
-boromirs bash ability has new trigger that works almost same as old one, i think old one had some errors.
-gandalf's blast and sam's pan knockback has got aswell new trigger
-outdated trigger that was adding some ability to every spawned unit on map has been removed.
(If anything that worked fine in game has been broken then report it! it can be because of recently changes)

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5.3a is hot fix for 5.2f

5.2e ---> 5.2f
Bug Fix:
-Floor appears propley at edoras's walls
-Frodo no longer can help sam to kill shelob
-Real frodo no longer can attack enemies while evil frodo appeared after using ring
-Hobbit's cannot stuck anymore at osghiliats's boats
-Theoden's foot (e) ability no longer deals dmg to friendly units
-Gandalf's ulti no longer destroys barricades at defeault black gate
-gimli is no longer able to jump throught blocked areas, also parabola was added so the effect of the jump looks more realistic, gimli also no longer requires minimum range for jump
-traps at moria (the 3 one after balins tomb) no longer spawn in same place, they spawn randomly like it used to be in previous versions


Gameplaychanges:
-After taking the one ring and walking to mt doom evil hero has now 100% chance to appear instead 50% (does not work on easy mode) also evil hero is buffed ring gives now more stats, windwalk ability, magic dmg resistance, and passive spell shield.
-Fear effect from aragorn's ultimate and boromir's horn cannot be casted anymore on heroes (this is to prevent desync at evil hero fight) Aragorn's ulti also no longer gives undestroyable armor to enemy heroes
-Legolas's volley amount of dmg dealt to heroes is now same as amount of dmg dealt to bosses
-Aragorn's W ability has higher duration during bow form
-Legolas can now use self heal if he becomes evil hero who took the one ring
-Evil hero that took the one ring gets cd of his abilities refreshed once the cut scene starts
-Boromir's horn aoe is nerfed at two towers, the aoe update isnt anymore as great as it used to be
-The hobbit who fights final boss gollum alone no longer requires 2 seconds of casting time when trying to take away the ring from gollum. Also the balance of fight (for solo hobbit) is reworked gollum has now more hp 53% instead 32%, but hobbits got greater armor update and some bread or water will spawn at middle of mt doom
-walls that mouth of sauron can summon no longer have colission
-poisoned theoden no longer can be killed by rohan soldiers if aragorn used ultimate skill
-mehanism of viewing current range of sam's rope has been changed
-its more noticeable when Frodo became evil after using ring text is viewed over him and sound is played, also lenght of frodo being evil is increased
-Frodo revives with 10% of mana and hp if he dies while being evil
-duration of aragorn's ulti making heroes not hit able is nerfed to 1 second during death path till trio reaches death king
-Merry and Pippin get now vision of whole area of first part of fargorn also treebeard becomes under yellow's control as soon as hobbits enter forest however he is not able to move till hobbits reach him
-Light blue's soldiers no longer spawn at black gate if all heroes are alive, however spawn for less amount of heroes alive was buffed

New stuff:
-Barlog is now more scary some extra sounds and camera shake were added
-Reworked / alterantive / new cut scenes:
1)Cut scene at mt doom, the text is now different character, it depends now what hero took the one ring (that's for evil hero ending)
2)Start of amon hen, this cut scene will trigger only if frodo is dead and aragorn and boromir are alive
3)end of amon hen (when boromir saved) if any trio member died cut scene will be different
4) fellowship's members talking with eomer. New cut scene will work only if boromir is alive.



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5.2e is hot fix for 5.2c

5.2c ---> 5.2d





New stuff:
-secret ending after killing sauron has been added, however it has % chance to happen. secret ending doesnt work in easy mode.

Bug fix:
-fixed bug with lb soldiers not spawninga t black gate
-sam's passive protect mr frodo should now work propley and give all bonuses its supossed to
-sam cant anymore hit frodo with his parry, sam cant aswell knockback frodo with pan
-dead eye and power of the ring cannot be picked every lvl
-eowyn no longer can be hidden in corner of minas tirith while black gate starts
-frodo's sting no longer resets sam's pan cooldown
-heroes can enter mount doom even if frodo/sam died inside mount doom and sauron appeared then
-bug with frodo not being able to go futher if sam is dead has been fixed
-bug with fodo killing gollum after black gate began and being able to instantly move has been fixed

Balance change:
-sam knockbacks and stuns target every third hit while using pan, instead 25% like it was before. sam can now aswell stun bosses with his pan, he wasnt able to
-sam can now only walk away from target with his rope up to 770 range instead 1000, warning message has been added on sam that appears at 650 range, it informs player that if he walks futher rope will break
-sam's Q spell no longer gives armor bonus at lvl 3
-if only one hobbit is alive during the final fight with gollum at mt doom he will no longer have 2 seconds of casting time while using ability steal ring from gollum. The hobbit who is fighting gollum solo will get +3 armor buff.
-battle troll that spawns at frodo's and sam's way to mount doom will always spawn with 50% hp
- about 5 orcs have been removed from hobbit's way to mt doom
-gollum that spawns before hobbits enter mt doom during the maze has +100 movement speed
-if only one hobbit is alive at way to mt doom the rain of fire which falls at hobbit is slower by 3 seconds
-catapult at black gate has more range
-heroes get 100% hp and mana after mouth of sauron dies from normal black gate
-heroes get 70% hp and mana if they tp to sauron and the mouth of sauron is alreday dead (if mouth is alive while they tp to sauron then they get 100% hp and mana)
-shelob's spiders are no longer immune to magic
-banner of gondor always spawns even if white tree died, but now if white tree died amount of soldiers owned by player light blue is reduced.
-orcs at black gate spawn every 38 seconds of game instead every 36
-frodo's ulti deals less dmg to gollum and shelob
-mouth of sauron's silence lasts 2 seconds longer
-saurons eye at black gate has bigger debuff



Other changes:
-tool tip for heroes atribute bonus has been fixed
-sam's pan sound isnt that much loud
-there is 10 seconds of break beetwen killing mouth and cut scene at normal blackgate
-serach for frodo and protect frodo ability no longer have same icons
-game now informs hobbits that wargs at way to mt doom can hit orcs
-every hero can now enter mt doom after killing sauron, heroes can aswell exit volcano






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5.2b ---> 5.2c
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-sauron's arena moved in order to use the place on the map more effective
-way to mt doom + final gollum fight for frodo and sam reworked and normal black gate
-frodo's and sam's abilities have been changed, special items for them were changed aswell.
-bug with aragorn's sword ability fixed.
-aragorn's might of the dunedain ability was bit nerfed in ranged version.
-gamlign's abilities have been fixed, some of them worked only on heroes
-boromir's horn item aoe gets improved late game
-most of abilities descriptions have been reworked
(ONLY FRODOS AND SAMS ABILITIES WERE CHANGED!!!!!! SPELLS FOR OTHER CHARACTERS WERENT! OLD FOR SOME HEROES OLD ABILITIES GAVE FALSE INFO)
-fixed bug with voting for impossible mode
-if frodo and sam die at way to mt doom or againts gollum then sauron will still appear, chracters will be teleported from the defeault black gate to black gate with sauron
-aragorn cannot anymore create double leadership effects by using tome of retraining
-when aragorn dies permanently leadership is removed from his ally
-if very ez mode is picked heroes get lvl 5 at start


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5.2b is hot fix for 5.2a


5.1f ---> 5.2a


This version mainly fixes a bugs that occoured in 5.1f

bug fix:
-bosses now should use their spells
-theoden now should work propley and teleport on battle field (helms deep) while being under control of light blue
-aragorns bow no longer drains mana when clicked in bow mode
-aragorn no longer has chance to bug his might of duneadin ability ater the watcher dies
-aragorn no longer summons worker with his ability
-fixed the bug that gave pippin courage of the shire effect no matter where pippin targeteg with the spell
-theodens and eomers summon gamling ability should now work propley
-pippins courage no longer triggers saurons shield
-fixed the bug with aragorn sometimes setting on fire unit even if he didnt active the flame sword


Gameplay change:
-aragorns might of the duneadin (W) ability nerfed in bow mode, in meele mode it has limit of targets, i think its 8 however it has also more aoe but less knockback distance
-after amon hen ends pippin is able to use apple item on himself too, pippin's apple description change every time pippin uses the apple, the description says whats next bonus going to be
-helms deep has new cap system if number of alive uruks equals to 100 or is greather than 100 then the new uruks stop spawning but if number of alive uruks is less than 100 they start spawning
-eomers spawn location at pelenor fields moved

Other changes (minor)
-changed snow texture and texture of rocks, its a bit preparation for unfreezing chardarass, however i dont believe i will do it fast because i wont have a time in one month to edit this map
-the new music that has higher quality is less louder






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5.1e --> 5.1f

new things
-Aragorn reworked:
1)use able item
2)new ulti
3)new spell on w thats different in ranged mode
4)leadership's bonuses changed

-Pippin reworked
1) use able item
2) new spell instead earth spirits
3) courage of shire nerfed
4) new passive ability that works differently in sword/throw rock mode


Gameplay change:
-theoden's horse charge has been bit changed
-theoden's sword item was changed too, mostly its balance
-cd of resummoning gamling is now longer if gamling died.
-gamlings speed bonus bit nerfed
-warg riders are immune to knockback
-gamling no longer can help trio at death path
-gamling's horn and bandage works now on heroes
-gamling can use his abilities faster
-for frodo, back stab's description was moved to string (his item)
-if only 1 hobbit is alive (sam or frodo) then group of urukhai at beginning of maze when the part two towers begins gets nerfed


Bug fix:
-eomers&theoden horse charge ability is no longer permanently removed from them if they died during horse mode
-fixed the bug with theoden having double charge abilities
-fixed rare bug with characters dying at gandalf returning to helms deep cut scene
-possibly fixed bug with gamling's NPC unit gain ability


other changes:
-amon hen, and the music played during two towers or return of the king has now higher quality
-bill has new model
-once again some scripts were changed or optimized i will make a list of things that got touched so if something is incorect you can tell me
1) some of sound's variables are now removed from memory after they finished playing
2) changed a bit the way units are spawned during saurons fight
3) trigger that gives gold of leavers to active players got changed
4) some location's variables that werent removed, are now removed from memory
5) changed the way some unit groups in memory are created
6) changed the way AI is ordered to fight at pelenor fields

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5.1d --> 5.1e


Gameplay change:
-Theodens skill set has been fully reworked, for now eomer has same skill set as Theoden.
-Eomer starts with same lvl and amount of experience as theoden had while dying at pelenor fields.
-Lutrz gets 67% of hp if only one member from trio is alive meanwhile lutrz spawns
-impossible mode requires more votes for 9 players in game its 7 votes required.
-balance of dead eye has been very slightly changed
-added check point after watcher dies, however it gives only 100% life and 60% mana
-helms deep spawn gets disabled a bit later now than in previous version, i mean disabling uruk hai spawn when the castle is flooded with urukhai
-urukhai in helms deep spawns now every 19 seconds of game, in old version it was every 22 seconds, 4 rohan soldiers have been removed from helms deep.
-gimlis axe can hit only 9 enemies max however it deals higher damage per lvl, the damage per lvl is now 16.
-reduced the amount of rohan riders at pelenor fields by 6
-boromirs ultimate spell slightly nerfed
-one lvl of attribute bonus (heroes stats) has been removed
-boromirs taunt spell has been changed and has 100 range less
-all heroes in game have same prioryty now, i am not sure if it matters but i found out there is in editor value called unit priority, its probably responsible for Ai aiming units with low priority

Bug fix:
-amon hen spawn for frodo and sam at the camp will no longer be disabled if 1 of the hobbits was dead.
-fixed the conditions for ending of minas tirith battle it should work now propley.

other changes:
-Any warnings about clokey have been removed, clokey has been forgiven.
-removed not really needed trigger that was running every time unit died on map and was put on waiting, i hope this can improve a bit fps during battles, however now bodies of dead units will stay on ground longer for few seconds



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5.1b and 5.1c and 5.1d are hot fixes for 5.1a




5.0f--->5.1a







New things
-Boromir has new model, new ability on horn item, new special ability, and the shiel of gondor defend ability has been changed a bit. boromirs ulti is still same but i got renamed.
-gimli has new item ability throw axe

Bug fix:
-eowyn no longer dies during minas tirith cut scene
-bug with bad randomization for some starting items fixed
-probably fixed major bug that didnt allow black gate to happen sometimes but now also battle of minas tirith will end when aragorn came and number of alive orcs next to minas tirith equals to 3 or is less than 3

Other minor changes:
-reworked a trigger that gives share of leavers to other players, it no longers check 100 if/then/else conditions every second of game. if there are any bugs with control let me know
-gandalf the gray has lighter skin
-new portrait for rohan soldier merry
-passage beetwen east and west osghiliat has been added
-some things were bit nerfed but i wont mention them because people never try to understant why i make nerfs, no one will really care if i add 100 new spells and items but if i make small nerf everyone will complain about it xd.
-knockback for mumakils at pelenor fields has been removed because its probably source of fatal lag that leads to 1 fps.
-changed a bit knockback's trigger for ents, trolls and sauron.






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5.0e--->5.0f
-bug with helms deep triggering twice fixed





5.0d ---> 5.0e

New things
-Gandalf the gray, mounted eowyn, mounted and dismounted theoden have new models
Bug fixs:
-fixed the bug with witch king killing frodo and sam at part 3 of game
-king aragorn's arrows should be now visible while hes using ranged mode

Other stuff:
-i changed the way game orders orcs at osghiliat to aim gondor's units i think it should be less laggy now hoever i doubt its responssible for 1 fps drop that happens sometimes







5.0c ---> 5.0d
-game still lags gg done a few changes and removed wait actions from some triggers


5.0b ----> 5.0c



-Once again a lot of job was put into optimization, i still found memory leaks that could have been responsible for lags
-removed alt path to save boromir cuz some people complained its againts lore
-water in isengard is less laggy
-death king shouldnt bug anymore and go out of his area
-fixed bug with merry not having rohan outfit if he was in ranged mode after killing saruman
-the change about boromir remove is late april joke xddddd i wonder if anyone believed such change





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5.0a ----> 5.0b




New things:
-pippin has gondor outfit skin when he uses his ultimate skill
-merry has rohan outfit skin after saruman dies
-gandalf the white has new horse and foot model

Bug fix
-Some changes in the map were done to prevent the 1 fps lag spike, however only by testing we can know if it got better. i am just guessing its something i added in recent updates so i removed one thing i added in recent update to check in this update if it will help
-fixed bug that allowed treebeard to do fargorn alone if pippin and merry were killed by grishniak
-goblin trap no longer spawns in death marshes
-Death king no longers gets 50% of hp if all heroes are alive
-gimli's and aragorn's corpses no longer grow while dying
-all kindnapers should be now removed when merry and pippin are moved from amon hen to fargorn so situation where trio can save hobbits shouldnt happen anymore
-fixed bug that caused sometimes endlessly spawning of urukhai at the camp after frodo and sam left amon hen.

Minor changes
-adjuset some animation speed for eowyn and aragorns models if its not enought let me know
-name of some game modes has been changed

Gameplay changes:
-Urukhai at helms deep stop spawning if the uruks are near the keep



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4.9f ---> 5.0a
Note this ver was not beta tested, so if there are any major bugs report it to me as fast as possible.

With the game becoming laggy sometimes i decided to do a lot of optimization at the triggers, i really hope it gets better now we have to find it out in this version, also note if something that always worked is bugged report it to me it means it got broken when i was changing triggers

New things:
-Aragorn has new models

Gameplay changes:
-Orcs at minas tirith stop spawning if the white tree of gondor is dead and witch king is dead or he escaped pelenor fields (nope, you cant win without aragorn its just done for optimization and less lag)
-lvl book is moved away from theoden
-for the optimization purposes reduced amount of fog and rain in helms deep and osghiliat
-the spawn location of heroes ,that arrive to defeault isengard after battle of helms deep was won, got changed. now also merry and pippin will teleport to that location too
-first gollum got slightly nerfed againts solo hobbit.

Bug fix:
-Gimlis mighty blow ability is fxed
-The down time of heroes reviving is changed from 2 seconds to 3 seconds, this change also fixed bug that took away heroes's sight radius after dying
-Death king has less Hp againts solo legolas or solo aragorn.





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4.9e ----> 4.9f

hot fix for 4.9e fixed major bug with sams dying, attachments for merry and pippin.



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4.9d ------> 4.9e

Art:
-Whole outside of edoras reworked and has new look
-terrain at Eomer's cut scene with trio was bit uppered to pretend people from seeing ugly flat space
-Eomer has new portrait
-Elven archers are litle bigger
-Shop at fargorn has new model
-Changed the time to night when entering lothorien
-New models:
1)Hobbits
2)Gimli
3)Legolas
4)Elrond
5)Eomer
6)Theoden
7)Riders of rohan
8)Elrond
9)Eowyn only foot version
10) Rohan villagers


Gameplay changes:
-Added tome of retraining to lorien shop
-Treebeard's throw spell has bit more dmg
-Theoden's lvl book is moved litle far away from theoden
-Story mode no longer substracts lvl of heroes when they die and no one can revive them but it substracts -1 all stats, also players have 2 lifes at story mode
-Legolas's abilities have been reworked
-When Sam permanently dies at amon hen 4 orcs next to sam will be removed from game, this only works if frodo is alive and sam didnt meet frodo yet
-Watcher can no longer deal dmg with his stomp to the person who is being stunned by the arms
-At amon hen the invisible blocker was replaced with 3 tress to make it more obvious for new players that they can't go to the camp before hobbits meet eachother
-Players can now see what mode other players voted at start of game
-Some texts at start of game were changed
-If Frodo or Sam permanently dies then hobbit who is alive will get +3 bonus to all stats
-Mushrooms have new model to make it obvious and eye catching
-all shops on map have the text over them that says Shop, this change is meant to make shops more obvious for new players
-When merry or pippin gets kindnaped during amon hen a red big text that says HELP ME will appear over them, this change is meant to make it more obvious for new players
-Elendil has less mana cost at lvl 2 and 3 and lasts 1 second longer
-Bill's feeding cd lowered
-Lowered master chef's mana cost at lvl 3 for Sam.



Bug fixes:
-fixed a trigger in osghiliat that probably led to downgrade of FPS if hobbit died druing osghiliat
-Grishniak's colission at fargorn will be no longer turned off during treebeard's knockbacks him because sometimes treebeard can throw him out of forest.
-Probably fixed critical bug with pause that can lead to the end of game if its used right before cut scene
-Fixed bug with leadership that allowed players to have x2 of leadership buffs at same time
-changed location of some dooads at the watcher to pretend characters to being thrown out of area
-Using serach for mr frodo spell will no longer disturb frying pan for sam
-Probably fixed the bug with Frodo being able to go to sam before sam came to him
-Fixed the bug with Frodo and Sam not being able to leave amon hen at story mode
-Probably fixed the bug with characters turning around at start of game
-Hobbit who enters as first minas morgul area is no longer able to remove second hobbit from osghiliat if he was still there

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4.9c------>4.9d


4.9D New/Modified content
-New story mode with alternative content 100% locked.Heroes can revive at check points
-New tip system that displays messages throughout the game giving useful information.
-New anti leaver troll system. when someone leaves you can type a command to start the vote that decides who should get share of leaver its usefull feature to prevent other ppl trolling leaver
terrain changes, 2 areas fully reworked:
1) Lorien and Rivendel have been completely revamped.
2) Some terrain changes at the exit of moria,way to mount doom after killing Sauron,Zone where trio walks after amon hen before they meet Eomer aswell as the place with statues which you can see before Amon Hen has been changed.



Bug fixes
-Possibly fixed a rare bug that was taking away everyone's gold
-Fixed issue with call for aid button, it now works normaly for Legolas and Aragorn.
-Fixed bug caused by the latest reforged pacht that made some rocks on map invisible
-Frodo can no longer rush to Sam if he spawned on the right side of Amon Hen.
-The triggers that revive characters were optimized so some bugs can be expected.
-Possibly fixed a bug with teal's call for aid button being available at black gate when teal's hero has full hp
-Feeding Bill's ability will no longer have CD if Sam uses this ability when he has no more gold
-Sharp rock at the start of Frodo's and Sam's maze is now owned by neutral player in order to prevent a rare bug that killed hobbits after cut scene with sharp rock ended

Gameplay changes
-Pippin and Merry receive now vision over Grishniak in the fargorn forest, once he spawns
-Once again for 100 th time i tried to make aiming volley bit easier
-At Frodo's and Sam's part of Amon hen,only one uruk should have a net skill, if the uruk with net skill dies then another one should spawn in next wave.in the previous version a lot of uruks with nets used to spawn.
-an voting to sail away from lothorien was added.
-Beer in Moria will now always drop from the last group of goblins before the tomb.
-There is now a 10 seconds delay in Balin's Tomb before goblins will spawn,the gate will now be attackable aswell by the goblins.
-Some goblins in Moria now have poison instead of bash.
-Gandalf has a new passive ability called immortality,whenever he dies and has no lifes left he will revive but lose some of his power(levels), it also means its no longer game over if gandalf dies
-When Merry or Pippin gets kindnaped during Amon Hen,their call for help sound will be automaticaly played
-Removed the droppable tomes from enemies before and in Moria.
-The spawn of uruks for frodo and sam near boats at amon hen will begin when the repair ability is used for the first time.
-All except 1 Uruk-hai traps at Amon Hen are now replaced with wooden logs, players will now receive vision of the logs as well.
-Banners from alternative black gate(Sauron) have been removed for now.
-Sauon,Battle trolls,Ents and Treebeard now have a new ability called greater bash, it pulls away the target and stuns it for 2 seconds.
-When Gandalf arrives the battle of helms deep will be over if number of alive uruks is less than 3.


Minor changes
-new voice line for gimli during balins tomb battle
-new heal effect and animation for Sam's (Q) and Frodo's (Q)
-Lembas bread, elven water and the rocks that frodo and sam can pick at Amon hen now have new models.
-Boats at amon hen now have new models, Heroes are now also visible during the cuscene.
-The english text in the map has been polished.
-Bill now loses lifepoints instead of mana
-The clickable rock's text about the downtime of charadrass path release has been updated.
-the Call for aid button is now disabled during few cut scenes at part 1 of story.
-One more voice line for call for aid button has been added.,only for the 9 main heroes.
-Latest WC3 patch made it so the tress now can now propely use custom models,All the tress now have custom models.
-Old models that were in the map's memory but weren't used have been removed, so if some model or skin thats useful was removed by mistake it should be reported to me so i can re-add the said model

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Other changes:
-Updated the link for discord of this map, map has new discord.



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4.9a ----> 4.9b

New things:
-treebeard has new ability grab and throw orc

Bug fix:
-when teal player will click call for aid button, the help text shouldnt be shown under random heroes anymore


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4.8f -----> 4.9a


new things:
-if king theoden is dead then lady eowyn will lead ronhirim charge at pelenor fields, if both eowyn and theoden are dead then still king theoden will lead charge

Bug fix
-fixed the bug that made call for aid button visible permanently when the hero died forever, or when gandalf or boromir died
-fixed the dying at black gate, in 4.8f it wasnt fixed propley game could have ended if 1-2 persons were alive at black gate
-eowyn or beregond cannot be killed anymore by orcs at black gate when the game ends
-treebeard no longer is affected by the logs at fargorn that slow him
-tired to fix possiblity of spliting the trolls at the start
-witch king should now spawn normaly at pelenor fields
-fixed bug with orcs retreating too ereally at osghiliat
-the message about treebeard staying neutral will no longer appear when merry and pippin are dead out of fargorn
-fixed the bug that didnt show 2d portrait of white gandalf at horse
-fixed the bug that occoured only when you save boro, if all of the uruks from the statue are lured to alt path thats available when u save boro game wont end now.
-whole map is no longer visible during rohan coming to minas cut scene also the rohan coming to minas sound is now only hearable for merry,pippin,gandalf and theoden player
-the items at right shop on lvl 2 at minas are now sellable without having to run behind the shop

Gameplay change:
-the cd of hobbit's prepare boat skill at amon hen has been changed from 16 seconds to 11, added (no exp or gold) to name of orcs which dont give gold or exp during frodos and sams amon hen, uruk scouts have 5 speed less, the info of tip signs at frodo's and sam's amon heen have been updated, the uruks that spawn on frodo till sam comes are limited they can spawn maximum 5 times. 5 times x 2 uruks = 10 uruks, the starting spots at amon hen for frodo and sam are slightly changed
-sauron has 1k hp less and no longer can dispell summons from merry, eomer and beregond, banner at saurons fight gives now movement speed to orcs and sauron, it no longer slows the fellowship heroes, sauron has also 1 armor less
-night elf race in the lobby is changed to human in order to save some space in the map
-the white raising when gandalf is found is now only shown for players who are watching this cut scene
-cd of the help button has been increased from 7 to 10 seconds, also no longer the text that someone needs help will appear but a buff over the unit who requires help will appear so like that help button is less annoying
-mordor banner at sauron fight has 150 less hp
-changed the boromir's portrait during minas tirith
-tired to make legolas's aiming with volley bit easier idk if its helpful
-functions of the call of aid button are turned off at all the cut scenes till end of amon hen (button still can be clicked but wont work)

Other changes
-better coursor, made by luckythriteen

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4.8e ----> 4.8f


New things:
-Gandalf the gray, treebeard have new models, also boromir has gondorian skin during minas tirith siege the gandalfs , treebeards models and boromirs skin were sponsored by gimli007
-ents that are controled by hobbits during isengard siege have now two models
-some new elements of ui
-gandalf now leaves his hat at balins tomb (its inspired from movie, he left his hat at the tomb)
-added call for aid button in right down corner. when player presses a message will appear that his char needs help, and sound HELP MEEEEE will play (another sound than while dying)


Gameplay change:
-camera shake during using shrooms is little nerfed
-the maximum lvl that frodo and sam can gain at amon hen is lvl 6
-added difficulty voting at start
-starting cut scene is now shorter by at least 10 seconds
-now it will be shown on the screen who voted yes or no at votekick
-all the items that are available at shops have reworked descriptions
-the damage from watcher's war stomp is increased from 120 to 240
-for frodo and amon hen the boat that isnt repair by hobbits will be removed from game after one of hobbit will use their repair ability
-the patrolling uruks, and the green orc scouts at amon hen dont give anymore gold when they die. so it means theres no really big point to kill them
-lowered a bit sight range of orc scouts
-removed 2 traps from randomly spawn in amon hen
-changed a bit terrain at amon hen for frodo and sam, to make sure there wont be situation where traps spawns in one place and hobbits wont have any other way to pass around them
-ring now steals 8% of frodos max hp
-sams frying pan hotkey changed to e
-treebeard shouldnt get now dmg from wild brush
-for boro's team at amon hen the choke was readded but in other place that mostly meant for situation when only 2 of 3 heroes are alive

Bug fixes:
-fixed the bug that hapenned rare and didnt let gray palyer have vision of amon hen end cut scene
-players cannot move their heroes when entering moria while the screen is black
-using shield bash will no longer remove effects from boromir
-fixed the bug that allowed goblins to hit frodo/sam even when they used ring in balins tomb battle
-fixed the bug that didnt let black gate happen if eowyn and merry were dead before WK spawned
-fixed the defeat conditions at normal at black gate which were working a bit in previous ver but not rly propley
-treebeard no longer can be hited by wild brush
-fixed the bug that tped 1 of hobbit instantly to the camp if the second hobbit was killed inside camp
-fixed the bug with the ! on the trolls head not being shown propley
-also the patroling uruk hai before the camp wont anymore aim hobbits if they are in middle of tress
-if frodo/sam uses ring and walks near the orc scouts or the patroling uruks (the part of amon hen before camp) the uruks wont turn into enemies
-fixed the bug which didnt teleport frodo/sam futher, if one of them was dead meanwhile boat was repaired by second hobbit
-orc scouts at amon hen shouldnt have any problems with aiming frodo or sam now
-orc scouts will no longer attack frodo/sam when hes using the one ring
-blizzard fixed function to change name of players in game, so in next warcraft patch everyone should have character name near their nickname, just like it was in old frozen throne
-lowered a bit colission of the boats for frodo and sam at amon hen
-pressing enter meanwhile votekick was began will no longer lead to acciendly voting
-corspes will be no longer shown under bill's feets
-probably fixed the bug with orcs at osghiliat attacking only one bridge

Very minor changes:
-giant is now renamed to boss
-added info at right up corner that shows the number of version u are playing
-probably fixed the bug that showed the horn of gondor buff under aragorn when he uses leadership


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4.8d ---> 4.8e

New things:
-few new ui icons
-Fully reworked amon hen for frodo and sam
- Some uruks that spawn againts Boromir Merry Pip in amon hen can kindnap hobbits (same mehanism as againts watcher

Bug fix:
-sarumans flame strike no longer can destroy tress in fargorn
-frodos backstab ignores the armour of the units so it will deal now a bit more dmg
-orcs at osghiliat go throught both bridges now
-all issues with leadership are fully fixed
-frodos and sams cloak will be no longer removed when they switch to rock mode at death marshes
-changed the way aragorn receives king form to avoid serveral issues with it
-fixed the bug by removing patrol button that occoured only when sam/frodo played solo and they could not get hobbits cloak because of not enought spell slots
-fixed the problem with too much arms spawning randomly at start of battle, also changed amount of spawn of starting arms to 4




Gameplay change:
-merrys, eomers, beregonds ulti is available at saurons fight but at half of its power
-reworked shades at death marshes
-made sure that mountain trolls at start cannot be splited
-leadership's effect will be removed from allies if aragorn is permanently dead
-leadership has new icons
-grabbed hero will be auto selected for the owner of hero after arm that grabbed him is killed
-Rohan no longer has to kill 1 orc to trigger minas tirith event, it should trigger when all tents are found
-a red ! (exclamation mark) will now appear on watcher 2.5 seconds before he casts his warstomp that knockbacks, also war stomp deals now 120 dmg, in previous ver it didnt deal any dmg
-exclamation mark will appear aswell for short time before cave troll casts war stomp, his war stomp dmg is buffed by 20 dmg
-changed the way volley works, volleys arrows can hit more than 1 unit, also the dmg from arrows is reduced if they hit boss unit
-moria entrace better effects
-added check point after minas tirith that puts heroes mana and hp to 100% (check point works only if they fight vs sauron)
-legolas starts now with elven wine item
-sauron is buffed, he has now shield if he uses it and someone casts spells on him during his shield then heroes near sauron are damaged and stunned, also added the mordor banner that randomly spawns and gives debuff, mordor banner is kill able
-litle nerf of uruks for boromirs team at amon hen since the kindnap mehanism was added (i will do bigger nerf if needed)
-aragorn no longer loses 200 hp of max life in ranged mode but now he loses -3 armor in ranged mode
-descriptions of all aragorns abilities are reworked


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4.8c ---> 4.8d

New things:
-Frodo has new passive ability backstab
-New music in moria,during watcher fight and night during watcher fight. also new music during balin tomb battle

Bug fixes:
-probably fixed bug where some heroes can be thrown into lava by using gimlis jump at bridge of khaza dum thats not sure since this bug happens hardly ever if it happens again report it
-bill cannot vote for difficulty modes
-hopefully fixed the bug with arms making some heroes permanently dissapear
-mumakils dont have devour
-hobbits are no longer able to receive two hobbit cloak abbilities
-osghiliat will now probably create less lags in game
-bill doesnt steal exp from heroes
-leadership switch button for aragorn fixed, same with the bug where aragorn isnt able to use leadership even if hes at meele mode
-fixed leadership's description it said it was able to regen mana
-aragorn in king's form shouldnt have any problems with leadership now
-fixed bug on hard mode game will not end if heroes died
-volley more dmg on lvl 1, arrows have bigger colission




Gameplay changes:
-volley bit buffed
-frodos heal has 2 second less on cd on every lvl
-flamestrike instead firetrap near bridge of khaza dum added
-if frodo is dead then sam will instantly heal by 175 hit points when using marlon tree (it works only at parts amon hen - osghiliat. it doesnt work againts shelob or anywhere futher if frodo is dead)
-fight with the watcher remaked once again
-killing arms from watc
-treebeard no longer steals hobbit's exp so 2 lvl books from fargorn are removed
-lego's knive hotkey changed to e
-urukhai in fargorn that have to be doodged with hobbit cloak no longer have cirtical strike
-earth spirits buffed
-to save boromir, boromir,aragorn legolas, gimli and pippin or merry has to be alive
-gandalf is not able to take torch from moria
-mountains trolls at the start no longer can be splited when luring them
-Boromir's splash on wrath buffed
-critical strike on wargs bit buffed
-merrys firework litle debuffed
-changed targetting of lvl 1 cripple for legolas
-pan's addonital dmg buffed
-urukhai captains are removed from boromir's team spawn at amon hen


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4.8b --> 4.8c

(Note the changelog is not excatly, i might have forgotten about some changes)

1.New things (mostly spells)

1)Legolas
-changed the way volley works, only 1 arrow can hit 1 target, also improved dmg per arrow but made less arrows, arrow also slows the target
-elven knives have now life steal
-volley cant be used in knives mode
-legolas cripple is now aoe 1/2/3 targets

2)Sam
-Parry has a few % of chance less
-instead earth spirits added frying pan
-instead potatoes added mallon tree, aoe heal and armor boost

3)Boromir
-wrath no longer gives % chance to stun and knockback, but instead it gives splash
-new ability shield bash charge

4)Aragorn
-aragorn's heal skill has new effect and works in bit diff way
-new ability instead evasion leadership, aragorn can share some bonus abilities to ally

5)Pippin
-new ability instead evasion, courage of shire

6)Merry
-new ability instead fan of knives, firework

7)frodo
-a heal skills that works a bit different

-Hobbits have now capes, sam and frodo have backpacks
-Merry gets bit another outfit when he joins rohan army
-Changed fighting with the watcher boss, arms can now grab fellowship members
-bill is now a hero
-added fire trap near bridge of khaza dum
-since new spells were added difficulty is changed to suit new spells



Bug fix:
-some traps in moria are no longer killed by rockfall
-if 1 person is alive game will not end at black gate now
-1 dwarven beer should now drop for 100% before balin tomb
-amon hen will now end if less than 2 uruks are alive, same for a rock before gandalf the white, it was done that way to avoid bugs where one of uruk was thrown into tress so game couldnot be continued
-items have less chance to spawn under barlogs feet, or at least should be easier to click
-hopefully fixed the bug with gollum at mount doom, gollum shouldnt leave mount doom anymore on his own.
-fixed the bug where people could avoid a rockfall place in moria by going around it

Minor changes or balance changes
-elendil no longer can slow movement speed of units since volley is able to do it now.
-death king has less hit points if gimli is alive as the only one character
-frodo's rock mode cant be used when sting is active
-uruks have now 40 more hit points
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The Big Fellowship Quest V.5.7c (Map)

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Daffa
Too long as Awaiting Update. Substandard until the author updates and requested another review.
deepstrasz
Please credit everything in the map thread description, sounds, music etc. from where they were taken from. Good ideas which need polishing. Approved. If you want more reviews, you should participate in the The Grand Review Exchange! R U L E S...
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One if not the best custom of WC3. This game plays and feels like the Lord Of the Rings. Takes me back to the 2000s when LoTR was fresh and this game just came out. Solid character models, Sound and overall immersion into the world of LOTR. BRAVO BRAVO
 
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Sadly 3 players disconnected when the watcher of moria's gate spawned.
I got informed about it at discord, its more ffective to fix bugs. Its first time it happens so i assume it would be blizzards fault. I havent changed anything at moria gate trigger sicne few versions if it happens more times its a signal that its likley to be maps fault. there wasnt any also message desync detected can you check your error folder if u have desync logged from that day and that game?
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One if not the best custom of WC3. This game plays and feels like the Lord Of the Rings. Takes me back to the 2000s when LoTR was fresh and this game just came out. Solid character models, Sound and overall immersion into the world of LOTR. BRAVO BRAVO
ty im still updating this but im slow because it takes me much time and im busy also sometimes i just dont have motivation
 
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Easily the best custom game on WC3. This game is the epitome of custom games. Solid coop rpg style quest game. Kinda like 7 blademasters but more indepth and less random.

You play as 1 of the 9 members of the fellowship and each hero has unique abilites and a path. Essentially 9 games in one if you take a different character each time. The music and cuttscenes are amazing.

Its basically playing through the LoTR triology but instead of taking 11+ hours its 1.5-2 and its super fun. Solid game.
 
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