The Return of Ragnar

[Razze]

love all your campaign so far
although every single one of your campaign is a short one but there are no bugs at all as far as i know
do you have any plan on making a big campaign? like a few cinematics with at least maybe 5 or more mission?

 

[puck]

love all your campaign so far
although every single one of your campaign is a short one but there are no bugs at all as far as i know
do you have any plan on making a big campaign? like a few cinematics with at least maybe 5 or more mission?

How many mission in this campaign?

 

[Razze]

How many mission in this campaign?

1 cinematics as prologue and 2 mission

 

[SanyaBelotsky]

love all your campaign so far
although every single one of your campaign is a short one but there are no bugs at all as far as i know
do you have any plan on making a big campaign? like a few cinematics with at least maybe 5 or more mission?

Glad you’re enjoying them. For now, I’m taking a break from Warcraft. Maybe I'll make some fixes to my older projects from time to time. I want to learn a new editor and work on an expansion for my favorite game, Half-Life 2. So that’s the plan for now.

 

[SuBTeRFuGio]

Hi I´m enjoying this campaign so far. I have mine posted too (Animals Rebellion).

From a random player point of view, I write my opinions:
- Lovely modeling and game layout
- Very cared sounds
- I miss some hero spells customizations
- Intro and Quest 1: There are some sound-sentences that are not typed on screen, maybe it was your intention.
- Quest 1: once you have all clean, as cart is slow, it´s pace anticlimatic to have to wait for the cart to go back to base and come back to plunder. Too much money for the population cap available.
- Quest 2: very nice the "smart hotkey system" (Q, W, E....) i also use it. But why peons don´t have it?

Too short but great Campaign.
Thanks for the post.

 

[DREADMAN]

Buratino?

 

[SanyaBelotsky]

Hi I´m enjoying this campaign so far. I have mine posted too (Animals Rebellion).

From a random player point of view, I write my opinions:
- Lovely modeling and game layout
- Very cared sounds
- I miss some hero spells customizations
- Intro and Quest 1: There are some sound-sentences that are not typed on screen, maybe it was your intention.
- Quest 1: once you have all clean, as cart is slow, it´s pace anticlimatic to have to wait for the cart to go back to base and come back to plunder. Too much money for the population cap available.
- Quest 2: very nice the "smart hotkey system" (Q, W, E....) i also use it. But why peons don´t have it?

Too short but great Campaign.
Thanks for the post.

Thank you. As for the sounds, that was intentional. Regarding the cart transport, yes, it might take a bit long, but I designed it with the idea that players could explore some areas not related to the main quests in the meantime.

Buratino?

+yes

 

[ZiRBy231]

Good campaign, though too short for my liking. Would have liked more plot to go on, but it is sufficient enough as it is. Personally liked the setting and characters, gameplay was easy and immersing. All in all, well-made mini-campaign, nothing more, nothing less.

 

[DREADMAN]

A short and classic campaign.
It is very easy to play through.
I didn't find anything new, everything is standard, except for the idea of a cart with looted resources
The campaign was completed in 1 hour (without haste).

 

[puck]

I finish it，dont very like the voice of ragnar,too gloomy.But genally its ok.Can I translate it?

 

[krawg]

you have a unique way of making campaigns it allawys take us away from the generic warcraft 3 theme i like it alot i wish it was longer like the scarlet crusade one hope you keep your great work

 

[Karak]

- Voice Acting: The AI-generated voice acting enhances the atmosphere, but Ragnar’s voice felt somewhat unusual and less fitting compared to other characters.
- Difficulty Balance: The gameplay balance is quite easy, allowing for smooth progression without too much challenge.
- Graphics in Reforged: Certain characters lack HD models, which detracts from the visual quality when played on the Reforged version.
- Lore References: The storyline could be enriched with more references to Warcraft lore, which would add depth and enhance immersion in the universe.
- Gameplay Experience: With a short playtime and straightforward mechanics, the map is ideal for a quick and enjoyable gaming session.

 

[Scias]

For the AI voice acting I would suggest avoiding contractions like "isn't" "we're" "we'll", instead write both of the words like "is not" "we are" "we will", since it seems to never read the contractions correctly.

Spoiler: My thoughts

On the first mission, the resources cart missions could be improved if you had to combat some unit spawns while the cart is channeling, and there could be escort missions each time having to protect the cart on the way back. It doesn't have to be peasants chasing you every time, but for example an Ogre raid could spawn, maybe ensaring the cart for the duration of the battle. Since currently there isn't much to do while the cart is traveling and the absence of the Bandit escort during the cart rides just feels strange.

Other then that I liked the first mission, I like the variety in units and models usage, the terrain is also really well done. There is room for difficulty increase, to make the game a bit more challenging and enjoyable, maybe some more special characters like the lumberjacks have? With abilities and auras to make the battles a bit more difficult?

In the second mission I liked the idea of a mortar team hero, but I think there's a wasted opportunity giving him such small range, and using Heavy Shells single target damage bonus ability instead of Fragmentation Shards like Mortars usually have, it just didn't feel right to see explosions that don't do any AoE. Also Scatter Shot seems a little too strong, maybe 10-25damage per pellet would make more sense, but it's enjoyable to lure ghouls and skeletons together with Regnar, stun them and then AoE nuke them with Scatter Shot, it's also good at nuking Necromancers, but I'm not sure if this ability should be used in both cases. It could work better if one of his abilities was better against single target, killing Necromancers, and other doing AoE.

There is a bit of a difficulty spike when you reach Undead base, that could be fine tuned a bit imo.

Overall, very nice terrain work, I like the setting and the characters, there are some enjoyable gameplay elements, a lot of potential for a larger campaign. 5/5.

 

[edgar quispe]

The campaign was great although it should have a chapter of 10 missions or 8 like that to make the game more entertaining

 

[possionthefish1]

Thank you for the campaign; it was very short, but I enjoyed it while it lasted. I hope you will continue to make more if you enjoy making it and have time to do so.

Thanks again!

 

[deepstrasz]

The battle with the caravan isn't credible. The knights seem more powerful. The wagons simply explode and the bandits clutter face to face in one place afterwards.
They are supposed to pillage and rob but instead of doing that with everyone, they help some people? It's kind of weird and out of character.
The cart has some ability instead of Attack which looks like a skull and has its tooltip missing.
The farmers who come after you rob them, don't follow the wagon but go to the farm.
Units selected during cinematic mode.
Both undead and enemy humans are red. It's because for some reason, the allied colour button was pressed.
The Assassin walks faster than Ragnar on horse. I guess either his horse is old or too fat or too heavily armoured? Or perhaps, Ragnar is fat or heavily armoured and actually sitting on a donkey?
From chapter 2, a sort of redemption story arc could ensue. Of course, it's just an idea.

Overall, a nice concept. Thin techtree and custom gameplay mechanics though.

Approved.

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[Greedy Procrastinator]

The map gives me Overlord vibes for sure and it's good feeling!
Nice choice of music.

I suppose you picked tg bot as nobody was willing to voice, I can understand that. At least you tried to set the right voices to the "actors" (Ragnar as Geralt(?) the inadequate neighbour (demoman) )

Now let me tell you that I am very pleased that you chose my villager model that I animated for farmer fighters... it was good moment for me that it made me laugh! xD

 

[SAM_PorL]

I really had to fight with myself to not give this 5 stars.
Its really short but what is there is polished and full of detail.
Never saw an issue with tts in campaigns and the Geralt voice really fits. I only wish that there was more as the story has no time to develop into what I hoped it would. Still a pretty well made campaign.

 

[SanyaBelotsky]

The battle with the caravan isn't credible. The knights seem more powerful. The wagons simply explode and the bandits clutter face to face in one place afterwards.
They are supposed to pillage and rob but instead of doing that with everyone, they help some people? It's kind of weird and out of character.
The cart has some ability instead of Attack which looks like a skull and has its tooltip missing.
The farmers who come after you rob them, don't follow the wagon but go to the farm.
Units selected during cinematic mode.
Both undead and enemy humans are red. It's because for some reason, the allied colour button was pressed.
The Assassin walks faster than Ragnar on horse. I guess either his horse is old or too fat or too heavily armoured? Or perhaps, Ragnar is fat or heavily armoured and actually sitting on a donkey?
From chapter 2, a sort of redemption story arc could ensue. Of course, it's just an idea.

Overall, a nice concept. Thin techtree and custom gameplay mechanics though.

Approved.

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Thank you. Regarding the caravan and why the knights are weak, I did not want the battle to last too long. Plus, if we consider realism, it was meant to represent a surprise attack, an ambush, which is why the knights died so quickly. As for the Assassin's running speed, honestly, I did not pay attention to it. However, if we take Medieval Total War as an example, it had both light and heavy cavalry, and in some cases, light infantry was faster than heavy cavalry))

The map gives me Overlord vibes for sure and it's good feeling!
Nice choice of music.

I suppose you picked tg bot as nobody was willing to voice, I can understand that. At least you tried to set the right voices to the "actors" (Ragnar as Geralt(?) the inadequate neighbour (demoman) )

Now let me tell you that I am very pleased that you chose my villager model that I animated for farmer fighters... it was good moment for me that it made me laugh! xD

Yes, I chose the voice bot and slightly adjusted contractions to make it sound better, as Scias suggested. However, I did not implement this in every instance. Your villager models are excellent. Usually, people create models for, say, Orcs, which have thousands of variations, while other unit categories only get 1-2 options.

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[VanAndro]

Short and catchy game. You just get the hook, and it's game over.

BUT! What if:
1. You don't start with building a base (camp) – you can easily destroy the base of the Undead with only two heroes and almost completely without resistance. The moment they destroy the Necropolis, it's game over.

2. If you destroy all the enemy's buildings without the Necropolis, build your camp to the maximum, parry 3 Undead attacks, and then sweep everything.

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Maybe you should ban Ragnar and his units from leaving the area before they build City Hall.

Perhaps in the future, the game will undergo significant development. I would be happy about that because, in the end, I was very disappointed that there were no more levels.

Thanks for the campaign.

 

[abbsomes]

Is it RTS or RPG? I would appreciate if you mentioned the genre

 

[PenetratorGod]

Not a bad campaign except for some irrelevant background music choices. But in the end I won't give it a high rating because I don't find the story and the main character very interesting.

 

[Grimm_Zocker]

better than most levels