Available Version:
This is kind of weak, but it's a glimpse at rebalancing of classes and weapons. If it makes you grin for 15 minutes that's good.
(No graphic changes yet.)
Positions:
- Scripting: Asher
- Modelling: Trooper5445, Jlgx50 (thanks guys)
- Writing: Suspect-Device (welcome aboard!)
- Testing: Need Volunteers Soon! (currently in alpha stage)
Here is a preview of the map.
Description of the mod:
Note:
This first post describes the mod in a more accurate way than the original, reading the first page and a half past this may cause some initial confusion, be aware.Taking place in the beginning of the Bronze Age, centered around the ancient Near East, the time period will be roughly Hammurabi's day, 1750 B.C. It will include actual locations, biblical characters, and a historically accurate but fictional story.
Background:
The Deluge is a myth about a great flood that supposedly overtook the world in 2105 BC (according to some dates) and was said to have wiped out all of mankind. Not one human being - or in fact, living thing, survived the flood except one family: an old man, his three sons, and their wives. They boarded a huge boat which took them 120 years to build, and took with them a pair of each type of animal that we have today, i.e. a pair of great cats, a pair of elephants, a pair of dogs, etc. This is the biblical account of noah's flood.
~Here's where we get into a little of my own imagination~
The story begins the day after Noah's death. He lived 350 years after the earth flooded over... and his three sons who are now very old themselves have many descendants of their own, who have replenished the earth. So anyway, now that Noah is dead, whose home became the Ark after the flood... his three sons and their tribes go to war against each other. The rest of history is at stake, and as they are the last vestige of the dawn of mankind, everything we know has come from these three men... and their actions. All the peoples of the earth we have today can trace their lineage back to them. But nevertheless, at this time there were within the Ark many secrets, knowledge which has been passed down since then, that had been collected since the beginning of mankind's current existence. And there are treasures too, some merely crude technologies that were around in the days before the flood: engineering, tactics, elementary teachings... but some were gifts from other worlds, from the angels and even God himself, which had been given to the first people. So we venture back into the second dawn of mankind. After the Cataclysm, there was a new beginning... one filled with tears and bloodshed. That's the story, and now you must decide which of the three great factions you will join, if you will take up the cause of some other force, be good or evil, or side only with yourself... you
may decide the future of mankind.
Some of the ideas I'm hoping to include-
- Pitching tents to create a temporary scene wherever the player is...
- Higher mercenary tiers that will become available based on your popularity with towns and their location.
- Unlockable weapons and armor upon rediscovering and/or discovering technology.
- Fictional races: Giants, Vampires, and Fallen Angels.
- New, innovative troop type: charioteers.
- Issuing commands to your faction's lords based on Intimidation (Personal Skill).
- Branching side quests concerning the forces of good and evil.
- Dangerous but lucrative trade routes both on land and sea.
- Ability to "siege" and take another boat.
This is going to be a small to medium-size mod when I first release it, which should be around the time the next version of M&B comes out. Eventually though, it's looking to be about a total conversion, making it a fairly large sized mod, and one of the most ambitious I've seen, so if your interested in further info, wanting to help, or just to give a little encouragement, please feel welcome!
- Asher
