Battle for Middle Earth 2

Dzhon has written us yet another montrous article about his experience with BFME2 at the Dream Machine Tour at Marina Del Rey in LA.

http://mevault.ign.com/View.php?view=Columns.Detail&id=47

An interesting part of the article is that it seems EA has been balancing issues found in the beta:

Dwarves – This will be the shortest but probably most talked about update. Many players have perfected the use of Lone Tower and the powerful Charge ability of Guardians to steamroller their opponents early. Well, that’s over with. Guardians must reach Level 2 to get Charge and Lone Tower has swapped places with Repair, making it a 10 PP spell.

that could have been me but my dad didnt take me cause he had more imporortant stuff to do(watch tv what the fuck is that)!!!!1!!!

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lol i feel terribly sorry 4 u m8.

argh I wish EA would update the beta. It wouldn't be such a large thing to do I think. Can't wait to use the ALL NEW Shelob. She will roxxor j00 dwarvish a$$es .

The article is sad. Sucky AI for War of the Ring and campaigns . . . that's crap.

Can Apoc, Hero or Maddox refute this in any way? I can rarely play online and if the AI isn't a challange I won't be getting this game. I simply will not be able to play online very often.

i dont understand how AI can be as bad as that, EA's made games before with fine AI are they trying sumthing new an its going wrong or what? after all the AI is a pretty damn imprtnt part of the campaign mode
i dont think its gunna be that bad, i have faith

Did you guys ask nick if u could link that? I hope you didnt and he is shitting his pants and having a hissy fit.

well look at it this way, apoc said that madddox was there to test out the brutal setting and it was good enough to show it on the elvish video.. so if brutal is brutal thats awesome. . Everyone complains that the bfme ai sucks because they memorize a buildorder to beat it.

well people have different expectations - maybe he expected the hard difficulty to be MaSTerMiNd.

i truely believe that the EA team is improving the AI system, cuz the game is out on March 2nd and today is only about 5th of Feb...

what do u think they are gonna be doing (except for making the actual disks in the factory and gettin the boxes loaded on and off cargo ships)???

well we can never be sure - so why stay negative while the result can be totally impressive?

Personally i think that the AI for the first game was great early but then it got bad once u started upgrading everything u have. Also the AI just needs to attack in waves and it would be amazing. Also small things like defending bottlenecks would be great. The AIs major weakness IMO was how it would try to establish a forward presence. IE buliding in a triple outpost with a well statue and a tower . This concept is probably the most important thing to consider for BFME2 because it is so important for maintaing an attack.

It actually was Maddox vs Hero in the video - although they played the Brutal AI, it wasn't showcased in the vid.