Battle for Middle Earth 2

IGN has just released a Goblin strategy video to accompany the unit rollout and Developer's Diary released earlier this week.

Here is the link. Enjoy

Discuss this new video here



This post has been edited by [EG]YkudzA: Feb 4 2006, 07:02 AM

Most of you have different strategies, so for the pro-players out there, this video isn't necessarily for you )

Hope you like my edit, cheers,
APOC

Hey, thanks for the Vid!

Bananas for you!

I know, but it's good to know that many benificial changes have been done for the Goblin faction since the beta.

P.S. The game speed seems faster in the video than in the beta. Has it really been increased?

Hey Aaron, tell Greg I said GJ on the commentary!

Though somehow.. I believe that HE had a well-thought out speech written

Yup. Greg did a nice job. Congratulations Greg!

Everyone, find more details on the video in this topic:
http://www.gamereplays.org/community/index...0&gopid=807077&

P.S. Did you guys knew that Greg Black, lead balance designer, sometimes browses these forums? I forgot his actual nickname, but I saw him several times.

This post has been edited by raduneo: Feb 4 2006, 03:06 AM

Great Job.

I just rememeber the nickname of the lead balance designer: it's EA-Platinum.

Great job, Greg! I really love how the Goblins turned out. But could you please tell us if game speed is really as fast as in that video? Pleease! (or at least PM me about it, I won't tell anyone )

This post has been edited by raduneo: Feb 4 2006, 03:09 AM

Glad you guys like the video

At middle earth middleearthcenter.com it says: "Expect next week to have an "Elven" touch."

So it will be the elves, and not the dwarves that we shall see next week?

Omg @ video.

No offense, but making lots of units and controlling the map is common sense. That's the basic strategy for EVERY faction in BFME 2.

1.) Fill up your popcap as quickly as possible and keep it full
2.) Pressure your enemy
3.) Control the map

And Drogoth rush is a good way to lose against anyone decent

Pending Aaron's permission, GameReplays is going to release a strategy guide that explains exactly what you need to do as Goblins to start winning games regularly.

Good video and all, but I think most gamers already know they should get as much money as possible and the only way to do that is to control the map

In terms of strategy, of course that the video didn't show us anything special... but in terms of positive changes since the beta, it shows us that EA really cares, and that this is most probably going to be an incredibly good game!

Thats why the first post to this topic was that it wasn't necessarily intended for pros rofl
We're not the only ones that watch those videos

Hey Thanx for the Info

That's very interesting. Main infantry is weak but very fast.The Gaints look very strong when used proply.

i really hope speed is increased it looked so much better an i hope its not just for uber pc's

Great vid for n00bs. I certainly hope you're not going to promote camping for MOTW / Dwarves There's a bunch of rookies who're going to use these as a holy grail to play from.

^lol let them use these. A noob is still a noob, I don't care what instructions he's using. If he can't adapt to his opponents strategy, or beings the battle with a pre-determend view of what his opponent is going to do, he will most likely end saying "WTF! the video was wrong!"

Not that there is anything wrong with noobs though. Noobs are people too.

This post has been edited by Indigo_Joe: Feb 6 2006, 01:22 AM

Hey i like shelob's new power. did you see her tunel under ground? that was awsome. NIce MovIe.