I was impressed by the persistence of Caeltos and other developer's that I wanted to support this effort. What I like is that the publishers no longer dictate which balances or units we get, we do.
It is too early to see the kind of legacy that will be left by this, but the creative efforts have been huge, I believe these developer's have made a fine job of adding new unit's to a game I enjoy very much.
To support this effort we have:
A website
www.Dow2Elite.com was developed to support the effort.
Tournament, next steps Tangible progress has been made in support of the Balance mod. The painted prize is in development now, along with an Introduction video and regular painting tutorials to coincide with the Dow2Elite Effort. Following this will come more depth with the tournament organization (best to run on GDF tournament system) There is a chance repeated attendance to Balance mod tournaments will gain access to a Model Masterclass.
To support die-hard dow2 fans have a truly global tournament these efforts are joined with the efforts of the Russian GDF tournament, whose recently achieved a successful tournament with the Caeltos Balance mod at http://grim-dark-future.gotourney.ru/
We have also run a succesfull tournament (29/08/2012) with the Elite mod with a replay pack viewable here http://www.dow2elite.com/replays/
Supporting the effort
We are looking for associates, if you have time, desire and a clear understanding of a function you could take on making announcements, taking pictures of balance units for website, website development, balance community development, sound and music for videos, brief reports on tournaments, support foreign players, making replay packs, streams, casts, sponsoring the tournament, or want to make something new please leave a message here, contact Gamereplays Eye0fHoruS at spectrumsofwar@gmail.com or GDF Stork on skype at stork375
This post has been edited by Eye0fHoruS: Aug 29 2012, 16:16 PM
myself and rocko could probably do our usual thing and cast
the biggest drawback i can see happening with this if you want to get it big enough is theres no automatch support.
ofc, that doesnt matter for the moment, but if you ever got 500 people playing this, its something that could make or brake the mod, that far down the tracks
also, caeltos can cast with me and rokco, after all, we need someone to bring the big plays!
He does have a wee point though. When I first noticed the Elite Balance mod I took it word for word: a mod that would make the current iteration of DOWII, well, balanced. I expected (and received) minor unit tweaks, minor gameplay alterations (Such as a weapon skill buff on retreat) and other minor fixes that attempted to make the game more balanced and 'competitive', hence its namesake.
Adding new units not only threatens to skew the balance (especially considering the fact that adding just a single unit can twist the meta into a different direction), but arguably defeats the purpose of a balancing mod.
I'm probably interpreting too much from nomenclature, but the current name doesn't do justice to the wealth of new content that's been made, nor does it give an accurate representation to those who only want 'DOWII, but balanced'. I recommend changing the name to Caeltos' Super Special Awesome Rising mod instead.
Maybe you should just fucking download and play it and not discuss whether not it will succeed or fail, since every DoW2 initiative was pretty much the same. - We want a bigger community and DoW2 to be popular! - Well guys its a lot of work but if we can put our effort into it we will have a chance. - OMG YOU FUCKING NUB, WORK, PUT EFFORT?! NO BITCH IM GONNA WHINE AND BITCH ABOUT HOW BAD EVERYTHING IS. - bla bla bla -BLA BLA BLA -bla bla bla -BLA BLA BLA - We decided to drop the project. - HA WE KNEW IT WAS HOPELESS!
I've been thinking of a name change, but just can't figure out anything appropiate really. In a nutshell however, it's core concept of the mod is
- Add more stuff, as in expansionpack of units. - Make it as well balanced as possibly it can be.
It's designed to do a complete 180 and make throw balance out of the window and go for fluff as a priority, we're not going to have 1x Terminator solo an entire Ork Army etc;
Realy like the new units like the Raptors and Fire dragons. Does this mod also use the "true size mod" or hower it was called, because some units seem to be much bigger then others. And the units mostly seem to be balanced like the just why is the brigthlance upgrade t1 ???
Just for the visual aspect of the game how about that as Fire dragon icon ??? for the next update.
This post has been edited by Raindrop: Jul 24 2012, 07:52 AM
Im gonna start playing this soon. I really appreciate the effort you guys put into this, good to see that some people still care about my favorite game! Keep up the great work!
To download and play the mod, the group page has regular updates which is here
http://steamcommunity.com/groups/DOW2EliteMod
Come and say Hi to us in the group chat channel!
Interview about Balance Mod With Caeltos here
Youtube Interview
New website here
www.DoW2ELITE.com
Eye0fHoruS here,
I was impressed by the persistence of Caeltos and other developer's that I wanted to support this effort.
What I like is that the publishers no longer dictate which balances or units we get, we do.
It is too early to see the kind of legacy that will be left by this, but the creative efforts have been huge, I believe these developer's have made a fine job of adding new unit's to a game I enjoy very much.
To support this effort we have:
A website
www.Dow2Elite.com was developed to support the effort.
An upcoming prize for a tournament (complete)
This is a custom Chaos Lord in Terminator armour, able to be used as Huron.
Initial steps
http://playdow2elitemod.weebly.com/news.html
Complete
Tournament, next steps
Tangible progress has been made in support of the Balance mod.
The painted prize is in development now, along with an Introduction video and regular painting tutorials to coincide with the Dow2Elite Effort. Following this will come more depth with the tournament organization (best to run on GDF tournament system)
There is a chance repeated attendance to Balance mod tournaments will gain access to a Model Masterclass.
To support die-hard dow2 fans have a truly global tournament these efforts are joined with the efforts of the Russian GDF tournament, whose recently achieved a successful tournament with the Caeltos Balance mod at http://grim-dark-future.gotourney.ru/
We have also run a succesfull tournament (29/08/2012) with the Elite mod with a replay pack viewable here
http://www.dow2elite.com/replays/
Supporting the effort
We are looking for associates, if you have time, desire and a clear understanding of a function you could take on making announcements, taking pictures of balance units for website, website development, balance community development, sound and music for videos, brief reports on tournaments, support foreign players, making replay packs, streams, casts, sponsoring the tournament, or want to make something new please leave a message here, contact Gamereplays Eye0fHoruS at spectrumsofwar@gmail.com or GDF Stork on skype at stork375
This post has been edited by Eye0fHoruS: Aug 29 2012, 16:16 PM
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