Dark Elf Campaign: A New Threat

ILikeProgramming · Post by **ILikeProgramming** » June 28th, 2006, 12:46 am

OK. I'm not so sure I'll be able to work on it until the weekend, though.

Ryorin · Post by **Ryorin** » June 28th, 2006, 2:30 am

That's fine, I know the feeling, with college and work, it's busy busy all day long for me.

Post by **La_vie_en_Wose** » June 30th, 2006, 12:30 pm

Hi everyone.

I'm translating this great campain but there is here something I do not understand.

#: Dark_Elves/scenarios/Hunt.cfg:91
msgid "Hold there Dhaerow! What is your business here?"
msgstr ""

#: Dark_Elves/scenarios/Hunt.cfg:95
msgid ""
"Thank the Mother, we knew reinforcements would arrive. The Dwarves are "
"numerous in the caverns to the north. They are ransacking and burning our "
"homes. You must render us aid!"
msgstr ""

#: Dark_Elves/scenarios/Hunt.cfg:99
msgid ""
"Our objective lies to the north as well, very well. Rally any Dhaerow "
"capable of carrying weapons"

Is Dhaerow an animal or a person ?

ILikeProgramming · Post by **ILikeProgramming** » June 30th, 2006, 2:55 pm

It's what Dark Elves call themselves. (They wouldn't use "Dark" because they don't consider themselves evil.)

Post by **La_vie_en_Wose** » June 30th, 2006, 3:10 pm

Thanks a lot Ilikeprogramming !

Post by **La_vie_en_Wose** » July 1st, 2006, 4:34 pm

I wanted to write this down in the Campaign feedback to report a bug in this campaign :
In the "So Many Dwarves" scenario, the two clanic Dwarves brothers are fighting each other.

ILikeProgramming · Post by **ILikeProgramming** » July 2nd, 2006, 3:38 pm

Isn't it better for the player that way?

Post by **La_vie_en_Wose** » July 2nd, 2006, 4:46 pm

ILikeProgramming wrote:Isn't it better for the player that way?

Of course it is ! If not, I think the player couldn't win !

But, is it part of the Dwarf Ethic to fight and kill each other saying "Oh My brother ! Our clans shall survive !"

ILikeProgramming · Post by **ILikeProgramming** » July 2nd, 2006, 9:53 pm

I'm sure you said the wrong scenario name, "'dwarves" should be fine

Post by **La_vie_en_Wose** » July 2nd, 2006, 10:03 pm

Maybe. There is also a problem with Choosen Path. There is a bug when you choose the dragon path. I'd like to get that part. Your Campaign is excellent.

ILikeProgramming · Post by **ILikeProgramming** » July 3rd, 2006, 12:26 am

Can you give me a savefile or your version of stderr ?

Sorry, I haven't played this campaign since the last release, and I have a severe lack of time to replay it.

EDIT: Yes, there is a bug in "Treasure" I'll get it fixed sometime.

simira · Post by **simira** » July 5th, 2006, 8:50 am

Mustelid wrote:Initial thoughts on this campaign; these are the thoughts of a relative newcomer to Wesnoth, so ignore as appropriate.

In Hunting the Enemy, the units which appear when you enter the villages frequently appear in the walls. And they don't have names or traits.

The first three levels are very, very easy. Yeah, I know I'm playing on Easy, but I'm a pretty crap player and I'm not used to walking through an Easy level with my pants around my ankles without getting scratched. Then, all of a sudden, there's a big difficulty jump with Chosen Path, then after that it gets silly-easy again.

In All These Dwarves, the two dwarf enemies attack each other - although text makes it clear that they should be allies. They do a pretty good job of mutual butchery before I can get to 'em, which makes them very straightforward to chop up.

A lot of unit animations missing, but I imagine you're fully aware of this. Also, when the Hunter levels up to Shadow, he becomes shorter. I assumed that he'd developed a stoop from fighting so many Dwarves. Then when it levels up again, it regains its height.

I sort of get the suspicion that the Hunter and Wizard units are overpowered for the price. (I'm only talking about the context of the campaign here - no idea about multiplayer). The Hunter is basically a pumped-up Orc Assassin, costing one extra gold and with 1 extra damage on both attacks - and more useful damage resistance. And, critically, it can get to level 3. Then you combine that with the fact that in this campaign it's going to be used mostly against Dwarves. Dwarves don't have healers and so can't deal well with poison; their mainstay unit, which they rely heavily on, has no ranged attack.

I also noticed these issues. About the animations missing, it's pretty irritating that the units seems to disappear when they are hit. I first thought it was some sort of invisibility power, but it's obviously not.

Except for these issues, though, it's an exciting campaign so far (I am fighting the not-so-allied dwarven brothers right now).

Ryorin · Post by **Ryorin** » July 6th, 2006, 12:58 am

I may get around to animating these things eventually. However, I do not wish to soil Master Neo's art. I'm competent at art itself (See Celestials, Crusaders to be specific), but I am no Neoriceisgood.

As for the campaign itself, glad you like it, it's been in the works for over a year now ever since Belwar first proposed it.

ILikeProgramming · Post by **ILikeProgramming** » July 20th, 2006, 1:36 am

I just did a quick update, hopefully fixing Treasure(though it is probably too hard or too easy) and making sure my macros put dwarves on the same team.

Ryorin · Post by **Ryorin** » July 21st, 2006, 10:13 pm

ILikeProgramming, change the DE unit configs so they don't have any animations, I'm going to be busy for awhile, but I'll attempt to get some of them animated.