Update 6 screenshots and videos!

[Sapience]

This thread was suspiciously lacking in maps. So let's correct that. One map of The Great River...


Map of The Great River

[Radhruin_EU]

Cant wait for the Brownlands!

Yay for the Brown Lands! A poisoned wasteland where nobody had lived and nothing had grown for thousands of years! And where the landscape was just ugly brown hills!

Err...

Maybe I will be able to find the ent wives

That was the first place the Ents had looked themselves, oddly enough

[asearchforreason]

The Brown Lands, are they not across the River Anduin. Are we going across the river again? Maybe a little piece of them are in the new area. Can't wait.

Yes the Brown Lands are on the eastern side of the river. There is a section of the Anduin near where the Limlight flows into it where the Great River slows enough that it can be forded. It's called the North Undeep. Presumably this is where we will be fording the river. It's also where the Easterlings forded it to invade Gondor.

[Orticia]

Cool looking map. Really looking forward to visit the place. Two questions remain for now for me: when, and for how much? (seeing i'm premium ^^ ). Don't actually expect this to be answered but hey... no harm in asking.

[Sapience]

Cool looking map. Really looking forward to visit the place. Two questions remain for now for me: when, and for how much? (seeing i'm premium ^^ ). Don't actually expect this to be answered but hey... no harm in asking.

When is sooner than you think, and I don't have an answer on price for non-VIPs at the moment. But expect to get more info on that front in the near future.

[cryles]

Not sure why everyone is so excited. It will all be the same you've seen before. But I hope it lives up to all the expectations

[Killien]

Sapience, could you tell us the level range for this update? All lvl 75 content, or a small range?

[Piedtendre]

Wonderful
I like the design (even if the stone buildings are still the same since day one, nearly).
I like the different kind of feeling and atmosphere between the different areas.

PS: why this info in the RoRohan thread ?

[AaylaKheledlire]

why not?

[Belnavar]

As someone who is mainly playing SWTOR now I have to say that I am happy (and impressed) with the flythrough videos and overall better effort into presenting this update, in addition to the content itself, which looks great. It will certainly get me back to explore the new area.

-Bel

[Eltheanor]

New areas look awesome. The landscape,the fact that the Middle Earth is moving east..

I keep wondering tho..What will the new area offer to us besides serving as the entrance to Rohan..Like Enedwaith did for Dunland.

I am guessing that among many things we'll get a new faction which I am hoping it will be easier to get reputation that Algraig used to be and probable dailies similar to Thror's Coomb.

[Brethwyn_EU]

The landscape looks interesting. it doesn't seem as cramped as before, and looks more smooth than Enedwaith.

But I must say.. that map looks bad.. it's so.. shiny. and cartoonish. and those mountains along the edges? just look...silly.

I very much like the "Lore" and "Geography" sections they have made with each area, together with screenshots and the flythrough videos.

[Orticia]

The map in my opinion doesn't look bad. It could do with some saturation as it's pretty bright and I agree a bit cartoony. But other then that it looks ok to me.

[Fawulf]

The fact that the areas seem to blend well into each other is appealing. Can't say I'm excited yet, but definitely looking forward to what U6 has to offer.

Personally hoping to visit Amon Hen, and look for Frodo and Sam's boat on the eastern shore.

[Arannir]

Personally hoping to visit Amon Hen, and look for Frodo and Sam's boat on the eastern shore.

For that you will have to wait for RoR, not U6

[Dovakhim]

When is sooner than you think, and I don't have an answer on price for non-VIPs at the moment. But expect to get more info on that front in the near future.

I did not find a translation for "sooner" in your "Brief History of Soon"!

[Atrex]

apropos translation:

will there be (this time) a proper german translation of quest texts , items and tooltipps with U6 ?

Or is everything still TBD , string table error ?

Just to you remind you, Captain, Minnie and Burg Tooltipps are still wrong in german (since ROI Release).
This soon , incredi... blabla isn't worth it. Release it when it's done. When it's really done.

Hopefully there's also some group content in there.

[Issachar44]

My impressions:

-The music is really atrocious. ...it's really detrimental to the atmosphere.

Agreed. I'm not a frequent whiner on these boards, but this is worth complaining about.

I'm actually okay with the overall musical theme, but it needs a lot more polish -- a sound both fuller and more subtle. Right now it sounds very heavy on the synthesizer, in a "bad '80s sword-and-sorcery movie" kind of way. Let's have some real orchestral instruments in there, please!

[ruogon]

where is the map?

[LeppardUK]

I'm excited for the region itself (any new region = excellent), but I'm a little disappointed with it. Not the design of the map, but how they've decided to implement this region into ME.

The Brown Lands should be its own region, not an area in another region. And also, what's with the random mountains along the borders, especially to the south? I hope this is just on the map and not the actual landscape in the game because I don't remember there being any mountains between the Limlight and the Wold. The river should serve as a good impassable barrier.

[Wanderv]

Actually i'm fanboy but will whine a bit. I hate these mountain borders drawn on the map. They are totally geographically inappropriate.

And yes, music in videos is awful. However the idea of these flythroughs is very nice.

[Roberto_the_First]

where is the map?

Post 26 in this thread is one place.

[AaylaKheledlire]

Map of Stangard

[Hecki]

Map of Stangard

Damn. I always read "Stalingrad" o.O

[LeppardUK]

Damn. I always read "Stalingrad" o.O

Ha, same here! I think I've spent too much time studying World War II.