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News on War of the Ring
Berendir @ 08:25 EST

Heres some more news from the War of the Ring site, on the War Craft II Conversion:

So I finally got that darned ALE clone to work, well, kinda. I used WotR as a base! ;)
It still has a lot of errors. The Uruk for example is all over the place when he tries to move, and you sometimes have no idea of where he's at. And almost all of the buildings are mirrored, making you feel kinda seasick ;)
The weirdest thing is that you play in a sort of windows console, or a popup window in windows.. this is the 32bit version, of course.

It has other cool features too, when the peon is chopping his wood (shutup) there shows up this percentage of work that is done, very cool. And you can see how much food you have in the top frame. :)
The coolest is the fog of war. It's just like in StarCraft. I'm gonna take some screenshots for you soon.. WotR / ALE screenies ;)

Source: War of the Ring