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Return of Shadow

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Radspakr Wolfbane

Category: Beta Mods
Created: Wednesday April 11, 2007 - 12:08
Updated: Sunday March 30, 2014 - 23:56
Views: 42217
Summary: A large scale mod that greatly expands the game.

Rating

Staff says

3.6

Members say

4.1

Average

4.0/5.0

55 votes

Return of Shadow.
Rebuilding it from the ground up, streamlining and fine tuning everything creating a polished and well balanced mod.
The factions are being rebalanced and reworked with changes being made to refine them.
Each faction will be unique having their on playstyle and strengths and weaknesses.


- Rohan
- Gondor
- Mordor
- Isengard
- Erebor
- Lorien
- Rivendell
- Rhun
- Harad
- The Deep
- Dol Guldur
- Dale
- Arnor
- Mirkwood
- The Fiefdoms of Gondor


Many exciting features include -

Rebalanced gameplay with stronger structures, larger hordes, larger spell book.
New unit types and balancing, new unit types like Peltasts, Shieldbearers, Axemen and Support.
Greater choice between play styles with more diverse factions and units.
New Expansion plot Watchtowers that act as not only look outs but can provide resource bonuses to nearby farms.
New ability types.
New Skirmish maps, up to 50 new maps will be added with LWR's release.
Introduction of the new Environmental Modifiers.
Expanding CPL - The more bases you build the more units you can command.
New AI types.

Hours and hours of replay value

Lone Wolf has many various gameplay changes aimed to creating great battles and reward better play.
The more you expand by building new bases the higher your command point limit encouraging more expansive and aggressive play.

Increased structure armour,horde sizes, spell store and repriced spells stretch out the average game so that the climb to late game isn't quite as fast further encouraging longer battles and better strategies.

The variety of factions and units also allow for more varied play Lorien are adept at ranged combat and ambush while a faction like Harad is well suited to hit and run with it's ranged and cavalry units.
Erebor are expensive but powerful while the Deep uses its swarm of Goblins to overwhelm the enemy.

Watchtowers provide not just a lookout over some of the map and a firing tower but also grant bonuses for nearby external economy buildings, watchtowers are often placed in the same area as economy plots granting some protection to them.

Outposts have been improved and now have 3 defence foundations for building sentry towers to balance this they will now cost 1000 resources and also contribute to expanding CPL.

Environmental Modifiers of EMs for short allow players to take advantage of the terrain.
Ranged units on high ground gain a range bonus while they lose it on low ground, marshes and fords slow down enemies allowing for a good place for ambushes.
Spells have been changed and rebalanced with new spell types added, some units and heroes can only be built after purchasing their spells, some spells will provide permanent bonuses to units and some provide powerful bonuses.

A large amount of new maps and visually upgraded EA maps allow for unprecedented access to Middle-Earth from the frigid frozen tundra of Forodwaith to the harsh deserts of Far Harad to the peaceful meadows of Rohan to the bleak mountains of Angmar.
The world of Middle-Earth is more alive than ever with many changes to the world like tall grasses and new trees and various new atmospheric effects.

Things are always changing and growing for Lone Wolf so be sure to check the forums,youtube, moddb, twitter and facebook regularly.

Beta 0.1 with Rohan, Gondor, Lorien, Isengard and Mordor is now out.

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Links / Downloads

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LWR Beta 0.13 (Patch 0.13) includes all patches.3762August 10, 2013 - 9:00
Lone Wolf Return of Shadow Public Beta Torrent2746July 20, 2013 - 5:27
Lone Wolf Return of Shadow Public Beta 0.12767July 20, 2013 - 5:24
Lone Wolf Beta 0.37 Torrent -Obsolete2079June 29, 2013 - 6:13
7z Website3064July 25, 2009 - 21:07
Public Beta Forums3580January 1, 2009 - 22:25
forums4345July 2, 2007 - 14:22
Website8038April 12, 2007 - 4:53

Comments

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The Frozen Sun - Saturday December 12, 2009 - 2:22

You know, you could have added a Dwarf faction instead of Morgul, Dol Guldur, Dale, Lorien, Mirkwood and Rivendell, as I can't see Morgul and Dol Guldur being much different from Mordor, Dale being much different from Gondor or Lorien, Rivendell and Mirkwood being much different from each other. But, it looks like a fantastic mod and I hope you prove me wrong. Good luck.

Radspakr Wolfbane (Team Chamber Member) - Saturday November 7, 2009 - 2:25

Updated adding Arnor to the list of factions and mentioning Trials of Malvegil.

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Added a mirror for Beta 0.35
Which is a large updated version of beta 0.3.
Featuring many many fixes and balance tweaks.
It's stand alone.

jimmi - Saturday August 8, 2009 - 18:20

This is an awesome mod! I can't wait for the final thing to come out.

Radspakr Wolfbane (Team Chamber Member) - Thursday July 30, 2009 - 3:57

A heads up the new beta is out now.

The Lord Of The Bats - Sunday July 12, 2009 - 19:26

The beta was good, also, I really took a liking to the Mirkwood Archers or were they scouts, I forgot and the Lorien Archers, they looked and played very well.

Radspakr Wolfbane (Team Chamber Member) - Friday March 27, 2009 - 20:35

lewi030,
There is a LW map thread in my forums you can attach them there.
http://forums.revora.net/index.php?showtopic=67477

lewi030 - Monday March 16, 2009 - 4:18

hey radspakr i ve been making some lone wolf maps latley and i want to start uploading some of the better ones. a couple of these maps however are the ones u made, ive just gone in and added my own twist to them. do u mind if i upload these maps.

wantingtoplay1 - Wednesday March 11, 2009 - 18:09

how do i get 7zip can some 1 give me a link and also when i download it it says that its messed up i need help plz.

witchkingofdeath - Wednesday February 25, 2009 - 8:56

It's good!

Radspakr Wolfbane (Team Chamber Member) - Wednesday January 28, 2009 - 16:16

The new beta is out.
In it there is 3 factions added Dale,Morgul and Lorien.
The link is provided above.
It currently waiting on approval from moddb once it is i'll put the link up above as well.
Heh what other mod can release 3 more factions into a beta and still have more factions to add :)

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