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Published: 2016-02-09 09:19:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 10984; Favourites: 93; Downloads: 1236
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Download the PDF to check it out.An excerpt from a player's guide I've been writing for Hyrule: Total War, this bit focusing on the Kingdom of Hyrule.
The fonts, layouts, and appearance of the guide is heavily inspired (nay, outright based entirely on) the Official Nintendo Player's Guide for Ocarina of Time: zeldauniverse.net/wp-content/uβ¦
The cover of that guide was the very first image I ever saw of anything Zelda related, and pretty much was my entry into the series. That guide itself is pretty unique as well: instead of telling players exactly what to do it was written as a Historical document, chock full of chronology and lore (I know, something extremely rare in the series these days). As such I've modeled my guide in a similar manner: avoiding dumping numbers and statistics on players except where necessary and treating the volume as a historical document.
Please keep in mind that this is a work in progress. Some of the technical aspects (such as Rupee costs) are prone to change as the game is balanced over time. Some features may be removed or have not been fully added in yet as well. Let me know what you guys think, and stay tuned for the other factions to show up!
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My favorite faction with Darknuts a close second. Epic work as always!
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The scout's outfit is really cute, amazing work on the guides so far.Β Β
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Why are the Hylians referred in as past tense are you planning on making them extinct in future expansions?
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*adds to list of Zeldas to cosplay*
I love all of the elements you put in her design!Β
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Let me know when you finish the cosplay.
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awesome work!!! I too much look forward to being able to play has the new version ^^
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This is awesome! I don't think it's possible to overstate just how much I love this stuff. However, I must ask; will their be a section dedicated specifically to lore?
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There probably will be.
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I love guides like this, especially when they're full of bits of lore ands quotes. They're so much fun to read. I can't wait for more. Oh I just can't wait!
By the way, I noticed that under Aspiring Commander for Link, tactics has broken down into t actics with no sign of a - connecting it, as it does elsewhere.
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Wow, you've really outdone yourself. This is awesome!
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She's still in the game. There's actually a picture of her on the second page here.
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Man, the amount of detail and work you go into this is staggering.
Also, retconning Link to being the heir of Gustaf? Kind of clever 
So that means he's a a relic of the First Age? Did they keep him in suspended animation to prevent him from aging?
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Link isn't that ancient, his family lineage has been around that long though and in hiding.
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Oh I see. Still, what are the odds of the two legendary families meeting each other again? It must be fate... or simple causality.
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amazing work as always.
may I ask you if is possible to download you starfox models?
I actually wanna try to ring them for mikumikudance (giving your credits of course) but if you don't wanna, it's ok I undertand ^^
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So from what I've gathered;
Hylia is a False Goddess who essentially usurped the original Royal Family and took over. - The original royal family being Link's ancestors. And since Zelda is the reincarnation of Hylia in Skyward Sword...does that essentially make Zelda the villain of the story?
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It's a little more complicated then her just usurping the throne. The Hylian people kind of just put her there as they deified her. Princess Zelda isn't a blood descendant or reincarnation of Hylia in my game either.
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Ganon: Excellent work...now I have all I need to conquer them hehehehahahaha!
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It looks great! Unfortunately you won't be able to finish this before finishing the whole mod..
It's amazing how you can make it seem so official! It's like a company had made it. And you are doing all this work for free? Yes, i know some people donate money (as i did last year for like three months)Β but all in all you are doing this for free.
Looking forward to the rest of the custom settlements! Keep up the good work. Custom settlements are the best thing to add as they make it feel like Hyrule and not vanilla-M2TW:K.
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Indeed, that's why I'm releasing it in chunks as I finish certain things. The whole guide won't be done until the entire game is too.
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Looks great!
Although, what's the status on implementing the techtrees these days? We have only the unit production structures rolled out for most factions so far.
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I'm not entirely sure when all the buildings will be in. Medieval 2 has some baffling and arbitrary hardcoded limits, I think for buildings its 128. Naturally I'm constantly having to add and remove buildings and shift things around to mind such limits.
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Any chance of condensing them? Several factions use a basic barracks with mutually exclusive upgrade paths (like Lanayru and Gerudo) - they could be lumped together as one structure (let's call it Type 1 Barracks) but given different images and flavour text (and costs if that can be done) for each faction. I've noticed you currently have separate barracks tracks for each structure for each faction...
Likewise alternate building tracks for different unit production (Zora infantry/mages/Octorok barracks lines, Lizalfs urban/wild clans, Kokiri barracks structures, maybe some of the Deku districts too) could be combined as Type 2a, 2b and 2c barracks tracks. Swapping art and text around means they are to all extents and purposes distinct buildings, but the overall building footprint gets quite a bit lower.
I think all the farm and market structures can be combined on one building track too, just apply faction-specific art and text.
How possible is all this?
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Another boneheaded drawback of Medieval 2's engine is that building images are determined by culture rather than on an individual basis. If two factions that are in the same culture share a building, they'll be stuck with the same image. In the case of the Gerudo and Lanayru it could be done since they don't share the same culture, but it again requires tons of juggling buildings around until everything works and it's just a massive, time consuming process that I've not had any time to spare for yet.
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ah.. I was somehow under the impression that it was a per-faction thing. My mistake!
Sounds like condensing them is possible, but it's going to be a really awkward process to work out, no matter what results will eventually come out of it...
What's your other options for fitting in the techtrees, btw? What's your favourite method to try these days?
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