

Since April 2020, there have been drips and drabs of content released via the official YouTube page and the developer Discord. RELATED: Xseed Games Announces Kandagawa Jet Girls Race Onto PC And PS4 This Summer This video is the most recent developer diary, and you can tell from the in-depth attention paid to the details of Mordor’s fiefdoms just how much time and care have already gone into this mod. RELATED: Roguelite I, Dracula: Genesis Gets Its Official Release Date For Steam: May 22

The design ethos behind the team is to create a single-player experience not dissimilar to iconic LOTR games such as Return of the King, but also build a LOTR game in the style of Mount and Blade mechanics. In steps Kingdoms of Arda, a full Lord of the Rings conversion mod for the base game. After the long and successful scene of modding in the previous game, Warband, it was only a matter of time. Keep updated on the latest PC Gaming news by following GameWatcher on Twitter, checking out our videos on YouTube, giving us a like on Facebook, and joining us on Discord.Early in October 2020, Talewords announced that they were launching more sophisticated modding tools for Mount and Blade II: Bannerlord. Our list of the best Mount and Blade 2: Bannerlord mods also has quite a few picks to tide you over until Kingdoms of Arda's currently unannounced release date rolls by.

You can learn more about Bannerlord's Lord of the Rings mod over on its Mod DB page. This means that the campaign needs to reach a satisfying smoothness and balance, but many of our features may not be implemented fully like Story Mode, multiplayer, quests, and other mechanics." reads a post from October 2020. "The current release plan will have us wait until the mod reaches a point of high polish in our first set of factions: Gondor, Rohan, Isengard, Mordor, Harad, and Dunland. Even if the launch of official modding tools – which part of the team tested – helped speed things up, a playable version is "far off". Trolls, Ents and Mumakils are also part of the modding team's plans, as are "25 major factions with a large spattering of minor factions." As much as the vision is there, Kingdoms of Arda is "very early within development" at the moment. You'll be able to kill "pretty much everyone" but don't expect a Nazgûl to be destroyed while Sauron's big eye watches over Mordor. It's safe to say that Bannerlord's LotR mod won't limit you to playing as the good guys. The Elves, Dwarves, Dúnedain, Orcs, Hobbits, Goblins and Uruks count among Kingdom of Arda's playable races.

Its separate story mode will then focus in on scenarios centered on battles like those at Helm’s Deep or Pellenor Fields, which can be played from either the perspective of a hero or a regular soldier.
