Shadow Realm Community Expansion: open beta launched!

[Hiliadan]

About 5 months after the opening of the closed beta (June 2018), the Shadow Realm Community Expansion moved to open beta on the Steam Workshop in November 2018. As we are moving closer to an official release (out of the beta phase), this article takes stock of the progress on this project which has involved more than a dozen contributors from the community.

Read more in the article on the-Battlefield.com/aow3 the community website for AoW3: https://www.the-battlefield.com/aow3/index.php?page=commnews&eingabenewsid=94

 

[Hiliadan]

The expansion has just received a massive update for Xmas:
- removal of the (annoying for some) Tundra and Autumn climate on the surface layer: no more swamping of these 2 climates on the map
- big improvements in the Shadow layer RMG, including new Water patches with the Monument to the Ashen Rose new site; the Mithril Mines finally spawn underground
- icons rework for Shadow Realm sites (thanks Refineus!)
- major update to the campaign, including VERY nice pictures for scenario 1 (images for the other scenarios in the next update, probably around March!). Scenario 3C is still far from ready. Scenario 3A and 3B are work in progress.
- new textures for all the Elder creatures, but one, and for the Gemstone Mine (thanks Refineus again!)
- the roster of heroes is now complete for the Shadow Elves
- full localization in Polish and update to the German, Russian and French localization
- many bug fixes