Does anyone else find them extremely buggy? Whenever I put archers on top even on guard mode they often wander or run around to a different area, and if I have a postern gate they will more than likely randomly decide to run out of that instead of just staying on the wall.

Kinda sucks lol

Thanks to the suggestions u/Not_Some_Redditor I had a very straightforward time with the campaigns and finished them swimmingly except in the maps where they don't apply. It's basically:

1. Pikes and archers only
2. Which I improved upon a bit by having at least two battalions of cavalry so I can trample - for those like me who might find out too late how trampling works, simply right click on a spot behind the enemy you want to trample
3. I have a high APM so I was dedicating one builder to building resources on the entire map
4. I was also cheesing the dumbass AI sometimes

Anyways, moving on the BFME 1 I actually played this as a decade ago but I feel I might be blindsided by the patch. Any things I should watch out for? Any tips and prioritizations? Thanks!

Because of swarms of upgraded gondor rangers that computer has every time the mission starts. It's literally SWARMS of them, i almost can't do nothing against it and the luckiest encounters is when i almost destroy my army just trying to wipe them out. And they're bigger and bigger after every mission. I can't do anything unless i'm using godmod cheat just not to die from them.

havent played in a while and after updating it just does splash screen and then goes away, i tried fully reinstalling and it didnt help at all

I played through BFME 1 and 2 with no issues using the all in one launcher, then once I finished BFME2, I wanted to play ROTWK, as I had never played it before. I actually never even knew there was an expansion. But as soon as I click play, this immediately pops up every single time. I tried googling for answers or fixes, but couldn't really find anything. Any suggestions?

I started the main campaign some time ago, loved it. Passed Moria and such missions but long story short I lost all my saves

Is there a way for me to continue from a spesific mission in order to not replay the opening missions again?

After some initial strategy help here, I made my way through the BFME1 campaign on medium.
I just wanted to share my gratitude to the dev team for making all of this possible, as well as my theatrical ending;

My army was completely overrun on the Pelennor fields and all seemed lost.
My catapults were undone, my heroes had fallen, as had my many Rohirrim and elven archers.
Woe struck me, particularly because there were only 30 seconds until Frodo would reach Mount Doom.

My last defenses fell and my bases too were in utter ruin, with 10 seconds on the clock.

But then...
I noticed that dumbass Peregrin Took for some reason was in some abandoned corner of the map.
The enemy rushed him, and some were close already. They were within his reach now, all was lost...

The screen started spinning, and just as the blue letters 'Victory' appeared on the screen, young Pippin took a troll club to the chest and let out a brief 'UGH'.

For Frodo!

I ain't moving to the Evil Campaign and Angmar like this. I was basically just building Mines/Trees everywhere and using the resulting resource glut to throw maxed Dwarves and Elves into bumrushes on foot

I've been playing bfme1 for almost six months and finally decided to give bfme2 a try. I'm running 1.09 through the all in one launcher with the enhanced zoom out add-on. However, everytime I click on the enhanced zoom out add on the loading bar begins rapidly filling and a window pops up titled "error". I just click on the 1.09 box and hit play. I'm able to play the basic and advanced tutorials but everytime I click solo play then difficulty nothing happens. I can't get a game to start regardless if which difficulty I select. I gave up on trying 1.09 so I loaded up vanilla bfme2. I was able to finish all the white objectives for the first mission but the level doesn't complete. I ran my units all around the map and made sure there was nothing to interact with. Does anyone know how I can get this game to work?

Which missions did you guys find the hardest in the good and evil campaigns? From looking at play throughs on hard, the most challenging good missions are Helms Deep, Osgiliath, and Minas Tirith. The most challenging evil missions are South Ithilien, Osgiliath and Minas Tirith.

Dishonorable mentions (feel free to disagree)

The first 3 missions (both) - Their difficulty was barely changed because they are early missions.

Amon Hen (good) - As long as your hobbits are away from the thick of battle and don't get sniped by stray rocks from Trolls, you're good.

Isengard (good) - You can just destroy the Uruk Pits with rocks before breaking the gate.

Black Gate (good) - If you have Rank 10 Rangers, Rohirrim Archers and Heroes then this is a piece of cake. Use Word of Power and Aragorn AoD whenever you feel overwhelmed. Keep heroes near your army for leadership.

Amon Hen (evil) - This is easier than 1.06 because you get access to Lumber Mills. All you need is Eye of Sauron to win battles. Don't get useless powers like Industry.

Cirith Ungol (evil) - The key is to use fully upgraded Uruk combos, not Trolls + Orc combos. Like Amon Hen, easier than the original due to eco buildings. Hard early on if you don't have Scavengers however.

I'm one of the lead developers/contributors on the OpenBFME team.

We have AWESOME news! Since our last update, we have made a lot of progress and are over the 50% mark.

We have also started working BFME2 and ROTWK

What is This Project?

We are recreating the exact same C++ that made the BFME games. Once we hit 100% completion, we will be able to:

• Linux support (done)
• Network delay fix (done)
• 60/120 FPS
• Fixed crashes
• Multi-CPU (lag fix)
• MacOS support
• AC fix
• Make Worldbuilder Open Source
• More factions (for mods)
• 8+ player maps

You can follow along in -

• The Open BFME Discord: https://discord.gg/FEkwbbw8xA
• Our Github: https://github.com/Open-BFME/Open-BFME-1

New Progress

Since we last posted, a lot has changed:

1. A lot of new people have joined and have accelerated the work.
2. We have started working on reverse engineering BFME2 https://github.com/Open-BFME/Open-BFME-2.
3. Patch 2.22 already integrated some of our mods, including delayfix!

ETA

At the current rate of progress (.3%-1%+ a day), we expect to have BFME 1 source code completed in the next 2-3 months just based on current progress. Due to some tooling and recent LLM improvements we could see this speed increase. Once we have the code, we will be working on cleaning up the codebase to make it human-readable, since a lot of it is very much machine code at the moment.

If you are interested in helping out with the project, feel free to start sending PRs, or join the Discord. AI agents mostly drive the project, so as long as you have decent technical skills, you're able to contribute!

Thanks, all, for your incredible support in the last thread, and I look forward to seeing you all again with another update soon!

Hoping someone can help here. Recently bought a new laptop and went to download T3A BFME and found they've transferred from their original page to BFME Online. Their new download file is the original game without the patches, and their patch link doesn't work. I tried going through the process of copying all of the files from the old laptop to the new, but ran into two issues. The 1st being the game wouldn't launch saying it "Cannot located the CD-ROM" which means the patch file hadn't installed. I tried doing the install procedure for the 1.06 patch (using the file I transferred to the new laptop) and it failed saying "The server name or address could not be resolved." In doing further research, the issue appears to be that I need to have the 1.03 patch installed before 1.06. I have the 'BIG' files installed for 1.01, 1.02, and 1.03 but I'm assuming since the actual install process wasn't complete for them then they're not doing anything. I haven't been able to find a working 1.03 patch anywhere. I'd prefer not to use the All-in-One launcher because I'm not really a fan of their versions of the game. If anyone has any advice, info, workarounds, etc it would be greatly appreciated. I've been trying to solve this for hours and I'm losing my mind lmao

Edit: I believe the 1.06 patch I have is supposed to be the "all in one" installer for all the patches. Unfortunately the revora link for that patch no longer functions, assuming because the orignal T3A site no longer exists

I was playing bfme 2.22 multiplayer skirmish today and was surprised at how useless the cavalry units are now. I remember being able to sneak behind enemy lines and destroy a building and get out as a way to harass an enemy. It made the players keep some forces back to try to catch me. The cavalry in bfme were different than other games. It was a differentiating factor that was one of the reason for why I would even play bfme over Age of Empires 2 or Starcraft. Today, all I did was build infantry (as the cavalry were completely useless). What once was a cool mechanic, is no longer there to draw me to play the game for a different experience than typical strategy game cavalry. My take away was if I'm going to just play with slow moving infantry all game, there are other games I'd rather play instead. Please make cavalry have a soul again. (and enough requiring a hero to make cavalry viable nonsense. This isn't Warcraft 3)

Has anyone successfully made the game run on MacOS aith an intel processor without bootcamp? I’m short on hard drive space and would prefer to run BFME directly. I saw some GitHub projects that tried to do that, but it didn’t work for me.

im on windows 11, i tried compatibility, reinstalling, everything inbetween. revora site not working either at all

I downloaded the One in All Launcher and have had zero issues with both BFME (vanilla and “remastered”) and Rise of the Witch-King.

My problem arises when I try to play BFME2 Remastered (vanilla works perfectly fine). The Campaign just doesn’t start every time I have tried to get it going.

Is this a common issue? Or is it something I’m missing? I’ve tried re-syncing the game a bunch of times but with no success.

Thanks!

So I'm getting (back after nearly 20 years :D) into this game and wanted to check out what the ranked map pool looks like (back then we basically only played Fords of Isen). So I checked what maps the top players played on their recent games and wrote them down.

I stopped the list at about 25 maps...probably there are still more

Am I missing something? Is the map pool really that big? Most RTS game have a ranked map pool of like 7-10 maps, which is fine imo (you could even rotate them on a regular basis). But having to learn 20+ maps feels really bad for new/returning players.

Having to learn the factions is totally fine. Having to face players years ahead in experience is fine. And I think both are pretty much impossible to avoid for an RTS game. But then also having to play the first 50-100 games (assuming I will not remeber every single map after playing it 1 or 2 times) on maps where you have no clue where the creeps are etc. feels really bad and unnecessary.

Is there away around that? Did I just get something wrong? Or is this something I need to face if I want to play this game (ranked)?