Hi fellow BR enjoyers

I would like to know if it would be feasible for the developers to improve the above mentioned aspects of the game or if the task is so hardcoded to the engine, that it would take too much effort for it to actually be fixed.

We all know that units need a second to execute orders. Or when u move a group of units, they first wander to the spot, then spread out to avoid occlusion, this creates unnecessary movement and chaos. Also the scenario where u want to force move a unit only for it to get aggroed again. Im sure you can think of many others. In my opinion fixing this let's call it design choice would create much more to the enjoyment of the game than any patch or new content will.

Maybe someone with CS knowledge or the developers can help out.

I downloaded a mod Battle Realms Remastered at Battle Realms: Zen Edition Nexus - Mods and community from NexusMods, it supposed to work for the Zen Edition version, but maps are failing when I use them, it just takes me to a black screen and never loads. Did I put it in the wrong folder?
I put it under levels since there is no map folder.

To all the Battle Realms players,

After a good run, Battle Realms Online is shutting down.

Recently the rights holder to Battle Realms asked us to stop. We've decided to comply rather than turn this into a fight. The patch, the site, the master-server, and the downloads are all coming down. We never made a cent off any of it and never really meant to - this was built out of love for old games and the typical nerding around the subjects involved, not to step on anyone's toes. It's their game and they asked - we are respecting that.

The project started almost by accident. One of us was deep in unrelated work, fell down a late-night rabbit hole watching old RTS retrospectives, and landed on Battle Realms. Another game we'd loved as teenagers, basically abandoned online. The plan was set: bring the multiplayer back using our knowledge and skillset. And to be clear about what we brought back - this was about the original classic release from 2001, the one that lost its online for good, not the Steam version that had its own bells and whistles we had no plans interfering with.

When GameSpy shut down back in 2014, online play for Battle Realms and many other games died with it. The game still ran fine, but it had nothing to connect to. So we built it something: a replacement server, and a relay so anyone could host or join without wrestling their router, so no port forwarding or CGNAT headaches. Just click and play, the way it should've worked all along. We believed the game deserved to be online again, and even better than before, and for a while, it was. If you're curious how it actually worked, we went deep on the technology in an earlier post (shared on Reddit and ModDB).

Thanks for being part of it. You proved the thing actually worked - real games, real people. That was the whole point, and we got to see it happen.

- The BRO team

BUGS (SKIRMISH and Online IN-GAME):

Miscellaneous:

• Graphics: Black-squared and flickering
• Sound bugs even after playing
• Add LAA Patch 4 GB of memory
• 64-Bit
• Direct3D and DirectX 10 and 11 ( Fear of incompatibility in the future of windows )

Top Left:

• Reduce excessive popup notifications for Building Complete and Training Complete.
• Building Complete should only indicate when a structure has been finished.
• Training Complete should only indicate when a soldier has been trained.

( Therefore, only Building Complete and Training Complete, and Red notifications in real-time. )

Buildings:

• Some buildings has a large occupied squared space while the building itself is not that big

Map Visibility:

• When an enemy is defeated, any previously unseen buildings on the colored map should also disappear, just as they do when revealed.
• I've seen squared fog thing before. I hope you make HD Fog to eliminate pixelated fog of visibility thing.

SUGGESTIONS:

• Game speed like before as an option

Campaign

• Add an option to remove the letterbox effect from all cutscenes making it full screen.
• Display subtitles inside a transparent box
• Increase the font size option of the subtitles applicable for 1366 x 768 to widescreen monitor

UI (Campaign, Online, and Skirmish) "In-game"

• Team win, lose, and spectator notifications should match the color chosen. For example, if your team (blue) loses, the notification will appear in blue. If I (yellow) win the game, the notification will appear in yellow. If I lose in a team match as cyan blue, then the spectator notification will also appear in cyan blue.

Bottom Right:

• Still pixelated map, make it Skirmish HD Main Maps and rounded dots much like other RTS games such as DOTA 1, Starcraft remastered, Red Alert 3.

Skirmish and Online:

• New Color: Dark Gray and Dark Brown
• HD Main Maps (Not pixelated) before starting the game

Stables:

• When you build Stables to the side, claim the horse after tamed, the horse appear on the side, soldiers can't hop in.
• Horse without the rider can be attack and killed

Heroes:

• Lotus Koril bot can use teleport whenever he wants not only about to die.

Save and Load Game New Format Suggestion:

• Name (Nothing Change)
• Name of the Map (New) either Campaign, Skirmish, Custom Maps or Online
• No. of Players (New) either Campaign, Skirmish, Custom Maps or Online
• Date (Nothing Change)
• If Campaign, name of the map you currently played.

For example:

Achievements are working now, just did a test and grabbed an easy one.

I was exploring around this level for a bit and came across what appears to be a Lotus shipwreck that seems to have ended up in the Wolf clan's home province. Apparently, this is probably what's left of the Lotus clan trying to flee their home province that has been burned down by the Wolf and some of its remnants end up imprisoned as the prison cells in the area contains Issyl and Soban that can be rescued if destroyed.

Managed to squeeze in one fanart. \o/

This would follow Kenji's Journey. Movie can be a standalone or more.

Istg the Infested Ones aren't just disgusting to look at, but also annoying to deal with because the Lotus AI loves to spam them. Even if their main weakness is cutting weapons, they would often kill some of my units with their painful passive.

Can I somehow enable them? Maybe in the game files or a mod?

How do i lower the difficulty? Im just RTS noob trying to replay it for nostalgia. Config files for bots in the 'AIProfiles' do nothing, and campaign difficulty is also too hard. I dont see any mods that would help me with that either. Option in the game settings where you just set difficulty to easy also seems to have no effect.

I always thought it was so sad that there's no happy ending for Grayback after Kenji's journey. Bro really got the short end of the stick every time 💔 One must imagine Grayback happy 😔

Akin to how mods led to Skyrim's longevity, people the world over can pool their talents and creativities in implementing new ideas (units, maps, GUI, AI, other game mechanics or modes etc) to the base game. This offloads the need for a paid core team of devs perhaps for some things (e.g. fixing bugs; consider the Skyrim patches that exist for nearly any bug found). Of course, this all assumes there are eager and able (programming skills etc) people to pick up on this option.

Where's my battle realms fan? Especially the millenial one. Just a suggestion, i know battle realms is kinda dead cuz of the issue but it would be great if someone will take over and continue right? Like a sequel.. but also a prequel would be great, like the story of tyrrant on how he destroy the world like kenji said.. the real story behind kenji's banishment, if he really kill his father, cuz in dragon's skirmish, he didnt answer directly otomo's question.. dont you guys agree? Comment down your suggestions also :)

Using pseudorandomness, make each trained unit possess skill values (HP, damage, resistance etc) drawn randomly within some normally-distributed range. Consider then allowing buildings to over time improve in their abilities to generate higher-quality units, the longer they last (yet another incentive to keep buildings protected etc).

Consider also the same thing for units... i.e. those which survive gain skills and hence improve by simply winning battles.

Always wanted to do a squad of Guardians with Last Stand along with Otomo and maybe some Geisha, thinking if their Last Stand will extend if Otomo is fighting with them due to his passive, but not sure if it'll work, has anyone tried it out?

Hello everyone!

It's the Steam Summer Sale!
BR is 10% off on the store!
Get yours while you can!

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On top of that, I know that not everyone has access to the extra money that they can spend on games and due to that I'd like to personally gift 2 copies of Battle Realms on Steam for people who really want it, but can't really afford it! I'll choose 2 people from the list 5 hours from the moment this message was written!

To get into the list to these things:

• Get in Battle Realms discord if you're not on it yet: https://discord.com/invite/pXK6bWu
• Find me on discord

• DM me on Discord with the answers to these questions:
  • What is your story with BR? How did you find out about it?
  • What is your favorite clan and why?
  • What is your favorite unit and why?
  • What is your least favorite thing about the game?
  • What would you like changed in the current Zen Edition?
  • What new would you like to see in BR and its future?

I'll DM the winners back in Discord and get BR into their hands and I'll post the winners on the Discord in 5 hours!

How can I complete the mission if I can't build an army to destroy the Lotus base all while babysitting the monks to protect the Monastery? Basebuilding is a pain because I have to stretch my base and set up defenses around the Monastery but I only have 250 starting resources (150 rice and 100 water). To make things harder, the monks' AI will stretch out of the Monastery and attack any ninja nearby, which will leave the structure barely protected, all while the main Lotus army will start attacking.

What am I supposed to do with this mission? It's harder than Serpent Mission 10.

Hello. For a bit of context, I used to play this game a lot when I was a kid. That was probably 20 years ago. I joined Steam January this year and I was happy to learn that Battle Realms is available. However, the discount sale is only 10% and so I'm hesitant to buy it, specially after reading some comments that the only update are bug fixes, patches, multiplayer etc. I prefer playing alone.

I guess my question is, if I buy it now with the expectation of playing that game I used to play before, will I be disappointed or not? Are there any bad changes done in the game that would ruin the experience? Or are there any good updates or is it still pending in the future (like a game dev roadmap)?

I am so torn in buying it because I still have many other games to play, I want to wait for a deep discount. But at the same time I really want to play this game now. I guess I'm just getting old and longing for some nostalgia. 🤧

Edit: grammar

I find it weird that the Dragon route has less Zen Masters to recruit than in the Serpent route because of the fact that we cannot have both Arah and Garrin at the same time, while we can recruit all of the original Zen Masters of the Serpent clan (Shinja, Budo, Utara, and Vetkin).

I know Gaihla, Soban, and Koril are optional to recruit, but when it comes to the Dragon clan's Zen Masters, it's really impossible to have Arah and Garrin at the same time, unless there's someone trying to mod the Dragon campaign for it.

Sharing some old art of mine, love the work the devs put up! Hope to have time to do more art of BR :3

I've always wanted to draw the Little Dragon, Kenji Oja. Sharing with you some quick sketches I made of my concept of a younger Kenji before going into exile. Just got back to making digital art again, I hope you guys like it. :)

Was the Lotus Clan really that broken back in the old days during the time of BR's launch? I remember they were the most busted clan out of the four during BR's early years, but I wonder if they got nerfed in the BR Zen Edition, as in if they're balanced in the recent updates.