My introduction and questions about the Strategy and Modding

[Liero]

Hi there,

First of all, I was really surprised by this game. After playing many other RTS titles including some very known ones, I never thought a 2D game would catch my attention like Rising Kingdoms did. By the moment I played first time I though there was nothing special and let the game untouched for some time, until some day I was bored and decided to give one more careful look in to the game, and then I saw how good and interesting is this game.
I should never let the old 2D style graphics to cloud my senses, but I have to say that now I play it everyday when I come from school. I just feel sorry for those people who threatens games like this just because it is 2D. I wonder if there will be a Rising Kingdoms 2 because there are really few good fantasy RTS games out there, and this RK one of them.

Well, enough... I got some questions about the game, and I hope you guys can help me:
1) How do I get full advantage from the ultimate skill of the Battle Angel, because everytime I use it, almost all my soldiers die instantly and the enemy soldiers just lose some health, what am I doing wrong?
2) I am making some modifications in the sounds of the game and I would like to know if there is any way to add sounds when a item is dropped and when the Champion get a potion.

Thanks for any help, and if you think is a good Idea I can share my RK Sound Mod with you.

[Roso]

Hi and wellcome to the forum

As for the Battle Angel I personally don't like his last skill, but generally it is thought to be used using the altar of ... reincarnation ... or personally cannot remember how it was called (the altar which saves your unit when it is close to death). However I haven't found that skill useful and probably a big problem (as I was playing forester until I was still playing).

And as for the sound MOD - I like the idea, but I am really not sure that I will use it if you make it, as I am not playing too much now ... hmmm and moreover I have no sounds at all as I am running the game with Linux . And sadly I don't know how can you add sound ... especially if there is no existing one in the game

Good luck with the MOD and the game.

[Liero]

Oh yes, I didn't ralize about the Altar. I will try to use that, lets say, an altar of reincarnation and an altar of healing or a couple monks. Unfortunally you said right Roso, I never use this skill, but I would like to make it worth some way.
By the way, about my mod, I DID add sounds to the attack of some units like Battle Angel, Soulmonger, Witch Queen, Sharpshooter and Wizard of the Bow (which had not an attack sound). I extract sound effects from other games and put them in Rising Kingdoms and some of them fit very well.
But now I am thinking about change the way the Battle Angel ultimate skill works (like more damage to enemies and less to allies). I just need to dig around the data files I extracted from the game until I realize.

But thanks very much for your help, Roso.

[Anguille2]

Hi and welcome,

Enjoy the game...it's really a great one!

Cheers
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[Liero]

Thanks Anguille, it's a pleasure to me!

Oh, let me say sorry because I didn't noticed that there were already a topic discussion about the Lightning Storm when I asked about it. Anyway, just when I figured out how to modify the skill by editing some files, at the same time I read the explanation made by Tzar and how the skill works, and voilá!..it works nicely. It's crazy, when I tested the new strategy, I was able to erase an entire Darkling army, kill 2 Champions while the rest of survivors were severely damaged.
The bad point is that you MUST choose Altar of Redemption to work, or your army is gone for sure (unless you use units with lots of health, which is not the case of most human units). Well, I think this is for balance reasons, but Lightning Storm is a big problem when your Battle Angel get Magic Swords instead.

Hey, when I finish my Mod, may I put a link to download here in the Forums?

[Anguille2]