EB2 Dev Blog

[Tux]

Salveas!

As you all may have noticed we have stopped previewing our factions, that is because we are close to a release and also because we have covered most of them.
And for that reason we have decided to change other areas of the game which weren't previously planned for the first release, like the climates.

The climates suffered various changes, like new terrain textures, grass textures(with vegetation specific to the climate), geography changes(vegetation density, mountains and hills distribution, etc.) and in some cases even new vegetation.

First I will show a comparison with some of the vanilla climates and later I will continue covering(via eye-candy) the climates that you'll see in EB2.
So brace yourselves, image heavy follow up.

Sandy desert, before:



After:






Mediterranean, before:





After:





In EB2 you'll have the chance to field you armies in 11 climates: Mediterranean, Steppe, Temperate Deciduous Forest, Temperate Coniferou Forest, Highlands, Alpine, Semi Arid, Sandy Desert, Rocky Desert, Dunes Desert and Floodland desert.

Steppe:




Temperate climate coniferous:





Temperate climate deciduous:





Highlands:





Alpine:




Semi Arid:





Rocky desert:







And finally our newly introduced climates to the M2TW engine:

Dunes desert:




Floodland desert on the river Nile:





Finally please note that all of this is work in progress and all you have seen may suffer further changes and improvements in the future.

I hope you have enjoyed this blog section.
Merry Christmas!