EB October Preview

[Krusader]

Greetings Europa Barbarorum fans.

We are still working on v0.8 and it has entered more extensive beta-testing and we are fixing problems and issues that we seem to find daily. 0.8 is not far off, but we won't give you any exact date, as we never know if we will face a massive hurdle again or if any other major problems will surface.
In the mean time, here are some new rendered shots of a mix of our artists' work.

And also on behalf of the EB team, an announcement:

EB2!!

At this time, the Europa Barbarorum team would like to announce its plans to move to the newest Total War platform, Medieval: Total War 2. We have always endeavored to provide our fans with the most realistic, historically accurate, fun, and challenging experience, and we feel we are best suited to create a Roman-era modification for MTW2.

As always, we appreciate your support and enthusiasm. You make it easy for us to want to continue to provide the most entertaining experience possible.

We are open to all offers of assistance in continuing this effort, including working together with those who want to create historical realism mods for this timeframe, so we can combine our efforts and provide you a working modification in as short a timeframe as possible.

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Spartiatai

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As always, if you have questions or comments, the best place to post them is here, where the EB team is most active:

Europa Barbarorum ORG forum

Europa Barbarorum TWC forum

We give special thanks to Imageshack that provides us with a simple, foolproof, and free way to show you all these pictures each week.

Have a great day!


Sincerely,

The Europa Barbarorum team.

[MSB]

Nice units! You lot are brilliant skinners. Will they be in 0.8 or will they be in EB2? And after the move will there still be support for EB1?

[khelvan]

All graphics work, except our 2D graphics (possibly), will have to be redone for MTW2. All the work you see above will go into 0.8 (on the RTW platform), and 1.0, which we will definitely release for RTW.

After that, it will depend on what is possible within MTW2, and what is not. We had grand dreams for EB, dreams that were shattered on the rocks of reality twice, causing us two complete system overhauls. We want to avoid this again, but we also have a desire to meet these grand dreams.

[The Spartan (Returns)]

EB2 eh?
sounds good!
nice skins, really wanna see the Spartiatai.

[Urnamma]

We're fairly confident that many of our graphics can be modified and reused in MTW2 (with enhancements), so you may see EB2 out more quickly than you think :-)

[abou]

Spartiatai

[Antagonist]

Awesome artwork, truly excellent in quality.

And EB2!? Astonishing news. To be honest, I'm surprised and impressed that the EB team would even consider doing it all again given what you've already been through, circumstances which any but the most dedicated enterprise would find untenable. I'm very excited that you're even entertaining the possibility.

Keep up the good work, and looking forward to playing 0.8 and all future versions of EB.

Antagonist

[Aks K]

We're fairly confident that many of our graphics can be modified and reused in MTW2 (with enhancements), so you may see EB2 out more quickly than you think :-)

Didn't read that until now. These are sweet words in my ears.

Again beautiful artwork

Aks K

[Lovejoy]

OMG! This most be the best looking shit ever. Ever.

That first unit gave me a heart attack! What faction is it for?

And that Hellenic(sp) general... omg ffs ftw... absolutly fantastic job guys.

Now make sure to release that 0.8beta.

Before I go crazy.

Love you so EB-team!

[MSB]

I have read that M2TW will have 30 faction slots. That will mean that the EB team will be able to have a reasonably historical amount of factions so there will now be less rebel areas (at last).
Hooray for those that voted to "port" to M2.

And didn't TA say that the fans would only get another preview if the team was stuck with 0.8. Oh no, we're going to have to wait even longer to start in 0.8!

Yes I feel the same. People wanted Spartans, people got Spartans. When I get playing 0.8 I think I will remove the Spartan unit from the game. Spartans were a little rubbish at this point in history and were no better than your average Greek hoplite. It should have been a Syracuse or an Athenian hoplite!

[Dayve]

What amazes me, even more than those skins above, is that the EB team want to go through all that hard work again to put EB onto M2TW... FOR FREE!

It's a pity that not all game developers are as dedicated to their fans and work as hard as you guys do... Instead of just rushing out good looking dumbed down games for a quick big profit.

Still, they say 1 volunteer is worth 10 paid men.

[Oleo]

Great! Great news about EB2

And wow, thats some awesome models right there. Again prove of how amazing this mod is. I cant wait for 0.8.

[Reenk Roink]

Good luck with both!

Spartiatai

It's good to be a beta tester...

[Orb]

Good luck with both!



It's good to be a beta tester...

I'm going to have to kill you.

[Dayve]

I don't see why there's been so much fuss about the Spartan hoplite skin... By the time of EB the Spartans had had their day and were waxing and waning, just waiting to be conquered...

I've had much more anticipation about what the Roman allied units will look like than what the Spartans would look like...

[Dooz]

I think I just... wait... yeah, yeah... I just had a minor heart attack. Thanks a lot EB, murderers!

Those units are too good and EB2 will be the end of me. I will kill myself if it comes to fruition. Why? Shutup!

[Dayve]

I challenge your title of resident pessimist. I am ye olde resident pessimist. I demand you change it to joint resident pessimist, or i will pollute the thread with the history of the zipper.

(Just so as nobody accuses me of trolling or attempting to start an argument over pessimism, this post was mostly a joke)

[Aks K]

EB2!!! Greatest news of M2TW yet. Sounds excellent that EB 0.8 is nearing its completion.

Aks K

[VandalCarthage]

I don't see why there's been so much fuss about the Spartan hoplite skin... By the time of EB the Spartans had had their day and were waxing and waning, just waiting to be conquered...

They did fight off Pyrrhus, one of the most skilled and tenacious generals of the age, and were still prominent in a number of places as mercenaries and were rich Hellenes in their own right after these very engagements. There aren't a tremendous number of examples of notably culturally or politically famous/strong polities leasing out their kings as generals.

[Teleklos Archelaou]

OMG! That medium strength unit which I'm probably not going to ever fight against (ok, maybe once twice ever) are going to cause me to not play your mod! Blech! ()

[Tanit]

Good luck with both!



It's good to be a beta tester...

I agree!

I am looking forward with anticipation to EB2. Imagine if they get the different random faces working, what a game!

Also looking forward to more factions. Map's bigger too, but they might not want to expand it much so that they don't have to deal with factions off the map. Might be a time not too far away when we start discussing what the new dactions will be. Oh joy and bliss!

[NeoSpartan]

humm.....

Hey guys is it posible to make the KH faction leader look something like this IF the faction leader is a Spartan.


(from Hegemonia mod)

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Hardcoded. You can't have different generals based upon one of the general's traits. Think about cool stuff like generals who have lost limbs or an eye or stuff like that in battle.

[Kralizec]

[quote]

Is this a Parthian cataphract? Very good looking!

[Krusader]

Is this a Parthian cataphract? Very good looking!

Grivpanvar. Late Parthian cataphract. Might be the Parthian family member's bodyguards, but have to check our sources first if the facemask was mentioned around 272 BC.

[CountArach]

So, just out of interest, willEB 0.8 be the last version of EB based on the RTW engine, or will you get it to say 1.5, then go to MTW2?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

Hardcoded. You can't have different generals based upon one of the general's traits. Think about cool stuff like generals who have lost limbs or an eye or stuff like that in battle.

That would be awesome, a Captain Ahab like Roman general, after the dirty gauls who took his leg.

Great/interesting news on EB2, by the way...

[Hoplite330]

Wow those are geat I can't wait for Eb 0.8 to come out!

[methoz]

omg, looks incredible great nice ...very very nice...i love this mod :)

[Marius Dynamite]

Grrrrr :@

Because of your awesome Mod I now have an unstoppable urge to buy a new RTW disc (my old one broke many months ago) just to play your god damn amazing mod. The screenshots at the start of this topic were the last freekin straw. You have no idea how lucky you are that RTW is very cheap nowadays.

Anyways good job guys I'm sure I'll love it when I buy RTW and install it tomorrow. Plus you just earned CA more of my money and Im not even going to play RTW only EB lol.

I'm going to give feedback once I play it.

In the meantime are you going to make one for M2, a roman mod for that is what we all need.

Cheers.