Hi, welcome to the both of you (i see i forgot to answer to the one from February
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To come back at the question of Rohan and Gondor and the faction of men. We have decided to let the faction remain Men of the West as it was in BFME2. There are a number of reasons for this decision. A couple of them are the fact that we follow the game design choice of BFME2 to make mixed factions. It is by design that factions are mixed and it allows a great variety of gameplay and inclution of different kinds of lore aspect, while not needlessly overbloating the game with (filler) content. This also allows our development process to be under less stress, because even creating the six base factions will be a tremendous task. What the future holds beyond these 6 factions, even Angmar, is so far in the future that there's no point to speculate on it.
Second, I was a little confused at the answer for whether armies will be big or small. "Armies will be big, but hordes will be small."? Can I get a little explanation for what that means?
The hordes (so the number count of individual unit groups) was smaller in BFME1 then it was in BFME2, mainly due to realistic collision we've decided to also make our hordes smaller. But, since the game will still based around the gameplay of BFME2 which is quite different from BFME1, the game will still allow for a greater number of hordes to be made and thus it is possible for a vast amount of hordes to be present like in BFME2, creating 'big armies'.
Hope that explains it!
