Thread 1975756

Lotro is having that giveaway they're doing every few years again. From what I understand it's basically a bunch of mini-expansions.
I only played it briefly myself years and years ago, and always was late to grab these. So if anyone was interested in giving it a shot, now's the time.

>>1975756 (OP)
i really like this game but never got to the end. i'm at level 121 now, at this rate i might reach the end and hit level cap in about 2 years

>>1975756 (OP)
Are they doing it for DDO too?

>>1977219
If you really want to grind some level, get on during a festival event and do all the quests every day, you can easily get half a level every day, more if you want to deliver booze across the continent.
I actually have more fun trying to go around shit, it's crazy when even the fucking deer see you from max distance and are trying to kill you, but fuck riders. It's all about that stable masters map baybee.

>play soulless, poorly maintained pay2win slop
miss me with that. echoes of angmar exists

I only play it f2p, it's more fun if you can't instant travel everywhere.

will try it out

fyi apparently the code THANKYOU2025 is also currently active, use it if you haven't yet

Spent a lot of money on this game years ago, all my purchases were ''lost'' when the game moved ownership, so I look to see what this ancient game's sub looks like and it's 15 fucking bucks a month lol.
lmao.

You gotta be fucking kidding me.

>>1985085
don't let the man get you down, play it f2p
but see if you can get any of your characters back too

>>1975756 (OP)
>From what I understand it's basically a bunch of mini-expansions.
LOTRO allows F2P players to access content until Riders of Rohan (3rd expansion). With this content you get everything before Corsairs of Umbar.

>>1975756 (OP)
I binged the fuck out of this game a few years ago. Pretty much 100%ed every achievement/milestone that was soloable. Huge ass game, very fun, and I enjoyed doing all the achievements to earn lotro points and buy content from the shop.

>>1985808
>I binged the fuck out of this game a few years ago. Pretty much 100%ed every achievement/milestone that was soloable.
Guess what, now they've made more content for you to waste your time on!
And LP-maxxing can be fun.

>>1985085
Yeah, dunno if it's related, but I couldn't find my old character on any of the servers and apparently they closed down 32-bit servers and opened 64-bit ones. You had to transfer your characters before end of August or something. I've read that they're going to open transfers again at a later date.
Weird technical stuff.
>>1984992
It works, thanks.
I made an elf and their zone seems kind of empty compared to human. Or at least I'm getting an impression human zone was more packed and easier to find stuff to do.
Just need to find time play this now and maybe move on to better locations.

>>1986221
If you just started, all new chars go through a starter zone which is an instance of just part of the big world. There aren't going to be a lot of other players there because it's only new chars. Once you finish all the quests in there it lets you out.
>they closed down 32-bit servers
If you were on a previously active 32-bit server, this month is probably the worst time to start playing again. They had free moves set up from those servers but that ended last month.
I think they're about to create some better way to allow migrations from dead servers, but it's not ready yet and you will have to go through the customer support process. I can't help you there.

>>1986445
I've only played until like level 15-20, so it's no biggie.
>all new chars go through a starter zone which is an instance
I chose the tutorial that has you go through the whole war with Sauron shenanigans flashback. I know practically nothing about the lore and story besides watching movies when they came out.
Pretty sure I'm out in the real world now, though I just don't have time to play right now.

>>1987681
That's just for high elves. Every race gets their own starting instance before it dumps you off in the prologue areas - well, assuming you chose the Shadows of Angmar start. Beyond the Shadow dumps you off immediately in swanfleet and everyone has the same starting instance.

Dunlending fuckin' shits. Betray me and ship me off to Isengard to slave for Uruk's and be interrogated by Saruman.

It honestly feels great to go back to Tel Methedras after you escape and slaughter a bunch of them.

>>1991086
As far as Uruk-hai go, the lackey that Morflak assigns to watch you is actually a somewhat decent sort.

>>1991086
Tal. not Tel.

Fuckin' Isengard.

Free transfers from dark worlds (the older 32bit servers) to new worlds are open.

how is this game for someone that doesnt care about mmos or lotr?

>>2003497
why should it be?
why is everything all about you?

>>1975756 (OP)
if the game scaled properly to higher resolutions I'd play it.

>>2008106
It's not great at 1080p from couch distance, but at least you can make the quest dialog text bigger. And then it doesn't remember, so you have to set it every time you log in.
But there's still some text that you can't make bigger, and even worse they do that purple-on-black shit with serif fonts and you can't read any of it unless you put your nose to the screen. There's outlines on the text, but it's too thin for serif fonts, and black outlines don't help with dark text.
It's not just about high resolution, it also needs better text contrast.

and those tiny fucking UI buttons, yeah, they don't get any bigger, even when you can make the window bigger, it's bad enough at 1080p, it's gotta be awful on a 4K monitor

>>2003470
Thanks for the heads up, got back my level 20 Minstrel back from 2018. Just in case.
Look at this gamer.

>>2010338
>exp
wow, typical ugly gear, you need to set up a cosmetic layout just to protect your own eyes, even f2p gets two slots of that

I liked the dwimorburg. wish they kept the more monstrous appearance for the dimholt oathbreakers rather than just 'blue dunlendings' they used ever since enedwaith.

>>2013370
ghost banners are always a nice touch.
Also - I love the exploration music for gondor
https://youtu.be/CM-KqPj_6JE?si=fYLlqCaRappsG2qL
Yes, my favorite game OST is Arcanum.

Pelargir was neat

>>2016720
First time I tried the epic battle system was Helm's Dike, but I was retarded and couldn't figure anything out and just did the story mission versions of the stages of Helm's Deep instead. It clicked in the retaking of Pelargir though.

>>1975756 (OP)
>>1978697
cool,
they're actually having the equivalent promotion in DDO too!
>https://www.ddo.com/news/ddo-free-thankyou-2025

One of the biggest sins I still feel that the movies did was removing Aragorn's trip across Gondor gathering up the remaining troops and cutting out Prince Imrahil.

I'm rather enjoying piecing together the exact timing of the gondor regions as you progress along the dawnless day. By the time you reach ithilien, it's pretty much the point where Faramir's ordered retaking of osgiliath fails, but the Morgul host hasn't advanced yet into the Pelennor as they're still building siege weapons/building a span over the grand causeway.

>>2020464
Osgiliath is fuckin' huge.