DoFH Showcases the "Forgotten" Races

[Ryan Zelazny]

Originally Posted by Puppeteer

Ah, the mysterious Undead. Nice showcase!

There actually were Undead concepts done and a storyline written. However Konstantin wouldn't recall this as Undead were cut before him joining the team. I will have to try and dig up and see if I have some of that still. A funny tidbit about the undead, they weren't cut due to lack of interest, difficulty, or funding. We cut Undead because at the time Warcraft 3 was new and we considered them a competitor, so we wanted to separate ourselves from them to make DoF look more original. We didn't anticipate it would take another 7 years to finish the game

Maakvir were the Undead replacements that we threw in to be original, balancing issues as stated in the article were the reason for the cut, because we didn't want to have to commit to putting in large water bodies in each map to accommodate them, as well as it would very easy for players to find their bases; find the lake, you find the Maakvir.

[Alex Walz]

Interesting, I thought the Undead were thought up later.
Looking forward to seeing them.

[OrcSlayer]

The maakvir could build buildings on land and water and all units exel at swimming and have a bonus in water while on land they are weaker but they can train units that lose there water skills and land penalty

[Grizzlez]

Minotaurs FTW! Brute force for me any day.

[Generation]

I was saying minotaurs as a race in a game a race aka that is playable like the elves

[Kire]

I see minotaurs as warcraft taurens (those cows =P)

[The_Biz]

if some units are part of MMORTS... then could they part of the scenario editor?

[nickson104]

I reckon that if any of the races should be re-implemented (other than dragons) then it should be minotaurs!! minotaurs are awesome!

[Kire]

What about magic race in DoF2? =(

[Alex Walz]

Well all DoF races use magic. Some more than others, like the Elves are more into magic than the men. And the Undead would have really relied on magic.

if some units are part of MMORTS... then could they part of the scenario editor?

I don't see why they wouldn't be. Probably all game units plus maybe some cheat and scrapped units will be in the editor.