New skirmish screenshots from Lord of the Rings Online

WINGED T-REX! RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!

I so like the new looks and the graphics very detailed
fantastic..


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I just wish they'd take the time to totally revise the character models (I could live with the mobs).
I mean, Lotro's environment (world) is superb; in that whether or not it's technically amazing is irrelevant, as it certainly does it's job by pulling you in to a vast, lived-in and believable world..

..only to have that immersion rudely yanked out from under your feet every time you see a player character.
And don't get me started (again) on the female NPC's who walk Middle-earth as if they've soiled their pants and haven't been able to find a bathroom yet.

My theory is that Turbine had the world design folk also do the character modeling (eek). Or that Steefel's 8yo nephew wanted a 'part' in the production so they let him do it. Or that they spent all their budget at the time on the world, and then suddenly realised they had player characters to create as well..

I love Lotro, but each time I play it I find myself wishing the characters were updated, tis all :S

And I was also hoping that skirmishes were to be more than 'waves of mobs'.

I've personally never understood why some players don't like the character models in LoTRO. Give me a LoTRO elf's ears over a WoW elf's ears any time!

The Landscape god is named Orion I believe, and his team is an absolute professional team of great artists doing what is still the best looking natural environments in MMO's today(Age of Conan's trees SUCK hard).

The other artist, named Floon, is the polar opposite. When he actually goes out of his way to try and do something, it ends up horrible and becomes bitchfest fodder on the forums. He constantly posts how when he tries something that isn't mandated by his superiors, like fixing dwarf hauberks, it ends up being a huge headache and no one rewards him with praise(no praise for F'ing up things? Really?). He uses his own screw ups to justify not putting effort into improving noticeable and long standing issues(not one person ever complained about dwarf hauberks, and you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that didn't read his post that could even point out this error he tried to fix). He's the road block for not getting nice costumes in game, or varied armor in the high end, or armor that someone might actually like to wear. He's also the roadblock for getting nice stuff into housing, or a housing system that is better than 1999 standards.

Floon is the reason almost all the landscape screenshots that win weekly awards for LOTRO generally have no character models in them.