Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-27200931-20170102032201/@comment-28813058-20170102153036

Dragonovith wrote: Yesterday I had the opportunity to play a real snapshot of the 31 Beta update.

Mevans himself toured me around the place, even though it's still under work. There were other people on the server too.

These are some of the features I saw with my own eyes:

> Pastel food items. They give you an achievement.

> The Khaganate has a cool special NPC available to hire, but it's secret!

> There's a chance for Gandalf to spawn as a random encounter for now. He sends you in a quest for kebab.

> Smaller Mûmakils were added too. They spawn around Near Harad and on the Shire. Sometimes around Erebor too.

> Minas Tirith and Dol Guldur were added too. It was incredible. Minas Tirith has an unique kebab vendor that sells "Spiced Kebab" (don't eat it too much, that's all I'm saying).

> You can now gain alignment with Utumno.

> Unit formations are a thing now. Different factions have access to different formations, like the crescent cavalry formation for Near Harad and the "We surrender!" formation for the Dunlendings.

I also saw some NPCs from an unannounced faction, but they asked me not to tell. So, ask me anything! I find this unrealistic for three reasons:

a) Utumno will never be an ally for the player unless the First Age portal is added, in which case you would be able to ally with Angband

b) MT and DG are both very in the VERY FAR FUTURE and I doubt Mevans would have been able to code them in this space of time with Easterlings already on his plate

c) Mumakils were never even CLOSE to the Shire, they are from Far Harad and did go into Ithilien and the Pelennor Fields, but they would never spawn in the Shire.