LOTR:RIE – Orcs Die In Battle
(Updated to the current beta!)
Tired of clogging up your kill list defending the Free Folk?
Unconcerned with the dozens of lowborn uruk-hai killed during a siege?
Concerned that the good-aligned faiths seem to summarily execute orcs?
Then say no more! This submod for Realms in Exile alters the way orcs are auto-killed by good-aligned faiths: these orcs now die in battle, shifting the perspective to one where these orcs would rather fight than surrender and keeping them out of your list of kills!
For now this mod does very little, I may add to it in the future, spice things up with different options for uruk children, women, and craven orcs, maybe some additional options if your character is compassionate or cynical- I also plan on making a future uruk overhaul which will incorporate these changes, but I might leave this mod for anyone just looking for this change.
The mod modifies:
lotr_orc_events.txt
lotr_prison_on_actions.txt
I don’t know if it will conflict with any other submods but please let me know if you find any issues, compatibility or otherwise!
In the event that I stop updating this or you find a mod which is incompatible with it, here’s a quick and hopefully fool-proof guide on how to do this yourself:
(Warning: Modify at your peril! If you don’t know what you’re doing ask me, please don’t bother the RiE devs)
Find either the Realms in Exile mod file or the overriding incompatible file, then find the previously mentioned txt files above and open them. In the lotr_orc_events.txt find orcs.0010 labelled as # Auto-expel orcs and in lotr_prison_on_actions.txt find the line labeled #Free Peoples execute orcs automatically- these are currently the areas that reference executions but this may change, make sure you’re only in these parts of the file. Replace "death_execution" with "death_battle" (do not insert the quotes). Once this is done, remove the line adjacent referencing a killer, and then badda bing badda boom you’ve done it yourself!
Now get out there and fight the Forces of Darkness with peace of mind!
