One of the things I loved about Myth was how Dwarves could turn a battlefield into absolute chaos. Explosives weren't just about damage. Projectile physics, terrain, fire and friendly fire could all change the outcome of a battle.

That's something I really want to capture in my own RTS, Hunt or Pray, even though it takes place in a completely different setting.

No Dwarves this time, so I had to find a different way to bring that same feeling of explosive chaos to a world of zombies, fragmentation grenades, incendiaries and environmental chain reactions.

In this clip:

🔥 An AN-M14 incendiary grenade sets zombies on fire, and burning bodies can spread the flames.

💥 An M67 fragmentation grenade sends shrapnel flying, dismembers zombies and leaves a crater in the terrain.

🛢️ The explosion also ignites a nearby barrel, adding another layer to the chain of reactions.

What matters most to me is how these systems interact. I want explosions to change the battlefield, affect the environment and create consequences beyond their initial blast.

For the Myth community: what made the Dwarves and their explosives so memorable for you? And what other environmental interactions would you like to see in a modern RTS?

I'm a solo dev working toward a demo for the next Steam Next Fest. If the game sounds interesting, please consider adding Hunt or Pray to your Steam wishlist 🙏 it really helps! https://store.steampowered.com/app/5298550/Hunt_or_Pray/

After months of playing through Myth 1 on Legendary with my best friend, we got the perfect ending. A Fetch nuked the dwarf carrying the head, sending it flying perfectly into the pit. from across the map

When it first happened we had given up on the attempt had turned away and were getting ready to reload the save, then we got thee victory screen, had to watch the replay. thought the game had bugged.

Explosions send debris flying. Limbs break off and tumble as separate physics objects. The battlefield keeps the scars, so the aftermath tells its own story.

I found the Myth classics years after they came out, and their battlefields stuck with me. I’m trying to bring some of that back in my own game, with a world that reacts to what happens in it.

Hunt or Pray: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5298550/Hunt_or_Pray

Hey yall, a journal entries compilation auto played on my youtube background noise and it got me wondering a few things.

First and mainly, this. I know in Myth 2 it is said all the nine but Alric are dead, for 60 years, but as we all know, towards the later half of Myth 1, three of the nine are alive, 2 unknown if that counts Alric, and Cu Roi and Murgen are the only and most definitively confirmed dead.

Willing to mostly skip any discussion of unreliable narrator and lore presented in universe by people with incomplete knowledge, although on that note, I guess Rabican was that funny definition of “immortal” that just means unknown lifespan and good health, and not, you know, immortal.

I tried checking the AI’s references there and all I found was a giant slap fight in the talk page for The Nine, and nothing about Rabican.

So to be really clear, I am not asking about what may be perceived as obvious, “what do you think “encircled and crushed” means dummy” or that, I am asking if there was a Bungie newsletter from 1997 that I didn’t get that says Rabican died AT Tharsis definitely, we hung his really cool severed head up on the Gate of Storms.

Another thing I was wondering the sequencing on, the location of Alric, he was rescued before Forest Heart and presumably did not enter the Tain, but he was there when they exited, or caught up soon enough. The journal entry says he will arrive tomorrow after they exited the Tain. Does anyone else wonder if Alric was already nearby and allowed Cu Roi and Murgen to die so there would be no opposition to his suicide attack plan? They don’t talk about The Nine infighting as much as The Fallen, but we do get snippets here and there, and they are basically a bunch of super powered sorcerer kings, well, some are kings, or king adjacent. The Myth series has some inspiration from The Black Company, which does not mean they had parallels in mind for each character, but if they did I think Alric would be Croaker, and Croaker would definitely let Murgen die :)

Final thought unrelated to anything, can’t you just see Maeldun as Elmo? Poor little work horses. Come back from war, go kill pirates, never a break.

Ever tried letting AI go ham in fear and loathing? I'm trying it right now. The first unit it made was the dawarven sapper. It's a slower larger hardy dawarven unit that chucks bigger Molotov. It also made a spear version of the souless it stabs at longer than 2.0 range and is a glass cannon. I'm keen to make a new campaign with ai.

Sorry if this isn't allowed! Calling all Mythers old and new!

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If you're new to the game or have been away for a while, please visit Bagrada.net to learn how to get Myth installed and configured. Join us on Bagrada's Discord server to find a teammate!

Hey yall! I don’t know if this is allowed but if it is I figured you might be interested! I am in the process of streaming and recording Myth: Fallen Lords and will be going on to Myth 2 after! I played the original as a child back on disk and it has been an absolute joy rediscovering it.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTNvfm0G0Vow&si=lYW3UbioBty2sMBP

We are streaming it on Twitch every Tuesday! I would love to have others who enjoy the game watch and give me advice lol

https://m.twitch.tv/elrengryphon?desktop-redirect=true

Thanks and have a good one!

Anyone know where I can find all the artwork from the journals? Or just all the artwork bungie made for both myth the fallen lords and myth 2 soulblighter?

Stuck at a 3 hour layover at the worst airport in the world (midway). Drinking a beer and decided to download OSRS mobile, and realized maybe myth 2 campaign on Mobile would be sick. I know this is a huge task but would love to hear your thoughts.

2:30 pm edt mwc finals

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I have spent the last few hours trying to download the game, it has been very unsuccessful. Does anyone have a video or instructions on how to install myth on a MacBook?

It’s been another 10 years and my brain flipped the random, you should play myth 2 again switch. I know I could spend the time to research myself but if someone could point me in the right direction on how to download myth I’d be one happy lad

This was mostly an academic exercise. It probably duplicates the functionality of things that already exist (I haven't really kept up with the Myth dev community during the last nearly 3 decades.)

https://github.com/opcow/Myth2ools

Courtesy post in case y’all didn’t know, but the community is still up and running. Come out and play! Head over to Bagrada.net and join us. Even if you no longer have the game, there are instructions on the site for how to get a fresh copy. Hope to see you on there.

looking for new or returning players who are interested in playing/learning as a group or solo. looking to set up saturday and or sunday mornings EST if anyone is up early and wants to join a few of us (7-9am est) ilet me know ill get you in the server if intrigued. Some people are around later 8-10pm est as well

Myth is just such a fun game to play. In germany when I was a kid we had only a version without blood. Then came "The Blood Patch". I love everything about Myth I and II.

As title states, at least once a year I think about this game search for something similar, with no luck... also hoping one day a miracle happens and announcement they're remaking the games comes out. *fingers crossed*

It occurred to me these two games have very similar imagery, combat mechanics and lore over their respective terrain within the game maps.

How hard/expensive would it be-I wonder- to use the existing mechanics and programming of both games to create a sort of “small” multiplayer situation where teams of maybe up to 4 co-operative players handle different aspects of a classic multiplayer myth game but set within the landscape of skyrim? The idea allowing for some team members to use their oblivion character in 1st person to influence the rts and outcomes of the standard overhead myth battle that their team mate is seeing and controlling in classic myth style.

Rowdiness would ensue!

Since the graphics, rendering, physics are all established and working for both games it’d be a pretty sweet mashup to the point where they could be enmeshed pretty deeply especially given modern game programming, no?

I imagine a lot more Myth fans are also familiar with the Oblivion series than vice verse.

I wish this game was more popular! It was my first RTS game I ever played I was super young the first time I experienced it and ever since then its been like family.

EDIT: SOLVED thanks to u/chipsnapper below! Thank you.

Hope you're doing great! I am respectfully asking for assistance, please.

I installed Project Magma v1.8.5 - build 47, as well as the plugin Magma - The Fallen Lords DX 1.3 for Windows 11.

Everything works perfectly - except the cutscenes will not play. I downloaded the Myth II Quicktime cutscenes files from The Tain, and placed them in my Myth II/cutscenes folder - in both a consolidated folder and as individual .mov files.

I have the K-Lite Codec Pack installed. I'm able to click the "Replay Intro" button in game, but to no avail.

Has anyone worked through this problem? I would love to get a fix and also make the separate TFL movies work, too. They're so good! (I can watch them in Windows Media Player, but this is far from ideal.)

Thanks so much for your help.

Hope you all enjoy!