WB Games announced on Thursday that it had quietly disabled online services for Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor just two days before. This means that the 2014 Nemesis Forge and Vendetta missions are no longer available to players.
The Nemesis Forge feature has been added to Shadow of Mordor just before the 2017 streak Middle-earth: Shadow of War. With it, players could play in a sandbox environment, with all skills unlocked, against the biggest orc enemies they built during their main match. This also terminates the ability to import Nemesis or Follower of Shadow of Mordor inside Shadow of War, Although Shadow of Waronline support for is not affected.
The Vendetta missions instructed players to kill an orc captain who had killed another (human) player on their list of friends. He was connected with the “Repaid in Blood” achievement / trophy (his instructions: “complete a Vendetta Mission”), which WB Games said will still be awarded (but did not say how).
The achievements “The Hunt is My Mistress” and “Lord of the Ring” can also be unlocked, although access to the leaderboards is now cut off. “The Hunt is My Mistress” is part of the “Test of the Wild” challenge mode of the DLC Trials of War, and “Lord of the Ring” was given to the “Test of the Ring” challenge.
The epic runes “Orc Hunter” and “Gravewalker” are now automatically awarded to all players, as they cannot connect to the WBPlay platform to collect them.
Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor was developed by Monolith Productions and published by Warner Bros. Games in September 2014 for PlayStation 4, Windows PC and Xbox One. It was a commercial and critical success, collecting several nods of the game of the year. The sequence, Shadow of War, was also developed by Monolith and improved the “Nemesis System” that generated enemy bosses in a procedural way based on their encounters with the player.