Shadow of the Xel'Naga Chapter 2 sighted!

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Shadow of the Xel'Naga Chapter 2 sighted!

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These are the first five minutes of a 10-20 minutes demo I've worked on for the second Chapter in my campaign. Unlike the GTA/WC3-like hero-gameplay of the first Chapter this one is actually a Point & Click Adventure!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VjjuP3hUIY

This map is not yet available on Battle.net. Please respond to this video with your Battle.net EU-ID or add me (OutsiderXE.147) if you want to help me test it. EU only!

Features:
- Point and Click Adventure gameplay.
- 10 to 20 minutes of playtime.
- Four difficulty levels that vary the amount of ingame help.
- Fixed camera system (can be switched to classic RTS camera).
- Dialog-basedInventory system
- Optional Two-player-coop.
- Proper work on terrain.
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That looks quite cool. You are changing the novel into a Sc2map? I am veyr familiar with the novel.
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Post by Eredalis »

Lulz, Maglok... o_o
OutsiderXE created the whole "changing novels into playable campaigns" thing...
Take a look in his blog and check the plans (pdf or html) for his latest project SotX. That sounds really innovative...
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Ah wait it's him! :)

That's been a while, my memory is failing me. :)
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Never heard of the dude or the novels but it's nice to see someone making progress. Good luck, bro!
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Over the last six weeks I've been busy play-testing and tweaking the second third of Chapter 2. This weekend I also managed to do 95% of all visuals in this part. Here are a couple of teasers featuring the revamped a cinematic, the Multiple-Choice-Dialogue-System and the ability Salvage.

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The colonists of Free Haven discuss the alien wreckage.

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Ghandi Ryan has lost his adoptive son.

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The Robo-Harvester is about to use its Salvage ability.

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The Robo-Harvester has salvaged some items from this wreckage.

The second of three parts for this map is now almost complete. I'll try and make a video from this part so I can get a couple of testers to help me playtest this part of the map. No need to post a news until then.

After testing, I could just wrap the rest of it up in a cinematic and move on to the next map, but I've created additional content for this map that I wasn't able to include into the first and second part. I'll continue working on this map for a while, but the third part will probably not be as big as the previous.
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After many months of hard work Chapter 2 is now ready for public testing. It now has eight times the amount of content than the demo had. It takes me 40 minutes of ingame-time to complete it, and I know the ins and out. My guess is that any other person would need 60-120 minutes.

Added tons of content, new abilities, many things to improve gameplay-fluency. If you are in any way interested in playing a Point & Click adventure within the SC2-universe, THIS is your chance!

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I need testers to test:

•everything (fun, riddles, controls, bugs, appeal)
•EU-testers required. Add me on Bnet (OutsiderXE.147) or post your ID here. You can also find me on ICQ at 294455875.
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i'd like to try testing it :)
my id is shaigador@hotmail.com
however i have no idea how to upload custom maps/campaign into sc2..i find it puzzling :s
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The tests will be held live on Bnet because I want to watch people play. Please don't post real ID/Email. Just your Nickname.Code (move mouse over your portrait on Bnet to find out the code-number).
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Looks pretty solid. I'm not EU though, unfortunately.
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