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Greeting, fellow campaign enjoyers. A few months back I created a campaign featuring my Living Nerubian custom race. This was my first real experience with creating a campaign and there are many aspects that need improvements. I had a good time creating the missions and having people experience my race in a new light. Throughout the creating process I had many notes on the Living Nerubian race itself and all the notes helped me vastly improve it, practically overhauling the whole race for the better. Now I have plans to continue the story set by my first campaign with the Undead Nerubians.
STORY AND HISTORY
As a short synopsis the story begins in the midst of the War of the Spider where the Lich King attempts to destroy the Nerubian kingdom. Undead forces having obtained major footholds across Northrend, but most importantly they are dangerously close to the assailing the capital. Remnants of Nerubian stationed far from the capital are ordered to return back to the outskirts of the capital in order to repel the growing threat. Having achieved victory the reinvigorated Nerubian forces spread across the lands taking more and more land back.
Now the Undead Nerubian campaign begins. The Lich King and the Dreadlords have amassed mighty army from the slain Nerubians and now plan to send their combined forces to the Nerubian capital.
IMPROVEMENTS
I wanted to take some criticisms and suggestions serious in this campaign to improve the overall experience:STORY AND HISTORY
As a short synopsis the story begins in the midst of the War of the Spider where the Lich King attempts to destroy the Nerubian kingdom. Undead forces having obtained major footholds across Northrend, but most importantly they are dangerously close to the assailing the capital. Remnants of Nerubian stationed far from the capital are ordered to return back to the outskirts of the capital in order to repel the growing threat. Having achieved victory the reinvigorated Nerubian forces spread across the lands taking more and more land back.
Now the Undead Nerubian campaign begins. The Lich King and the Dreadlords have amassed mighty army from the slain Nerubians and now plan to send their combined forces to the Nerubian capital.
IMPROVEMENTS
- Lack of Cinematics: When I made my first campaign I had a lack of knowledge and fear of creating these complicated events. A lot can go wrong if everything in the map is not accounted for while cinematics play. Plus making them all skippable adds additional layers of complexity that must be addressed. I have opted to add far more cinematics this go around. Now instead of one simple establishing cinematic at the start I have multiples appearing throughout the missions. Including optional quests and ends of the mission.
- Lack of Story: My main focus was to have the player experience the race through gameplay, that left the story severely lacking and many felt confused on what is going on. I aim to have a better story this go around. Having the Heroes have more personality, more gameplay reactions, far more dialogue.
- Lack of Map Variation: Having the story take place in Northrend I had made most of the story maps in a snowy tileset. Practically all of the maps had some snowy nature to them. Though the theme was fitting for the time and place I did not enjoy the staleness. Now I bring more areas of the Northrend map such as the Howling Fjord, Grizzly Hills, and even the Crystalsong Forest. A lot of the maps will also come with custom tilesets and assets to really flesh out the maps.
CHOICES
I decided to add a feature that I wanted to play around with for a while. Choices in missions that have affect on future missions. In this campaign all the missions will have an optional quest that will have an effect on the final mission. Some missions offer a choice on which ally to save, with enemy to dispatch off, or based on completing difficult tasks. The final mission will be highly customized depending on your previous choices.
PROGRESS
I decided to add a feature that I wanted to play around with for a while. Choices in missions that have affect on future missions. In this campaign all the missions will have an optional quest that will have an effect on the final mission. Some missions offer a choice on which ally to save, with enemy to dispatch off, or based on completing difficult tasks. The final mission will be highly customized depending on your previous choices.
PROGRESS
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MISSION ONE: Orders of the Lich King - [Completed]
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MISSION TWO: Treading Battlefield - [Completed]
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MISSION THREE: Okwan's Challenge - [Completed]
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MISSION FOUR: Unamed - [Incomplete]
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MISSION FIVE: Unamed - [Incomplete]
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MISSION SIX: Unamed - [Incomplete]
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MISSION SEVEN: Unamed - [Incomplete]
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MISSION EIGHT: Unamed - [Incomplete]
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