Kathmaral Saga, The Journey

[VanAndro]

This campaign turned out to be a very pleasant surprise: beautiful terrain that made me want to see every corner of it; choice between 2 races; randomly appearing items in my inventory (because I wasn't trying to make any specific item - I just took them with the one character and whatever. I got quite strong items like that with the help of Wendigo Skin and Horn).

I didn't like how the characters and both types of orcs looked. All units with few exceptions seemed slightly flattened to me throughout. Kael's voice surprised me and was also strange to me the whole time. Somehow it doesn't connect with the image of an orc.

The game difficulty on "Normal" is the same or close to that of the standard WC3 campaign. On 1.27 it runs without any issues. I couldn't even see the already known issues. Thanks for sharing. I will look around for a sequel.

 

[Bigger worse]

Hello ,man.Can i translate this campaign into chinese?

 

[xdxdxd]

very nice campaign both story and gameplay

 

[Nyctaeus]

I say this one was a pleasant surprise.

The story flows like a nice introduction to a new "explore unknown land" setting. The worldbuilding is a bit scarce in detail, but I can't say it comes without a strong themes on it's own. Missions are mechanically interesting, bossfights are fun and well-balanced and everything is served with a dripping of cool reskins that makes heroes and units unique, and beautiful [however a bit monotonous] terrain work. Custom item system is also a welcome and cool addition even if it quickly fills the inventory. This issue can be easily managed with some sort of stash akin to the one from Malfurion's Quest. I like the writing. Character creations come with distinct personallities that just like worldbuilding in general, simply asks for more detail work.

Additional point goes for playing orcs, and portraying them different then typical orcs in most fantasy settings. Orcs here feels like a fully-fledged civilization rather then collection of semi-savage tribes. Default pick for most creators would be humans simply because we're humans, but this project explore different themes and does not seem to be afraid of exploring orc themes in it's own way.

I definitely want to play more. This is a small, but polished and well-made gem with visible passion put into development.

 

[Nubelial]

I say this one was a pleasant surprise.

The story flows like a nice introduction to a new "explore unknown land" setting. The worldbuilding is a bit scarce in detail, but I can't say it comes without a strong themes on it's own. Missions are mechanically interesting, bossfights are fun and well-balanced and everything is served with a dripping of cool reskins that makes heroes and units unique, and beautiful [however a bit monotonous] terrain work. Custom item system is also a welcome and cool addition even if it quickly fills the inventory. This issue can be easily managed with some sort of stash akin to the one from Malfurion's Quest. I like the writing. Character creations come with distinct personallities that just like worldbuilding in general, simply asks for more detail work.

Additional point goes for playing orcs, and portraying them different then typical orcs in most fantasy settings. Orcs here feels like a fully-fledged civilization rather then collection of semi-savage tribes. Default pick for most creators would be humans simply because we're humans, but this project explore different themes and does not seem to be afraid of exploring orc themes in it's own way.

I definitely want to play more. This is a small, but polished and well-made gem with visible passion put into development.

Thanks for coming back to the post to comment.
I understand what you mention about the items and the slots, the system i made was inefficient, we currently have an improved one, but it will be for the next project, we're just on vacation haha

 

[Exarch Lightcarol]

Plot: The characterization is very well thought out. I'd like to see something in the follow up story that would give Marak heartburn. Before I played the campaign, I read the introduction thinking that there was a conflict between the two orc forces and that we were going to try to fix that. But the actual gameplay, where we're just replacing one set of tech trees (which has been great, of course), doesn't seem to live up to my mental expectations.
Gameplay: tons of new skins, models and icons. I'd like to see the "Worker" tag removed from the Kodo no rider, which now needs to be specifically set to patrol to avoid that annoying prompt in the bottom left corner.

 

[Jayborino]

I plan to begin a showcase series soon. After playing only 1 map so far, I can say this is already quite impressive. The item system seems a bit confusing, but I'm just going to hold on to what I pick up and hope I can make the scroll and get lucky enough for a Wendigo reagent.

 

[U-K6]

if i remember correctly the items required for the scroll are all present in the map where you actually make the scroll and think every item required is mentioned on that map

I plan to begin a showcase series soon. After playing only 1 map so far, I can say this is already quite impressive. The item system seems a bit confusing, but I'm just going to hold on to what I pick up and hope I can make the scroll and get lucky enough for a Wendigo reagent.

 

[trycex]

I plan to begin a showcase series soon. After playing only 1 map so far, I can say this is already quite impressive. The item system seems a bit confusing, but I'm just going to hold on to what I pick up and hope I can make the scroll and get lucky enough for a Wendigo reagent.

Hello! Sorry for not answer soon,

Yeah the item system is a little archaic because we based of the Dota, specially to create tier 3 item just tier2 item + special item(wendigo parts) + the scrolls. You can get the wendigo parts in both micro and macro chapters but you can only get the scrolls in the macro chapter(1 in a store and 1 around the same chapter). We decided in that way because the Tier 3 usually are really strong.

Thankfully the item system pass for 2 revisions so our next project has a more friendly and easy way to create a tier 3 item.

 

[VanAndro]

..... so our next project has a more friendly and easy way to create a tier 3 item.

Is there a possibility that you will please us with the new project next year?

 

[trycex]

Is there a possibility that you will please us with the new project next year?

We are optimistic, approximately half of the year 2024 should be ready, if nothing wrong happens of course.

 

[Morris]

I played this campaign when it was first released but didn't write a review. sorry for that.
seeing Jayborino showcase it made me wanna play it again.
Hopefully, we get to play your new project next year!

 

[Adrian0]

Really fun and intersting campaign, was a joy to play.
Apart from quite a few spelling errors I found this campaign interesting and enjoyable having a good story, fun dialog and an explore like feeling all through out with a nice item system and different heroes and races as your option.

 

[tulee]

Thought I would add some notes I wrote down from when I first played this campaign:

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Ch1
Nice to see each of the two main quests give us a taste of both sides of the orc factions.
Love the item combination system.

Ch2
Blademaster hero makes comment related to abandoned village from last mission, despite him not being there in ch1 at the time when they found that abandoned village.
When going near 1 rock golem at the start with Malak, it does its birth animation, then going near the 2nd, both of them do the birth animation (so first one we encounter does it x2).
Malak got to lvl 3 way to fast in this mission.
Maybe give a way for our next two heroes to explore the area Malak was in, since I had to drop items here that I didn't have enough room for Malak to carry.
Love the custom skins, especially the furbolg ones (Sarlin's is one of the best I have seen).
For the 2 wendigo bosses, only the right side pushes out to attack, left side stays in his corner waiting for us to come to him.
Great to have choice of which army faction for each map.
Love the tile sets mix. The snowy regions look especially good.

Ch3
Enjoyed this first RTS mission.

Ch4
No reason is given why the Furbolg who was sent after the Ice Giant went and fully betrayed the other furbolgs. It just said something about him not trusting the outsiders, then it went to him fully attacking us.
The AI ally that defends us is good - very nice. AI ally is best part of custom campaigns in my opinion.

Ch5
A hint about us being about to lose the Goblin hero would have been nice before going into the cave - many of my good items were on the Goblin.
Boss fight was good. It would have been really hard for people without the wolf summon item, since that was the key to quickly killing the altars that summoned the ghouls.
More questions than answers left after that fight.

General points
The lore in this campaign is really good--- there are hints at so much going on, and so much to come.
Really hope if you guys continue with this, you make it a 2nd campaign so we don't need to replay these 5 missions before starting your new stuff.
I love the blue coloring dancing around on the mountains at the end of the final cinematic-- it looked fantastic (added picture below).

Interesting issue playing this on 1.32 + -- Cannot save or load (causes game to crash). Even using f6 hotkey (quicksave) causes game to crash. I would be curious what about this campaign causes that, since almost all campaigns made on earlier versions of wc3 are completely compatible with 1.32+.