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Circle of Strain Campaign (2014) T1 FM

Circle of Strain:
COS1 COS1 COSC COS2 COS3

Assassination Castle/Fortress City Daylight Mansion/Estate Miscellaneous Buildings Phobic (Spiders/Heights) Relic/Artifact/Talisman Small/Short Undead

Read Felix's note at the start of each mission

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info NOTES:     This is a campaign pack re-release that contains a lot of fixes. Please see the readme file for more info.


** Bugfix Changes by AntiMatter_16 **

All:
Adjusted, reworked, and realigned many terrain brushes to optimize terrain
Adjusted, reworked, and realigned room brushes to fix sound propagation errors
Added EAX settings to all rooms
Added 32-bit Lighting and increased lightmap resolution
Adjusted physics properties of many objects so that they more closely fit the model
Aligned many, many textures *everywhere*
Removed unused textures to reduce memory usage
Added colored lighting to torches, flames, and electric lights, among others
Adjusted rendering parameters to apply a very subtle color to the shadow
Fixed sleeping guards and servants so they wake up properly
Reduced lockpicking time for locks that are not by any AI
Included optional enhanced sky *.dmls if enhanced skies are installed
Added proper inventory object names to keys, and other objects
Spellchecked, fixed punctuation, and reworked a few unclear books/scrolls
Adjusted fireplace particles, so they don't pass through the brickwork
Lots of other stuff I've forgotten

CoS1:
Fixed misaligned terrain brushes in the outside area
Reworked Roofs and outside areas to be better optimized
Replaced outside light brushes with proper sunlight
Fixed the silver fire poker ticking off finding the serpentile torc objective
Resized manor rooms and trophy room to fit textures better
Adjusted how the front gate guards respond and attack when the player acts suspiciously
Fixed Garrett's voiceovers so they play properly
Fixed and adjusted ambient sound markers
Text on Poster Scrolls now displayed on parchment, instead of in-game
Added a flow brush around the well water to fix silent water
Added windows on the inside that were on the outside of the manor
Changed bunk beds with guards in them to single bunks, so guards wake up properly.
Lots of other stuff I've forgotten

CoS2:
Replaced outside light brushes with proper sunlight
Expanded sky areas to connect the courtyard to adjacent areas
Moved the second floor higher to better fit textures
Fixed an invalid flow brush that resulted in silent water
Fixed Zombies so they (usually) resurrect properly
Lots of other stuff I've forgotten

CoS3:
Removed unnecessary solid sky brushes meant to lower poly counts in T1, opening up views
Optimized brushes around the Cathedral, manor and all over town (this sounds mundane but took many, many hours.)
Replaced rotated cube brushes used as beams in the manor with optimized wedge brushes
Fixed the servant with a tray, so he drops the tray when startled
Lots of other stuff I've forgotten

Authors

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AntiMatter_16 (Michael A. Cleveland)   Missions
Bugfix Changes and re-release

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Mokkis (Markus Lappalainen)   Missions
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Briefing

Read Felix's note at the start of each mission


Campaign details

1. Circle of Strain 1

Avg. rating:   6.00 / 10
by 5 players
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2. Circle of Strain 2

Avg. rating:   6.00 / 10
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3. Circle of Strain 3

Avg. rating:   6.40 / 10
by 5 players
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message   Good Enough
Expedient_Salt    July 1, 2022, 10:57 p.m.

These missions are nothing spectacular or even particularly interesting, but they are nonetheless simple and solid. This is especially notable when you consider that these levels were made back in 1999 - 2000. There's barely a story connecting the 3 levels, so I'm just going to quickly review each one independently here.

#1. The first level...

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message   A good learning example
Valky    Aug. 27, 2020, 4:14 a.m.

The CoS campaign is very simple, the first two missions took me about 40 minutes each and the third took me about an hour. These are bite sized mansion burglary missions that are simple yet not offensive. There are a few spiders and undead in somewhat optional areas, and the third mission clearly shows the author's growth as it becomes a moderat...

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