ITS DONE!!! After a year and half im finally done with a hopeful first and not last Act; balance may be off since its the first time i make something this big; I tested warrior class and it plays well, magician/archer probably need further balance.
I would love to hear your opinions on the mod overall, problems, bugs, story...
Just a quick recap, i added over 11 new enemies with 35 variants (some of them are not used yet until its their turn), over 6 new songs, lots of new sounds, modified skills, a storyline, cutscenes... and many more.
First act is a small homenage to Diablo; Start can be a tiny bit slow, please bear with the few NPC dialogs at first until you get to the carnage, being the opening act it has more text than future act.
I stimate over 2 hours playtime without rushing, Warning! its harder than vainilla Flare and squishy classes can possibly have a bad time; if you decide to get the cheat items "Smugler Weird" sells them.
Download(only mod):
https://www.dropbox.com/s/wrr11qsnihajt ... od.7z?dl=0To play it, you need to unzip, move Heresy folder into Flare/Mods, run Flare -> configuraton -> Mods , in that screen at the left (Active mods) you need to have "Fantasy core" and "Heresy". Or if you are a windows user just download this file, unzip and run:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/lvvrfbu4v93tu ... sy.7z?dl=0Warning!!!! New version of Flare required to play, you can download from:
- Updated Flare version for Linux (Thanks to Dorkster)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Yvi0_6 ... sp=sharingand Windows:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_SzRi5 ... sp=sharingGo to second thread page to see updated pics
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Hello, early this year i decided to start my own flare mod. My main idea is to make it resemble Diablo 1/2 as much as possible, so i changed lots of game mechanics for that. The base is already in place, a similar stat system, different weapon classes with att times, range, etc...; i also added some unused content and lots of my own created content, more use of elemental damage/resistances, some ideas like summoning pets... and a heavier focus on brutal combat and loot variety (and blood, lots of blood).
One major change compared to Flare is going to be the character growth, the skill tree will be empty at the start and the player needs to search for masters that will unlock them after joining their profession. The guilds will be shown along the game, each will present different playstyles, unique skills and late game equipment. I will start marking as spoiler from now on for people who want to discover things themselves.
**SPOILER**There are 3 basic proffessions that will specialize into others as the acts advance:
Soldier, basic melee warrior skills:
-Knight, oriented to defense
--Paladin, Healing and resistances
--Dark Knight, Leeching and debuffs
-Mercenary, Attk oriented, better loot drops, an all rounder
--Duelist, high dodge and mobility enhacing skills, some support magic skills
Archer, basic ranged skills
-Shooter, pure damage oriented, get the crossbows unique weapons
--Master Shooter, get the heavy crossbows and other ranged unique weapons
-Hunter, stealth/dodge, magic
--Ranger, animal summons and support spells (like slow)
--Assassin, high evasion and movility, short range weapons like throwing daggers and short swords (hybrid melee/ranged)
Magician, a mage apprentice
-Enchanter, pure damage oriented
--Elementalist, more destructive spells
-Warlock, attack and support spells
--Necromancer, summons undeads, poisons, leeching and debuffs
--Druid, summons monsters, turn into monters (melee/magic hybrid)
(Necromancer and druid are pet based builds, they will depend a lot on their summons)
**End of spoiler**Now on to the story, I dont know if it will be too wordy for the average Diablo player, i will adjust text quantity once i can get feedback after i realease a "first act". It will have dark humour(or my attemps), adult themes and bad language (not a child friendly mod); Im a Terry pratchet and horror movies fan so it will show in here.
**SPOILER**The main drive is, you are some common peasant dude/gal living in a religious state, who gets caugth in the middle of someone summoning an elder god, you are magically branded as a sacrifice but survive and became a "living anchor". You have no access to eldrich powers but are marked as a to be killed heretic and need to flee. The many gods from this world are not happy, the status quo has broken and they start to rally their believers, champions and avatars (human or monsters alike) to overpower the other gods and the invading elder god who is on its way to enter this dimension.
There will be two main antagonist for the whole game, the corrupt priest trying to summon the elder god and the old noble who searchs for inmortality and financed him. The details of the story will be told little by little, you wont know about the gods war or the elder god until later in the game. At first you only know you have a strange mark on your body, that monsters are attacking the civiliced lands for no reason and you have a revenge to take on those two bastards. And little by little learn all of those trues while pursuing them.**End of spoiler**I have already planned the first two arcs; the first in wich you are branded and the second where you are declared a heretic. But besides that i only have minor ideas for the next ones. I only think of them as places that i dont really know how to piece together, my ideas for now:
-Deep forest, crossing it while running away, finding some old minor stone god who is in need of being killed, crossing the seas to...
-A desert kingdom full of monster insects, later mummies and egiptian inspired monsters. With a hot but treacherous cleopatra-alike who will ask for help but ultimately turn out to be a scorpion king and tries to kill you. You scape and travel river down to...
-a jungle level with an aztec like god, the ranger guild ask for your help to stop the human sacrificies, they will guide you out of the jungle when done to...
-stranded on a pirate island after your ship sunks?
-a capital overun by undeads, the old nobleman has become a vampire here.(big story point)
-a snowland with vikings being invaded by orcs, later demons
-a volcanic/hellish land (entry is on viking lands?)
-the capital of the church state, the church has gone mad and is killing all non-clergy with fanatics, you help a resistance. Final clue to find the corrupt priest.
-City risen from the sea, full of eldritch spawns, corrupt priest is here, you try to stop him.
-Rift betwen worlds and final enemy
This are some samples of the progress i have already made, i have slowed down due to being summer, since i prefer to be at the beach instead of a computer screen.
https://opengameart.org/content/charging-minotaurhttps://opengameart.org/content/models- ... -flare-mod