New Campaign! Warcraft III: Before the Chaos MOD

For people who don't know, we are following the official Blizzard plot and story regarding the pre-warcraft 3 era. We may add in extra things, but we will not be changing what is already there. Regarding heroes and their places in the stories:

1. Blood Mage is unapplicable and will not be there.
2. The Crypt Lord will be in the game, but with a new ability or two and will be in the Undead Campaign. However, he will be against the undead, fighting with the for the forces of the underground spider kingdom.
3. Kel'Thuzard - is a complete bad mofo, one of the most powerful mages of all time and best friend of Antonidas (the Human Archmage). He only gains more power when he is granted it by the Lich King, and he will surely be a power in this game to be reckoned with.
4. Warden - not applicable, but will be replaced with the Assassin that has everything the same except the Spirit of Vengence ultimate.

- I would like to go on, but since this is going to be in the production plan anyway, I don't see any reason to type this twice. I promise you everything will pretty much be sorted out when I finish it. Cheers,

Martin

in about a week i well post all my ideas here

Are we going to wait for TFT to be released before we can finish this mod? emote_confused

ugh darn i forgot what i was goni 2 say when i remember i edit this post

problems witht the cloud. my WE is fubar cuz of TFT so I'm gonna be a bit longer than I thought. BTW almost all of it is just using the extended unit strings that aren't lincluded into the editor, like # of bounces and max b range and things like projectile arc and fun stuff like that.

I would love to finish this mod before TFT comes out, but dreaming that the whole thing would be completed by that time is incredibly unrealistic. I believe that we could cross huge leaps and bounds, and programming all of the TFT spells (and making them upgradable) may be beyond our reach. It is supposed to be out in June, and it does look like that it may reach then due to the intense betaing and progress that it has made. However, I'm sure that we can beta test all of the spells that we have, and balance them to a point. I just don't want us to waste all of this work when it will be done for us anyway. But just a thought, and we can still do it if you want,

Martin

Man, this looks like the making of an awesome mod. Just a suggestion, but during the cinematic scenes with Doomhammer in his isolated hut, he should talk about his finaly fight with Lothar: how he was a very noble person, even if he wasn't an orc, and how he would have been honored to fight alongside the noble human, but they were just on different sides of the war

Just letting you guys know that I sent in a formal submission to being hosted on SA. I wanted to finish a large portion of the Production Plan before I did so, so hopefully this will give us some good results. If more is required, we may have to wait a week more or so until I finish the whole production plan. At that time I will send all of you guys a copy, so that you can read it and critique it yourself. Just thought that I'd give you all a heads up.

Martin

I'm not exactly sure how Doomhammer will be approached because their are several ways in which Blizzard has described him. Doomhammer in one case seeks out Thrall and finds him with the Frostwolves and challenges him. Then we have the Lord of the Clans one where he finds Doomhammer in an isolated hut, where he appears to be attacked by Doomhammer's wolves? Regarding the Lothar comments, I don't see why not if you're trying to show how Orcs and Humans can respect one another and perhaps cooperate, yet depending on the cinematics this topic may or may not come up. We'll see. Anyway, good suggestion,

Martin

(This has nothing to do with this) MartinPulido: Your pm box is full so i guess ill post here. I have eight of those icons done. Give me your Aol Instant Messenger screenname or email and i will send them to you.

Regarding mikedogdude's comment:



Hey mike! If you did not see my PM, my e-mail is [email protected]! Please send them there. Thanks for making some icons for our mod!

Martin

I have finals all this week and so I probably will not be able to work on this project this week as much as I would like. I will check back and forth here periodically, but most likely will not have much to provide. However, coming Friday I should be back on this mod full time. We'll see how it comes, anyway.

Also, before I finish, I was wondering if we should change the project's name to something different. Before the Chaos is directly what our campaigns about, but it's just not that creative. I was wondering if you guys would like this name more - Seeds of Chaos? The name still speaks of the origin of the chaos that happened in Warcraft III, and seems to be more all encompassing to the campaigns (since the NE campaign is ANCIENT times). It also appears more creative and catchy. I don't know, just a thought.

Martin

I just wanted to apologize for calling Mav2000 a bad anus skinner; I meant it in a good way. He's a terrific skinner! Also, we have some new members in this project - we've got a new terrainer for our map Judarest, and a mapper Brian Schilling. We've also got some new storyline/board members, shadowlord and thezergling. Please PM eachother and let eachother know what you're doing! Cheers,

Martin

I've finished Phase 1 and Phase 2 of the Production plan which deal with all of the technical info within the mod. I will probably release a version of it when I finish Phase 3. If you would just like to see it now, give me an e-mail or PM me,

Martin

I got some good concept art cooking for modellers. I got a pretty sweet looking Lich for the campaigns (wish I hadn't done it on lined paper, since it's tight), the Frostwolf Oracle, and the Kaldorei Spellbinder. As soon as I finish those, I'll post them here and the concepts forum. Cheers,

Martin