[Preview] Counterstrike at Quel'Thalas

Last modified: 10. 11. 2003

The team of Counterstrike at Quel'Thalas proudly presents THE HOMEPAGE


Boys, please be patient with this site, there is quite a few things that will need improvement. For one, the Preview won't be available for another day due to technical problems and some of the buttons may not work (you'll get the error sign). I'm working on correcting the problems and upload the basic Trolls description.

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EDIT (26. 6. 2003): The campaign is put to near hold in preparations for the Frozen Throne. The maps are still being made, but unit concept will be blocked (except for those new units already in production) until I get a glance at all new available units and until I can find out how Blizzard modified their FT story and do any possible modifications to The Counterstrike's storyline to fit FT's. Don't worry, this will only freeze the campaign for about two weeks and then, we're up again.

Newest additions to this post are in blue.

Well, since my thread was effectively erased, I'll just have to post the preview again, with a few modifications again. It comes sometime tomorrow. Well, while I'm at it, I can give you a progress report:

Missions:

0a. Intro (finished, part of preview)
1. The return of Altariel (finished, part of preview)
2. The shores of Darrowmere (finished, except for Troll base in second version)
3. Caer Darror (New third map, under construction)
4. The Hidden Valley (finished, except for Troll base)
5. Into Quel'Thalas (finished)
5a. Thalion's Meeting (finished)
6. Legacy of the Past (finished, except for new Troll and Blood Elf units)
7. The Shadows of Yesterday (finished, combined with previous Through Fire and Ice)
8. Flower of Awakening (New map, planned out)
9. Battle under Stars (done)
9a. Price of Hatred (optional mission - planned)
10. The Ruins of Silvermoon (done)
10a. Friend or Foe (optional mission - planing stage complete)
10b. The Sunwell Healing (cinematic - planing stage complete)
11. An Unexpected Help (map planing stage)
12. The Dark Siege (planed)
12a-?. Possible several optional missions, wich will only be reachable through one possible course of player's actions
13. An Enemy of the Past (planing stage)
14. From Ashes Reborn (planing stage completed)
15. The Army (planing stage completed)
16. The Might of Quel'Thalas (finished, except for new units)
17a. In Memory of the Ancients (cinematic, planing stage completed - this is the grand finale of the campaign, I'm planing an almost 20 minute cinematic, wich will be different for every possible ending - right now there are three, but at the end, there might be as many as five!)
17b. Credits (will be planed after I get a list of all the people that will help me along the way)

Note: This list can change, like that has happened so many times before, but at this stage (more than 50% of the campaign maps are finished, the only thing still missing are several new units and spells) that is unlikely.

Now, this is a High Elven Campaign, but since I'll make Forest Trolls quite formidable and several others interesting add-ons too, it might happen that after I'm done, I'll make a Forest Troll campaign too.

Below you can see a list of currently Most Wanted models and/or skins. The list will change and shorten as I get new models into the game:

- Longbow Archer (this model is desired, but not required anymore, as Legolas' model can take its place)
- Spearman Elf
- Troll units and buildings (see Note)
- Elf buildings, especially the one I could use as secondary Barracks (see Note)
- glowing Blood Priest (I want to make one of my heroes glow like Arwen in LOTR - this will be part of
Face of Anor spell)
- other possible Elf units
- other possible units (see Note)

Note: any good model of any kind, that would fit into Warcraft universe (Orc, Night Elf, Human, Dwarf,...) is welcome, as I will be making unit additions as I proceed with missions. If you have any such model or skin, PM me and we'll see if I can use it.

can u be beta tester ??? :D plzzz ( [email protected] )

Well, here's the new preview.

Btw.: Killer_SpaZZ, could I be a beta tester of what?

EDIT: Yesterday's preview had a flaw that caused Elvish Healing not to work as it should. Now, that should be alright. I apologize to anyone that might have downloaded the pack.

The next few messages will be pictures only. These are screenshots made a week ago. They are World Edit only, but that will do, I guess...

The Temple of Anor (Mission 5)

Well, I guess you've all seen a waterfall before...

Oh man, forgot to attach

Thalion Silvershield's flag (anybody from Slovenia, but not from Celje, don't kill me for this :)), also a small fraction of The Hidden Valley is seen

EDIT: Anybody downloading the preview yesterday will notice that the Elvish Healing spell does not work as it should. Thus I've updated the above file. Sorry for any trouble I caused :bgrun:

Currenty the best candidate for Male Archer can be found here (my post):

http://www.wc3campaigns.com/forums/s...threadid=11853

can i also be a beta tester??:D

Well, sure, but you must be aware that the whole conversion takes a space of about 40 Mb right now (that'll fall on some 20Mb after FT is launched as many current units will be in there too).

wow... thats a big file.. i think ican handle it

nice screens...and i just played the update...and i see u fixed the ramps :D but u still need to the prob with the towers and farms..the healing think is preety strange now....i liked the first

this looks like it's going to be better than the other High Elf campaigns

Thanks :) The first thing I've dicided on, is that if this campaign will not be at least as good as Blizzard's campaigns in War 3, I'll never publish it. And right now I'm preety sure I can do the impossible :) It'll just take time.



The buildings will be replaced when I'm done adding all new units (I'm creating one master file from wich I'll load all the units in all the maps - that way I don't need to make all the custom units in every single mission and their codes also remain the same (meaning I can only copy all custom spells and don't need to modify them).

As for the healing, it now works like the healing ward. I used a simple magic rune to represent the healing ward, but that will be modified later. The balancing isn't done yet and I have to say, I think no.1 is a bit too weak and no. 3 is WAY too powerful. You know, Altariel is the third healer in Elven Army (first being the Priest, of course, the second is Thalion's ultimate, Face of Anor). I think that's just about enough. I don't want to make her too powerful, but I though the first mission would require some kind of hero healer.

I've been doing some further research and I might have another option for a healing spell. It would work much like Holy light, but would be a bit weaker and would have a splash heal (a light would burst from sky, doing major healing on the target person and a bit to nearby units (say, range 225?).

Anyway, here's a shot of (probably) the final form for my male archer: