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Hey bud, you know someone named levmegs5? You still doing the sequel w/ them?

Not sure, we haven't spoken in a while. Truthfully when I had people helping me a little bit, it was taking much much longer than when I was doing it by myself. The people I was working with were wanting to reconstruct redstone areas that didn't need to be messed with at the current time. I haven't worked on Season 2 over the past 3 weeks mainly due to the fact I was working on Elf Trouble (A Short Christmas Map) and also having to worry about finals for my college classes.



Last day of finals for me! This means I should be able to devote more time to fixing bugs in Elf Trouble and working on Exodus Season 2 map!

Exodus Season 2 is back in production at long last! Release will likely be sometime in May depending on how much work there is to do. Right now I am going back through the map and changing several things to be even better. For instance I had a crashed Ship engine that a "collectable fuse" was on the side of. Now I have players diving into the wreckage in search of said fuse. Lots of things are being changed and it is amazing! Also I will likely start recording some voice acting for various characters within the next month or two depending on who I can get to do it. There are Male and Female Characters as well as some evil aliens which should be fun to voice!

Progress is at hand!

Merry Christmas in 3 days!

OMG I REPLAYED THE MAP AND I GOT:



Kills:2108

Deaths:8

Rank: What Apocalypse?

Map type: Hardcore

My secret? Play 50 rounds of arena brawl straight wins
BTW: Can I help build the Season II? I would be GRATEFUL!!

Collected Discs: 10

Add my head pls IGN: JMZuniga

Quote from NeoN25699»

OMG I REPLAYED THE MAP AND I GOT:



Kills:2108

Deaths:8

Rank: What Apocalypse?

Map type: Hardcore

My secret? Play 50 rounds of arena brawl straight wins
BTW: Can I help build the Season II? I would be GRATEFUL!!

Hey! Thanks for replaying! (sorry I didn't respond sooner, I was sick and was traveling) Very good rank! Sorry I'm working on Exodus Season 2 alone now. Trying to coordinate people to help me is just causing the map to take longer so I'm going to work on it solo from now on. But thanks for the offer! Rest assured Season 2 is making good progress and I think about 3 more months of building, 1 month of bug testing and maybe a week or two for various external problems. I predict a May release is probably likely.

Quote from NeoN25699»

Collected Discs: 10

Add my head pls IGN: JMZuniga

I'll add your head! No problem!

Would it be fine if I helped beta test the gameplay for Season 2? I loved season 1 a lot. It did a lot with what was available in the snapshots

Hey could I get a head in the game?

IGN:Efrentheminer

Quote from Efrentheminer»

Hey could I get a head in the game?

IGN:Efrentheminer

I'll put your head in soon! Thanks for playing! Happy almost last day of 2014!

Scrapped one of the bosses I made for Season 2. It was really cool but it was causing really bad lag issues when tested in multiplayer. So instead I've created a new boss that I believe is much more deadly and intimidating. Even I get scared by it occasionally. Although horror is not Season 2's theme, it sure is in the atmosphere! I may post a screenshot or two of it in a few days once I finish converting the area to fit the new boss fight. Happy New Year's Eve!

What was the original boss?

Quote from Rexacuse»

What was the original boss?

The Original boss I had built was a flying alien gunship that dropped bombs on top of the player. It even had mostly random movements. I used a similar iteration of this kind of boss in my Elf Trouble Christmas map. While the concept is cool and awesome, it just causes a bit too much lag. I also kind of tanked the gunship because it was similar to a boss(An Alien Spaceship) I already had made for the end of episode 1 of Season 2. The reason I'm keeping the spaceship is because it's smaller, the attacks aren't laggy and it fits better into the story anyways.

Quote from Danny0023»

I played this map few times, and I wanna ask, what was this area? I came across it, when I was flying trought map in creative.

Thanks for playing so many times! (I've personally only played through it about 7 and that was for bug-testing!) That area was the original lobby I made on the first day I built the map. Originally the map was gonna be a regular old zombie map just for me and some friends to play. But then as the map progressed I came up with the idea of making the map a TV show. This meant that there would be episodes to the show which meant I needed a central hub to move players to each episode. Once that happened I decided to scrap the original lobby (The area you found) and replaced it with the theater/sewer lobby you start in at the beginning of the map. I left the original lobby there just as a reminder of how far the map had come.

For season 2 there is no lobby between episodes. It's a smooth and natural transition between episodes. It will also make the story flow better especially since Season 2 is much more story focused and driven.

Here are some recent screenshots of Exodus Season 2! (Note that most of these areas are still being worked on) I'm also thinking of making a short video showing off the intro cut-scene of the map in a week or so.



Overhead View of the Canyons of Vanera



Relic Available



A Boss



An arena for the boss



Part of your Mansion?



A Crew-less image of the bridge of the Temerity from Captain Monroe's Seat.



Welcome to your new chambers aboard the Temerity.



Service hatchway in case of disasters.



The Big Screen

Considering coming back to Exodus Season 1 soon and updating it again just to fix a few very minor bugs I know of. It wouldn't be a huge update except that I might finally update the hardcore map version to be equal to the regular version in terms of bug-fixes.

In season 2 news: I finally got the intro theater completed. I'd been putting it off due to debating between certain plot options. Also now that I know how to do cutscenes, I'm going to be implementing it at certain very important parts of the story. It's gonna make it feel pretty dramatic!

Thanks everyone for playing Exodus Season 1! Season 2 will be out soon. (Most likely either April or May 2015 depending on how long it takes to do the voice acting with a few friends and how long it takes to bug test)

Got a new teaser trailer coming out either Friday or Saturday! Instead of showing some cinematic shots, this trailer shows actual in-game footage of the first 2 minutes of the map. It even includes possible voices for two characters. (One Major, and one Minor) Just a few more things I have to do to it before it's ready to be released.



As always, thank you everyone for playing Exodus Season 1! The second season will be here before you know it!

New Teaser Trailer! This one shows some in-game footage for the first minute or 2 of the map! No worries, there aren't any spoilers!

Quote from Purzel2205»

Awesome!

Would you say that Season 2 is going to be better than Season 1?
Btw a signature of your map would be nice

Oh yes, Season 2 is going to be much better than Season 1! The amount of feature's planned are enormous and although it won't have as much zombie slaying (None actually), I think it will still be amazing! Especially after the voice-acting is added in and I throw in several references to the first map that some people may or may not find! Just finished Episode 2 today and will be starting on Episode 3 this afternoon!

A signature for the map? Now that's a good idea! I'll think about what I want it to look like and we'll see what I come up with!

Oh man! Lord Ivaren (the villain of season 2) is quite menacing. Voice acting for him is going to be fun!

Quote from huffpuff1337»

huffpuff1337 is my minecraft username. Just like my MC forums username. So you can use my head in S2.
By the way, I really like this map. Just started Season 2 on Solo with something about 200 kills and about 16 deaths.

Thanks for playing! I'm glad you enjoyed! I'll add your head in soon!


Episode 3 is underway for Season 2! I just recently got an idea that (if i can get it working) could possibly enhance episode 3 majorly. Getting ready to do some major plot scripting today. (Dialogue mostly)

What an Amazing Map! Cant wait for the next part

Wow, this looks awesome. I'll play it when I have some time, and I have to say I am pumped! I would love to be a player in Season 2, my IGN is rockwayportals, but it could change on February 4th. I'll edit my post if that's the case.