I was never very good at starting off forum posts so I'll just begin. I am DarkKazoie, I've been playing RTS games as long as I can remember. From Age of Empires to Starcraft I've played and enjoyed this genre more than any other. In every RTS I've played I have always dabbled with mapping, creating a few finished maps (That I refuse to put up because they're really bad.) I have found the Mapster Forums to be quite helpful in learning the SC2 Editor aswell as many a great map to play. I intend to create a custom campaign and I am seeking ideas for custom units, expansion on certain aspects of the game (I.E. Infested Terran/Primal Zerg), and any other ideas you can offer.
I look forward to seeing what you can come up with. :D
Hi welcome to this wonderful site. And yes RTS is really a beautiful genre to play, like chess (but with peaces that dance more :D). Looking forward to what u come up with!
I dont know how good u are in creating custom models but u should check the asset page... these guys are really good artist!
About ideas its hard. Depends what race u like to play. If u love a race that its going to show in your campaign. Me personally i would love to see some primal action going.
There are many unused primal zerg units and buildings in the editor. Also i feel blizzard could have expended more on that story..... i even heard they scrapped a lot of ideas they planned for zurvan and co in an interview...
Infested campaign like stukov sounds interesting. U could make like a custom infested zerg/buildings...story about what happend to stukov after Lov...
Thanks for the reply! I have no experience at all with creating custom models and I have seen some amazing models on the Assests portion of this site. I especially like Hammer107 and Supernova134's works.
I enjoy all the races but my favorite has been the Protoss ever since the Starcraft 1, and by far has always been my best race.
I'm a huge lore nerd but I wanted to try to distance myself from the main SC2 story, so I can truly make it my own. Going so far as to try to make plausible reasons that the main cast of characters is absent. (Kerrigan was killed before deinfestation, and thus the Keystone never absorbed the energy to revive Amon, For example.) I enjoyed Broodwar's story a lot more than SC2's and much prefer the idea of mortal factions warring instead of fighting a god. I have toyed with ideas for what I could do with the more minor characters like Stukov and Dehaka, since if Kerrigan died before HOTS could happen then she never went to Zerus. (perhaps leaving the new Swarm leader to go there to get essence to evolve new Zerg Strains?)
I recommend playing through the Odyssey campaign by CooperHawks. He sets his entire story in a different galaxy of the SC Universe. You can play them on the Arcade or find them here:
Perhaps you can do a spin-off of one of his character(s). He has a ton of lore surrounding his characters and story. I'm sure he would be excited to talk your ear off about his universe.
I was never very good at starting off forum posts so I'll just begin. I am DarkKazoie, I've been playing RTS games as long as I can remember. From Age of Empires to Starcraft I've played and enjoyed this genre more than any other. In every RTS I've played I have always dabbled with mapping, creating a few finished maps (That I refuse to put up because they're really bad.) I have found the Mapster Forums to be quite helpful in learning the SC2 Editor aswell as many a great map to play. I intend to create a custom campaign and I am seeking ideas for custom units, expansion on certain aspects of the game (I.E. Infested Terran/Primal Zerg), and any other ideas you can offer.
I look forward to seeing what you can come up with. :D
A thread dedicated to the ideas part http://www.sc2mapster.com/forums/resources/project-workplace/126314-wip-custom-campaign-dark-kazoies-campaign/
Hi welcome to this wonderful site. And yes RTS is really a beautiful genre to play, like chess (but with peaces that dance more :D). Looking forward to what u come up with!
I dont know how good u are in creating custom models but u should check the asset page... these guys are really good artist!
About ideas its hard. Depends what race u like to play. If u love a race that its going to show in your campaign. Me personally i would love to see some primal action going.
There are many unused primal zerg units and buildings in the editor. Also i feel blizzard could have expended more on that story..... i even heard they scrapped a lot of ideas they planned for zurvan and co in an interview...
Infested campaign like stukov sounds interesting. U could make like a custom infested zerg/buildings...story about what happend to stukov after Lov...
jeez so much to tell :D So much possibilities :D
Thanks for the reply! I have no experience at all with creating custom models and I have seen some amazing models on the Assests portion of this site. I especially like Hammer107 and Supernova134's works.
I enjoy all the races but my favorite has been the Protoss ever since the Starcraft 1, and by far has always been my best race.
I'm a huge lore nerd but I wanted to try to distance myself from the main SC2 story, so I can truly make it my own. Going so far as to try to make plausible reasons that the main cast of characters is absent. (Kerrigan was killed before deinfestation, and thus the Keystone never absorbed the energy to revive Amon, For example.) I enjoyed Broodwar's story a lot more than SC2's and much prefer the idea of mortal factions warring instead of fighting a god. I have toyed with ideas for what I could do with the more minor characters like Stukov and Dehaka, since if Kerrigan died before HOTS could happen then she never went to Zerus. (perhaps leaving the new Swarm leader to go there to get essence to evolve new Zerg Strains?)
I recommend playing through the Odyssey campaign by CooperHawks. He sets his entire story in a different galaxy of the SC Universe. You can play them on the Arcade or find them here:
http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/starcraft-2-odyssey-campaign/
Perhaps you can do a spin-off of one of his character(s). He has a ton of lore surrounding his characters and story. I'm sure he would be excited to talk your ear off about his universe.
Have you played Shadow of the Xel'Naga?
Have you check out this?
http://www.sc2mapster.com/maps/custom-campaign-initiative/pages/how-to-create-your-own-custom-campaign/
It is a work in progress, but I think it is a useful resource for map-makers.
That looks really good! I was pretty drawn to the massive wall of text for the lore, I must say :P
Shadow of the Xel'naga is one I've been meaning to play for a while,
And I have seen that, granted I did a quick skim through for the most part, a more thorough read couldn't hurt.
Thank you for the suggestions!
belated welcome to SC2mapster DarkKazoie!
Do you still play Age Of Empires? I have it on Steam and I'm going to start trying out Age of Mythology. Do you recommend it?
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