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Night of the Dead: Outbreak
In 2006 Starlite brought to the WC3 Community NOTD: Aftermath, a team based zombie survival RPG in which you take the role of an USMC marine deployed to defend a rural area. Today we dig deeper in the origins of its infection, claimed to have originated in Boston, but now we find out its inception goes back to a tragic police case filed in Concord, Massachusetts.

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SPECIFICATIONS

• Players
  Requires 3 to 6 players to be played appropiately.
  
• Map Tileset
  Badlands.
  
• Map Size
  256x256.
  

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STORYLINE/INTRODUCTION
USMC Golf Company is deployed to Sector C to help local law enforcement contain a rather ominous situation and assess the seriousness of it. What the marines would never know is that they're being played as a reactionary force to a much greater problem than they could imagine...

Inmerse yourself in a team based survival RPG for 6 players with class-specific abilities and dynamic quests which adapt according to your decisions.

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FEATURES

• Player Specific UI
  
• Class Specific Skills and UI
  
• Randomly generated items, simulating airdrops.
  
• Dramatic, but skippable, cinematics and interactions
  
• Several enemy types
  

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DETAILS

• Classes
  •Rifleman
  •Navy Corpsman
  •Flamethrower
  •Machine Gunner
  •Combat Engineer
  •Designated Marksman
  •Force Reconnaisance
  •Forward Observer
  •Assaultman
  •Delta Operator
  
  
• Weapons
  •M16A4 Assault Rifle
  •M4A1 Assault Rifle
  •M2 Flamethrower
  •MP5-A4 SubMachine Gun
  •M60 Machine Gun
  •Benelli M4 Shotgun
  •M40A3 Sniper Rifle
  •Colt M1911 .45ACP
  •Desert Eagle .50AE
  •More to be defined...
  
  
• Items
  •Fibrin Bandage
  •Ammunition Case
  •Field Light
  •Transciever
  •M320 Grenade Launcher
  •M18A1 Claymore
  •More to come...
  
  
• Spells
  •Anabolic Steroids
  •Saline Syringe
  •HEAA Missiles
  •Fire Missions
  •Smoke Grenade
  •Laser Designation
  •White Phosphorous
  •Plant M18A1 Claymore
  •More to come...
  

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SCREENSHOTS/DEMO
More to be provided.

Local town in which first contact occurs.

Force Reconnaisance's weapon.

Golf Company's Forward Observer, infamous Lieutenant Oliver

Flamethrower's exoskeleton.

Combat Engineer with a Benelli M4.

Assaultman with a MP5-A4.

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PROGRESS

• IDEAS (25%)
  
• TERRAIN (15%)
  
• UNIT PLACEMENT (05%)
  
• TRIGGERS (05%)
  

UPDATES
Many will be published in the NOTDOutbreak GitHub.

• 12/09/2021 (Date of last change)
  None to be uploaded yet.
  

More information will be released in my personal youtube channel and can be found in the NOTD: Aftermath community.

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Made with the Map Production template.

Post has been edited 3 time(s), last time on Dec 10 2021, 7:44 pm by FirePrometheus.

If the map can be played with only 3 players, 256x256 is probably way too big. People have a tendency to use that map size to try to fit more things in, but it just makes the map feel impossibly huge and barren most of the time. Rather, you might want to try to reuse areas such as interiors on a smaller map that can be more dense and feel more alive.

Thank you very much for your feedback Dem0n, I really appreciate it. I agree with you on the interior usage and there are a few designs I want to try.

The thing I fear about making the map small is that NOTD: Aftermath's iconic style was related to the game length and variability which relied heavily on the map diversity and initially I'd like to recreate that. That being said, do you think that a "long" gameplay (~60 minutes) with many quests and usage of the various landscapes would mitigate the issue you mention?

Hello FirePrometheus.

I've played my fair share of NOTD but nowhere near as much as some, (that feel when you're in a pub lobby and someone puts in their savecode and they're a Colonel/General. ), and it was always a map I enjoyed.

I think its VERY ambitious to try and make something like that on SC, but I guess EUDs do open a lot of doors that previously wouldn't have been possible.

I understand Dem0n's apprehension about the size, but knowing the original I think you're going to need a lot of space to do this right. I also think the map is only going to play at its best with 5-6 people who know what they're doing, which is going to be a hard lobby to get.

Still, I'm very interested to see where this goes. Best of luck.

Edit: I was a Clan UBCS and general Bnet RE community man myself, so I'm glad you're here.



Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Dec 11 2021, 3:59 pm by Excalibur.