THE GATE OF APOCALYPSE MOD UPDATE Thread

Hey everyone,

well this isn't really the official kind of update as some of you might expect.. but we have reasons for that. The general mod is supposed to stay secret until we have completed the story (book version) a little further and as soon as we have some of the concept art, currently in production, ready.

However, here is a first sneak peak at the backstory (which serves as a major part of the intro). Enjoy!

(please mind that this is not final and is still subject to possible change)

---------------------------THE GATE OF APOCALYPSE----------------------------

“Get some more light down here! I think we found something!” Darren Jorts shouted up the tunnel. Somebody roped down a magnesium-powered lamp.
“What is this thing? It looks like a stone arc of some kind.” Darren continued. After a few careful moments, he added “There are some kind of writings and symbols inscribed on this…Get Dr. Lexdel, he probably knows what to do with this thing.”

We have the year 2065 and it has been nearly three decades, since the human race stopped dying away. It all started around 2030 and lasted until 2037. People at first thought it was another outbreak of a flu virus but it ended up being a lot more dangerous than something as simple as just that. Over the years scientists discovered the deadly virus in the bodies of the infected people. It was as complex as nothing they had seen before. The virus was eating on the host until it got used to the virus, or simply died due to lack of strength. The victims, who didn’t die, started mutilating themselves for no given reason. What puzzled the scientists most about the virus, was the fact that it reanimated the infected after they passed away. At first the ‘reanimated’ were friendly, and steadily muttered something about “the gate” or “the great arrival” but not too much later, they started to attack people. The streets became very unsafe, whether it was daytime or night. To this day, nobody really knows what triggered their sudden change of behavior.
The police forces had the upper hand in the beginning but soon were outnumbered, since they suffered more and more casualties. It seemed that once body-fluids of the infected mixed with that of healthy humans, it wasn’t too long until they would either die and reanimate or just carry the virus until it took total control. That’s what had happened to the police forces. The more casualties they took, the more potential enemies they had to face. High government officials made the hard but necessary decision, that it was best to evacuate and quarantine the infected region. The unlucky ones, who showed signs of infection, were left behind. Though the quarantine was successful, it came at a great cost of human lives.
It seemed that the virus threat was contained. The quarantined infected started dying, since they received no new flesh for nourishment. Humanity thought things were going back to normal again. In fact, they were sure of it.
It seemed this way until now. Somewhere up in the Alps, a team of archeologists was about to discover something that could lead to a mass destruction of humanity if the discovery got into the wrong hands.

I hope that was teaser enough for now.. we will soon have more to tease with until we officially go public. The webpage (and with that the moddb account) will go online once this project goes public.

thanks for reading!

seems interesting, although I hope the twist is BIG

the twist will be big.. I think... I wanna say more about it.. but I would ruin the story if I told you what's gonna happen (the twist).. ah.. damn it lol..

I can tell you this much though.. it will contain somewhat a lot of conspiracy, so the player(s) won't know who to trust in the end. They will have a lot of action-packed fighting on one side, while having mistrust on another. And since it plays pretty far in the future the arsenal is going to fairly modern (you gotta love the modern guns :-D).
We are also considering doing MP instead of just SP.. but that will still be decided on, as that would take alot of extra time.. and we don't have the member capacities. MP would already contain 4 new modes though, if it was added.

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An additional small edit..

work on chapter two of the book version has begun. I am currently writing the book version parallel to the mod.

- Edited By e-labs.ecion On Thu 10th, Jun 2004 @ 9:33:55pm