Estranged Alpha #5
Jan 6, 2013 Full Version 20 commentsQuite a lot of things have changed since Alpha #4. New things have been added and existing things have been improved. We've done quite a lot of fixing...
Estranged is a work in progress mod that tells the story of a lone fisherman whose ship is stranded on a mysterious island during a violent storm. Explore the rich environments and meet the curious inhabitants of the island as you find a way back to the mainland. Face both danger and intrigue in this perilous adventure, where you will soon find that not everything is as normal as it seems...
26 comments by AlanEdwardes on Feb 28th, 2013
Most of the below won’t make sense unless you've played Alpha #5. What? You haven’t? WELL GET OVER TO THE DOWNLOADS AND DOWNLOAD IT THEN! (And tell us what you don’t like about it so we can make it better.)
Below is the new stuff we've been working on this month for the next Estranged release.
Maps
Oliver has revamped the start of The Outlet, and Chris has been working on a whole bunch of new materials and models for the revamped areas.
The starting area of The Outlet has had a complete makeover, featuring new scenery that ties in better with the rest of the environments.
Alan has been working on the first level, and the first character now has a beautiful vegetable patch, complete with a melon in a wheelbarrow. Beyond his place, you can find a calm stream of water that will lead you to your next destination.
It almost makes you forget the apocalypse.
Menu
Alan has also been working on rewriting the menu, working towards trying to give Estranged a less Half-Life 2-y feel. That’s not very exciting, so here’s two screenshots. It’s shiny and new!
Translations
We have been working on a page on the website to allow you, the wonderful players to assist with translations. If you leave your name, you will also get into the credits as a thanks.
We are currently looking for anyone who speaks the following languages:
Watch this space for a link to contribute to the translation database - Oliver is still finishing up a pretty page for the website that'll let you submit and vote translations.
Edit: The translation site is up! Contribute here: Iamestranged.com
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Highest Rated (4 agree) 10/10
This was an awesome mod. A few minor things like a crowbar on the ceiling, but i guess thats me not liking a slight challenge, i just spend like 20 mins chucking the rocks at the boards, enjoying the story so far and cant wait till a more complete story comes to light.
Keep up the good work and cant wait for the new weapons coming.
P.S. Im loving them Custom Barrels!
Feb 22 2013, 4:36pm by WolVriNE
Very well done for an alpha. Fantastic visuals, great level design, and overall well done atmosphere. One suggestion I do have is to possibly include more auditory ambience, as some places are way too quiet.
But yeah, there's some great potential in this, and I'll be looking forward to when it's complete.
just played this game and it was awesome! keep up the good work guys!
Just finished my playthrough. Some feedback from me:
I like the idea but it needs a bit more explanation from the characters. It's all good being obscure at the start but when you meet the character with whom you have an unfortunate incident with a chair - I feel like you should give a bit more. I found myself continuing on with no real sense of direction or anything giving me purpose to go from one place to another.
The environments are well detailed, really liked that.
The combat is a bit bog standard albeit I doubt you could have done anything about that so no worries.
I feel there's a lot of potential with this, I just have one issue:
The voice acting. It's absolutely abysmal! There's no sense of emotion behind the words that the characters are speaking and it's just driving me mad listening to it.
Aside from that one complaint and my feedback - good job, kept me interested and it's very nice.
You guys are awesome! :D
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Haha! You're awesome too. ;)
Can someone tell me how to get past that part where you are trapped on the chair? Please reply
use "wasd" keys yo move until you fall down,You gatta rock'n'roll like Iron Man.
This is amazing. It's a rarity to find hl2 mods this well done these days. I'm looking forward to seeing where this will lead.
Quite impressive for a demo, except for weak voice acting.
Now after I played it, I really, really looking forward to play the full version of it. I'm totally in love with the lightning!