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:
- French
- German
- Russian
- Dutch
- Italian
- Spanish
- Swedish
- Chinese
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
I like the new menu
²nde, very stylish!
The menu is just brilliant. The farther you stray away from half life the less of a mod it feels. And I must say, this game does a real great job at avoiding the mistakes that distract from the immersion and story this game provides.
screenshots look great! especially like the new menu
I always love when mods make new menus, I need to learn to code stuff like that. New stuff looks awesome, keep it up!
nice work
I like the Outlet screenies, but could do with more greebling and details.
Has Phillip contacted you about beta testing?
Yeah he has, I said it'd be awesome for him to test the next release for us to iron out some final bugs.
Awesome! Can't wait for your next version, then.
Let me know if you need any Romanian translators hehe
We'd love you! Iamestranged.com
Man, im very looking forward to play the full mod :D
They always leave Portuguese out of it ;_;
We could add Portuguese, that's just a cursory list of the popular languages. Would you be able to contribute some translations if we do? (And when we've got the site up ofc ;)
I could do Hungarian. Not sure if needed, though :P
If you can that'd be cool! I just added it to the new translation site: Iamestranged.com
Here's the translation site if you're interested in contributing: Iamestranged.com
Some translations might not be accurate, until we can see the scene itself. (I was having great laughs at the Portal 2 translations, for example. I don't think the translator has ever seen the game :D )
But I guess this is sort of obvious, I'm just putting it out there :)
Ha, yeah we talked about that, bit of a difficult problem. We figured a general idea in your language is better than not knowing (if you're not that good at English), so it all helps the player understand the scene anyway which is the end goal.
Well, russian translation is done. I had problems only with some options (SSAO, as an example, which i don't know how to translate properly) and "vignette". Other lines are close to the original and correct, though.
I hope to see the new release soon :3
Thanks! Have some candy I.imgur.com ;)
Awww.
And now i'm thinking that i made some little mistakes xD
Can I correct them without creating unnecessary worries for you?
I mean, they are not that noticeable, but i want to make translation as good as i can.
Yep, contribute as many as you like - just vote up the better ones.
yeah, the options are definitely the hardest to translate.
for corrections, I think it's enough to enter a new translation and vote it up. that's what I did when I messed up something. then you might wanna tell them that you actually did something, not sure how the system works :)
It would be cool to help but all I can do is act and write!
WHY CAN'T I LEARN HOW TO CODE OR TRANSLATE?!?
OH WHYYYY
My reason is that im too lazy :(
SSAO in mah HL2? Without needing to resort to driver settings or third-party enhancers?! Yes, please!