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Single player first-person tower defense where your mission is to defend your hometown from hordes of invading alien creatures. --- Sanctum stared out as a total conversion mod for Unreal Tournament 3. Now it the students have started a game developer studio, Coffee Stain Studios, and are developing Sanctum as a standalone game using the UDK.

Description

Sanctum is a total conversion mod for Unreal Tournament 3. It is being developed by Coffee Stain Studios, a group consisting of eleven university students at Högskolan i Skövde, Sweden. Sanctum is a first person tower defense game where you take on the role as Skye, a female elite soldier. Your sole purpose is to defend your hometown, Elysion One, from the invading force of mysterious alien creatures. Choose from different defensive formations and upgrade deadly turrets to aid you in the defense of the city. Use hand held weapons to give you an advantage.

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Sanctum Alpha Version 3 (September 2009)
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hushpuppy
hushpuppy - - 761 comments

Any patch notes to see exactly what you have added/fixed?

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Ni-Q Author
Ni-Q - - 120 comments

Well, the news post on our frontpage shows the big things. But a changelog for this step would be quite overwhelming. This is a different game, game mechanically, compared to the June release. And as this is still in an alpha stage, changelogs most likely won't be supplied.

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hushpuppy
hushpuppy - - 761 comments

Nice im really looking foreward to it ;) Skövde rocks!

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Bender411
Bender411 - - 235 comments

w00t!!! New realize! Check it right now!

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SIGILL
SIGILL - - 1,157 comments

It's called a "release".. :P

I'm going to download this ASAP! (which is.. not right now)

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Mr.QBlack
Mr.QBlack - - 99 comments

Is this now multiplayer?

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Oscar_Jilsén Creator
Oscar_Jilsén - - 25 comments

Unfortunatley, no, it is not.
This version is updated with more of the "real" mechanics ie. you can now build the maze yourself, dynamic pathfinding, more towers, more creeps etc.It really is a totally different experience compared to the old version.

We are actually working on the Co-op right now, and plan for it to be ready for the november beta release.

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dethfalcin
dethfalcin - - 2 comments

sucks that the mid-november release wont have co-op ):

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Ni-Q Author
Ni-Q - - 120 comments

It indeed does! We had so been hoping for it and if only we can sort it out, we will include it later!

But now we'll instead focus more heavily on a more enjoyable singleplayer experience :)

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Dagganoth
Dagganoth - - 17 comments

are there only 14 waves? or has my game bugged out? after defeating the 14th wave it didn't say build mode and so i can't build any more towers or activate the next wave.

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Ni-Q Author
Ni-Q - - 120 comments

There should be 15 waves. And that sure is a shame. We've had a few of those kinds of similar bugs but thought we had managed to sort them out. I've personally played the game through a few times and it has worked. But there is of course always a risk of it lagging at the exact wrong moment, a monster getting stuck somewhere and so on :S

If you have any more information than that, it would help us in troubleshooting the problem. Else I guess the best I can do is to tell you that we'll try harder to solve those kinds of issues fort he mid-November release.

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Dagganoth
Dagganoth - - 17 comments

if it happens again i'll ghost around and see if i can find the stuck creep (it also did say that there were 0 creeps left)

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Dagganoth
Dagganoth - - 17 comments

it happened again (on a different wave, 11 i think) and i floated around the map and i could not find any think out of place. perhaps just a bug.

sorry i can't give any more infomation

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Ni-Q Author
Ni-Q - - 120 comments

Okay, thank you for the help. I'll do my best to check if we can solve that. It sure is not a great bug :S

Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Lazor
Lazor - - 53 comments

Can't play. When the level is loaded, and the "Press fire to start" screen shows up, clicking doesn't work at all.

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Ni-Q Author
Ni-Q - - 120 comments

Really? Are you absolutely sure? Sometimes I've only had that it takes a few seconds for the level to fully load, and when you click the left mouse button, it takes a few seconds for the intro sequence to start.

I've however never heard of it not starting at all. I'd be glad to help you out further if you have some more information to share, as it's quite difficult for me to troubleshoot your problem right now.

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johnnoz
johnnoz - - 52 comments

hmm, tried to play with my steam version of ut3, got to the spalsh screen then ut3.exe crashes. This is the error message that gets pasted to the clipboard:

"Failed to find file for package SanctumFrontEnd for async preloading.

RaiseException() Address = 0x7c812afb (filename not found)
CxxThrowException() Address = 0x78158e89 (filename not found)
Address = 0xbb4f92 (filename not found)
Address = 0xe8781b4c (filename not found) "

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Ni-Q Author
Ni-Q - - 120 comments

Are you sure you're not using "-useunpublished" at the end of your command line? And that sure sounds odd. Have never seen nor heard of anyone getting just that. Make sure you've put everything in the correct folder, make sure you've followed the readme file and that your download is not corrupt in some way.

I hope you manage to solve the issue, johnnoz.

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impulse343
impulse343 - - 16 comments

I have the same error

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dethfalcin
dethfalcin - - 2 comments

i get the same thing ):

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TurdDrive
TurdDrive - - 241 comments

When i Try to change to Shortcut target it says an error message saying it cant go there?

I have followed to instructions.

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Ni-Q Author
Ni-Q - - 120 comments

You could also try by simply adding "-mod=..\Sanctum" to your usual Unreal Tournament 3 executable. That will have the same effect and might even be an easier way of doing it through steam. Just add that to "Set launch options"

Hope that helped.

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TurdDrive
TurdDrive - - 241 comments

thanks it works now

but you really need a way to make this more friendly.

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Ni-Q Author
Ni-Q - - 120 comments

We are working on that :) We are still in an alpha stage where we have been under much time-pressure due to tight deadlines. We will sort these things out and hopefully it'll get better over time :)

I'm happy it worked for you. Enjoy the game.

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Noremakk
Noremakk - - 189 comments

It runs fine, but the third level is impossible to beat; the game is so difficult. Other than that, my only criticism is that the game relies too heavily on the player character's gun; making turrets more powerful and removing the gun would improve gameplay, in my opinion.

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Ni-Q Author
Ni-Q - - 120 comments

The third wave is in no way impossible to beat. And this is quite an outdated version, sadly. We have a new version in store, just have to squish a few bugs and we'll hopefully release it publicly. You'll see many improvements, such as upgradable towers and weapons, new enemies and so on.

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fsampei
fsampei - - 3 comments

The game is beautiful, until the tenth wave the game is easy then things get complicated. Congratulations really: I was waiting for 16 wave.

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Ni-Q Author
Ni-Q - - 120 comments

Thank you :) Expect more in the future with additional enemy types and levels. We have more in store!

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havikryan
havikryan - - 5 comments

i changed the sanctum shortcut i putted there(doel = purpose i think lol):
"C:\Program Files\Unreal Tournament 3\Binaries\UT3.exe" -mod=..\Sanctum

and at start in theres nothing look(beginnen in= start in):

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anything else i have to do, and if i want to run the mod i just run sanctum right?

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Ni-Q Author
Ni-Q - - 120 comments

That should be correct if that's the folder where you're UT3.exe is located. What happens when you try starting it?

If you have the steam version, you can simply add "-mod=..\Sanctum" as a launch option for Unreal Tournament 3.

Other than that, everything in the readme file should be correct and work in the absolute majority of cases. I hope you manage to figure it out, if not, I'll gladly try helping you some more.

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havikryan
havikryan - - 5 comments

when i start ut3 by using the sanctum shortcut im just playing normal ut3,
and cant find any sign of a the mod.

i dont got the steam version

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HauntyBounds
HauntyBounds - - 2 comments

HELP ME PLEASE!! if i start this game, i get the splash-image, then a black screen and then i get an error message. Then it goes to my desktop and then i get another error-massage.

I do NOT have the -unpublished line in the shortcut and i have the non-steam version

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