LD Prologue - Golbah: Outskirts
Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 9:12 am
Golbah: Outskirts
The "story mode" campaign for Last Days' story has developed over more than a year, gradually getting more and more refined. Originally, this 'chapter' was intended to be an unlockable bonus chapter for the first last days release. Since then I've decided its important enough to the story to merit a full mission and map all by itself.
Just on a side note, no its not inspired by current real world events. As far as I can remember the idea for the setting came after looking up some info on Geonosis after looking at a WIP toic by acryyptozoo.
Last Days: Prologue
Geonosis, 24 years before outbreak of the Clone Wars...
Story:
"Never found out exactly why Golbah happened. Maybe it was centuries of resentment and barely controlled rage festering just under the surface. Maybe it was all the new technicians and engineers and scientists needed among the drones to create the new Banking Clan chemical weaponry getting the idea that just because our species evolved with a rigid caste system didn't mean it needed one. Maybe it was months of labourer drones dying slowly and horribly from noxious chemical fumes, so often that the warriors at the chemical plants started to get something approaching a social conscience."
"Whatever it was, one night the hive went from calm to utter mayhem within a few hours. Warriors sent in to stop drones rioting joined the rioters themselves, factories and plants got torn apart, most of the aristocracy fled. By dawn Golbah was calm, nervous, excited. The calm didn't last long."
"The aristocracy sent in the warriors in force, bringing them in from other hives and from their personal guards. We fought them. They were better armed and better trained, but we had them outmaneouvered and outnumbered fifty to one. After a few days they retreated. Then they sent in the elites, the starfighters, the assault craft, the cannons. We fought them. Thousands of us died, but thousands more took there place. Five days after the revolt began Golbah was still ours, and the constant attacks were slowing down."
"Trouble was, we knew that we could never win. Not in the end. No matter how many attacks we fended off they'd never let a free Golbah survive. We had one last option, one plan: Run. Run so far and so fast they'd never, ever find us."
Map:
Golbah: Outskirts has three (planned) modes - Campaign (Last Days Prologue), Team Deathmatch, and Firefight. Campaign and TDM are set in the 'Golbah Uprising' era, while Firefight is set in the CW era.
Most of the map is dedicated to the campaign mission, with areas for firefight and TDM.
Screens:
Campaign:
Player character - rebel Geonosian Warrior.
Gameplay types - combat, platforming.
Mission - The 'Last Days Prologue' campaign mission starts in the night, with the player character fighting royalist drones and traversing a river of deadly chemical sludge to reach and protect rebel drones and warriors evacuating Golbah Hive. Fallen enemies' weapons can be picked up to give you a better and more varied arsenal.
Weapons:
Because a sonic blaster and fusioncutter just isn't enough to keep things lively, various other geonosian weapons are at your disposal in TDM and campaign....
Sonic Grenade
A fairly standard grenade, hurls and kills enemies.
Credits to DarthD.U.C.K. for the model.
Sonic Hammer
A mining tool appropriated as a weapon, the hammer can be used to blast foes backwards and do heavy damage to structures and vehicles. Due to its large size you cannot fly while carrying it though.
Quarrelthrower
A sort of mix of crossbow and railgun, the quarrelthrower hurls electrified metal quarrels at high velocity. Best used at long range to pick of infantry.
More to come.....
The "story mode" campaign for Last Days' story has developed over more than a year, gradually getting more and more refined. Originally, this 'chapter' was intended to be an unlockable bonus chapter for the first last days release. Since then I've decided its important enough to the story to merit a full mission and map all by itself.
Just on a side note, no its not inspired by current real world events. As far as I can remember the idea for the setting came after looking up some info on Geonosis after looking at a WIP toic by acryyptozoo.
Last Days: Prologue
Geonosis, 24 years before outbreak of the Clone Wars...
Story:
"Never found out exactly why Golbah happened. Maybe it was centuries of resentment and barely controlled rage festering just under the surface. Maybe it was all the new technicians and engineers and scientists needed among the drones to create the new Banking Clan chemical weaponry getting the idea that just because our species evolved with a rigid caste system didn't mean it needed one. Maybe it was months of labourer drones dying slowly and horribly from noxious chemical fumes, so often that the warriors at the chemical plants started to get something approaching a social conscience."
"Whatever it was, one night the hive went from calm to utter mayhem within a few hours. Warriors sent in to stop drones rioting joined the rioters themselves, factories and plants got torn apart, most of the aristocracy fled. By dawn Golbah was calm, nervous, excited. The calm didn't last long."
"The aristocracy sent in the warriors in force, bringing them in from other hives and from their personal guards. We fought them. They were better armed and better trained, but we had them outmaneouvered and outnumbered fifty to one. After a few days they retreated. Then they sent in the elites, the starfighters, the assault craft, the cannons. We fought them. Thousands of us died, but thousands more took there place. Five days after the revolt began Golbah was still ours, and the constant attacks were slowing down."
"Trouble was, we knew that we could never win. Not in the end. No matter how many attacks we fended off they'd never let a free Golbah survive. We had one last option, one plan: Run. Run so far and so fast they'd never, ever find us."
Map:
Golbah: Outskirts has three (planned) modes - Campaign (Last Days Prologue), Team Deathmatch, and Firefight. Campaign and TDM are set in the 'Golbah Uprising' era, while Firefight is set in the CW era.
Most of the map is dedicated to the campaign mission, with areas for firefight and TDM.
Screens:
Campaign:
Player character - rebel Geonosian Warrior.
Gameplay types - combat, platforming.
Mission - The 'Last Days Prologue' campaign mission starts in the night, with the player character fighting royalist drones and traversing a river of deadly chemical sludge to reach and protect rebel drones and warriors evacuating Golbah Hive. Fallen enemies' weapons can be picked up to give you a better and more varied arsenal.
Weapons:
Because a sonic blaster and fusioncutter just isn't enough to keep things lively, various other geonosian weapons are at your disposal in TDM and campaign....
Sonic Grenade
A fairly standard grenade, hurls and kills enemies.
Credits to DarthD.U.C.K. for the model.
Sonic Hammer
A mining tool appropriated as a weapon, the hammer can be used to blast foes backwards and do heavy damage to structures and vehicles. Due to its large size you cannot fly while carrying it though.
Quarrelthrower
A sort of mix of crossbow and railgun, the quarrelthrower hurls electrified metal quarrels at high velocity. Best used at long range to pick of infantry.
More to come.....