Development Status: Released Mar 18, 2006
Last Updated: 25 months ago
Type of Mod: Single Player First Person Shooter
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Legacy is a full Single-Player experience for Unreal Tournament, bringing a new challenge and many new weapons/items and enemies in your quest. It also comes with a mutator which replaces the standard UT weapons with the Legacy weapons (which are awesome).

Story:

Earth government would never know about the creature "Xerania" and how you prevented it from maturing into a creature of horrible power. But they did know how you prevented the destruction of mankind by stirring up a brief war between the Krall and the Skaarj. How ironic that someone once condemned to spend their life on a prison ship would now be considered a hero. But that was the fact, and now you are needed once again.

A new threat lurks on the horizon. Intelligence has discovered to their horror that the mastermind of the Skaarj experiments in genetics (and the creator of Xerania) is in fact a human traitor. The traitor has been eliminated, but too late. After finding a hidden DNA sample in his laboratory,the governement sent it to a hidden research facility on outpost Vetar 9 to determine what terrible legacy he had left behind. The first few reports were disturbing and indicated grave danger and then nothing was heard from them at all. The government has decided to take no chances and have sent a top team which includes you, to investigate and descover why all transmission from the research facility has ceased.

As usual, things do not go well as a passing shower of asteroids collide with the ship. History has a tendency of repeating itself and once again you find yourself hurtling towards the planet below! Before any of you even have a chance to dress wounds and prepare for anything there is a swift and deadly attack by two Titans. Boulders and charred metal are tossed from side to side like paper and you can hear your team barking orders at each other.....then....darkness falls as you lose consciousness...

Armory:

• Skaarj Pulse Cannon: An awesome shooter that fires seering bolts of energy in rapid succession. Alternate fire acts as a melee swipe to scar anything near. But beware, the Skaarj don't like aliens stealing their technology, expect them to come looking for you if you take this gun!
  


• Detpack: Somehow I think this should have been called the "nuclear nightmare"! Just drop it somewhere, run VERY far away and then push the trigger. Just don't expect to find anything left alive when you come back! Trust me, there won't be.
  



Sticky Bomb: Watch your bombs bounce around your environment or let them stick to the walls in readiness for an unsuspecting victim!



• Smart Disk: Just throw it near your target and it slices right through it. Oh, and then it might slice through again a few more times on its way back into your waiting hands if you handle it correctly! Alternate fire will act as a shield to protect you from enemy fire, but be careful, it can only take so much pounding.
  


• Orb of Healing: The orb is infused with spiritual energy that will heal you gradually when activated. Alt fire can also be used to release a burst of energy, hurting anything in a close radius. Look out for areas that can be used to regenerate the orb when it is low in power.
  


• Frag Grenade Launcher: No weapon pack would be complete with out something that fires rockets would it? Well this one doubles as a nice little piece of hardware that fires a bomb into the air which explodes into a painful spray of shrapnel.
  


• Tri Shotgun: If the primary fire doesn't sting your enemy enough then the alternate fire with its sudden blast of three deadly cartridges ought to knock them into the next millennium! And if that doesn't do the trick, then run fast while it reloads!
  


• Scorcher: Don't just put the enemy down and litter the place with bodies, tidy up after yourself and incinerate them with this. And when you've finished burning the aliens with a generous helping of flames, get out quick (alt fire) and use it as a jet pack to fly any where you like, and as high as you like.
  


• Sniper Railgun: This is an impressive gun that you can zoom in to look at distant objects and then exterminate them with a healthy dose of radiation. Nice!
  



[*]Chain Gun: An awesome spray of high powered explosive pellets that mash everything in its sights! It's so powerful that you can't move with it firing, you have to "deploy" it first before you can use it.

Development Status: TBD
Last Updated: 8 months ago
Type of Mod: Single & Multiplayer First Person Shooter
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Introduction

Lost Secrets of Na Pali (short: LSoNP) is a huge UT99 Total Conversion that contains everything new to UT: new models, high-res textures, new technoligies (bloom, distance fog, particle system, physic engine), rpg style gaming, nearly complete freedom while playing (non linear), own exe, own menu, own hud, own loadscreens......

Story

Around 200 years are gone since the Queen is dead. Well since the USM is setting up big bases on Na Pali and supporting the Nali with Technology, the Skaarj Empire is forced to develope a way to grow pupae half biologically half synthetically. Through this abnormal progress are they able to grow mutated skaarjs with extraordinary gen-pool. Those special skaarjs are "produced" only for 1 reason: to destroy human and nali in 2 ways: Invading on the one hand the earth and na pali with the new race and on the other hand... in a different time. The empire developed in many years of researching an Time-Vortex that causes an controlled black-hole with enough anti-matter to get a Time Portal . First simulations with the vortex are successful. Not much time passed until the skaarj were using the Vortex in real space. They send a small fleet somewhere near Na Pali. The vortex seemed to work... but suddenly does the forming of the black-hole get outa control. A time anomaly was forming and the fleet was destroyed. Both, the USM(now do you come into game, you're an major on a USM ship) and the Skaarjs are sending control troops to the accident, such an huge visible anomaly in space wont be unseen for long time. When the ships are arriving starts the skaarj ship an attack on the USM ship until the anomaly seem to colapsing... but suddenly a strange kind of starship appears using unknown technology... The unknown ship is attacking both ships instantly. You and one you soldier are escaping from the ship flying down to Na Pali. You see your ship exploding... After crashing in a forest on Na Pali do you search for the closest USM Outpost. On you short way through some villages did you read about a prophecy called "The End of Everything" in an old Nali book. Is there a connection between the anomaly and the prophecy ? The Skaarj wont spend much time until they come back with a fleet to get at least Na Pali. But they're more open questions, why did the black-hole got out of control ? What role does the unknown species play ? Why is the USM Coop. so interested on Na Pali ?

It's not the best story, but we give the player the freedom to interact much more in the Unreal Universe, to drive Vehicles, forming (of course with some kind of story line, even if I broke up here) their own experiences and traveling to other places outside of Na Pali. There'll be levels on the Skaarj Planet, the Krall's Home, several Bases of the Mercs, and the 20 new races...

Gameplay/Game Facts

- interacting, tradig and speaking with NPCs

- Levels are non-linear

- Vehicles

- traveling between Sun-Systems and Planets, (currently) featured Planets/Locations:

Earth, Skaarj Homeworld, Krall Homeworld, Drakkh Homeworld, Mars, Na Pali...

- around 15-20 old and new weapons, which can be combined and upgraded

- around 20 different (and new!) races and planets

- epic cut scences and starship battles from fantasy to sci-fi, also beautiful space cutscence like intros for planets or other locations

- skill system

- new hud, which uses less screen space and looks good

- several new pick ups (mana, biomods, weapon upgrades)

Technology

- Lensflare support

- Dynamic Coronas

- Software Bloom

- Trees and Foliage

- own Physic Engine

- huge Util Class partially worked out together with Moon Angel to provide many useful and complex Uscript functions (drawing lensflares for example or footstep sounds)

- HighRes Textures up to 4096? Pixels (S3TC)

- Footstep Sounds and Material Relative Events

- Level Memorizing System

- MP3/Ogg Support

- Dolby Digital Support using OpenAL

- better Terrain

- own complex Particle System

- Skin Illumination (Shiny/Reflecting Meshes, Detail Maps on Meshes, bright glowing Eyes etc.)

- Distance Fog

- Projectors

- Bloom and Blur Effects

Support-Bands

- Symbiontic

- Vortex

- Natyrlich Tr00

- Leaves Eyes