Development Info Lightslayer 2.0 released

[Saint_Proverbius]

Tags: Lightslayer

<a href="http://eldwood.com/lightslayer/index.php">Lightslayer</a> has been updated to <a href="http://eldwood.com/lightslayer/ltslyr.exe">version 2.0</a> and is now <b>freeware</b>. So, you can now enjoy the first person dark elf fun without having to shell out any money.
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<blockquote>For five years you were apprenticed to the sorceress Calesstra when your apprenticeship was cut short. Never will you forget that fateful night, for it changed your life.
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You were studying a particularily difficult spell when you felt a sudden surge of magical energy. You turned around and a flash of white light blinded you. When your eyes had recovered, Calesstra was gone.
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You set out to find her, never guessing that your search would take you far beyond your world, through forests and mountains, through deserts of burning sand and deserts of eternal ice, through cities and swamps. Your quest would ultimately determine the fate of two world, for you are the Chosen, you are the Fated, you are the Lightslayer.</blockquote>
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Ah, the old disappearing mentor trick. Always the crowd pleaser.
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Thanks, <b>sk2k</b>!

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

Is that like the Wolfenstein 3D engine or something?

 

[Saint_Proverbius]

Kind of looks more like the Doom engine, since it allows walls that aren't 90 degrees apart from one another. It was originally released in 2002, though.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

This game looks exactly like Wrath of Darkness, and I'm sure both are top-tier RPGs.

 

[obediah]

Well the graphics are surely envious of a windows 3.11 screen saver - I'm guessing the gameplay is in the same boat?

 

[Shagnak]

Yup.
It plays like Doom...or Hexen, but with less options.
I wandered around for a while, didn't find anything to do that I would say constituted as TEH ROLLPLAYING, and...umm...that's it. You can talk to some "people" in a town, but no sign of anything like branching dialog.

But atleast it has an automap, which is more than DL managed.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

This game is better than Dungeon Lords.

Period. Game over.

 

[Diogo Ribeiro]

This game is better than Dungeon Lords.

A game of Pacman where ghosts have been replaced by images of dying and festering Jews and Pacman is replaced by Hitler is better than Dungeon Lords. Game over. I win.

 

[Naked_Lunch]

Dude, that game would be better than most games out right now.

 

[Shagnak]

Actually, this game has DL beat in terms of "lack of features" and "empty world syndrome".

But that doesn't exactly make DL good still.

 

[Shagnak]

But atleast it has an automap, which is more than DL managed.

Well, the Germans appear to have AutoMap now.
They have the 1.3 patch already:
http://dungeon-lords.com/?go=dlfile&fileid=16

And they already had 1.2 as well, which included fixes like the junk container working properly and monsters not spawning inside barriers.
Looks like the English speakers lose out this time (stuck at 1.1).

Edit: looked at some of the maps; higher quality than I expected.