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Title:	Starship
Filename:	levels/hexen/s-u/starship.zip
Size:	592 KB
Date:	04/05/06
Author:	James `SPAM Man' Paige
E-mail:	spam@cyberverse.com
Description:	Starship is a complete SIX LEVEL hub. You are a disgruntled crew member of a massive warlike star cruiser. You set out to sabotage the ship by cutting it off from its power sources on three enslaved worlds; Alluvialis, Palaxistant, and Mazzarri. Warp portals on the starship take you to each planet, where you have to find the power conduit and shut it off. After you shut down all the power, you gain access to the starship's homeworld, Abbatoir where you must face Korax.
Credits:	Raven Software, and that other company that worked on Hexen... what do they call themselves? Oh, whatever.
Base:	New hub from scratch
Build time:	I forget how long. I have been working on it off and on, bit at a time, for several months.
Editor(s) used:	WADAUTHOR for the maps (a totally worthless editor) DEEP for the new textures (I hate crippled shareware) ACC for the scripts CUSTOMWAD for piecing it all together. (a bunch of inconvenient command-line programs that I found very usefull despite their simplicity.)
Bugs:	Since this WAD uses a few alternate graphics and sound effects, playing beyond level 6 can get a bit wierd. Fortunately, this does no harm to antything, and can even be kind of funny at times.
Rating:	(16 votes) Spambot check: 8 + 5 = Commenting as: Anonymous

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Reviews:

Brilliant hub. Only skip this one if you are allergic to Hexen.	x
Intresting concept, but it fails as it's not nearly as good design as vanilla Hexen. And the Doom midi in map01 really feels out of place. And it's also silly easy.	x
While it�s a good idea it failed to keep my interest due to out of place dialogue and lack of polish on the visual side: Hexen is not convincing enough for me when trying to recreate a spaceship... Other thing that failed to keep me interested was gameplay itself: I found it kind of annoying to explore the whole place blasting easy enemies. Still, nice try. 2 stars. Danimetal.	x
Hey I remember this! Nice to see that it's finally uploaded here! James has made some awesome stuff and this is part of that awesome stuff. -Infurnus	x
Not bad. In fact, this wad is great, though the music wasn't well-used, but all in all, a very fun wad. Could use some new textures and sprites and a few more levels. I'm getting tired of seeing every hexen wad have no new GFX or sprites, and having no more than 6 levels. But the fact that it includes the most realistic particle fountain i've ever seen makes up for it. (just kidding). 5/5 anyway.	x

View starship.txt

Uploaded by         : Graham Burgess (gkburgess-at_compuserve_dot-com)
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Title               : Starship

Filename            : STARSHIP.WAD

Author              : James `SPAM Man' Paige

Email Addresses     : spam@cyberverse.com

Description         : Starship is a complete SIX LEVEL hub. 
                        You are a disgruntled crew member of a massive 
                      warlike star cruiser. You set out to sabotage the ship 
                      by cutting it off from its power sources on three 
                      enslaved worlds; Alluvialis, Palaxistant, and Mazzarri.
                        Warp portals on the starship take you to each planet,
                      where you have to find the power conduit and shut it
                      off. 
                        After you shut down all the power, you gain access
                      to the starship's homeworld, Abbatoir where you must 
                      face Korax.

Misc. Info          :   There is a little more RPG to this hub than you
                      will find in most PWADs, or in Hexen's own levels.
                      At times you will have to talk to enemies in order to
                      solve the puzzle on a given level. If an enemy just
                      stands there without attacking, or even moving, and
                      fails to die, or even blink when you smite it, that
                      is your clue that this is a NPC. Simply walking against
                      one of these non-hostile enemies will start a 
                      conversation.
                        There is a secret planet, Mephitis(look it up)
                      That skillful players may find. The secret level is
                      the site of Bob the Hamster's Swamp Casino. I strongly
                      recomend that you put all your efforts into finding 
                      this secret level, as it is the spiffiest level in the 
                      hub.

Additional Credits  : Raven Software, and that other company that worked on
                      Hexen... what do they call themselves? Oh, whatever.

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* Play Information *

Game                : Hexen
Level Number        : map01 - map06
Single Player       : Yes
Coop                : Not at the moment
Deathmatch          : Sorry to dissapoint you, but no.
Difficulty Settings : Yes
New Sounds          : YES! (all on the secret level)
New Graphics        : YES! (several new wall flats, check out the SPAM!)
New Music           : Yes (some imported doom and heretic music, mostly
                      because Hexen's native music isnt loud enough for my 
                      tastes)
Demos Replaced      : Yes.

* Construction Information *

Base                : New hub from scratch
Build Time          : I forget how long. I have been working on it off and 
                      on, bit at a time, for several months.
Editors used        : WADAUTHOR for the maps (a totally worthless editor)
                      DEEP for the new textures (I hate crippled shareware)
                      ACC for the scripts
                      CUSTOMWAD for piecing it all together. (a bunch of
                      inconvenient command-line programs that I found very
                      usefull despite their simplicity.)
Known Bugs          : Since this WAD uses a few alternate graphics and sound
                      effects, playing beyond level 6 can get a bit wierd.
                      Fortunately, this does no harm to antything, and can
                      even be kind of funny at times.

* Copyright / Permissions *

Distribute this WAD freely. Be sure to include this text file.

However, Refrain from distrubuting altered copies... Unless somebody
decides to make this level work with Deathmatches and Co-ops. Anybody who 
does that (and does it well) is welcome to add their name to the credits
part of this file, and distribute it that way.

You can use this WAD as a base for creating other levels, but why bother?
You could never top the levels I made!

* Where to get this WAD *

http://www.cyberverse.com/~spam/HamsterRepublic.html
and anywhere else it might be.

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