Back to Saturn X Episode 3 [WIP]: 5 MAP PREVIEW BUILD ON PAGE 11

[Cammy]

You were swept off your feet by BTSX E1: Better Texturing with Startan X...

 

You were challenged and ensnared by BTSX E2: "Big Towers", Says Xaser...

 

Now prepare for the epic final act, BTSX E3: Bumped Thread Street Xing!

 

(take your time, BTSX team. we're all Dying To Try This, but good work takes time.)

[Revenant Boys]

On 2/9/2019 at 2:46 PM, Xaser said:

Back to Saturn X Episode 3:

Instructions to the Rusty Time Machine

 

 

I Can't Believe It's Not Vaporware!

 

This work-in-progress third installment in the Back to Saturn X series (a vanilla-compatible hyper-megawad, for those not in the know) takes place not on the titular Saturn X, but on the other side of a portal that leads... Somewhere Else.

 

What horrors await? Take a peek beyond the veil...

 

BTSX E3: Coming Soon to a fast-food restaurant greasy diner near you!

Btsx 3 ;)

[antares031]

39 minutes ago, Revenant Boys said:

Btsx 3 ;)

 

[Walter confetti]

Ah, there's nothing new or whatever else... Hope to see in a closer future a release of this! 

[Thelokk]

15 minutes ago, antares031 said:

 

 

That peepo doesn't look nearly disappointed enough. 

[Revenant Boys]

9 hours ago, Walter confetti said:

Ah, there's nothing new or whatever else... Hope to see in a closer future a release of this! 

me to 

[HavoX]

Me 3!

[Jiggahertz]

On 8/18/2020 at 6:15 PM, Chip said:

I have a feeling that this WAD takes on several different moons. especially based on this picture below that Xaser posted a year ago. 

Saturn has 62 moons, so there is a lot to choose from. 

Was scrolling through this thread and just thought I'd mention that a vast majority of Saturn's moons are just asteroids, so there's not really that many to choose from

[TheFocus]

we might never see this release at this rate.

[Gez]

3 hours ago, Jiggahertz said:

Was scrolling through this thread and just thought I'd mention that a vast majority of Saturn's moons are just asteroids, so there's not really that many to choose from

The moons of Mars are just asteroids too, and they're good enough for the UAC!

 

Also obviously BTSX is set on Janus.

[esselfortium]

BTSX isn't set on any moon of Saturn. The X in Saturn X is not a roman numeral, it's an X.

[Edward850]

Clearly it's anime; Back to Saturn Cross.

[Mr Masker]

Back to Saturn X Tekken X Street Fighter X Tetris

[nobleflame]

Do you know what would be really nice? 

 

BTSX:ep3. 

[Gez]

It'll be released after The Adventures of Square Episode 3, and Half-Life: Episode 3.

[Thelokk]

Clearly, the only way to stop these endless BTSX 3 thread bumps is to release BTSX 3.

 

Easy fix. Who'd have thunk it? 

[DevilMyEyes]

29 minutes ago, Gez said:

It'll be released after The Adventures of Square Episode 3, and Half-Life: Episode 3.

And Dante's Inferno 2 

[LadyMistDragon]

No, it will come out when one of John Anderson's children discover the skeleton of Lethe while cleaning out his laptop

[ZeMystic]

BTSX e3 wont come out because i keep breaking into everyone's houses while they are asleep and adding a bunch of VPOs and DSOs

[Dimon12321]

I might ask a stupid question now, but how strong is the authors' aspect in BTSX series? Let's say a bunch of experienced mappers & composers would like to make Episode 3. How high is the chance that they won't catch the "spirit" of BTSX series, so people playing their works would say "No, it's NOT the actual BTSX I used to play"? If the success chance is high, then why don't you release a texture pack and make Episode 3 a community project with respective demands?

 

What about a BTSX spin-off, so you would say as the result "Yes, those specific people can bring the soul to the sequel, so we'll allow them to work on Episode 3"?

[Herr Dethnout]

 

5 hours ago, Gez said:

It'll be released after The Adventures of Square Episode 3, and Half-Life: Episode 3.

but before Mordeth

[Faceman2000]

1 hour ago, Dimon12321 said:

I might ask a stupid question now

I agree, we should throw out the minimum four years’ work on this in case the project lead has somehow forgotten what makes something BTSX and turn it into a community project, because those invariably produce good results.

[Sneezy McGlassFace]

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Every bump adds 5 more linedefs, 4 more sidedefs, 3 more sectors, 2 Revenants, and an Archvile in a monster closet to a random map.

Which then causes a visplane overflow and requires the devs to take another month to fix that map, thus setting back the release date. 

 

 

[esselfortium]

We've been hard at work on it, and Back to Saturn X Episode 3: Instructions To The Rusty Time Machine is planned to release late next year if all goes as planned.

 

On the subject of the resource wad, look forward to nine completely new themes in addition to the tech/gothic/ruin themes from e1 and e2.

[Faceman2000]

17 minutes ago, esselfortium said:

On the subject of the resource wad, look forward to nine completely new themes in addition to the tech/gothic/ruin themes from e1 and e2.

Nine?! My goodness, that is very exciting.

[Rudolph]

Cool! That gives me about a year or so to finally beat Episode 2! :P

 

(Not because it is bad or anything, but because I keep getting distracted by other WADs and games.)

[Revenant Boys]

Yes btsx 3 next year !!!!

[Bobby :D]

2 hours ago, esselfortium said:

We've been hard at work on it, and Back to Saturn X Episode 3: Instructions To The Rusty Time Machine is planned to release late next year if all goes as planned.

 

On the subject of the resource wad, look forward to nine completely new themes in addition to the tech/gothic/ruin themes from e1 and e2.

Unfortunately, to my dismay, there is no fudge world theme, yet. A nonzero chance is nonzero

[Devalaous]

Thanks for actual progress update. Silence only works so long when projects takes years.

[esselfortium]

23 minutes ago, Devalaous said:

Thanks for actual progress update. Silence only works so long when projects takes years.

Unless you’re funding development, it’s going to take as long as it takes and we’ll post updates when we’re ready to post them.