Hello everyone!
For a long time I've been a huge fan of Alien movies. Being so popular, this franchise have spawned countless fan works, such as mods & maps for various games, including Duke 3D. Sadly, most of the projects are either have very few levels (AVD, Alien), or simply aren't polished enough, such as the case with ifamous Alien Extermination (AKA Alienz TC), released in 2000.
Alienz TC was one of the first Duke 3D mods I've ever played, and it always confused the hell out of me. It has tons of levels, some of which are quite good, but it also has tons of bugs, questionable artwork, no original music (plays standard Duke 3D tracks) & lots of unused content. Even the gameplay is extremely unbalanced. It bugs me that such huge TC is so underdeveloped and unpolished, unlike other mods, such as the classic Aliens TC for DOOM, for example. This is why I decided to make Alienz TC: New Edition. I honestly think Alien Extermination has a lot of potential, and after updating it and fixing numorous errors, I found myself enjoying it quite a bit. If you're a fan of Aliens and you never played the original Alienz TC, this is a good opportunity to try it out!
Basically, here's a list of changes:
- Lots and lots of bugs fixed;
- New item - motion tracker! Replaces Holoduke, detects moving aliens & other enemies;
- New item - sentry gun! Replaces night vision goggles, can be placed anywhere, shoots aliens & other enemies, has a huge supply of bullets. Very useful against bosses;
- Gameplay in the original was extremely unbalanced, with overpowered weapons and weak enemies (including bosses that you could kill by hitting them a few times with a granade launcher). I fixed that;
- Levels tweaked & cleaned up, some of them rearranged slightly, to make gameplay more enjoyable;
- New Edition features an entirely new soundtrack, to better fit Aliens theme;
- New sounds, including ambient sounds for the levels;
- Some of the weapons are changed, for example Flamegun now works like a classic flamethrower, when in the original it was basically a reskin of Freezethrower;
- Enemies code tweaked to make them more unpredictable and dangerous;
- Graphics polished;
- Half of the cutsecenes in the original simply didn't work, including endings to episode 3 & 4 and intro to episode 4. I fixed that;
- New level obstacles, including mines in episode 4 & self destruct timer in E1L7 (these are actually features that didn't get finished in the original version);
- And many more!
Download (incliding New Edition & old TC)
Special thanks to NightFright for help!
Original Alien Extermination TC is made by Team Triumph.