Chronicles of Azeroth - Dawn of a new Era

[SirFranc]

Chronicles of Azeroth is a brand new expansion pack (or eventually will end up being one since is already 500+ mb of size and so far is mostly maps)
[center:2ig186gc]Azeroth Map (i'll add soon Kalimdor map too)[/center:2ig186gc]


[center:2ig186gc]Lore[/center:2ig186gc]
Five years have passed since the battle at Icecrown Citadel.. that ended into a stalemate...
Nobody understood clearly what happened... the citadel just got covered in an unpassable mist...
And while the paladins of the Argent Crusade wait... for years in the frozen Wastes, the war rages on Azeroth...

Stromgarde has been rebuilt, with the desperate fight of proud heroes the power of this once great nations has risen again to unite the shattered people of Lordaeron under one flag...
The scourge, withdrew massively from Lordaeron, has been pushed back and is now shut in their dark holds.. .Scholomance... Plaguewood... Stratholme...

But a new evil has begun to threaten the world... the Burning Steppes and Searing Gorge got twisted and deformed by the dark will of a new entity known as the Dark God, earthquakes and tremors have torn asunder this land...  the Blackrock Orcs sought refuge in the badlands and the forces of Stormwind do their best to push back the flow of burning soldiers that comes down from the lands now known as Darklands.

Kul Tiras has recovered completely from the damage of the last war, and his fleet has been fully refurnished and rebuilt, now ready to wipe out the Orc race or die trying...
... but the Orcs won't stand without fighting! as the war rages they sought new allies in their brothers now refugees of Blackrock and Dragonmaw, and with their joined help they build the new city of New Mammerfall, to oppose the growing power of Stromgarde.

The Amani trolls have been renuited too under one flag and once again the goal to rebuild the feared Amani Empire is now real...
... as the Amani trolls joined back to their old allies, the horde, the Blood Elves decided to leave behind both factions and shut themselves in Quel'Thalas, studying a way to restore the Sunwell, Silvermoon is running out of fel energy as Kael'Thas has been defeated and their time is running short...

New forces are raising... old hatreds revived.. new and old heroes will guide the people of Azeroth to victory, or glorious defeat!

[center:2ig186gc]Gameplay Changes[/center:2ig186gc]
New leveling system
New fatigue system to make the experience more hardcore
New class system that will make you able to choose between up to 90 specialization and race-restricted RP classes such as Demon Hunter or Risen Warlord..
All world content re tuned to fit new leveling system and level zones changed everywhere
Resource system (like cutting down trees)


[center:2ig186gc]Features[/center:2ig186gc]

[center:2ig186gc]New Playable races[/center:2ig186gc]
-Goblins for the Horde
-Forest Trolls for the Horde
-High Elves for the Alliance
-Blood Elves as the first neutral race

[center:2ig186gc]New Lands[/center:2ig186gc]
-Northeron, home of the Dawnstrider high elven forces


-Stromgarde City, capital city of the New Lordaeron and home of Arathi humans

-Maisara Hills, homeland of the Amani Trolls and their capital city, Temple City of Ula Tek
WIP SCREEN

-Agamand Isles, new Forsaken Zone!
No screen yet
-Tol Barad, instance and battleground (not cata one, this one properly placed in baradin bay)
WIP SCREEN

-Gilneas, (not cata one, NO WORGEN, this one with the old shape and completely reworked)


-Darrowmere Forest, once called Eastern Plaguelands, now being cleansed and contested with the Scourge
See showoff thread
-Darrowmere Fields, once known as Western Plaguelands, now rebuilt and controlled by the Argent Crusade

-The Darklands, a dark twisted land where the Dark God reigns from Blackrock Hold
WIP SCREEN


-Broken Highlands, a shattered mountain range with ancient secrets of the dwarfs and elementals


-Kul Tiras, fierce home of the Kul Tiras sea empire, and its capital city Boralus
No screen yet
-Amani Forest, the inner region of the Amani Empire
No screen yet
-Zul'Arga, new subzone in Arathi Highlands, a grove hidden in the mountains with an ancient troll city and temple


See showoff thread
-Tirisfal Grove now explorable, with an ancient temple and a forsaken city featuring a forsaken-only arena where the new champion of the banshee queen is chosen in a deadly tournament
No screen yet
-Mount Hyjal now fully explorable with new content
No screen yet

[center:2ig186gc]Revamped places[/center:2ig186gc]
-Tiragarde Keep rebuilt and expanded


-Northwatch Hold expanded

-Sepulcher rebuilt and expanded
No screen yet
-Brill rebuilt and expanded
No screen yet
-Crossroads expanded
No screen yet
-Razor Hill expanded and fortified
No screen yet
-Goldshire expanded
No screen yet
-Refuge pointe turned into a town - Haven

-Deathknel rebuilt expanded
No screen yet

[center:2ig186gc]New Kingdom vs Kingdom regions*[/center:2ig186gc]
-Alterac mountains, now a battleground between Alterac city, bastion of New Lordaeron and Venomshroud keep, massive keep of the Forsaken

-Hasic, city contested between the Amani trolls (horde) and the Old Lordaeron remnants (alliance)
See showoff thread
-Westfall landing, the orcs are again fighting versus Stormwindians once more!
No screen yet
-Hinterlands, now a battleground between Amani (horde) and Wildhammer (alliance)
No screen yet
-Silverpine, contested daily between New Lordaeron and Forsaken forces
No screen yet

*KvK zones are monthly/weekly capturable and will give income to the faction that has captured them, along with various bonuses

[center:2ig186gc]New Instances[/center:2ig186gc]
-Stratholme Sewers
-Voidheart Mansion
-Tomb of Anvilmar Kings
-Blackrock Hold
-Baradin Keep
Old instances revamped with new bosses and content tuned like
-Shadowfang Keep
-Deadmines
-Stratholme
-Scholomance
-Sunken Temple
-Zul'Gurub

And much more content to be added....

Soon i'll post screens and previews!

[Jack]

Too much text, more pictures. (Also to see what has already been done and what hasn't)
From the worldbuild showoffs it looks really great also very close to Blizzlike which is of course good in this respect

[SirFranc]

Too much text, more pictures. (Also to see what has already been done and what hasn't)
From the worldbuild showoffs it looks really great also very close to Blizzlike which is of course good in this respect

Lol i'll do
the overrall thing is... around 60-70% done, but i'm likely to demolish a world build and redo it all over again

[Jøk3r]

It is totaly AMAZING!!!
I want to be as good as you
I even can't make hills lokking like blizzard ones

Keep on moding !!

[TheBuG]

Awesomeness in a topic, even some screens that haven't been shown yet am I right? Can't really say anything constructive, sadly, as it seems perfect.

[SirFranc]

Awesomeness in a topic, even some screens that haven't been shown yet am I right? Can't really say anything constructive, sadly, as it seems perfect.

thanks!
i'll post more stuff asap

[Eluo]

...want ... to ...see ...more!

Btw which model did you use for the mountains in ?
And you used the howling fjord tilesets on it?
Looks great!

[SirFranc]

...want ... to ...see ...more!

Btw which model did you use for the mountains in ?
And you used the howling fjord tilesets on it?
Looks great!

make a guess i made custom skins ofc, but you'll never guess which wmo i used

[Steff]

Yes nice to see that there are guys out there that realy do something.
It is  amazing Sir

[Jack]

I really love most of the screenshots, you've got really original ideas and seem to implement them perfectly. Some of the architecture you put into new environments brings out new great sides in the design.
Besides being able to really design a map beautifully other BIG plusses, which make you much better than the average world builder are the facts that you retexture things and that your texturing doesn't suck.

There could be improvements in your custom geometry though, such as the roads should always be a little lower than their surroundings (creatures walk on them -> earth gets worn off / sort of eroded -> surface lower than rest) and the same thing with your patches of grass on brown earth. The fact that stuff like that feels real is because it is, but it's not because nature was having fun back then, it's also a sort of erosion, this time the real one, created by rain and wind: Lets assume there are slight hills where your patches of grass are and lets also assume that there once was grass everywhere. It rains down, the rain runs down on the hills but then gathers in the small valleys that will then become drains with a much bigger power, talking about erosion. Over the years they will cause more mud than grass to be in these drains, thus creating a pattern like the one you painted but with more visible hills where the grass is  :uno:

Now there's not much to say about the worldbuilding but I'm curious: you said there's 70% implemented already, what about npcs, items, quests etc? Did you add them? Did you spawn them? Because that's something that you really shouldn't underestimate.
I also always was like "nah, not much of a deal we'll do that in 1-3 days once all the other stuff is done" but actually a wise thing to do is have someone work parallel to you on that stuff.

[SirFranc]

Now there's not much to say about the worldbuilding but I'm curious: you said there's 70% implemented already, what about npcs, items, quests etc? Did you add them? Did you spawn them? Because that's something that you really shouldn't underestimate.
I also always was like "nah, not much of a deal we'll do that in 1-3 days once all the other stuff is done" but actually a wise thing to do is have someone work parallel to you on that stuff.

Interface has been changed and new races implemented, and npcs are added as i make the maps
Besides, i don't make quests because in trinity is just crappy to do and i never figured out how, and after all aren't that needed for my project since is mostly based around player RP even tough i would like to have some scripter working with me

As it is, content would be organized following the region design and lore, but i can't tell much more for now

[Apple]

Holy f*ck! This is pure awesomeness!
I wish there would be an ability to share your model editing skills hehe. No srsly, I have been working on a RPish server aswell but unfortunaley I lack of model edit skill. Once again this is pure awesomeness!

[SirFranc]

Soon to come... Maisara Hills and Temple City of Ula Tek

[Guest]

Wow your obviously really experienced, at least more so than me... can you please point me at some guides & sw you used for this edit

[Jack]

Eluo's Worldbuilding Thread probably contains everything you have to know about worldbuilding. You can find it here: viewtopic.php?f=22&t=26