Therefore, the original idea I had for the UI, was quiet different, but those who know me from before, might know that I was away from the moding scene, for like 1.5-2 years. Basically I`ve started new project in like month ago, because after all those years I still feel some kind of a satisfaction when I change the game to the taste I`d like to play it.
What I`ve currently planned is to release the Mod, in 4 Initial Big releases (and small Bug Fix Patches in meanwhile), while starting with only the first act - "Mount Guard" and three playable classes - Warlock (Old Necromancer); Ranger (Old Amazon); Warrior (Old Paladin), each of the big releases will add to the mod an additional new act and playable class.
The beginning of the story:
Your journey starts in a Fortress in the Mountain, which is basically guarding the way beyond the Mountain (where will be Act 2 actually), same like the town all of the NPCs have been changed, and so the goods they can offer to the players.
As we all know, changes in the Quest System ins a bit hard without quiet big amount of Code Editing, but what I`m planing is to change the story around those, while improving the rewards as well. Basically -now you won`t be clearing the Den of Evil, but the Town`s Catacombs from thieves trying to steal from the armory storage, there will be no more Tristram and imprisoned Cain, but the daughter of the Fort`s Captain, the act Boss is no longer the poison orientated Andariel, but the Lord of Frost, leading legions of various creatures from different pacts to seek his way true the Mount Guard and conqueror the lands beyound the Mountain.
Classes:
Each one of the classes can access to 5 Skill Pages, each one provides 10 different Skills, which makes total of 50 Skills per Class, the different pages provide different knowledge to the corresponding class, based on the traditions and pacts they can have. For instance the 5 Skill pages of the Warlock are: Dark Magic (as forged in darkness those Warlocks deal with summoning demon creatures and imps, and inflicting powerful magic spells); Fey Pact (these Warlocks choose their source of power to be the nature, so they deal with summoning spiders, nymphs and archfeys they also access the power of inflicting lightning and poison damage to deal with the enemies); Infernal Soul (oftenly the Warlocks corrupt their souls by dealing with devil powers, and there you gain infernal powers, so the warlock is able to deal with fire damage spells enhanced by the Nine Hells); Dread Knight (unlike most of the Spellcasters, warlocks are well trained in dealing medium armor and weapons, some of them choose the way of becoming a male warrior inflicting his dark powers true a variety of weapons they can serve well with.
As I`m currently still in Alpha/Concept stage, I will share my ideas here, and I can also keep it as a reference on what I`m planing. Hopefully soon I will have a playable Alpha version. I hope someone will like the idea.
Any critics, ideas and suggestions are more than welcome
*More coming soon..
