- NaRaLuk Village
Temple of Gazra
From: Nali Chronicles
Filenames: NCLevel001.unr, NCLevel002.unr
Video Playthrough:
Synopsis: It was the coming of the dark Third Age of Suffering for the Nali people as the great Prophet in his secret halls summoned a messenger to his side. The Prophet ordered for the guild of mages to scatter. To hide in the small villages scattered among the forests, swamps, and mountains, to hide from the demons that were coming from the sky.
The village of NaRaLuk has avoided the attention of the demons for two hundred years, but its days are at an end. The demons are coming for this outpost of power and the Nali mages must fulfill the ancient mission bestowed on them by the Prophet.
You play the part of a Nali Mage on a mission. A skilled mage will have many abilities at his disposal. You will be able to use weapons and interact with your environment as well as invoke powerful spells, but such abilities are only useful if applied correctly. As most of the environment around you is one built by Nali, you will be able to read messages left by those before you and observe the words of the gods written on the walls. Those messages of importance will be automatically stored for future reference in your journal. As a Nali, you are able to talk to other Nali: for the benefit of those who do not understand their language, an English translator has been built into the game. The mod includes: custom music, custom weapons, spells (never-before-seen in Unreal!), new pickups and a potion mixing feature, all integrated into a new Nali-style HUD.
Discuss!
, it's one of my favorite custom campaigns for Unreal/UT, this mod is basically Unreal combined with RPG elements like more focus on the story, NPC interactions, a companion, a system that allows you to get special powers by combining ingredients, a log that records everything you read, etc. But even with all of that NC is still a first person shooter at the end of the day. There are so many things to like about this project like the unique story (which is connected to the original Unreal in a very interesting way), the dialogue (which thankfully doesn't use human language, voice acting and Unreal/UT mods don't mix very well), the new gameplay features like the magic system and the alchemy system (the alchemy system can be confusing because the game doesn't do a good job explaining what a "piece" is when you are making a potion), the fact that you play as a Nali (complete with being slow and jumping higher) and of course the music (which in my opinion is just as good as the original Unreal 
). The campaign in general has decent level geometry and lighting but it isn't that impressive, especially considering that this project was done after other mods like ONP and Xidia. There are many issues with texture alignment, scaling, choice, lighting effects and ambient lighting, all of these things really gives NC a more amateur look. Also this campaign uses too many decorations and some of them are either located incorrectly or have issues with lighting.
). Also at the end of the tutorial you can damage the Nali and the Cow , something you aren't suppose to do.
). One great thing about cutscenes in NC is that you can skip them if you want, which is great when you are replaying the campaign and you want to focus only on the gameplay.
[EDIT: seems I misunderstood, the crash 30 seconds in happened now, not "back in the day"] Bugs like CTDs did happen with this mod but thankfully nothing systematic, a simple reload would do the trick. As Aspide said on Discord, the mod uses different *.ini files in place of the UT ones. Note that I still use UT v436 to be on the safe side with these mods, though I'm sure the community patch v469 will eventually be compatible with everything.
A fact driven home by my experience replaying the campaign's first maps now, I really needed the tutorial again in order to get a handle on all of the game's mechanics. 