Nali PriestIt's about a well-known story about Nyleve, which every die-hard U1 fans should know. Probably, after reading the thread title (lol spoilers) and this part of the Unreal's Introduction description...
You hear mechanical laughter behind you. You turn around to see an immense winged monster flying away from the body of one of your buddies.
If you feel totally worthless for not to know what the description is talking about, then I'll say it here: Warlord, huge Skaarj boss with awesome wings and filled with cheap tactics.
This guy is supposed to make a brief appearance in our beloved Nyleve's Falls, for then appear after 5, 10, 15... 27 levels, in a cave named Demonlord's Lair.
The version of Nyleve in which the boss appears should be the one shown in the 3 minutes AVI video, where you can pass behind the Vortex Rikers and there are lamps (like the one in the Biterfish pool) around. Or it was just never completed at all...
Luckily, the last version of Nyleve still have part of the scene, completely unfinished: the bloody Dante body without a Translator Message and some Alarmpoints that everyone would see them by opening the map in the editor. As long as you don't get instantly bored if you're using UEd2 and it has been hit again by the damn bug of the windows disappearances. Good reason to move yourself a little and reinstalling your old UEd2 from the UT's first CD.
This is the base, time to fix the scene. First thing, all the AlarmPoints have tags WL1, WL2... WL15. The first AlarmPoint is the one which makes the Warlord shoot the body, and it already works perfectly. Like the other ones, that are used to make the Warlord flying away and disappear outside the level.
AlarmPoints have the tags, but they aren't attached. You have to write WL# in the various "Next alarm tags" tabs to make the big guy's scene work (E.g. Alarmpoint with tag WL1 should have as next alarm tag WL2, etcetera, ****ing etcetera).
Now it's time to add the Warlord. Put him near the body, in a way that he should look directly the ledge's beginning from where you come from. Write in his AlarmTag's tab "WL1" and you done the first part.
Now, the Warlord is supposed to play with this dead body. Time to use the famous Unreal magic which makes things unused to be seen. Remember the Warlord having some @ss-kicking/punching/eating animations?
These are used in a special state called Mutilation (see the Warlord's script). Due to my experience with SP packs, no one used this function. And you're gonna experience it here.
I don't know if the Mutilation scripts is complete or not, but he does have a strange bug for me, at least in this case. The Warlord, following the first AlarmTag, will NEVER attack you (except one time, wait a little. Just read). He'll do only his work.
I go quite near him, outside his sight view. If I not put myself near his field of view, the boss will do a Fly animation. Put yourself in his view and he'll start the scene (phew). I fixed this by putting the Warlord in the way written at the start of this paragraph, so no matter what you do, he'll see you.
Put in the Warlord's Order "Mutilating". In this way the boss will do these funny animations over the dead body. Cut the meat pieces, eat them. Nice Skaarj behaviours!
Lower his Sightradius from 3000 to 1250. In this way you can see clearly what he's doing, unlike before that you don't have even the time to see his mutilation work and he just starts quickly the scripted event.
Done? Go near the Warlord. He'll do the "I wanna cut u r throat" animation (probably to you, but he doesn't rotate), followed by the usual laugh.
Now he'll run at the first Alarm Point (found near the edge) and he'll quickly shoot the rocket to the dead body, gibbing him in the process. This is the only time you can get damaged by the Warlord. Just be stupid and put yourself over the Male3gib carcass, and you're done that too.
The Warlord will now fly away, behind the mountains and then disappear.
That's the scene, at least everyone will know how it was supposed to be.
PICS of LOL:
1)Here's him! The Warlord where he should appear! He's playing with the body of course, like no one would
2)See the bad guy eating cool stuff (for him).
3)"I wanna cut u r throat!" animation. Highly amusing.
4)See below.
5)That body (perfectly visible thanks to the awesome pink colour) is going to eat a rocket.
6)Boss flies away. The end...
7)Alarm points.
And that's all. Have to thank my mate Leo for testing this
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