Hey guys, I'm opening this thread because I'm seeking some help for my new started (and first) single player campaign Brood of the Hell, specifically some good terrainers, since I'm so bad at terraining (I try to do my best). I'm getting some inpiration from Heart of the Swarm (this is the startpoint of my campaign). I think I don't need any data or trigger help, since I pick inspiration from Heart of the Swarm. Now, this is the story plot.
Storyline
Five years from Heart of the Swarm, Veikroth, an ancient brood commander, decides to abandon the Zerg Swarm in search of creating his own Swarm. After yearsof searching, he finds the remote jungle of Vygoire, a remote world in the Koprulu Sector. Inside a cave, Veikroth meets the Lost Brood, a forgotten ancient brood in the volcanic heart of this planet. He decides to claim this as his own brood and conquer the entire planet. This will be his beginning as the future Swarm.
- Mechanics
This is an amazing single player campaign which consist in several missions (number to be determined): from an incursion on highly secured Dominion labs to the controll of an entire base for conquering a planet. I'll try to do some kind of Story mode for selecting next mission, purchasing upgrades, new type of units... (just as in Heart of the Swarm). This is one of the things where I'll need help (appart from terraining).
Thank you in advanced.
EDIT: Attached campaign itself: mod, launcher (untouched), and first mission.
The idea for the first mission is some kind of cave with a little (not advanced, I mean, without advanced technlogy: siege tanks; BC...) Dominion base and some distributed Zerg Swarm units on the way to the Dominion base. Behind the Dominion base is the cave exit. On the correspondent start location, there's a little Zerg enchampment which belogs to the Lost Brood player. If you are interested, just do the terraning, leave units and triggers to me, please Thank you very much.
All the way up to Brood War the various Broods were controlled by Cerebrates, which served as "commanders" if you look at the Swarm's command structure from a human military perspective. After Brood War only a couple of Cerebrates still existed, since most of them were killed off by Kerrigan, since she did not need them to control the Swarm. According to lore Cerebrates are not made to rule by themselves, they serve a more powerful figure (previously the Overmind). If they are not ruled by such a figure they quickly die out, which was why many Cerebrates sacrifced themselves to create a new Overmind. After the Brood War Kerrigan, like the Overmind, created commanders in her own image, which would serve her and control the various Broods. She created the intelligent Brood Mothers to fill a role similar to the old Cerebrates. She was trying to ensure the Swarm could function even if she died, a change from her attitude during the Brood War. And now following the Heart of the Swarm some Brood Mothers have been improved upon and given more free will.
As of now I see four possibilities with how the Veikorth character could be played out. Firstly, as I mentioned above the "commanders" of the original Swarm were the Cerebrates, but it is unlikely that Kerrigan would employ these still, which would make it unlikely that this commander would be a Cerebrate and should instead be a Brood Mother, which would have the abiliy to break off from the Swarm. However, most Brood Mothers answer to the strongest and after a visit to Zerus Kerrigan became so much more powerful. I would highly doubt that any Brood Mother, even Zagara would cross her in the near future.
Secondly, Kerrigan has previously tried to create consorts in the form of Infested humans to serve as her consort, the first of which was Duran. Some of them were even given free will. If Veikorth was to be an infested human, it would make more sense for him to evade Kerrigan and try to create his own Swarm, if Kerrigan has indeed given him partial or total free will.
A third possibility would be to create something new in the form of Kerrigan creating a new creature, which would have the psionic capability to control units within the Swarm. However, that would seem unlikely since the Brood Mothers already fill this role.
At last, I would recommend renaming the campaign to "Brood of Hell," since I believe "of the Hell" is grammatically wrong and does not sound well.
Creating a custom campaign is fun but also an incredibly daunting task, that is if you want to produce something of at least mediocre quality. If you have not already, you should first sketch out the map (Trust me, it is such a pain when you have a fully terrained and scripted map and you find out that the gameplay aspect of it is not working properly), write out a plan for the storyline(s) and most importantly, the CHARACTERS (They are the backbone of your story and will likely be the main hook of your campaign, if they are interesting enough).
You should also make a plan for a small number of missions (around 2-4). Planning for a terrible lot will likely ensure that the overall quality of your maps is going to decrease along with other important aspects. Focus on your first few missions and ensure that they are of the highest quality you can supply. You can plan for a sequel to your first few missions, but you should not begin building them, before you are finished with the first ones.
Ok. I'll give a try to everything you've said (specially the campaign's tittle, Google translate failed me -.-). According to the main character (Veikroth), his model is Kraith's one but team colored. I think the third possibility is good enough for me, make this situation: Kerrigan in Heart of the Swarm, seeks for creating evil creatures even if these creatures have enough free will for overcoming her, she only looks for strenght. She then, creates Veikroth, an evil creature made from the original Kraith's essence collected during the Supremacy mission. He, then, has enough free will and decides to do everything mentioned above. I do not seek perfection on my campaign, I only want the player to have fun, if one thing does not fit prefectly the original storyline, I will not be depreassed.
Hey guys, I'm opening this thread because I'm seeking some help for my new started (and first) single player campaign Brood of the Hell, specifically some good terrainers, since I'm so bad at terraining (I try to do my best). I'm getting some inpiration from Heart of the Swarm (this is the startpoint of my campaign). I think I don't need any data or trigger help, since I pick inspiration from Heart of the Swarm.
Now, this is the story plot.
Storyline
Five years from Heart of the Swarm, Veikroth, an ancient brood commander, decides to abandon the Zerg Swarm in search of creating his own Swarm. After yearsof searching, he finds the remote jungle of Vygoire, a remote world in the Koprulu Sector. Inside a cave, Veikroth meets the Lost Brood, a forgotten ancient brood in the volcanic heart of this planet. He decides to claim this as his own brood and conquer the entire planet.
This will be his beginning as the future Swarm.
- Mechanics
This is an amazing single player campaign which consist in several missions (number to be determined): from an incursion on highly secured Dominion labs to the controll of an entire base for conquering a planet.
I'll try to do some kind of Story mode for selecting next mission, purchasing upgrades, new type of units... (just as in Heart of the Swarm). This is one of the things where I'll need help (appart from terraining).
Thank you in advanced.
EDIT: Attached campaign itself: mod, launcher (untouched), and first mission.
@TheSC2Maniac: Go
The idea for the first mission is some kind of cave with a little (not advanced, I mean, without advanced technlogy: siege tanks; BC...) Dominion base and some distributed Zerg Swarm units on the way to the Dominion base. Behind the Dominion base is the cave exit.
On the correspondent start location, there's a little Zerg enchampment which belogs to the Lost Brood player. If you are interested, just do the terraning, leave units and triggers to me, please
Thank you very much.
@TheSC2Maniac: Go
All the way up to Brood War the various Broods were controlled by Cerebrates, which served as "commanders" if you look at the Swarm's command structure from a human military perspective. After Brood War only a couple of Cerebrates still existed, since most of them were killed off by Kerrigan, since she did not need them to control the Swarm. According to lore Cerebrates are not made to rule by themselves, they serve a more powerful figure (previously the Overmind). If they are not ruled by such a figure they quickly die out, which was why many Cerebrates sacrifced themselves to create a new Overmind. After the Brood War Kerrigan, like the Overmind, created commanders in her own image, which would serve her and control the various Broods. She created the intelligent Brood Mothers to fill a role similar to the old Cerebrates. She was trying to ensure the Swarm could function even if she died, a change from her attitude during the Brood War. And now following the Heart of the Swarm some Brood Mothers have been improved upon and given more free will.
As of now I see four possibilities with how the Veikorth character could be played out. Firstly, as I mentioned above the "commanders" of the original Swarm were the Cerebrates, but it is unlikely that Kerrigan would employ these still, which would make it unlikely that this commander would be a Cerebrate and should instead be a Brood Mother, which would have the abiliy to break off from the Swarm. However, most Brood Mothers answer to the strongest and after a visit to Zerus Kerrigan became so much more powerful. I would highly doubt that any Brood Mother, even Zagara would cross her in the near future.
Secondly, Kerrigan has previously tried to create consorts in the form of Infested humans to serve as her consort, the first of which was Duran. Some of them were even given free will. If Veikorth was to be an infested human, it would make more sense for him to evade Kerrigan and try to create his own Swarm, if Kerrigan has indeed given him partial or total free will.
A third possibility would be to create something new in the form of Kerrigan creating a new creature, which would have the psionic capability to control units within the Swarm. However, that would seem unlikely since the Brood Mothers already fill this role.
The last possibility I would be able to think of would be to create an exterior threat in the form of a cosmic creature, which would somehow stumble upon the Swarm. The cliché would obviously be for this cosmic threat to be of Xel'Naga origin, since you can spin this storyline however you want.
At last, I would recommend renaming the campaign to "Brood of Hell," since I believe "of the Hell" is grammatically wrong and does not sound well.
Creating a custom campaign is fun but also an incredibly daunting task, that is if you want to produce something of at least mediocre quality. If you have not already, you should first sketch out the map (Trust me, it is such a pain when you have a fully terrained and scripted map and you find out that the gameplay aspect of it is not working properly), write out a plan for the storyline(s) and most importantly, the CHARACTERS (They are the backbone of your story and will likely be the main hook of your campaign, if they are interesting enough).
You should also make a plan for a small number of missions (around 2-4). Planning for a terrible lot will likely ensure that the overall quality of your maps is going to decrease along with other important aspects. Focus on your first few missions and ensure that they are of the highest quality you can supply. You can plan for a sequel to your first few missions, but you should not begin building them, before you are finished with the first ones.
Ok. I'll give a try to everything you've said (specially the campaign's tittle, Google translate failed me -.-). According to the main character (Veikroth), his model is Kraith's one but team colored. I think the third possibility is good enough for me, make this situation: Kerrigan in Heart of the Swarm, seeks for creating evil creatures even if these creatures have enough free will for overcoming her, she only looks for strenght. She then, creates Veikroth, an evil creature made from the original Kraith's essence collected during the Supremacy mission. He, then, has enough free will and decides to do everything mentioned above. I do not seek perfection on my campaign, I only want the player to have fun, if one thing does not fit prefectly the original storyline, I will not be depreassed.
@TheSC2Maniac: Go
Another idea is that he could be an overmind creation that fulfilled a similar role to the cerebrates that was discarded later.