The Antioch Chronicles: Thoughts in Chaos

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Thoughts in Chaos

Team Antioch is proud to release the conclusion of the Antioch Chronicles trilogy. Created in collaboration with Ruben Moreno and Eric Dieter, the creators of the first two episodes, this campaign is the product of three years of development and a team of over twenty people. Come visit us on our new Discord to share your thoughts, bugs, or just chat. https://discord.gg/m4wCpSf

Installation Instructions

Download the most recent map and mod ZIP files from the files tab. Unzip the ThoughtsInChaosMaps file into your StarCraft II/Maps folder and ThoughtsInChaosMod file into your StarCraft II/Mods folder. Open ThoughtsInChaos/MapLoader.SC2Map, then click the Test Map button. Save your game, then begin playing!

Bug Reporting

We've done our best to test these maps, but no product survives first contact with the users. If you encounter any bugs, please report them in the issues tab. We'll try to address issues as quickly as we can.

Need to catch up on the story?

If you've forgotten what happened in Psionic Storm and Negative Suns, or if you just don't want to play them, you can read a summary of their events here. You can also download the first two episodes here. Or, you can watch community stalwart Jayborino's recordings of both episodes:

Team Antioch

Thoughts in Chaos wouldn't have been possible without the tireless work of countless people. Please check out the Team Antioch and Voice Cast pages for the complete credits.

Chaotic Thoughts

Chaotics Thoughts is a column we ran to provide insight into our development process and other things related to the campaign. You can see the articles published here:

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aliencomander
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Posted May 12, 2018
I had a lot of fun with this, I did find that Moloch doesn't get his upgraded shield ability in the final mission if you collect the protoss relics, but he does get it in the mission before that.

I also mind controlled all the purifier units and they didn't count as "killed" for the bonus objective's purposes, although I don't really think that's something that needs to be changed anyway

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Posted May 12, 2018
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Mind control! Fucking brilliant. Way to think outside the box. I love it.

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Posted May 10, 2018
v. 1.3.1996

3-4 - Moloch no longer holds onto the past. No, that's a lie, Moloch still does that. But his whirlwind ability now uses a properly updated version.

3-6 - When selected together, Turmalis and Khrillian now collaborate, allowing the player access to both's abilities.

3-6 - Trained the High Templar in the high art of hallucination. The spell kind, not the kind of art you do while high.

3-11 - Like in 3-6, the units now share a command card.

3-11 - Invisible dummy units are now properly invisible, even though they're still dummies.

3-11 - As is right and proper, the ending cutscene now has subtitles.
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Posted May 7, 2018
Is there a credits section here, or is it only in-game?

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In reply to JayborinoPlays:

It's currently only in-game. I was realizing I should pull it out into a page here. That's going to be kind of complicated, though, so it might take me a couple days.

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Posted May 8, 2018
In reply to JayborinoPlays:

Added links to the team and cast in the description.

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Posted May 6, 2018
v. 1.2

Interlude 1 - Taught Gurney the correct spelling of Mad Dog's name. Who is Mad Dog? We can say this much: he's mad, dog.

3-0 - Despite the Protoss's inherent sense of melodrama, we no longer pause the action while they have their say.

3-0 - In the interest of creating a welcoming environment, we now add the Brood Fathers to the unit selection when they arrive on the scene.

3-1 - Added beacons to clarify for Moloch the exit of each area in the caverns.

3-4 - Upgraded hangar probe AI so it no longer suffers fatal pathing errors.

3-5 - Rescued Haley from an alternate reality in which she had more to say during the camera room cutscene.

3-5 - Newly emboldened, the computer no longer hides under Haley's hero icon during transmissions.

3-6 - Repeatedly ordering Khrillian to move no longer overcomes his normally considered approach.
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Posted May 5, 2018
Jepok's AI in Sins of our fathers needs a tune-up. Standing in lasers targeting him, moving into lasers targeting another object.... this mission would be easier if I could control both of them, if only so i can keep him out of red.

Also, one of the eyes decided to move to the center of the arena soon after a defeat reset... killed jepok on the high ground quickly.

Sevorak also decided to join us on high ground once.

One of the high ground phases lasted a lot longer than usual, 2-3 minutes or something.

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Posted May 5, 2018
Prologue 1:
The pauses whenever a hero falls in the first segment is a terrible idea.

Interlude: Better times
"but if Mod Dog's right"

Stop cut: Pathetically easy

Something is wrong with Moloch's whirlwind, you can make it do a lot more damage than it should by using move commands during it.

Consider placing beacons to allow players to know exactly when the area switches, allowing them to search the area for bonuses without worry.

Durance Vile: Medium difficulty

The puzzles are nice, but the 4-DT door beacon pairings can lead to confusion

Opening a menu darkens the probe command list

There's a certain order on the probe puzzle that can cause no restart to happen (targeting 2nd last, FF's last).

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Posted May 5, 2018
In reply to TChosenOne:

What sort of confusion are you experiencing when you say "the 4-DT door beacon pairings can lead to confusion?"

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In reply to TChosenOne:

Also, what difficulty setting are you playing?

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Posted May 5, 2018
Quote from LucidIguana >>

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Also, what difficulty setting are you playing?

As for difficulty, I'm playing hard on faster speed of course. It came as a shock how easy the holdout was.

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What sort of confusion are you experiencing when you say "the 4-DT door beacon pairings can lead to confusion?"

Figuring out which pair of beacons open a door can be a pain. Even more so in that section when the pair are not in the same room AND theres another pair that opens the same door.

As for the first terran mission (the prison break), the gameplay feels tacked on so that there's more time between story segments.

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Posted May 5, 2018
Make it slightly more clear which one of the 3 orbs you want us to click on first.

Was any of this tested by someone w/o clear knowledge of the UI?

Edit: clicked on the one that does campaign progress first.

Edit 2: Is the confirmation window really necessary?

Edit 3: Times are not being saved.

Edit 4: I don't understand why some of the mission overview animations loop but others don't

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In reply to TChosenOne:

Should be something making it a bit more clear in the next day or two ... don't think we had anyone test it that wasn't a dev, so we all kind of knew which to click. Whoops.

edit: you want to watch the interludes first, then move on to the campaign, though the interludes are back story that takes place between episodes 1, 2 and 3, so I guess could be watched any time? I think that if you want to watch things in chronological order you need to play episode 1, interlude 1, episode 2, interlude 2, episode 3.

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Posted May 4, 2018
And after a brief hiccup, we're back online. I hope you all enjoy playing!

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OMG! This is awesome!

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Posted May 4, 2018
Team Antioch is proud to announce that Thoughts in Chaos v 1.0 is now available for download! Thank you to everyone for your patience.

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Posted Apr 21, 2018
Gnarlsome! I've only been waiting 19 years for this

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Posted Apr 21, 2018
Check out our launch trailer! Thoughts in Chaos is coming in May!

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Holy shit. I had no idea this was even a thing. I am so psyched to see this making a comeback! (Currently downloading remastered, too!)

Antioch Forever!

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