=========================================================================== Advanced engine needed : Doom2.exe or compatible Primary purpose : Single play =========================================================================== Title : Back to Saturn X E1: Get Out Of My Stations Version : 0.99b: First Public Release (Hotfix 3) Filename : btsx_e1_099d.zip Release date : 12/10/2012 Author : Esselfortium and the Back to Saturn X team Email Address : esselfortium@gmail.com Misc. Author Info : Everybody Thinks I'm A Raincloud (When I'm Not Looking) Description : Get Out Of My Stations is the first episode of Back to Saturn X, a three-episode partial conversion for Doom II. Back to Saturn X is fully compatible with Doom2.exe and Chocolate Doom. It has also been tested with Eternity Engine, PrBoom-Plus, ZDoom, GZDoom, and Risen3D. ZDoom/GZDoom users should make sure to use r3935 or newer (Nov 2, 2012 or more recent) in order to avoid rendering glitches. =========================================================================== The Story So Far : The tether has been severed. A chain to the moon lies crumpled in a strewn array of blank screens and static. The Saturn X Research Station falls silent for the first time in three decades. Alarms ring out as the crisis escalates, and soon, Union Aerospace knows it can no longer ignore the deafening silence left in its wake. Time progresses. Three weeks. I arrive, and the director frowns as the briefing begins. When she speaks, the flag unfurls and the heavens split in half: They will send me to investigate. I'm to be sent on a blatant doom trip, a three-year journey from which there will be no return. My fate is irrelevant. Spit me out from your cosmos, seal me into a portable mortuary, and ship me away. As this reluctant journey begins, my goal is clear: arrive, assess, evacuate. The nightmare I had hoped would never arrive has become my sole purpose. I disembark, waking up the stars as my vision begins to blur... ... Awakening from cryo-sleep, the icy breeze is shattered and a sense of deja vu grips me in this solitary land. Although I am a newcomer to the stage, I can't help but find a sense of familiarity in this "lone space marine on the eerie rock" act. For my final performance, I have come back. Back to Saturn X. =========================================================================== * Full Credits * Artwork : Michael "Esselfortium" Mancuso Sven "Ptoing" Ruthner Music : James "Jimmy" Paddock Stuart "Stewboy" Rynn Michael "Esselfortium" Mancuso Elric "Darkhaven" Sullivan Simon "Sirjuddington" Judd Playtesting and : Boris "dew" Klimes quality control hawkwind Seele00TextOnly James "Phobus" Cresswell "Super" Jamie Bainbridge Story : Xaser Acheron Level design : Michael "Esselfortium" Mancuso Paul "Skillsaw" DeBruyne Richard "Tarnsman" Frei Kim "Torn" Bach Walker "Pavera" Wright Trevor "Iori" Primmett Bjorn "Vader" Ostmann Travers Dunne Ed Cripps Matthew "Foodles" Edwards Brett "Mechadon" Harrell Simon "Sirjuddington" Judd Nick "Hobomaster22" Laurent John "Tango" Oksasoglu =========================================================================== * Map listing * --- EPISODE I: Get Out Of My Stations ------------------------------------- 01 Esselfortium/Tarnsman: Back to Saturn X Radio Report 02 Torn/Esselfortium: Postal Blowfish 03 Skillsaw: The Room Taking Shape 04 Esselfortium: A Good Flying Bird 05 Pavera: Total Exposure 06 Iori: Mix Up The Satellite 07 Vader: Metal Mothers 08 Esselfortium: Episode Hub 09 Esselfortium/Traversd: Some Drilling Implied 10 Skillsaw: A Proud And Booming Industry 11 Ed: The Colossus Crawls West 12 Traversd/Skillsaw: Underground Initiations 13 Esselfortium/Skillsaw: I'll Replace You With Machines 14 Foodles/Esselfortium: Big Chief Chinese Restaurant 15 Mechadon: Tricyclic Looper 16 Esselfortium: Episode Hub 17 Esselfortium: Navigating Flood Regions 18 Sirjuddington: Cyclone Utilities (Remember Your Birthday) 19 RottKing: U.S. Mustard Company 20 Hobomaster/Tarnsman: Failed Experiments & Trashed Aircraft 21 RottKing/Skillsaw: Gonna Never Have To Die 22 Esselfortium: Episode Hub 23 Tango: Tough Skin River Secret 31 Skillsaw: The Hard Way --------------------------- Additional Mapping Credits: MAP05, MAP06, MAP18, and MAP23 feature additional mapping by Esselfortium. MAP02, MAP04, MAP06, MAP09, MAP11, MAP13, MAP14, MAP17, MAP18, and MAP23 feature additional balancing and coop setup by Dew. --------------------------- Music Credits: 01 Esselfortium - Entering 02 Esselfortium - Phobophobe 03 Stewboy - Drilling By Night 04 Esselfortium - Clonk 05 Jimmy - Atmospheric Pressure 06 Darkhaven - Nanonucleonic Cyborg Summoning 07 Jimmy - Conductor 08 Esselfortium - Waiting 09 Jimmy - Untilted 10 Jimmy - Coal 11 Jimmy - Yaw 12 Jimmy - Liquid Luck 13 Jimmy - Escape Velocity 14 Stewboy - 24 15 Jimmy - Quicksilver 16 Esselfortium - Waiting 17 Esselfortium - Dirt 18 Sirjuddington - Untitled 19 Jimmy - The Cry 20 Jimmy - Heliotrope 21 Esselfortium - Womp 22 Esselfortium - Waiting 23 Jimmy - Within Reach 31 Jimmy - Atomic Stats Screen: Jimmy, Essel, and Xaser - Back to Saturn X Story Screen: Darkhaven - BTSX Intermission =========================================================================== * What is included * New levels : 24 Sounds : No Music : Yes Graphics : Yes Dehacked/BEX Patch : Yes Demos : Yes Other : No Other files required : None * Play Information * Game : Doom 2 Map # : MAP01-MAP23, MAP31 Single Player : Designed for Cooperative 2-4 Player : Designed for Deathmatch 2-4 Player : No Other game styles : None Difficulty Settings : Yes * Construction * Base : New from scratch Build Time : Three years Editor(s) used : Doom Builder, Slade, DeepSea, Photoshop, ProMotion Known Bugs : Hopefully none, but this is a first release. If you encounter visplane overflows or other buggy behavior when playing Back to Saturn X, please send us a report so we can look into the problem and fix it! May Not Run With... : Back to Saturn X has not been tested with gameplay mods, and we make no guarantees that it will work as intended with one. The maps have been carefully balanced for exciting gameplay with Doom's standard monster and weapon behavior -- if you're playing with mods and run into issues, well... stop doing that. * Copyright / Permissions * Authors may NOT use the contents of this file as a base for modification or reuse. Permissions have been obtained from original authors for any of their resources modified or included in this file. There will be a full release of the texture resource after Back to Saturn X's three episodes are complete. In the meantime, please be respectful and don't take our stuff. Thanks! You MAY distribute this file, provided you include this text file, with no modifications. 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