10 years in the making: My gift to all of you.

[Captain_Russia]

So, today is a very special day:

Today Is My 10th Anniversary on SeriousZone!

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I've made ALOT of unfinished WIP's that I've never finished or never uploaded onto the internet, as back then I only had dial up internet and until thiss year, I had to use public internet.

Releasing all my old projects would be nearly impossible due to the poor way resources are handled, I've learned since then but still these are really old (mostly stuff from 2003 till 2012)

So, with out futheradue, I have released my ENTIRE Second Encounter game for you to download, HOWEVER:

There are some alterations to attempt to not make this an act of piracy, those include:

• Many of the DLL and EXE's are gone, you'll have to fill in the blanks yourself (the game is running on the latest retail version), may work with a fresh install for the steam version.
• A password: (Seriouszone.com), anyone who isn't part of this site shouldn't have it, again, it's for people who already have SSSE classic.
• like above, I'm posting this in the Luxor Club for a reason

Ok, here are the links, I had to split the archive up into 4 due it being very large, also had to use 4shared because only 4shared can let me upload a 7GB+ in total filesize. (I am not using the pirate bay for this, period)

LINKS:


Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4


I won't be surprised if this thread gets deleted for piracy reasons, or if I even get banned.
But it's time all else here had my long lost creations, bad or good they may be, this is still my gift to you all, for being a great community through out the years!
And hopefully, many more to come.

EDIT:
The better levels I've made are:
--Military base.wld
--Moscow.wld (was "Technically" finished but never released, shame)
--Black Mountains.wld
--Big Trouble 5.wld (The best one, it's a remake of an older level with extra catches, was also finished but never released; also try the other levels in the folder)
--7.wld (Oasis: The End of the World)
--10.wld (World of Hurt)
--House kill.wld (Rusutaku Assault Remake; uses resources from said map)
--Spooky.wld (Not Wytas's version, a VERY long 'adventure' map with alot of Padding BS. Originally First Encounter; MIGHT NOT WORK!)
--The Great Pyramid by CR.wld (you know that famous secret in Tower of Babylon? Well, now it's scaled up greatly for a huge battle!)
--Spooky forest.wld
--Realm of darkness.wld
--Steel City.wld (my first real attempt at advanced level design)
--Realm of the Mayan Gods.wld (a bunch of wtf level shitz)
--Planet Darkhouse.wld (Terminal Crisis Inspired, also Giant flooded bathroom because why not)
--Pyro.wld && Pyro (part 2).wld (lots of fire and red colors, also pretty rubbish, but it's a keeper IMO)
--School Reunion.wld (a more "Modern" level IMO, the opening cafeteria area is based on the cafeteria in the middle school I went too)
THE ATACK OF THE KOMAKOMIES.wld (I played this one before in my video series, but it's too classic to get old)
--teen titan tower.wld && teen titan tower the temple gods.wld (the first one is very ugly, but still I was quite the fanboy for Teen Titans XD, the second one is better but still not good; again these are keepers IMO like the above)
--the underground city of Asia.wld (another classic)
--Serious Hero folder (an unfinished custom campaign, the sad part is the first act was even done! But never released; please tell me what you think)
--Dungon.wld (Inspired off the first act of Zombie ZI's Underground series)
--Fort Miami.wld (I think it's not bad considering I made this back in elementary school)
--Lava world.wld
--Phoenix Fire.wld (the first in a my oldest canceled custom Campain called "Savea the Earth")
--palace.wld (inspired off SLAwww's mappers dreams, I also reused a part from this level in Raka's Space contest, not like anyone say it; levels starts off boring but it gets very different later on)
--Central Russian mountains.wld (eerrrrhh, maybe, I don't think much of this one :/)
--SnowBlind.wld (wanna have a boss fight against a Christmas Tree!?! SURE YOU DO!)
--town.wld (Jak and Dexter+Earth 2150 Ambiance, this is why this isn't released)
--winter land.wld (it's NOT Winter Wonder Land!)
--Zigalon.wld (Babylon gets an industrial revolution!)
--Neighborhood.wld (The before level of Moscow, not what you think it is, try it out and see)
--New Egypt.wld (because Seriously Warped's one texture made me want to make another strange level)
--NotPeacefulNight.wld (This one is special, it was gonna be my retelling of Sam's past, it's very unfinished but worth a shot, it's also worth noting the second area CAN kill FPS)
--Alien planet.wld (might as well count this one since it's quite memorable)
--hot desert.wld (same as above, not all that great but memorable, also why did I leave the background purple?)
--High school.wld (again, the same story, is quite bad overall)
--Watch towers.wld (A dark and atmospheric map, this version appears to be a dated version, as it doesn't have the death arena)
--Base Colan.wld (me wanting to bring NPC's in Serious Sam all those years ago :p)
--Lake hasis.wld (Only playable in Coop, but you'll need cheats to pass the forest area, as enemies get stuck there, also this map is VERY hard)

And, that's about it, there's more maps I've made but these are the best ones so all others should be regarded as random, I hope you can enjoy what I've never finished.

Happy 10th Anniversary, from IDGCaptainRussia, to the rest of Seriouszone!

[Discy]

Interesting, I'll check the downloads out later to see if imma ban you. Not really, you won't have to fear getting banned over good intentions. What is actually in those archives?

Also, congrats on sticking around for ten years. Here's to ten more. My 13th is coming up in one month exactly.

[Captain_Russia]

Originally Posted by Discy

Interesting, I'll check the downloads out later to see if imma ban you. Not really, you won't have to fear getting banned over good intentions. What is actually in those archives?

Also, congrats on sticking around for ten years. Here's to ten more. My 13th is coming up in one month exactly.

Thanks man!
The 4 achieves contain my Serious Sam the Second Encounter folder, you have to get all 4 to extract the contents, I had to do it this way due to space constraints.

This is my 3rd attempt at creating this archive, since the first 2 where too big to upload, so I split it into 4, opposed to less (4shared has a 2GB file upload limit)

[Scratch]

Does this contain the original game resources? If so, I'd prefer if you are able to re-upload it without those.. Binaries are easily compilable, so piracy would be super easy then. Since it's an old game it's not a huge issue but still

[Captain_Russia]

Originally Posted by Scratch

Does this contain the original game resources? If so, I'd prefer if you are able to re-upload it without those.. Binaries are easily compilable, so piracy would be super easy then. Since it's an old game it's not a huge issue but still

You mean like the gro files? Then yes I've removed those, though it it likely makes little difference due to me already extract most of the resources (and this is quite impossible to fix, since it's EVERYWHERE)

I've also removed a few huge downloads, to lower the file size, it was stuff I playing lately, and not part of my levels.

[Louva-Deus]

7Gb sounds impressive... and bloated. Are you sure you have only included your work in this archive?

[Captain_Russia]

Originally Posted by Louva-Deus

7Gb sounds impressive... and bloated. Are you sure you have only included your work in this archive?

that would prove impossible, this a my ENTIRE Second Encounter Game, Minus the stuff the game came with, almost.

Also 7GB is when it's compressed, uncompressed this collection is 17GB+

[Scratch]

Not impossible. There are ways to do folder comparisons (total commander does this for example), you could do a folder comparison on the original game and your game and remove the original files.

[Louva-Deus]

You could use winmerge as well.

The original files wouldn't be much more than a gig anyway. So... you were a very productive monkey man!

[Captain_Russia]

Well it's already up and stuff.

It's a little late to remove what may only account for 1 GB, sorry.

[Rakanishu]

4 times 1,8 GBs?! Gotta do the same for one of my anniversary, there will be a 13 GBs folder thought.

[Solais]

I should share my entire Croteam work folder on my anniversary. It's only 565 GB.

[Louva-Deus]

Except you only get to share the things that you made.

[Thekazuya005]

Originally Posted by Solais

I should share my entire Croteam work folder on my anniversary. It's only 565 GB.

Do it! XD

[Rakanishu]

Originally Posted by Solais

I should share my entire Croteam work folder on my anniversary. It's only 565 GB.

Even my two hardrives can't support such a size! xD

[Captain_Russia]

Originally Posted by Solais

I should share my entire Croteam work folder on my anniversary. It's only 565 GB.

I got 2 hard-drives, adding up to about 750 GB
So no, I couldn't hold that either, as the date would need to be split.

[Deviantel]

I don't understand...what is this and what is the point of this?

Happy anniversary though, man!

[Louva-Deus]

Is there a point to anything?

[Captain_Russia]

Originally Posted by Deviantel

I don't understand...what is this and what is the point of this?

Happy anniversary though, man!

Thank you!

The point? This is all the crap over the years I've never finished, or released (or couldn't' because of S!'s old copyrighted content rules), until now. The files are a mess, so making sure anything isn't missing would be a nightmare, that's why the I uploaded my whole game, I did clear out some things though to lower filesize.

[Jetroid]

Does this include other peoples' maps that you had in your Levels folder?

[Captain_Russia]

yes, filtering out just my stuff would bee impossible.
Plus, I did often use resources from other people's stuff.

I wonder if anyone has even downloaded it yet?

[Jetroid]

Honestly, I think it is both callous, lazy and honestly a little rude to ship other peoples *levels* in there too. Resources I can understand, as you can't be sure what dependencies your content uses, but levels? You can be damn sure which levels are yours or not. It seems to me you did not put so much effort into this.

[Louva-Deus]

Wasn't there a utility that automatically identified which files a level actually uses and then packaged it into a gro file?

[Scratch]

You mean something like this: https://github.com/AlligatorPit/Revolution-Packer

It's shipped with Rev, and technically should work for the original classics too, but I haven't tested

[Louva-Deus]

There was another one. GROPack or something...

[Discy]

AutoGRO.

[Captain_Russia]

Originally Posted by Jetroid

Honestly, I think it is both callous, lazy and honestly a little rude to ship other peoples *levels* in there too. Resources I can understand, as you can't be sure what dependencies your content uses, but levels? You can be damn sure which levels are yours or not. It seems to me you did not put so much effort into this.

I'm not even sure autoGRO works on windows 8.1

And second, you sure like to look a gift horse in the mouth :/

[Louva-Deus]

To you it's a gift but to other map makers it would be IP theft. There are various points of view to consider. Thank you for your efforts, but maybe you should have asked first and then we could have helped you make sure that you only included your stuff.

[Captain_Russia]

yeah, I know, many of these authors aren't even online anymore and I could have done it better.

But yeah, I take no ownership for works that are not mine here, but many of them are required for my maps to work.

[Louva-Deus]

I hope you don't do that anymore.