TES III: Keening - Indie Expansion Q&A FAQ : III

» Fri May 04, 2012 7:35 am

Hi folks!

Keening Chapter 1 (of 10): Keening City will be ready for release/ play-testing in about a week. So, I'm going to build a FAQ page on my website, and I'm opening this topic here for questions if anyone has any, or any questions that you think people might ask. I will be opening a thread for RELz Keening Part 1: Keening City and WIP Keening Part Two: Keening Expanded in a week or so. I've worked on this project mostly on my own since Dec 2011, so it was designed to be detailed, interesting, and compact rather than focusing on scope. Be as blunt, repetitive, or challenging as you like with the questions - I'm opening it to the floor to sort things out before anything gets released. Right now, I'm looking for questions - once it is released and people can play it, I'll be looking for criticisms and suggestions.

Concept: Keening is designed to be my personal vision of what an expansion pack might have looked like if the Beths never stopped making them. Keening was inspired by the idea that a very fresh experience could be created by building off a small number of required mods. Exploring interesting aspects of the Lore, such as the fact that it is now known that the Ministry of Truth will fall from the sky, resulting in the destruction of Vvardenfell, inspired the basis behind Keening's Lore. Keening provides me, as a modder, with my own landmass and Lore from which to launch every modding idea that I have within a cohesive whole. Ten chapters that expand the plot and the world will be released. I hope that people will get a lot of enjoyment out of it, but most of all, I hope that it brings me to meet some amazing and talented people.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=BPoERLzOzag
Website: http://www.automatichamster.com/keening/
Required Mods: http://www.automatichamster.com/keening/downloads.shtml
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Elder-Scrolls-III-Keening-Morrowind-Expansion/250637605013467

Chapter covers: http://www.automatichamster.com/keening/covers/

Spoiler

KN01 - Keening City
- Landmass and City. The setting and the quests to Join the faction.
- Khuul Quests
- Main Quest Chapter 1: The Cavern of Azura
- Side Quests
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KN02 - Keening City Exanded
- Main Quest Part 2: The Ingenium
- Keening Minelands Interiors, Lighthouse, and expanded locations in the City.
- Side Quests
- Children of Morrwowind and Ambient Town Sounds patches
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KN03 - Aftermath
- Main Quest Part 3: Balmora Aftermath
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KN04 - Keening Underground
- The Underground Dwemer-built portion of Keening City accessed through various locations.
- Badlands: The Undead
- Side Quests
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KN05 - The First Era
- Main Quest Part 4: The First Era
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KN06 - Port Sunder
- Port Sunder Interiors and Expansion
- Alternate Faction
- Side Quests
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KN07 - The Deadlands
- Main Quest Part 5: Deadlands part one and part two
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KN08 - Secret of the Lazmer
- Development of the Techno Industrial Dwemer Locations.
- New Faction, new race
- Side Quests:
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KN09 - Finale
- Main Quest Part 6: The Great Secret
- Delirium: Quest for Sheogorath
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KN10 - Keening Integrated
- Aspects of Keening integrated into appropriate locations around Vvardenfell
- MCA Expanded
- Side Quests

Credits

Spoiler

Clothiers of Vvardenfell - Used with permission from Lady Rae and BadKarma/ Permissions pending from Korana who could not be reached.

KEENING TEAM
- Dana Nova Darko: Everything except............
- Casey Mongillo: Voice Acting and Recording Studio work
- Jocelyn Baxter: Lore research, additional book authoring, co-plotting, playtesting
- Lucevar: Conversion of DJGamer's TIDR to Modder's Resource for Keening

CREDITS - Modder's Resources / Used with Permission
- AcidBasick: Clinker, Kriin [from Creatures XI]
- Arcimaestro Antares: Daedric Portal
- Arcimaestro Antares: Sitting at the Bar
- Cait: Silver Tail, Gogglefish [from Creatures XI]
- Chainy: Oblivion Plants for Morrowind
- Chanta' J. McWilliams (Silverfoxrival): Moonstone, Keening Stone, Lazmite Ore and Raw Lazmite
- Danke: Profane Dwemer Armor/ Alternate Daedric Armor
- DJGAmer: Techno Industrial Dwemer Retexture
- Lidicus: Slarsa and Rhulrym, Seducer, Horned Scrib [from Creatures XI]
- Martin D. Jordan (Leiawen): Leia's Dual Wield v.3
- Midetgalien: Daedric Resources
- NZDawghaus: Splash Resource Pack v2.0 [Used for parts of Keening Box Cover Graphics]
- Olaf Corduwener (Soulshade): Weapons of Tamriel
- Oriphier - Magic Gates Vfx Resource Pack
- PirateLord: Creatures XI, Flying Centurion, Luminarium Spider, Incendia Spider, Slaughtershark, Venom Netches, Blazing Scamp, Silver Saint
- Polyhedral & Luna C: Scorpion & Giant Scorpion [from Creatures XI]
- Qarl: Kayla's Knick Knacks
- Qarl: Statue Replacer
- Steve Deffeyes (Dongle): Musical Instruments
- Steve Deffeyes (Dongle): Printing Press Mesh
- Steve Deffeyes (Dongle): Weapons Pack
- Sypron: Glass Weapons Pack
- Taddeus: Sweetroll [Needs of Morrowind]
- Tamriel Rebuilt Team: Bugs, Parastylus, Daedric Bat [from Creatures XI]
- T-Bone: Dwemer Race (original bodies)
- TF: TF Books [blank book covers have been modified for Keening]
- Vurt: Mangroves, Bitter Coast Trees I & II, Leafy West Gash, and Grazeland Trees I & II
- WildKarrde: Pipe Organ

Unknown: Flesh Dremora, Ice Worm, Hellhound, Spider [from Creatures XI]

THANKS
- Everyone on the gamesas Official Forums who offered advice and comments
- ab0t: Kriin animation fix / Enable-Disable Script / Levitation Disable Script
- Kagz and ab0t: assistance with figuring out how to add new sound files for the Muroids
- Cider! for conflict checks for the new location to the east of Tamriel Rebuilt.
- Doug Worthy and the rest of the crew at the Morrowind Facebook group for Spell ideas and encouragement.

VOICE ACTING
- Casey Mongillo: Voice acting and sound editing
- Dana Darko: Voice acting
- Lennox: Voice acting

MUSIC
Music is taken from Straife Milton's private collection and from Xiran's Morrowind Better Music System. Xiran: swing_1@libero.it
[STRAIFE] Azura [Straife Milton's Music Collection]*

Jon Babb [Bosa] Music used with permission
[ok] Aftermath [Bonus 1] /Welcome To The Field - Jon Babb AKA Bosa (MW Overdose)
[ok] Library [A Young Mind]
[OK] War [The Hero's Charge - Bosa] /The Hero’s Charge - Jon Babb aka Bosa ( OD3- Extension )
John Babb: http://jonbabb.com

BMS Note: All Matti Paalanen’s works are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 Licence.
[OK] Architect [Threshold - Celestial Aeon Project] /Threshold - Matti Paalanen
[OK] Dwemer [Burn them Down - Essence] /Burn Them Down – Matti Paalanen (Essence)
[OK] Fazingath [The Ancient – Matti Paalanen (CAP)] /The Ancients - Matti Paalanen (Essence)

BMS Note: ** This songs have been taken from MentalElf’s MusicReplacer, I wasn’t able to contact him/her, but he/she says in the readme that didn’t get any response contacting the authors of those songs, except one, but I don’t know who.
[OK] Kogoruhn [Bonus_5] /aws_mac1 - Victor Vergara **

*Unable to determine artist, unable to contact artist:
Dream [Mus4]*
Keeningtheme [Battle_7a]*
Novas [BE_Tavern] - From Balmora Expanded "Use whatever, just credit me"
Permissions pending, will be removed upon request.

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» Fri May 04, 2012 6:13 pm

On the required mods, do i need to have Qarl's Gothic Attire enabled on my LO or do i just need its resources? because its not really balanced..

» Fri May 04, 2012 3:06 pm

On the required mods, do i need to have Qarl's Gothic Attire enabled on my LO or do i just need its resources? because its not really balanced..

Because it isn't a modder's resource, it would have to be activated, yes.

However, you will not need to visit the store that is added, and I'm thinking about making a "compatibility patch" that moves the store to an exclusive location that you won't see unless you want to visit the store. Out of respect for the creators, I'm not going to delete or modify anything in the mod. Moving it for "compatibility" seems like it could be done without insult. I think the store is an amazing build and I recommend people check it out, even if just by teleport or COC on an "unofficial visit." But if I'm requiring it, I can certainly make a patch for compatibility, and this goes for Clothiers of Vvardenfell as well.

As for the "balance" issue, I am aware of the problem and will probably create new unique objects that don't change the original mod, but allow for more balanced usage of its components. Not everything from this mod will appear in Keening. One of the things I'll be asking of my play-testers will be input on re-balancing some of the armor that is for sale in Keening. A great majority of the armor and weapons from Gothic Attire will appear in later chapters, such as Deadlands, so I have some time to sort that out. Some of the suits of armor from this mod that I want to be for sale in Keening have been moved to a temporary location until they are needed for story or can be rebalanced. What you will see in chapter one are some clothing items and uniforms for the types of "town guards," who are already wearing versions of the armor that has been rebalanced/ repriced - by creating unique objects without altering the original items from the mod. I've written into the lore of the city as to where these unusual types of dark armor have come from.

Thanks!!