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Greetings!

It's been a year and a half since I released WS3: Cleighmoor, and for anyone wondering what's going on in Steele's world, I thought I'd bring you up to date on future plans.

WS4: The Warrens is 90% finished. It's set in a rainy, dismal, quarantined district of Bridgeport. It will require 2.04, so I'm looking at a release sometime in Q1 2016. Okay, that wishful thinking was shot down, so I'll revert to id's original reply: "It'll be finished when it's finished".

The first four missions in this story have been "yuuuuuuge!", and have taken a considerable amount of time to create. For the remaining four, I'm planning to scale back, simply to increase the odds of ever finishing the whole story. I hope to reduce the creation time to under 6 months for each. We'll see.

WS5: Deceit is a bank mission inside the Commerce Bank building we passed in WS2: Home Again.

WS6: Corruption takes place in a fancy museum, with some payback for characters we've met before.

WS7: The Builder's Forge (obviously) takes place inside the Builder compound we saw in WS2: Home Again.

WS8: At Wood's End is a cliffside mansion mission where the story wraps.

Beyond that, I have no plans for Steele. Maybe he'll thieve again, maybe not. If he does, the missions will be small.

Thanks!

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nbohr1more

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Good luck!

 

The quality of the missions thus far has been worth the wait.

 

I suppose if you end-up unsatisfied with the latter missions (due to scaling back) you can always incrementally update them

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Thanks for all your hard work Grayman. I don't blame you for scaling back your missions. There is no way I could make eight TDM missions the size of your first 3 for WS. It doesn't mean that the quality needs to be scaled back either.

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The William Steele missions are great, grayman! Thanks for making them :) And I'm looking forward to more.

 

Question: Once all the missions are done (knocking on wood!) will they be released as a campaign so that the loot from a previous mission carries on to the next?

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Agreed. Release as campaign asap. Even now. Same to TP, TD, etc.

 

That's just how I thnink. I don't know the amount of work so take it with grain of salt

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I loved the WS maps so far and I'm really curious of the next episode of this entertaining story :)

 

But what also made my eyes shine, was reading this: ;)

 

It will require 2.04, so I'm looking at a release sometime in Q1 2016.

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Thank you for the update, grayman! :)

Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

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Thank you for the information. Your labour is invaluable. You are an example to me.

"I really perceive that vanity about which most men merely prate — the vanity of the human or temporal life. I live continually in a reverie of the future. I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active — not more happy — nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. The result will never vary — and to suppose that it will, is to suppose that the foregone man has lived in vain — that the foregone time is but the rudiment of the future — that the myriads who have perished have not been upon equal footing with ourselves — nor are we with our posterity. I cannot agree to lose sight of man the individual, in man the mass."...

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But what also made my eyes shine, was reading this: ;)

It will require 2.04, so I'm looking at a release sometime in Q1 2016.

 

Q1 might be optimistic for 2.04.

Noooooo :o :o :o

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The things that I like the most about this series is that all the maps happenin entirely different places and they all have their own unique characteristics and they all have their individual type of environment to explore. I'm excited to see where Grayman takes us in the forth installation of the series.

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