Thursday June 1th 2000
Magma Is Here! { Forrest }
This just in (a couple hours ago) from Ned Hamfist of the Underdogs:What are you waiting for? I know I love gettin' back to good old TFL, and so should you! Check out Magma!The Underdogs, The Society of the Journeymen, and the Alkema are proud to present you with a series of Myth 2: Soulblighter maps ported with painstaking detail back to our very own TFL. The project, which began in early 2000, is designed to combine the excellent maps available in Myth2 with the superior and much more playable engine of Myth: The Fallen Lords.
Included in our first batch of five maps are Bungie· originals "Gimble in the Wabe," "Drowned Kingdom," "Clash in the Cloudspine," "Dead Man's Chest," and "Dead of Winter." Each map ported has two meshes which are completely true to the Myth2 originals, and three which were created purely for Magma, for a grand total of 25 meshes, with many more to come in the future!
Although unit porting was originally thought to be near-impossible and was not scheduled to be included in Magma, Society of the Journeymen (SJ) member Losk took on the difficult task and proceeded to port every unit, piece of scenery, and model back to TFL, a time-consuming job without which Magma wouldn't be half of what it is. Even super-complex, mana-using units like Warlocks and Myrkridian Giants were successfully ported back, after dozens of hours of effort.
The results of all this work are spectacular, beautiful, and a hell of a lot of fun to boot!
You can find the Magma homepage and download links for each map at http://udogs.myth2.net/magma.