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Sorry. Everything is fine. I just made a mistake in the update. I still get confused in the folders. You have an old folder "Mods" and I first copied it with the replacement of files.  "TheSequel" - This is the folder you need.

Perhaps this information will be useful to someone, if suddenly someone has a problem like me.

Hello, I am very glad that a new update has been released. I wanted to say that besides what I showed in the discord, I am working on another campaign (for Egypt lovers)

I noticed one problem. For some reason I didn't see any new models/animations for the enemies you listed in the update description. Also, for some reason, new features were not added to the enemies that were supposed to appear.

I don't understand what could have gone wrong, because I updated it by replacing all the files (the entire mod folder).

Thanks for mentioning the update. Everything is fine now. Looking forward to new updates!

Well, I updated the mod. Also checked all the levels.

Chapter 3 - Planet Atlantis. Levels 1-4 cause the game to crash a second after launching. There are no crashes in the start menu (NETRICSA). And everything is fine with the other levels. Let me remind you that I can’t say exactly what the error is, because there are no errors in the console when starting the level.

It's hard to say about the release date, even approximately. I have problems in my life now and this is greatly slowing down the process of creating levels. I also make other levels for another mappack. I can say with absolute certainty that you shouldn’t expect any new work from me in the near future.

Okay. I understand that implementing such ideas is quite a difficult task. Well, that means my levels will also have classic gameplay, but I will try to create more unusual situations.

Well, I have a situation where I haven't updated the mod for a long time. And I want to know what is the best way to proceed. I think I'm on update 22.

I noticed one strange thing. I can easily launch any level in the editor, but in the game they crash. Moreover, I can't say what the error is. The game crashes after one second when starting a level. If you look at the console, there are no errors. But this only occurs at your levels. This is such a weird situation.

I would also like to say about one thing that can make the mod much more interesting. 

I think you know very well that in Serious Sam 2 there were items that give points to the score, and this gives an extra life. In Serious Sam 4, the developers added upgrades and gadgets. I thought about it and realized the problem that the levels needed something that would allow the player to wander around them more and look for something useful. This will encourage players to look for secrets and explore the level in more detail rather than rushing through it. If there was such a feature in the game, then I would probably be able to find almost all the secrets with great interest. At the moment, on the contrary, I find a smaller part of the secrets. Ideally, this should provide replayability and different play styles.

You can come up with it yourself. Basically, it's just a very powerful version of the biomechanoid. It is also very limited in number. You can add the rest of the description as you wish.

The problem is that this enemy (albino) has a different attack. Not the attack that would suit me.

By default, the albino enemy fires a homing ball and has a melee attack. In this case, melee attack is good. The ranged attack doesn't fit my idea, so I would definitely change it to something else. We are, of course, talking specifically about the boss, not about a regular enemy. Also, let its size also be a little larger than the green biomechanoid. The problem is that this enemy is very wide. The biomechanoid is more balanced in size, because it should appear from a cubic lift-cell.

The Cyclops from another game had an attack where he spat out multiple rocks that could bounce back at the player and damage them. I think it's very difficult to implement, especially on the first engine.

A boss with homing projectiles would fit into another chapter of my mappack, but that's a topic for future discussion. For the first chapter of my mappack, I would leave an enemy with a more suitable attack and size.

As a result, I choose a biomechanoid enemy.

Okay. I thought it was yellow. But black is a good and unusual choice.

I based the enemy on the game Will Rock. Just type this into a search engine: Will Rock Cyclop boss. In fact, the differences are significant. But I suggest the simplest option for creating a boss enemy. Moreover, according to the meaning of my mappack, I need an enemy that will have weaker versions in future levels. Biomechanoid fits this role.

As for when I need it? Whatever is more convenient for you. If it's in the next update, I'll start working on the boss fight right away. If it's later, I'll be busy polishing up other things.

Okay. The boss is intended to be the first appearance of a biomechanoid enemy, but a fairly powerful one. Let's just say it will be a unique version of a biomechanoid (Netricsa). Now I'll move on to the enemy description. I'll just note that this is an arena boss.

1) Health - 9000. These values are taken because I am making an enemy based on an enemy from another game.

2) Attack. Like the red biomechanoid. But if possible, as an attack boost, you can make an attack with 4 rockets instead of 2 rockets.

3) Color. To distinguish it from other types, let it be orange.

4) Speed. He's pretty powerful and again I'll mention that he's based on an enemy from another game. So for balance he should be slow enough, and on all difficulties. Let his speed be half of Sam's, but you can make it even slower so that he stays slow on higher difficulties.

5) Since this is a boss, let's make it a little bigger than a green biomechanoid. Somewhere around 1.75 times bigger than the red biomechanoid. Considering that the green biomechanoid is 1.5 times bigger.

It's unlikely that this will be applicable anywhere other than my mappack. You can name them like key items. By adding CaptainPelmen_"Enemy".

Hello! At the moment, the development of my mappack is more than 70% complete. But there is one problem where I need your help. For the final map of my mappack I need a special boss. The problem is that I can't customize them from existing enemies. I would like to simply ask to create one boss from an existing enemy, but with slightly modified parameters. I would be very glad if you help me, it will affect whether the mappack will come out or not.

If anything, I won't have to describe much. It will take me one message to describe such an enemy. Are you ready to help?

And I use cyborgs on one of my maps. A very suitable and necessary enemy. It's a pity that he will be replaced. I don't even know what to replace him with now. He was a good enemy with small hit points, a fairly long-range attack with medium-speed projectiles. If the replacement is not ready yet, I would like to see something similar in parameters.

I installed it incorrectly. When unpacking, I had 2 folders with the mod because the old folder had the same name. And so I installed the old version, thinking that it was the new one. So, everything is fine and there is no error.

I got an error loading a new level. 

Class 'CGhoul' not found in entity class package file 'Bin/EntitiesMP.dll'.

I downloaded the new version and dropped it into the mods folder with the files replaced.

But as I see, other people have the level loaded. Apparently I don't know how to update correctly.

Wow. Thanks. I'm busy for now and will be back in November to create new levels. And by the way, I heard that you were busy too. It's interesting to know when the new update will be released.

I noticed this in the latest version. Before this, there was no such error.

ParametricParticles

I found a problem that if you pack the map not in the source folder, then autogro will not pack the map. I tried to pack the level which is located in: Serious Sam TSE/Mods/TheSequel/Levels. And also textures and other things that are located in the folder with the mod. Autogro can pack what is located in the game folder, not in the mod folder.  I haven't updated the large source folder for a long time and I don't know how to do it correctly now, but only with this folder I could successfully pack the level. Any tips on how to properly pack levels for a mod?

File missing

Yes it is. But this method will create extra entities on the level. Moreover, in the cooperative mode of the game there will be problems, because several players will cross all the fields and thus disable the Watchplayers entity.

I wanted to offer a new entity option - WatchPlayers.  There is a problem that this entity always sees 360 degrees. Because of this, I can't properly create a shooting statue/turret. I propose to make a visibility angle indicator from 0 to 360 degrees for different situations. Well, or another similar entity.

To tell the truth, I’m already used to working in the editor, in the folder where the sources are. It’s just that all the necessary files for my levels are already there and I’m too lazy to change them again.

So, I tried creating a simple room in the editor with a few enemies and saving it. And it worked for me.

As for the controls, I changed one button. Y - Netricsa. And this also works and is saved when the mod is restarted.

I don't know if one problem was mentioned. If you click on the alternate fire, but then quickly click on the main fire, the weapon will still fire the alternate fire.

Pretty interesting. As usual, there was plenty of ammo and completing the levels was not that difficult (Difficulty - Serious)

In some arenas, you can completely win by shooting at opponents from afar (and not closer to the central zone, as is usually intended) and thus make it easier to pass. At the end of level 3, the green biomechanoid came out with a yellow health indicator.  Some models (modelholder) do not have collision, although they look like they should have it. The grenade launcher's alternative fire is very powerful. It is worth considering making the number of alternative ammunition for the grenade launcher rarer. Once, an explosion of alternate grenade launcher shells launched the mammoth high into the air.

In general, I want to say that although on average the enemies have become stronger than in the original game, the number of items for the player makes the danger of the opponents not so high. I don't even know what is harder, the original game or the mod.

By the way, I lost the ability to use “Custom enemy collision” entity for statues. Previously I could use this collision for stationary models. Now, when you try to put this entity in the same place where the statue is, this entity begins to move somewhere to the side. To make it clearer, I was trying to make a static enemy statue that would fire projectiles. But at the moment I have no idea how I can implement this. Perhaps you have some ideas on how best to use this entity in this situation?

I noticed that the "enemy launcher" entity does not increase the counter in the level statistics. As I noted earlier, at the levels of the mod there was such a situation that at the end of the level there were more killed enemies than indicated in the statistics.

It is possible that there are other reasons for a broken counter, but I definitely found one of them.

1) If I understand correctly, are there plans to introduce new types of ammunition for alternative fire? That is, for example, for a rocket launcher there will be not only standard rockets, but also rockets for alternative fire? And the same for other weapons. Am I right?

2) Should we expect full compatibility with Cecil's Classic Patch? We are talking about a problem with the rate of fire of weapons caused by the fix for this rate of fire from the mod and from the patch. The Classic Patch continues to be updated and very interesting new features appear. If a patch is released for the modification that will fix this problem, then this will be one of the best news.

3) On the maps I design, I use statues made from enemy models. At the moment, it's only Catman. Should we expect new models for any other enemies? The reason I ask is so that I don’t have to redo any of my ideas later.

If this is you, then yes. You now have a user role.

Yes. Russian is my native language. I use the translator often. But I plan to do without it in the future

It seems you forgot to press the button. The administrator also says that there were no requests from you and you did not respond to the bot

I'm trying to figure out what your problem is with discord.

Fine. As I understand it, it is this parameter that makes the balance so strange. The remaining parameters on normal and higher difficulties (except for movement speed) are similar to the original game. I note that sometimes when colliding at high speed, enemies lose a few hit points. Apparently this is due to the speed of 1.5. But this is no longer such a significant remark.

This is exactly the avatar, name, and nickname color. No others

Besides, I didn’t notice where you wrote. I made a note to myself a long time ago. If you are new and writing something, then it is better to ask a question, not a simple greeting.

I return to the question of the difficulty and balance of monsters. Found out some interesting things.

I have categorized the monsters as being able to move towards the player depending on the difficulty (Yes/slow and rare movement/No)

From my gaming experience, I will say that the further away the enemies are, the less dangerous they are. This is especially true for enemies such as the biomechanoid (red) due to the explosive projectiles. Surprisingly, on lower difficulties the danger from albinos and tanks increases due to their powerful close combat with good range. In addition, Catman becomes more of a ranged opponent on maximum difficulty.

This was my experiment. A red biomechanoid with the balance of the standard game (not a mod) would most likely kill the player more often in such situations. I tried to describe in more detail my thoughts about this balance. 

Will the difficulty/monster balance remain the same? Or will something change?

Most likely yes. But the SeriousSite discord is definitely full of people who speak English.

When I talked about the author, I meant the author of the previous video about terrain. Just find a person with the nickname CR!STALLL. Write to him in our SeriousSite discord or just on the development channel. In fact, it's quite tedious to help here. It's much better to ask these kinds of questions in the community. It is unlikely that the problem will be in the video card, but perhaps they will find another problem that can be solved.

The update has given me some thoughts and questions.

1) Now we have a sledgehammer. As I understand it, this is to make the player stronger at the beginning of the game. This makes Kleers less dangerous.

2) The new enemy models are very beautiful. But now, it seems to me, you shouldn’t spawn too many of them. How much will new quality models affect performance?

3) Huanman's attack seemed strange. Apparently it is used more for open spaces. In any case, the attack does not look dangerous. It is difficult for these projectiles to hit the player.

4) It's great that items have a size setting option. You can conveniently adjust the item if the size does not match the intended size.

5) With this update, Albino become weaker than Reptiloids (or at least equally dangerous). The reason is that reptilians have smaller and faster projectiles. For a reptilloid they give 5000 points, and for an albino - 7500. Will the reward change or remain the same?

6) One of the enemies from update 11 does not look dangerous. The Lazobar fires its projectiles towards the player, but if the player is constantly moving they never reach the player. Even head lasers are easy to dodge. You just need to go left or right. Additionally, the head explosion never reaches the player if they are moving. Perhaps I tested the enemy incorrectly somehow. Or is that how it was intended?

Edit: By the way, gnaars are very well balanced in this mod. But I remembered one classic enemy that lacks danger. Beheaded Firecracker. Even Rocketman feels stronger than a firecracker. I always felt like the developers should have made him a stronger enemy. What do you think about this?

Edit2: Noticed a problem on the "Serious" difficulty. Some enemies attack so often that they stop approaching the player. For example, red biomechanoid. This makes these opponents much less dangerous than on Hard difficulty.

There may be a problem in the EarthSculptor program itself. I had problems with the program until I updated the drivers for the video card. But my problem is different from yours, so this probably won't be the solution.

The author of this video is CR!STALLL. He is in our SeriousSite discord. Most likely he will be able to help you. Besides, there are other people there who may know about your problem. Ask a question in the development channel.