Today is August 31st, and that means that it's Eternal Mk II's scheduled release date. Unfortunately, Chapter II is not yet done. Two levels still remain to be completed, numbers 16 and 19. However, I've decided that since the Marks and not chapters exactly, that it's OK to go ahead and release Mk II on schedule anyway. This is really much more like BETA 2, keep in mind. All Marks are essentially betas anyway, as well as new chapters, but this one has less testing behind the new maps than even Eternal Mk I did, so bear that in mind.
I did at least make sure that I can beat the whole thing on Normal without too much difficulty, so some of the difficulty problems encountered in Mk I should be smoothed over. Nevertheless I am anticipating feedback from more skilled players on how this version works on Total Carnage, and will be contacting a few of you shortly...
A lot of the feedback from Mk I has been rolled in, but not all of it. Level 1 has been touched up with some stairs and such as suggested. Level 2 has been reworked a bit, with some broken doors and new areas to make it less tedious and more interesting to play. Level 3 has more (and earlier) chargers and pattern buffers available. Level 4's time limit has been extended to 314 seconds (just over 5 minutes), but I haven't made the wires deactivate the counter yet.
Level 5, unfortunately, has not yet been replaced. Level 6 has had it's difficulty turned down quite a bit through the use of timed doors to create waves of monsters instead of the continuously respawning ones. Level 7 and 8 have seen little change. Level 9 has had similar modifications to level 6, and level 10 is also mostly unchanged. I'm sure there are other fixes that I haven't mentioned here, but those are the big ones.
Most of Chapter II is complete - all the new weapons and monsters are implemented and I guess I'm happy with most of the levels, though I don't really feel fit to judge anymore. Levels 16 and 19 have placeholder partial-levels that we tried to fill in at the last minute, and terminals so that you can at least pass through them and continue the story.
And so here we are, literally at the 11th hour (PST), and so I give you...
