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Crypto Forest [2.0]

You get lost in an infamous Forest known for its sightings of cryptids and legends.
You suddenly hear a mysterious stranger calling out to you.
He tells you about a terrible event coming in 4 days.
You now have to co-operate with the Stranger to prevent this event from happening.





Crypto Forest 2.0 is an ENORMOUS update to the first Crypto Forest, released 7 months ago.

This update now focuses on a linear progression inside the Open world map, "Story Mode" you could call it.
You have 4 nights until a mysterious entity arrives to cause an apocalypse event.
In those 4 nights you have to co-operate with a Mysterious Stranger.



Introducing a brand new character, The Trader!
Fully modelled, animated and fully voice acted, with a whopping 117 voice lines,
The Trader is a mysterious figure that will help you with your stay in the Forest.
He will give you missions, tell you secrets and reward you for your troubles with keys for locked doors, and other necessary items.

He is what the map revolves around now.


This update also adds a Safe House for players!
It includes
An "oddity" map of the forest, which will show you where Trader's items can be found.
A Resupply Cabinet
A VCR Player for VHS Tapes.
It comes with its own original Resident Evil styled Music!


VHS Tapes are collectibles found throughout the forest, or got from the Trader.
When put into the VCR Player, they will reveal bits of the lore.
There is a complete total of 4 VHS tapes, all with their own story!


There are multiple endings!
They are:

• A Bad Ending
  
• A Good Ending
  
• A Secret Ending

The Ending depends on the player's choices.


There are now new areas to explore in the map!
Some old areas have been expanded with new rooms, secrets etc!
The Powerplant has new secrets held within it...


There are many miscellaneous changes.
Some of them are more important than others, here's the ranking:

More Important Changes:

• There is now a Final Boss Fight...
  
• The Bosses now scale with players!
  
• The Flatwoods Monster now attacks any player in its cone of vision.
  
• The Mothman now has a Blinding attack, it blinds all players for a short period of time.
  
• There is now way more foliage around the map, random mushrooms, pebbles, sticks make the map feel more "lively" than before!
  
• Completely removed how the Flatwoods monster, Mothman drops items, The Trader handles those now.
  
• Added more OSTs

Less Important Changes:

• Fixed Lighting on some rocks
  
• Added new Wendigo sounds
  
• Optimized Darkwoods' logic
  
• Optimized lightmaps in the skybox, buildings, fences, collectibles to improve performance
  
• Improved Lighting on the middle hill & Flatwoods
  
• Improved and thickened fog during rain
  
• Added more spectator cameras
  
• Replaced some rock models for less repeating models
  
• Shortened the time for how long something stays in the sky
  
• Minor geometry and blend texture shifts
  
• Improved texts

1. Subscribe to the map. Then navigate to the folder:
Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/440/2487430950/

2. Copy the .bsp file and paste it to the folder:
Steam/steamapps/common/Team Fortress 2/tf/maps

3. Before you Launch the map, be sure to delete your sound.cache from:
Team Fortress 2/tf/sound
If you don't do this, a lot of sounds like Trader's voice lines may not work.

4. Type "map crypto_forest_a2" in the console.



1. Subscribe to the map

2. Start TF2 and look at your console, there will be a list of maps you've subscribed to on the workshop.

3. Before you Launch the map, be sure to delete your sound.cache from:
Team Fortress 2/tf/sound
If you don't do this, a lot of sounds like Trader's voice lines may not work.

4. Find Crypto forest 2.0 on the map list in your console and copy the thing in the brackets and paste it as "map copy-paste"

5. It should look something like this: map workshop/crypto_forest_a2.ugc2487430950



Since the forest is vast, here is a map for many of the landmarks.

This isn't all there is to encounter in the forest.
Some points of interest aren't marked.

This map can be found in-game in the Hunter's Cabin and the Safe House

• Stalk the neighbouring Darkwoods Region
  
• Highly aggressive
  
• Ambush prey from bushes

• Seen in the neighbouring Flatwoods Region.
  
• Alien origin
  
• If it spots anything in its eyesight, immediately becomes hostile and starts firing rockets.
  
• Half-functioning cloaking mechanism

• Area unclear, airborne
  
• Attracted to lights
  
• Weather control

DISCLAIMER: This is not all of the monsters in the map! Just the more *notable* ones.






Credits:
Flatwoods monster - TheFancyEvil
The Trader model - TheFancyEvil
The Big L Model - TheFancyEvil
Tall pine trees - Diva Dan
Rescue Helicopter - Krazy
Pine trees - Stuffy360
Overgrown pack - UEAKCrash
Blue VHS Tape SFM - PrivateerMan

Playtesting - Mani, Big Weld, Lampenpam, Alex_Turtle, Big Joey
Boss Scaling Method - Alex_Turtle
Special Thanks - Big Joey

List of OSTs:
Mothman's Ambience
Trader's Theme
Trader's Reprise
Safe Room Theme
Crypto Forest Ending Theme