Ogle: The Return of Morcalavin


a single-player modification
for Heretic II
© Alan Michael Williams
("9LegYak") 2008-09

 The Story
Gameplay and Design
Walkthrough

Download the Game
<98.0 MB
(70.7 MB zipped)

German subtitles
36 kb

Installation
System Requirements
Known Bugs
Credits


 INSTALLATION
 Version 1.05
1.0 released 9 October 2008

(1) Unzip the above file into your Heretic II directory and a new directory will be created called "Oglequest."

(2) The Ogle - The Return of Morcalavin shortcut in this folder starts the game.

(3) The game opens in standard software mode, so change everything you need (binds, video, sound) and then EXIT the game.   A permanent config.cfg will appear in the Oglequest folder.   If the game crashes when you try to save a new config, this is what you must do:  copy a config you made/make in normal Heretic II from Heretic II/base/config to Oglequest/config and then load it in-game.

(4) Exit the game after creating this new config file. Otherwise, the Ogle player model will show up as Corvus and the in-game messages and sounds will be drawn from the original game when they shouldn't be!

(5) When your config is as you want it, and you've exited, click on Ogle - The Return of Morcalavin to start up the game again.

Good luck!  The fate of Parthoris rests once more in your hands.

(Change from Version 1.0:  Normal difficulty mode has been added.)


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS

You will need:

  • Heretic II installed (the full version),

  • The Expansion Pack version 1.06,

  • The "Oglequest" files installed in the correct directory,

  • Around 98.0 megabytes of disk space,

  • The system requirements to run Heretic II and thensome.  There's a good chance some entities will blink out of existence if you have an old machine.  (We're talking turn-of-the-century old.)

  • A basic knowledge of the Heretic storyline.

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    KNOWN BUGS

    The rotating cylinder in "Cliffs of X'chekrik" sometimes gets stuck, but if you move around the map, you'll retrigger it.  I've gone to great lengths to avoid this, but alas it's not perfect.

    The "Ogle Vigilante" map pushes H2 to its limits, but nothing (that I know of) disappears and an overflow error only occasionally shows when the map first loads.  Sometimes the weapons' sounds turn into Ogles singing, which is REALLY bizarre and I can't begin to understand why that happens.  If that happens to you, the only cure is to finish the map.



    CREDITS

    - The makers and distributors of Heretic II.

    - Leprechaun for the jail cell, skinning, storylining and testing.

    - Heretic Hides for technical assistance, early testing, the Ogle player model, hydra and spider models, the grappling iron model, and a number of prefabs found on his site.  His website is very helpful in how to design an H2 SP add-on, in case you may want to someday.

    - Talon for giving the Ogle daggers, for the rain and snow effects and for the grappling iron. He is the creator of T-Mod, an expansive library of multi-purpose add-ons for H2.

    - Sarah Williams for voicing "the High Priestess of K'chekrik."

    - Rick Walters for voicing "the Fairburian."

    - Those whose textures and skies I may have used and/or altered whom I've not accredited here.


    The characters Corvus, Morcalavin, Siernan and the High Priestess of K'chekrik are creations of Raven Software (1998).  The Ogle: Return of Morcalavin Heretic II add-on is distributed by amwilliams.com, a personal website of Alan Michael Williams hosted by 1&1 Internet, Inc.  I am not affiliated with Raven Software, Activision or ID Software in any way.

    The Ogle: Return of Morcalavin Heretic II add-on is provided free, "as is," without warranty of any kind.

    For more screenshots, visit the game's Raven-games forum thread.

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