Highly recommended mod. This complete and very ambitious campaign has a handful of levels with long fights through yards and temples. There's some cool secrets which add elements to the final level, and many wild concepts and backdrops. Difficulty can be pretty intense on Normal (I ended up using cheats to survive the second level onward) and enemies keep spawning for too long sometimes, but this was meant for co-op after all. Only other concern is how janky some sections felt.

I really want to like this campaign. I love the level design, the Water Lab being amazing, the big fight on the Battlefield is fun and the scale you're going for is incredible.
But impressive as they are, most the other battles go on for far too long, with the spawns having massive delays and too little ammo being available. Most of the time, I'm just sat in one spot waiting for the next bunch of enemies to spawn, killing them when they're in range, and waiting to see if they've actually stopped spawning so I can move on, especially if it's only []b]one[/b] enemy type left spawning. Case in point, the reptiloids spawning three or four times at two minute intervals is just more annoying than challenging.
As for the ammo, I had to restart it on Tourist with infinite ammo on because I kept running out of the good stuff.
In fact, I've actually been close to falling asleep in some of the fights, because I'm just stood waiting for each enemy to pop into view one by one.

If you activate cheats, that should also unlock all levels.

Hello Solais, is it possible to unlock all levels? Because I want to finish the game and the level of Water Temple is very annoying and you need a lot of pacience. Thanks a lot.

Absolutely stunning levels! I remember there used to be a guide somewhere for this series which showed you the location of each secret but I can't find it anymore unfortunately :c

The old "Fusion DLC" for TSE HD you got by owning TFE HD as well. (As the two fused togethed inside TSE HD). The new Serious Sam Fusion version have similar requirements: You need TFE HD and TSE HD (with TSE HD's DLC as well).

Hello, i downloaded all content required to play this, when i hit first map play, it shows me "unable to load map/mission" and i cant play it. What am i missing? Is it Fusion DLC? how do i get it??? I bought SS HD TSE and fusion (beta) was free to install, this campaign doesnt work even in fusion, it has the same issue with loading, help me please, thank you

Solais, thanks for answering, i will wait

Maybe. It's a lot of work.

Solais, will the Forgotten City in Serious Sam Fusion?

The link to the quide for the secrets is removed by steam. Could you pls repost it?

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Nous avons rejoué cette semaine à trois en coop : un vrai bonheur !
J'ai lu récemment que l'auteur travaillait dorénavant pour Croteam sur le prochain Serious Sam : merci mon Dieu ! Voilà un achat qui est déjà programmé ...

(I'm gonna try to translate)
We did play again this campaign (me and my two sons in coop) : only fun !
I've read that the author now work for Croteam on the next Serious Sam : thank you my Lord ! I'm gonna get that as soon as possible ...

Unreal hardcore!

I understand. Thank you. Soon buy this game.

Well that's it then. The mappack requires it.

No.

Do you have the First Encounter HD?

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What does the console says?

I download all files, why dont worked? :(

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Good!

Send it to me and I add it to one of the items. Technically it should work besides the original version if the translation is put in the "Locales/rus/" folder isn't it?

Hello there. A lot of fans liked your map-pack and they asked me to make a Russian localization of it a couple of times, since some people don't quite understand English very well. So I would like to ask you for permission to do it and publish it here in Workshop. Is it ok? I'll give you all credits and so on of course. I think your mappack deserved to be a little more accessible to a wider audience...

This map pack+Serious HD Mod=another impossible shit xD

Sorry, can't remember the names anymore, it was a long time ago. Glad you like the levels!

The boss was a lot of fun, made even better by the remix of Emotional Skyscraper. Heck, this entire level was a lot of fun, even if my stupid insistence on playing serious difficulty made things hell. (Sorry if comment spam was annoying.)

Not done yet apparently. Found out about the secret level and decided to find it before watching anymore. Searched for it on normal (oh my god the differece is insane), quit immediately once I found it to switch to serious, then suddenly Fires of Hokkai. Did not expect Touhou. Do you at least have the name of this remix?

Finally finished it. The difficulty curve was more of a zig-zag, switching going from hard to easy to brutal to decently challenging to "You will die and cry forever." At least on serious, which makes sense now since it was designed only for co-op. Three specific parts that stood above the rest in terms of difficulty were the water elevator in the water temple, the first battle on the large bridge in the junkyard, and the biomech/kleer/kamikaze/demon battle in the battlefield.

Serious difficulty was always intended to be played only in coop when I originally made this. :P

I don't think I'll ever be able to take anyone who says the regular game is brutal and unfair seriously anymore once I finish this.

There are times where I wonder why I do this to myself. Deciding my first playthrough of this campaign should be on serious difficulty is one of those times.

[Part 1]
(I had to part it because of 1000 character limit.)
Ok, I just finished whole campagin and here comes my opinion.

+ The environment. It got me. It's good, everything looks beautiful. It seems Solais put a lot of effort into this.
+ Serious Sam 2 music. I'm glad I could listen to these tracks again while fighting with enemies.
+ Length. That campagin is long enough to bring a few hours of gameplay.
+ Cutscenes. Everything has been made properly.
+ New enemies. Few of them are great idea, few of them are not. I don't know, maybe it's a matter of taste.

[Part 2]
+/- Lots of enemies. Sometimes ammount of enemies was way too high at one time. That battle on bridge after getting a minigun was too hard for me. (I was playing on hard difficulty, and on standard maps I had no problems with it), some battles were too long and sometimes boring, but thanks to it, I could take part in some greatest ones :P

- Not enough ammo. Sometimes I was running out of ammo for a rocket or grenade launcher. Without it, it's really hard to beat these green and red biomechanoids. (Btw. cannon should be available just before that bridge.)

That's it. I really liked that campagin (especially end bossfight and ending), it brought me a lot of fun, I recommend it for Serious Sam series lovers ^^

I got goofed when I was at part 1 in serious dificulty lol

No problemo Bart !
We have achieved the level and it's fine for us. We know it crashes sometimes and we will reconnect to the server again and again next times.
Thank you for your work and for trying to fix this bugs.

Jesus, the level is such a mess, I can't believe I made this, even if it was 3 years ago. I can't find what would cause the crash, because imo, everything should cause the crash on this level! I don't think I can fix this without remaking the whole level from scratch and I don't want to do that, I have enough stuff to do. Sorry.

To be honest, I have no idea what causes the crash. There are errors and warnings in the log, but those are normal. When it crashes, it just crashes, without really saying what was the issue... Hmmm. I might try something.

And the last one, for the bug on the big bridge just before the last boss :
http://pastebin.fr/36407
Notice that the server (one of my sons) never bugged, only the clients did.
Have fun reading all this :)

Another log file (a little one because we tried to reconnect to the server).
http://pastebin.fr/36406

Next log file is one of my son (other pc and client) : he bugged just while I was writing my message last night.
http://pastebin.fr/36405

Ok. It's my first time with a paste.bin site so I hope it will be fine.
http://pastebin.fr/36404
I'm now gonna try the other log files (much shorter)

There's a website called paste.bin, where you can copy the contents of large text files, upload them to the net and just link it here, so I can read it.

Sorry i don't understand how to upload and link. Did you mean i copy all the text in a comment ? It's a huge file (330KB for the first) with 6269 lines.

You can upload the log to paste.bin, and link it here so I can look at it.

And finally good news : we achieved the last level (the door on top of the stairs opened). This bug is not any more for us.
Thanks again for this wonderful work !

And ... sorry ! Still bugging on the bridge for us : only the server can play with the big boss, the two others crash.
I keep my log file for you.

And yet another crash. My log file is now only 22KB and i have saved all log files after the crashes. I have read these files but i really don't understand a single word.
I noticed that :
" Specified 'Shadow' UV-map in '#ObjectAddress(CStandardShaderArgs, 0x15000175)' doesn't exist! "

Well ... it's embarrassing ! We had a new bug at the very beginning of the Junkyard level (just after the secret level) with the new collection (we had the patch automatically). When the first monster appeared (just after the door opened) we both crashed (the two clients- not the server).
And ... a new crash for my son (who restarted while i was writing this message) a few seconds later at the appearance of new ennemies.
I have my log (330KB). How can i send it to you ?
I'm gonna try to find my son's log (the second bug).