Geeez Louise am I lost Does anyone know of printable maps for this game? I searched and can't find any and the one in the game doesn't help me at all since nothing is tagged as to what it is other than I can figure out the big square thing in the middle is the Temple Fae (yep, I'm in Shamaaz). I am wandering around like a Twon Ha with no one to follow (and I sure did pity the one I had to take back to what's his face - the poor thing got tuckered out and shot at before I got him to where he was supposed to go) [sigh]

Hi Syd-
I just finished Outcast-played it a 2nd time to see what I missed. I found out you really don't need all the weapons-just the first 2 plus one more big one. The dynomite, clapper-T, and PPS come in handy too.Pick up all the wierd plants, rocks and shells-they can be turned into ammo.
Sounds like you are in Shamazaar, the land of Ris and temples.
The Shamaz are the temple priests-they know important info.about places and can heal you.
You can locate other Talan and important places by asking other Talan that you meet. They always say "So and so is to the northwest of the Temple Fae",ect.Then you can orient yourself by looking up to the top of the screen to see which direction you're going, then locate Temple Fae on the map and head in the direction they tell you.When you get close to the Talan you're loking for, they will point to him, even if he is on the other side of a building or wall-which can be confusing.
I found the maps very confusing until i gradually found out where things are and marked them on my own maps that I made.

Syd!
I found maps for each area in the game here:

OUTCAST

Scroll to the bottom of the page to see them. They're not notated or anything, but they may help.

I long for Outcast II!

See bigmamma1??? I'm so turned around I don't know where I am.

I will confess that since I am an action whimp I have Cutter on god mode I do like his pithy comments when he gets shot at like "d*** that hurt"

I did just run out of ammo trying to bring down one of those guards that have that rocket launcher and the key to the ris house I need to get into. I did manage to find my way back to the village and order me up some more ammo - now I'm wandering around waiting for the recreater to make it up so I can hopefully find my way back to said ris house and dispatch that pesky guard Just saw your post after I hit reply. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[Second edit after looking at the maps] - holy cow - Shamazaar is huge

WOW! I took a look at the website-great screenshots and story for Outcast 2-but where is it? Did it just die on the vine? What a shame if it isn't going to be a reality.
BTW-those maps are more confusing than the ones in the game(IMHO)

bigmamma, the company making Outcast 2 folded, and some of the designers formed another company, but no news on the sequel in some time, so it's still very much in limbo.

Just thought I'd keep ya updated on my progress - I've found the Well of Essence and talked to Zoe, killed me a few more soldiers, found the Temple Ka, blew up the rock slide (I won't tell you how long it took me to figure out how to get the dynamite to blow up - it would be embarrassing) and got a key to something. Talked to a Talan about magwa and know I need to find Logar (just don't remember what magwa is and how come I need it) I did ride my Twon-Ha - I used a slow down utility (CPU Killer) and put the speed at 40% and had no problems hopping up on Clyde (my Twon-Ha) and riding off into the sunset - or off a cliff whichever came first

Anywho - that's it to date - am just about ready to head out the door to work. See ya all later.

Something I didn't do-afraid of slow-down utility doing something wierd to my computer.(probably an unneccesary fear)
BTW-are those maps on that website helpful?I found them hard to figure out. The maps in the game show you where the soldiers are if you enlarge it-I found that helpful.
That game just totally captured my imagination all the way thru-it has something special that I havn't found in other games-even Thief, which is one of my faves.

Maps???? Well they will help as soon as I figure out what is what and where is where. Right now it intimidates me on how much ground I haven't covered yet.

Do you remember any quests that are timed? I know when I played Sacred and also Morrowind, if you didn't complete some of the quests in a certain amount of time they disappeared forever and as lost as I am right now I'd like to avoid one that has a time limit until I get my bearings a bit better.

I'm thoroughly enjoying the game - love the comments Cutter makes every time I make him do something dumb. The conversation with Zoe about the females was a hoot

I just spent the last 30 minutes looking at those maps. Now I'm downloading the music files.

What great memories!

There are no timed quests,but you do have to complete the 4 "rescue" quests(when you get hologram messages from Marion and the Guardians) in order to complete the game.For ex.the first time I forgot to do any of them until after I got all 4 mons, then went back and did them.The second time I did them after each mon. It went the same way both times.

Me again - still here in Shamazaar but getting toward the end if I could find this $%#@ Essence Stone. Zoe told me the stone I had was a fake and I should go look for the real one in the water with the Sankaara (or whatever those critters are called). Looked in my trusty encyclopedia of Talan words and discovered they were the aquatic critters - I'm guessing they are those nasty fish that swim around the Temple Fae. I have swum those waters for two days now and cannot find the stone anywhere. Does anyone remember the approximate location of said stone? After I find it I can go back to Maar and get him to stop the Ris production. I also spoke with Wolfe and know she's somewhere in the desert with pyramids.

I did find the first Mon (won't tell you how many times I traipsed from one temple to the next trying to get the right stones in the right temple - it would be )

Syd, I believe the essence stone is in a small body of water in the NE near the Temple Eluee. There are two ponds. Look in the one to the north.

Oh great - so you're telling me I've been swimming in the wrong water for two days?????

Well Syd...you have an advantage over me..I'm not sure which "Temple" is which!! <img border="0" title="" alt="[Confused]" src="confused.gif" /> I have been in both ponds and still haven't found it! Glynn