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The Serpent's Sanctuary

You are tasked with retrieving the ancient Sirian artefact called Jade Serpent which is used as a cloaking devide. It is located in the Serpent's Sanctuary near the Temple of Ja' in the Lub'uja' Gorge. It was believed to be nothing but a myth before it was found by the Triple-A team. Mental's forces have also learned of the artefact so don't let them get their hands on it!

Estimated playtime of this map is around 40-50 minutes and it features 16 secrets. It's pretty compact in scale so it mostly features small to medium scale fights. So if you want to shoot lots of enemies, this map probably isn't really for you.

Some of the map's notable features are:
- loot pots with adaptive loot system
- dynamic music which adapts to the current situation
- side quest with unique gameplay
- custom boss with new mechanics
- looter shooter skill drops floating outlined items instead of the regular ones

This map works in cooperative! There are however some things you should probably know before playing it in cooperative.

Changes in COOP:
- players are forcefully teleported in several places: when bridge fight starts; when someone enters the side quest portal, when the first wave on the final arena starts, when water starts rising on the final arena and when boss fight starts
- only host can place traps in the side quest

Issues:
- loot pots sometimes don’t drop items on clients
- joining during the boss fight crashes the game for the player who tries to join
- drones in the final arena are visually glitching after they drop the kamikazes (only on clients)
- some small visual effects for traps in the side quest (like hit sounds and particles) are only visible on host

Music:
Serious Sam XBOX - Catacombs (Peace)
Serious Sam XBOX - Inner Sanctum (Medium)
Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem - Hell's Jungle
I Hate Running Backwards Hardcore OST - Music That Didn't Make It
Serious Sam: The Second Encounter - Serpent Yards
Iudex - Serpent Yards (Serious Sam: TSE Cover)

Special thanks:
Neiser - Floating Outlined Pickups
Spy's Cr3ed - TLH Enemies, Dual Uzi, Flamethrower
ChrysaLis - P-LAH Chainsaw
NSKuber - "HandleKey" function used in the sidequest
Kiselius, Symptom99 - playing the map on early stages of development
Steak Jacobs - playing the map before the release and suggesting some changes

Other credits are in the in-game credits.

Map is located in the "Nekorie's Levels" category.

It works with an enemy multiplier (was tested on 4x balanced and 2x “unbalanced”).

Dual Uzi and Chainsaw were rebalanced specifically for this level, it doesn't affect the original resources.