Tomb Raider II Escape from the Dragon's Lair
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Story:
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It's been now over 20 years since the release of Tomb Raider II. That's a hell of a time don't you think the same? Even after all those years people are still making custom levels for TR1-TR5. Awesome to see such a active community :-) . To celebrate with you all, I tried to create something special. 
My level will continue right after Lara Croft killed the dragon. I was never satisfied with the level length of "The Dragon's Lair" , so I thought why don't you make kinda like a expansion which takes place between "The Dragon's Lair" and "Home Sweet Home" . I would've liked to use the official Room Editor for TR2 but sadly it was never released. Luckily a community member did his own editor a long time ago. Huge credit to Turbo Pascal, you did a great job with this. I've tried my best to provide you all with a solid level. Unfortunately this unofficial editor has a lot of limitations compared to the official editor which gave me a lot of problems while building. Texture limits,enemy ai, portal limits, draw distance and light bulbs which tend to crash the game. I had to remove objects,statics and reduce a lot of rooms :-( . Make sure to read my readme file before playing. This will help you to avoid possible crashes!

After all I hope you will enjoy this TR2 level, thank you for playing

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Getting started
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Note: If you haven't installed the Tomb Raider Borderless fix , please run the install.bat to install the fix. If you already have it you can ignore it.

Before starting the game use the tomb2.setup file to change the settings 

If you select lower resolution you might get a bad game experience!

Graphics
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Make sure to select Z Buffer, Bilinear Filter, Dither and  Perspective Correct! Triple Buffer can only be selected if you run Display Type Full Screen.
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Level info
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Lara starts the level with all of her weapons, except the harpoon gun and the grenade launcher

The harpoon gun was removed, you won't find it.

The level has 3 Buddha statues hidden, silver, jade and gold.

Find all 3 to get extra ammo and meds

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Issues/bugs/crashes/
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While playing a slighty lag will appear from time to time

The menu background allows only 8 Bit pictures, that's why the quality is so low

Enemy AI can get stuck sometimes(walks in circles), even with well applied zones. After reaching 200+ rooms the AI stopped attacking Lara. Seems to be editor related.

If Lara falls to her death in the giant open area after the second zipline you might hear her bones breaking just before the "Game Over" screen appears. If I add more rooms to those areas the game would crash.

Skybox was removed because the editor showed only a big black square in the distance(Draw distance)

Some textures might show cracks on certain angles, must be editor releated

Pickups like ammo or meds do sometimes glow in dark places if the camera behind Lara gets in certain angles. This is also editor related

Light bulbs which light up the level can sometimes cause a game crash if Lara, or an enemy walks through it. I tried to place the lights inside the walls, ceilings or the floor to avoid crashs like this 
on certain places but I couldn't do it everywhere because the lighting would be ruined. The crashes don't happen everytime, it is totally random. There are 2 spots where I had crashs so far. You can see them by opening the pictures "Crash1" and "Crash2".
Crash1: The tile right in front of Lara has a shadow bulb placed. I got 2 crashes so far while testing
Crash2: The tile where the lamp is placed can cause a crash if Lara or an enemy runs through it
Other TR2 custom levels share the same problem as far as I've seen
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Interesting Facts
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239 Rooms were used

Floor data size(bytes): 44282

Total Overlaps used  : 22714

Total Boxes used       : 1288
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Tools
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DXtre3D rev2L

Fexmerger

Trviewer

TBuilder24

Paint

TrEditSound

RView 50 R3

Tomb Raider Image Converter

PixStr22R4

TRLevelUtility
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Music
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Tomb Raider 2 Ost by Nathan McCree

Tomb Raider 3 Ost by Nathan McCree

Title theme by Tommy Tallarico

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A True Tomb Raider
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Do you think you have what it takes?

Finish the level with all secrets and pickups without saving or reloading to crown yourself 
"A True Tomb Raider"

"Gosh! That was my best time yet!" Try to finish the level as fast as possible.
Can you beat my any% time? 

1st: 18:14