Episode 58 - The Ruin of Roib
| Modded episode | Keen 4 |
|---|---|
| Protagonist | Commander Keen |
| Author(s) | Bernie |
| Status | Beta |
| Release date | 2013-05-25 |
| Latest update | 2024-03-14 |
| Discussion(s) | PCKF (beta 3) PCKF (betas 1 & 2) |
| Number of levels | 24 |
| Secret levels | 5 |
| New gameplay? | No |
| New graphics? | Yes |
| New levels? | Yes |
| New sounds? | Yes |
| New music? | Yes |
| Download | newest (v3.2, unofficial) (bug fixed) v3.1 (unofficial) v3.0 v2.0 v1.0 |
| Vote |   |
| Other mods in this series | Episode 59 - Underworld Ultimate! |
Episode 58 - The Ruin of Roib is a Keen 4 mod released by Bernie.
It features a humor laden plot involving an aged and disillusioned Commander Keen. The mod is set several decades after the conclusion of Keen's childhood adventures and is the first in a series of two, the sequel being Episode 59 - Underworld Ultimate!. (A joke sequel to both, Keen 60: Kreeg Crisis! also exists.) The graphics, patching and level design got highly praised by the community though the high difficulty, especially on hard mode, is often complained about.
Story
The in game story states:
Thirty five year old William Blaze - drunk, unemployed and treated like dirt by everyone - remembers his space adventures he had as a kid, and decides to transform into Commander Keen for one last time, to blast off into the stars forever. Finding his ship in the local dump he gets distress calls from planet Roib. Fumbling with the ship's controls, forgetting how he flew the damn thing, Keen eventually gets to Roib, but sees that he's too late. Roib is destroyed. Oops...
Level List
- Keen roams around the Ruins
- Keen crosses Boom St.
- Keen flies the Crashed Ship
- Keen visits Wreck City
- Keen scales the Abandoned Tower
- Keen drops down the Vault
- Keen contracts the Sick Forest
- Keen swims the Poison River
- Keen needlessly enters the Wasteland
- Keen resorts to ...the Resort
- Keen nears the Border Woods
- Keen finally enters the Last Outpost
- Keen breaks into the Glass Gardens
- Keen squints at Gleem City
- Keen courts the Palace of Roib
- Keen enters the Opening
- Keen finds a secret Dump
- ins.cq PLOH
- Keen finds a forest of bugs
- Keen comes across the Scoreboard
- Keen finds some hermit's shack
- Keen finds the emergency Candy Stores
- Keen happens across the Roib Prophecy Stone
- Keen checks out the rare Bobble Plant
- Keen's Bean-with-Bacon Megarocket
Creatures and other modifications
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Beserky Poison Slug replacement |
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Fliphead Arachnut replacement |
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Slop Blue Bird replacement |
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Robo Wreck Bounder replacement |
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Bugbug Mad Mushroom replacement |
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Drone Skypest replacement |
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Mutate-O Tentacle Wormouth replacement |
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Loafer Mite Treasure Eater replacement |
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Ningnong Springship Lick replacement |
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Superduper Mimrock replacement |
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Roich Inchworm replacement |
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Junkball Underwater Mine replacement |
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Sewage Shute Thundercloud replacement |
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Kreeg Berkeloid replacement |
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Killaea Keenilia Sprite replacement |
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Console Item Foot replacement |
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Yakki Council Member replacement |
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Megaboss 5000 Dopefish replacement |
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King Gak Oracle Janitor replacement |
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Bobble Plant Blue Bird Egg replacement |
Points
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Items
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Levels
Known bugs and how to fix them
The v3.0 beta still contains some bugs, including a nasty one in which any level containing the Super Duper enemy is prone to crashing.
To fix that particular bug, and possibly some others, open the ROIB.PAT file in a text editor and copy+paste the text (alternative link) written by K1n9 Duk3) into the line just before the very last line with the "%end" command. Then save the resulting file.