remember i started ... a few maps

[Tangled Mess Of Wires]

Well, for those of you who do remember the various crazy ideas, heres a treat.
the best of my attempts at mapping ( de_country_nt ) i will be remaking this map again,
heres a little teaser:



This map consists only of what you see so far, and is going to take a long time to make
so dont expect to see it soon.

changed premises:

bombsite A is now a Flipping huge dam.
unfortunatly its not possible to make the dam collapse when the bomb blows, but the machinery at the bottom will explode.

Heres why i am posting this, i need ideas to help make this map awesome, if you have any, please let me
know.

for a start i need an idea for bombsite b.
post suggestions here if you like.
if your idea is used, i will give credit for it in the map description

any other features anyone wants to see let me know.
however, unlike in previous maps, i want to try and keep it as simple as possible, so no trains, cars, or dancing robot things :S

[Iain]

Tunnels into the damn a la 'The Fugitive' with Harrison Ford

[Tangled Mess Of Wires]

why did i stop working on this ...
anyways, this map is no more than it was before, but i will resume work on it.

also i have rebuilt my gungame arena map.

Its currently on the gungame server as a beta, but will be adding a few finishing touches, and merging it with the side tunnels i made for old V2 of the map ( also on the server )


the current beta has:

Protected* tf2 stlye** spawns
Health packs ( these can really help in gungame )
made the lights func_illusion ( no longer block players )
a few fps issues ( more than before unfortunatly )
108 spawns ( to stop worldspawn deaths, just dont get how its happening . works though )

* 1 way barrier ( stops anyone from getting into / back into spawn )
** doors ( non solid ) open as you go through, shut immediatly after. ( can be broken )

Next beta ideas:

afk box ( would slowly draw afk players away from door and eventually teleport them into a box of acid or ? )
Improved texturing, get rid of old breeze boxeyness
Custom texture to replace approx 300 brushes in game
some hint brushes to cut up the map a bit
add side passages as in V2 ( though smaller , on raised platform
add back in team specific flag / colour banner on each side of the map



other projects:

turn gun game map into koth_ map or cp_ map for TF2
also experiment with a single stage uber quick plr map.

[Iain]

Andman -> Imagine that screenie in TF2 graphics...Badwater style. Thats how I envisage your map

[Bazinga]

Well, yes but:

a) The dam will be TALLER

b) There will be more fighting area below the dam to race the carts

c) Dont forget that it's also entirely internal for stage3 (which would be a first I think for a tf2 map BUT will be very very carefully balanced to allow for all classes to work reasonably normally

[Iain]

Make the ceiling really low so Wally and Pants can't rocket jump

[Tangled Mess Of Wires]

nah just have an electric fence to keep out pigens