JB-Egypt

As I said there is No Bot pathing whatsoever in this Beta. I'l try and get a second Beta out with botpathing next week sometime.
The Skybox looks like that As I put it together in a matter of seconds. The skybox from the screenshots is in a texture package I have made for testing and Dont want to release that aswell. This will be replaced by a nice pretty sky

In Short, OK I should have called it an alpha!

G.Lecter said:

It's going very well, but you still have a lot of work to do:
- Try to avoid everything that looks cubish...
- I think you should change part of the layout. There are lots of hallways around the jaildoors. Hallways are not fun and they will encourage jail-camping (especally with a flak near them). Try to add bigger rooms (with some z-axis?) beside the jails...
- A foolish player could fall in the jails accidentally. Something to avoid this would be good...
- Yes, definitely add pads in the central room, getting to the higher walkway will be much easier.

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I'll work on the less cubish passages. The path coming out from under the switch I dont particularly like anyway, will probably put it in the big side wall somewhere and make it more open, but will work on that soon.

About the foolish players. Thats the general idea. I'm planning on putting Shockrifles inside the jails so you can shoot people who go past and hit them into jail. also you can push each other in

I have gotten rid of the stairs in the centre room, at this moment in time it is a long dodge wall but I will put a jumppad there (although it wont fit into the theme imo) for gameplay purposes and to give the people who cant dodge a chance

Tarquin said:

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Originally Posted by The_Head
As I said there is No Bot pathing whatsoever in this Beta.

So then it's an Alpha. Beta means "feature complete"

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My Mistake, next version will have bot support

Spudsey said:

I'd upload the pictures but after failing so many times, let me just type it out. You need to get the cubist look out of the skybox first. Bot paths are needed. You have blocky/chopey shadows near like the minigun, the watshows no water physics. For example when I jump into the water, I don't start swimming, nor can I drown. The water is just laid there like a texure. Be warned that the middle jail escape route can easily have people blown into it. Players could choose to stand at the middle and blast anybody trying to escape with the people in jail not able to kill him cause of the no jail kill mutator. The collision with the pillars, near the shockrifle is off. They are bunched in groups which means I can't run in-between some of them. This makes it hard to get in and out when wanting the shock rifle. The arena, although I personally have not tried it yet, has no bot support and needs a little work. Now onto the good things. I like the layout, very origional, and very inovative. Nice map, good theme, love the name. You got a great thing going here, keep up the good work.

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THE SKYBOX IS TEMPORARY!!! read my last post!
The water isnt actually water there, its just what it will look like roughly
As I said earlier this post, The walkway above the jails is a feature, Just like the open jails on many open maps.... Whats wrong with mine????
I'l check the collisions tomorrow. You'l notice there are 2 bigger gaps betwwen pillars by the Shock, its more visuals atm, will work on getting small gameplay tweaks like that out later.
The arena was put together in a matter on minutes.
About the blocky shadows by the minigun, I'm not quite sure what you mean here, but I'l let you know when I see the screeny's I guess.

Thanks about the layout, this was something I had came up with ages and have really wanted to get into a good playable map (unlike the CTF map I made with a similar layout)

Cheers all for the feedback. Keep it coming
-still looking for Ideas of where to place weapons (I'm an IG player - its not something I know well)

I dont get why you all like the Title seems too plain to me, ahwell
saves me coming up with something new

Cheers you two

@Spudsey, nice to hear the name is better than I thought lol. WIll swap the weapons around when I next have UED open.

@Kantham, Cheers mate, I will be working from that point on the lighting. Gonna aim to get some good shadows instead of cramming the level with static meshes (thats why I like the egyptian theme - Architecture is better than Meshes)

Got exams for the rest of the week, and then I am building a new computer but will aim to get another Beta out by end of next week. Just keep at me with ideas
The skybox is only really there for the lighting at the moment. Will be made properly at some point.

Its just jrubzjeknf's excuse to post something without commenting on the map
Kantham dya change ur sig and avatar everytime you post??? lol

I've done a bit more work on the map. I have changed the underground route to be more direct. Also instead of a big long slope i went against my original feelings and put in a jumpad to keep the game flowing quick. Hopefully the gameplay will make up for the fact that it doesnt fit in right. - I will do my best to make it look right though.

Nova (jrubzjeknf) is working on team based jumpads / blocking volumes / teleporters. If that goes well I will have shared jails which will be fun. Also if my memory serves me correctly (doesnt usually lol) no other maps have this yet

UPDATE

Kantham with a new sig ^^ also avatar - nicejob

OT mode

Got updates for you with something I think you may all look forward to courtesy of a good freind of mine.

Firstly I have removed the extra way out of the base (entrance with shieldgun)


Have made some other tweaks in the underground areas which sucked frankly, I couldn't think of an interesting way to decorate them either. So removed the underground route between bases (d/w theres still a couple to choose from)


this shot showing the more direct path to the jail


Inside that door you get this:
the whole at the far side goes down to the Jail. (Yes Jail_)
You get out with a jumpad -went with this too keep gameplay fast


And the best bit
yeh you read that right, congrats on the code Jrubzjeknuf. How it all works will be left for now. (main reason being I have to get it working properly)


Most of the map will still take some tweaking in weapons and visuals Although the bascis are done now. Jail needs some work, very bland at the moment.


As I said about the jail. I'm having a couple of probs.... the doors won't open.... can't work out why. Will replace all the involved actors and that should hopefully fix it

At the moment it is like this:

1 jail with 2 doors. red team release the red door opens and vice versa. Behind the door is a volume that will kill the players that shouldn't escape. Behind the red door the blue players are killed and vice versa.

Am currently making some of the rooms look better and will get a beta out later unless some thing goes wrong.