Almost a week until christmas vacation

(Fenris) #1

With no snow on the streets and almost a full week left at work before I can relax completely behind my ET console all day, I’m just thinking about what maps comes out.

There are some fantastic new maps available and I really like them so don’t get me wrong, but I was reconstructing my campaign yesterday (again, to include North Pole), and it got me thinking; why are most great maps either rainy or snowy ?

I mean, I’m running 3 campaigns at the moment, I’ve tried to construct them to a “theme” (i.e. the first one is called Fortress Europe, it runs “attack from the beach”-related maps, like battery, carnage canyon, etc, the second one is Afrika Corps, it runs desert maps like temple, and the third is called Barbarossa, it runs rainy or snowy maps, preferrably drizzly such :)). My “problem” is that it’s quite hard to find any maps to fill up the second campaign but there would be no problem in making 2 6-map campaigns with (good) rainy maps, plenty of those around.
If anyone have noticed the themes or if everyone’s just playing the maps as they come up is quite another story… :moo:

Still it seems from the comments I hear that the most liked maps are transmitter and temple, and the thing people comment on is how bright and nice graphics they have.

So without any criticism intended, where are all the bright light, open-skies, desert maps ? :banana: Temple3 is great, Assault made a nice start (but is still in beta I think) and then there’s Oasis and Goldrush. Anyone know of any more desertmaps ?
(Btw, “Sandheli” looked nice in alpha, I really want to play it when it more gets released)

(joop sloop) #2

I’m working on a sunny town map, so when (if?) that map is finished you got a map for your ‘fight on the sunny side’ campaign :wink:

(Drakir) #3

What can i say, my first 3 maps released, Rhineland Bridge, Fliegerhorst and 2hide is set in Europe. Used rain in only 1 of the maps. The main thing is that there is alot more textures to use while mapping for europe aimed maps than snow or even desert.

North Pole, was a given answer to the SNOW question, though i tried to keep the snowing so minor that it wouldnt add to the sight, just to the feeling.

Fliegerhorst was a simple descision too, the map had so bad FPS that i had to add alot of fog and using very close fog_clip to get a descent FPS. And toghehter with the FOG i felt that some rain would make it look more realistic.

So in other words, this is why i used SNOW and RAIN in the maps i made sofar!

(seven_dc) #4

Sandheli is getting near beta… it has been a very blocky road… Maybe in this weekend. :beer:

I wish I would have vacation where I could just play and map. dreams

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(Fenris) #5

Drakir, yes I really loved the Rhineland and Fliegerhorst maps, my only regret with them is that it tends to frighten off all players with the 30 MB download even if it runs at 800 kbps if you have the connection to match, which is sad since the total dl of all maps atm is about that size anyway, I guess it’s the filesize itself, since multiple maps don’t seem as big as one huge file :wink:

Still I’d really would have liked to run a dedicated Rhineland/Fliegerhorst/Hide campaign as it is now I’m keeping Hide on permanently at least. :slight_smile:

(Drakir) #6

I had so many players/serverops complaining about the filesize of fligerhorst/rhineland, that maybe i am going to do “NEW” versions of them again in separate files. I know that 30mb is a huge download for most players out there. But to decrease the size i am going to have to do new compiles of the maps using alot less new textures. I dont remember exactly, but there is over 160 new textures in the pk3 file for booth the above maps.

I dunno when and if i will do new versions, but as i said. I am thinking about it.

(BXpress) #7

well, if u want a good map for the christmas holidays and vacation, wait for “The Bridge of Remagen”!
oh dea i love to promote myself :stuck_out_tongue:

(Fenris) #8

Yes I’ve seen your screens, looks nice but wasn’t it dark and rainy there too or am I remembering it wrong ?

I think I remember you wrote that the separated files would make almost as large a download as the combined maps.