Custom Map Week

(Kendle) #1

Lo people

My Clan (well, former Clan, we’ve just split) are going to be hosting a Custom Map event soon. We’ve done this before, in RTCW, and usually made it a weekend only event. However, seeing as we’ve split and don’t need the server anymore (but it’s paid for up till the end of July), we’re thinking about making it a week long event.

The idea is we pimp it absolutely everywhere, get as many of our friends in the UK Clan scene as possible to hop on the server, and play around on some new custom maps, and hopefully at the end of it get some feedback on which maps might be suitable contenders for a new competition map.

The maps we’re looking at so far include:-

2hide_cal_r1
armada_b2
eagles_b1
hotchkiss
pitchblack
steelplant2
svarvadel
townsquare_beta2
uboot
vengeance_final

Obviosuly, some of those are beta, but I’ve acquired them all from publicly accessible URL’s (well, all except 1). If anyone (i.e. the map maker concerned) doesn’t think a map should be included please shout.

Similarly, if there are any additional maps anyone thinks we should include, point 'em out. We don’t intend to put them all in the rotation at the same time, maybe 4 or 5 per rotation, with a few different rotations over the course of the week.

We haven’t got a firm date set yet. I’m just looking for feedback at this stage, but please bear in mind the following:-

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[li]We’re only interested in maps that may be suitable for competition.
[/li][li]All maps will be played in Stopwatch mode.
[/li][li]The server has 18 slots so we’re not looking for 64 player epics.
[/li][li]We’ll hopefully be able to provide download links and HTTP re-direction for all maps involved.
[/li][li]We’re going to promote this like buggery everywhere we can think of, so will hopefully provide a good showcase for your map, possibly beyond the bounds of the kind of people that would normally be the only ones to see your map.
[/li][/ul]
Thoughts and feedback welcome.

(Ifurita) #2

You should run the following pk3 with vengeance (removes random spawning, removes side door, gives 5 second respawn bonus to axis when CP is built)

http://planetwolfenstein.com/4newbies/vengeance_final_te_test2.pk3.zip

That will be more suitable to SW play. Let me know if you want me to tweak it further for you.

(deej) #3

if you want really hot fragging action I suggest you put V2 Base TE, Citadel Objective & Daybreak in there. We have had massive fights on those ones, very suited for high-frag action. Beware of Daybreak though, it has a .campaign file in the pk3 :(.

(Kendle) #4

Iffy, already got the te_test2 .pk3 included, and been playing it.

Deej, we used V2Base_te in the UnterElite tournament. Not a great success I’m afraid as it’s too dependent on who gets to the flag first. Svarvadel is (supposedly) a comp tweaked version of Citadel, hence it’s inclusion instead.

(Kendle) #5

Iffy, already got the te_test2 .pk3 included, and been playing it.

Deej, we used V2Base_te in the UnterElite tournament. Not a great success I’m afraid as it’s too dependent on who gets to the flag first. Svarvadel is (supposedly) a comp tweaked version of Citadel, hence it’s inclusion instead.

(blushing_bride) #6

looks like a good line up of maps, it will be nice to play some custom maps on a smaller server as its hard to get a chance to play custom maps properly so this will make a nice change from 64 slot xp saver servers. Thanks in advance, will see you on there but using a fake nick so i can hear what people really think.

(fattakin) #7

youre so vain :wink:

(Watcher) #8

Load the simpsons one that rocks!!! :slight_smile:

(deej) #9

have you even tried playing the simpsons map with 20 players? it’s a FPS & gameplay graveyard…

(Java.Lang) #10

I am fine with you running Pitch Black, we have asked people to try it competetively, most notably TWL, and have just let the thing float around. You have my approval, and if you got any questions or problems, know where to come.

(Kendle) #11

Copy / paste of a post I’ve made on several other forums:-

As a parting gift to the community The Infamous would like to invite all and sundry to participate in a Custom Map Week starting Monday 12th July till Sunday 18th July.

This follows a tradition we started in RTCW of hosting a number of Custom Maps, for a limited time period, and inviting anyone who’s interested to come play them. The idea being to identify potential candidates for new Competition maps. As we all know ET isn’t exactly awash with good quality Competition maps, although the recent introductions of SupplyDepot and TC_Venice have helped somewhat. We hope with this event to find another 1 or 2 additional maps for Competition.

Previously we made these weekend only events, however this time we thought we’d extend it to an entire week, to give everyone the chance to participate.

We have a pool of 10 maps for your consideration, and so have decided to split them into 2 rotations of 5 maps each. We will either alternate between rotations on a daily basis, or leave each running for a few days before switching to the other (suggestions welcome as to which might be the most beneficial way of doing it).

The 2 rotations (with links to download the maps) will be as follows:-

Rotation 1

2hide_cal_r1
armada_b2
pitchblack
uboot
vengeance_final

note:- you’ll also need the te_test and te_test2 add-ons for vengeance_final

Rotation 2

eagles_b1
hotchkiss
steelplant2
svarvadel
townsquare_beta2

note: all maps are on http re-direct, but it would probably be a good idea to grab them first before joining the server.

All maps will be played in Stopwatch AB format, using Clanbase / RTCW.no competition settings, on The Infamous 16-slot match server:- 217.158.150.50:32050

Any and all feedback on these maps would be most appreciated. Hope to see lots of familiar faces there.

(Svarvsven) #12

Great!

Svarvadel is a new et map and is intended for clan wars. Hope it will work out nice and love to hear comments about the map / tournament.

To download map, use: http://w1.859.telia.com/~u85929498/svarvadel

Svarvsven