North Pole! (FINAL released)

(Drakir) #1

Merry Christmas everybody!
The FINAL version of “North Pole” is released.

Get the file at:
http://www.pcgamemods.com/3369/
http://www.sikstrom.nu/rikard/files/etmain/northpole_zipfile.zip

Server running the map at: 213.112.60.47 (will change from day to day as the server has dynamic IP)

Basic Information

Author : Rikard “Drakir” Lindgren and “Loffy”
Email address : lindgrenrikard@hotmail.com or fluffpower@hotmail.com
Webpage : http://www.drakir.tk

Map Information

Game : Return to Castle Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory
Title : North Pole
Filename : northpole.pk3
Release date : 2003-12-10
Decription : In the Axis search for religous items they are on a quest to steal the “Christmas Star”, the symbol of hope and joy! Allied intelligence has picked up this mission and are doing anything they can to prevent the Axis forces from stealing the “Christmas Star”. If the Axis forces succeed in their quest then a whole world celebrating christmas will be in agony and that will drain their spirit on the battlefields, this will give the Axis forces a huge advantage in the war.

Program : SD Radiant 1.3.8

Build time : 3 weeks.
Compile time : 5 hours
Compile machine : AMD Athlon 2200, 512mb

Installation : Place the northpole.pk3 to your etmain folder, select it from the multiplayer->create server menu or
bring down the console and type: map northpole.

Textures : 22 new ones provided with shaders in the pk3 file.
Sounds : 3 new sounds.
Models : 1 new model.

Info!

#. This is a “FUN” map for the holidays. The map is intended to be fun playing but also at the same time being competive. So that it can be used as a war map between clans.

Special thanks and Credits to:

Thanks to the clans “ardius” and “SenF” for their great support and the BETA testing.
Also a huge thanks to “Hummer” at the SD forums for the christmas star model.
“B-Xpress” for solving my question on how to spell the german drink Glüh-Wein.
We would also like to thank our girlfriends for their support and great ideas for christmas things. Loffy specially thanks “Heirpie (shit-storm.com)”, “FuTurA”, “w” and “Trolldruva”.
Also thanking “Fenris” for running a 100% custom map server.
And at last but not least, “ZZ-Top” for being santas favourite bearded band.
Almost forgot to thank “Santa Claus” himself, couldnt have done it without him (hoping for great presents).

Copyright © 2003 Rikard “Drakir” Lindgren and Loffy all rights reserved

This level may be electronically distributed only at
NO CHARGE to the recipient in its current state, MUST
include this .txt file, and may NOT be modified IN
ANY WAY. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THIS LEVEL TO BE
DISTRIBUTED ON CD-ROM (or other media) WITHOUT PRIOR
WRITTEN PERMISSION.

/Drakir & Loffy!

(HerrK) #2

Hohoho…wish you merry X-Mas from the North-Pole! :slight_smile:

Nice idea, hopefully I get also a present… :smiley:

(NdK) :wink:

(radiant) #3

nice idea :smiley:

(redfella) #4

hmmm… Cute!

:chef:

(Wint3rS.LZ) #5

Woo…something for christmas?

very nice… :smiley:

(MadMaximus) #6

thats a nice idea, reminds me of ‘lutie village’ in the game ragnarok, can’t wait to play your map when its done.

(Erik-Ftn) #7

Looking great :slight_smile:

(PeteSpeed) #8

Yep its looking REAL cool m8 :cool: :notworthy:

(Oxygen - o2) #9

looks strange, good luck anyway and merry x-mas :drink:

(Fenris) #10

Looks nice, but you’ve got to get it out before X-mas then :wink:
If I understand your description right this time Axis attacks ? That’s great, we could need some more of those maps so Axis just doesn’t have to sit on their butts all the time :stuck_out_tongue:

If you need someone to host it just let me know.

(Drakir) #11

Release date is stated in the end of the movie, “mid December”. WE are going to have playtests this week. And will be releasing no later than the 13th.

And yes Axis attacks!

(JIM_BOB7813) #12

Looks real nice. /me loves teh festive maps.

(Fenris) #13

And here I was looking at the pretty pics only, do I have to start reading now as well :banana:

(S.S.Heirpie) #14

I saw you on the servers testing the map, how did it go…everything in place???

(Drakir) #15

We had a blast testing the BETA yesterday, all found bugs sorted out. Even though it was no big bugs found.

Huge thanks to the clans “arduis” and “Senf” for testing the map!

Map is just undergoing a FINAL compile, will be released later this day. Say in about 5 hours. That would be around 13:00 CET!

Here are 4 screenis from the BETA test:

(sock) #16

I like how you got an Axis and Allied soldier by the Santa Sledge arguing about what to do with the presents. I could just imagine alternative chat text to such a situation. :wink:

Looks nice and xmas warm fuzzy, are you using shinny barbwire / tinsil around the bases? What about the guard towers? No more decorations? What a radio somewhere playing xmas carol’s? (wav file)

Sock
:moo:

(Drakir) #17

There are alot more Christmas feeling ones inside the buildings.
I have tried to get the map as warm and cosy as possible. The map garantees several laughs and you will surely have a blast playing with all the fun stuff in the map.

Also introducing some new things to ET mapping, like “info stands” where u walk up to a table reading from a book, and it tells u map tips. like “TIP! Did u know that u can crawl into the cannon and it will fire u away!”

And offcourse are there radios playing christmas carol´s!

(PeteSpeed) #18

We had a blast testing the BETA yesterday, all found bugs sorted out. Even though it was no big bugs found.

Huge thanks to the clans “arduis” and “Senf” for testing the map!

Thanks for last night “Drakir/Loffy” we all had a right laugh at the North Pole :lol: its such a fun festive map and well thought out too :notworthy:

And with only a tiny amount of bugs ,it gave “SenF and arduis” plenty of time to mess about :drink:
I think everyone will have loads of FUN on this map, weeee bouncing on the beds, being fired about the map by the cannon etc etc :banana:

Thx Drakir/Loffy for such a cool map :drink:
Merry Christmas everybody

(Drakir) #19

As always, 2 minor bugs found!

-Yellow/Black CM image, hate when it does that…(standard ET image not showing ingame, grrrr)

-One place where u can get stuck found, but with a little “push” help u gan get out of there. Or just type /kill.

Anyway, this is no major thingys som i dont recon we will do another version, perhaps for next christmas!

(S.S.Heirpie) #20

BRAVO, You and loffy have made a very fun map!!!, I enjoy both of your past releases!!! this is the topping on the cake!!! thank you for another fine map!!

Pie