Well, vote for your favorite and then justify it…btw this is “on the lighter side” and just for fun…
Personally, I’m not sure we need a full TapirWars mod, just some third party models that let you find your “inner tapir”, similiar to the Nali War Cow of UT fame. They even would moo when you fragged them.
Dang it! I forgot to include “ET:QW GOLIATH SUMO WRESTLING”
That would make an awesome console one-on-one game, btw.
TapirWars, of course! I can almost hear the announcer…
Allies:
“Steal the tapir! Escort the tapir to the bank courtyard!” or “Escort the tapir over the bridge!”
Axis:
“They’ve broken into the bank! Protect the tapirs! They have taken the first tapir!”
Second to Tapir Wars, this Pro Rally sounds like a cool mod considering the effort they are supposedly putting into vehicle physics etc.
Allies: “Protect the Tapir!”
Strogg: “Steal the Tapir!”, “Stroggy-fie the Tapir!”, “Feed the Tapir with stroyent!”
you guys would love this italian satirical show on which, occasionally, a guy delivers golden tapirs to VIPs for being caught on TV in awkward/embarassing situations.
the platinum tapir, however, was delivered to a TV show host who repeatedly makes grammar & pronounciation mistakes. There was this one time when he was speaking about the Wall of Berlin and he was referring to it as the “Merlin Ball”, over and over again. :rolleyes:
TapirWars, of course! I can almost hear the announcer…
Allies:
“Steal the tapir! Escort the tapir to the bank courtyard!” or “Escort the tapir over the bridge!”
Axis:
“They’ve broken into the bank! Protect the tapirs! They have taken the first tapir!”
Thats my idea… sort of. I’ve got a few Word docs with brainstorm ideas for QW maps, this is one of them -
The funny map
The General of the GDF wants some milk on his Lucky Charms,so the GDF must steal the cow from the Strogg and escort it back to base.
A cow must be escorted somewhere
It moo’s and can be ridden
If ridden by enemy, it just looks at the enemy over its shoulder, but doesn’t move
It poopsWhen killed, a medic must revive ala an engy fixing a tank
The cow comes back to life with a little health, and can be healed to full with med packs
Most tapirs in the Western Hemisphere are found in zoos. So it would have to be in a mutant zoo (altered by strogg experiments.) The last two purestrain tapirs must be captured and removed to a secure location.
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“Operation Tapir Freedom”
stage 1: GDF covert ops have to hack the zoo security system. GDF engineers need to plant C4 at the zoo’s gates.
stage 2: GDF forces must defeat the evil strogg zookeepers and their mutant animal allies to secure the zoo courtyard.
stage 3: GDF forces must repair the snack truck and drive it to the tapir enclosure.
stage 4. GDF calls in an airstrike, opening the way to the tapirs. When both tapirs are loaded, the snack truck must flee at its maximum velocity of 2 meters / second (like the goldrush truck!)
VOs would be like this:
“They have broken into the enclosure”
“Purestrain tapir taken!”
“They have secured the first tapir!”
“They have secured the second tapir! Stop the snack truck! It’s moving away at the incredible velocity of a brisk walk!”
“They have passed the second barrier! In the name of mutant science, stop them!”
“They got away, but it’s okay. Let’s stroggify these GDF corpses they left behind instead!”
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The second map, “Guess Who Is Coming to Dinner” would feature a strogg attack map. Stroggs implanted in ‘revived’ GDF forces erupt and take over the stable. The have to fight their way out, get to the GDF reactor room and blow it up with stolen C4 explosive. Then they must find, repair and steal back the zoo snack truck and escape the GDF facility before the tapir’s genetic secrets can be unlocked.
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The third map, “Return to the Tapir Enclosure” would feature stroggified human/tapir zombie mutants that are only vulnerable to headshots. Humans will regret securing those tapirs and leaving all those human corpses behind! The GDF must penetrate the enclosure and destroy the genetic data before it can be uploaded to the mother ship.
Dudes… this isn’t TOO far fetched, ya know?
We only need a modeler and a texture artist (and a mapper of course). Modelling the tapir, giving it a skin, building the map…
On the other side… who would put so much time into a, well, fun map?
But it’s possible! :eek2:
I want to see a :tapir: vs. 
mod. Can the Ponys save their rainbow colors? Or will the Tapir empire steal it and make everything black and white?
PS: Is sd already working silently on a “Tapir vs. Pony” gametype? Here I found a little screenshot of a command map:
As you can see the gray area (including objectives B and C) is held be the Tapirs and the Ponies are attacking from the south-east. They secured one area and are now about to secure the 2nd one: objective A and sub-objective 2 are already captured (they call it objective Yellow resp. sub-objective Red of course).
