What ET map is this?


(jorgis123) #1

In another class based fps I’m playing atm, they are going to release a new map.
However I’m 100% sure this map is a perfect clone of a map I used to play in ET.
Why?
The first time I saw the update page I immediately thought: Wolfenstein!
I saw the lay-out and textures were the same and I could recall what the map was like apart from the screenshots they gave. So, I went walking through the map with my mind and I still thought it was the same. After that, I downloaded the map (it’s a community made map) I took a look around to check with the memories I have. There was nothing but confirmation of what I did try to recall BEFORE I downloaded and walked through the map:

Here is a video of me walking through the map.
Walking through the map.
Here’s a link to the update page of the game (team fortress 2)
Update page tf2


(Magic) #2

I had a look - but i cant say i recognize it.


(twt_thunder) #3

not me either…


(IndyJones) #4

same here. well, there are many egypt-themed maps for ET.


(Yorrick) #5

Looks a bit like wolken.


(jorgis123) #6

Other people told me didn’t know it too, but here’s the thing.
I tried not to fool myself by looking at the map while walking around and say: THAT’S the same.

Here is what I did.
I saw the update page and i thought: “Wolfenstein ET!”
Then I looked at the screenies and tried to recall the maps lay-out without playing the tf2 version. For instance: The screenie with ammo/health cabinet in the middle of a tomb-like hall with torches is what I recognized as the first spawn. Then I recalled I could walk left and right(symmetrical) and face a spawndoor with hyroglyphs that slowly slides down when the game starts. Well, since I recalled this before actually playing the tf2 version, there is just no way I could have looked at the spawndoors in the game and THEN try to fit that in my memory.

The same goes for tons of specific features in the map. Such as the control point in the background image. I could recall that you can walk left there (down a bit) and then go left and right. To the left would be a sandy hollow tunnel and to the right a hallway. These things I recalled couldn’t be spotted in any of the tf2 screenshots and are not coming from any material released in the update, yet they matched the reality when checking the map afterwards :open_mouth:

The only thing I can imagine is that I could be mixing up games, but the egypt theme and excavation thingy is really an ET thing. I immediately thought of ET and I mostly played ET as online shooter (apart from halo ce ages ago, no custom maps played, and aa with some schoolfriends, no custom maps there either). So if i’m not going nuts or psychic ( :stuck_out_tongue: ) I’m 99,99999% sure this map is from the ET mappers community.

(BTW: it’s the lay-out of the map that striked me first, the egypt thingie was more secondary and complementary to the map I know.)


(nUllSkillZ) #7

Don’t know the map.


(-SSF-Sage) #8

Doesn’t remind me of any map. I’ve played quite a many custom maps during the past 4-5 years.


(rambo13) #9

dsnt to recall me and either my friend, just might feel u played this coz Egypt theme is pretty popular, and it involves a lot of yellow


(jorgis123) #10

Ok, I believe you guys. Maybe this wasn’t an ET map.

But I’m telling you: I’m having the biggest deja-vu of a lifetime here. I remember something futile as a complete map. It’s just screwing with my brains, really really weird.

So if this map doesn’t exist, I must be an evil psychic wizard :stuck_out_tongue:


(anakinmalta) #11

the part behind the barriers … at “0:21” … does look like oasis… but other than that… nope…


(Diego) #12

Don’t recognize it, but the layout of the design looks more like something that you would find in either a quake or unreal map. It looks more suited to deathmatch gameplay.


(stealth6) #13

I think lots of games reuse old ideas, maybe this one isn’t (I haven’t played it yet)
But since you play tf2 check out cp_wolf it has the exact lay-out of tc_base

maybe a bit bigger here and a bit smaller there but it has the same routes