NEW MAP! Wdrail01: Into the Blue.

[Whirlingdervish]

I've been playing on the TastySpleen rail server a bit lately and I got an urge, the other day, to crank out a map for it.
I think it was the 5th time that day that I'd played on Jester's "albino black sheep" and out of the
void came a voice that said "Make a goddam insta-gib map you slacker!" I think it was god, but I dunno.

anyways...

you can download the map here:
dervish.tastyspleen.net/files/wdrail01.zip

and here's some screenies:












Check it out, and tell me what you guys think of my first rail map ever...

[napalmdeath]

I love the architecture design here, it's definitely a creative approach. The only thing that bothers me is that the textures seem a bit bland. It's pretty much just solid gray everywhere with the occasional blue and red on certain things. Maybe try spicing that up a bit, and I think this could really be a fantastic map. As of right now, I'd give it 7/10. All-in-all, nicely done.

[X7[Q2C]]

Kool :Dl

[AAAGGHHH!!]

good looking map WD!

[Sabotuer [Q2C]]

Looking Nice
not at home at the moment, so I'll dl it at home later, hoping to get some time to map tomorrow on my new PC (costed me about 2000$)

[napalmdeath]

One other thing: is this meant to be played with a specific mod? There doesn't seem to be any ammo/weapons in the map.

[Whirlingdervish]

uh yeah.

I made it for insta-gib/rails only DM.
I use the tourney 'mod' usually with infinite ammo and no falling damage...
Everyone starts with a railgun and nades.

some servers even kick the rail damage up a bit but I've never been able to figure out why...

[WHO?]

grabbed it thx mate - bit of fun is always good

[grieve[Q2C]]

clean lil map, but the jump pad trajectory might need some tweaking.

you are going up unnecessary high - bouncing even off the skybox - and then rather crashing than landing, losing a lot of health. if you are already low on health it will kill you for sure.

if you leave it this way, put at least a sign beside it which says "use at own risk."

;D

[napalmdeath]

grieve said:

clean lil map, but the jump pad trajectory might need some tweaking.

you are going up unnecessary high - bouncing even off the skybox - and then rather crashing than landing, losing a lot of health. if you are already low on health it will kill you for sure.

if you leave it this way, put at least a sign beside it which says "use at own risk."

;D

or just use the dmflag to turn off fall damage.

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

Looks great W, GOOD JOB!

[Sabotuer [Q2C]]

I've never liked space maps that much, but I can't tell about this one untill I try it with players.

Good job on the architecture though

[Whirlingdervish]

I noticed the pads tend to take off about 40+ damage on a bad landing...
I had to move the skybox up a bit cause when I was testing it, you'd smack into it going super fast and it would scrub off almost all of your horizontal speed. I made the gravity about 7/8
of the normal setting too, so I'm not sure if this negatively effected the physics..
(It could have, since you shoot upward quite a bit more with it reduced...)

I'm gonna make a newer release, probably today, with railguns laying around (the 'no items' spawnflag should wipe them out in insta-gib) I'll see what I can do to the jump pads so they aren't quite so lethal...

thx for the input guys!

[X7[Q2C]]

www.savefile.com/files/73547

Made and override file, use it with the R1Q2,
set this
set sv_new_entflags "1"

put the file in the maps/ folder

added 3 Railgun, slug ammo, and other items, fix the trigger_push & a few other things too.

{
"model" "*3"
"angles" "-45 -165 0"
"speed" "112"
"classname" "trigger_push"
}
{
"model" "*4"
"angles" "-55 300 0"
"speed" "110"
"classname" "trigger_push"
}



X7

[Whirlingdervish]

lol. cool. I think the new version is almost done with arghrad though...
I'll update the link and file in a few...

edit: It's fixed. Anyone who picked this up yesterday
might wanna download it again and overwrite. Sry for any inconvenience