6th Place: leray6mapcon_x7 by X7[Q2C]

[X7[Q2C]]

The Cage - by X7[Q2C]

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Judge by	Map Creator	Filename of bsp	Original or Revision	Texturing	Originality	Game Play	Weapon/Item/Health layout	Extras (jump pads, etc)	Lighting	Sounds	Connectivity/ Flow	Technical Rating	Total Score
kold	X7[Q2C]	leray6mapcon_x7.bsp	Original	6.00	6.00	4.00	4.50	7.00	6.50	6.00	4.50	7.00	51.50
Paril	X7[Q2C]	leray6mapcon_x7.bsp	Original	9.00	9.00	5.00	4.00	8.00	7.00	7.00	8.00	5.00	62.00

kold

X7’s map - I think too much time was spent on special effects and not enough on gameplay.
One thing worth noting is the “SZ_Getspace: overflow” error. When the weapons spawn eventually... one of the arenas
becomes overflowed and you can’t enter it! Although this has been fixed in some updated Quake 2 clients. I tested it using
the default .exe, which any map should run from.
“The Cage” in my opinion was the downfall of this map. Even tho I only played with bots it was too easy to camp up top
on the trigger that triggers the cage, leaving the players down below with little or nothing at all to fight back with if they just
spawn. The layout felt more like a ctf map than a dm map leaving you with few options to get from one arena to the next.
All in all it was a good attempt from X7, but with too many

Paril

Subjective Observation (What did you think of it?):
Eye candy!
[Comments]
This map is really something. It's kind of linear which limits it's gameplay as a large-scale deathmatch map,
but I like the neat ideas X7 had here with the lasers and the spinning teleporter sending you to your
impending doom in 'the cage'. It didn't flow well playing with other people but it's one of those maps that
you would message your friends about to connect to your server to because you had something
cool to show them. Definitely an awesome selection in my book.

[MaRiNe [Q2C]]

Another original and extremely well textured map.

What triggers the weapons popping from the ground in this level, X7? I've always wondered that!

[X7[Q2C]]

Thanks


There 2 triggers that spawn the weapons & items.

The main one is a trigger_always with a delay = 118 sec.
the default delay on trigger_always of 0.2 sec.
so the total time on the trigger_always is 2 min.

When that fries is goes to a series of triggers_relay the move the door up and spawn the weapons & items.

The other one is the button on top that also put the cage bars up.



X7

[Mikemc]

This map gave me alot of "msg_overflowed" when i entered the teleporters

[X7[Q2C]]

You'll get that if you are still using the old Quake 2 client v 3.20, 3.21.

Always use the newest clients like R1q2 or KMQuake2 these have a lot of fixes.


X7

[Paril]

Even does this in EGL. Keep in mind the contest was also supposed to work on every engine

-Paril

[X7[Q2C]]

Oct 7, 2008 12:48:02 GMT -5 Paril said:

Even does this in EGL. Keep in mind the contest was also supposed to work on every engine

-Paril

EGL still hads to many error in it.
And all good server are running the R1Q2.



X7


The OGN - {Who} server will kick you if you use the quake2 client.

[SkiesOfBordom]

loved the eye candy, but this has bad flow, and was a bit too maze like for me.

however, it never overflowed for me (EGL, reg q2, and r1q2).

Nextime x7, please use more structured architecture instead of just a bunch of rooms. A little disapointed. :-\

As a judge, i look at EVERYTHING. can careless when im in DM on it. I am a stickler for detail in this position.

[Wixen1 [Q2C]]

Oct 8, 2008 12:42:52 GMT -5 SkiesOfBordom said:

loved the eye candy, but this has bad flow, and was a bit too maze like for me.

however, it never overflowed for me (EGL, reg q2, and r1q2).

Nextime x7, please use more structured architecture instead of just a bunch of rooms. A little disapointed. :-\

As a judge, i look at EVERYTHING. can careless when im in DM on it. I am a stickler for detail in this position.

SOB, please dont act like you are a judge here, we were about a 100 people waiting for you to make you judging so we could come up with an result and you dident tell us a word of anything. We gave you 2 weeks then 3 weeks and after not hearing from you into the 4th. week we desided to go without your score. I dont give much for that, atleast you could from the start had told us you couldent make it, but you dident. This is not fair for people, who has been waiting for ages to get a result.!
Maybe you should be a stickler for details in that position. Also maybe you should read all the post made here in the contest area before just rambling forward with your suddently appeering scores.
You might think this place is unimportant or less, but make sure of this; we who have been here for years loves this place and will keep on doing so.

-W1½

[SkiesOfBordom]

yea sorry, i really thought i had the time.... then this big project held me up >.< . I am finding that I don't have time for anything anymore... so again, I apologize.

It looks like I am not wanted here..... I think I will stay away from now on. feel free to ban me, del my account, or w/e...

[Wixen1 [Q2C]]

Oct 8, 2008 18:13:31 GMT -5 SkiesOfBordom said:

yea sorry, i really thought i had the time.... then this big project held me up >.< . I am finding that I don't have time for anything anymore... so again, I apologize.

It looks like I am not wanted here..... I think I will stay away from now on. feel free to ban me, del my account, or w/e...

Apologize accepted. This has nothing to do with wanting you here or not. Its all about doing the job one has exepted in the first place. And not 4-5 weeks later just posting new scores to the contest maps, when we allready are done with the contest. This make people more frustrated about the final result, than they allready are. I hope you can understand this.
Now, lets forget this and move on.
-W1

[Paril]

Exactly what I said

-Paril

[Riz [Q2C]]

Well I am still running an older client, this map crashed me hard each time I tried it.

[spirit]

An interesting map with a few cool features like the triggers and the red laser beams in that dark room. Good texturing.

On the gameplay: the map could use some more vertical action and I agree that it seems quite linear imo. Seems ok for FFA with many players though.

Good job, X7!