Good observation about the environmental storytelling.
If you are happy with the layout and willing to go all out on polish, first idea that comes to mind is to go for a “villa has been recently restored, owners/organisation is organising the inauguration party and Ts want to blow it up”, so it’s a good occasion to have some back rooms half painted, full of tools etc, and open areas very clean, some bunting/flags, a stage and loud speakers… that sort of thing ?
This new age of space exploration keeps on giving, First Man the story of the first landing on the moon, is out soon and I'm really interested in seeing it.
(Thought we had a topic already but can't find it)
Quote from FMPONE10 hours ago, FMPONE said: Hm. Well I just finished the series. Season 1 was the high point, Season 2 was... ok. Season 3 was a disaster. I guess ending shows is pretty difficult *shrug*
Still, in hindsight it was worth watching for Season 1 !
Hell yes.
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Jesus that have me shivers.
Hey Shawn have you looked up explainers about the ending? I was so shocked I read a few, but basically what seems happened was that they had 5 seasons planned, if I remember correctly, but they had to hurry it up, so came up with that confusing solution.
Quote from RadixOn 10/15/2018 at 2:20 PM, Radix said: Nice retake @blackdog!
I'm still surprised how well the map is doing after all. Even though it's pretty different to the other competitive maps, many people seem to enjoy de_austria. But I'm lucky that it didn't replace a more popular map than canals. ? So pretty much no hate going on. No death threats. Nothing. ?
It's also pretty funny to watch all those youtube guides that tell me how I should play my own map so that I don't get destroyed completely anymore. I'm getting better slowly... ?
Thank you. I do like the map because the different layout 
not muchmuch point playing always the same thing.
Anyway some smokes described here (very annoying that they are all "stupid", whatever that means)
Quote from PaulHOn 10/15/2018 at 6:42 PM, PaulH said: I think I'm out of touch with mapping in general too, so profit aside what do people even map for now? Is it still just CSGO? And maybe UT?
Well done at putting yourself into doing extra stuff! I find difficult to point at many games with prosperous communities, one can be exposed to only so much... definitely CSGO still going strong, there's also still a core of passionate TF2 players and mappers, and there have been community "events" (packs), and of course some HL2. UT seems dead, I haven't seen anyone posting stuff on here for a long time and it doesn't seem to be ever in the news... they used to do community catch-ups livestreams but on the YT channel the last video about patches is 1 year old, maybe @2d-chris knows more, but with Fortnite's success...
I can see many devs like you busy with Q1 or Doom mapping in their spare time. Far Cry 5 has the Arcade system for custom content, and there are tools for Dying Light if you want to get ready for the next (check Will2K campaign topic)
I'm sure you can easily find freelance jobs for UE4 and Unity, there are so many teams around, but I would imagine they'd require more effort than what you probably have time for.
Something much more passive and that you can take at your pace, is producing some courses on the many platforms available. Not sure if you can find a different "angle" to it, as I have the feeling there are so many out there now, also pretty much people ask for UE4/Unity... not sure if with your previous experience with CryEngine, doing one on Lumberyard would give you more return potentially.
Working on a book would surely be cool, I would imagine being very satisfactory if you can abstract enough to talk about LD principles instead of specific tools. You can also get to publish it yourself via Amazon (I have an acquaintance that has gone from robot programmer to writer, after self-publishing his story of ditching the job and going around the world). Books can be very "2.0" as well, I've seen already quite some time ago that you can tie-in digital content with the book like Scott Robertson has done with his concept art books.
Best of luck with your hobby search and I guess let us know what you go for
Jigsaw, the latest entry in the Saw saga, wasn’t horrible. Less emphasis on torture-porn and somewhat of a return to the detective and puzzling of the first chapter.
Still weak but not ridiculous.
Quote from Froyok22 hours ago, Froyok said: By the way, Kikette is also working at Allegorithmic now (as a Technical Artist I believe). (Geoffrey “Kikette” Rosin)
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Congrats to both!
Quote from dux27 minutes ago, dux said: https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-pla…ude-fallout-76/
Bethesda finally acknowledging the passionate gamers that now only watch play through streams.
I can't believe we don't have a topic of the latest installation, hell, it appears we never had a Just Cause topic! (Search returns nothing for me)
It looks like very poor choice of words there to explain some dynamics there...
Really need to get in there, never played any of these but Tuscan in particular, so many pros when asked about what map to add to the pool say this name…
Venom was alright, in particular with a discounted ticket
Isn’t that probably a tactic to keep interesting on what is probably quite the traditional action game they build?
Just looked at RDR on Amazon and it’s still 20-fucking-pounds! Been in my list since when I had the X360 and unless getting it used, doesn’t come cheaper ?
I played Austria loads in DM, was great fun, but last night I catched my first competitive match there. Good fun, grats @Radix!
They brought back Max Payne 2 for this game
Is that a way to complete the game early like Falliut games?
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I wanted to finally play Crysis when I got my gaming PC three years ago, but wasn’t running smoothly 
The feedback on Blackout is so positive I am feeling very intrigued to try it as well
