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That A site chokepoint on D2 (i'm guessing you're talking about long A) is for control of the sniper pit/alley, the actual chokepoint to control the bombsite from that route it's when that path crosses with the ramp that leads to the CT spawn. Obviously depending on the map timing and location of chokepoints work differently, but it's a CS convention that both teams should arrive at the same time at the secondary bombsite, and that the CTs arrive first at the primary bombsite. That's not as bad as it seemed, you could test moving the T spawn just one second closer to the bombsites to push those chokepoints abit back. It seems to me like it would work better that way.

Have you tested the timings? It seems like the Ts will take much longer than the CTs to reach the bombsites and that will put the chokepoints in the middle of the map between the T spawn and the bombsites. Ideally they should be closer to the bombsites. Take a look at bombsite B on dust2 for example, if both teams rush that bombsite they will meet in the tunnel that connects the bombsite to the dark hall and whoever wins the battle there has easy access to the bombsite, you should aim for something like that.

I like this one also, but it spoils half of the story which shouldn't really happen in a intro.

It would probably be a good idea to reduce the amount of lights. Use just a couple of them to accentuate the architecture or to give more focus to important areas.

If everything else fails try copy-pasting your map into a new vmf file, it usually solves these kind of weird errors.

you should check out http://didyouknowgaming.com/ as well

NS2, 9€, finally bought it.

Regarding game design, "Theory of Fun for Game Design" was the most mind changing book I've read, it really made me look at games in a different way. Besides that I'm a big fan of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. There are 7 Books in the series, the first 5 ("The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy", "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", "Life, the Universe and Everything", "So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish" and "Mostly Harmless") are the originals made by Douglas Adams, the 6th ("And another Thing...") was made Eoin Colfer after Adams death, and the 7th ("The Salmon of Doubt") has some of Adams unpublished material and an unfinished novel that is part of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy universe.

Worked for Pokemon

You should definitely make the stone roads less flat by turning them into displacements and making them more irregular.

There's something wrong with the DNS settings, www.mapcore.org goes to the forum, mapcore.org (without www) goes to a blank page saying "Welcome to nginx!".

Have I mentioned before that I'm from Portugal? Because, yes, 23€ is expensive atm. Maybe it's too much information but i earn around 570€ per month, once the new budget is approved it's going to drop to around 500€. My car loan for example costs me 210€ per month, add to that fuel and other expenses, I usually end with around 100€ at the end of each month to spend on stuff, so like I said before, yes it's expensive, when you put it into perspective. It's a big difference for me having to pay 10€ or 23€. I don't own any new AAA games because I can't afford them and I don't like pirating games, so I usually have to wait for steam discounts. (fuck that's depressing)

Yeah, it probably doesn't make much sense for you guys, but I think that for games like this the appropriate price is around 10€ or 15€, I don't think that complexity is really a factor to make the price higher than that, at least not for me. The current price falls out of my impulse buy range and makes me have to think a bit more if I should buy it or no. I guess living in Portugal atm is starting to change the way I value games since we're all poor and shit (really, we now are going to have to deduct 18% of our salaries to welfare, it used to be 11%, yay!)

I still think that the game is too expensive. I love NS but I'm going to wait until the price drops or there's a promotion, i just don't think it's worth 23€. And since CS:GO was mentioned, CS:GO costs 11€, less than half of what NS2 costs.

it's not really breaking news, but the following are listed as dlc in the gamemodes server config de_embassy cs_assault de_balkan de_vertigo ar_monastery de_depot de_alleyway cs_assault, probably the map with the most remakes ever?

Erm... you haven't been flowing any CS:GO tournaments I presume? Cause Get_Right and f0rest are still kicking ass and doing amazing individual performances. They won every match so far and most of them by a really big margin (more than 8 rounds of difference).

No fans of shameless (the UK version obviously)? Also: Arrested Development Louie The League

About tomorrows game, Paulo Bento announced today that Hugo Almeida will be the striker so that means we will play with our standard lineup but with Hugo Almeida instead of Helder Postiga. There's also a rumor that we might play with Ronaldo in the middle and either Varela or Quaresma on the left and Nani on the right, it that was true i think Spain wouldn't stand a chance, but I don't think it's going to happen. Anyway I'm certain it will be a great match, I don't think we're going to win bu we might get a tie if we're lucky and then Ronaldo misses the penalty and we loose The Portuguese media are also saying that the ref that was chosen for the game might cause some problems since he is Turkish and for some reason Turkish refs usually favor Spain. I really don't care who the ref is, but it might make the game a bit ugly since our players don't deal that well with bad ref decisions Taken from wikipedia:

Everyone around here says the same thing about our strikers. We've 3 strikers (besides Ronaldo that does that position once in a while), Hélder Postiga, Hugo Almeida and Nélson Oliveira. Hugo Almeida (he is the one who replaced Postiga when he got injured in this last mast) is the biggest turd of the three, he just ruins all the chances we create and everyone hates him, but statistically speaking he is the best one (dunno how...). Postiga is far better, and although he doesn't score (i think he has one goal so far) just having him there allows Ronaldo to score more goals. About Nelson Oliveira, I don't know how much people know about him but he played on the Sub-19 Euro last year (where Portugal finished second) and he was the revelation player of the cup, he plays for S. L. Benfica (it's his first year on the main team) and has done some amazing games on the Portuguese League and Champions League, the problem is that he is still very young (20), unexperienced, and he is not a real striker (yet), he usually plays as a second striker, but he is the fastest and more technically advanced of the 3, he just needs some more time. He is playing on this years Euro because everyone believes that he will be our next star player and we really need to have a world class striker. The main thing that pisses people off about the strikers is that we've other strikers that are much more efficient that weren't called by the coach, like for example Nuno Gomes, Ricardo Vaz Tê or Danny. But whatever, we've Ronaldo heh About the game, it wasn't our best game (I blame it on Hugo Almeida), but as usual Nani (word around here is that Mourinho wants him in Real Madrid), Ronaldo, Coentrão and Pepe played amazingly well and got us the win. João Moutinho was also great this time, but it seems like we can never have a game where all our 3 midfielders play well, Meireles for example did a really poor game (he was the one that was always trying long distance goals and failed miserably). Anyway we're now on the semis waiting for either Spain or France, we've rivalries with both of the teams so whoever wins it will certainly be an exciting match

Only 2 of the players who played in that match (Ronaldo and Postiga) are still in our team this year, so it's basically a new team, stop hating us!! we're all poor and shit Anyway, it was a great match, Ronaldo was phenomenal, lets hope that he keeps playing like that. Pepe was great as well, he is probably the best centre-back in the world atm. Also I'm tankful that Nani was injured for half of the season since he is in great shape now an eager to show what he can do. And finally what an amazing pass from João Pereira to Ronaldo on our first goal! I think that the biggest problem with Netherlands is the defense, they did a great job in the offense (a couple of missed shots, but they created lots of opportunities), but that defense... they where really freaking bad.

Why all the hate against Portugal? I don't get why people say that our players are always whining, we don't do it any more or less than players from other teams. Anyway I'm still confident that we will reach at least the semi-finals And really bad result for Italy, even if they win the last game they might not get through to the quarter-finals! What a shame.

Portugal had to play a very defensive game against Germany which is not what the team is used to do (well except for Raul Meireles from Chelsea ), it was the only way we could get a decent result considering our midfield sucks and our strikers (except for Ronaldo but he rarely plays as a striker with this coach) don't score any goals. Most of our chances came from our wingers (mainly Ronaldo and Nani) and from Fábio Coentrão (left back) who played amazingly well. I'm guessing we will play more open and aggressive on the next game. Also hoping that the coach changes the midfield, and that he uses Nelson Oliveira as a striker from the beginning since he is the only striker we've that can actually score a goal. Anyway, this Euro is being great so far, some really nice games and interesting results. I'm betting on Greece, Russia, Germany, Portugal (fingers crossed), Spain, Italy, France, and probably England (although they're not playing that well I think they're still miles away from either Sweden or Ukraine) as the ones moving on to the quarter finals. As for the semi finals, Portugal (we're going to play against Russia probably, and I think we can easily win that game) Germany, Spain and Italy. And for the final, imo it will be Spain against Germany, with Germany winning.

About the gradient it seems like in the tutorial they used a radial gradient and yours is linear, so you've to change that (i believe that's in the top left corner, there should be a dropdown button there that allows you to change the type of gradient). The second question, it seems like your image has no transparency? your background is white, so you're basically painting white on white, while on the tutorial the background is transparent.

i'm just kind of tired of zombies. they were cool back in the day but it just seems like such an overused concept now. i'd rather see something new and interesting. or even better, a game that is only about survival without any form of antagonist(s)? hella more interesting than zombies. Are you for real? All enemy archetypes are overused. It's the fiction behind them and the traits of them that differ in games. Here is the list of every enemy in every game. No one has thrown out anything new in decades. Humans Monsters (zombies are here) Aliens Robots Animals Mutants There you go. That kind of proves his point tough. By your example zombies are a type of monster, so why do zombies have to be used so many times? Why not werewolves or gargoyles? I haven't seen many games with vampires for example (not the sparkling kind ). A well made vampire hunter game would be great. You've Van Helsing (fps with vampires and crossbows!), Buffy (something similar to Tomb Rider but with vampires), Blade (Batman: Arkham City with vampires), the Winchester Brothers (Co-Op western with vampires), etc, they would all make kick ass games. The folklore behind vampires and vampire hunters is much richer than must of the themes used in games so the possibilities are endless.

hahaha, this actually worked! That means it's just a simple DNS block, so nothing to worry about Ant there's an evens easier way to access the site, just use the server IP instead of the domain name, for example http:\\194.71.107.15 or http:\\194.71.107.50 (URL Tags don't work with IPs in the URL?)