Black Picture Posted June 25, 2024 Report Posted June 25, 2024 (edited) Introduction Hello all! I would like to introduce this map submission that is set in the Half Life universe. For this map you the Player are Combine Defending sites, or you are the Resistance attacking a Combine outpost try to take back City 17. This takes place during the Half-Life 2 timeline when the Resistance is rising up and taking parts of the city back. Audio Combine Radio Chatter Combine does feature radio chatter if you are set on the default CT skin, it's still early but call out, throwing out grenades, Reaction to enemies all have VO lines for combine Combine overwatch When bomb is planted in one of the sites Alarms will sound off along with over watch VOs over the speaker Level Mechanics Combine Confiscation Fields On the map players will find four Combine Confiscation Fields, Players will have to interact with a button to turn them on. Once the button is pressed it will stay on for the rest of the round and will reset start of the next round. There is four Confiscation Fields on the map, however only 2 can be active, these will share 2 charges amongst each other, players will have to choose which ones they will want on. Confiscation fields Button panel are placed right next to them. Players will have to travel to each Confiscation field to turn them on. Panels will show how many charges are left and which confiscation field is active. Gameplay Goals for Confiscation Fields Goals for this is to reward players on being smart how they use these fences, do lock down a route? Do you leave the fence off and go hunt in risking Resistance using them if the hunt fails? Do you allow you friends to go through and shut the door behind them? A Counter to the fence is to buddy jump over the fence, another counter I wanted to put in is to use a taser to temporarily disable the fence for a few seconds, unfortunately the latest tuning of the taser does not have any penetration so it cannot interact with objects in the game now. Shadows There will be selected lights that will cast shadows which is self-explanatory, but for one part of the map will have tarps draped over chain link fences, when casting a shadow onto these Tarps players on the back side will be able to see the shadow. What's fun about this if I decide to shoot the person, I will have to understand where the light source and adjust where to shoot the player Counters to this, players are able to throw a smoke grenade down to block the light. Time of Day While this map is a nighttime map keep in mind combine will be White to combat hard to see areas, gameplay take priority during the art phase of the map. One of the main goals I had for this project was to make a fun and engaging competitive level, while exploring something new for Counter Strike that isn’t invasive to the current gameplay. Hopefully the level mechanics that reward players for being creative and creating depth for within the map re-playability Level Layout Note: While this level has extra routes to a site keep in mind players will be able to use confiscation fields to help manage Lanes. Fly Through of the map Flying through of the map also will show off the work of @bman the audio Wizard! Known Issues If you Join mid round during warmup as a CT, combine model can break, this will not happen during a real game. Intro, character select, outro will not show combine models. Sky Box has not been set up yet, vis pop ins happen in the sky box on a certain area, no vis issues in the play space. Audio will make a terrible scratch sound on the start of each round (I am so sorry) this is something we are currently working on getting a fix Players can get stuck inside of a Confiscation Field when turned on. exiting the prototype phase this will be polished to not happen. Combine head will not look down sights of weapons properly. Map Link https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3267403750 Note for the Judges: The map Core Banner keeps flagging my workshop file and takes couple of days for the listing to reappear, currently right now the map link works but I will not put the banner in risk losing a working map link for judging, if this passes phase 1 I will find a solution during the next phase, sorry about that. Note: If anyone plays the map and wants to share their experience, I would love to hear it! Special Thanks @Broken @Chief @Froddoyo MankinJarlkin @Gulfbones @ORB-NRG Smokey H8yse Blue Heaven @Saulc @SmurftYours Trignate @ShmeeGrim iFrostyRIP @Gunnar Kafel Bozo @AlphaOwl Certified Champ TheSlammerss Thank you everyone for your input and feedback! @JimWood Thanks for being the Radgen wizard @Chimonahehe and thank you for all the hehes If I didnt list anyone on here please let me know!!! Edited August 14, 2024 by Black Picture more details about the map nitro, AlphaOwl, ShmeeGrim and 5 others 6 2 Quote
MrTrane18 Posted June 25, 2024 Report Posted June 25, 2024 (edited) This one @Dredile gold! I am looking forward to trying it out! Best of luck with this amazing project! P.S The map link to workshop is not working! Edited June 25, 2024 by MrTrane18 Black Picture 1 Quote
Black Picture Posted June 25, 2024 Author Report Posted June 25, 2024 6 hours ago, MrTrane18 said: This one @Dredile gold! I am looking forward to trying it out! Best of luck with this amazing project! P.S The map link to workshop is not working! Thanks for the Heads up, it's in the middle of getting reviewed again since putting the map core contest link, Valve making sure the link isn't leading to anything bad which is understandable. MrTrane18 1 Quote
Black Picture Posted June 27, 2024 Author Report Posted June 27, 2024 On 6/25/2024 at 4:01 AM, MrTrane18 said: This one @Dredile gold! I am looking forward to trying it out! Best of luck with this amazing project! P.S The map link to workshop is not working! Link is now working! Thanks again for the heads up! MrTrane18 1 Quote
MrTrane18 Posted June 30, 2024 Report Posted June 30, 2024 (edited) Amazing map you have here! The vibe of the combine is on every corner of the map. It feels like your trying to tell a story of how slowly, combine took over humanity. Deleting their everyday life. Culture. Everything that could be deleted. Till the oceans are dry to say. I've made a showcase video of the map. In 30.06.2024 version of it. Spoiler Radar - 30.06.2024 Spoiler Amazing work done with the lighting of the map! Stay safe and stay mapping! #MRTRN Edited July 1, 2024 by MrTrane18 Black Picture 1 Quote
Black Picture Posted August 4, 2024 Author Report Posted August 4, 2024 Bumping the post, updated with new photos and wrote out goals, gameplay, features and such! Quote
Broken Posted August 4, 2024 Report Posted August 4, 2024 really cool concept for CS! Tons of fun! Black Picture and nitro 2 Quote
Black Picture Posted August 4, 2024 Author Report Posted August 4, 2024 58 minutes ago, Broken said: really cool concept for CS! Tons of fun! Thanks Broken, could of not done it without you hosting all those playtests like a machine! nitro 1 Quote
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