PLR Panic b2

[Ravidge]

gameday

I kept crashing so I couldnt get into the game for more than a minute. And then the server crashed....

Anyway, I believe people got to play all stages once atleast. So what did you think of it?

 

[littleedge]

The wall is EPIC. I honestly think you should have the two tracks just slightly closer to eachother in the last stage, but...

Gate still goes through
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1490725/plr_panic_a40001.jpg

Lights are blinding
http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1490725/plr_panic_a40002.jpg

 

[Psy]

This was the first time I've played it and it was really fun.

There was some weirdness when we won Stage 2. The cart started rolling back for some reason. D:

 

[Ravidge]

Littleedge: 1. gah, I was too busy rebuilding stage 2 to remember that 2. doesnt look like that for me, Thanks!

Psy: That's odd, never had that happen when I quicktested before pakratting. I'll take a look at it.

 

[Sgt.Sausage]

I played both sides twice i believe in gameday on all 3 stages> It played great and i love all the special starts to the rounds on each stage.

I dont have to many complains or suggestions right now. The last stage is fun, i like it better than pipeline in some ways because their is the house in the middle so its less sniper friendly and easier to push kart.

 

[PMAvers]

Dunno if anyone's pointed it out, but the debris from the "wall explosion" in round 2 sticks around, and isn't solid. You can hide stickies inside them currently.

 

[PMAvers]

Ran it a bit on my server tonight, and ran into the "roll-back" thing on Stage 2 as well.

It looks like everything on RED's track starting with the hill on is marked somehow as a "roll-back" section, not just the hill.

BLU's cart, on the other hand, didn't seem to have the problem. If it got pushed to the top of the hill and then stalled, it'd stick up there like it should.

 

[Ravidge]

Thanks PMAvers!
About the wall: It's an alpha explosion, I didnt bother with collision models, because I was having troubles to even get it working in the first place (I'm new to modeling). I'll just have to hope its not exploited too much before I get around to fixing it.

cart: Thanks for the confirmation, I'll get right on it.

 

[Psy]

Oh, I almost forgot. Is there any particular reason why there isn't rollback at the cap on the first 2 stages?

 

[Ravidge]

I want the rounds to go by fast. Having a last hill of rollback will open an oppertunity to defend and then suddenly you have a fortified capture point, only one team has enough power to attack, while the defenders can just drag the round on for a very long time.

It's not an interesting battle, since its basically a/d but without any win condition for the defenders.

However, if there are no rollbacks there, offence is the best defence. And that helps me achieve the fast rounds I wished for

 

[jpr]

I liked the old stage 2, haven't played the new one but hopefully it's better or at least as good

 

[Ravidge]

alpha 5 released.

Fixed the crashing caused by too many edicts.
I also made some custom particles for stage 2.
Quick detailing on stage 1.

 

[Ravidge]

Gameday bump!

A lot of the voice chat got tuned out in the constant explosion/minigun noise
I'm gonna have to re-listen in the sourceTV demo.

 

[uma plata]

A lot of fun

Pretty hectic, seems like you're getting attacked from all sides, but hey, it's called panic for a reason, right?

I really like the creative use of cart rollback. Lighting/details were great

One of my favorite PLRs so far. Nothing really to suggest at this point

 

[Cpt. Axle]

When this map was up on Game day, the server seemingly keeled over part ways through the session. Anyways, the point of this post is that I was treated with a pretty awesome image:

The boys over at the valve forum cleaned off my HUD for me. I figured I should pass it over to you since it'd probably make a nice scenic addition for panic's screen shot collection.

 

[Ravidge]

Looks cool axle

Gamedahy bump btw.

 

[Tinker]

Yeah, this was a huge amount of fun. The only critcism I have is that you could maybe make it clearer that people can lose the third stage by losing their cart, too, and I don't particularly like the map's name, although that's a matter of taste.

 

[Terr]

My only complaint is the cart being "lost" off the end of the final stage. Sure, it's a funny mechanic, it's original, and looks neat, but...

I just don't think it'll fly when it comes to public play.

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At the very least, the third stage should (like the others) have some set-up time for people to orient themselves. You could place the bombs much further ahead and have them roll back so that they're at their starting postitions when the doors open.


Edit: Suggestion: When players are near to falling into the bottomless pit on stage 3, you can put a trigger that will change their fog-controller to one that ensures anything more than X units below them is fogged to black. You'll still want the existing semi-transparent slices for long distances, but it might make the "deepness" effect more detailed up-close.

 

[BrokenTripod]

I think it would be pretty cool if you could add some warning lights or sounds (Uh, in the spawn?) or something that informs the team whose cart is about 1/4 of the way from the end of the track to HURRY UP and push the cart. I'm not sure if there's a good announcer voice clip for this, but it would be cool if you implemented some way to inform new players that that cart MUST be pushed.

 

[Ravidge]

I think it would be pretty cool if you could add some warning lights or sounds (Uh, in the spawn?) or something that informs the team whose cart is about 1/4 of the way from the end of the track to HURRY UP and push the cart. I'm not sure if there's a good announcer voice clip for this, but it would be cool if you implemented some way to inform new players that that cart MUST be pushed.

A good idea. Shouldn't be hard to implement.

In other news: I'm suddenly very busy and have barely any mapping time these days. I'm trying very hard to get my other map (system) into beta as soon as possible to then stir up some panic again. I haven't actually played a session of tf2 in a long time because I take every oppertunity to map when I can