PLR Hacksaw rc1b

[Diva Dan]

Hacker - A PLR map for the Payload Checklist contest.

Hacker is a Payload Race map that has you faced with a mission only for the greatest computer experts: Hacking a 1960's computer terminal.

However, thanks to details lost through translation during the mission briefing, your job got a whole lot easier. Push your team's Hackatron 3000 (oversized chainsaw with wheels) into the enemy team's computer terminal (glorified PONG machine). Finally, you may begin a hacking sequence (relentless slicing and abrasion). Follow these steps carefully and... something might happen...?

Hacker features:

[✓] NON-STANDARD CART
[✓] LEDGE 256 UNITS IN HEIGHT
[✓] NON-DEATH PIT HAZARD
[✓] MULTIPLE CARTS
[✓] DYNAMIC PAYLOAD ELEMENT (coming soon!)
[✓] PAYLOAD GOES STRAIGHT FOR 1,500 UNITS
[✓] PAYLOAD GOES DOWN 256 UNITS

 

[Cincomma]

Does that cart have a saw blade on the front of it...?



Yep, I instantly love this map

 

[Diva Dan]

• Renamed map from "Hacker" to "Hacksaw"
• Rethemed the map to be winter
  
• Redid the middle area to no longer have the long plank bridges
• Reconsidered sightlines across mid
• Remade the rocket launch site
  • Removed health kits
  • Made it generally more closed off for each team
• Changed the final checkpoint
  • The launch site ramp and console is now a rollback zone
  • Added a 10 second capture time for the "hacking" sequence, where the payload slowly cuts into the computer console with sounds and particles
    
  • You must stand at the payload the entire time, similar to Hightower, in order to not lose progress
• Redid lighting

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[nesman]

THE SAW CART RETURNS

 

[Yrr]

new vibes are immaculate

 

[Oni134]

I love the lighting of the environment

 

[Alex.bsp]

YESSSSSSS

 

[Another Bad Pun]

 

[Huwareyou]

New lighting looks freakin epic

 

[Diva Dan]

• redid fog to be less vibrant
• fog max density decreased
• improved indoor and outdoor fog transitions
• removed snow particles for now

• added a cliff health kit retreat near the payload starting area, and massively simplified the clutter

• removed weird crates that looked like a prop jump
• lightened spawns
• adjusted saw so that you can't die from the sides
• lowered the general height of each team's battlements
• Closed off one of the two windows at mid, moved it over, widened it for access, and cleaned up some related sightlines
• fixed snipers cheesing sightlines by standing on balcony fences
• added breathing room to each team's outer balcony

• added pickup patches
• fixed unwalkable displacement triangles
• added a pipe route up to each team's sniper battlement, away from the spawn route

• added push entities to the cliffs so you can't stand on them
• improved clipping above some roofs in mid so that rocket jumping is easier

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[Diva Dan]

Oh yeah i also generally adjusted a lot of rocks that had their collision hulls too large, so you shouldnt be bumping into stuff as often

 

[Diva Dan]

hacksaw a3a

• Improved the fog again
• redid the fence room to remove the fence and turn it into a nest room, and adjusted the doorways to prevent an extreme sightline from spawn

• remade the balconies to wrap around and provide better coverage

• extended the cart path by having it briefly travel through each team's building

• changed rocket cliff area to be wider and made the healthkit a full one

• made cliff hut healthkits small

• added little wood platforms outside of various windows to make peeking and blast jumping up to them easier

• entirely remade the finale- it now has a single elevator that both teams must attempt to ride up, similar to doomsday- the logic isn't finished so if you run into a bug please give steps to reproduce!

• changed some short fences to tall fences to better signify clipped off OOB areas

• made the resupply lockers a bit less hidden

• changed skybox texture as an experiment
• removed OOB sequoia trees because they were too distracting
• returned snow particles

• lowered respawn wave time to 3 (6 max) seconds from 4 (8 max)
• shortened sequoias
• closed a spawn exit to fix a sightline

• added a sniping window to each team's battlements that faces the finale

• lengthened setup time
• added some cool stuff that you'll have to see in game

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[Diva Dan]

- fixed some misaligned window textures

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[Diva Dan]

-Fixed missing particle manifest file

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[MegapiemanPHD]

Still not a big fan of that lighting but I like the other changes so far.

 

[Diva Dan]

• added one-way doors around the spawns similar to hightower (dont bother trying to exploit as engi with teleporters i thought of that already)

• made the payload dispenser a level 2, but also made it slower
• elevator is significantly slower
• elevator boost pad launch target is now tied directly to the cart platform, so you will always be launched high enough to reach it
• blocked the ability for people on the boost pad to shoot across the map

• clipped some little things here and there
• removed the color correction for now
• the sawblades attached to the carts are now smaller, more receeded, and louder

• removed grass that somebody thought was a spy

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[Diva Dan]

• Tweaked lighting to bring back a bit of the saturation that the removal of the color correction took away
• Fixed trees blocking a sightline between some windows
• Fixed broken areaportal windows
• Tweaked lightmap density around the map- areas with contrasty shadows will be much higher definition (below are some examples)

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[Diva Dan]

• Updated mid, cliff, and finale
  • Extended each team's building out to have a new hut
    • This hut blocks sightlines, serves as a harder area to push the cart through, and repurposes some of the combat flow
      
      
      
      
  • The cliff now has a small ammo kit on each team's slope
    
  • Changed the cart to go down to the cliff and loop back up to your team's side with a rollback, and then finally cross back over near the enemy team's battlements at the very end
    
    
  • There is no more elevator, its now just a normal PLR finale for the time being
    • The cart will need to be held at the saw for an extended period of time like a capture point
      
  • Added a doorway with a wooden platform accessible from the finale that allows you to shoot down toward the cliff
    
    
  • The jump pad has been removed (sorry) and replaced with a full ammo cubby
    
  • Moved the rocket from the cliff to the finale
    
  • Removed big rock at mid, making for a much more straightforward access to the finale from mid
    
  • Overlooking windows were moved out and adjusted to be clearer and more obvious while nerfing some of their reach- they also now serve as a partial sentry nest overlooking the new finale
    
    
    
• Fixed the wrong sawblade getting bloody when killing a player
• Fixed some erroneous clipping
• Closed some decorative windows and grates to help optimization
• splattered some more bits of team coloring around
• Added tons of fades to props -especially out of bounds ones- so that they don't draw if you're on the other side of the map
• Fixed large window textures in spawn

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[Diva Dan]

• Fixed blue payload triggering a red victory
  
• Fixed some visible prop fades

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[Diva Dan]

• Fences no longer push you into the death pit
• Cliff faces around the map will push you more consistently
• The saws no longer insta kill, but instead deal rapid high damage
  • This gives players a moment to correct their mistake, and not be as badly punished for being too close to the cart when it's taking a turn, while still having the funny highlight of being caught off guard
  • The cart now gibs you, which will zoom out your screen and show you that the cart killed you better
• Tweaked fog and lighting
• Changed upper battlements ammo to medium

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