King Kong: Arena version?

BrawlingBouse

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Hi, I'm looking to see if I can find a version of koth_king that has been modified for arena, (less health packs, basic arena rulesets) or what would be a reasonable way to change this map into an arena map. Relatively new to doing anything with maps in this game.
 

Bloodhound

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First you should know that this community isn't really a friend of valve map mods.
So you probably won't find anyone to do it for you.

You can try it via sourcemod:
http://forums.alliedmods.net/showpost.php?p=1621542&postcount=2527
pro:
- no download for players
con:
- no redistribution
- medikits (you can remove them too, but thats a lot of work with SM)

Or you can modify the bsp file (the map):
Use Entspy or VIDE.
And get familiar with the different gamemods (entity-wise).
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Koth#Entities
https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/TF2/Making_an_Arena_map#Arena_gamemode_entities

This guide for entspy should help you aswell:
http://www.bagthorpe.org/bob/cofrdrbob/entspy_spawnpoints.html

Good luck!
 

BrawlingBouse

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Thanks! This should do quite nicely, and I'm new to the site but do you guys have any other relatively well tested arena maps? A server I'm an admin on is trying to diversify.
 

Seba

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We went through an arena craze a while back (2 years ago, maybe? Christ it's been so long) so we have quite a few piled up. The ones that come to mind are: Arakawa, Backlot, Blackhole (even though yyler hates this map I think), Capricorn (I have to fix the HDR sometime, it looks like BF3 atm :<), most definitely Draft and Hardhat, and Lolcano.

And we, as a community, aren't against all Valve map edits; we just look down on the useless ones, like adding kittens to the skybox in 2fort or replacing every texture in the map with Justin Bieber (even though that's the greatest map this site has ever seen)(sorry about linking to Gamebanana, but Midget never made a thread for the map). See this thread for more details.
 
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Fraz

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I think you'll find, in the climate of that time. Biebertower was, necessary.
 

Deodorant

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Thanks! This should do quite nicely, and I'm new to the site but do you guys have any other relatively well tested arena maps? A server I'm an admin on is trying to diversify.
IP, please. I imagine a server running community arena maps wont have a very big population most of the time, but I'd love to keep it in my favorites and play on it whenever it does.
 

BrawlingBouse

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Thanks guys! You've all be tremendously helpful!

I'll let you know if we put them in the rotation, and give me a moment and I'll post the IP here.
 
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Pocket

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I think you'll find, in the climate of that time. Biebertower was, necessary.

Clearly so was popping in and replying a mere three minutes after being mentioned despite not having posting here in almost a year. Have you just been lurking here the whole time, or do you have one of those Google "Hey somebody mentioned you!" alert app thingies?
 
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Clearly so was popping in and replying a mere three minutes after being mentioned despite not having posting here in almost a year. Have you just been lurking here the whole time, or do you have one of those Google "Hey somebody mentioned you!" alert app thingies?

A Google alert for "midget" probably wouldn't help much.
 

BrawlingBouse

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Talked to our guy and we're going to have that map on the server very soon, and should be doing some testing with that one as well. We recently added:

arena_polar_rc1
arena_coalmine_b1
arena_lighthouse_b2

Into the rotation, we kind of did a bit of a community vote for the others and we're still considering a few of those.

Also here's the link for the community page, for some reason the copypasta'd one above doesn't work.

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/arenafortress