New Submission: Arena Lighthouse (b2)

Psy

The Imp Queen
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Apr 9, 2008
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Downloads: A new file has been added by Psycho:

Arena Lighthouse (b2)

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Beta 2 - Released 19th December 2008

Visuals

There are a lot of small changes but here are the most important ones!

- Changed environment lighting to bring the overall brightness up
- Changed 3D skybox slightly
- Replaced staircase with a smooth ramp

Gameplay

Again, there are a lot of changes!

- Moved cover around to help improve gameplay for slower classes
- Replaced healthkits with a pool of water to improve the pace of the map
- Added large ammopacks outside each spawn and two medium ammopacks on either side of the lighthouse
- Generally re-worked the right-side route
- Added a building at the center of either side to provide hard-cover when moving from one side of the map to the other
- Added clip brushes to the platforms at the ground level of the lighthouse to make it easier to walk onto

Misc

- Volume changes in the soundscape
- Reduced filesize from 34.2Mb to 24.6Mb

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Beta 1b - Released 28th Novemember 2008

Misc

- Reduce file size

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Beta 1 - Released 27th November 2008

Visuals

- Displaced surrounding cliffs
- Added architectural details
- Increased lightmap quality
- Replace brush-based lighthouse with a model
- Added a 3D Skybox
- Fixed cubemap issues with the windows at the lighthouse
- Fixed rock textures

Gameplay

- Added a variety of small and medium cover around the level
- Generally moved things around to add more tactical depth
- Added a curved staircase on either side of the control point to make it easier to disrupt a capture in progress
- Increased capture point enable delay to 60 seconds from the previous value of 30
- Added paint patches under ammo packs
- Added several railings

Misc

- Added soundscape containing a variety of seagull cries and distant waves lapping in the distance

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Alpha 1 - Released October 2008
 

Psy

The Imp Queen
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Apr 9, 2008
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Thanks. :)

I updated the file because it wouldn't let me download for some reason. I don't know how long that has been happening but it should be fixed now so I apologise!
 

mmik

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Dec 28, 2008
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I love this map. It gets played a lot on our arena server.

Thanks a lot for the great addition to the game mode!