Whalerace a4a

[lana]

Lighting underwater needs work. You can't really see the heavy that shot you. Additionally, nobuild the water.

 

[Fraz]

What nerd said.

Also: Make it longer D:

 

[Dustoxx]

Lighting underwater needs work. You can't really see the heavy that shot you. Additionally, nobuild the water.

if it's brighter underwater it is not neccesary to make it non-buildable. Because you should be able to clearly see the sentries. And if the water is nobuild, the engie hasn't got a fun job to do..

 

[Penguin]

Sorry I was less than helpful with the scoreboard.

 

[DaBeatzProject]

Sorry I was less than helpful with the scoreboard.

/slaps penguin.
You didn't do anything wrong. I apreciate your help.

 

[Penguin]

I'm hell bent of coming up with something cool for that spot, then.

 

[Trotim]

I can never join the server when your map (a3b) is on, keeps bitching to me about missing map, no matter if I put it on the maps folder or not. Am probably overlooking something silly here right now, just mentioning though.

 

[FiLi]

I can never join the server when your map (a3b) is on, keeps bitching to me about missing map, no matter if I put it on the maps folder or not. Am probably overlooking something silly here right now, just mentioning though.

I'm getting the same problem.

 

[DaBeatzProject]

I think there was something wrong with the redirect. I'm going to work on alpha 4 now and I hope that time there won't be any problems!

 

[lockitup]

Ran it on our server fine.

 

[DaBeatzProject]

Whoop! Bump to ask for some feedback:

Main question: nobuild underwater?

Share your thoughts!

Edit: teaser of stage 2

 

[Dustoxx]

As I already said before:
if the water is clear enough to see sentries and players under water, you should be able to build on it.
If it's too dark, it should be no-build, because it would give the engineers a big advantage.

Hope you find it usefull

 

[lana]

You can't see sentries through the water. That's the inherent problem.

 

[Randdalf]

Maybe the water clearer underneath, remove drowning to encourage underwater combat, and get Acumen to model some baby whales. D)

I'd also suggest to Acumen that he add animations to the whales
- Random breathing/flapping idle animations
- Tail wagging whilst pushing the whale
- Opens his mouth sometimes and does a whale song (wowooaoaoaooaaoaaaaa)

And underwater stage would be amazing.

 

[Azazoth!]

Played it during gameday! It was amazing.

It didn't feel like the engineer thing that others were complaining about was a problem - only a few sentries went up, and they tended to go down shortly after.

Very excited to see the next stage!

EDIT: Also, I second Randdalf's animation-suggestions.

 

[DaBeatzProject]

Forgot to mention that:
- Acumen's already made babywhales
- The water in a4 will be brighter
- There will be lights underwater
- Stage 1 will be 1/5th longer
- ...

 

[Dustoxx]

Forgot to mention that:
- Acumen's already made babywhales
- The water in a4 will be brighter
- There will be lights underwater
- Stage 1 will be 1/5th longer
- ...

that is GREAT news, thanks

 

[Tapp]

I must play this map, so that I can make a japanese whaling joke. I think sentries underwater need to be thoroughly thought out, though. The lack of visibility between out of water and into the water is dangerous.

 

[absurdistof]

Sentries only shoot you if you're in the water :/

They're pretty vulnerable as long as the engy in question doesn't have too powerful of a spot.

 

[Tapp]

Sentries only shoot you if you're in the water :/

They're pretty vulnerable as long as the engy in question doesn't have too powerful of a spot.

Seriously? Okay, I take back my ominous warning.