Dissolution

Half-Life HL
Dissolution by Skals
Posted 14 years ago2010-06-14 14:06:21 UTC • Completed • Half-Life
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Name
Dissolution
By
Skals Skals
Type
Map
Engine
Goldsource
Game
Half-Life
Category
Completed
Included
BSP
Created
14 years ago2010-06-14 14:06:21 UTC
Updated
13 years ago2011-09-14 09:57:38 UTC
Views
4862
Downloads
1175
Comments
14
Rating
4.75 (4)
Reviews
0
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Update 3:
The download link died again. I could only find the old version that requires nw.wad, so I uploaded that version - Oskar Potatis 2022

Update 2: Here is a new link:
http://localhostr.com/download/gJQUB7R/dissolution%20by%20skals.zip
Update: Now with .wad include!


Credits to Andrew Weldon for releasing awesome Nightwatch textures, and thanks
to The_(c)Striker and James Holland for help.

This is a large hl single player map with up to 20 minutes of gameplay.
I have been working on this one map for a couple of months now.

Please rate it after you've played it, have fun!

The puzzles shouldn't be too hard, just remmember: If you see an electrical
socket, there must be a pushable battery nearby. If a door doesn't open you
should probably try going another way. Sometimes you will be required to
return to previous locations you have been in. If you find yourself out of
ammo, find crates to break or hidden clips.

If you want nightwatch textures, they're here, but the map has .wad include!
http://www.filefront.com/15027791/nightwatch_textures.rar/

14 Comments

Commented 14 years ago2010-06-16 16:10:07 UTC Comment #18193
Pretty darn good.

+ Well designed puzzles
+ Good use of making the player visit and revisit previously visited area's of the map
+ Nice texturing

+- I did'nt like the massive pipes in the starting room, add some end caps to where the pipes meet the ground and maybe make them less "sharp"
+- I noticed a decrease in performance when looking around in the main area (where you have these flows of liquid)
+- I did'nt like the closed doors, the ones that never open. Add doorframes for them and don't make the frames the same width as the wall. The same goes for the doors. This way you'll add depth.

I think thats all. Good job. :)
Commented 14 years ago2010-06-17 02:41:40 UTC Comment #18194
Thanks, I don't really know how to properly make pipes. I can't find a tutorial on that. As for the doors, I don't think the nightwatch textures have frames for them, but I can try using some other texture, never been a big fan of door frames so instead I just gave them all lip. Lastly as for the decreased performance, can't do much there, the engine just doesn't like open spaces and the way I layed out the map, unfortunately that happened.
Commented 14 years ago2010-06-22 15:10:15 UTC Comment #18173
as your attorney, i would recommend wadincluding your textures to the bsp. there are a very limited number of people who will play your map, and even fewer of those will be willing to do a seperate download for textures...

make it as easy as possible for people to play your map!

that said i downloaded the textures and tried it out. from what i saw it looks pretty good! I like the little cube-shape objects you have to find and insert to the high-voltage ports. =)

map looks very carefully made and nice from what i could see, though i didn't play the whole thing.
Commented 14 years ago2010-06-22 16:56:09 UTC Comment #18165
Thanks for the tip, I reuploaded the link with .wad include on the map. Please rate it! :>
Commented 14 years ago2010-06-23 13:07:03 UTC Comment #18162
i'll go a provisional 5 until i play the whole thing, but everything i've seen is done very very nicely. Agrees with muzz the huge pipes are a bit much and could use more segments, but the ones in the ceiling look really good and carefully constructed.

++fun gameplay/puzzzles
++careful/clean mapping
+++wadincluded textures +)

I'm afraid ia can't really say more until i play it again. the computer i/m on now does not have half-life, so i'll have to complete the map later.

5 for now, nice work!
= )
Commented 14 years ago2010-06-23 13:36:38 UTC Comment #18161
Thanks captain! Hope you have fun playing the rest of it later on.
Commented 14 years ago2010-06-29 10:34:58 UTC Comment #18197
Played it. For some reason, almost every pushable was getting stuck by an invisible wall of some sort. Eventually I had to cheat my way at one part. I did enjoy the ambience, lighting, puzzles, and clean mapping and level design. I did not enjoy endless spawning of headcrabs. Its better to place crabs in strategic locations than to infinitely spawn them. Or after a certain amount of time or progress, spawn some more. Overall, I did enjoy it and it brought back some (probably now forgotten) classic Half-Life survival gameplay.

Well done.
Commented 14 years ago2010-06-29 12:10:33 UTC Comment #18198
thanks rim, The invisible walls are 2 unit clip brushes on the floor. I had to do this to prevent the boxes from being pushed off ledges and into a not accessible spot. I don't know which one got stuck for you? There are three required pushables and one that can fall into the water which only leads to a magnum. I suppose I could of created the head crabs like I did for some of the other monstermakers, I didn't think of it however.
Commented 14 years ago2010-07-01 08:58:23 UTC Comment #18201
There was one just before a reticle that you push a crate into to open a door. The room with the waste management like pools.
Commented 13 years ago2011-09-14 13:18:02 UTC Comment #19453
Great map! A bit complicated in the beginning (first puzzle) and dark most of the time, but really worth to play.

P. S. Map from updated link is not wadincluded, unfortunately. But Nightwath textures are really cool & worth to download too :)
Commented 9 years ago2015-04-14 05:27:18 UTC Comment #20848
Simple map that is very dark throughout. Puzzles involve either a pushable battery (as mentioned above) or buttons that open doors several rooms back. And forth. Nice short map that is limited to low level weapons and monsters. There was an attempt? at horror ambience, but it wasnt really very scary. Dunno if anyone else was spooked
Commented 2 years ago2022-02-11 02:06:38 UTC Comment #104108
Download fixed, but it's the old version so players need to add nw.wad

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