Lost in Transmission

Nice one, Tet!

Too bad I can't play it.
So rating this it will be unfair.

The Rock texture seems too plain. Also cant play this map

Time wasn't on my side. I had bigger fish to fry
Get Ep2 fellas!

While it's certainly fair to say it's rough around the edges, there is actually a great deal of content in this map to enjoy.

The effects are a step above the rest - entity work and your time spent with the particle editor has paid off in spectacular fashion and the area feels extremely vibrant for it.

Brushwork and texturing leave a little to be desired - texturing in particular would have been far better with some custom content but overall almost every vista in this world could be described as breathtaking.

There are a few bugs here and there, mostly with the skybox which looks like it's only had a fast VIS compile (world is visible through bottom of skybox) and there are a few ways (despite your best, and commendable efforts) to prevent progress. I hate games that handhold the player, but this is perhaps just slightly too far in the other direction. "Find the wetstone" is not enough information to start with and I originally felt quite out of my depth with what I was trying to achieve, despite finding the green gem very quickly.

The music note puzzle was excellent, although again, some custom textures would've done wonders.

Great job!

Thanks for your review Archie!

I used the pre-canned HDR final compile on the map - I also noticed the skybox flaws.
I was skeptical when the compile only took about 6 minutes, but i had to stop for the moment and I wasn't quite sure if I would have the time to submit at a later time.

I found a few more free hours so I'll try to re-compile with better lighting; maybe I'll find a way to guide the player some more...

Making the path to the bridge connect to the path to the first marker that tells you to find the wetstone would lead the player down there much earlier. I thought the green gem was the wetstone so i was trying to throw it into the blue sprite above the marker and such (irretrievable up there, btw - restart) before I even noticed the bridge.

Downloading now, so glad you made this one!!! =P

Maybe add a imgur album of screenies, so those who can't play it can take a look and rate/comment too!(Imgur is pretty good if you never used it; uploads are way faster than dropbox, and it also has thumb support)

Lighting in skybox was off due to another light_environment hiding within the displacements. Removed, recompiled, and it worked fine.
Thanks again for pointing out the quality issue - I would have let it slide but there was time to find and resolve the problem

I changed the hints and added another - let's hope other players can follow them easier.

I haven't set anymore key reset's though so unless you drop the stone off the island you're not getting it back if its unreachable.

I actually have every Source game on my Steam profile (plus more than one in different accounts, 3 to be honest :P). The problem is: my shitty pc my dear Tet. If I could barely support UT2k4 at minimum graphic settings at 640x480, trying to test or review your map with this hardware should be really bad! xD But I really want to test it out. As soon as I have a new pc I'll give you some opinions!

It should at least play if you force the engine to Dx level 7
"-dxlevel 70" is the launch parameter...
Only thing with that would be the particles. I never included different DX level particles... so they would still be fully rendered.

I understand your perdicament!

I'm sorry you didn't place sir, it had to be tough on the judges! I'll try to play and comment on this as soon as I can!

The old download link https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12698250/dont_delete/tet_c33_v02.zip and the screenshot links died. I have taken the liberty of uploading this version.

Thanks Oskar