Okay, after playing an awesome game of CP with the guys this morning, I think we all reached a concensus that we need more CP maps. Now, i'm going to put aside my L4D project to create one!

Yay! Hoorah! and all that Jazz...

Ok, down to business. Because I'm starting the map and it's mine i'm going to make a castle map. It will actually consist of a main tower in the middle of the map with the CP point in the middle. Two seperate paths will go towards a bridge over a small canyon/river or whatever, with another CP point on that. Then the castle is a short distance away with the last CP point directly outside. Team players start inside the castle and come out from a few exits, but enemy players cannot enter and spawnkill. Obviously, it will be mirrored for the other team. So, what do you guys think?

I would love to see some (usable) cannons. You could make one team start in a medieval village, making it a fight between the poor and the rich.

Okay, I'll consider the cannons. They can be usable tanks that only fire once a minute or something.

you need trebuchets and stuff.

you need trebuchets and stuff.

you need trebuchets and stuff.

you need catapults and stuff.

right. didnt mean to double post, sorry

C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!

4 Hit Combo
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Anyway, the soonest I can get around to updating the template is Monday night.

I'm an hour or so in and the layout has changed already!!

Now it's kind of going in a U shape. Teams start in two castles side by side each with a bridge that goes over to the mainland castle tower. Inside the team castles are high walls so that you can't shoot at players inside, but because the bridges cross side by side (there is no way to jump from one to the other) teams can take shots at players crossing the other bridge to slow them down from getting to the mainland. Pictures soon...

EDIT: Oh, and if this was for Source, I would totally build a catapult to launch explosive rocks or something

Players have to shoot from two parallel bridges to get to the middle point right? That's a pretty good idea!

If I may suggest not putting the Tau Cannon on the map. Reason being for CP TWHL3 was because of the windows, also the map does not have teleports to stop a player from gaining entry. You can still have a Tau Cannon, just add a master to the teleport triggers for the team you want it to affect and a teleport destination somewhere in that area also.

If you have any troubles or care to try a private testing, let me know. :3

Will do. I wasn't going to add the Gauss, mainly because it would allow players to Gauss-jump from one bridge to another or over walls. The crossbow will also be limited because of the unfair advantage it has over the open spaces. There will be a crossbow, probably in the center tower, but no ammo will be on the bridges.

Sweet, cp maps are freakishly fun, me want to makey one.

CP?

I only know of one usage of this term. Ahem.

tuttut Bad srry! Bad!

Anyway, I made this cool little cannon:It's a func_tankmortar that fires once and then takes a minute to reload. And here's the corker, you can't see it in the picture, but there is a env_spark on the fuse part. If the fuse is lit and sparking, then you can fire the cannon. Once you fire it, the fuse goes out and it will come back on when it's ready to fire again. I did this to stop teams overusing them.

W00t! Cannons!

Oh, and if this was for Source, I would totally build a catapult to launch explosive barrels or something

Fixed.

I tried making a CP map, but for some reason, recently only Hammer can access rmf's. Which is unfortunate when the compile tools need access to it.
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W00t! Cannons!

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Medieval castles would cover large boulders with tar and set them alight when they fired them, that and explosive barrels weren't invented yet

Niether were 9mm guns.

Or HEV Suits...

Okay, okay! Point taken. Now:I've customized the scoreboard and created little flagsso that it's easier to see who owns a checkpoint from a distance. I also made sure to clearly distuinguish the blue from red castle as much as possible. At the moment there isn't much to show you until I finish texturing, otherwise brushwork is done and i'm clocking up about 4000 wpolies in the bad spots before a full compile.

Updated as promised if you want to use it.
LOiNK!

EDIT: The beta is released. It's mostly complete, I know there is no sound, this will be fixed later. I would appriciate any suggestions to improve gameplay or make it more fun.

http://www.twhl.co.za/vault.php?map=5421

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After I recompile it again I will release it for some beta testing. There is still room for additional work or ideas so please feel free to offer any.

Okay, got some feedback from Rimrook and making some big changes. I like the layout so I'm leaving it the same so instead I'm adding details. Some basic changes:

+ Fixed teamplay settings and CP entities

+ Removed tacky coloured blocks and replaced with coloured trims.

+ Adjusted starting balconies to stop players hurting themselves when jumping off.

+ Raised Castle walls to help reduce LOS and improve r_speeds at the top of the tower.

One note to everyone, depending on which team you are, you can't use the cannons on the opposing team's bridge. They are team locked, that's why they don't seem to work.

Yes double post, couldn't be bothered editing, leave me alone .

Sounds good. Didn't know that the cannons were team specific. Smart move since they could kill other team mates and there's always one asshole who will do it.

Can't wait for the final release, I like this map a lot!

tried it alone. Looks promising. Can't wait for final release

Okay, it's actuallydone and more importantly, I'm finished with it completely. I added more detail and fixed the r_speeds in one area and made them worse in another, haha, but never mind, they still stay under 4000 wpolys which is really good for a map of mine. You lot should know how much I overdo them and usually reach 6000+

http://www.twhl.co.za/vault.php?map=5429

This was fun playing on the server! let's do it again!

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