dm_lister
HLDM
dm_lister
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Silvertongue
Posted 7 years ago2017-11-21 11:04:57 UTC •
Completed •
Half-Life: Deathmatch
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"No. No, it's not Cloister. It's me, it's Lister! It's Lister the Stupid!"
-- Dave Lister, Red Dwarf Series I Episode IV, "Waiting for God"
A remake/rebuild/re-whatever of Cloister, a deathmatch map created by the Half-Life writer, Marc Laidlaw.
Cloister was never officially released but was retrieved (partially) from the leaked WC map pack, albeit not in an entirely playable state. As a self-acknowledged maker of monumentally poor decisions, I set about reconstructing the map and bringing it up to a higher standard of aesthetic quality, while preserving its play space to as reasonable an extent as possible. Marc seems understandably bemused as to why I'd pour my time into this, but as far as I can tell, the project has his approval--or at least, his world-weary tolerance.
Play is likely to be ideal with between 2 and 8 players, as the map is somewhat cramped and there aren't many safe places to spawn. All weapons make an appearance except the egon (because I'm a bitter soul). I've made an effort to minimize changes to the layout, but item spawns were largely just chosen by me based on whatever I felt would be best.
(The r_speeds are, of course, abysmal. I sort of went into this project knowing that I wouldn't be able to restrain myself. It's 2017 anyway, come on now)
-- Dave Lister, Red Dwarf Series I Episode IV, "Waiting for God"
A remake/rebuild/re-whatever of Cloister, a deathmatch map created by the Half-Life writer, Marc Laidlaw.
Cloister was never officially released but was retrieved (partially) from the leaked WC map pack, albeit not in an entirely playable state. As a self-acknowledged maker of monumentally poor decisions, I set about reconstructing the map and bringing it up to a higher standard of aesthetic quality, while preserving its play space to as reasonable an extent as possible. Marc seems understandably bemused as to why I'd pour my time into this, but as far as I can tell, the project has his approval--or at least, his world-weary tolerance.
Play is likely to be ideal with between 2 and 8 players, as the map is somewhat cramped and there aren't many safe places to spawn. All weapons make an appearance except the egon (because I'm a bitter soul). I've made an effort to minimize changes to the layout, but item spawns were largely just chosen by me based on whatever I felt would be best.
(The r_speeds are, of course, abysmal. I sort of went into this project knowing that I wouldn't be able to restrain myself. It's 2017 anyway, come on now)
7 Comments
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The lighting is really nice, the textures are superb, weapon placements look okay though I didn't get my friend to play deathmatch with me so I don't have an accurate review on that. I love the waterfalls and how nice it feels to fall into the water, you made water fun in an FPS, thats hard to do.
However there is a huge bug. The teleporter above the jetpack slows down my fps to 14 frames, which I urge you to fix as soon as possible, it might because of the overlapping textures. I know it is the teleporter because everytime I look at it, 14 frames, and when I don't, 150 frames. If you can fix this, that would be great.
Other suggestions I have include adding ladders on the slopes for quicker ascent to the third floor instead of using the long tunnel around, normally players don't want to take a long route just to get into another combat-infested zone. Also, if once you fix the teleporter, could you make it two-way? That way it wouldn't make the room as a camp zone when people are teleporting.
I would give this 5 stars for everything but the bug is a serious problem and you must fix it or else nobody with a slower computer will be able to play this properly.
EDIT: Here, https://gfycat.com/gifs/detail/LastingFirmBlackpanther
My computer doesn't do well with vid recordings but it shows that when I look at the teleporter particle, the fps drops a lot. It happens in any location and only drops when I see the particles.
I've done a special build with end sparks disabled. Would you mind giving it a look and verifying that clears up the issue? (https://www.dropbox.com/s/usmt51wnl01pmxu/dm_lister_noparticles.bsp?dl=0)