Hey guys. Got a new map on the way, and thought some of you might want to give me a hand testing it out. Mostly interested in balance issues, etc, but any bugs you can find are helpful. Just gonna paste the readme;


Oh, and here's a screenshot if you want a sneakpeek (slightly outdated though): http://www.pici.se/126956/


Downloading:
Here's the file (including .lit if you wanna use it): ftp://maps@dakoth.ath.cx/dakdm4b.rar (no password, just click ok)

If that link is dead, it means I'm in linux. If so, my apache server should be up, so you can grab them from:

http://dakoth.ath.cx/maps/dakdm4/dakdm4b.rar
or
http://dakoth.ath.cx/maps/dakdm4/
if you'd like to DL files separately.

Thanks to Flintheart for the loc - go ahead and grab his full loc package (link lower on page).

Thanks to Sassa for some mirrors;

http://roz.bookieroz.com/temp/dakdm4b.rar
http://roz.bookieroz.com/temp/dakdm4b.bsp

OMG!
i love those "in the floor" teleporters!

Whoa, nice work. I like all the little ledges and general ambiance.
gg!

map looks stunning even without 24 bits textures!
it is made of so much win! good job

post it @ http://www.celephais.net/board/news.php too
so mapping enthusiast can check it out too

uploaded it here aswell @ http://roz.bookieroz.com/temp/dakdm4b.rar

the map looks very very good!
just tell me when you wanna try it out in KTK!
you got 1 chance to do so

here is a link for server admins so they can put the map online (rar sux)

http://roz.bookieroz.com/temp/dakdm4b.bsp

It's just a "b" - beta map, and you guys starts uploading it everywhere
But hey, i liked the map! - feels kinda lika a pk map

feels more like a CPM map

yea. map is pretty cool man.

Sexy textures! Where are those from?
The lighting is quite dark, will need some more work.

I haven't played it yet but I really want to.

-Please name the readme.txt dakdm4b.txt (or dakdm4.txt then) so people can extract it to their map folder without overwriting any file.


If a server admin is too stupid to unrar (ok, maybe better use zip) a file then ... Please stop ripping bsp+txt apart and distribute the mapper's original release, goddammit!

Very nice map indeed! If it were little bigger it would make a great map for FFA and FTK too. Maybe expand it to somewhere those stairs near megahealth and the tele just around the corner of the stairs?

Is the map on any servers? I'd love to try some games on it.

Thanks for the feedback guys Gonna try to respond to some of the questions, etc.

1) I renamed the .txt to dakdm4b.txt as requested.
2) Sassa told me late last night that it had been added to easy/soumicom.
3) The 'b' part doesn't actually stand for 'beta', it's just the second edition of the map (the first edition was flatter, bigger, more spread out). But it is still a beta - though dakdm4c might be too
4) I'm hoping people can find some localhosts to play a few games on - just to get the feel of armors, weapons, ammo and health placement. They were done rather hastily, and I haven't had the time to test them out myself yet. Still, sassa went ahead and pushed them on easy/soumi, so use those servers if you can/want
5) Hmm, griffin told me he thought it was dark too. I'll agree that there are one or two places that are light-free, but I very nearly have light entities all over the place. I could try raising the worldlight value from 25 to 50, but I doubt it'll make much difference. Can you take a screenshot of one or two places where you think it's darkest, and I might be able to find another solution?

I dug around some in my archives and found that I'm using a textureset named TECH1SOC, by Sock. He will obviously be credited for his work in the final readme/release

wanna loc file? :E

Would be great flint

I think he actually reworked improved a lot of those textures into his 'Techno' pack, which supersedes the old ones from ~2001 :-)

http://www.simonoc.com/pages/materials/tptechno/index.htm

eizid, since Im the cancer of QW i can tell you that its on suomicom and easy, hopefully on molgrums soon aswell, u piece of shit!

As out of line and topic that statement is, thanks... I guess. You really don't need to remind me of my good quote in every post that you direct to me. The whole quote is just a joke that few of my mates thought was funny but obviously you take it right to the heart.

Had a very quick game late last night, turned out RA was slightly overpowered in it's current location. Since the map is so small on the x-y plane, you can basically hear where anyone is spawning (much like DM4 - but the RA on DM4 is kinda out of the way). Keeping pressure on the "dying" team becomes too easy with RA so easily accessible. Though it might've just been me knowing the map like my back pocket, but still, would like to hear what others think about possibly replacing RA with another YA (or something along those lines).

I've even considered removing quad, moving mega up to that shelf, and inserting a shaft somewhere on the lower reaches of the map, with limited cells around, to help the "dying" team to easier get map control back.

Anyway, like I said, a very quick game (only a few minutes) - any more feedback is much appreciated.

Just uploaded it on xs4all, should work in a bit on our servers.

clanwars.x4all.nl and port 28501-28504

Also added the latest version of travelert5 from voodoochopsticks

Thanks marshall


To also update my earlier request for screenshots of dark places; I took care of the lighting problem. Next version should be much brighter in dark areas while retaining the same brightness in those areas that were light before. Sample comparison screenshots below:

Before: http://www.pici.se/130947/
After: http://www.pici.se/130948/

Loc file:

http://web.telia.com/~u46505083/Quake/qw_locs.zip

I do the official loc files for ezquake+ktx so just d/l these and put them in quake/qw/locs and overwrite your existing ones, these are the absolutly latest ones

nice one.... been looking for new locs , thanx