Void/GrandBoatEscape/SecretProject

[GrandOp]

Void/GrandBoatEscape/SecretProject

Let me first say, its been a while since i been on here but i am hoping that this big project i am taking on currently will make up for that.

Sooooo what is this "new big project"

Well gather around and i tell you. In this project i am hoping to do a massive update to two of my maps Void and GrandBoatEscape, but this is not just any update, no no no. This update going to bring in a lot of new and interesting features some of which was suggested by you guys/ladies. But, that's not it you will also be able to suggest things here that will be seen by me and will be token into count. So please feel free to give me as much constructive criticism or suggestions about the two maps getting updated. But wait there more! After both Void and GrandBoatEscape are done I will then start doing a whole new map, that will be a super duper hipster secret until then.

Things will be released as followed:
Void and GrandBoatEscape will be released at the same time, soon followed by "secret project". times may change.

So lets get onto the good stuff:
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Void 'mostly finished'

I been doing this one for a little while now and i think i have improved it drastically since the last version. Most of the update is done now though, but that dosent mean you cant chip in and throw in a suggestion or two.

So what bean changed?

I cant go into too much detail about everything that has changed, but i can go through the main new features that will make a drastic difference to the player experience:

1. More ways to get on top of the spire. I added one large tower to both sides of the spire, that allowed people to take lifts to top of spire but this will not be any cake walk no no no, the lift will be very slow and will have ladders all around to let zombies attack from. Don't worry though you still be able to climb the spire, if anything its a tad easier now to climb the spire and will also allow you to just about beat the lift to the top.

2. Visuals have been changed a lot. such as the lighting in void is much more better now. Also overall brightness has been changed so it's not too bright now. But if its still a tad too bright for you then you be happy to see whats below...

3. I have created a second version of the map that plays at night, this is no cheap change of the lighting though, a lot has changed in the midnight version to make it look just as good in the dark as it dose in day light.

4. Music and sound effects have been edited a lot giving a much better experience through the level.

5. Removed bugs that were destroying all fun within the map.

Screen Shots are below...

Now please bare in mind that this list is only showing off some of the major changes in the next update, and dosent go into detail about all the other smaller cool tweaks through out the map that people will find out when playing the map.

Grand Boat Escape 'work in progress'

Grand Boat Escape will have a load of changes done to it, if anything, will most likely have the most done to it. This is because i feel that Grand Boat Escape is.... boring, if anything its too much like the original in my opinion. Some people like it that way and I have nothing against that and will keep two version on game banana for any one that wants a Grand Boat Escape more like the original. But if your anything like me then your getting very bored at Grand Boat Escape and i don't blame you its pretty much run out of a action packed spawn into a constant snooze fest and then defend a op fort at the end. This was all fine at the start due to the fact people did not know what they were doing and there were always a ton of zombies to fight, but now people know what they are doing and there hardly enough zombies to make the middle and end parts any fun. Sooooo in this update I aim to make Grand Boat Escape much more harder, but also add a lot more details to the visuals. any suggestions you may have on how to improve this map is very much welcomed

I have only just started this update, but i have already improved it a lot since i started. this list shows some of the main features that will be in the next update.

1. added 3d sky box. Some of you may not know what this is, but to put it simply it allows me to make everything look much bigger, example being the updated version of Grand Boat Escape now looks as if it is now based on a large flouting ruin city instead of a flouting river of pointlessness. bean doing this for most part of two days, and have pretty much finished this part.

most of the list from now is "to-do" due to the fact i haven't finished the update for this map yet.

2. create a more deadly journey from the spawn to the end fort. I hope to do this by adding more areas where the player will need to jump or shoot instead of constant running. I hope to do this in a number of ways. Such as the tunnel in the middle of map now has a much different and interesting game-play feature that will remain secret for now. Also note, i really don't want to make playing this map any more annoying or straining by adding in really annoying traps or features that seem unfair, so don't worry you still be able to chill out and listen to some Jimi Hendrix on the boat.

3. The fort 'end game' will hopefully get a total redesign to be much more harder to defend, but also a lot more ""FUN"". I hope to do this by adding two lines of defenses instead of the one, this allows for so much more in terms of features and game-play. to add to this I will make all defenses weaker allowing the zombies to come from a lot more places with much more ease. Other features for the fort 'endgame' are still unknown, but i am hoping to make the end fort a much more challenging and entertaining experience for new and old players alike.

4. Improve all visuals for the map, for the most part this will be easy, it be a case of adding cube maps that add reflections to surfaces 'a feature void already has'. But I will also add a lot more detail to the general structure of the map most of which will blend in with the added game-play features 'mention above' through out the map. I also hope to add improved lighting as well as seen in the new void update.
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5. will hopefully do two different versions that are based at different times in the day 'like with the void update', to give the servers a bit more choice.

6. Music and sounds will be improved as well, to meet the standard of the voids update.

No Screen Shots of this map yet...

Secret Project 'Its a secret'

No word on the third secret project sadly yet, not until these two updates are released.

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Like i said many times before post any constructive criticism or suggestions you may have on features you will like added in the update or features you don't quite like in the two maps. Also sorry if there any grammar errors bean a long day...

[Xeongame10]

nice u are fixing grandboat

[Angel]

Looks very good, looking forward to seeing Void

[Slartibartifast]

Void at night looks sexy :>
It all sounds very promesing!

[Mad]

oh my god those last two screenshots look nice.

[I have no name]

sounds pretty damn epic.

[Rob^]

Looking good man

[aquaphun]

I always thought that the Void is promising but the version now is quite a disappointment. I really hope your tweaks and addons in the following versions will have huge impact on the community.
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Keep it up Grand!

[GrandOp]

Thanks for all the replies, I'm glad people are really liking the void screen-shots that I put up in the first post. Got a small update to post to keep everyone update.
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This was first posted on Plague Fest but still has a lot of info that would appeal to you guys/ladies

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Thanks for the replies and likes. The progress on the updates are coming along really well.

Update/Void/GrandBoatEscape/Info

Currently there one feature being added to Void and GrandBoatEscape that will be very helpful to Plague Fest ze server and any other ze server's with a spawning system like Plague Fest's. What i am doing is adding a command in the updated maps that will change the number of mother zombies spawned to 1, spawn times will be shortened and the send back to spawn trigger will be disabled. Meaning the overall pace will play out how it was intended to on all servers set up this way, for people not in the know how my spawns tend to work: Things will play out by trapping everyone in three different sections in the spawn, only connected by vents. Then dropping '1' zombie into the mix to create zombies, after 20-25 seconds the 3 spawn doors will open up and allow the humans and zombies out. Humans getting out first of course.

If there any problems with how I will be doing the spawns please do tell me. Lets say there is a problem I go to plan B for the spawn, and make a altered version so all the spawns on my updated maps open up much faster and allow plague fest and any server with spawning like it to remain how they wanted it. But... that's plan B, i feel the way said above will be the best for everyone though, it has the map working how it was intended on every server.

There will also be re-spawning zombies for the two updated maps what will be made to re-spawn all dead zombies or any human that dies, into a zombie. Not much of a change here for Plague Fest though, it already has re-spawning on i think, but will never less improve the game-play a lot on any other server that doesn't have this feature.

GrandBoatEscape development 'Void update is all mostly done now, so there not really much to talk about, unlike GrandBoatEscape what hasn't had much said in detail about its update due to the fact GrandBoatEscape feature list was mostly a to do list. If you want most of the detailed info about void take a look at top, there a list of whats been added not including some of the stuff i keeping hidden for people find out'

-Changed boat: its a little longer now, and has a lower deck instead of a captains cabin. This is good due to the fact it allows zombies to bash there way through the metal grated windows from the water and jump into the boat.
-Added a few more routs: before if you sow a zombie in-front of you, you would be in a lot of trouble and trapped. But... that's bean changed now, with the added number of routs in the game it allows humans to have more choice in where to go. They still can easily get them self killed, but that choice is there for them to fail around with or skillfully use.
-Basic 3dsky box is mostly all done, but am hoping to do some very interesting stuff in the later stages of development like flouting islands, and air-ships/sky-ships flying about.
-Ton of optimizing. Cant really go into much detail here, but there were a lot of poor mistakes i made back in the day, mostly all fixed now of course.

Here are screen shots of the new boat and old boat side by side. 'NOTE' This is alpha version of the big update, and dose not even have half of the new visuals i am hoping to have by the end of the update. Never less here are the two boats side by side, old boat to the left, new boat to the right. feel free to comment.

Sorry about grammar, getting a tad late.

[GrandOp]

Void and GrandBoatEscape updates will be released later on today or tomorrow. yay.
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Cant really show you any new screen shots of GrandBoatEscape yet, due to the fact the last main feature to be added is better visuals.

[Cazador]

Maybe it's too late but... can you remove that trigger to reduce hp of zombies to 1000? If I were u and my intention was to let CTs hunt zombies, I'd just reduce it to 1 hp and not 1000. But if my intention was to have a combat between CT and T then there's no need for that trigger, CTs would hold the zombies as in the original boatescape, zombies having the normal hp set by the server.
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[GrandOp]

Originally Posted by Cazador

Maybe it's too late but... can you remove that trigger to reduce hp of zombies to 1000? If I were u and my intention was to let CTs hunt zombies, I'd just reduce it to 1 hp and not 1000. But if my intention was to have a combat between CT and T then there's no need for that trigger, CTs would hold the zombies as in the original boatescape, zombies having the normal hp set by the server.

depends what trigger you are referring to. there one trigger outside the fort that decreased the zombies hp to 1500 hp or somthing, but put them into god mode until they got inside the fort, and one trigger in the middle of the balloon and rocket path.

first trigger bean edited back to 4500 hp, and the trigger in the middle of the balloon and rocket path has been removed due to a massive change in fort design.

Also don't worry about suggesting things, you got till the map is released publicly on game banana. I most likely do some testing first just on i3d, just to make sure things go smoothly. Even then i prob end still reading the comments to see if anything ells should be changed in future 'small' updates.

[Cazador]

Originally Posted by GrandOp

depends what trigger you are referring to. there one trigger outside the fort that decreased the zombies hp to 1500 hp or somthing, but put them into god mode until they got inside the fort, and one trigger in the middle of the balloon and rocket path.

first trigger bean edited back to 4500 hp, and the trigger in the middle of the balloon and rocket path has been removed due to a massive change in fort design.

Also don't worry about suggesting things, you got till the map is released publicly on game banana. I most likely do some testing first just on i3d, just to make sure things go smoothly. Even then i prob end still reading the comments to see if anything ells should be changed in future 'small' updates.

Sorry for late answer :/ Forgot about this
I meant the trigger in balloon way, it makes it so easy for CTs to kill the remaining zombies. Nice to hear it got removed. I hope we can test that map soon, sounds promising^^

[GrandOp]

Sorry for the delay, was hoping it be out a few days ago but had a change of mind about a end feature that seemed a bit poor and rushed. So I'm going to redo that small bit, and hopefully make it much better.

[GrandOp]

No... I haven't died. But I did sadly get a bad case of "slacker" for the past few weeks and could not bring my self to render all the maps I have made for this project, even though the maps were all mostly done ages ago.

So ye... Maps will be ready and released very very soon. so soon in fact all I need to do is sort out some cube map issues I'm having on Grand Boat Escape patch.

Here some screen shots of Grand Boat Escape, there still some cube map problems in some of these screen shots but they will all be fixed on release, hopefully.
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One more thing I should add though. Please don't get your exceptions too high for the these patches, there only so much you can do to old maps, but never less I hope you all have fun on them once they released.

[Elite3540]

Love this screenshots, keep up the good work!

[GrandOp]

Everything has now been done, Void and Grand Boat Escape are all ready to be tested on i3D, when I upload the files tomorrow.

Sadly though I have had some bad news. I been having a lot of trouble with the Void's midnight version due to cube map errors that I've been having with the night time sky-box, I tried finding a replacement for the sky box but I could not find anything that worked well enough to suit the map. I am really disappointed by this outcome but I feel that the original Void map has had enough improvements to work well enough by itself, The brightness has been toned down a lot so the main issues people once had with it should not be so problematic anymore.

I would also like to mention two other things

Void is going to have its name changed to "ze_Eternal_Void_v3" this has been done to hopefully give void a fresh chance when it is released to give it a fair chance of being nominated and voted on.

Lighting on Grand Boat Escape has been updated a lot, I am really happy with how it has all came out and hope to show you all once it is on i3D. But until then I got some screen shots here to display the new lighting for Grand Boat Escape. 'screen shots are a tad old but I hope they get across what the finale outcome looks like'
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But like I said above: Please don't get your exceptions too high for the these patches, there only so much I can do to old maps, but never less I hope you all have fun on them once they released.

[Xeongame10]

lets hope its great

[Elite3540]

This is so nice, i love the textures! I'd love to play it soon.

[GrandOp]

Thanks for all the support guys/girls.

Its finally been uploaded to drop box for i3D to test. Once i3D has tested it enough I will then upload it to Game Banana for all other servers to use.
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Link to New/Removed section of the forum where i posted to get my maps uploaded is below.

New/removed maps