Posted: Sun Apr 23, 2017 5:35 pm Post subject:
[TS] Lost Contact (2-8)
Subject description: My first map
[TS] Lost Contact (2-8 players)
Finally finished my first map. Up to 8 players.
Tiberium resources vary from location:
Players near center can guard near tiberium trees easily + having blue tiberium start boost.
Farthest players have to defend their tiberium resources.
There are 2 capturable civilian arrays if you want to get reinforcements. Just capturing array does not grant you the advantage. Once captured, you have to escort technician to your base. If succeeded, technician in your base will retreat and you will get reinforcements 2-times per day. Other players have many options to react:
- kill technician before he reaches enemy base.
- kill enemy units and steal technician.
- destroy civilian array and nobody will ever have any reinforcements.
- capture civilian array to get another technician.
Because of limitations, only one active technician can exist to make house assigning work, so if array is captured and other player have technician in use, he will get about 2 minutes to finish his task. After time has elapsed, active technician will run away and new one in queue will be spawned.
Using TS Client is recommended for this map.
update1: cleaned up shores, fixed tiberium
update2: few minor slopes fixes, smoothed some areas, added some details
update3: increased speed of technician, few terrain fixes, fixed base capturing for 2nd location, narrowing some parts for 8th location to provide little more building space, shortening ion storm by 1 minute, minor neutral AI patches.
- The way framework mode is used to draw cliffs and dirt roads, water
shores could also use it.
- Map crashes, most likely because of tiberium placed on slopes near
the bottom veinhole. QUICK_EDIT
Comment for "Reinf.gif": Very funny story of a man and a cyborg, it's like he is going to take him down but then he left the cyborg, then an aircraft approaches & the end.. Boooooooring story! _________________ If you are a MetalHead (Heavy Metal Fan) and don't want to be a metalhead, Just remove your metal ball from your head. �:p .
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- Map crashes, most likely because of tiberium placed on slopes near
the bottom veinhole.
Thanks, I checked tiberium on slopes several times, I must have missed it. Fixed
E1 Elite wrote:
- The way framework mode is used to draw cliffs and dirt roads, water
shores could also use it.
Yes, I discovered marble madness too late when map was nearly finished. Shores will be improved soon.
- updated: all shores are now cleaned up.
PussyPus wrote:
Very funny story of a man and a cyborg, it's like he is going to take him down but then he left the cyborg, then an aircraft approaches & the end.. Boooooooring story!
Just a tutorial. Tutorials used to be boring. Last edited by Tuc0 on Mon Apr 24, 2017 9:14 pm; edited 1 time in total QUICK_EDIT
Excelent map... very nice for big bases (RA2 battles) and is symmetric and very detailed and nice ilumination. you're a great mapper!
Thanks a lot for feedback.
I didn't know RA2 engine can use TS maps. Your screenshots look truly amazing, great work with terrain/buildings art. QUICK_EDIT
wow, do you made sure GC uses the exact same TileSets numbers, same Overlay indexes and same object names as TS so you can import a TS map directly into GC?
RA2 is basically a mod of TS... Overlays are same... and i'm implemented all objects of TS in RA2 (vehicles are temporal for now)
I'm using temperat theater for TS maps and Two "new" (Ecuad and Ecuador_GC) theaters that use same extension of tiles (.tem) and same files...
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Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2017 1:36 am Post subject:
I just gave this map a test-play and I gotta say, I'm impressed! I like the whimsical and practical use of triggers, it's a kind of style I can really appreciate.
Here's my feedback:
-Technician is VERY easy to lose! I recommend giving him a speech bubble, or a blinky effect or something so he's easier to spot.
-"Reinforcements have arrived" should have a radar event when they appear. that'll make it easier to find and emply them without searching, or forgetting that they're there.
-Ambient lighting needs improvement. WAY to dark at night. If you're going to make it that dark I suggest giving the player lamp posts to build, and/or placing lamp posts around the map like the cities and capturable structures for example. Ion Storm lighting is the same way. Just too friggin dark.
-The Neutral attackers were VERY annoying. Not challenging-annoying I mean a pain in the butt. The problem is that your units won't automatically attack the neutrals, so you've got to micromanage the crap out of every mutant attack. If player units automatically fired at neutrals though, then I'd say it was a great addition.
-I like the bendy tunnels! I don't know if there's an easier way to do it lately, but back in my day you had to calculate every cell individually to make tunnels like that. Props!
-I like the bendy tunnels! I don't know if there's an easier way to do it lately, but back in my day you had to calculate every cell individually to make tunnels like that. Props!
I just gave this map a test-play and I gotta say, I'm impressed! I like the whimsical and practical use of triggers, it's a kind of style I can really appreciate.
Thanks a lot for playtesting and suggestions.
Team Black wrote:
-Technician is VERY easy to lose! I recommend giving him a speech bubble, or a blinky effect or something so he's easier to spot.
In some situations could be. Probably speed will be increased in next update, but for now I am not planning any changes for Technician. The talking bubble idea is not bad, I have thought about it before. But I personally don't like it. For single player missions maybe, but for multiplayer TS maps it does not fit in there in my opinion.
Team Black wrote:
-"Reinforcements have arrived" should have a radar event when they appear. that'll make it easier to find and emply them without searching, or forgetting that they're there.
Probably will be featured later, but I have to test this "Radar Event" action, Not sure if also enemy players are able to see it on radar. I prefer using "go to radar event" keyboard shortcut instead of looking on minimap.
Team Black wrote:
-Ambient lighting needs improvement. WAY to dark at night. If you're going to make it that dark I suggest giving the player lamp posts to build, and/or placing lamp posts around the map like the cities and capturable structures for example. Ion Storm lighting is the same way. Just too friggin dark.
It is true that monitor screen brightness during daytime could decrease the visibility of dark areas at "night". I want the "night" to be recognizable and some areas should be dark because of the night. But I will try to balance the atmosphere and playability
Team Black wrote:
-The Neutral attackers were VERY annoying. Not challenging-annoying I mean a pain in the butt. The problem is that your units won't automatically attack the neutrals, so you've got to micromanage the crap out of every mutant attack. If player units automatically fired at neutrals though, then I'd say it was a great addition.
The latest TS Client makes units to auto-attack armed neutral units. It is true that usually for some reason mutants prefer player's target instead of nearby AI. Also after some time of gameplay the "Neutral Auto-Attacking" patch vanishes and players units no longer attacks neutrals unless ordered to do it. Hopefully it will be patched in future.
Team Black wrote:
-I like the bendy tunnels! I don't know if there's an easier way to do it lately, but back in my day you had to calculate every cell individually to make tunnels like that. Props!
Yeah I had spent lot of time learning about Tunnel building, like broken FS tunnels, reversed FS coordinates or INI tunnel editing. The SWF tunnel tool mentioned below, also saved lot of time and troubles.
Team Black wrote:
Overall this is the best map I've seen in a long time! Hope you to see more, especially in the SP variety
Glad you liked it and thanks for suggestions. I have some concepts in my mind for other MP maps, probably released in fall. QUICK_EDIT
Map updated: increased speed of technician, few terrain fixes, fixed base capturing for 2nd location, narrowing some parts for 8th location to provide little more building space, shortening ion storm by 1 minute, minor neutral AI patches. QUICK_EDIT
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[TS] Lost Contact (2-8)
