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Posted by Finger on Mon Nov 8th at 5:16am 2004

Just curious. Since there is no standard HLDM2, and it will probably be a while before the community settles on one of the countless DM spawns that are likely to come....how many of you are interested in doing some mapping for CS:Source?

I already have something brewing, and thought it might be fun to kick this new era of mapping off with some sort of contest, for CS:Source. It would also be sure to get us on the front pages of the HL2 news sites, and generate some traffic for the good ole Snarkpit.

Anyway, even though Cs might not be our game of choice to map for, it surely wouldn't hurt to be applying our skills (old and new) to an actual playable game, rather than waiting around for HLDM. Also, CS is fairly straightforward gameplay wise, and should be fairly easy to do 'right' without really being a fan of the game.

SO... wadda ya think?





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Posted by ReNo on Mon Nov 8th at 5:23am 2004

Very good idea actually, and I back it completely. Doubt I'd be entering as I'm mapping for AG2 and will probably need to dedicate my time to that, but I'd be willing to be part of a judging panel or do some reviews.
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Posted by Mor7y on Mon Nov 8th at 5:38am 2004

I think it's a good idea. I would love to enter, but I have to wait until HL2 is in my mailbox before I can get Hammer 4.0/CS:S
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Posted by Crono on Mon Nov 8th at 5:43am 2004

? quoting Mor7y
I think it's a good idea. I would love to enter, but I have to wait
until HL2 is in my mailbox before I can get Hammer 4.0/CS:S


Same here.

But, if you want to do a mapping contest with Sources, why don't we just wait until all the sources are released?
Becuase, if you REALLY wanted to make a HL DM map with HL2 engine, all you have to do is make it for HL:S and port some HL2 models, sprites, and sounds over.
It'd be awesome for people who want to map for CSS, HLS, or DODS. And I'm sure HLS and DODS aren't going to take too long after the release of HL2 to come out (maybe around febuary or march). [addsig]



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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Mon Nov 8th at 6:07am 2004

Yeah, I think it might be best to wait for a little while. Many people don't even have the tools or computers to play around with it yet. Surely we can wait a week or two? *cough*
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Posted by ReNo on Mon Nov 8th at 7:23am 2004

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Becuase, if you REALLY wanted to make a HL DM map with HL2 engine, all you have to do is make it for HL:S and port some HL2 models, sprites, and sounds over.


Actually Valve have said that there is no multiplayer portion in HL:S, its only single player also I'm sure it won't be hugely long before lots of HL2 deathmatch mods appear though.
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Posted by Crono on Mon Nov 8th at 7:32am 2004

Oh, that sucks. I would have figured they would have just ported ALL of HL over. But I figured wrong apparently.

I suppose you can wait ... more. Valve really seems to have put way too much effort in CS:S alone, I mean, yes, there is a large portion of people who play CS (only), but it's barely the majority of HL players, I would imagine. Oh well, it IS their game. They can do as they like. [addsig]



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Posted by ReNo on Mon Nov 8th at 7:47am 2004

I think the number of CS players is the majority of HL players by a huge margin. Whenever I start to think otherwise, I just go look at these stats...

http://www.steampowered.com/status/game_stats.html
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Posted by Crono on Mon Nov 8th at 8:15am 2004

I didn't mean that more people don't play CS. I meant those people aren't HL players. I can guarentee you that a crap load don't even care about HL2 past CS:S. Thier numbers are misleading, just like sales figures in comparing gaming markets. Not to mention, those numbers don't reflect how many people own HL and what each and every one plays.

But seriously, I've met people who blather on about CS and don't even know that HL is a stand alone game. I think that's changing, but slowly. [addsig]



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Posted by Campaignjunkie on Mon Nov 8th at 8:21am 2004

A few years ago, I was one of those people. I thought HL was a mod for CS.
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Posted by Leperous on Mon Nov 8th at 10:07am 2004

2 competitions in one year?! Madness!



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Posted by Spartan on Mon Nov 8th at 10:52am 2004

Nooooooo, wait for me to buy a new comp for Chistmas and a copy of HL2. WAIT!!!!!!!!!



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Posted by Adam Hawkins on Mon Nov 8th at 12:08pm 2004

Heh...still waiting on my prize from the last one

I'd like to take part in another competition, but i'm spending some time playing games for a while - with HL2, Vampire 2, Metroid Prime 2 all on their way in the next few months and GTA:SA out now. And....i've found out i'm getting an Xbox for Christmas so that'll mean even more games to play!

I'd definitely be up for helping with judging or assisting anyone that needs a hand with anything though.

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Posted by ReNo on Mon Nov 8th at 12:23pm 2004

I don't think it should be rushed - give it a few months to let everyone grow accustomed to the nuances of the new engine and when people are just about to release their first efforts, we hit them with a contest and pull in tonnes of entries
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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Mon Nov 8th at 1:16pm 2004

? quote:
A few years ago, I was one of those people. I thought HL was a mod for CS.


Yikes.
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Posted by OtZman on Mon Nov 8th at 4:15pm 2004

? quoting Finger
and generate some traffic for the good ole Snarkpit.



Do I smell exceeded bandwidth limit ?
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Posted by Leperous on Mon Nov 8th at 5:33pm 2004

Heh, I should get 3x the bandwidth now (for the same price, woot go Oktagone!). Anyway, it's downloading all those competition maps that eat it up :/



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Posted by $loth on Mon Nov 8th at 7:43pm 2004

cs_hogwarts [addsig]



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Posted by OtZman on Mon Nov 8th at 7:45pm 2004

Lep, how much do you pay?
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Posted by Hugh on Mon Nov 8th at 7:45pm 2004

And how much do you charge? [addsig]




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