Submission sent.
This one was quite a bit more work, and could potentially have a few bugs, but I 'think' it turned out pretty good. You will find various visual bugs around the level which I am probably aware of, but didn't have time to fix for this submission.. I'm going to keep working on this one; 3 weeks just wasn't enough time to make it perfect.
Let me know if any of you get lost, turned around, confused, frustrated.
Awesome contest Baron, tons of fun! Enjoy!
Download link for my entry
http://www.duncanmoore.org/downloads/snarkpit/snark_mfb01_round2_finger.zip
A few things I would love feedback on:
- Did you get confused at any point?
- Did you get the story points?
- Was performance acceptable? (I really wonder if I should chop this into 2 maps).
Can't wait to try it out Reaper. I'll record a demo of my playthrough (maybe you can return the favor?).
I started to get into faceposer with the intent of creating some choreographed sequences, but my pc really disliked that program. I would get a crash every other time I touched the slider bar. It was also a real system hog. In the end, I decided to go a cheaper route without using faceposer, and putting more time into creating a custom skymap and more gameplay.
Yeah, I'm bored with the Halflife2 skies, so I created one with a little more mood and color. I found a really cool program that makes it easy to paint the seams. Basically, it lets you look around a virtual skybox, pick a spot you want to paint then export that into photoshop; saving in photoshop applies it back to the skybox...really cool. Not freeware, but it has a trial period.
Reaper, I just played your entry and really enjoyed it. It was sort of surreal seeing what how another person envisioned the continuation. I like how you used your spaces - very efficient with good flow. Your combat felt well balanced, and I died a couple of times, which is good in my book. I want a challenge. I'll send you the demo once I zip and upload it. Good stuff!!
Did anyone else enter?
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I was maybe 50% done with my entry. It's hard being out of mapping for months and then attempting my first-ever single player map. Add that on top of me being traditionally slow as molasses and well...
It was going to be a continuation of the combine modified subway station from finger's map, with you going right through the heart of their base. The combat was going to build up from a rather quiet start to a really big end fight in the helipad area replete with apcs, gun emplacements, lots of combine to plow through and possibly a strider or gunship.
There was going to be a controllable cannon on the top of a 'new' combine apc I made that would let you take on this army and blow open a door to progress, but I ran out of momentum when I found out that not only was func_tankmortar changed from HL1's hitscan explosion to an actual mortar which is pretty much meant to be enemy only but also that you could no longer remotely control func_tanks but had to actually see and target them to use them. So after spending about a day on that s**t and discovering that I had to retool a bunch of stuff I basically washed my hands of it. 
@Yak_Fighter, my goodness, those are some detailed Combine structures. I am quite anxious to play that map regardless of completion. I would just like to run around in it. Do you think you could post a link, or if anything send it to the e-mail in my profile? I'd like to admire it a bit more.
Even though it plays off the Combine theme, it still manages to look quite fresh, and even a bit original.
Very nice work indeed!
