This map is originally based on a map called "halo" made for HLDM. It was supposed to be a half-life variant of the map "blood gulch" from the game halo. Half-life?s graphics engine didnt manage to render a landscape similar to bloodgulch and forced me to make the map into an "L" shape.Since i had played blood gulch with my friends with "rocket launchers only" and had a damn good time with them the night before i started with "halo", i thought it would be fun to see if it was as fun to play with "rocket launchers only" in my HLDM map.The map looked like hell and had alot of visual flaws, though it was not meant to be beautiful since I mainly made it to improve my skills in how to make realistic terrain.

Despite its ugglyness, the map turned out to be a huge success during "LD-LAN #1", a LAN for swedish mappers held in Gothemburg a few times a year. Everyone loved the idea of running around with rocket launchers.

When HL2DM was released i thought it would be fun to make a follow-up on the old "halo" map.

And so it begun, the creation of Dm_valley.

Originally, the map was meant to be very similar to its predecessor, although many of my friends thought it would be more fun, and challenging, if I made it straight, instead of the old "L" shape. After that, things has evolved quite a bit. At first, the map was intended to have to exactly the same bases with only one route between them. However during some gametests one way turned out to be insignificant, so I made two more around the main route, creating a chocke-point in the middle aswell as sideways for the sneaky bastards. I made a unique base for each team to make the map feel more alive and not so dull.

I took alot inspiration from dm_island17 when creating the rebelbase, as you easily can see if you compare the maps.

After seeing a great nasty cool bridge on the map dm_lake i got very dissapointed when you couldnt run up on it, and I thought that I would add a bridge on Dm_valley from where you could get a great advantage over your oponents to make it more unique and fun to play, aswell as adding some eyecandy.

The gameplay of the map is extremely fast paced since everyone respawns with a rocket launcher in addition to the original kit. The map has great support for teamplay but works just as fine with the good old deathmatch mode.

The map is now released and below is the readme, although the personal comments in the thanks to list has been removed to save some space:

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Dm_valley V 1.0

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Release date: August 5 2005, Gothenburg, Sweden
Half-Life 2 Deathmatch (HL2DM)

Title: Dm_valley v 1.0
Name: Dm_valley.bsp
Author: Filip "MisterBister" Coulianos
Email address: f_misterbister@hotmail.com
URL: none specific.
Description:

A fast paced deathmatch map where all the players respawn into the mayhem with rocket launchers in a big valley.
The map is originally created with teamplay in mind as each team respawns in a separate base,
but the map works just as fine in Deathmatch.

Play information

Deathmatch: Yes (4-12+)
Team deathmatch: Yes (6-16+)
New sounds: no
New graphics: yes
New music: no

Construction:

Base: none
Editor: Hammer World Editor V4
Other progs: Batchcompiler
Known bugs: Texture problems may appear with Nvidia cards.
Build time: 6 months

Thanks to:

My mom and dad, My girlfriend Karin, Satchmo, Frissi, Habboi, BlisTer, Orpheus, Myrk-, Addicted to Morphine ,Spartan, Hugh, MoneyShot, ReNo, Crono, Dark_Kilauea, Pureferret, mazemaster, CrazySteve, Underdog, dragonfliet, Grim Reaper, wiggle987, IZaNaGI, seppe, Dead-Inside, Spas12, Vash., Blink, habboi, YokaI, vasko, Yoshi, cur_sed,Athlete{UK}, mabufo, Lonedog, Xlator, Wolf/Sky, Olleman, Coldblooded, Westberg, Lingon geisha, Bladebitch, Alucard, NotueRn, Kobi the leopard, Fenix, Twiggy, Teddybear, Ace, RatFace, Namron, Toor-, Skunken, Ank4, Frank_Desembler, Synthetiq, Clawfinger, Klasse, Skumtomten, Surfer, XPerience, Nilesh and Juim

Additional thanks to:
The Snarkpit community.
The Leveldesign community.
The Interlopers community.
The Halflife.nu community.
The Valve company.

Special thanks to YOU for reading this document and for downloading this map.

Other notes:

If you have a server with this map, you may notice that people cannot download the map directly from the server
via steam. This problem appears since this maps file size is bigger than the maximum file size that Valve has allowed
a HL2DM server to upload. This problem can be solved by entering this command in the console:
"net_maxfilesize 30"

If you have suggestions, feedback or anything you want to tell me, please don't hesitate to send me an email:
f_misterbister@hotmail.com

? 2005 Filip "MisterBister" Coulianos