My first game of gmdm2

Just had my first quick game of gmdm2 this evening, as kindly hosted by Azelito and organised by KoRn. Thanks to them and r00ts who also turned up.

It was great fun, and apart from KoRn's horrible lag when the boulder approached - he's on 56k - there were no real technical problems. It appears that this map works okay online.

I had an absolute blast, as the map seems to work just as I had intended. It was really quite a surreal experience for me, and I'm not alone. Someone (r00ts I think) described it as "the work of a mad scientist". I don't think I can better that description. There was so much going on and so much to mess about with.

Even with only 4 players it wasn't too quiet. There was plenty of shotgun combat of course, but also good moments of just about everything else (including the Xbow. I sniped and was sniped). Plus lots and lots of satchelling.

Probably my favourite moment was when Azelito managed to use one of my own doors to trap me. I only survived because I'm battery-hoarding scum; it was a simple but very effective use of the map features to gain an advantage, even over its author :biggrin:

sounds great Gollum. maybe I'll try to download it some night here when I don't need my connection.

I usually get my ass kicked in beta testing, even on my own maps! my old clanmate Spazcat said it was a ritual, he had to christen the map with the blood of its author :rolleyes:

Gollum said:
"the work of a mad scientist"

That was me I believe, in the end I had the score -4 - 32 or something, damn doors were all traps and I managed to kill myself where ever

Its a amazing map. What more is there to say?

Oh yea, being chased by the boulder is the worst experience ever!!!

Dammit! Stupid "Asteroids"(Now called SD Gundam Vs. Metroid) made me miss playing it!!! Have another game "soon" and leave at least a half day's notice before hand.

Il just contact anyone that wants to play via steam tbh. If you have steam edge, give us a shout & next time we play il pm you.

Aze: here's a tip - give the doors some respect :wink: Get too close and they squish you, sadly.

I'd love to play but I'm a bit wary of downloading steam what with all these problems everyone gets.

ignore it all & do it tbh m8. Steam was extremely bumpy at 1st, but its fine now. You may have 1 or 2 problems when u start it but once youve sorte dit once youl be fine.

The one thing you should do, before downloading Steam, is copy all your HL resources somewhere. Alternatively, just don't tell Steam to delete the old copy of HL.

Steam is great. Honestly :razz:

And designed in such a way to help the map/mod making community that have supported this game for the last 5 years!

that's because Valve are just so brilliant like that.

Well, I rather like it :razz:

Yes, the fact it squirrels away your HL resources into cache files is annoying as hell. Yes, the fact that you can't play a LAN without being online is stupid.

But I like the rest of it.

I suppose it wouldn't seem so good to me if I had to get it on 56k though, or if it had actually screwed up a LAN for me :/

Hmm looks like I'd have to uninstall a few things then. My HD has about 1G left and HL is about 2G :biggrin:
One more thing - can you still play on WON servers with steam?

Sim said:
One more thing - can you still play on WON servers with steam?

Thats like the whole thing with Steam, no more WON servers. :rolleyes:

I wouldn't mind joining for a round sometime.

and Aze, you can have both WON and Steam running on your computer, they don't interact, but you can still have both (I personally do :biggrin: )

gmdm2? I'm sorry.. my obliviousness rivals even orhp's =/

what is gmdm2? a map?

run bewb, Before gollum screams.

Noooooo!

http://www.snarkpit.com/forums.php?forum=2&topic=347&28

Read. See screenshots. Drop jaw. Download.

Only then shall I forgive you.

Ahem

Er, it's my "latest" map. It comes with its own mod. The mod. is just like HLDM but let's me do lots of cool stuff.

heh, stupid me.. i did a search in maps, and it came up...

I havnt played it with any partners yet, but its a really smoooooth map. The shots dont dont what an easy map it is to move around in... which is key for dm maps. nice nice ; )

Thanks :smile:

I'll pay you later for that comment on moving around the map. You take cash, cheques or girly-giggles?

BTW... we own a a few servers in here southern california. (tfc, cs, hldm, and dmc). This is one of the better dm maps ive seen in a while, and i hope you wont mind if i stick it on the rotation ; )

Ill post the IP as soon as i get around to putting the map on the server...

Umm, you might have a problem since it needs to run under its own mod. If you copy it over to pure HLDM, the boulder won't work, the doors won't work and so the connectivity will suck.

However, you are very welcome to play it in any way you want :smile: I strongly recommend playing it under the Gmdm2 mod., but it's up to you.

Of course, if you could run the Gmdm2 mod. regularly on a server somehow, I would probably worship you :biggrin:

DAMN tim, you are bound and determined to make friends aren't you ?

you might as well start at the top :biggrin:

gollums map is the biggest news around here in a long time, IMO it even overshadows the recent competition that just finished...

if you could run a dedicated server for this mod, "I" would worship you as well..

breaks out the tina doll hid way under the bed for new effigy

hehe yes im aware of this... nobody ever plays on my dmc server, so i'll just stick the gollum mod on it. Though... only people from snarkpit would frequent it! Nobody has ever heard of the 'gollum' mod.. heh. This makes getting a full game close to impossible. Though, just say the word, and i'll set it up.

Bewbies said:
hehe yes im aware of this... nobody ever plays on my dmc server, so i'll just stick the gollum mod on it. Though... only people from snarkpit would frequent it! Nobody has ever heard of the 'gollum' mod.. heh. This makes getting a full game close to impossible. Though, just say the [color=red]word, and i'll set it up.[/color]

todays word is "BEWBIES"

you'da man..

if you need a few other words i can think up a few quick ones.. but i can also wait to see the others reactions to a dedicated snarkpit server, i am sure you will get tons of praise.

The Snarkpit (gmdm2)

[EDIT - new IP] 64.81.84.181:27015

Reply right away and let me know if it works...!

Dude, thats a local IP (192.168.xxx.xxx) are always LAN based. You need to find out your internet IP, as it were. Theres an easy way, which I've forgot...

Anyone care to fill this knowledge void?

i was copy+pasting real quick from LAN lol... wasnt even looking at what i was doing! thanks for catching =P

/me slaps forehead

ipconfig..? Or with windows, you can find out your IP address on an active network via one of the status windows.

ipconfig will give your locap network ip not your global ip. To get your global ip just google "whats my ip" or somesuch, and websites will tell you what ip requested the page (you, unless your behind a proxy).

Ok smarty pants, ipconfig /all will give it you :razz:

Gollum. I haven't downloaded the map yet but I WILL in the next few days. The ingame shots looked awesome but the thing that really struck me was the hammer shots. just the 2d wireframe of the whole map looked so intricate and complicated that my jaw literally dropped. Even though I have never played it, I can just tell by the hammer shot that it's going to be the best map I'll ever play...

Well, I don't think you can tell how good a map will be by looking at a wireframe....still, some more editor shots to make people laugh. All the point entities visible here are boulder/door controls and paths (there's too much to see if I show everything):

Leperous said:
Ok smarty pants, ipconfig /all will give it you :razz:

this one works well also

http://www.myip.dk/

Good ol' mass entities.

Me and some #valveerc people play it a bit each day; some really great fun. We only have about 3 players altogether, and since the map is quite big, it takes a while to find each other. Satchels seem to be the dominant weapon in this map, which is needless to say... "Different". It's great setting up traps with satchels, and crowbars are pretty useful in close-quarters as well. I love it. You really need to make another map. :smile:

Cool :smile: Maybe KoRn, myself, Crackerjack, Orph etc. could join together with your group to make a fuller game at some point.

Maaaybe I'll make another map. It's certainly nice to have encouragement :smile:

Count me in, if you can work out the timezone differences. I finally got a chance to run around it last night- truly impressive.

Mm, played with about 5 #valveerc players on a DSL server. Pretty smooth usually with pings in the ~150 range. No one really seems to go for the RPG since the corridors are so tight; satchels/shotgun are pretty much exclusively used. And when someone does go for the RPG, they're usually satcheled or something anyways. :smile:

If you grab the RPG, get the LJ too and stay up at the top of the level; descending into the lower corridors makes the weapon....well, useless.

I would want to participate some good old hldm (err, gmdm2 mod) on gmdm2.

btw,

ROFL, mazemaster, lol nice program that finds out your ip and then makes an image for you ooh i see, danasoft.com ... you try teh program for 30 days only lol :sad:

lol that's cool ! by teh way i cant seem to connect to the gmdm2 steam server :sad: i used the ip 61.81.84.181:27015 and it didn't work :sad:

err probly went down again.. ill bring it back up

It's possible (unlikely, but possible) that there is a problem in the released version of the client dll. If so, I have a fix for that :smile:

I wanna see videos of the boulder, seeing as I can't download the map and play, but I can use the uni connection (like 10mb per sec or somat insane) to watch videos.

Oh yes, I was going to make some videos for my site....they'll have to be short, since their main purpose is as "teaser trailers".

Heh, Gollum, I just looked up Apotheosis. it fits your map quite well, as GMDM2 has undergone extensive apotheosis here at The Pit, and that's not even mentioning your own apotheosis to the status of "God of Boulders"

I love big words and this is a great new one to me!

I am lambent with appreciation :biggrin:

Gollum said:
I am lambent with appreciation :biggrin:

mine is bent as well, but my wife seems ok with it.. :rolleyes:

/runs

/me goes on server for a bit of exercise

Another one I had too look up. very few people of my age have larger vocabularies than me (although I can not spell any of it). it's always nice to run into someone who can better me verbaly and thereby grow my own ability.

Orph - :rolleyes: must you always go there?