ONS-Apocalypse

[legacy-vitruvius]

Downloads:
16megs FileFront (http://files.filefront.com/3217612)
16megs Unreal Playground (http://www.unrealplayground.com/download.php?mapid=6100)

Name: ONS-Apocalypse
Version: final
Compatibility: ut2k4
Description: Acharit Hayami - The End of Days. Battle it out on an Earth ripped in half by the wrath of The Apocalypse.
All of humanity is annihilated save for you and the chosen few. Do you wish to side with the Righteous to
defeat the Horsemen and ensure the salvation of the innocent? Or will you succumb to the temptation of
the Wicked and lay havoc beside them? The choice is yours. Capture the 7 Seals to destroy your enemy.
Screenshots:
http://img44.photobucket.com/albums/v135/vitruvius/ap1.jpg
http://img44.photobucket.com/albums/v135/vitruvius/ap2.jpg
http://img44.photobucket.com/albums/v135/vitruvius/ap3.jpg
http://img44.photobucket.com/albums/v135/vitruvius/ap4.jpg
http://img44.photobucket.com/albums/v135/vitruvius/ap5.jpg
http://img44.photobucket.com/albums/v135/vitruvius/ap6.jpg

Music Credits: Kochun Hu, Superhero Soundworks, www.superherosoundworks.com - orchestral track "Light from the Darkness"
Downloads:
16megs FileFront (http://files.filefront.com/3217612)
16megs Unreal Playground (http://www.unrealplayground.com/download.php?mapid=6100)

[NotoriousBIC]

Great, you finished it!!!

/me is downloading.

[legacy-MadJackMcJock]

Original. Downloading. :up:

[legacy-TKATk]

this map can be explained in several word's:Sweet,original

[NotoriousBIC]

Yup, great map with an awesome theme to it. :up:

Bots are still slow to the first node, but go smoothly after that.

It's in my mapvote now and I'll try to get a big battle going on it (since it does need a lot of players). I'm expecting it to play great then too.

[legacy-MonkSix]

Now that is a nice looking map. I'll be downloading it as soon as I get home from work. :up:

[legacy-Railgunner]

YES YES ANOTHER MAP!!!
Downloading now.

What's planned for next map?

[BuffyTheSlayer]

my wallpaper is already your sky :heart:
http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/2193/ONS-Apocalypse.jpg

[legacy-MrWotsit]

A truly awesome looking map in the purest sense of the word. Let's just hope it plays as well as it looks...

[legacy-Jesus DeSaad]

Sa-Weet!

[legacy-CyberChrist]

Looks interesting...

[legacy-Agroman]

Great map! :) :up:

[legacy-^»{@mBRo$e}«^]

Looks good, plays good
Definatly a keeper! :up:

[legacy-vitruvius]

lol, nice wallpaper. btw, setting world detail to low removes the extra models and the sky details, if you want...

next project is a Red Orchestra map for 2.x

[legacy-Cloud_Shark]

GREAT GREAT GREAT MAP!!:up: :up: Its node setup is completely on par (if not better than some of) the shipped ONS node setups.


Did I mention that I love the node setup?

[legacy-TKATk]

I remember in the old test thread,you said something about a meteorstorm trigger or sumthin,is it in this version:confused:

[legacy-vitruvius]

TKATk:

unfortunately for me, i just released the map RIGHT before the patch come out. the new patch allows for triggers to occur when nodes are capped and power cores are destroyed (i think). i was going to do some nifty things with that, but it was only possible with that addition, which came too late.

oh well.

[Discord]

I got a grand total of 1 beef with this map: the music track needs to be longer, it repeats too many times. Thematically, it's a great choice though... :up:

Other than that, this map looks great and plays as good as it looks... and yeah, the default link setup rocks. You, my friend, have done a very nice thing. :D

[legacy-TKATk]

could you make it so that the mass(levi)is moved out of the default setup?i just dont like seeing all the newb's in my team rushing to the levi,thats equal to them being AFK for 5 min

also are you considering releasing a trigered version/what it was meanth to be

[legacy-anti-me]

bloody hell ... that is a great map ... i love it ... plays good too
although the bots start slow ....but then catch up ...
but i think this could of been a greater assault map .... don't you think so .... ? maybe someone will make it

[legacy-stigdu]

Great map, really enjoy it!

:up:

[legacy-Harsh_but_Fair]

GJ

Harsh

[legacy-raziel31]

Good map indeed...:up:

[Xyx]

:up: indeed: Very atmospheric, awesome skybox with cool effects.
Realistic terrain with lots of routes to take.
Cool structures for the bases and nodes.
Plenty of stuff to do for a map this size.However, there's still a few :down: : The node link setup does not do justice to the possibilities the terrain offers. Whoever comes out on top at node 2 gets to take Teh Levi to the other team's first node and cut them off of the entire map. That pretty much guarantees victory, so there's no real need to bother with the whole right side of the map. A Dawn-like setup that allows for two paths would have made better use of the whole map. Although server admins can change these setups themselves, 95% of them never looks beyond the default.
Cores are too open to air assault considering the availability of Raptors and Mantas (which can easily skid up the cliff face and get onto the walls). This turns the base into a trap for the defenders rather than a fortress.

[legacy-CyberChrist]

On the other hand, I think it’s quite dull... Nice setting, though...

[legacy-Super_Moose]

Nice map. :):up:

[CVROY]

Me likes it:)

Me put on server.

[legacy-Phreaque]

I love the four horsemen! Metallica fan?

[legacy-adv1]

Great map, I especially like playing Onslaught + Invasion Everywhere on this map, suits it great with the flying warlords and other monsters :)

My only small complaint is that when trying to defend certain nodes, I felt like I wasn't able to find enough decent weapons (eg. flak, shock, minigun, rocket launcher) at the weapon bases.
A few times I seemed to be stuck with just the bio, grenade, mine and link weapons which aren't really any good for shooting lots of enemies or vehicles at a distance as they come towards a node.

Anyway, this is a really good map with an interesting theme, nice work :up:

[legacy-Savath]

The node link setup does not do justice to the possibilities the terrain offers. Whoever comes out on top at node 2 gets to take Teh Levi to the other team's first node and cut them off of the entire map. That pretty much guarantees victory, so there's no real need to bother with the whole right side of the map. A Dawn-like setup that allows for two paths would have made better use of the whole map. Although server admins can change these setups themselves, 95% of them never looks beyond the default.
Xyx
Took what you said to heart, now have questions.
So anybody
should I paste to ut ed to run on server?
And I’m using redirect will this affect the results?
http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/5395/Arrowheadlink.jpg

[legacy-Rurouni Storm]

Originally posted by Phreaque
I love the four horsemen! Metallica fan?

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were around way before Metalllica wrote a song about them.

[legacy-vitruvius]

working with 7 nodes is a pain... 7 nodes isn't really necessary for any ONS map, but i obviously was focusing on the theme here. your 'arrowhead' link set up could be better since it restricts the levi some, but then you would need to cap 5 nodes before you could attack the power cores. my original core setup was like so (without levi, forgive the missing spaces):

X
/ \
X X
/ \/ \
X X X
\ /\ /
X X
\ /
X


i was going to move each entire base a lot closer to the first node too (up into the central path), but i didnt have time (nor do i have time now). the outer 'side' routes of the terrain could have just been removed also since they ended up being pointless. oh well.

if i ever make another ONS map, it'll be fully geared for gameplay.

[legacy-NeoPhoenix]

I finally got around to playing this map, and it's frigin beautiful. By far the best UT user made map of all time. I'm not a big ONS fan, but I had a blast on this map, and the visuals are absolutely beautiful. I was able to put everything to the very highest in the detail section, and still not drop below 30 FPS any where on the map. I have Never been able to do that with any maps before, except maybe stock maps. And the music was perfect, fit the map like a glove. I really hope you keep mapping for use because your work is amazing. couldn't convince you to make a couple of CTF maps could I? ;)


Again, excellent work.

NP

[Xyx]

Originally posted by vitruvius

X
/ \
X X
/ \/ \
X X X
\ /\ /
X X
\ /
X
Now that looks like an excellent link setup to me. :up:

[legacy-Xiker911]

Hoe about an AS-Apocalypse? That'd be cool... I wonder what the missions would be...?

[legacy-NeoPhoenix]

Keep earth from getting blown in half :p.

[legacy-vitruvius]

i don't know if i will make an assault version - i already have a different assault project planned. probably could use the same content in this map to make an assault map quickly, but i dont know if that will happen. i'm too busy as it is.

[legacy-vehicle lover1]

you don't like our home do you.:cry:

[legacy-Klasnic]

Awesome! A really big thumbs up from me - Excellent work :up:

[legacy-NiTrOcALyPsE]

Originally posted by Xiker911
Hoe about an AS-Apocalypse?

THAT IS MY IDEA

Seriously though, I'd really like to do something with that name somday. I was thinking of this massive gothic castle you had to assault.

But anyway, the ONS map on hand is very nice, I had some fun playing it. The theming is very good, the skybox added a nice touch, although I would like it better if it were more dynamic, perhaps some rocks floating off from the crust would have done the trick. But whatever, it's a very minimal part of the map, yet it adds to the mood really well; the earth hanging ominously in the sky, with half of it gone. Nice map, I'll have to play it again.