DM-Talus *Full Release* edit: faster d/load available

[legacy-_ALGOLS.NET_]

NAME: DM-Talus
COMPATABILITY: UT04, most recent patch
DESCRIPTION:My very first Unreal Tournament 2004 map is now complete.

-DM-Talus is basically my "redux" on Antalus at night, in a warmer locale.

-2-4 players, DM and TDM.
-no bio rifle, no superweapons, all the other regular DM weapons included.

(d/l is roughly 7.5 MB).

COMMENTS: Let me know what you think. All the static meshes and all but 2 textures were taken from stock maps.

The two starfield textures in the skybox are of my creation.

DOWNLOAD:

My website (slower): DM-Talus.zip (http://www.algols.net/DM-Talus.zip)

NaliCity (faster, recommended): DM-Talus.zip (http://download.beyondunreal.com/fileworks.php/nalicity/ut2k4dm/dm-talus.zip)

CREDITS/THANKS: everyone who made UT04 and the editor, Noctivagus' wonderful tutorials, unreal Wiki, Turns2ashes, Angel_Mapper...see readme for more.

SCREENSHOTS:
http://www.algols.net/Talus_screenshot.jpg

http://www.algols.net/Talus_screenshot_1.jpg

http://www.algols.net/Talus_screenshot_2.jpg

http://www.algols.net/Talus_screenshot_5.jpg

HOMEPAGE:
http://www.algols.net (http://www.algols.net/)

[sHoKaZuLu]

Screenshots look pretty good for a first map. Much better then the typical DM-BSPCube#12943 first map ;)

[legacy-_ALGOLS.NET_]

Originally posted by shokazulu
Screenshots look pretty good for a first map. Much better then the typical DM-BSPCube#12943 first map ;)

Thanks! I wound up spending a ton of time on it...that's what happens when you throw your back out and have nothing to do but lie around the house.

Hope you like it. :D

[legacy-N1ghtw0lf]

very nice, i loved it. Played a round of DM with 3 bots to 50 kills and it has great flow, definately dont want anymore than 4 though...Only few little hitches i found are some of the small ledges you have to jump to get up, obstructing movement. The bots don't really go for quad damage from what i saw either.

Fun map, definately will be used in some of my smaller matches :)

[legacy-BlakeFabian]

does anyone else notice the really high fps stats in the upper left corner?, :) high fps is good

that skybox looks kickass although slightly generic, would download if I didnt have a grand total 20 mb left on hard drive

[legacy-Zell65]

I rather like the reddish hue of the level, and I really like the skybox.

[legacy-_ALGOLS.NET_]

Originally posted by N1ghtw0lf
very nice, i loved it. Played a round of DM with 3 bots to 50 kills and it has great flow, definately dont want anymore than 4 though...Only few little hitches i found are some of the small ledges you have to jump to get up, obstructing movement. The bots don't really go for quad damage from what i saw either.

Fun map, definately will be used in some of my smaller matches :)


Glad to hear you like it!

I also noticed the issue w/ the bots not going pell-mell for the U-damage....but I left it up there because I figured that it (hopefully) wouldn't be an issue w/ human opponents. :D

With regard to the ledges and rock static meshes....I deliberately made some of them a little challenging to get up. The case I'm thinking of is the open terrain corridor that runs up to the Armor pick up. I wanted to a) make it tough for people to get out of it (i.e.: you commit to the armor, you better go all the way!), and b) make it easy to snipe at people going for the pickup.

Of course, I didn't make a lot of blocking volumes for the level, so there are other areas that are also "sticky"....perhaps inadvertantly.

Thanks for the feedback--glad to hear my first effort didn't suck!
_Algol_

[legacy-_ALGOLS.NET_]

Originally posted by BlakeFabian
does anyone else notice the really high fps stats in the upper left corner?, :) high fps is good

that skybox looks kickass although slightly generic, would download if I didnt have a grand total 20 mb left on hard drive

Cool! I tried to make it as fast as possible...sadly, the skybox is why it's a 15 MB download. :D

[AnubanUT2]

Outdoors, Crazy, Fast, Nice Flow, Good Weapon/ammo placement, Bots that Kill ... this is a really solid map ... I would only say redo the skybox ... maybe not sooo many stars a few planets in the distance and maybe some rotation. I don't think the wooden planks really go with this .. maybe some rock formations ... But still this is a good fast map that will keep you moving. :) :up:

[legacy-cantelope]

looks nice :) :up:

[legacy-kritanta]

nice map