Locust Park Single Player Map Released

[Thaur]

Download: http://dodownload.filefront.com/9973767//da41e82ffac3e80940c617e989ba6cd5c39c203a027d2051f9 a6212d2e73c86dc2756201373b95ec

Also you can get it from Nalicity whenever that comes back up.

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You must fight your way through a locust-infested park to reach the highly fortified entrance to
a historic library. Intelligence reports a giant emergence hole located inside. It is known that
at least one high-ranking locust leader is overseeing the operation. What that operation is, we
have no idea -- but judging by the strength and numbers of locust garrisoned at the library, it
is definitely a big one. Eventually you will have to descend into the emergence hole inside to
explore the underground locust tunnels in order to find out what is going on, but for the time
being your objective is to destroy the locust inhabiting the park and guarding the front entrance.
Your mission ends for now at the front door.

Special Thanks:

Tutorials/Technical help:
Jason Welsh
R_Diaz
Far
Reverse

Testers/Input:
Master Damage
NewPCGamer
BrendanL
Taffer

Brandon
Mike
Greg
Tony

[DanB91]

gonna d/l it now

[MASTER DAMAGE]

Hey, sorry about not getting that film to you. My game kept crashing over the last couple of days. If you still want me to make a recording of me doing a play through, so you can make a video for the map to put on youtube or something PM me and I will get right on it.

[Thaur]

I found an important piece of cover that was broken. I have updated the file, please download the new file if you have not finished the map. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=M25YTI6I

[pfilotheterrible]

Just wondering for the single player levels do you have to play it in the editor? if not how do you load it in the game
also do you put it in the cooked pc folder?

[MASTER DAMAGE]

Just wondering for the single player levels do you have to play it in the editor? if not how do you load it in the game
also do you put it in the cooked pc folder?

You dont need to use the editor to play this map. Load up the game and press the console key that is located to the left of the 1 key and right below the ESC key. Type: open locustpark and the press enter. This method in through the files being in the cooked pc folder.

[Thaur]

Just wondering for the single player levels do you have to play it in the editor? if not how do you load it in the game
also do you put it in the cooked pc folder?


I included a text file with the map that has all the directions you need. You should look in there.

[BrendanL]

This map looks great Thaur! Can't wait to try it out someday!

[Thaur]

Thanks, I just hope more people start playing this game, this is really pathetic the amount of traffic going on in this forum. Is this abandonware?

[far]

Really impressive work Thaur, congrats to completing it & putting a SP map out here :)

Keep it up, i just downloaded the map from the gearsofwar-pc.net site, they are featuring your map on the frontpage ;)

[ShoRRtsk8RR]

uh Thaur, I wish i could play this map, but you haven't included instructions on where to put it. :{

Could someone please help me out here?

[MASTER DAMAGE]

uh Thaur, I wish i could play this map, but you haven't included instructions on where to put it. :{

Could someone please help me out here?

Direction strait from the README in the .rar file:

How to play:

1) Place the .war file in

C:\Documents and Settings\Your Name\My Documents\My Games\Gears of War for Windows\WarGame\Published\CookedPC\Maps\CustomMaps

If you do not have a CustomMaps file, create one at that location.

2) Open Gears of War, open the console (~) and type: open locustpark


P.S. Thaur I will have those videos on in a little bit. I will PM you the link so you can download them.

[NewPCGamer]

Downloading it right now. Im excited to see how it turned out!

[NewPCGamer]

It plays pretty well even though i die all the time. Looks really good. The only thing that would make it better is music during the encounters, but its still really solid. I have a question... what does a pointlight that has a U on it mean?
great job!

[Semi]

:D

This is definitely harder than any area in the campaign! (which is good IMO)
I found myself backtracking like a sissy every time I saw bullets flying towards me.
Not sure if that's how you intended this map to be played but I can't really see any other way to survive. (especially when those exploding wretches try to gang rape you)


The only weird thing is that a notification/icon didn't pop up when I was able to use a turret/troika... which isn't a big deal at all.


can't wait for the next part :cool:

[Thaur]

Thanks for the feedback it is encouraging!

I didn't want people to have to backtrack so much at the final area. I thought about just using normal wretches but those are so easy to kill, you can just elbow them over and over. Plus I wanted a sort of big finale to scare the player.

I discovered how to add music when I was finishing the map, I will definitely add it to my next one.

As for a point light with a U on it, it is a dynamic light. You go into the properties and enable cast composite shadow and cast dynamic shadows

I wasn't sure how to end the map, I couldn't figure out how to make it load one of the campaign maps, and I decided to just have nothing happen as opposed to killing the player, because I thought some people might want to explore before they left.

[NewPCGamer]

Yes I believe the map is difficult. I die on it all the time and I created it. Thanks for the feedback it is encouraging! Yeah I didn't want people to have to backtrack so much at the final area. I thought about just using normal wretches but those are so easy to kill, you can just elbow them over and over. Plus I wanted a sort of big finale to scare the player.

As for a point light with a U on it... I am not exactly sure. I think I copied and pasted some of those lights from one of the Epic maps.

you can copy past things from the single player maps? How do you do that?

[Thaur]

Well, you open a single player map by going to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Gears of War\WarGame\CookedPC\Maps\ and then open one like SP_Caves_P.war. Maps that are named like that I find are almost complete. They have the static meshes and lighting. You can open up the SP_Caves_S01_a.war type of named maps to open up segments of the map. You open the SP_Caves_Scripting_3.war type of maps for the scripting objects and kismet stuff. You select anything in the map and hit ctrl+c and ctrl+v to paste. Make sure to unload everything in the browser before you load each map to minimize the chances of crashing. Some maps seem to crash no matter what though.

[Ragoroo]

Any way to play this in co-op?

[R_Diaz]

It keeps crashing on me :(

[jyu174]

The download link no longer works. Can you provide another link?

Thanks.

[MASTER DAMAGE]

You can download it here (http://www.gearsofwar-pc.net/index.php?name=Downloads&get=14):

[Dr Judym]

Also hosted here (http://www.masterbuilderstore.com/gow/wiki/index.php?title=Locust_park).