SP Locust Wars (AI)

[far]

Here is a new single player level with bot action. No specific objectives just pure shooting. Enemies will spawn automatically at random locations around the map and attack you. The main objective is to stay alive as long as possible & to have fun. Difficulty level is easy this time.

Do check it out if possible, report back any issues you might experience i will fix them as soon as possible. Thank you very much.

http://img161.imageshack.us/img161/2991/locustwarsshot5hg8.th.jpg (http://img161.imageshack.us/my.php?image=locustwarsshot5hg8.jpg)

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/8494/locustwarsshot4st1.th.jpg (http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=locustwarsshot4st1.jpg)

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/8893/locustwarsshot3jg0.th.jpg (http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=locustwarsshot3jg0.jpg)

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/4631/locustwarsshot2hr8.th.jpg (http://img227.imageshack.us/my.php?image=locustwarsshot2hr8.jpg)

http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/3532/locustwarsshot1tp9.th.jpg (http://img159.imageshack.us/my.php?image=locustwarsshot1tp9.jpg)

Download Link. (cover system was slightly updated)

http://www.moddb.com/games/gears-of-war/addons/locust-wars-by-far

Just like always credits to Thaur, pfilotheterrible, NewPCGamer, Mysticaly, Zackiz, theinterlock, master damage & all others for keeping the Gears mod community alive & kicking. Thank you people ;)

[pfilotheterrible]

Nice, I love endurance levels!

[theinterlock]

Its an hounor to be on your credits. Thank u. Your Map, fantastic. I would like to launch a final version of my first map this weekend. I have been working very hard.

[Zackiz]

I like it! Running around, braindead locust mashing....It's GREAT! Like some of the cool effects you have in there to. I have so far found nothing to complain about at all! That means you have done a GREAT job!

[Mysticaly]

I can't beleive how productive you are, what is this, your fourth map in a month ?
You deserve all the credits given to you, the community is alive because of guys like you who deliver top maps time and again.
Good job!

Any game development company should take a look at your work and seriously consider hiring you.

[Core2TOM]

the map is nice, really good work ... but without any checkpoints its just a beta and makes no fun when you die (then you must reload the map again)

[BloodRaven14]

In my enderence level that im working on there is no checkpionts. But its supposed to be that way. My AI dont ramdomly spawn. I set it up so it gets tougher and tougher. And oh boy does it get tough.



FAR: Holy Cow nice map design once agian! Its set up nice like an MP map. What are you using to post screen shots? Im close to posting a beta of my map.

[NewPCGamer]

wow far... this looks amazing. How do you throw out so many great maps in such little time? i know that my single player map took me over 50 hours and its really short. How do you do it!??

[NewPCGamer]

i just got done playing it, and it is fantastic! the one and only problem i encountered was a wave of enemys spawned right next to me at one point. Other than that it is amazing.

[far]

Thank you very much everybody.

NewPCGamer you are right about that, i was also aware of sudden close spawns. In fact it was also possible not to spawn close to player but it is completely random and would have become much more easier, my idea was to keep the player in the middle of the map most of the time & if possible make the player ready to take down enemies in a sudden spawn attack.

Hopefully next project will be completely different because i am learning to make & add custom content this time but it will take sometime before i can share some info.

[Ashrak]

I would like to congratulate you on your fine work. Your maps are superb. This map was loads of fun. I like the red/green spawn light over the doors. Its like "whats behind door number 2, oh a boomer.. yikes!!" Anyway. I just have one question.. is there an end to it or does it go on forever? If so I suggest you make some sort of time limit to completion that we can try to reach or some kind of achievment if you last a certian amount of time. Also, Ive seen 2 versions of this map one with Cole and one with the General (name escapes me for the moment). Which one is newer? AnywaY great map. Keep up the fine work.

p.s. - I also enjoyed your other map "Washout". It was nice to fight the Brumak without the rollercoaster framerate.

[far]

Thank you very much Ashrak.

The map has only one version but each time you load the map you will have a randomly selected team member and it can be any one. So there are no two versions. As for the ending of the map there is no end in this map, it goes on and on. Maybe next map might feature some new tricks ;)

[Ultrimo]

I can't extract the .war with winrar or 7zip! help me! This map looks amazing and i really wanna try it!

[Zackiz]

Why should you extract it? .war is the mapfile!

[Kronos]

Nice map! I've put several hours into playing it, very fun.

One thing that'd be nice to have though is something to indicate what wave you are on and perhaps a bonus life for killing or doing special kills like headshots or chainsaws. Perhaps we could see something like this in future releases?:)

[futs22]

Err....this is my first time to try downloadable content for the PC GoW. How do I use this map exactly? Do I have to be online to play it,etc. ? I apologize for the noob question.

[brian23]

Err....this is my first time to try downloadable content for the PC GoW. How do I use this map exactly? Do I have to be online to play it,etc. ? I apologize for the noob question.Read the readme that comes with it: it says to copy the .war file you extract from the zip file to your My Documents\My Games\Gears of War for Windows\WarGame\Published\CookedPC\Maps\CustomMaps-folder.

@FAR: GREAT work on the level! Although having checkpoints would indeed be nice, I can understand how having none at all is more of a challenge! ;)

Btw, would there be any chance of making this into a coop-enabled map? Or to make coop maps out of GoW SingplePlayer maps in general? I've been messing around with the editor in effortless attempts of adding an extra new player start position & saving them again... :(

[futs22]

A'ght! got it! Thanks! :)

[Kantham]

That "no checkpoint" thing when you die is a little silly. I really love the idea, I always wanted to see invasion inside GoW, this looks quite like it, but in a very basic waym, I start to see some possibilities when seeing this level.

Thanks for this effort. Any way to reload the level quickly?

Edit: Cool, I just noticed that you start with a random teammate, could it be feasible via kismet to change your playable character? Like set it to random as well so we play as someone else than Marcus all the time?

[far]

That "no checkpoint" thing when you die is a little silly. I really love the idea, I always wanted to see invasion inside GoW, this looks quite like it, but in a very basic waym, I start to see some possibilities when seeing this level.

Thanks for this effort. Any way to reload the level quickly?

Edit: Cool, I just noticed that you start with a random teammate, could it be feasible via kismet to change your playable character? Like set it to random as well so we play as someone else than Marcus all the time?

Thank you Kantham.

As for the checkpoint system, it does not works properly in Gears custom maps otherwise I would have definitely added it. I tried many fixes but did'nt work well so I had no other choice.

Very good maps Kantham :cool:, I just checked out your UT3 work. Give a try making Gears maps also ;), From I see you know pretty well on using the editor & kismet.

[Kantham]

Thanks.

Heh, I'm pretty much a noob at kismet. I got lost when I looked at the Layout for your level, lots of connection to get the random events working. Where you learned all that stuff? AVLD's tuts?

[BuffyTheSlayer]

I cant stop playing this Map :eek:
thank you for fun map
more SP map please ? :D

[ImSpartacus]

Fun map.
Keep up the great work, man!

[tmarsh388]

how do i get this to work? I put in in the right folder but when i start the game its not there? What is SP even under and do i need a live account to use this map?