Deliverance

Deliverance b3

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Gametype: Capture the Flag (INVADE)
Players: 12-32
Author: Mark "Shmitz" Major
E-mail: shmitz@gmail.com
Version: 0.3.0

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Extra track piece models by III_Demon

INVADE
In this CTF variant, there is a neutral flag that both teams fight over. To score a point, your team must take the flag to the ENEMY's base.
 
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This is probably the roughest first alpha I've released, but to my knowledge the mechanics all work. I need to make sure the gameplay works before refining it further. I'm most concerned about the possibility of people turtling in their base once they gain a lead, but I hope the risk of holding the intel so close to the opponent's capture zone balances this out.
 
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I'm most concerned about the possibility of people turtling in their base once they gain a lead, but I hope the risk of holding the intel so close to the opponent's capture zone balances this out.

This is why I never started making a ctf map for this contest. I was planning to make a single-intel invade ctf map as well. Let me know if it turns out!
 

Colt Seavers

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Looking good 8) Must admit, kind of wished I'd made an invade map after playing Boylee's entry - ctf_chicane - its an absolute blast - this game mode seems made for fast furious and teamplay rewarding w00ts! Particularly like your twist on the moving intel base. Nice.
 

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So I got a chance to test it today and am working on making a few changes.

One thing that needs to get changed is the way the cart works. Right now, as soon as a team takes the lead, the cart moves until it hits the end of the line. For various reasons, this ends up being rather imbalanced, particularly when the "winning" team is only one point ahead.

My first choice would be to make the cart only move a set amount of distance on each capture. However, I don't know how to do that without doing crazy complicated things with enabling/disabling path_tracks. Does anyone know of an easier or more elegant method of having incremental cart movement, preferably in a way that won't bug out if a capture is made while it's still moving?
 

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So I got a chance to test it today and am working on making a few changes.

One thing that needs to get changed is the way the cart works. Right now, as soon as a team takes the lead, the cart moves until it hits the end of the line. For various reasons, this ends up being rather imbalanced, particularly when the "winning" team is only one point ahead.

My first choice would be to make the cart only move a set amount of distance on each capture. However, I don't know how to do that without doing crazy complicated things with enabling/disabling path_tracks. Does anyone know of an easier or more elegant method of having incremental cart movement, preferably in a way that won't bug out if a capture is made while it's still moving?

have the cart not move whenever intel is not on it? like mangy does in atrophy?
 
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However, I don't know how to do that without doing crazy complicated things with enabling/disabling path_tracks.
I think you'll still have to some crazy complicated things--see below, but disabling/enabling path_tracks sounds like it'll be a pain to manage and difficult to get right.

It'd probably work better if you put a logic_relay beside each path_track where you'd want the flag to stop. The path_track should trigger its relay OnPass, and the relay in turn tells the train to stop.

OnCapTeam1 and OnCapTeam2, you disable all these logic_relays (wildcards ftw), update the math_counter (add or subtract depending on which team scored), send the outvalue to the logic_case, which then enables the appropriate path_track.
Also, OnCapTeam1 you'd tell the train to StartForward, but OnCapTeam2 StartBackward.


If you aim for your track to support no more than 8 stopping points on each side (i.e. if red is beating blu by 8 or more points the cart would be right at the red end of the track), you'll only need one logic_case. Set the math_counter to start with a value 8, and the logic_case's Case01 through Case15 to have values 1 to 15.

Number off your stopping points from 1 (the stop just before the red base end of the track), through to 8 (in the middle), then to 15 (the stop just before the blue base end of the track), give the logic_relays names with a corresponding number, then the logic_case's OnCase01 through OnCase15 will just enable the same numbered relay.

The two endpoints of the track give you the last two stopping points, but you don't need relays there or logic_case entries since the cart will automatically stop.

I think that's fairly simple all up: N relays, 1 counter, 1 compare, and only a handful of I/O.
 
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Shmitz

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Bump for update!

Changed the cart to incremental movement. It still will eventually end up by your capture zone if you own enough face. If this method still ends up feeling imbalanced, I have other options for the cart, but I wanted to try this first since it's what I initially wanted to do.

Also, since the new path to the upper route required displacements, I played around with some minor detailing which you can see in screenshot #1:

ctf_deliverance_a20000.jpg
 

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Someone was trying to say something about how to fix getting stuck on the cart, but they got drowned out by other people talking. I recall them saying something about a train watcher, but there IS a train watcher, so, I can't figure out what was being suggested.

If you were that person, or otherwise have some idea what the solution is, could you please elaborate? ^_^
 

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Someone was trying to say something about how to fix getting stuck on the cart, but they got drowned out by other people talking. I recall them saying something about a train watcher, but there IS a train watcher, so, I can't figure out what was being suggested.

If you were that person, or otherwise have some idea what the solution is, could you please elaborate? ^_^

That was me, and I was certain that the team_train_watcher could fix it, but if you already have one... That's wierd. Is the func_tracktrain larger than the initial model?
 
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The func_tracktrain should be bigger, or you should disable collisions on the model. I had this problem too with koth_friction, but ravidge helped me out.
 

Shmitz

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So I had hoped that having the cart close to the winning team's "drill platform" would give an edge to the losing team, but after a couple tests on a standard 12v12 server, I noticed two things. One, the winning team has enough players that they generally always have someone there to grab the flag. Two, the losing team never actually tries to take advantage of that situation. So I'm going to switch around the cart mechanic to take it towards the losing team, and stop just at the edge of mid as shown below:

ctf_deliverance_cartchange.jpg


This actually gives an advantage to the losing team as they can easily take the flag up to the higher ground of the side route. The winning team, on the other hand, has to use the riskier low route or backtrack to get to the higher ground.
 

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Known bug: Flag caps increase the score by 2.

I think this is because I have to manually increase the main score by 1 with each cap or when the time runs out it thinks it's stalemated. I'm hoping this will be fixable when user requested functionality gets pushed out. Until then, it doesn't have much actual gameplay significance. If someone wins by 2 they still would have won by 1. :)
 

Kireas

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[WtFC] Kireas: Yes....the intel moving. It's awesome, but if you've just capped
[WtFC] Kireas: its bringing the intel to you
[WtFC] Kireas: assuming the enemy hasn't killed you
[WtFC] Kireas: perhaps make its final resting place closer to those lower spawn doors?
[WtFC] Kireas: no, scrap that
[WtFC] Kireas: a timeout period before the intel respawns

What I last said. I didn't notice if the intel respawned instantly or not, but that would solve the issue of a player running unkilled (via bonk or the targe) from the cap to the now-closer flag.