Arctic

RED and BLU have received a competitive contract to destroy GRAY Gravel Co's Ice-cap-melting laser in an arctic base.

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The first stage is fairly typical, with a fairly open main area and several side routes to take to the other side.

The second stage features a track that curves around on itself, moving up to various levels of terrain.

The third stage is the one I've tried to really deviate from pipeline on. While pipeline features one big area where the goal is to have the whole area locked down to move forward, arctic's third stage tries to focus on 3 separate gameplay areas, and in each a team, to do well, has to control the upper areas. If they do, they have a huge advantage over the other team. Climbing through an ice cave and up into a giant awesome death laser facility, this promises to be pretty epic.

Also, as a bonus, rough sketch -> block out design.

Map overview:

Time-lapse of working on stage 3:
[ame="http://vimeo.com/6042585"]plr_arctic stage 3 building time-lapse on Vimeo[/ame]

Mexican Apple Thief · 06-11-2009, 06:39 PM

Ooh, I like your use of props.

Also, I like "plr_taco" as the name.

Altaco · 06-11-2009, 06:53 PM

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Originally Posted by LEAD FARMER

Ooh, I like your use of props.

Also, I like "plr_taco" as the name.

That was temporary while I was coming up with a name and the one I took those screenshots in.

Jonah · 06-12-2009, 03:04 AM

Oh boy, so now there are 3 snow maps in the contest

Altaco · 06-12-2009, 09:14 AM

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Originally Posted by Jonah

Oh boy, so now there are 3 snow maps in the contest

What are the other two?

Also, mine's the only one at night

Jonah · 06-12-2009, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Altaco

What are the other two?

Also, mine's the only one at night

Aurora, and my entry, (snow)drift.

Tinker · 06-12-2009, 12:22 PM

It's not like there are much snow maps existing yet so there's no real problem.

Altaco · 06-12-2009, 12:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Jonah

Aurora, and my entry, (snow)drift.

But aurora isn't attack/defense ctf, how can it be a contest entry?

I didn't know we could enter symmetrical invade ctf maps.

Anyway, anyone have comments on the map?

captainAngry · 06-16-2009, 10:05 AM

Unfortuneately I wasn't on the server when this map got played but I did capture a demo. I don't think very many people were on the server when this we recorded but maybe there is something useful in there. It should get played again sometime soon.

captainAngry · 06-17-2009, 11:33 AM

The map got played again last night. I didn't get a chance to play myself but I did record another demo. It is the highest rated PLR map we have on our server next to pipeline so that's gotta be worth somehting.