DM-Nine - New pak (7/14/17) July 2017 Build

[tidu]

Wow awesome map! I just got done a few matches offline against bots, and had a lot of fun playing this map. I played 1on1 and had a blast. Movement in this map feels great. You can traverse it so many different ways, and that makes it a fun map to play. I think you nailed it man! Fish tanks hey, I was wonder why those area's were blocked off like that. Great job, and thanks for the fun map.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad you enjoyed it, and I'm also relieved that the pak works!

I don't have an updated pak yet, but I've been playtesting a bit more and noticed that much of the fighting is biased towards the rocket area. There was a minigun on the level below the rocket, so I moved that to where the bio was, and bumped the bio up into the blue space under the water tank (by the udamage). This spreads the weapons out a bit more and I feel it gives players more of an incentive to use the entire map. Other than that I'm experimenting with materials and making small line of sight refinements. Any other feedback is definitely appreciated!

[Kronos[X]]

Wow awesome map! I just got done a few matches offline against bots, and had a lot of fun playing this map. I played 1on1 and had a blast. Movement in this map feels great. You can traverse it so many different ways, and that makes it a fun map to play. I think you nailed it man! Fish tanks hey, I was wonder why those area's were blocked off like that. Great job, and thanks for the fun map.

EDIT:I forgot to mention I really like some of the cool ways you implemented higher skill movement options. Like the ledge above the helmet spawn, so If your coming down from the sniper, you can wall dodge to the ledge then wall dodge to the amp. The slope dodge at the bottom of the flak drop is clever too, I was wonder what that slope was for, then found the drop area around the flak.

[tidu]

Okay I repackaged the map, it can be found here: https://ut.rushbase.net/tidu/Nine/DM...wsNoEditor.pak

Again I'm sorry for the inconvenience earlier, player feedback is so important and I feel really bad when you guys take the time to test out my map and it doesn't work for whatever reason. I think the problem could be related to renaming the file. I tried a couple tests, moving files, renaming them, etc. and got really inconsistent results. At one point I took the original downloaded pak, removed the underscore from the filename, and it worked. Then I moved it to my Desktop, checked to make sure it was not in my map list anymore (it wasn't), then moved it back to the Paks folder and it didn't re-appear in the list. Overall just very funky behavior.

This new pak was taken right from the MyContent folder and not renamed. I tested the download too, and it works. Thanks again for taking the time to try it!

[tidu]

That's very strange, thanks for letting me know. It showed up for me in the game multiple times. The only thing I can think of is that I renamed the pak by adding "_A" to the end (right before uploading it), but dWLkR already tried to rename it back without success. Maybe the upload corrupted somehow? I am not at my computer at the moment but I will try to replicate it and put up a new, working pak later today. Sorry for the trouble.

[dWLkR]

Hey tidu, looking good. For some reason I can't see it in game. It's in the same folder as all of the other maps I downloaded but I can't see it in the game.

confirmed!
even the console command "open" did not help...
i also tried to rename the .pak which is located in C:\Program Files\Epic Games\UnrealTournamentDev\UnrealTournament\Content\Paks to:
DM-Nine_A-WindowsNoEditor.pak
DM-Nine-WindowsNoEditor.pak
DM-Nine.pak

i also copied these files to C:\Users\%username%\Documents\UnrealTournament\Saved\Paks\MyContent
- it does not show up in game and isn't launchable via console...

any ideas?

thx in advance!

[-Designer-]

looks interesting!

[MΛuL]

Hey tidu, looking good. For some reason I can't see it in game. It's in the same folder as all of the other maps I downloaded but I can't see it in the game.

[tidu]

7/14/17: Update N: DM-Nine N

MapRotation=/Game/Maps/DM-Nine_N
RedirectReferences=(PackageName="DM-Nine_N-WindowsNoEditor", PackageURLProtocol="https", PackageURL="redirect.allnoobs.com/ut4/users/tidu1d769/DM-Nine_N-WindowsNoEditor.pak", PackageChecksum="db1b7247ef361b94b04934086acb03f3")

Getting close on this one. Enjoy

 

Spoiler

Update J - Repak for the latest build. Some extra environment bits added here and there. I'm liking the look of this version. The Industrial set of assets fits the map pretty well and it is slowly expanding every build. I'll continue using the orange I-beams and the ivy meshes.

Update I - 3/20/16

I took a lot of Eric's advice for this one. Here's a quick overview of the changes:

Gameplay
- Added a wall in the center of the map, between the rocket and the center belt area. Breaks up the line of sight a bit and still looks natural. That was the most glaring line of sight issue.
- Removed some advantage from the top level. I moved the vest down to the orange dirt floor corridor.
- The belt platform was lowered a bit. It's more difficult to get back to the top floor after grabbing the belt. And access from below still requires a lift jump.
- The flak and the bio were swapped.
- Added vials to the ledge that previously led to the vest.
- Added a couple ledges that are accessible by wallrunning, and removed some ramp walls that didn't serve a purpose.
- Pulled the map scale back a bit. It's now 20% larger than the original map rather than 35%. It still feels sufficiently large while allowing the player to pull off wall dodges and jumps that were no longer possible in the last map.

Visual
- New trim pieces line the top of the map, these are likely final and I will continue to polish the remainder of the map. A lot of the map is still patchwork.
- Removed the last of the BSP, we're all mesh now

Enjoy!

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Good morning! I had some time so I figured I would throw up the first release of a shell for a small duel map I came up with. I was practicing making some shells and was pretty satisfied with the gameplay in this one. It's a very small map. I limited myself to a 5000x5000 area. It's a little tricky in the sense that it's easy to "disappear" from a fight. In my practice matches I would try to predict the path the bot would take and I was surprised more often than not when they popped out somewhere else. So it's a real fast-paced "on-your-toes" type duel map. I don't play a lot of 1v1 or duel so let me know if I've broken any cardinal rules of those gametypes, or if there is something I can add to make it more suitable.

Aesthetically it's not much yet, but I experimented with an aquarium theme so there are a couple tanks of water in the walls. In some cases they are strategically placed so you can eye up the double damage or the belt. I hope to expand on this, maybe break a few tanks to mix it up and create a "something went wrong at Seaworld" vibe. So I'll likely borrow a few things from the Liandri set but also create a few of my own meshes.

Disclaimer: The editor texture on the floors is intentional, I'm looking to use a checker pattern there, so this is the closest thing. I didn't want that to be mistaken for laziness

So let me know what you think of the gameplay. I'm pretty much open to any changes. Thanks for your time!

Original Imgur album of screenshots from shelled map

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