DM / Greed-Nano - MSUC P4 best graphics in map finalists !

stevelois · ...

Map name: Nano
Game type: DM / TDM / Greed
Version: 1.0
Players for DM / GRD: 12 - 22 / 18 - 24
Requirements: UT3 + patch 2.1 + Titan Pack
Released DM / GRD: 17 October 2009 / 23 February 2010
Homepage

Story / Histoire:

Once occupied by Axon, this base under rock was used to store mainly toxic containers. It was discovered by coincidence by the Necris. The Necris have setup this base & use it as a 'Nano' storehouse. We can found several types of Nano, the yellow, the yellow/orange, the green & the black.

Autrefois occupée par les Axon, cette base sous roches servait de dépôt de produits toxiques en conteneurs. Elle fut découverte par hasard par les Necris. Les Necris ont aménagé cette base & s'en servent comme dépôt de 'Nano'. On y retrouve plusieurs types de Nano ; la jaune, la jaune/orange, la verte & la noir.

Sreenshots DM:

Sreenshots GRD:

DM downloads:

FileFront, Game-Maps, Mapraider, MediaFire, Strategy Informer (direct download), UT-Files (direct download), ut-X.net

GRD downloads:

FileFront, Game-Maps, Mapraider, MediaFire

DM video: (THX to Terror_Force)

Installation DM / GRD:

Extract the archive into :

"My Documents\My Games\Unreal Tournament 3\UTGame\Published\CookedPC\CustomMaps" directory. If this folder is not currently on your system, you can safely create it. The archive contains :

DM-Nano.ini
DM-Nano.txt
DM-Nano.ut3
DM-Nano_LOC_int.upk

CTF-Nano.ini
CTF-Nano.txt
CTF-Nano.ut3
CTF-Nano_LOC_int.upk[/COLOR]

Comments:

This is my second map. The DM version took more than 800 working hours split on 9 months. There is 11 500 items in this map. I hope you will like it All armors, medium health & powerups are very easy to collect, therefore are placed in dangerous spots. About the jumppads, I made everything I can to set them right. By taking them from front, there is no problem & you get use to them rather quickly

As for the GRD version, well friends of mine who play Geed game type ask me to make a Greed variation of Nano. I decide to make it. I also decide to do lot’s of pickups changes & do other minors stuff.

I'm getting a average of ±55 FPS or more playing against 19 bots with my rig in 1680x1050 everything set to max. My PC specs are :

OCZ 600 Watt
Asus P5N-D (NF750i)
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 (3.0 GHz/1333/6M)
4 GB OCZ Reaper (DDR2 800 Mhz CAS 3.4.4.15)
Saphire Radeon HD4870 1 GB with Catalyst 9.12
Segeate 500 GB 32 MB[/COLOR]

Honor / reviews DM:

Make Something Unreal Phase 4 best graphics in map finalists
UT Unlimited by foultzy, a 84/100 score

stevelois · ...

RE: DM-Nano

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Good to see it hit final M8! biggrin

Will definately have to have a few rounds on this baby later today! smile

Hmmm something strange is going on with the links here. I can't DL it using the links on this thread yet the links work fine on the Epic post?? evileye

Maybe re-create the links here and see if it fixes them.

-- Edited by Lord_PorkSword on Saturday 17th of October 2009 11:51:28 PM

stevelois · ...

Odd indeed ?

It work fine on Epic & BU forums ?

Bah, it's Blitz fault lol :p

I'll fix them.

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

OMG!!....800 hours.... confuse

...the filefront link work fine here; DL at the moment :)

congratz steve for that masterpiece of mapping ;will have a try tommorow with fresh eyes....i m off at "no hour" again ...lol..... yawn

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Re-done links are working for me now! biggrin

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

......just some words more before the bed to thx u for nice words in credits ;)

stevelois · ...

Your very welcome my Blitz, it's well deserved my friend ;)

Diesalot · Drinker of too much beer

Looks awesome mate.
I will try and give it a go on my flintstone PC...LOL
Any thought as to a greed version?

stevelois · ...

THX

Heu, I don't know how to make a GRD map. But anyway, I won't be in the mood to work on this map for a while.

I'm putting my efforts on Aly now :)

stevelois · ...

I add the UTZone.de dwn link :D

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

GRD maps are easy. Just change the name to CTF rather than DM, chuck a read and blue flag base in ya map then add team player starts and ya done!

stevelois · ...

Well, maybe if some peoples ask for it, maybe I'll consider ;)

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

map is uploaded on thunderland server and i have compressed the files and uploaded them on "epics sticky redirect"

stevelois · ...

THX for the upload Éric biggrin

But I don't understand why you compress the files, it's already compress in RAR format ?

Idon't get that "epics sticky redirect" neither lol

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

2 ways possible when u join a server on a map u dont have installed in yer custom maps:

1)direct DL from server but it s very slow and UT3 maps files are sometimes (often) big size it can take quite a full hour!...it cant use compression

2)using redirect: u set a redirect adress in the ini of your server and when someone join the server he s redirect on hosting site to DL the map files but you need to compress the files in a special format:UZ3 and to use special programs like UT3Vice to do it and if the map isnt uploaded on the redirect database it just dont work :(

...90% of the redirect was hosted by gameserver but they closed down their redirect some month ago with no delay....was the big panic on servers ;no more redirect working!gameserver redirect was "sticky thread" on epics forum and since they have close down the new sticky hosting site is MPGaming.com but they are new on it (and bored to upload maps:p)
http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=696715

so i have uploaded there all my maps and all uof mappers maps (nano & station12 ;Egitim; Paradox & TowersArena2k9;Terminal;BabylonNight & OrbitalDebris;Stasio...and many others )....in fact i had to upload 90 % of the maps in rotation on thunderland

but now it s done and all the servers admin using mpgaming.com redirect can use redirect on thoses maps ;)

-- Edited by Bl!tz on Friday 23rd of October 2009 02:50:02 AM

stevelois · ...

THX for the explanations dude.

I was aware of the first way only.

Now it's more clear ;)

But, it's a damn thing to manage no ?

I mean you must edit ini's, upload all the stuff on the server, that take time !

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

yeah but nothing makes me more angry than to have to DL hours to join a game and to join each match at the end to count points lol
yeah it take time but it s the best deal to play custom content with mates....rofl i hope my UT partners will not read that....havent play since ages(fraqn mapping addiction now)...just had a quick run on hirax with bigal tonite...and.......was so goood ! :)

stevelois · ...

Mate, I don't know if your sleeping with all that UT stuff !

I see that you map a lot, help others a lot, also manage servers & all that + your busy in RL !

The least I can say is that "je te lève mon chapeau mon chèr cousin Européen" ;)

Thrallala · Level Designer

OK first of all I should have played this map a loooooong time ago and I'm sorry about that.

I have played it now and I must say, it's really well made, it feels like a map that could have been shipped with the game.

Only complaints would be, there's 1 place where there's jumpboots pickup and a hole through the roof above it, I thought I was supposed to use the boots to jump up there but that was not the case. ;)

Also, I like the custom jumppads but I think you should have done something more with them so that people know they are actually jumppads.

Finally, the rock material is kinda ugly :P.

Edit: almost forgot, while it isn't that noticable. I think you could have done something more with the sky.

Other than that, fantastic work. I love all the liftjumps etc.

-- Edited by Thrallala on Friday 13th of November 2009 04:57:01 PM

Thrallala · Level Designer

By the way, how come you're never online on MSN? :(

stevelois · ...

THX for the nice comments Jonatan biggrin

Don't talk about that damn MSN

I use it very often without any issue, the day after, without any reason, all my contacts as been deleted & I can't see no one anymore confuse It just happened like that furious

I did try several times to put my contacts back but it hasn't work. Also, all my contacts on hotmail as been deleted, very... very.....very odd !

I install MSN Live Messenger after, thinking it will resolve my contact issue but nothing as changed. Since, I don't une any MSN ****ty apps.

stevelois · ...

Since we have now lots of GRD dudes here at the same spot, it would be cool if one of you can make a tutorial & post it in the tut section. I'm willing to make a GRD version of Nano.

Also, if there is others things to address like powerups or pickups to mention it.

THX in advance.

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

GRD would be nice to see for this map. Looking forward to it!

Greed/CTF stuff is rather easy to do. You just change the gametype to CTF in the world properties, add the two flag bases(I prefer two over one 'global' base) and use 'team player spawn' nodes rather than the normal player spawn nodes.

stevelois · ...

Mmm...

- Changing regular playerstart by team playerstart is very easy so it's ok.
- Putting the red & blue flags side by side or at the opposite of the map ???
- What about the powerups, I leave them there ???
- The map will be playable in CTF or in GRD or in both ???
- The layout doesn't fit for CTF so I would like the map to be greed only so just naming the map CTF-Nano isn't enough imho.

That is why a tut is essential for those basic questions....

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

The layout wouldn't be good for a CTF so you'd need to name it with GRD. The size of this map would be perfect for Greed though!

Regarding location of flag bases I honestly would prefer two seperate flag bases at opposite ends of the map as I like the thrill of having to get through enemy ranks to bank your skulls. If you get killed then the enemy can grab your skulls and then attempt to get them to the other side of the map hence raising the danger, and thrill during the match. Doing this also increases the chance of having high rollers in the map where they have say 30-40 skulls which can give one team the advantage....if they can successfully get to their flagbase.

Having both teams use the same flagbase isn't as much fun IMO as you just kill someone near near the flagbase then collect their skulls and bank them straight away which misses the thrill of trying to get across the map with a bunch of 'booty'.

stevelois · ...

THX m8 for the explanations,

Now I understand the fun aspect of placing the flag base more far away, at the opposite.

But where would be the ideal for both flag base in my case ? Only place I'm thinking is put 1 flag where the Link is placed & the other one where the Bio is placed but I'll have to move those weapons somewhere else... or do you have any suggestions ?

Also, the map name would have to be GRD-Nano if I'm correct ?

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

I'll try and checkout the map l8r today and give ya my thoughts!

stevelois · ...

I just got an idea about the couduit placement :D

I can place them on the highest level where there are doors you can see a bit behind like the one near the link & the other one near the bio. What do youi think ???

& no one as answer me a bout the map name. It should be :

CTF-GRD-Nano or
GRD-Nano

stevelois · ...

RE: DM / Greed-Nano - MSUC P4 best graphics in map finalists !

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Cheers M8!
I look forward to trying this out with Greed!

Plus the freezing in AvP is ****ting me off to no end and this will be a great distraction from it!

stevelois · ...

Cool & I'm curious to know what you think m8 biggrin

After all, I made specially for you, Diesalot & Odedge wink

rathalos150 · Monster Hunter

Once my PC is fixed I can try it out with GRD. DM-Nano was my fav 1 of ur maps so I can't wait for my PC to be fixed and try it out.

stevelois · ...

Yep, let me know what you think m8 :)

Played a couple of games today against 19 adept bots, the biggest skulls amount I was able to collect was 31, it was damn fun. I didn't try with the Titan mutator, it could be even more awesome :D

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Big thumbsup from me on ya Greed version m8!

Took me a while to get my bearings and find the flagbase, which was a lotta fun, and once I knew where to go it was game on!
Greed plays very nicely with this map. I prefer this map as a greed map!
Nice intense action and roughly even gameplay on both sides which is good!
I like the flag base locations as the placement was quite thoughtful and they fit in naturally with the map!

One good thing with the design of this map is the balance of large areas and tight corridors as different weapons work better in different areas. For instance found shock combos work great as the bots form mini groups which can be taken out with shock combos spreading out a nice bounty of skulls to be collected, whereas a spread of rockets worked better in the more open spaces!

-- Edited by Lord_PorkSword on Thursday 25th of February 2010 07:45:40 AM

stevelois · ...

This is great my Lord biggrin

So I feel I made the right decisions by placing this & that here & there smile

I'm happy you like it m8 wink & I hope others will like it as much as you ashamed

TIPPER · Unreal Old Friend

Yeah, this works well in greed mode steve. In fact, i prefer it in Greed mode to deathmatch. It took me a while to work out where the bases were. Do you have defense points in the bot pathing in greed mode? If so, might have been interesting to set a couple up close to bases.

stevelois · ...

THX Tipper,

Funny you like the GRD better than the DM. What is important is that you found a version you like.

I put defense point in strategics locations since the DM beta 1 & I didn't remove or reconfigure them for the GRD type.

SkaarjMaster · Unreal Old Friend

Um, OK, so where do I start? Looks like a little Necris influence (or is it Borg?).;) This is a seriously sweet and dark map; I love the attention to detail, sounds and music. Looks like that one area has a bit of a Campgrounds influence as well.:) This has unbelievable gameplay, good item placement, and the bots are very good in DM, TDM, CTF and Greed. Some interesting CTF and Greed matches, but i think this map is more suited to DM/TDM; my team really sucked at CTF and, especially, Greed. It probably didn't help that I didn't know the layout. I'll have to play a few more times to figure where the F I am and WTF I'm doing.;) I'm not a big fan of the health/item "lockers" or the fake jumppads inside an enclosure. Ok, so it's a bit confusing, but not overly decorated. I did not see a bot get stuck on a jumppad and I like the way the bases are arranged for CTF and Greed (it's different and in this case is good). (in case anyone is getting a little deja-vu, I'm just posting reviews in here like I should have done long ago):)