I wanted to wait a while before posting this, but I still don't have any content to show, so I decided to make the thread.

Gameplay

Perhaps some of you still remember Puzzle gamemode, which was similar to Deathrun, only everyone is playing for themselves without the death. I've long wanted to remake this gamemode with Fretta as base, but of course with some changes.

There's two teams, a red and a blue team (how surprising!). The first 15 seconds of the round everyone can move out freely, waiting for the game to start. The objective for each team is to get to the end of a series of challenges/obstacles as fast as possible with as many survivors as possible. The challenges themselves however, are not the biggest problem. While the teams are completing the objectives, the water level in the map is rising and the teams need to move on to get to higher ground.

But this would get boring after a while, without choices and with the same series of challenges every single time. To start off, the challenges are picked at random each time and there are other things to do while the teams struggle to get to higher ground. Instead of instantly rushing to the next obstacle, a team can choose to reach a valve instead which slows down the rising of the water level for that team. But that's not the only bonus to retrieve, the following bonuses will be available:

- Valve - Slows down water rising.
- Revival - Brings back a random fallen teammate, will not appear when no-one has fallen yet.
- Valve 2 - Speeds up water rising of the other team
- Watch your step - Platforms of the other team become slippery and people tend to fall down

The layout of the maps will be inspired by Mirror's Edge, being mostly white and featuring red colored challenges and distinctive blue water. The camera will be third person, as it'll be a 3D platformer.

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Team

Overv - Lua scripting, materials and level design
Agent Cobra - Mapping

Looks like it'll be fun, good luck!

Third-person, just saying that part is a major improvement on puzzle.

I love puzzle maps on Hl2:dm so I'll probably like this.

Here's a demo of the rising water. I'm using a simple trick to be able to use expensive water.

View HD YouTUBE video http://youtube.com/watch?v=61uBEGxZCBw

In the coming days I'll be mostly working on the gamemode code and not on the map itself. Actually I'm still looking for a real mapper, since doing everything myself isn't going to work out great.

Looks great! Can't wait for the release!

Ah! The clue is in the song.

The floor goes down. Not the flood going up.

Looks interesting. :)

This sounds like a win.

Love it, good luck Overv, personally this sounds the most fun to me so far :)

A bit basic, could probably do with a few more features (i.e. more powerups) but overall sounds good.

Good luck!

That was a bad song

Yeah, I was just listening to the radio.

Be sure to test this thoroughly with different levels of latency.
If I Remember correctly CL-prediction doesn't work properly when the player is stood on a moving brush.

You don't wanna go make the whole thing only to find it's unplayable on a busy server when you have more than 200 ping.

Agreed I love puzzles! Not that im good at them...but i still love them !

Yeah, if it doesn't work out, I'm going to use moving water. But I've been having crashing problems with that.

I could Map if you want, i know pretty much most of Hammer Editor.
Only if ya need me though, Im sure theres better mappers than me.

Oskutin FTW xD
Seriously I'm not here to put anyone down. I don't hail from 4 chan...
I'd be happy to work alongside this guy...

What trick exacly, could you explain it ?

Moving the level down, submerging the brush (and the players on it) in water.

If you do need another mapper, you can give me a shout

Bump for content! Levels ahoy!

http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t319/FirePawX/fc_theclimb_b0010001.jpg
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t319/FirePawX/fc_theclimb_b0010002.jpg

Looks great! It has a very Parkour-ish feel to it.

Or you could just make a rising water brush parented to a trigger hurt. I made a map like that a while back where you have to do obsticles to get away from rising lava for some server.

I want this. bad.

Looks interesting so far.

Very interesting, I like your design for the maps. But what would keep a player from just rushing to the top at the begging of a round? Or do you anticipate that, Because players that have come from "Deathrun" Will be really good at navigating maps like these.

There are parts which require at least two people to get past.

I think it needs more to it.

It sounds fun, but this will get boring very quickly, unless there are hundreds of maps for it, and even then, it would get boring eventually.

This. You should of something that would make the gameplay more varied.

With the right power-ups the gameplay will be varying enough, so I'll be focusing on that. Any suggestions for power-ups you would like to see?

This is why I abandoned bunnyhop. There needs to be more chaos and interaction between players.

Fast- 5-10 seconds 50% incrased movment speed
Slow - Slows player for 5-10 secodns (50%)
Freeze - Duh 5seconds
Bully - pushes away anyone who is near him 10 seconds
Bomb - a bomb that you can throw at the ground to push oposite team away
Super jump - jumps higher then usual
Playing with fire - Ignites you or the closest enemy team member next to you
Time vortex - Freezes everyone in time except you 5 seconds
Blackhole - Anyone who goes near a black hole get teleported to a random spot under water or above now thats the question.
Barricade - Gives the player a box to block the movment of the enemy team box last 5-10 seconds can be destory with something
Food - Regain health
Swiming suit - Gives the ability to survive in the water for 10 seconds
Shock - Player gets a shock aura that damages near by players
Death Penalty - You die in 10 seconds.

Ninja water-skimming shoes

Removes the slippery water effect (or lets you walk on water) for a good few seconds until they start to degrade.

Ice cubes

Throw them in the water and they will freeze it for x seconds.

Spring/Rocket Boots

Lets you jump x times higher for y uses or grants flight until fuel is drained.

Fire hose w/ backpack

Allows you to blast water at the floor (to make it more slippery) or at enemies (to push them in the rising water) until you run out of water.

Tried to keep them water themed.

you seem to have only one level in your gamemode.
If you want, i'll make a level for you, but I need to know what entities to use for controlling the stage's movement into the water as well as the end of the stage and the spawnpoints.

i have never mapped for fretta before, but I do know how to make maps.

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The medic heals with a stream of water?!

that would make for an interesting reskin for the medic.

Edited:

a couple of questions to keep consistency in the levels:
What 2d skybox and light_environment settings are you using?
what is the width of the red stripe?
What kind of water are you using (texture)
and what is the speed of the rising water?

The skybox is sky_tf2_04
Light_environment settings are as follows
The stripes are 8 on steps, on the platforms they are 16
The water is custom
The water rises at a speed of eer.. 20?

Oh yes, and these are the latest pictures.
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t319/FirePawX/fc_theclimb_v10000.jpg
http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t319/FirePawX/fc_theclimb_v10001.jpg

why not use the 2fort water? it looks really nice for still water, but it only works in tf2, and tf2 breaks func_rotate.
thanks for the info.
you also keep breaking the images, use [img] [/img] tags.