The first of 3 releases in the City 8 theme mappack, to be released this week.



Download Link (.RAR) - Filefront

Download Link (.ZIP) - Filefront

Alternate Link (Non Filefront) - Garrysmod.org

Dont forget to check out the other maps in the series -
City 8 Central
City 8 Canals
City 8 Outlands (still in production)
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Outline

The final release of the City 8 District 9 map. I started work on this the day D9 came out at the cinema, got home and felt immediately inspired! However I ended up mixing it with the Half-Life2 Combine theme, and it turned into a hybrid that I utilised for my City8 project.

City 8 is now the Combines Citadel based in what used to be Tokyo, Japan. The District 9 refugee camp sits just outside the outer wall, and works as a staging area for new arrivals from other metroplexes across the world.

This will be live on our servers at TNB within the next week or so as part of a whole new storyline based in City 8.


Features

• Part of a 4-map pack which all contain the same theme and style, for use on the TnB roleplay servers, each representing a different area of the city. Refugee camps, inner city, canals and outlands.
• 3 main areas - The Combine Nexus, and then 2 Sectors of slums and wasteland as part of the refugee camp.
• Doors coded for Tacoscript 1 / 2. Combine-only doors will NOT open in Singleplayer.
• NPC nodes for ground and striders.
• Custom graffiti, props, and other Combine textures relevent to City 8.
• Central Dispatch Interface - an interactive hologram system used for Civil Protection Units to control the Autonomous Dispatch broadcasts across the city.
• Judgement Waivers - Ability to put the Citadel on full alert which literally shakes the ground as it moves, causes windows to smash, and looks awesome.
• Custom dispatch sounds, alarms, etc.
• City Administrators office overlooks the city from the top of the citadel.
• Huge amount of space for citizens to roleplay in the shacks and huts.
• Plenty of sneaky places to get around the Combine.
• Destructable buildings - Lots of walls and sometimes entire buildings can be blown apart. Experiment!
• Colour Correction for that....Gritty feel.
• PAK'd EP1/EP2 content, you only need CSS to play this.
• Hologram messages are displayed to the slum sectors according to what Dispatch message is triggered.
  

All mapping, textures, sounds and custom work by Davebrown.

www.taconbanana.com





Nexus / Citadel

City Administrators Office.


Administration Hallway.


Central Dispatch Interface.


Detainment Grid.


Hallways.


Command Screen / Podium.


Supply Trainyard.



Sector 1

Bridge across the canal system, leading to the Nexus.


The Canal system.


Sector 1 slums.


Lower Sector 1 slums.


Swampside hut.



Checkpoint Splitting Sector 1 / 2

Citizen Walkway.


Detainment Area.


Supply Trainyard.


Trainyard Exit/Platform.



Sector 2

Arrivals station.


Slums (Ration depot seen at the very back).


Slums.

As said on the TnB forums - this map is just pure win in map form... D=

Yeah it's pretty cool, it just looks more like a prison camp than a slum district imo.

You sure as hell make some good-looking maps.

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Hey Freakie make a news article about it

Maybe...

Zombiedude101 sends his cheers

Good shit, Dave.

This map looks sexy

And this is why I play TnB.
With love, Radryk.

From the screenshots alone I can see this is pure win!

The map is insanely fun to play in; I can assure you that all the fun little things in it are very appealing.

Very nice map to play on. Twas fun being one of the testers.

I thought this was somthing to do with dem fookin prawns.

The supposedly combine architecture looks like shit. Rectangular shit, but still shit.

Were'd you get those awesome NPC's?

I made them :3

Home run, dude. I love it.

This theme has been used a lot, but I've not yet grown tired of it.

Excellent quality. You've got my download.

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I would like tot est it. Do the combine patrol and interact?

Looks very kickass, has a good dirty feel to it. Good job.

So we can expect other City 8 maps to be arriving?

This map looks absolutely fucking beautiful. The additional destructibles, the sheer extensiveness and size of the map, and the draw distance just makes the map even better.

Even though this are some excellent designed slums and entrance to the general city, I would really like to see how this map works out with the rest of the servers. I'm assuming it's all gonna be one big city distributed over several servers, right?

Yeh, thats the idea.

Id just like to point out there are no NPCs by default on the map, for those who were mislead by the screenshots. Its an empty roleplaying map.

I was testing the map and I found that you have missed one face here. It has different texture.



Its not critical though but its my job to tell you. ;)

Good work there Dave.

I must say that the map has amazing brushwork and lighting, though the optimization could be improved a bit more.

Really good and amazing work like always thought the map is not appealing to me. I think I must just be tired of the theme and was hoping for Japan infused map.

The lighting in the map makes the entire map look boring and really dull.

I do not think you properly grasp the combine ideology. Considering this map has been planned since when I was at TnB (some 2-3 years ago), this perfectly portrays it.

This map has the same finesse as one that I might expect from Valve.

Yeah guys, expect the next City 8 maps over the next week or so. Main center and canals. I've played both, and they're both just as good quality.

This is great.
Too bad my Japanese CP got pked by a certain assmonkey...

Awesome.


Hopefully my low end computer can run it...which I doubt -_-

But its a beautiful looking map,anyway. Very District 9ish

That one is being released in a few days as a counterpart as I said :P

Framerate can drop a little when looking from the the very end of Sector 1 towards the Citadel, but thats the only real technical problem. Dosnt make it unplayable at all.
Optimisation was always going to be a severe issue with a layout like this, huge open areas with lots of detail and no way to cut it up with hints/areaportals is basically a nightmare and Im surprised it worked so well.

TnB always has best RP and also best maps.

That shit's artistic.

I haven't played it yet, so I can't say anything about the playability of the map, but I can definitely say it's well designed and artistic. Dave tends to be a very good mapper, and he's one of the few who finishes everything he starts - nobody can deny he's got a fantastic imagination, either.

Looks great!

Thanks babe :D

pretty much this.

nice job dave!