Far Cry 2 Level Editor Contest Thread

Right now it is a train robbery of sorts. Basic ideas is that the two teams worked together to get the train and are fighting over the spoils as you can see with the diamonds on each end.  I did try to make the sides more balanced, but of course you can never have them exactly the same so you have to cripple a few of the advantages that they have. It seems like this will work better, and it concentrates the action to where I want it, which was the main reason I made these updates, but balancing the map is a close second. I think I have them both covered now, but unfortunately it will be more chaotic and claustrophobic.  Only testing can tell though right.

About sniper spam; there are back doors in the main bases so theoretically snipers can be avoided, and I always just jump out a window and gun it to the action and never had sniper problems oddly. The main problem before was snipers shooting you in the ass easily on your return diamond trip, and that is avoided so I think it should be much less annoying.

Thank you sir for the input.

Otreum, the roads do look like that because they are not really roads lol.  I just wanted the muddy texture and none of the actual textures would suffice so a road did the trick. The blockyness is in the works of being sorted out. What really pisses me off is that the roads don't round off in the end. Seriously wtf eh.

Oh wait, you are entering your D Day map Otreum?

Nice vids, I liked the atmosphere of the first map, I haven't seen that one before

Everyone who has steam can you please put your steam ID's here.
Mine should be Natace25
If that doesn't work, just add Otreum

If neither of those work, well crap, tell me.

Choreography is pretty easy with people who listen, lol.

It's only a problem if you go onto a public server where people just want to play, not help make a video.

Okayplayer what is your steamID so we can add you to steam friends? If we get everyone added to the friends list who is participating we can have our own little group to organize when we want to record footage.

I published the new version of Once Upon a Time in the East.  I did not however, delete the old versions so no biggie if you forget to add updated to your new rotation Eagle. If you could add that your rotation that would be the bees knees.

There is a bit of an easter egg in this so whoever finds it (except Otreum & Judo) wins.

BTW can we just call eachother by our names I'm getting sick of typing out Judo and Otreum etc.

The name's Kev, nice to meet you all. =D

Oats and Otis works, but that sounds kinda dumb.  I shall call you O.

hahahahahhahaha thats awesome
But yeh, Oats or Otis is fine, i dont care if it sounds dumb, lol
Judo's is easy....yours is just Judo, and Zahlenbechk is Zahl, R6_eagle is R6 or eagle, F0U is fou and...yeh....i dont see a problem with names personally but that's just me.

put a server up now, sry its later than usual

That's how it's pronounced

Well...R6 and I had a bit of 1 on 1 fun (tisk tisk), we checked out my "The Cube o' Death"  map, and found a really big f'ing flaw in the map thankfully, but it should be pretty nuts with a few people, prob not even any need for a full server.
Here are some pics:
(This is an overview)

(This is the sides of the cube that players can run along to get to the other teams diamond area, as you can see, it is a bit dangerous )
(here is a pic of one of the team base areas, yes it's plain and boring looking but it's not meant to be stacked with cover or anything)
(this area is the bottom of the cube, there are 2 little girder pits for a shootout, as well as there being a VERY thing walk way made of poles which zig zags to the opposite side...this IS harder to walk across than it looks )

Then we mucked around in his Cabin map and reanacted some thriller scenes where the murderer sneaks into the house/cabin and tries to stab the occupants and..yeah that was kinda creepy and fun (I got owned )...then we stuffed around in the new version of my d-day map, and well, runnin up that beach is hectic now; every attacker spawns on the beach right near the waterline behind cover, and it's pretty crazy trying to get up that beach without being blown up, lucky for me eagle was a bad shot , eagle also got some footage running up the beach, and showing the awesome explosions when the bunkers get blown up, including the rear bunker at the back of the level, i'm yet to see what the footage looks like, but i'm guessing it's perdy good and choreographing some footage on that map will be pretty crazy I think
Then we played R6's good old pirate ship map, we walked the plank, hunted for some shoiney treasures, we blew each others ships up from the belly out, and finally we had our try and hijacking a river boat moving at full speed, it took a while but I finally succeeded at that, however r6 didn't have as much time to practise so he couldn't get it...instead he died and then proceeded to blow the ships up at the end of the match.

Anywho, you hopefully will be able to help out later with this recording, it seems that only about 3 people are needed for this maybe, so we should be good to go.

Here is a pic of the new spawns and new beach for my D-Day map:

Edited by: Otreum

BAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHH brilliant, just brilliant...well I guess F0u couldn't wait to see the Ultra Tank destroyed
Very nice work, very nice work indeed

Here is my crappy attempt at a video for the D-Day map. The program I was using to edit the video was driving me insane so I didn't bother doing any choreographed stuff with you guys, I just used what footage I had...
Youtube.com

Those of you who have played Ultra Tank underground will be pleased to know that i've made things ALOT better.
The APR diamond is now on the main deck at the front of the tank just infront of the fallen rock, the spawn locations are in the same spots, but there are ladders straight outside of the cabin area that lead down to the train, so people will see the little hand icon straight away and will know how to get down the tank quicker.
I also adopted a previously mentioned idea of adding pools of water to jump off the tank into. I didn't put this in the original Ultra Tank map because it just wouldn't make sense to put a pool of water next to the tank in the middle of the desert lol, but yeh, there is now a pool of water on the front right side of the tank and a pool of water at the front left corner to jump down into, there is also a pool of water at the back left.
There are pools of water along the bottom of the cave where people tend to keep falling down and complaining, and I figured these spots may serve well for quick get aways without ruining the gameplay, one pool is under the bridge that crosses from the shanty storage area to the fort, the other is further along that cliff wall next to the big cave pillar thingo.

There are ladders on the side of the tank going from the lower walkway area up onto the front of the main deck so that attackers don't have to run to the middle of the tank before going back up to the front of the deck.

The glider on the UFLL team has been put further back and higher up so that the glider can be used to land on the tank, there is a trick to landing properly on the tank, you have to swoop under the low rock in the middle of the cave and back up above the tank, you CANNOT go straight into the tank, that results in epic failure

Uuuuh, I made some other minor changes so that people can find their way around the cave easier such as a campfire up to the left side of the cave (facing the tank) so that people can see that they can actually go up to the left side of the cave and follow the path around so that they can eventually do an epic jump across to the side of the tank.

And that's about it....the new version is uploaded on ubi servers right now so everyone grab it.

Edited by: Otreum

HotNirvanaJudoTrend wrote:ROFL   F0u!!  that was awesome  hahaha  otreum mentioned this, but i didnt think someone else would do a UT destruction map    awesome job man!    i hope to play it in eagle's soon 

It is not a playable!

sweet vid otre, luv the effects too, gj!   ...And nice tank wreckage lol xD.

ahh  good point good point... well if i did, i wouldnt publish it anyways, as it IS Otreum's concept.    i jsut want to play that damn shit    been wanting too ever since otreum mentioned it  haha.

ah well in any case i'll leave it be for now.

sounds excellent!!     and yea, i wouldnt want to steal your thunder  just eager to play on the debris of ultra tank  a morbid sense of accomplishment.