Exterminatus Map Development Kit 2
Oct 26, 2007 SDK 0 commentsThis is partial modification intended to enable 3rd party mappers to create custom maps for the Exterminatus (EX) mod. It contains sample map sources...
Exterminatus
Half-Life 2 mod | TBD
Exterminatus : Destruction of all life on a world by the Imperium of man.
This mod is set in Games Workshop's, great Warhammer 40,000 ( 40k ) universe, as seen in Dawn of War and our previous mod WH40K : Rival Species.
The 40k universe is set in the year 40,000 by which time mankind has colonized millions of worlds thought the galaxy by interstellar warp travel. Humanity is ruled by a vast, uncaring, priesthood/bureaucracy on Earth in the name of an all powerful God/Emperor. A galaxy of insidious alien races have threatened and fought the Imperium since its earliest days in innumerable wars and battles.
Exterminatus is approaching the end of its initial development process. The mod is being tested in regular closed beta testing sessions, while we polish out any issues before releasing it publicly.
When starting this mod we chose to include only 2 of the many races of the 40k universe. The Space marine and Tyranid armies were selected by public vote. We remain conviced that by focussing on just 2 races Exterminatus has becoime a much more focused and polished mod that it would otherwise have been. Please do not ask about the other 40k races.
Asking if the mod is dead when we have posted news in the last 8 weeks will get your comment deleted. These things take time to do right and must not be rushed.
Each map sees the Marines and Tyranids competing in a series of mission objectives, culminating in a battle to decide the fate of the planet.
Players that do well for their team are rewarded with the option to use more powerful player classes including special and heavy weapons marines, the tank like Carnifex and terrifying Lictor.
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Latest News: Exterminatus June News
11 comments by ChromeAngel on Jun 28th, 2009 digg this super bookmark
We've had some very encouraging feedback from Mays news, thank you all for that. I don't want to drag this out... we didn't make it. No public beta yet guys.
It was looking hopeful up until the start of June, we were all assuming there would be a public release of EX (Exterminatus) this month (Chromeangel even added a big red "BETA" to the menu screen). However, upon testing the latest version we got a crash bug on just about everyone's machine. Something was going badly wrong in Valve's physics code. A week on Chromeangel tracked the crash down to one particular (critical) action in the game.
Rather than release EX with a bug that would cause a lot of grief it was decided to try to find a fix, but time has run out on us. No fix, so no Beta. This means EX is going to go quiet for a while now while Chromeangel (as our only coder) deals with some real life priorities. The mod is not dead, it's just sleeping and development outside of the code related area will continue. Mapping and modeling work is still underway, and this extra time will allow the completion of a improved version of the map we call "digsite" that has been causing so many problems with system performance.
EX will be back in full swing sometime in the late summer/early autumn with a (hopefully) crash-free public version.
So until then ill keep you updated as best i can with any development and Chromeangel leaves us with a couple work in progress shots of the weapon models we gained by trade:
Finally here is a slightly older series of clips showing off the general layout of "Ex_thunderhawk", one of our maps. A lot has been added since then, but the layout remains roughly the same.
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why boltgun is so wide?
I love the positioning of the weapons!
All quiet on the western front
fraid so, chromeangel is still renovating his house, could be another month before he even gets a chance to look at that code issue, nevermind actually finding a fix.
i wana play this so bad this is the only mod i wana play besides all the others
Glad to hear this is still chuggin along, really looking forward to playing it. The 40k universe is one of my favorites :)
yay i need a 40k game to play ill be waiting watching staring until this comes out happy moving
Well thats encouraging to know, that you all are still around. although i prolly shoulda guessed at "The mod is not dead, it's just sleeping" but its still nice to know that someone is listening
Mind sharing what the bug is?
The bug is a problem with the way we deal with teamswitching and the physics engine.
When you team switch you are killed and your score wiped, the problem is that the kill is a suicide and the game engine applies a force equal to the damage done to kill you. Same as being shot, issue is the knockback on the hit is HUGE causing the ragdoll to go nuts and crash the engine, thus wiping out the server and the clients attached to it.
we were persuing several options as a fix after finding it though testing. Then ChromeAngels bid on a home was accepted and we had to halt development in coding. A few models and a map have been worked on since then.