Comments - Showdonnn

I guess I push limits more than I should. Part of me is aware of what I'm getting into when I make a map that isn't exactly standard and I appreciate the criticism. The "flesh" room was almost a spur-of-the-moment idea and in all honesty is the experiment I decided to add in with the intention of it being the most difficult as well as the most dangerous and unpredictable room (Killing Floor maps rarely have any form of environmental hazard aside from fall damage).

Too late contest-wise but I do want to work on it and make it as player-friendly and easy to figure it out as possible (using the internal hallways to avoid the fire as well as maybe a very simplified map to indicate which halls are open/closed on the outer walls).

I understand at times sticking to a single theme is a plus, but I generally like to have some aspect of the map being disjointed. My original idea was to have 4 areas compliment each other, so I figured I could go with color-coding (red, green, blue, yellow/orange) and then from there players can think of their own backstory for the map.

As for the trader pods is it a time issue or just the feel of taking too long? From my experience once there are less than 10 enemies then everyone will start moving to the pod that will activate. KF_Farm from Killing Floor is an example I looked at to make sure trader pod distance wasn't too far apart.

Could you take screenshots? I know I've run into an issue sometimes where upon first-load players can't seem to spawn in correctly (and thus the server needs to reload the map).

Players joining a server hosting the map no longer need to download the map content outside of the game (it is a single .kfm file now).

Players joining a server hosting the map no longer need to download the map content outside of the game (it is a single .kfm file now).

It was stated earlier that a map from Phase 1 can be voted on during Phase 2. Right now voting is closed on Phase 1 entries. Will they be re-opened for votes for Phase 2?

A bit of an overdue update. Mainly correcting object and hall change events to work online, some blocking volume fixes, removed a blocking volume around the display case in the fire room, and correcting the hidden pickup cache walls to work as intended (general damage won't work, you need to use specific types of damage to access each).

Updates since the new room was added: Elevation added, fixed a few effects mistakes, corrected the dynamic paths that enemies use (no more pacing enemies), and very slightly tweaked damage on the perimeter fire.

New update up. A fourth room is now added and will keep an eye out for any issues with it as I play-test and tweak it.

I fixed a big problem with object swaps when the map is played online. It should work both offline and online now. The fake zeds won't disappear when shot at now, though (I may fix this later, for now this is an acceptable trade-off).

I've noticed it as well if you stay in place for too long. To an extent this is intentional and you should always keep moving around the current room (though the tight paths between each room are meant to deter you from using them when there are a lot of enemies).

I fixed the boss spawns and added pickups to the new room. Sorry about the oversight.

You want to drop the two files in the zip in steamapps /common /killingfloor2 /KFGame /BrewedPC /Maps

You can make a separate folder in Maps named Abstruse to put the files in if you want to keep organized. Also I'll quickly upload a fix for Hans, I just now realized there are no boss spawn volumes.

On top of that I have disabled lightshafts for optimization as well as discovered this has slight issues when played on a server (for me and a friend, at least).

As for the fake zeds it is more of a distraction since I can't make them attack or move in a believable fashion.

I've got two of my maps up. Escheresque is pretty much finished while Abstruse I will update regularly until the end of the entire contest (Phase 2, that is).