ns_siege_generator

All the timer's on the doors are set on random times and give minimal indication as to when they are opening, This is done on purpose so both teams have to be on guard, The min times are 5-6 mins on the doors dividing the aliens and marines and the door to siege is 20 min +.

12 - 28 Player Map

Stufff....

looks really good.

btw, your sig is too big.

Whoa, a good-looking siege map!

Also, your sig is way too big.

just played around for about 30 minutes in it, looks really awesome. one bug i found was that the part outside of the window in marine start, if you look out the window and then move away from it, you will get too far away and it will start disapearing. other than that, really awesome map.

A siege map that actually has lightning?! Cant be!

Teh seej wif text0rs an poppa laitin...

NOES!

Sgt Barlow has totally broken convention with this map

/me dls

i thought of an awesome idea for a siege map a while back that would actually be a good map like this one, ill probably make it for source. then we could have 2 siege maps that arnt boxes and 2 doors!

also, another thing i noticed is that the minimap doesnt seem to match the level perfectly in some spots. either its an old minimap, or something weird happened, either way i would go and make a custom minimap with location names and stuff.

Wow, a good-looking siege map. I am truly shocked.

The one point of criticism I have is to futz with vertex editors and such in the hive area. It's great to use infestation textures to denote where the hives are and to give a more organic feel, but organic boxes look rather odd. Try to make it seem like the area has been partially destroyed.

I told you it would happen one day!

Best... looking... funmap...

lol made me look twice!

First I see Naigel posting

Added list of servers running map to first post.

Are the screens really gamma corrected? It looks very dark. I actually agree with whoever said the gamma should be increased, but meh, I haven't actually even tested the map yet. /me starts downloading as soon as own compile is ready

and btw. I don't think it's a waste. As Swiftspear said, we all saw it coming, but only lacked a mapper skilled and brave enough to complete this hard task. Big thanks to Barlow for proving us that beautiful looking funmaps are possible.

I'm sorry I can't comment on the gameplay just yet. I haven't fancied playing ns for a while because of own project, but this might change the situation!

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I don't think this is a waste. As far as I'm concerned, good gameplay can be achieved on a siege map, just as good visuals can and have been achieved by Barlow here.

The main problem with siege maps is the oversized architecture. Forget the fact that it's basic, but the Marines have an automatic advantage because of their ranged attacks.

This would be balanced to a certain extent by their slow movement, but unfortunately there is simply so much res on the map that they can PG and Turret farm everywhere. This means that they don't have to guard key locations and split up their team. In the current crop of siege maps, the Marines have been reduced to a quick response team, only making and defending against the major assaults (those that coincide with each door opening).

It's a very simplistic and flawed formula, which could -with some alterations and thought- be turned into a very much more enjoyable game type. I'm looking forward to seeing your take on the siege map genre, Barlow

As I mentioned, The map has had more than 4 months testing on an 18 man server. A nice 9 v 9 and I have balanced the map pretty well, Most of the games have been very very close and I mean close , some even so close people where luaghting so amused by the situations bothe teams would end up in towards the end, beta testing has been much fun for the testers so far.

I really hate huge structures so the map is like man sized cause i feel its more real plus why would their be HUGE tall corridoors, do humans really need that space abouve their heads, I seroulsy doubt that their are 30ft tall people!

I meade this map a siege because their where no high standard siege maps and I know a lot of people who like siege so I made this 1 off map for those people so dont be selfish

8.5mb, how come?

I will take a look at it. Im the natural enemy of every single siege map in this universe but the architecture looks too nice to not even take a quick walk through the map.

the signs...

really nice use of textures, respect.

ps:

Thanks for putting it on my server for me barlow i wouldn't have time to do it untill wednesday else

Well you think this map is good looking well barlows got an even better looking ns map in the making but wont release it
Station X is the 1 he is making but he says he is keeping it for source
I think he did have a good reson for this something to do with fps?


This is best looking siege map ever with no doubts, the version you get now is alot better than the beta 1 version of it! I think it has had something like 6 beta's? All have been tested by a few 100 people and they all agreed that the last beta test truely created the closest siege game had

That's positively ORGASMIC!

now make a ns map outta it...

Lucky to say i have been involved in the beta tests and this map is as balanced as they come. How many times on a siege map have the marines managed to siege one of the hives down and still manage to lose because of an alien fightback that kept taking down the sieges and an endgame battle that lasted for 20 mins?

It doesn't happen in siege, well it does now, and this map is the ONLY siege map i enjoy

WOW, great job can't wait to play it.

EDIT: sucks those europe servers are usually empty

holy ****, hope thers servers which has this

_Error: PF_precache_model_I: Model 'models/rockgibs.mdl' failed to precache because the item count is over the 512 limit.
Reduce the number of brush models and/or regular models in the map to correct this.
FATAL ERROR (shutting down): Host_Error: PF_precache_model_I: Model 'models/woodgibs.mdl' failed to precache because the item count is over the 512 limit.
hmm won't run. a little help please

Not my problem, My map doesnt even use the models specified in your error?
The map is within HL Engine limmits.

What where you doing at the time?

Understood
your map dosen't use them. however i still get the error, verry strange because i run 180+ custom maps and have never seen this. Your maps is GREAT .I just want to run it in my mapcycle

Don't know why you get this error as their is only 1 custom model in the map and its baseicly an infested res nozzel, Their are no map models just hives and res-nodes thats it.
Map has ran fine on many server's, Im guessing this is just an icolated incident?
Try server support forum, Maybe someone will know on their.

Same error occurs on both my servers.

still no servers on these, i was on at those times and did connect IP HERE

and just sat in the ready room, and there was nobody but me on the scoreboard in all of them.

stupid GMT

first time when i played that map i didnt know how get outta from alien place ehh

I would love to put this on my server, but my computer can't handle this. I also get this problem with co_daimos (not that the inability of playing a co_ map is a bad thing... ). I wonder if its with the amount of entities or something.

I'll mess with my computer for now, but I'll see about putting it on my server anyways.

Do I have to?

Dell Dimension DIM2400
Pentium 4 CPU - 2.8Ghz
512MB of RAM
Onboard Graphics
Onboard Sound

It runs every other map, minus co_daimos and yours, fine. I get 70+ fps when playing.

What make is the built in graphics card?

i'm at a custon maps server and then people vote ns_siege_generator and i play in the marines team and peoples going fo the server because is too late on the midnight and ret me and the com versus 3 aliens coming with fades or onos and then farme too manys ofenses we have to run to sieges room and we lose after relocate because we dont have res ndoes there to keep us safe and health to do the sieges so i ask you put at least one res node at that area to make the game more hard and fun.
i like the map, but are more heavies than jetpacks friendly,here me ascii code smile:

i just played this map, it looks great, but all of the doors with "lockdown, no entry" or whatever get old after they are constantly repeated all over the map. possibly remove them and add alternate pathways if the compiler wont die trying to do so.