Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

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Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby 904 on Wed Sep 02, 2009 9:51 pm

Swiftly moving to the next battle to get back on schedule. And for this battle the theme is:

INCOMING!


Goal
Make a map in an official Valve Source engine game that fits the given theme, make it as visually pleasing as you can, it does not have to be playable.

Deadline
The deadline for this battle is set on Thursday september 24th. The battle will be closed at 22:00 GMT that day. For a conversion of the the closing time to your own location, check this.

Basic Rules
  • Three final screenshots max
  • You should use an official Valve Source engine game
  • Custom content is more than welcome

Full rules
You can find the full rules here. If you've got any questions about the theme, the rules or the battles in general, either post in this thread or PM me (904).

Good luck!
About three weeks time to come up with some creative stuff, so good luck and get mapping!
Please post W.I.P. shots and don't forget to mark your final screenshots.


Next battle will start october 1st
The theme for this battle was kindly suggested by our resident map-battle-theme-suggester mr. rotinaj


P.S.
The voting thread for map battle 37 is still open, so please take a moment to vote while you still can!
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby Major Banter on Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:32 pm

904, you've proven to me once again just how awesome you are. I can't think of the words to describe just how brilliant you are.

Oh my God I just spotted the bits in grey.

I HAVE A JOB! I FUCKING LOVE YOU! Seriously. Engagement soon.

Now to stop being emotional and crack on with the slaughter.
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby Armageddon on Wed Sep 02, 2009 10:38 pm

I think I'll try this one. But why is it called INCOMING! If you need to make perfect map?
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby Dr. Delta on Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:22 pm

hmm, interesting.
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby Fearian on Wed Sep 02, 2009 11:56 pm

just, Incoming? hmm, nice and broad. lots of freedom!
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby AlexCrafter on Thu Sep 03, 2009 9:11 am

I think too broad a theme, entries are going to be way to varied to vote by map quality, but who am I to judge. If I can get this to fit into a part of the mod I'm working on I'll enter.
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby dark_veil on Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:56 am

can i do a map for garrys mod and then add some stuff in?
got a good idea for a basis as this might be the first comp i enter

EDIT: nevermind... i looked at the full rules... im an idiot lol

still ill have a go
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby Major Banter on Thu Sep 03, 2009 11:59 am

AlexCrafter wrote:I think too broad a theme, entries are going to be way to varied to vote by map quality, but who am I to judge. If I can get this to fit into a part of the mod I'm working on I'll enter.


Maps are generally judged by thier appeal as much as the quality. Whenever someone like Srred comes along and creates the most random "wtf" map in a generic theme, it gets voted for because it's nice and unusual. The same with my other theme, "dream", it was all about creative interpretation as much as making it the pretties. Which is where the whole "ministry of love" thing fell down, it was too tight a theme and we ended up with 5 entries with chairs and several others which were "scary" rooms.

But fuck it, we'll see.
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby dark_veil on Thu Sep 03, 2009 1:11 pm

ive started a very heavy WIP of what my initial idea might have been
might be able to pull it off with alot of work. my theme is kinda "bond-ish" lol
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby Major Banter on Thu Sep 03, 2009 1:26 pm

Need a train with convenient gap.
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby Dr. Delta on Thu Sep 03, 2009 5:55 pm

Rotinaj wrote:Need a train with convenient gap.


I don't get it. Ramp + Car + helicopter = DIEHARD 4 .-.
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby KILLA-COW on Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:06 pm

Last battle before I ship off to uni and it's a shitty one.
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby MaK on Thu Sep 03, 2009 6:39 pm

This topic made me think about that old mod Incoming: Source. And it also reminded me of PaulH's awesome entry from Something's Not Right

Although this map battle title isn't very descriptive, I'm sure we'll see a lot of action packed scenes!
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby Major Banter on Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:37 pm

Fucking complaining bastards. Does no-one have an imagination?
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Re: Map Battle 38 - INCOMING!

Postby KILLA-COW on Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:59 pm

Yeah people do, but quite a few of past battles themes have hardly been very conduicive to imagination. All getting a bit stale and shitty.
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