Re: FGS 0Augs
Posted: 13 Mar 2012, 14:31
Suck my Irish balls Majin. Sup?
When you put it like this Chinny, and make the DXMS comparison, it makes a lot of sense.chin.democ. wrote:I think it's important to have a mix of maps of different sizes, ones that offer the player the choice of using several weapons to be effective killing machines. So long open areas should be avoided as much as possible as it favours only the sniper rifle and is very newbie-unfriendly.
Imagine 2-6 players on server with large maps hosted, these players will spend alot of the round time searching for one another, this could become very tiresome especially if they are several large maps in a row. Admittedly a full server on a small map can be chaotic, so it's best to have a balance, also I have the round time set low so players can move through the map rotation at a swift rate, which I believe is important.
Everyone likes different maps and so by offering a wide range of styles and sizes there is bound to be at least a few maps that everyone will like which will hopefully be enough for them to enjoy the server. I really wanted to re-energise the 0 augs scene by creating a custom only map server, one that hosts decent quality maps made by the Deus Ex community. I also want to give some excitement back into DXMP by constantly updating the map rotation and so the server becomes a living breathing thing that constantly evolves and doesn't become stale and set in stone from day one.
I wont be hosting default DXMP maps as this is something I really want to avoid, the goal of the server is to offer a different experience to other servers by having exclusively custom maps. I want to see the community being creative and the FGS 0-Augs server gives the opportunity for mappers to get their work hosted alongside fellow mapper's work which I think is a cool thing.
DXMS had a similar vision some years back and it proved a popular server with the community. Some years have passed since then and nothing has filled the void and so I wanted to do something similar with [FGS]. Although I want to host superior quality maps with a proper length time for beta testing so mappers can get sufficient feedback which will hopefully lead to decent quality and playable bug-free maps, something that DXMS struggled to achieve due to an insufficient and inadequate beta testing phase.
Below are the maps hosted as of today, their sizes are roughly calculated.
Small maps
DXMP_Bound
DXMP_DressingRoom
DXMP_Mini_Dust
DXMP_Pool
Medium maps
DXMP_Abbottabad
DXMP_NYC_Statue
DXMP_Stalkyard
DXMP_Snow
Large maps
DXMP_Jail_Break_beta2_3
DXMP_Office_beta5
DXMP_StrangeDocks_beta1
DXMP_Yard8_beta2_3
1. arrgh.Fear wrote:Maps: DXMP_Smuggler, DXMP_Pool, DXMP_Iceworld & DXMP_Elevation
50% of your maplist has no spawnrooms.
75% of your maplist has no medbot or other actor
50% of your maplist, the player never gets to use his lockpicks or tools and in reality it's 75% most of the time.
100% of your maplist, we won't be using augs or explosives of any kind either. Soundwise, it already bores the crud out of me.
75% of your maplist, we won't be able to look through cameras, hack computers, use turrets etc either. (maybe a good thing, but it's like my conversation with Bambz, given the other percentages, what part of DX are you intending to actually include in this rifle shooter game)
25% of the time I'm going to be listening to that constant elevator sound
75% of the time there will be no ambient sound at all of any kind.
In other words, you're raising my blood pressure with 50% no spawnrooms and 100% of the time all I get to hear is no explosions, but I will hear an elevator for 15-20 mins and if I'm lucky, the sounds a turrets makes a few time every hour.
And Dan... I wanted Orange. No vending machine?
2. It's your server, I respect your choices.
3. Will this be called FGS 0-aug 2 or something?
