What map is this from???

BeigeAlert

When reading this thread, here http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/134923/bug-on-website , I noticed one of the screenshots for the editor showing a top-down view of a level I've never seen before. I know that website is ancient history, but just out of curiosity, what level is that, and what happened to it? Looks interesting!

sotanaht

It's kind of hard to make out at that size, but that looks more like something you would see in a half life 2 era corridor shooter. IE something that hadn't yet gone to full blown long hallway like present day shooters, but long after doom level design had died. In particular it makes me think of some kind of subway/metro style level.

Anyway, that's just what it looks like to me. It does NOT look like anything that could be used in NS2, that's definitely a single player style level.

radionaut

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/119600/ns2-penta

MuckyMcFly

I'm guessing this never got finished?

BeigeAlert

Almost certainly not. A bit of a shame too. It was looking really good! Did he ever release the .level file? Probably won't play too well in vanilla ns2, but it could make a good MvM map.

Bicsum

He hasn't been working on it (/ been playing ns2 at all) for a long time now. It will probably not be finished. You can clearly see that he is talented and that the geometry looks really awesome, but he should have started with more simple greyboxing. For play testing and motivational reasons.

The map was not as big as you might think. If I remember correctly he said it was about the size of summit (distance from the outer points). The long railway room could've been split by a train crash or a collapsed ceiling or something like that, because that room would've been problematic. Performance and balance wise.

I've sent him the link to this thread. Maybe he will respond himself.

Vetinari

The individual rooms looked big to me, not necessarily the overall layout

Soul_Rider

I said in the beginning, and I still say it now, this map could be made to work, but it just requires some creative thinking. I was really disappointed that it never got finished, but hey-ho, there are many maps over the history of NS and NS2 that I was looking forward to that never reached a climx..

KungFuJV

Nothing, tanith, hera, bast, caged

BeigeAlert

KungFuJV wrote: »

Nothing, tanith, hera, bast, caged

Now wait a just a darn minute... Caged is still being worked on regularly, and Hera is SUPPOSEDLY still happening.

Nordic

I remember this map from the old pre map thread. I remember it started out as a detailed hand drawing, which is all I remember seeing of it.

RapGod

james888 wrote: »

I remember this map from the old pre map thread. I remember it started out as a detailed hand drawing, which is all I remember seeing of it.

radionaut wrote: »

http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/119600/ns2-penta

Nordic

That is the picture but not the thread. That specific thread is more current than the thread I was speaking of so more apt for this thread.

RapGod

james888 wrote: »

That is the picture but not the thread. That specific thread is more current than the thread I was speaking of so more apt for this thread.

Wut?
That has the picture... and the hand-drawn map layout that that you spoke of... so it answers what I quoted:

james888 wrote: »

I remember this map from the old pre map thread. I remember it started out as a detailed hand drawing, which is all I remember seeing of it.

TinCan

I'm guessing the link to the last page of that thread caused confusion. The drawing is on the first page:
http://forums.unknownworlds.com/discussion/119600/ns2-penta/p1