Announcing: Geonosis: Engagement Beta

[PvtParts]

UPDATED: v1 -

http://files.filefront.com/Geonosis_Eng ... einfo.html

First off, since credit is important to me, here you all go:

Thanks to

-_- for the force wave power, and offering to take my maps and look at them himself

Penguin for a lot of help and just being cool

Lord Bandu, -_-, Majin Revan, and anyone and everyone who posted in any of my WIP threads

And thats it. If i was a moron and forgot you, say somthing and ill fix it.


Alright folks, so some of you have seen me working on this, and since, for a new modder like me (who doesnt have a reputation) its hard to get the response/feedback (more importantly help) because people lose interest real fast.

So i figured i'd throw you all a bone.

This is my second map (first is much bigger therefore still in the WIP stage)

Features include:

-- Accurate Weapons for every vehicle

-- Accurate Classes and Health/Stamina

-- Modified Sides Encompassing All Units (Every Rank In The Clone Army, Every Unit of the CIS Force)

-- XL and Conquest Gamemodes (XL is more of a neverending battle, infinite reinforcements - near impossible to win on either side.)

-- Shadow Droid Hes a beast and he turns invisible. (stealth, grenades, sniper, blaster rifle)

-- Modified Speads/Armour/Weaponry for everything. Its balanced between movie accuracy and, well, gameplay balance (for example droids have more endurance but are weaker, exluding sbd and droideka, whereas soldiers are armoured better but cant run as long) and - strenghts and weaknesses for each class and vehicle, more importantly realistic (hailfire easily disposes of an at-te, but a detpack alone can dispatch it)

-- Accurate Weapon Names

-- Episode I/II Droid Fighter

In Next Release:

-- V-19 Torrent (If i can get my hands on it)

-- Geonosian Starfighter

-- Sounds (I have sounds for everything but Geonosians now, working on this)

- strenghts and weaknesses for each class and vehicle, more importantly realistic (hailfire easily disposes of an at-te, but a detpack alone can dispatch it)

Basically my maps will traverse through the clone wars/gcw (perhaps earlier once assets are in place), each planet a chapter, each battle a part.

So this is [Clone Wars] Chapter I, Part II; Geonosis: Engagement

NOTE: heres my map list for Chapter I

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/52024/My%20plan.txt

Heres the briefing screen:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/52024/Briefing.jpg

Heres ingame shots:







Sides:

-- Republic

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... rgeant.jpg
--
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... aptain.jpg
--
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... tenant.jpg
--
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... mander.jpg
--
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... eMedic.jpg
--
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... Marine.jpg


-- CIS

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... edroid.jpg
--
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... edroid.jpg
--
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... tDroid.jpg
--
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... rDroid.jpg
--
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... mander.jpg
--
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... Droid1.jpg
--
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... Droid2.jpg


Heres the URLs to some more screens:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... elaser.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... laser2.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... elaser.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/52024/sdsneak.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd3/520 ... rtthow.jpg

Now that you all know my master plan for chapter 1, and have some nice screenshots, ill give ya my map:

http://files.filefront.com/GEErar/;5019 ... einfo.html


On a final note, please do not hesitate to completly trash my map and point out every fault in it. but, on the other hand, do hesitate to say "omfg gawd your map is teh suxor"

Although gametoast has a pretty tight community and not a lot of baffoons running around speaking aim, I just want to make 1 thing clear:

1) I want criticism. If theres anything im looking for besides acceptance and liking in this release, its candid, blatent, straight-forward criticism. I want to know every bug, every issue, any problem, EVERYTHING. If you think i should replace the CIS with flying turtles, say so. Knowing whats wrong with my map when its a Beta can help me fix it and perfect if for a final release. So anything goes. Shred me up guys.

Anyhow, have fun.

[Penguin]

*nearly sends him some models*

woops, i need those!

lol, downloading now.

PS: you can reduce the size of the file to about 30 MB by putting the side folder into another zip and then puting the other folders into another one and then putting both of the zips into one zip. :p

or if you want, you can put them in RARs, but alot of people don't have winrar

[plokoon761]

kool seems good ill have 2 test it

[Penguin]

grrr. not downloading >.<
just says this

" Please wait while the download server is contacted... "

[Penguin]

nevermind, downloading now after i choosed another server

[PvtParts]

Oh, see I use Rars because I always thought they had better compression than zips.

I will package up them in zip and also do as you suggest penguin.

PS. the assets are uploading now, and ill send you the sound - when i put it in all sounds except geonosian stuff work, but it crashes! so it works when i take my sound file out..if you can figure out how to fix this...it would be greatly appreciated. This is why ill send you the sound file also, so you can recreate the crash.

[Gordman]

VERY VERY NICE, this as almost as good as Geonosis Offensive!!!!!!!!!!

[Penguin]

Oh, see I use Rars because I always thought they had better compression than zips.

I will package up them in zip and also do as you suggest penguin.

PS. the assets are uploading now, and ill send you the sound - when i put it in all sounds except geonosian stuff work, but it crashes! so it works when i take my sound file out..if you can figure out how to fix this...it would be greatly appreciated. This is why ill send you the sound file also, so you can recreate the crash.

eh? lol

[Gordman]

Even though it looks great at first..... u need to put boundries and borders. You can fly up so high towards the sky thats it goes all black and textiled:

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/ ... 63e399.png

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/ ... 1fb74f.png

Also clones gather up in a huge bunch at the corner of the Rep. Attack Cruiser. (it was fun mowing them all down with Aayla!!!):

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/ ... 0fd678.png

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/ ... 1086b3.png

Very Unique how you used dust to rise up like fog. No other Geonosis map ever had that!!! Good job:

http://screenshot.xfire.com/screenshot/ ... 1f2eaa.png

Also very good job on the units, but I think you should make the hero someone else, yoda would be fun, or use Yodaminch's Kit Fisto!!!!!

[Droid803]

Off-Topic: I want to DL, but the Download will take like 4 hours O_O...
Maybe when filefront is less bugged up from their transfer (I'm getting horrible rates...less than 10kbps) It took me 2 hours to Download Jabiim O_O


EDIT, off-topic: losing 605 to 1...wow...must have been real fun mowing down your allied clones...lol.

[Gordman]

Odd, only took me like 3 min, and thats a long time for my comp

[Guest]

New Geonosis map. Screens are awesome. Dowloading!

[Droid803]

Maybe I chose a bad server...but 3 minutes for 168MB is REAL fast.
Trying again...

O...found one that I get a decent kbps for the first 3 seconds, then drops to 24 beofre it reaches 1%. Filefront is messed, or I just reached my bandwidth. Either one. 2 and 1/2 hours is ok, I guess...

[DeathRow]

I will download later, I have reached 10gb and my nets really slow atm.

[Penguin]

okay, i diddn't get to play much becouse my comp crashed, lol

from what i played the CIS team sucked, you need to replace them with flying turtles





lol,jk




from what i played, theres no names for anything. the ground is pure orange in some places and pitch black in others. the Hailfires weapon is wrong, it was a rapid firing laser, not a beam.

now for the good stuff

the speeder looks cool. i like the dust ((even tho it killed my comp))

the crashed ship looks cool.

XL mode from what i played is fun

[Åkër]

Good map, but gameplay is a bit unbalanced in favor of the CIS.

[Guest]

XL mode from what i played is fun

very fun and very potential crash

[MasterKenobi]

wow, very good geonosis. Than only 1 more, download.

[-Iceman-]

looks very nice dl it now!

[yankeefan05]

i just finished downloading. Im about to try it out.

Iceman plz resize your avatar.