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Posted: **Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:28 am**

Outdated since 1.34

oc_antlion_attack

Warning! Lots of screenshots!
Sorry for the image spam...

Hey all, it's released!

Re-Released
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That's right! After slaving away at my computer all day and completely failing to do anything else, I am proud to announce in exhaustion:

oc_antlion_attack_01
...again.

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You and the rest of Patrol 273 must investigate the infested zone, isolating Sector 59 while defending Sector 57.

Airwatch copies no activity in location.

A Reminder: Premature mission termination will result in terminal prosecution.

All units switch com to Tac. 3

The map itself is based in a valley cul-de-sac, with a combine base on one end. Players play as combine, and start off travelling inside a combine APC towards the base. Upon arrival, the protective thumper fails. Shortly thereafter, the base is overrun by an antlion attack!

Players have to fend off waves of antlions for 30 minutes, until a dropship arrives to airlift them out. The waves come at regular intervals, and often allow a minute or two for players to re-group, grab ammo and health, and prepare for the next wave. (Though on Hard mode, waves are usually longer, and breaks shorter). To win: get all your players into the dropship.

Players spawn with a sub-machine gun, pistol, and a stunstick. To get more guns and ammo, proceed to the dispensers, where many other weapons can be bought, via the buttons on the side of the dispenser. There are three dispensers, each dispensing three different weapons (that's 9 weapons). Lives can also be bought at the combine monitor - you can buy an extra life for yourself, or one extra life for everyone on the team. 2 friendly turrets are available to set up, merely use E to pick them up and position them where you want (Note: the antlions will attack them). More turrets can be purchased at the Turret Construction Center (just to the left of the initial turrets).

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Initially, players choose from three levels of difficulty:

* Easy: One to three players can survive, though it's difficult with just one. Enemies can be killed easily. Weapons cost less.
* Medium: four to seven players can survive, though not easily. Enemies have normal health. Weapons cost average.
* Hard: going into this with less than eight players is suicidal. Enemies have much more health than Medium. Weapons cost more.

Anyways, here's some download links:

Download:
http://files.filefront.com/oc+antlion+a ... einfo.html
http://www.2shared.com/file/3813507/412 ... ck_01.html
W0rf0x's map-add, which adds point messages to the buttons and locks the APC:
http://w0rf0x.de/obsidianconflict/oc_an ... modify.txt

File contained within: oc_antlion_attack_01.bsp

This version is essentially an updated-for-1.33 version of the previous version. No more npcs have been added (yet), but I've tweaked numerous bugs and added in a bunch more features.

New/Updated Features:

* Lives System - Players start with 4 lives, and can buy extra lives for themselves. Players can also buy extra lives for the whole team, allowing other players to be resurrected.
* Merchants - Players now must buy any additional weapons they require.
* Easy/Medium/Hard Difficulty - Difficulty also affects the prices of the merchants.
* Spawn Items - Players spawn with a stunstick, a pistol, and a smg1. Anything further they have to buy.
* More Weapons - A few more weapons got added in. Yay!

The only thing the map currently does NOT do, which I completely forgot about until just posting now, is that it doesn't force all players to use a combine model. I'm not even sure if that's possible. Whatever. Anyways, it's designed for Combine players.

Notes:

* Three dispensers exist, allowing a total of nine additional weapons to be purchased.
* Ammo for all the weapons can be found either in ammo crates or lying around.
* Lives are purchased underneath the combine monitor. The team can all contribute to buying an extra life for the team.
* Additional Turrets can be purchased at the Turret Construction Center (left of original turrets).
* Final note: Hard mode is HARD.

Credits:
Map By: DaMaN
Sounds By: Valve, and sliced together by DaMaN

Honorable Mentions, Thanks, and all that stuff:

* fug4life, for incessantly nagging me to get the map done. (I actually enjoyed dusting it off again. It's a fun one. )
* Neico, for the player equip / weapon strip ideas, they came in handy
* Hell-met, for the cavern behavior, (but I was really going to do it anyways )
* skidz, Hyperjag, for three awesome OC releases in two months
* W0rf0x, for... umm...
* And all the rest of the community for being there.

Enjoy!
-DaMaN

Screenshots:

Initially, players start in an intro room with the difficulty selection and a start button. Select the initial options using the pistol and watch the intro, which is projected onto monitors in the start room. (Only 30 seconds long)
Only one screenshot of this, sorry (it's kinda 12:00 AM and i've got work tomorrow).

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As promised (well, actually Fire_cube just whined a bunch

1) on a listen server, the lives mode does not get implemented properly. To solve: restart the map or change to a different map and change back.
2) occassionally, as the map uses teleporters, the usual problem with teleporters can occur, namely respawning inside someone, which isn't very pleasent. Currently there isn't much of a fix, other than get the **** out of the spawn area ASAP. (Which players will generally do, as they are often under attack from antlions).
3) If not everyone makes it into the dropship and the people left behind are killed, it still counts as winning. Then again, if everyone dies without getting to the dropship, the mission is considered "completed", but you are certainly dead, so in my mind you failed.
4) when the dropship arrives, if you get all your team inside the map will go to credits, but will not end. This will probably be rectified this weekend.

Ignore below. New version exists above.
Download:
not required anymore.

Contains only the daylight version:
- oc_antlion_attack_01.bsp

Ignore below. New version exists above.
oc_antlion_attack_01_package.zip

Contains all three versions:
- oc_antlion_attack_01.bsp
  oc_antlion_attack_01_dusk.bsp
  oc_antlion_attack_01_night.bsp

Note: there is some custom content, (sounds, cfg's, etc), all of which has been pakrat-ed, so the only files you should need (besides OC itself) are found above.

To install: simply extract the contained files into your Obsidian\maps folder.

Enjoy!
-DaMaN
Da_HL_MaN@yahoo.ca

Posted: **Fri Nov 17, 2006 9:47 am**

Hurrah its out (does a funky dance) *downloading zip now* urm noobie question here, how do i install it?

Apart from that well done on a very good looking map, and we are all looking forward to more maps from you. *WOOT FIRSTS POST/DOWNLOAD* any way i will review it hopefull when i get it to work!

Posted: **Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:53 am**

worbat wrote:Hurrah its out (does a funky dance) *downloading zip now* urm noobie question here, how do i install it?

Add the .bsp files to your maps folder

Posted: **Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:55 am**

oh, Thanks.

edit: i tell you all now download this map and play it , its realy fun!, i note befor hand place the turrets befor you acctivate the thumper thing.

Posted: **Fri Nov 17, 2006 11:15 pm**

I love you

Posted: **Sat Nov 18, 2006 4:22 am**

Fire_cube wrote:I love you

ANONYMOUS AGREES

Posted: **Sun Nov 19, 2006 3:28 pm**

DAMAN! YOU'RE MY GOD! I LOVE YOU!

HOW CAN I LIVE WITHOUT YOU?

WHAT CAN I SAY?

THIS! MAP! IS AWESOME!

EDIT: Umm... Just, not so well. Nice map there, but geez, why it's crashing every 10 minutes of play?

Posted: **Sun Nov 19, 2006 4:46 pm**

Yea, finally a good map and then we cant play it!

Posted: **Sun Nov 19, 2006 5:32 pm**

hmm i played it on my dedicated server without crashing
edit: my server had ep1 content on, maybe thats the problem

Posted: **Sun Nov 19, 2006 9:22 pm**

Wow! Thanks for all the great compliments guys! I really appreciate them!

HBK wrote:DAMAN! YOU'RE MY GOD! I LOVE YOU!

HOW CAN I LIVE WITHOUT YOU?

WHAT CAN I SAY?

THIS! MAP! IS AWESOME!

Yay!

EDIT: Umm... Just, not so well. Nice map there, but geez, why it's crashing every 10 minutes of play?

This is news to me, when playing on a listen server it's never crashed.

W0rf0x wrote:hmm i played it on my dedicated server without crashing
edit: my server had ep1 content on, maybe thats the problem

I don't think ep1 content is the problem, as I don't have ep1 content enabled on my game.

What's your computer specs HBK?

Posted: **Sat Dec 23, 2006 8:51 pm**

nice work thanks for supporting our mod

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 12:35 am**

Thanks and no prob!

Glad people are enjoying it!

I've been working on a different, larger-scale map - hopefully I'll be able to get some WIP shots up for early January.

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 1:27 pm**

Finally a decent Antlion map (especially night version) for OC! Great work!

Posted: **Thu Dec 28, 2006 4:21 pm**

Awesome work DaMaN, looking forward to playing this when I get home.

Posted: **Mon Dec 17, 2007 1:14 am**

Just a note to those out there that I'm resurrecting this thread from the dead to give a quick update: Due to fug4life's incessant nagging, I'm going to be dusting off this map, updating it, and fixing a lot of bugs. Currently, I've fixed some of the problems caused by the lives system (mainly by removing it), but I'll also be making more updates, changes, and additions to the map. (Nothing major, just making it run better/more bug free).

Estimated release date for the next version is going to be sometime after Xmas.