What would you like to see in an infection map?

I choose "Other" because I like an Infection map with all of these settings. For example, you spawn in indoor type area/facility, then fight your way out onto the streets, then find a cabin or outdoor campground to fend off the zombies until time runs out, or the last man dies. I'm working on an infection map right now, where the humans respawn in a "Cave-Like-Area" and they have to fight through the infected horde, then once they reach the Forerunner Facility, they can hold off the horde.

EDIT: Don't forget about balance!

 

I chose other; because the location doesn't matter, it's about the balance. This is just another Aesthetics vs gameplay thread, but with infection in mind.

 

I want to play an infection map that can be played over and over without getting boring. Even the great infection maps I have played are fun the first time, then you say "Ugh, this again?" when the party host decides to go for a second game. No matter how great an infection map is, (imo) its fatal flaw is re-playability.

The only way I see this happening is giving the humans different routes to play through, whether that is forced to where you spawn in "groups" in different areas of the map or make the players choose a route. The problem is the lack of zombie encounters all the groups will have because the zombies are trying to attack one team and forgetting about the rest, which will make gameplay boring.

Fortunately, I have a solution to this problem.

 

I agree with you on this, replayability of a map is one key flaw in Infection. But I see where you are going with this, and my solution is to create different game variants for a single map, to increase diversity and replayability of the map. But this would work well IF the gametype is fun for the party to play. BALANCE | REPLAYABILITY | EXECUTION

 

That is a good idea. One game the zombies could be super fast, next game they could be strong and slow. I haven't thought of your idea before, but it solves the problem perfectly by messing with the gametype options to make the map itself more fun.

But perhaps we could add re-playability to the map itself, which combined with your varying gametypes idea would make the map incredibly awesome to play on multiple times.

What I was thinking going along with the "force spawn the humans into groups separated from each other" is to have these groups meet up and help each other out at certain intervals. For example, one team could be defending in a courtyard and another team is providing covering fire from the second story of this courtyard. The teams could even activate switches along the way to send ammo resupplies to the other team or open shortcuts for each other. That would solve the "little zombie encounters" problem.

Thanks. Good luck forging!

 

This is a very interesting idea. Where you could set only four "Initial Spawn" points for the humans, but one group is separated from the other, along the way, they must help eachother out by: covering fire, and activating switches. Very good idea, that gives me an idea. But anyways, this reminds me somewhat of CoD WaW Zmobies on the map Verruyct [I think that's how you spell it].

Thanks for sharing, also, for the switch part, I was thinking one team had to get to this certain area, upon reaching the area, they must activate a switch [which possibly detonates a fusion coil, respawning another, then destorying a grav lift, moving the crate].

But yeah, you have some nice ideas here.

 

I read this and I want to make one on the island using all the stuff made here. I hope you guys are ok with that.

The humans start at the back of the island farthest from the coastline. The are trapped in a medical research facility. Zombies initially spawn on the first floor near the entrance. They respawn in various caves and behind various items across the island.

Humans must fight their way out and into the streets of the island city. There are various buildings. Some abandonded and others are where one or two humans MAY have initaially spawned. Zombies will spawn in empty ones while there are a few (poorly) barricaded ones which may be used to reside in. However they have a few entrances.

The humans then get to a bridge. The bridge is indestructible until three minutes in. Why?
Well a large section is made of fusion coils. However they are protected by a shield door. They can only be destroyed by a fusion coil that spawns 3 minutes in, half way in and half way out of the shield door.

On the other side of the bridge is the coast line with a few cabins to camp in. However it is very difficult to get here as zombies have a large chance of spawning at the forerunner cave located 2 evades away from the bridge.

The only way to get to the cabins is quite possibly immense teamwork.
The zombies spawn near key locations that will help the humans.

 

But won't they mix the teleporters up?

 

I chose an indoor map, but I think the best maps are maps with tiny outdoor pockets, and glimpses of the outside world (perhaps through broken walls and ceilings).

Think: perhaps, you're in a Singularity-esque laboratory, running through ruined rooms full of research desks and jumping through a large window. You land in a small alleyway, the buildings forming tall, imposing walls. You can see the sky if you look up, and the tops of the buildings are noticeably decayed -- half of them look as though the roofs have collapsed.

And then it's back into another creepy, narrow metal maze building.

 

Maps that support gametypes involving STRONG infected, not pushover 1 or 2-shot zombies. I'm spoiled by Resident Evil's stronger monsters (Hunters and Tyrants for example, like in my Enmity map).

Progression, like in the L4D remakes.

Limited weapon pick-ups, like in the L4D remakes.

More L4D. :v

 

Nope. While the 'normal' attribute works a bit on forge, for those objects, it does nothing in actual gameplay.