Sandbox Lost Tower

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  1. Arbacca

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    Download Lost Tower
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    Lost Tower
    Created by Arbacca

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    Map Description
    This map is basically a thin, giant tower. The simplicity of it all is what makes it amazing!

    Gameplay
    Humans - Have a magnum, limited ammo.
    Zombies- Have 200% speed, 50% gravity, and a sword.

    Very balanced, and the zombie is not too fast, either.
    Story
    Long, man began to build a large tower, but God had a problem with this. For, it was not what they were building, but why. They built it because they believed they too were as powerful as God, if not more. So they continued this mass construction, and convinced themselves they were indeed Gods, and made this tower stretch into the heavens. God, being sickened by these actions, punished these men. The tower then became known as the Tower of Babel, because God punished them by giving each of them a different language. Since they could no longer communicate, building of the colossal was halted, and they all went their seperate ways and flourished.
    (This story can be found near the beginning of a Bible [I think...])
    However, a few decades later, some of the men devised a decent communicating system, and they once again began to construct a tower. God made the choice to let them build it until the end, and there was much suffering. For as each level of the tower was mounted, a sacrifice would be made to the supposed glory of man, as another man would preach to the others.
    Finally, construction of the tower completed, man began their final sacrifice. But then one notices something falling out of the sky. He turns his back on it, thinking it's only a dead bird. Right as he turns, a sword slides through his chest, and the priest fires his primitive gun at the angel. Then another angel appears beside the priest, and everyone decides to run up into the tower, since they had nowhere else to go. After several minutes like this, someone begins to ask for ammo, but all forsake him, and hurl him down the center. Another notices that more and more angels appear, and every death another angel does. Now, trapped in the tower, all man can do is delay the inevitable...
    Now to pics!


    Overview of outside, zombie spawns in sky at the beginning of the row of obelisks.
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    The priests podium, in front of the altar.
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    The altar, and the hole where the bodies are dumped. No one really knows what is down there... (OK, I already have comments on what is down there. A killball. There, I spoiled the goddamn suprise haha)
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    My geomerged entrance to the tower, it may look crooked, but last I checked, it's not.
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    The lighthouse of the tower, built so all can see the "greatness" of man.
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    It's a long way up...
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    ...and a long way down.
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    At the top of the tower there is a wall corner, giving cover and a final defending spot for the humans. Until they run out of ammo, that is...
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    Action Shots. Only three, sorry :(

    The angel falls, and the humans panic.
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    I saved my friend once, but could not do so the second time.
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    I could, however, save myself :D
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    #1 Arbacca, Apr 14, 2009
    Last edited: Apr 14, 2009
  2. X1BLACKOUT1X

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    Can't the humans be lame and go down the body hole?
     
  3. Ghost717

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    This is amazing I made a map similiar to this but its was smaller and sloppier. This looks like it should be in aesthetics not casual. 5/5
     
  4. Darkness Seeping

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    that has got to be the tallest tower i have ever seen. I tis interesting that you made a game about killing from an idea from the bible. lol. but the tower is not bad, but problem, what if a human goes down the hole? does he die?

    anothger way to make it seem bigger, from the inside is use walls instead of the bricks. they are thinner so you can fit more in

    did anyone else read the entire post?
     
  5. Arbacca

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    Nope, a killball awaits all dumbasses who try to do that.
     
  6. Skanky Toast

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    This is so cool, a giant tower with zombies coming up. It's like fat kid maps, but with no long hallways to continuously spawn kill the zombies. You should have like, a checkpoint system for the zombies, where you have an object blocking a teleporter, and when the zombies get to that height, they break or move the object, the tele at the bottom will teleport them higher each time. That will add more strategy to the humans part, where they could choose to stay low, with worse weapons, or go higher with no going back. This has tons of potential. I might get on sometime tomarrow. Add me: frozen shizno
    4.5/5 great!
     
  7. Arbacca

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    Yea I thought of doing that, but I might just have it where every so often a grav lift moves something off a sender node.
    Also, this map was named Lost Tower because it will probably be lost in the forums haha
     
  8. Skanky Toast

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    Then make a V2 with the stuff I mentioned, and post it in a few months, when the forums die down :p
     
  9. Wally12

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    This map looks hoss! I also am actually making a tower map currently, and I really like this one. It looks like a lot of fun to play on and that it was well thought out. Good job. 5/5.
     
  10. Arbacca

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    Thanks, although it is basically one level repeated over and over, it still took me a while (and stacking them boxes was a *****!). It is indeed fun to play on, especially since it's magnums versus fast zombie. I might lower gravity though, because no likes flying of the stairs.
     
  11. Big and Firm

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    This is pritty sick...it kind of looks like WA/DC...But I'll download it to try it. It looks pritty fun
     
  12. TheKiNG1325

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    AH! you beat me to this map! i had the same idea, except in the sky bubble. great minds think alike, eh?

    anyway, i think you should try to focus more on the tower, because people could just wait it out from the perimeters of the map (maybe some walls?), albeit, i dont know how the map plays.

    anyway, 4/5 from me - nice job
     
  13. Hazza412

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    My first thought - OMG giant rocket! My second thought - OMG awesome map! =]

    I can see just from reading the description that you've thought this map through really well, and, then from the pictures that you've actually managed to put the creativity from the story into the map.

    I'll start with aesthetics, (Cause thats all I can do for the moment.) It looks outstanding, especially the 'Eye' at the top of the tower, it looks really cool. Even the inside looks good, even though it's just a spiraling staircase/ramp. Really Well done. =)

    Sadly, I can't review the gameplay side of this map, (I'm on Holiday at the moment.) However, when I get back to my Xbox, I'll definately download and give it a proper rating, but, for now, just by looking at the pictures,, I'm able to give this map a 5/5.
     
  14. Dead in ten

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    Well first thing i thought it was was Saruman by looking at pics lol. (he needs to get some eye drops) Anyways this map is one of the coolest sandbox maps i've ever seen and the story is great. Also im amazed at that huge spiral stair inside the tower kudos to you for having the patience to build that. 5/5 and DLing
     
  15. Arbacca

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    Thanks for the comments everyone, I might make another version, where the tower is locked, and everyone spawns inside it. It would be Slayer, KotH (Goes between different floors), and Juggernaut. What do you guys think?
     
  16. dennis1895

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    this map could be really fun but you need to change some things first on top of the tower you get in a dead end that boring make something more fun op there to do for the humans and give zombies some extras to kill the humans like grenades or something maybe you could put some windows up there so you can snipe them and put snipers up there offf course it could be a good map but for now it misses to much
     
  17. Apple s4uc3

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    Its nice I like the idea but its to small for infection and for that hole in the ground why don't u just block it with something like a box.
     
  18. Hazza412

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    Sounds good, especially the KoTH side of it, I think it would be an insane game if you did, but thats what would make it good, lots of people trying to get to one floor - Sounds like great fun to me.

    As for the slayer, (Depending on whether it would be FFA or team slayer.) I think you could quite easily make a different version for FFA, but it looks like making a team slayer version would be much more challenging, as you would have to build either two more bases, and have the tower as a neutral base, or use the tower as one. (Which could be a big advantage to the team that spawn in it, and that would make a bad game.

    Lastly, I think juggernaut would also be quite a hard version to make, as you'd need more cover for the players and the juggernaut, you'd also need to put more weapons in. However, if you managed to do that, it would be a great game. I f you do decide to do that - Make sure you tell me, so I can look forward to playing them.

    =]
     
  19. pred10122

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    this looks amazing! i cant wait to play it. but before i do i have some ideas.
    1. mabey let the zombies spawn on the ground and at the top of the tower. just to keep the humans on their toes when they are going up.
    2. i definantly agree with the checkpoint idea for zombies.

    i cant believe you had enough items to build this! i cant even imagine trying to build it. 5/5 all the way.
     
  20. x MeTh0dzZ

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    That looks amazing and fun...cant wait to play it with my friends! 5/5
     

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