I've been working very hard and long on an Epitaph variant that has a jail that is only escapable by solving a puzzle. The Jail works with physical walls and teleporters blocking the doors that lead to a central receiver node. The player starts off with a plasma pistol, must shoot a fusion coil to knock a sword down from the upper level, then use it to smash a pallet holding a crate. The crate falls, and can then be used to block a receiver node and gain access to the rest of the map. This works fine for a single player, but if there are multiple players in the jail, one of them can stand on the receiver and the rest can escape. Does anybody have any ideas on how to make it work for a team rather than a single player? My ambition for the map is to have a game where one team starts in the jail, while the other team stands outside of it, and can shoot them with their BR'S. The prisoners will work together to solve the puzzle and escape from the jail and kill the "Warden" or VIP. If I can't get this to work, my other idea is to have a zombie spawn in the jail who must escape to kill the others, but this doesn't sound as fun as the first idea. Help/Comments/Suggestions will be greatly appreciated. * edited for grammar 1:37 pm CT 12/11/2007
Really original idea, bro! I love it! My idea, which may not work, is this: have you considered putting the central receiver in the air, so that it cannot be blocked except by a large container or something? I don't know if that ruins the rest of your puzzle; I'm not really good at Forging, so that's all I got. Regardless, don't let go of this idea until you get it worked out, because it's very original and cool!
Yea i had it floating above the rest of the map at one point, and a crate hovering above it on a palette which was on a teleporter, but the only way to break the teleporter is with a gun from that distance, and it wouldn't land on the receiver node when i tried it. That was a huge run-on sentence lol. Thanks for trying to help. I can't wait until i get this thing made.
I'm sorry I couldn't be of any more help. Have you tried using something huge like a container? Keep it up, you'll figure it out. Who knows...maybe you'll discover something amazing and new. =D
I can't really help you but I have to say this. That is a VERY original idea and I love it. If you ever finish this map, I WANT to play it. It sounds so fun.