Hi everybody! I'm new to this forum as you can see. Here's a map that I've made on Foundry. "In a time when casulties only where increasing, the Spartans only had one more option. Just wait for the signal." http://imagewtf.com/2352/free-image-hosting/"] [/URL] http://imagewtf.com/2353/free-image-hosting/"] [/URL] http://imagewtf.com/2354/free-image-hosting/"] [/URL] For more pictures look here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/21759164@N05/ I decided to make a map map whose sole purpose was to race on. The layout is pretty basic but it serves it's point - to give the players a thrilling experience of racing. I've made the track in a way that makes it a connecting circuit so that the race goes on for several laps. The starting grid is made up in such a way that you manuveur your Mongoose through a Man Cannon in order to hit the track. To prevent anyone from an early start, I brainstormed and came up with the idea of "Race Lights". Adapted from Traffic Lights and other lights in the same perimeter, I chose to use the three powerups featured in Halo to use as lights. In order to keep them from spawning at the same time I set the spawntimer to 10 seconds delay between each of the colors. Red comes first, yellow clocks in ten seconds later and last is blue which spawns ten seconds after the Custom Powerup. Overshield - Red, means stop. Custom powerup - Yellow, means get ready. Active Camo - Blue, means Go! As for now there is only able to be 4 players on at once, FFA of course. The gametype I made up to go along with it is of course VIP. The only way of scoring is to hit the Race Markers. And there's no point of traveling by foot since player movement is set af 50%. Starting weapons are SMGs and there are no weapons on the map. Even if you resort to violence with the SMG the player health is set to Invulnerable. View thread on Bnet: http://www.bungie.net/Forums/posts.aspx?postID=15374560 I posted this map on another forum and no one gave me feedback... Have fun! And please leave comments. ;D
Re: Race Day on Foundry - Expect high octane thrills. Cool idea with the powerups as the starting lights. I will definitely have to give this one a try sometime. Is it possible to just play it with regular VIP (with VIPs driving vehicles allowed? and possibly some other changes?) because I am running very close to the 100 custom content limit.
Re: Race Day on Foundry - Expect high octane thrills. Problem is, no one's gonna wait for the lights. There's an honor system there, and that doesn't do well. Looks great otherwise. I would download but I don't have the maps as of now.
Re: Race Day on Foundry - Expect high octane thrills. Coolest thing there is the lights, if people abide by the honor rules. Nice little trick
Re: Race Day on Foundry - Expect high octane thrills. haahah thats a good idea! did you make the lights spawn? so its like green go!
Re: Race Day on Foundry - Expect high octane thrills. It looks like a pretty cool map dude, I'll DL it, however, racing has been done to death in Forge. Haha.
Re: Race Day on Foundry - Expect high octane thrills. To fix the early start/ honor system problem, just respawn the mongooses after the blue light comes on. It's an idea.
Re: Race Day on Foundry - Expect high octane thrills. There are so many foundry maps, I wish I could have them all
Re: Race Day on Foundry - Expect high octane thrills. Yeah it's fully possible. The only reason why I made a race gametype is that I didn't have one to begin with. But yeah, you can play it with regular VIP settings as long as you let the VIPs to drive and the "Next VIP" to be "Random". And remember, maximum is four players at a time. Yepp. Yeah I know, but not like this. The big upside with this map is that it's a closed track. The "cramped" areas give alot more of a race feeling. Yeah It defenitely is an idea, but since most of us are gonna play this map with friends I expect everyone to follow the honor system. If someone doesn't, kick him ;P. I will take it in consideration though . Thanks for the input guys! Has anyone played it yet? Something that I should change?