Dm_Hope

This is dm_hope. A TDM domination map. Theme is c17, daytime.

Map is built out of a main street level area, a basement and two opposing courtyards, each on the other endmost of the map.
In TDM, each team spawns in its own courtyard and both aim to dominate the top floor in the main building right at the center of the map. Domination point has an RPG. That point is balanced by several high points, acting as snipes. All map’s areas are interconnected and movement was kept as fluent and as smooth as possible as optimizing the map allowed for.
The map plays in both TDM and DM.
I want to thank, AIR, Beef, Nino, MafYa DJ and ILM for their inputs but mostly to Impala whose suggestions greatly transformed and shaped where the map was going. So if you liked it – tell Impala. If you didn’t or have any input – tell me.

The map is in beta stage and therefore it would be best for server owners to watch this space for a final release.

Play @ 8.2.120.232:27015 (mapcycle)
DL @ : http://www.eyeclan.net/eyeden/hl2mp/map ... b1.bsp.bz2
















val

I love you.

I love you too.

w00t

Looks awesome, thanks Valar!

looks sweet!
ill check it out when i get to my other house

looks nice ill give it a run this weekend.

Great to see another Valar map here. Looking forward to trying it.

thanks guys.
if anyone plays it in a match i'd love to hear some input. about weapons placement, movements, anything you felt was annoying etc...

val

Q_Q it's... beautiful O_O

awesome map, looks fun to play, and some tough job on some small details,
can you post a pic of how does that all amount of greatness looks in hammer??? would be really interesting.

played it today, fuckin unbelievable

[EYE] Valar wrote:thanks guys.
if anyone plays it in a match i'd love to hear some input. about weapons placement, movements, anything you felt was annoying etc...

val

Now we're talking! Great job man! When I saw your early stage project there was just too little direction for me to see where it was heading.

I haven't played it yet, but as far as I can see it's very well executed: nice flow, no much risk of spawn rape, weapon placement seem fine. A few props, but not too many. Some good ol' explosive barrels. If anything, it might be too easy to get your hands on a good weapon for tdm, but I'm sure it's preferable if you want to run it in pure dm mode.

There is an obvious shortage of health packs, but maybe that's a good thing - at least close to the rpg it is.

ATM, I think it comes down to balancing out the two team's chances at getting to the various resources. The ar2 with the balls in the basement seems to be a key down there and one team has a great deal better chance of reaching it first. Not to mention that the other team will want to avoid going down that long passage to get there if there's a chance of balls coming flying. Have you balanced this out by making the opposing team's route to the rpg shorter - the ladder up one side of the rpg building I guess is a great advantage to get there.

So far, looking really good! Should be good with different number of players since it's so well connected, but still fairly sized.

And hey, what's with that doll?

OD_Knuckles wrote:Q_Q it's... beautiful O_O

awesome map, looks fun to play, and some tough job on some small details,
can you post a pic of how does that all amount of greatness looks in hammer??? would be really interesting.

I will gladly post a download link of the final version's VMF. or , you can haxdecomp it. same same.

thx
val

Cynips wrote: Now we're talking! Great job man! When I saw your early stage project there was just too little direction for me to see where it was heading.

Kudos goes to Impala for dreaming up and solidifying the "direction". clever bastard.

Map went through a major update.

Play @ 8.2.120.232:27015 (mapcycle + votemap)
DL @ : http://www.eyeclan.net/eyeden/hl2mp/map ... b2.bsp.bz2

This map is very nice. Folks should DL and try it on their server. Thank you.

another (maybe final) beta #4

added sounds and enhanced fps.

http://www.eyeclan.net/eyeden/hl2mp/map ... b2.bsp.bz2

thanks will add to the server and take the old one off (which we liked btw for a beta)

Please, everybody try this map out, especially with 8 people.

hey guys I've been having a problem with this, and the pigpopper's map, they are in bsp.bz2 or something like that, they are not map files?, or do I need to uncompile them, or what?, I mean I can't get into the servers either, what am I doing wrong???

OD_Knuckles wrote:hey guys I've been having a problem with this, and the pigpopper's map, they are in bsp.bz2 or something like that, they are not map files?, or do I need to uncompile them, or what?, I mean I can't get into the servers either, what am I doing wrong???

Yes, you can use 7Zip, or I think winrar will work too. Someone correct me if I'm wrong about winrar...

Its a compressed file and must be extracted into hl2dm/maps

Beef wrote:

OD_Knuckles wrote:hey guys I've been having a problem with this, and the pigpopper's map, they are in bsp.bz2 or something like that, they are not map files?, or do I need to uncompile them, or what?, I mean I can't get into the servers either, what am I doing wrong???

Yes, you can use 7Zip, or I think winrar will work too. Someone correct me if I'm wrong about winrar...

million thanks Beef


now I've seen the map I've got the following questions:

how was your light_env configured in the brightness setting? in ambient I see that it's blueish to contrast like in the real life with the yellowish color, but it's so good illuminated, how much brightness did you added? I'm new at this and my maps look really bad with my light enviroment, did you inputted much pitch/yaw/roll in the light_enviroment?

I saw a weird decal in a wall, the bloody one, it should be placed on the floor, because if that blood stain would be in a wall it wouldn't look like that, it would rush to the floor

amazing ladders.

artisticly done the broken parts of the buildings and seamlessly blended into the brushes, great job.

maybe a bit too yellow to be city 17, but an amazing job for sure.

congratulations!

OD_Knuckles wrote:

Beef wrote:

OD_Knuckles wrote:hey guys I've been having a problem with this, and the pigpopper's map, they are in bsp.bz2 or something like that, they are not map files?, or do I need to uncompile them, or what?, I mean I can't get into the servers either, what am I doing wrong???

Yes, you can use 7Zip, or I think winrar will work too. Someone correct me if I'm wrong about winrar...

million thanks Beef


now I've seen the map I've got the following questions:

how was your light_env configured in the brightness setting? in ambient I see that it's blueish to contrast like in the real life with the yellowish color, but it's so good illuminated, how much brightness did you added? I'm new at this and my maps look really bad with my light enviroment, did you inputted much pitch/yaw/roll in the light_enviroment?

I saw a weird decal in a wall, the bloody one, it should be placed on the floor, because if that blood stain would be in a wall it wouldn't look like that, it would rush to the floor

amazing ladders.

artisticly done the broken parts of the buildings and seamlessly blended into the brushes, great job.

maybe a bit too yellow to be city 17, but an amazing job for sure.

congratulations!

decomp the map to see whatever you need. no prob with me.\about the blood - it's a blood splat so i dissagree.
about the yellow c17 - yea, i guess you're right but then again,...the c17 chapters in HL2 are soooo gloomy and bland. i guess i just like sunshine

thanks for your inputs.

BTW, new version of Hope (pun) is on the server.
i'm uploading it in a bit...DL will be: http://www.eyeclan.net/eyeden/hl2mp/map ... b5.bsp.bz2

val

Dont know when you posted Valar but I just checked it and it said "File not found"

yes. edited above.

You sure it's not supposed to be b4?

Cynips wrote:You sure it's not supposed to be b4?

nah, b4 is the current version. b5 is the one im going to replace it with. compiling now. .

Yessssss! Check the ledges from the tower

Yea the link still doesnt work, at least not for me and I dont see it on your website.

the link is live now. thx \\

http://www.eyeclan.net/eyeden/hl2mp/map ... b5.bsp.bz2

heya. a guy name Keptin has done some modifications to dm_hope and asked for me permission to release it. i've ask him to see what he's done and been busy finalizing the map with the new changes all last night. here's the DL
i'll wait further inputs before releasing a finished name dm_hope.

nice to see this map dug out from the grave lol. thanks Keptin.

here's Keptin's revision of dm_hope
layout, weapons, items and connections added / modified suited more towards competitive gameplay.
Download Here

Dude. I have always liked this map and I just checked out this version! Kudos to keptin for the ideas. And, as always, high fives to Valar for sexy maps.