Looking back at the maps released this year, the overall quality is just amazing. I typed the "best map of 2008?" poll earlier today, so with a simple "ok" here it is:
http://www.quaddicted.com/?p=336 

Actually, I didn't drink that much last night, my hands are just cold.

I Hope 2009 is a good year for everyone. 

guys 

still ab it drunk :(, no headache yet 

I have no hangover, something must be broken . . . 

Your social life? 

 

being with people is unbearable unless you are intoxicated. 

I was playing Vampire : TM (which is great, now that its been patched up) when suddenly I got graphical corruption all over my screen and my pc froze.

After resetting the graphical corruption is all over the bios and windows loading screen, and I have boot into safe mode to even get windows to load without freezing the pc. I'm guessing my graphics card has bitten the dust?

Even as a type this now there are red and blue vertical lines down the screen, it doesn't look good at all! :( 

Take your card out, boot up, if the red/blue lines are gone then you can bet it's a goner. 

luckily a mate of mine has a old nvidia 7950 lying around after his recent upgrade so im back in the game, albeit with lowered fps :) 

And all that! :-)

Who is working on the top ten best Quake releases of 2008 list? 

Who is working on the top ten map releases of 2009? 

Is currently running over at moddb.com for those who care :)

Go vote! 

I have a confession to make:

"my mapping keeps stalling"

Its doing my head in because I'm soooooo close to getting the damn map into alpha, but I keep distracting myself with other stuff to play with.

I'm compiling the first version which is playable from start to finish right now, with a fast vis (because full vis takes 9 hours and I need both of my cores to play GTA4*)

Anyhoo, I could do with a tester, who is prepared to use DarkPlaces (recent DP build works really well with Quoth BTW) because it has massive packet overflow with a fast vis.

I know I have asked a couple of folks to test already, and would love them to still test, but I dont want the first tester to try it with Fitz (which WILL work BTW) because of the packet overflow.

So who has a fast machine and wants to test?

Pleeeeeease - Pretty please with bells on top?

(* GTA4 - First Impressions

GTA4 - PC - Its definately a beautiful game, but is definately a 30hz game, and its for sure a real pain in the arse too.

Installing it - fuck me - what a ball ache!
First you have to copy 2 DVD's worth on to your HDD (16Gb)

THEN it installs visual C++, Microsoft .NET framework

THEN it installs Games for Windows LIVE (which you have to sign up for and sign in to play the game if you wanna SAVE YOUR PROGRESS or play online)

THEN it installs Rockstar Games Social Club (which is a bit like Steam only not as good, and you have to install and sign into if you want to do some other stuff like see the global leaderboard of every fucker who has ever done anything to the game, like play it, or record a demo (!?)

THEN it tells you to install a BETA driver from NVidia which crashed my machine (loss of keyboard and mouse, system crash)(if anyone has the same problem then either roll back to WHCL 180.48 or install 181.00)

And the game locks all of the video settings to quite low unless you hack with a command line (which is weird because you have to put the command line in a txt file called "command line") and you hack it to find that you only loose a couple of fps with it on high (!?)

like I said - ball ache

Good game though, bit of a hog, but playable and fun, and the art and voice acting, animation, story etc all seems very nice to me, so I'm gonna go play it again)


Oh Yeah

Red Alert 2 (not 3, 2)

Played this though in just a couple of hours, great fun, havent playe it before, but its seems that having a machine about 10x the required spec cause the game to be realy easy, and there seemed to be a lot less missions than I remember in RA1

OK.....

(Please someone be my first G-Pig with a fast machine and DP.....:-) :D 

Do you agree with this Top 28 FPS list?

http://www.splegends.com/2009/01/28-best-fps-games.html 

where the hell is Quake? and thief is only 19th
wtf? shitlist :) 

The first Quake was a muddled affair, a hodgepodge of disparate design elements and simplistic, Doom-styled combat. Quake II turned that formula on its head by crafting a believable, integrated world. You no longer blasted random monsters in non-descript brown castles;

Quake II's true legacy was its visionary approach to online gaming:

With a wide array of mods, maps, clans and user-generated content, Quake II was the multiplayer template that helped later forge online-focused games


Yeh dammit. Why is there no custom content for Q1? Damm hodge podge simplicity.


Anyway, that aside, that list is complete idiocy, a mixture of sequel focussing, lowest common demonination zeitgeisting that will horribly offend any real fps fan. So definately worth reading...


Oh, and wtf Tribes is #26 yet Bioshock is one of the best FPS games _ever_ (not in the last year, but EVER?!?).

Also Thief @ 19 is obviously a tragedy but Metal Age was better anyways (not that it's in there) 

Ha, a nonentity-bait. Nice work. 

It's broken in IE. Which is nice. 

I fell out with the map, so someone please test, then I can finish already and start working on a better idea!!

Please :-) 

If it's not a base map, I'd love some playing. I got a cold though so my skills and patience will be severely different, heh. 

"Stark Monstrosity"

Gah - I set out to make an episode. It was gonna be the first map of an episode, which naturally is a base map.
Problem is that I have fallen out with the map completely, and just want to get it out. I mean released.

When I started making it I was distracted by my bloody shit rock band I was in, and mapping had taken a side-line. The lack of focus I think shows here. The map has its strong points, but it also has its weak points.

Lateral thinking required to complete it, VERY non-linear, but with overall linear progression.

Gameplay needs work, hence need for and early tester.

Spirit you are a good tester, but like I said its a HUGE and UGLY base map! :P

Its not stifled by limited ammo or space BTW, its not meant to be a skin-o-your teeth prescision-balanced affair. Its just fast and violent.

Send or not? 

I wouldn't treat a base map fairly. 

but at least that one inspired one of the most beautiful phrases I have recently seen:

a mixture of sequel focussing, lowest common demonination zeitgeisting that will horribly offend . . .