[WIP]Facility_Advanced

Mapster · Loves Cake Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 432

Here is a map i stopped working on a couple of months ago which is the advanced version of the facility map i made a while ago, it's a well in truly updated version of the map with better lighting, portal textures, obstacles and so on; so in other words it's a different map that based on the original.

This map is VERY close to completion but there are a few things that i need to do before releasing it to everyone which will take quite a long time considering i have lost my inspiration to keep on going, the only thing that makes me want to continue is the fact that people keep askign me when i am going to release this on YouTube.

ScreenShots:

Download:
Beta 0.50 (5.39 MB)
FilePlanet
Thinking With Portals Data Base

Beta 1.02 (5.46MB)
half-life2.filefront.com
Thinking With Portals Database

Remember to leave Ideas/Opinions and comments Smile

Cheers,
Mapster

EDIT:
I forgot to mention:
YES i do know that my turret models have a different skin, i just forgot to change it before i took the screenshots. Razz

EDIT2:
I also forgot to mention that since i didn't add all of the files so it's in the bonus map menu, all you have to do is place the .bsp in your portal/portal/maps folder, load up portal, go into console by pressing ( ~ ) and type in: "Por_Facility_Adv" and it'll come up with the latest version underneath console, push the UpArrow and it'll go straight to it.

msleeper · Posted: Wed Jan 09, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject:

Screens look awesome, can't wait to play!

xitooner · Test Supervisor Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 139

This was one of my favorites the first time around, and overall I like the improvements. Although I cant finish it tonight, I will soon enough. Smile

Only one comment so far; some may think that manipulating cubes in the dark, hiding an entrance in the dark, etc is "challenging", etc. . .to me it is simply an irritation and (most importantly) NOT FUN. I have yet to see a single map where a near-total darkness puzzle has added to the gameplay, enhanced the mood, etc. All it does is piss me off. Maybe I can vmex this thing and add a light. . . Smile

Mapster · Loves Cake Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 432

Adding more lights would make it much easier to see where to go and so on, I'll try to do that sometime tomorrow.

xitooner · Test Supervisor Joined: 19 Oct 2007 Posts: 139

Fixing the light would be great!

Made it through! Heres a few things I spotted:

- Goo under the turrets-on-lifts area does not kill (I should of died there a lot, but unfortunately had to kill myself everytime). Smile

- That screen that one turret hides behind will kill? Kinda suprised me, but the worst problem was that I was in such a hurry to use a cube to kill the turret, that I dropped/threw it on the other side, and couldnt reach it anymore. I am pretty sure you need 3 cubes to do some of the rest of the puzzles. . .

- The pipes on the wall in the next room are misaligned at the bottom.

- A couple of walls look non-portable in the turret-maze, but are portable.

- Was I supposed to squeeze a portal past the glass into the area that holds the switch to open the turret-mase? Its the only way I found to reach it; nothing else seemed to open the area. In the old one there was something that moved to allow entrance I think, but it didnt seem to happen, and I looked everywhere.

- Those holes in the glass were VERY hard to see, IMO. Maybe if you put an X on cube-side wall it would be more obvious? Maybe too obvious; I dunno.

- I dont know if there was an easier way, but it took 4 portals to get that darn rocket to hit the glass! My head hurts from the spatial geometry! Smile

- The rocket-to-kill-turret thing was nice; it took me a while to figure out how to use the under-stair walls. Smile

- Not sure about how it ended, because it. . .didnt. I reached the last room, freed the companion cube, and even put the other cube in. . .but the game didnt end. Does anything make the game fade out?

Mapster · Loves Cake Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 432

Mapster · Loves Cake Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 432

Sorry for bumping this topic, but i just released a more updated version of this map half-life2.filefront.com thats got more obstacles and so on added to it.

Please download it and check it out please.

Beta 01.02
half-life2.filefront.com
Thinking With Portals Database

rellikpd · Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 10:09 pm Post subject:

nice update... looking good, i don't really know what the hell i'm supposed to do for the final test (with the 2 rocket turrets and 2 gun turrets) what i did was shoot a portal over the emancipation grid back into the room with the single rocket turret (that is activated by button) and bum-rush the portable walls near the rocket turret, grab the cube from the swith then useing that as a shield go back through the portal to block the gun turrets... the rocket turret (behind me) shoots at me, i side step and let it knock down one turret, then do it again for the other turret.... how the hell are you "SUPPOSED" to do this puzzle?

infernet89 · Superior Participant Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 61

i can't understand why, but the glasses in your map glitches really a lot.

That's what i see in the tube.

rellikpd · Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 10:56 am Post subject:

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Mapster · Loves Cake Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 432

rellikpd · Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 1:57 pm Post subject:

Mapster · Loves Cake Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Posts: 432

I would post a video but for some reason my video making program doesn't want to produce the video into a video format, i'm digging into it but i don't have much time every day so everything is limited on what i do.