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Here is a map I made.
I cant be bothered to finish it any more(if you play it theres a secret if the thing player kills a critter).

I made every trigger myself in the mapfile, altough i copied them and the idea from the very first thing map i also took the sound file from there.

Im working on an original map now.

Until last week i have been unable to host games in battle.net and have been unable to test my maps, so this map was made with about 3 tests per version(i have 5 versions on my pc). Now that i can host i can make maps much faster.

Okay, That map is just weird, And you should also make it all players color black, and make it when the thing kills some one they become infected.

i made it in july dood, the other cool features wern't thought out then.

Changing player colors has been known for quite a while... Definately since July. Anyway, the color this is important in a map like this. But whatever, if you aren't going to finish this then you don't need to know that.

Good idea, well done! need to change the colours other than that its ok. =]

Few ideas may wanna add:-

- play gets killed by thing they also become part of the thing
- The real thing can change the form of the extras(other players has killed) into different parts for different uses) the player that was killed has no say over it, he can only go around killing the other players.

Wellmad do you mean that the players leave the game, but the thing gets new "parts" or that they stay in the game, just change sides?

I thought the player colors are all green(they dont need to be black, thats just a "the thing"trend, and mine is in the jungle) though, including the critters?

i can post one thats not locked if ya want. i ought to remove the extra civis on red really.

the thing has 3 forms if the thing kills a critter he can become a critter.
i made it in july as i said, before the other ones("the thing runs exprt" and "The installation one") but as i was unable to distribute it at the time since my hosting ports were closed, i could get anyone to play it. what im trying to say is that i couldnt copy the ideas from the above 2 maps because they didnt exist then.


I just found a version from june 9th.

Actually if you want to stay true to the original The Thing, then the person being killed would become the Thing and the original Thing would die...

And why are so many Thing maps being made in other tilesets? It took place in an Antarctica-like location...

True, and it also takes place half inside and half outside. I've only seen one The Thing map like that, but most people don't care about authenticity, so all I can say is good luck with your map.