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I've started working on a simple, different, new map. Plant the bomb. It's 4vs4 and each team has a bomb and has to take it with an scv to the enemy base and wait for 30 seconds then kaboom, thats a point. To start off you pick a team of units(3 units per team) out of 8 teams (psychic, infantry, engineering, demolitions, covert operations, assault, surveylence and pyrotechnics) and set out to plant the bomb. You can always come back to the spawning area to pick again or if all of your units die, you choose again. Until a team has planted the bomb 5 or 10 times (haven't decided). The terrain is pretty much 100% complete. The triggers still need alot of work, about 30% complete.

Team 1s bomb

Team 1s base where Team 2 needs to plant the bomb:

Team 2s base where Team 1 needs to plant the bomb

It sounds ok too me, it kind of seems like a Counter Strike/ Team Fortress Classic mix to me.

Looks cool, seems like it would a be Assault type setting like on Halo 2.

Lol d00d this map is gonna roxx0r the b0xx0r. I love games like this. this is why i loved Team Fortress and Capture the flag.

I'm starting to think... should there be a bomb for each team or just 1 bomb in the middle? What should it go up to? Any1 have ideas?


More Screenshots:
Main Bridge


Team 2's spawning area

sounds like those halo team fortress maps that used to be popular

but anyways..good luck with it

As for the bomb location, There are pros and cons for all kinds of different scenarios.

If you place it in the center of the map then all players will always know where the bomb is: Either in the center, in their hands, or in the hands of the opponent. This means if you don't have the bomb then all you have to do is find the other team's guy with the bomb and kill it, and the players switch roles.

If you give each player a bomb, then the both teams have to worry about how to get their bomb to the other persons base without losing their bomb in the process. Perhaps there could be a penalty (points, time, etc) for losing your bomb.

Another suggestion is randomly placing the bomb in certain probable locations of the arena using switches. This creates uncertainty for both players with them looking for the bomb and then having to place it all the while protecting themselves. If player 1 has the bomb, player 2 is still looking becuase he has no idea if player 1 has the bomb or not (assuming shared vision is off).

As for the number of points to win why not leave that up to the players (such as in FFA Hero arena maps). If this map is for two players you can give both players a civilian and put locations for 5,10,15, or even 20 points to win and the game doesn't start until both players agree.


Good luck and let us know when you get a beta version out!

Those ideas are pretty much the same ones im wondering about... so I've started a poll: http://www.staredit.net/index.php?showtopic=23305 to see everyones opinion. I'll send more screenshots soon, but lately I've been working on the triggers. I'd say theyre about 55% done now. But my whole idea of this is for everyone to know where the bomb is.
I'll keep you guys posted... aslong as you keep giving me feedback

ADDITION:
Crap!... I've run into another problem... The unit I'm using for the bomb is a Zerg Vespene Sac. It will not let you create these units with triggers, so what happens if the bomb blows up...? This is the same with all of the other power-ups given by mods and all of the blizzard power-ups are automatically invincible. I'm not seeing any ways around this... unless I make it so you cant blow the bomb up and it doesnt blow up when you plant it in the enemies base... Which I'm worried about, will ruin some of the fun in that.. Any suggestions?
I really need some help on this one.

Umm how about, you just MOVE the bomb when it "explodes" and create a explosion effect with a seige tank or something around the lines of that? So if you don't want to have to create a new bomb each time just after a team scores randomize the switches (or w/e youre doing) again and move it there.

But then what should happen when a drone dies and the bomb is left in the middle of the map? Should there be a bomb for each team or a bomb in the middle? Or should each team take turns controlling the bomb? But then how does it decide when its the other teams turn? The countdown timer is already used for planting the bomb(when you plant the bomb it counts down from 30 seconds).

sounds sweet man btw how did you make your sig..

Suggestions please!!!

Umm.. let somebody else pick it up?

So then you're saying there should only be one bomb?
vote on the poll >>>
http://www.staredit.net/index.php?&act=ST&...7&mode=show&st=