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Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-05-24 at 10:38:58

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The Thing: Deadly Trust

One random person is The Thing. The Thing is inhuman, but can take human form. If a thing or an infected survivor stand near you, you get an infection. If you die with an infection you become an infected survivor. The Thing & all infected survivors can morph between human & alien forms freely. Only human forms use oxygen. Only human forms can open/close doors & pick up oxygen.

*Changed the Reborn vBlack briefing a bit*

Progress

-Ideas
100%

-Terrain
100% (but will probably be changed while testing)

-Unit placement
10%

-Triggers
10%

Specifications

-Players
2-6

-Map tileset
Installation

-Map size
96x96

Storyline / Introduction

Year 3000. A new unknown organism has been found on another planet. You are aboard the scientific spaceship. This newly discovered form of life was underestimated - it got free. The radio has been destroyed, you can't report it, all you can do now is either kill it, or survive for 15 minutes untill the rescue team arrive. If you don't make it, there will be nobody to tell the rescue team what can this Thing do, and they will be infected. If it turns out this way, The THing can spread the infection.

Features

Music, Sounds

Music will guide you all the time, making an atmosphere. Allso every N seconds (haven't decided yet) a random sound will be played.

-Player Interface
You controll one unit in the battle.

-What's new in your map that others have not done before?
Oxygen ? If you run out of it, you're dead. If you die (permenantly), you leave allmost all oxygen you had, so people can fight over it.

Maybe it will turn out as Thing/Horror map in the end.

Details

-Characters
Marine: 10 damage, 100 HP, 0 armour, Range upgrade, No stim pack
Ghost: 14 damage, 100 HP, 0 armour, no upgrades
The Thing (zergling): 14 damage, 120 HP, 0 armour, no upgrades
Infected Survivor (broodling): 10 damage, 60 HP, 0 armour, no upgrades

-Items
Oxygen
+15%; +30%; +45%; +60%; +75%; +90%

-Details
There will be not enough oxygen on the map for all players to exist all 15 minutes - somebody must die or be infected. (Now calculating it all)

Morph - a shift of states between a human and an alien form. Hotkey your both forms. When you want to morph, select the form that you want to become and click anywahere on the map. Works allmost instant. You don't have to loose controll in battle while giving the form the command to moove to the beacon.

NEED TESTERS.
If you want to help, PM me, or post here.

Testers:

Oo.Insane.oO
Zell.Dincht
n0b0dy-
Ice_Inferno_X3
Dark_lunatic_K
Dark_Marine_123
Xeno
Voldamort101

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Gigins on 2006-05-24 at 15:50:11

Interesting ideas. Maybe try to expand it to more items/units to make it a bit more varied. I think ling is way too strong

Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-05-24 at 15:58:22

QUOTE(DEAD @ May 24 2006, 10:49 PM)

Interesting ideas. Maybe try to expand it to more items/units to make it a bit more varied. I think ling is way too strong

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Well, I had a lot of ideas that would turn it into a half RPG, with EXP, abilities, fear factor & such. But then I understood that it would be too complex & nobody will paly it.

The zergling controlled by a good player is supposed to be equal 2 survivors controlled by good players. It is, I have a lot of experience in Thing maps.

Maybe this one will force me to re-think some conceptual ideas, but for now it is fine I think.

Care to be a tester, DEAD ?

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Gigins on 2006-05-24 at 16:04:27

QUOTE(Jammed @ May 24 2006, 10:58 PM)

I don't know will I have time for it. You know, tourney is coming with haste, need to test mein map so it's ok when the games will start. Other things. Well, you work on it and we will see how it is later.

Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-05-24 at 16:05:47

QUOTE(DEAD @ May 24 2006, 11:04 PM)

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OK. Good Luck on tourney.

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Dark_Marine_123 on 2006-05-24 at 17:12:18

The Thing has always been a way to have wonderful fun in such a small game, with or without lots of friends. I can remeber The Thing v Reborn, and how many times I played it. Its kinda like playing Run Like a Mofo, great replay value and everything.

So what I'm saying is, make it another good one ;D

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Zell.Dincht on 2006-05-24 at 17:28:16

Well good luck, hope u dont make it cheap. If you need a tester PM me.

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Mp)7-7 on 2006-05-24 at 17:55:32

Good Job so far one the map, next time post some screenshots of the map!

Good Luck finishing, I think it will be fun to play this game!

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Oo.Insane.oO on 2006-05-24 at 18:26:57

Ill be a tester! I love THE THING maps and I hope this one is just as good if not better than the rest because those maps are so cool

Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-05-25 at 02:58:33

QUOTE(Oo.Insane.oO @ May 25 2006, 01:26 AM)

Ill be a tester! I love THE THING maps and I hope this one is just as good if not better than the rest because those maps are so cool
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Thanks Insane.

ADDITION:

QUOTE(Zell.Dincht @ May 25 2006, 12:27 AM)

Well good luck, hope u dont make it cheap. If you need a tester PM me.
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I will PM you one all main triggers are complete. Thanks

ADDITION:
Ah yes, totally forgot to tell why is it called "Deadly trust". The story goes like this:
I start playing Thing, get better, find out about how to know who is the thing (or infected) (I call it "testing"), it annoys me. So, in this map "testing" will not be possible - you gotto trust a person.

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Bringer on 2006-05-25 at 05:39:00

Make this good man. Also don't make the oxygen a gimmick. Good luck.

Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-05-25 at 08:27:56

QUOTE(Bringer @ May 25 2006, 12:38 PM)

Make this good man. Also don't make the oxygen a gimmick. Good luck.
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You just collect it. It runs out. That's all there is to it

Report, edit, etc...Posted by AshaMeD on 2006-05-25 at 11:29:12

Ahhh Another one of them types of maps... They are always fun!! I made 1 about Pitch Black a few years ago!!... I would add alot of stuff to make it differnt sounds awesome!!

Report, edit, etc...Posted by n0b0dy- on 2006-05-25 at 21:02:24

Try to make this BETTER than the normal T.H.I.N.G.S people play on battle.net

Make up some original ideas such as:

Stamina for all players ( you can't constantly move )

Dehydration ( you must keep liquid in you )

Warmth Levels ( you can freeze if you aren't by a fire by so long )

A way to become human again ( Kill X# of players )

Just ideas like that, make it a fun map and have some cool scary music to add to the dramatic effect

-PM me if you need a tester

Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-05-28 at 09:22:47

QUOTE(n0b0dy- @ May 26 2006, 04:02 AM)

Try to make this BETTER than the normal T.H.I.N.G.S people play on battle.net

Stamina for all players ( you can't constantly move )

Dehydration ( you must keep liquid in you )

Warmth Levels ( you can freeze if you aren't by a fire by so long )

A way to become human again ( Kill X# of players )

Just ideas like that, make it a fun map and have some cool scary music to add to the dramatic effect

-PM me if you need a tester
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Stamina ? Well I'll think about it, but you will not see it in the first version. Maybe I will add it later if I will see that it does not spoil it.

Warm ? The Thing can camp near the fireplace then. I think it will make the game more static. Oxygen, on the other hand, should make people move more in attempts to find it. It will disable long-term campers.

Become human. Sorry, I want to make it closer to the original moovie.

I had a lot of ideas about it, like turning it into a half RPG, with EXP, abilities, Fear Factor & so on. But a medium player is allready confused by him becoming an infected survivor. I need to keep is simple for now.

But thanks for the ideas

I will PM you when the testing will start.

ADDITION:
Added some details.

Report, edit, etc...Posted by n0b0dy- on 2006-05-28 at 09:28:41

Oh ok, well good luck, and FEAR FACTOR? What's that going to be and how's it going to be used?

Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-05-28 at 12:04:44

QUOTE(n0b0dy- @ May 28 2006, 04:28 PM)

FEAR FACTOR? What's that going to be and how's it going to be used?
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I don't plan to use it, it was just an idea.

There are about 5 levels of fear. Level 0 is default for every player. Thing & all infected survivors don't get affected by fear.
If you see a death of 1 person near you, you get +1 to fear factor.
If The thing comes colse to you, but then runs off, you get +0,5 to fear factor.
If you are close to the place where somebody died (see blood) +0,5 to FF every 20 sec.

The higher the FF level the worser effect it gives (if you have FF=4, you have the effects of 1;2;3;4 fear factor levels)

Effects:
Turn off vision for yourself (randomize every N seconds)
Junk Yard dog (randomize every N seconds)
Use more oxygen
Scream (points out your location on minimap) (randomize every N seconds)
Paranonia (Randomly unally other people near you)

But I think it will only spoil the gameplay. You have a battle with the thing & you get vision turned off. Players will not like it.

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Dark_lunatic_K on 2006-05-28 at 12:31:40

The Thing was such an amazing map. It was so interactive!

Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-05-28 at 12:42:05

QUOTE(Ice_Inferno_X3 @ May 28 2006, 07:23 PM)

sounds cool. add me to tester list
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Thanks

The main sound is now ready. It's from The Thing moovie. Now I will make another one & compare them. The best one will go into the map.

ADDITION:

QUOTE(Dark_lunatic_K @ May 28 2006, 07:31 PM)

The Thing was such an amazing map. It was so interactive!

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Care to become a tester ?

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Dark_lunatic_K on 2006-05-28 at 13:24:11

Hell yes!

Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-05-28 at 15:31:14

QUOTE(Dark_lunatic_K @ May 28 2006, 08:23 PM)

Hell yes!
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You just made my day.

By the way, what do you guys think about the sound I added in the first post ?

I can't work on it now, becawse I have some strange bug with SC, so I'll work on the sounds now. I'll add a fiew sounds out of the moovie - the sounds of thing screaming & so on, to make it more scary.

ADDITION:
Now, both background sounds are recorded. Please tell me, which one did you like better and why.

Thanks.

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Marandule1 on 2006-05-28 at 16:48:56

heya jammed **** 4 star idea here

ive seen the film and played the game soo the actually matching i hope will be good but in terms of how the thing kills etc.
anyways very good idea soo good luck with it and have fun

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Dark_Marine_123 on 2006-05-29 at 00:38:15

Dammit you got a good idea for your map! O_O I wanna test. Now to get a better BW cd...-cough- >.>

Report, edit, etc...Posted by Marandule1 on 2006-05-29 at 01:57:35

lol

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cough!

Report, edit, etc...Posted by JaFF on 2006-05-29 at 02:12:31

QUOTE(Dark_Marine_123 @ May 29 2006, 07:37 AM)

I wanna test.
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Then you will test.

ADDITION:
Guys, what do you think what soundtrack is better ? (see first post)

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