Hi Folks


Just a little preview for you about my new map. It's a fairly small (well its quite big but enclosed if you get what i mean) city map.

Oh No Not Another Generic City Flag Map!

No Sir.
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DOD_Zug
October 1944

German Paratroopers are fiercely defending a key town on the German border. An Allied attack is planned but the German supply
routes need to be severed. As an Allied strike force moves in...so does the weather.

Allied Objectives:
- Disable the King Tiger Transporter to block one end of the railway
- Sabotage a tunnel at the other end of the city, blocking that end
of the railway too.
- Destroy the German Radio Room/Observation Tower

Axis Objectives:
- Defend the Town for 15 minutes so reinforcements can be brought up
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N.B I havnt implemented the last Allied objective yet, so there are only 2 obj icons on the screens

I've also made a new rain sound which is quite nice and atmospheric with some loud thunder cracks rolling out.

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Images

http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/newzugpics.jpg
Top Left: The view down the main street
Top Right: The Allied entrance to the town
Bottom Left: The King Tiger Transporter
Bottom Right: Axis Paratroopers hunting
http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/newzugpics2.jpg
Top Left: FG42 in action
Top Right: Allied sniping in action
Bottom Left: The Allies Countryside Spawn House
Bottom Right: The Tunnel (with highly explosive barrels on train underneath, how lucky is that :D )
http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/newzugpics3.jpg
Top Left: Another view of the tank transporter
Top Right: Axis spawn is just in a building on the left
Bottom Left: A large open marketplace (rubble to be added) looking from the radio room
Bottom Right: Overlooking a road into market area.
http://www.dodstudios.net/uploads/uploads/newzugpics4.jpg
Top Left: Grenade + Window
Top Right : = No Radio Room
Bottom Left: The transporter is put out of action via a satchel charge.
Bottom Right: The other end of the railway is sabotaged
Comments and Constructive Critiscm Welcome

Wow! Extremely promising. :)

What do you think your completion % is? (if its in your sig, sorry, I have sigs turned off).

Hard to say.... but i'd hazard a guess around 75%

Originally posted by Shane
Wow! Extremely promising. :)
That looks very very nice! The first 4 screens show an amazing atmosphere. One thing, it says you have a rain sound...but it looks like its snowing in some screens. Good work so far! :D

am i the only one that noticed it is a remake of heutau

Thats just the rain splashes with fog on. Hopefully 1.1 will fix that.

[Edit] And yes the allied half of the map bears a striking resemblence to Heutau. Thats where is ends though.

Originally posted by Safeh
am i the only one that noticed it is a remake of heutau Explain how you came to that conclusion? :rolleyes:

Very nice!

-Stoffer

Wow, looks very nice. If you release it we'll put it on the [95th] server and play it

looks good, pimpage!!....;-)

looking nice, but post some bigger pictures please.

Very nice. :)

Very nice, looking forward to the release...

:cool:

I do my pics in 4's for the people who dont have cable as i find it an effective way to get 4 pictures (which you can see a fair amount in) in the space of 1 normal picture. It also saves a fair amount of bandwidth, ive only uploaded 2 pics instead of 8, and for my site, thats all i want to do atm.

I dont have the large orginals on my HD as im pushed for space atm, ill get some more next compile

Thanks for the feedback so far. I took Heutau as my inspiration to start with, then got bored with it and added some unique objectives that I havnt seen anywhere before. This will probably get released after 1.1 , hopefully the rain fps hit issue will be fixed and maybe fog too.

looks very very nice. hope the objectives make for good gameplay.

awaiting release.

it does remind me of heutau for some reason

zug pwns! :D

this looks really great but please! please! please! make the axis attack! It's a lot more fun to defend with an m1 garand than with this lame kar. And you see this in every map. Allies attack, axis defend ... why oh why is this ... please, make the axis attack.

looks fkn swoit ginger lord :) cant wait

!pimped!

Thanks

I did think about swapping the teams around. Might make it interesting but will require some extra work. Theres a good chance it will happen.

Axis Para's must take the town back. The radio room/observation tower is captured by chucking a grenade through the 2nd story window into the room or by launching a Bazooka/P'Schreck through said window. Blasting radios out of window and making the radio tower fall over glider style.

hui looking good! Nice work!

Originally posted by Ginger Lord
The radio room/observation tower is captured by chucking a grenade through the 2nd story window into the room or by launching a Bazooka/P'Schreck through said window. OMG! / me runs off to practice throwing grenades into 2nd story windows. :D Its like a carnival game.

it looks really nice, the bit that looks like heuteu is the 1st pic, the top right. other than that i cant see a similarity, looks nice;)

I like the chunking nade through window thing, did u put a window there so ur have to shoot the window first ha that will get people.

GL: It's looking quite nice, but I agree that it would be a lot better to see large screenshots...it's really hard to see detail with such small shots.

1. if heutau is your inspiration, then i am already a fan. Heutau is the MAN.
2. It looks SWEET. can't wait to play it, and i'm getting a server on sept. 5th, i'd love to put that in the rotation.
3. allies defend on kraftstoff. its GL's map, do what you want with it.

I thought that too after looking at the screenshot in the lower & upper right... That's cool though because I liked that map, and always wanted to see a remake with some changes made...


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alright i m looking forward for this!

canu post a pic of hte overview map?!! i'm loving hte way it looks since it looks like it's more a a "realistic layout" with huge streets and porportioned houses which look extremely detailed.
if u guys ever played dod_meanstreets_b3 then you would know what im talking about. i love maps like these because they just get more depth since everything's realisticaly layed out and looks great.

curious about the light settings in your map, i love how strong the shadows are from the buildings

Any news? like pics?..:-)

Well....as I havnt shown anything new...i guess not. Im busy with Real Life stuff (tm). Should have some stuff to show soon though.

that top right pic in the first pic reminds me of dod_heutau on some sort of weird way (the place between allied first flag and 2nd flag)


edit* k read the whole thread now, obviously heutau, i like it, looks very sharp and indeed, the lighting is amazing

this map gives the feeling of the boB episode of Carentan!! I'm still loving those pics!:D

Any chance for a flag version for leagues? We don't use objevctive based maps on BFE.

I could make a better map by opening Worldcraft and flopp:- great work!!

Originally posted by Thrik
I could make a better map by opening Worldcraft and flopp:- great work!!

I remember that thread. I think I even saved it.

Originally posted by klein_mein
Any chance for a flag version for leagues? We don't use objevctive based maps on BFE.

This map will be objectives first. It will require serious work to change it into flags. I will see after ive released it whether it is worth remaking it for league play.

would u plz be able to post a demo so we can see how the map looks in-game?!!

Added another set of pics to main post.

Theyre not as good as the others IMO but just to let you know its all built and im adding details now.

[Edit] and some more to make up the boring set. I think they add a bang to the map.

Very good! Keep it up I love the atmosphere of this map!