Back the attack, soldiers!

Northbound is ready for first public playtest! We've been playtesting this map 2 times (Thx Shane and all playtesters) and its ready to check it out in the public stress test.

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January 20, 1945, Northern Front

After the succesful operation in the western front,
allied troops called for more backup to the north.
Forces have to capture unknown urban
area and advance through a countryside
town to the center of the city.

Allied Objectives:
- Capture all 5 points

Axis Objectives:
- Capture all 5 points
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Pictures:
http://skdr.dodfi.net/northbound/

Download locations:
http://skdr.dodfi.net/dod_northbound_b1.zip
http://coj.spies.com/downloads/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=30
http://www.lanmaniax.com/
http://www.dodmaps.com/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=243

Updated Sturmbot Waypoints:
http://www.godcha.de/waypoints/dod_northbound_wpt-god.zip
By Godcha. Thanks much m8!

Good job with the map, I'm 99.9% sure we will see it in a future DoD update ;)

No - Thank you skdr!!! Great Fun!

Great Map - its S W E E T !!!

Great Game play for any style Player.... MG, Snipers you have your spots... Runners and Gunners, you have your ways around the map also!!!

Great Job!

You are really one of the best DoD mappers out there.:)

yes... its a very great map... lots of fun to play it :D

and thanks to include also my waypoints skdr... hope it help to test this great map a little bit too?

This map looks so nice, I wanna test it too :p :D

¯\(o_º)/¯ wootness!

We've had a couple of GREAT playtests in the last few days and this map is easily great fun and beautiful at the same time...it's more polished than a lot of the official maps (mine included)...great great job skdr...wonderful!

CoJ Mirror (http://coj.spies.com/downloads/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=file&id=30) (West Coast USA)

Thanks all.

Mirrors updated (Thx shane)

Godcha: oh yeah, you're in the readme file :D Thanks.

nice map, i hope you fixed the giant interiors and the other things we pointed out during our little 3-man-scrimage :)

skdr has always been my favourite mapper and now he has proven why he is :D

Added MIRROR (http://www.lanmaniax.com).
Good Work, SKDR!!!

This map is the roxor. It'd better get official, imo.

the boys at dodmaps spoke highly of you and ur map. i ll see if i can get kustom kettles to run it for you :D

uppss...

the included waypoints in the .zip file from the map are not the actual ones. thats the northbound alpha wpts. sorry for this mistake... :(

here you can crap the new and 100% working waypoints for dod_northbound_b1

dod_northbound.wpt (http://www.godcha.de/waypoints/dod_northbound_wpt-god.zip)

enjoy

Sweet Godcha. Thanks much :D

I'll add the download link to the main post.

better late then never :mad:








jk ;) verry good job, I like what people do so much to please a community :) thank you, now I can play this map myself for the first time because no server running it :/ it's really a shame

A great map, with WAYPOINTS! wOOt!!

Thanks skdr and godcha!!! More Lan gaming goodness. :)

Out release me skdr!! grrr... just had to release a map 50 times better and nicer with great quality and refinement, that pwnz all over my map, just 5 hours after i release it. your so mean. :p

uber clean brush/texture work
very "official" looking , execellent work dude

Great map skdr!:D

Only things that I'd like to see: put furniture and stuff in the interiors; some of them just seem too empty. And secondly put in some bazookas to knock out some of the sniper/mg positions.

I hope to see this one in the official "rotation":cool:

Add spawn warning.

I was walking around enjoying the map then all-of-a-sudden *BLAH* I died. To close to enemy spawn :P

I think the spawn warning is there, only there is a bug in dod, my pegasus map has the same thing, my warning doesn't pop up either on the screen.

Yep its there. I think its a bug 'cos it doesnt appear on screen.

do you use game_text or env_message ?

game_text works ten millions times better.

Originally posted by Darkwing
do you use game_text or env_message ?

game_text works ten millions times better.

env_message for me.

Gotta change it to game_text0r

Thanks much ;)

Yea...I would suggest for all custom maps you use the game_text...it's too hard for the average player to know how to create or edit the titles.txt file...and until we get a cache viewer/editor it's the smart thing to do.

Great map...a few minor changes and we should submit:

1) The edge of the world gate in axis spawn...put a "T" road juncture behind there or take out the gate and leave a wall...looks like you're on a mountaintop or something

2) The allied and axis iniital views from spawn....use the rotate tool and point each spawn into the direction they should travel...so nobody is looking at a wall or pointing backwards

3) Every window should have a MG position...and make them ultra wide...instead of the default 45 degree's make those suckers 90 or 180 degree's...so the gunner can setup any angle forward, left, or right at the window

4) You should not require a jump by the axis to leave their spawn on the right side...I like the gate but either have a gap or a ramp or something (like flug...put a few boxes they can run up-n-over)

5) In addition to text messages...use color or something else to identify each spawn...I like the red guard stuff on the axis side...maybe have another one like that on the other side. In flug if you get too close to each others spawn I did two things...the smoke grenades of course but since some folks turn off particle smoke I also had verbal clues ("FALL BACK!!") tied to the same trigger that activated the env_message "Gas! Gas! Gas!"

6) It is harder to get to the first allied flags as allied when compared to getting to the first axis flags as axis. I'm not sure what to do here...the hard thing would be to close up the map somewhat and move the allied spawns a bit closer to the flags...or move the flags back...either way is going to radically change gameplay so if you're satisfied with it for now and if server statistics show it's still fairly even then don't listen to me...but watch those statistics...my hunch is that the map slightly favors the axis.

7) If you run around in LAN you're struck by two things...how pretty everything is (great job there) and the wind noise...If it were me I'd restrict the wind to the tunnels or tone it down a bit so it's bearly audible in the background.

But...by far one of the most professional maps I've seen.

Thanks Fuzzdad.

I've fixed all those problems (except axis favored side) and I have a build for you to check out in a few days.

Btw. It seems that you dont have the final beta 1 of the map I released. I redid that axis "jump puzzle" there (near spawn gate).

btw2. We've had few clan games on this map and Allies capped many times. Even one round was point win to Allies. But I'll watch the stats.

Fuzzdad: your private message folder is full. Can't send any messages.

Yea...my sent items was HUGE...i just deleted so you guys can PM me now....one more thing I forgot on my list above: Make all buildings on the minimap white that are enterable...this is a standard deal on the official maps so let's do that and it'll be as finished as it can be.

Speaking of Northbound...

It has made it into the CAL preseason along with Falaise....


Great Job Guys!!!

Mirror going up in just a few. www.fullmetaljacketshof.com nice map.

http://www.esprit-online-shop.com/Shop/PicDestStyleProduct/Y66413_616.jpg

Originally posted by FuzzDad
6) It is harder to get to the first allied flags as allied when compared to getting to the first axis flags as axis. I'm not sure what to do here...the hard thing would be to close up the map somewhat and move the allied spawns a bit closer to the flags...or move the flags back...either way is going to radically change gameplay so if you're satisfied with it for now and if server statistics show it's still fairly even then don't listen to me...but watch those statistics...my hunch is that the map slightly favors the axis.

I would agree but for a different reason. The axis has an advantage in that their #2 flag MUST be passed. A studious axis team needs to just plant an mg or mg/sniper combo and they can easily hold their back 2 flags just by holding the intersection at their 2, which can be done easily by camping the angles looking across the 2.

The opposite is not true. One of the best strats for the axis is to slip by the Allied #2 on the right.

Anyway, I brought all this up on the CoJ threads, so I'm pretty sure that skdr is happy w/ it as is.

I don't think this problem greatly unbalances it against the allies, but I think as people become more familiar w/ the map you'll see a statistical edge to the axis, how great I'm not sure.

This map is a lot of fun and I'm glad to see CAL's gonna use it in their pre-season matches (Falaise too!). :)

Originally posted by DEvIL-K
http://www.esprit-online-shop.com/Shop/PicDestStyleProduct/Y66413_616.jpg

hahah! I want that shirt :D!

Mirror with STEAM friendly auto filepath searching installer:

http://dssgr.net/pafiledb/pafiledb.php?action=category&id=22

this map is getting a facelift.
More soon =)

Originally posted by kleinluka
this map is getting a facelift.
More soon =)

Everybody loves klein ;)

No not everybody just me :cool:

nice map but this kinda bugs me

dod_northbound0000.jpg (http://bdodd.home.mindspring.com/dod_northbound0000.jpg)

That's been fixed (was one of the things on my list of requested changes)...not sure when skdr will reelase a new version of the map...prolly when kliener's finishes the re-texture.

get a new bush-outline texture, (or 2) to mix it up a bit. im tired of seeing that same one everywhere. =/

keep up the good work. its good to see different people helping out to make this map even better.

i add a mirror at www.dodmaps.de
Mirror: DodMaps.de CUSTOM MAPS (http://dodmaps.ngz-network.de/index.php?site=custommaps.php) @ NEW MAPS

map is running on our server :D

You may now download and play this map on the:

-=[ Kustom Kettle ]=- (STEAM) : 69.56.230.170:27015


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