A remake of Charlie has been released by a member of the HL2world forums, Mxthe!

I haven't tried it yet, but it looks good!!

http://www.pcgamemods.com/mod/17722.html
(sreens in link)

YAY!

THIS IS NOT MY MAP!

looks pretty good for a custom map

Yeah...but too bad the mapper is an arse. Me and Neutrino were playing a game with him and we told him some observations we made and he told us, "I don't care"...shame really, cause the map is good, could use some more work, but has great potential :(.

But still a fun play, it is a very intense map with all the ambience.

Gameplay aside, it looks sub-par compared to the most of the stuff we see on these forums. *shrug*

Yeah. He also says this is the final product. I asked him if I could take over production, the pondered but I think ultimately decided not to :(.

P.S.~You can shoot down the plane.

It's not a bad map in it's own right. The ambience is great and it's fairly interactive. However, aside from being a beach assault map, it has little to do with the original Charlie whatsoever.

It is fun and will do fine until the more advanced Objective maps start coming out. For now, it's the only playable one, as Opo_Liberer (which is a better gameplay map) is still too laggy. So for being the only Timed-Objective map, Charlie_source will do the job.

It will get old, as it has low replay value due to it's tactical simplicity, but it's still very nice on its own merits. Thanks to MXTHE for taking the time to make it.


p.s. It was nice having you on the server, Tonedef. I didn't see Neutrino.

This should'nt be called charlie at all.

My suggestion would be:
dod_ROFLlookATmy:donrluvs::donrluvs::donrluvs::don rluvs:TYsquareCLIFFS

yes the map is good and close to great and I am in talks with the map maker (mxthe) to try to get him to understand that it can be better.

We have it on our server rotation and me and him and neutrino were playing at the same time. Neutrino give him some good thoughts on the map and he just blew them off (sigh) but i feel that we should not give up!!.

He my be a youngster that needs to understand, that we mean good when we tell him about the problems with a good map that can be great!!

I will try to convey the thoughts of all with the voice of one.

We are only as good as the work and effort and time we put in.

Good luck reasoning with him. This map has potential.

I offered to take it over so it would not wither away...but I got yelled at for 'freeloading' by a member...gotta love HL2World :rolleyes:. I guess they don't know what kind is.

We just had a game on this on our server, and i loved shooting the plane down! I kept on doing it, i couldn't believe what i was seeing till the other 4 drunk arses on the server confirmed it! So i kept doing it, until i realised that I was German, and that was a german bomber clearing the beaches for us:eek: Oh well, ya live and learn.

It's got potential, definetly, but i cant see us putting this up for public play in it's current state.

The sand has algea on it, no biggy :p but no way should he be flogging this as dod_charlie :rolleyes:

it appears the mapper got lazy to recreate the back side of the map. whats with all those walls? and the trench system is just terrible. and yes, the green sand is just freaky. the flags are also pretty close together, and some do not resemble charlie at all. the terrain and cliffs are also pug fugly.
but i must admit i see some talent. the inside of the bunkers are well done, with the swinging lights and shakes. the mortars are also cool. at one point, i was running up the beach and saw one fly right into my face before it made contact. the arch of it was pretty neat to see.

this is what the map maker said: (from mxthe)

Improve it? How would you improve it?

Gimme examples please

I always dreamt of making a charlie map...

The thing is, i mapped it only 2 weeks, and i even made the sprites for the objectives, soundscapes, all thoses brushworks, the plane the liberty ships with the door falling all of thoses are brushworks, and no one looked at that, thats why i was kinda pissed...

And when there is such nice effects like that, but a green sand, people will argue because of the green sand, okay im gonna change the sand take off the tanks and release another version.

And sorry if i acted like this...Its just when you spent 2 weeks working a lot on a map, you release some pics everyone loves it, and then you release the map, a lot of people love it, they do, im seeing 6 servers which has it on it right now.

But yeah, some people hate it, so im gonna improve it...

Mxthe told me he looks at these boards and since he is going to go back to mapping on this he would like some suggestions, so lets give him some. Be detailed too :).

I'm loving the use of HL2 physics, blowing the bunker doors in, the planes, blowing the cannons up. The visual side of the map just looks rough however.

Spend some more time refinining it visually and it will be better, trenches need more work in general.

This map is pretty damn fun to play on. I also agree its sweet how they constantly use the HL2 physics....it seems like on the axis side, however, that it sounds like ur in a sewer the entire time...also it just seems kinda crammed in the backside of the map...i'd like to see em expand it even more in the back and space things out more

this map rocks but for the plane that drops the bomb theres a bomb model and for the plane for more fps id use Ranson
bf109 model

:mod:

Cool map gameplay wise, visually not so great.

The plane is cool, but moves wayyyy too slow (and quiet), looks bizzare.

:)

Great Map!!

Installed on our servers..

I was never a fan of charlie, still am not really, but the public like it..

I've heard no complaints from anyone..