mapidea !?

what about a map, where the objective is to drive a truck from A to B ?

You would have to invent new tactics and gamestyles ...whatever :D !
It would be a bit like Railgun, but without all the boring shit... More like a funmap (such as baserace). People would have to hide behind the truck and put clever arties (only 1 or 2 fops per team allowed to prevent 24/7 arty) to stop the truck and the attacking team needs good medicskills etc etc etc. Spawntime would be around 5 or 10 seconds to make it independent of spawnkilling !

Maybe it would be a very nice funmap without camp+spawnkill then ;)

image: vwk7ozsd

something like this


what do you think?


Edit:


Could someone built such a map? I mean, i dont understand much of building maps, but this one looks kinda easy. The only tricky part would be implanting the "addons"...maybe some help by admins would be nice
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Isn't there already one???

Have to drive it around in a circular track? or something from what I remember
never heard tbh
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more a competition map than funmap
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yep there is one like that.. and in the middle are some buildings.. no idea what the name was tho :S
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supply depot
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lol :P

no well it was built like a soccer stadium if i remember right.. and you drove some circles with that car.. after some rounds u won. axis had to stop you... they could build barriers too i think.
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You got it! :D Just need to find the name lol
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i was sure you were talking about supply :D
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Tank race sounds similar to that,but dunnow :s
But there were tanks ofc and no trucks :D
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could be that it have been tanks too.. i rly cant remember :P
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tank race or something
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sure

E: if it's for real, I'm in
not good for competition : /
hv 2 maps nearly planned completely, but cba to read tutorials how to make them (yet)
mapname: truckrace
I know this is completely off topic, but I love the way you drew the truck in paint.
used photoshop but with painttools :D
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:)

About the mapidea, it would be fun to play 3-4 times, but unlike baserace which is all the time a popular funmap there is no way to create variety. Every playthrough of the map will look the same, there isn't much tactic involved outside of the firefights which is something that has always been valued in baserace.

Maybe you should include some way to add extras to the truck, like if you Axis holds a difficult to defend CP they get a truck barrier or something among those lines.
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the addon idea is nice, but how to implant that ?


maybe addons like:

- truck drives 10%, 20%, 30% faster/slower
- maschinegun on the truck
- faster spawntime
- more ammo
- truck needs less time to start moving
- the distance to the truck can be higher/smaller, before it starts moving (10,20,30%)
- ..
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all those ideas look nice, but:

-more ammo at spawn You can't implement this as far as I know
-Machinegun No. Will be used by defenders

I especially dig the bigger truck-activating radius :)

The barrier thing could be done using LUA scripts if I got this right.
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Wouldn't you want to be as close to the truck as possible as you can anyway?
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It becomes harder for arty to kill off everyone as the radius the attackers can spread to becomes bigger
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But it becomes easier to shoot them.
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That is the case if the map is a blank, big hill where the truck is the only kind of cover you can get.
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That is not true. It's always the case, except for when the map is an alley a little wider than the train/truk.
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the ammo part can be done in the pk3 and in the lua..
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sounds good to be honest, but the truck on paint looks more like a train bro
its a kebabtruck
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kebabs dont move on trains bro
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make the track endless (not a simple circle rather a big map like you drew [baserace style]) with different spawnpoints for axis and allies which are always activated whenever the truck comes near.

make a counter for each "round"

make it a stopwatch match and the team with more rounds wins

will be big success
tbh i thought exactly about this too


but it would be better to count the meteres than the rounds
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yea probably but thats just a minor matter
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what about a map that looks exacly the same from both the allies and the axis point of view

where the obj is to drive a trick. the map would be straight and both allies and axis are able to drive it , the first team to move the truck to the finish line next to the opponents spawn wins :o

image: okmoas
has to be a circuit, else the first team with 5 people on full (even if it is only 5 seconds) wont have a chance to get the truck back...just look on supply last stage, when the truck already moved through the gate


it has to be a track, where allies and axis have more or less always the same distance from spawn to the truck
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it would be ultra fun for a few months if u could make a map like that
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i dont know anything about mapping but a track doesnt seem dificult
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That is not true. Even with a 5s disadvantage (which is actually 10 seconds) it is possible to win since the closer to your spawn the truck is the easier it will be to move it back.

This will only work when the map is big enough. Perhaps there could be a system that makes it so that the spawntimes of the teams increase or decrease when the truck moves furder away or closer to the finish line of the opponent.

e: Ow, I noticed that you got the idea of the map wrong. You're thinking that the two teams have to retrieve the truck. I think the idea is that the teams have to move the truck over the finish line on the opposite side of the map near the opponent's spawn.
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ye makes more sense if the truck moves like that :p


ye would be nice too !

Imo we need in general more of this funmaps. Just look back when we played 1-2 months non stop Hide and Seek or Baserace. If i remember right, then this were the funniest days in my Et-career, because of many epic funny moments and great actions ! :)
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There's an amazingly funny map out called UJE01 I've played with Cupra lately. The objective is to escort a VIP, who works like a tank, but is actually a person. If the attackers are near him, he starts moving to his destination, but as defender, you can shoot the VIP and kill him, then the attackers need to revive him. It's something completely new and I think you can even make that competitive
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This sounds great, Id like to see that on ETTV :P
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So true. Playing this game is all about fun and things like these are great loads of precisely that. Hide n seek was always so much fun.
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[de for razzah]er meint, du sollst den truck am GEGNERspawn vorbeifahren[/de for razzah]
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habs schon verstanden als er replied hat :D
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I would made some map which would be like baserace but would have train.
nice idea.
aslong as the "truck" looks like a:

fiat stilo abarth
fiat punto abarth
honda s2000
subaru impreza wrx/sti
mitsubishi evo
aston martin vantage v8
lancia delta hf integrale

it will be an instant win !
The map you're talking about is tramfight_b2
Need Cs maps Search & plant!
Snatch3?
lets just add "the well of youth" to the mappool. why? because it was the most impressive looking ET map evAr.

http://returntocastlewolfenstein.filefront.com/file/The_Well_Of_Youth;30268
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