[MAP]Red Assault

[LATTEH]

Hello Thank you for considering for downloading my map! Ive spent the last three months working on this for the RO2 "CounterAttack" mapping contest. Its still a work in progress and ill added Firefight and Countdown to the map So any feedback is appreciated!




Story: This level isn't based off of any real life battles. This is mostly fiction, but i'm sure the story has happened before.


Red Army: The Germans have taken a critical portion of the city for our troops to get to the front. They have bomb bared our city and torn it to piece's. We must Take back our city for our forward advance! FOR STALINGRAD!


Germans: The Russians Want this area so they can cut off our supply's! We must not lose this city! To the last man!


Current Version: B7

I currently have a server running. its in the unranked section just search for lattehs server.

Download (player files): http://gamebanana.com/rohos/maps/170161

Server files: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7105610/LATT...er%20Files.zip

FireFight Version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7105610/Red%20Assault%20FF.zip

CountDown Version: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7105610/Red%20assault%20CD.zip

Screenshots:

Spoiler!

UPDATES:

11/14/2012 B2
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-merged the ART_ file with the TE- file so the client won't crash on redirects

-changed the water shader

-fixed the black part of the skybox

-fixed "Blicking" texture

-Added some minor details on the river

11/21/2012 B3
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-added CD and FF gamemodes.

-made the river and terrain higher by the bridge

-Moved Axis spawn at F back, increase the capzone at F

-Changed some collision on the buildings to the left going to F

-Added more cover nodes to the black building by F for russians to get inside.

-Added some ammo in the warehouse by the bridge.

-Some performance increase's

-Added a proper overhead map


12/14/2012 B4
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-Fixed Some buildings players get stuck in some of the collision brush got turn inside out.

-Fixed some spawn positions enabling spawning at the wrong time.

-changed spawn position when russians take the square and bombed building.

-B and C can no longer be taken back by the germans after the russians take them.

-Made the cap zone on the Bridge a lot large (it covers the entire river now)

-Moved some cover around and added some detail in the square.

-some detailing and more covernodes, the alternate route to D should be more visible.

-Fixed pivot points on spawn position so it shows the correct position on the overhead map.

-CD and FF should now work properly

12/30/2012 B5
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-Added more time to 32 player match

-More cover on the bridge.

-Added another capture point the Warehouse

-Germans cant take back the bridge and warehouse after the russians take it

-Forward spawn for the russians to take F

-Got rid of the external package so players and server admins only need to download the map file. | Thanks Dietl for pointing this out to me!

-some detailing

-Some improvments with the russians bot's


1/2/2013 B5-1
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-Fixed the wrong positions of the capture zone's | Thank you nxsakb! Sorry for the inconvenience

2/9/2013 B6
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-Fixed Collision with a mesh by the bridge.

-Added a forward spawn for the russians after the Russia takes the bridge and warehouse.

-Fixed some floating geometry.

-Added Forward Radio for Allies and Axis (inside the Warehouse by the broken Roof)

-More collision Fix's

-Some More detailing,Changed the color correction.

-Improved the Aerial recon animation track. Both sides should be able to call on recon at the same time.

-Added more time between Artillery strikes

-More Covernodes

2/25/2013 B6-5
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-Major changes. Got rid of A. Removed the building on the right of the square.

-Made the square slightly Larger.

-Changed Spawn position of the Allies

-Added a close spawn the Axis behind the hospital on defending the square.

-Added Trenchs and some Barriers by the Valley

-detail face lift to the level: Changed the color correction and tryed to make a Better Color flow through out the level.

-Changed the Skylighting

-More detailing to the buildings.

Problems I know about: Lighting with the warehouse roofs is messed up. certain areas have some weird lighting.

B7 3/12/2013
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-Made the final objective bigger.

-Changed the buildings by the final obj.

-made the axis spawn on the final further away.

-Aerial recon can now be called more then once.

-The axis reinforcements is now at 300 and allies 350.

-It takes longer to capture the square.

-added a machine gunner to allies.

-Changed the basement of the hostpital.

-the bridge is no longer swarming with bees!!!!

-Some changes to the bridge part of the map (nothing big).

[Catalavos]

Looks like fun! Can't wait to check it out!

[Nikita]

It does look pretty fun!

Just two bits of constructive criticism that I often have for RO2 maps:

--It was standard practice for the Wehrmacht to cut off all water and electricity to urban areas under seige. Interior lighting shouldn't be functional. Even Tripwire has this issue on its official maps, particularly Barracks.

--I'm personally of the opinion that tall, indestructible stone walls running through maps generally aren't good for gameplay, and often a defending force would probably knock them down to clear fields of fire. Again, the official maps still have tall, bulletproof stone walls standing everywhere, blocking lines of fire.

[LATTEH]

Originally Posted by Nikita

It does look pretty fun!

Just two bits of constructive criticism that I often have for RO2 maps:

--It was standard practice for the Wehrmacht to cut off all water and electricity to urban areas under seige. Interior lighting shouldn't be functional. Even Tripwire has this issue on its official maps, particularly Barracks.

--I'm personally of the opinion that tall, indestructible stone walls running through maps generally aren't good for gameplay, and often a defending force would probably knock them down to clear fields of fire. Again, the official maps still have tall, bulletproof stone walls standing everywhere, blocking lines of fire.

yes but it wouldn't look as pretty without water D:

[Nikita]

Originally Posted by LATTEH

yes but it wouldn't look as pretty without water D:

Lol, I don't mean they'd dam the river... that would require a lot of effort! They'd just cut off the plumbing and electricity to deny Ivan the ability to flush the toilet.

[Moskeeto]

Get this on Workshop! I've seen a lot more people playing custom maps since that update, and it's the best way to increase custom map awareness.

[Nezzer]

Good to see your work finally ready to go. I haven't got the chance to test it yet, so I'll restrict my feedback to the screenies for now. And from what I can see, the only thing that seems odd to me is the water. It's way too bright and blue. It seems like a very shallow stream of water, so it should look brownish, especially in the middle of a war torn city. You should take a look at the water in the upcoming Barashka map, it's very well done IMHO. Other than that, the map looks beautiful. +

[Extension7]

Must, have, on, workshop. :P

Other than that I was actually following your WIP thread about this, thought it looked really neat. Can't wait to try it!

[Yoshiro]

Map looks like it comes with an ART_ level. Those will not send properly over a redirect.

[LATTEH]

Originally Posted by Yoshiro

Map looks like it comes with an ART_ level. Those will not send properly over a redirect.

I thought i had todo that for multiple gamemodes. (so the TE and CD maps arent huge) unless i missed something. Would i have to rename it for each version?

I added the level to workshop.

[G_Sajer]

Originally Posted by Yoshiro

Map looks like it comes with an ART_ level. Those will not send properly over a redirect.

Yeah. I thought that looked odd there. The map causes ROGame to crash at start. If I removed the ART_ file from the redirect, would that allow the map to function, or will a recook be required?

[LATTEH]

Originally Posted by G_Sajer

Yeah. I thought that looked odd there. The map causes ROGame to crash at start. If I removed the ART_ file from the redirect, would that allow the map to function, or will a recook be required?

the ART_ file has all the lightmaps ,brush and staticmesh locations in it.

i guess ill have to merge the sub map with main one, if it wont work over the redirect. D:

[G_Sajer]

Originally Posted by LATTEH

the ART_ file has all the lightmaps ,brush and staticmesh locations in it.

i guess ill have to merge the sub map with main one, if it wont work over the redirect. D:

Ah, OK. Looks like a great map. We will be looking forward to it.

[Yoshiro]

You can have a props packages but not ART/SND sublevels in the final.

[=GG= Mr Moe]

Looks interesting! Must remember to download this when I get home!

[LATTEH]

Originally Posted by Yoshiro

You can have a props packages but not ART/SND sublevels in the final.

Is there gonna be support for the ART files in the future?


Updated the level to B2

[Yoshiro]

Engine doesn't support cooked Sublevels on redirect, just .upk packages. We currently have no plans to support it (or know what it would take to make it happen).

[migmadmarine]

I tried loading this map a few times yesterday, but for me the game gets stuck in the "Current Destination: Custom Map"

[marcinz]

Originally Posted by migmadmarine

I tried loading this map a few times yesterday, but for me the game gets stuck in the "Current Destination: Custom Map"

I have the same problem. White russian on the loading screen stops running and I have to kill RO2.exe

[LATTEH]

I fixed the problem. i put the one of the files in the wrong place sorry D:

you guys shouldn't have any problems now