After eliminating a nasty bug, I've finally finished the remake of the well known and popular CTF map from Shoe, and the outcome is:

Greatwall RELOADED!

Things changed

*The whole geometry. I had to rebuild the whole map from scratch, tho I tried to stay as true as possible to the original map.
*Moved two spawn point out of base.
Added more weapons, the map includes now: machine gun, crylink, electro, hagar, rocket launcher, nex gun, grenade launcher.
*Added more weapons and health.
*Moved the nex gun out of the bunkers. Maybe this step will be unpopular, but the gameplay simply reduced to instagib, as everybody always grabbed only the nex, it was too easy to reach. However, it's not harder not to get it, but you'll have to walk for it a lot I tell you .
*Added a walkway that connects the two sides under the Great Wall.
*Added some eye candy

The only three things pulling me back from releasing, is that I still need to add waypoints for the bots, position markers, and packing the stuff up. This should be done today some time, so stay tuned!

Download: http://141.2.16.3:7780/nex/maps/inoffic ... loaded.pk3

(thx to divVerent)


Screenshots:

Just wow! This looks very good. I might even forgive you the bad fps in the latest facingworlds version if this one turns out as good as i expect it to do .
Do the jumppads ontop of the wall serve any purpose? as the nex lays on the floor one can just walk or laserjump to it.

Looks good. Do those plants have acne?

DOWNLOAD IS READY, GET IT WHILE IT'S HOT!

@esteel: why'd you laserjump and loose health, when you can do wo it too?

@SavageX: nope, those plants remained from Noobmaps, and try to loook like alien plants

Very nice take on greatwall I really like how you made the "wall" seem more wall-like than I did (the name greatwall was really just left over from an idea that was just a wall in the middle of a map, before I added the lava).

The only suggestion I can think of is maybe getting a better grass texture, but that's just because I've grown tired of the one I found when I made the map Also, have you ever considered adding an underwater tunnel?

Underwater tunnel? You'll see something you wish in cb_ctf2
I'm glad you like the remake of the map. I have to say, the original idea is very good, and fun to play. So gj you too

The people on my server (me included) liked it too.

In general, it's a good map.
Though, I feel it's extremely nex-oriented because there are limited weapons (unless I'm somehow overlooking them). Is there a rocket launcher anywhere?

There is a rocketlauncher.. 'on top' of the door into the base.. walkup the stairs left and right of it.. and there are lots of weapons.. two mortars on the wall, in the small niches/alcoves in the wall are electros, in the base and bunker machineguns, crylink and elector iirc. And in the open space before the base are at least 3 guns.. and of course the nexgun.
And the same thing goes for the other side..

*shakes head* I didn't even look on top of the walls.

Hehe, weapons were on top of the walls like this in the 'original' greatwall too. Just the general placement was number of the weapons was different.

Looks nicer .
Could something be done about the map-edge walls... they look... boxmappy. We have to feel like we are somewhere...

So we're on an alien planet and it's nighttime. Where are we with regards to the edgewalls? Maybe it should be a canyon, make the edgewalls canyony (requires more polys ofcourse)?

Maybe there is a lava waterfall from a part of the canyon spilling into the greatwall center?. (or it's part of a lava river that makes another little canyon?)

I've played the version with the water tunnel too, could that be added aswell to the next version of reloaded maybe?

once the pc-max tourney is over and the PN.de CTF server runs again I will eventually put that map into the CTF mappool

Sorry, I'm not planning another version of this map.
Sure the place looks boxy, but realy, who cares? Hopefully the map runs nuff fluent, no need to add more poly, just to look better if it would run slower. I'm not against dedatils, sure, the bases coud use some more fancy colors, trims, whetever, but gameplay wise, they mean nothing.

sorry for bumping but I have heard a lot about this map but the download is broken.

http://hector.rbi.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/nex/maps/
If i remember right it was replaced by a version that works better with the upcomming antiwallhack in 2.3..

is that your map?

if it is who's photo is that??

and if its not well its there

LOL, hehe, somebody has found the easter egg

If you've read the first post, you shold know that there was an original Greatwall map from Shoe, and I've remade it from scratch. And yes, the guy on the photo is me

There I was, expecting a wall of large German women named Greta in the middle... boy was I disappointed (reference to thread topic... read carefully).

You mean:

*Added some eye candy

Right? So? Do I get some cookies now? Or a pie? Or two pies? Or two pies and some cookies?