After a month of work I finally managed to finish my second map for Nexuiz called Heavy Arena. This map is something I was inspired to make from a series of UT maps (Fractal and Moribas) which were a nice style that I wanted to see in Nexuiz as well. These two UT maps were mostly a round arena with two floors, two side hallways and most weapons were rocket-based guns. I made something like that for Nexuiz though of course it's not a port of either. In this case I only made two rooms on the bottom level which instead of elevators at the end have teleporters from one to the other and there is also a trap door in the center above which lies a shield powerup.

There are only three weapons in this map: The Electro, the Mortar and the Rocket Launcher. In arrangement it is somehow similar to a round Roman arena having a large combat space and two retreat areas, and its main feature is rocket shots and combos from different heights. Although the map is not perfect I did my best to optimize everything I could and add as many details as possible (including the new pointparticles system, you need to have the SVN version of the game until 2.5.0 to see them).

I initially made this map with the intention of proposing it into the game officially if everyone believes it is high quality enough. Some screenshots and download location below. Enjoy



Download link (V1.1)

I just played it, very cool. Very UTish

Only "bug" is the central trap door, it goes so far it goes into the glass, I suggest using a func_door_rotating (by RoKen) there: you can have is swing down and away.

Other thoughts... since this is a lavaish map maybe add more orange lights and make is abit more orangy. Orange + the blue-white lights you have around would make it very unique.

Nexuiz has no or few orange maps.

i love it . i had to stop for a second on the steam pipes . nice touch there .

Needs a Redeemer in the middle

For the time being I made an update to fix some important issues I missed when releasing the first version (if you downloaded my map and intend to keep it I highly recommend this update as the previous one had BSP issues). Check the link in the first post again. Changes include:

- Fixed BSP issue at the top where the spinning fan is located. Any projectiles thrown there disappeared before reaching the sky and the sky sometimes flickered from some angles because of unarranged brushes.

- Fixed collision issue at 2nd floor where the player could get trapped past the round wall in certain spots.

- Set death trigger in lava pit a bit lower, the player was blown apart too early when falling in.

- Slightly shrunk the coronas above the jumppads as they were a bit too strong.

- Fixed some small info in the .mapinfo file.

There should be no more geometry issues by now and the map should be playable without any problems

I'm not sure if I may have missed something very important in this map or whatever. I'm not really excited about it and don't think that playing on that map would be exordinarily funny. Sorry...

Well it's an arena kind of map, for sure not suitable for 1on1, but more for some spammy and short free for all action. Should also work in minsta.
Otherwise the map look nice, very clean brushwork, many details, good design job. The only negative aspects are the ugly jumppad textures, that don't fit the theme imo. Also adding 2 or 3 realtime lights (with r_editlights) would have been cool.

A nice coherent theme, visually very good. Cant say much abt game play until I tried it with some humans.

Technical:
Must have taken ages to vis. threes not a single detail brush anywhere
Rather hmm.. way of creating the circles in the centre

tZork wrote:Technical:
Must have taken ages to vis. threes not a single detail brush anywhere
Rather hmm.. way of creating the circles in the centre

Thanks all. I have to say this is my second Nexuiz (or Quake / Radiant-made) map so I'm not sure how some of these things work. I had to use a fast vis because building the vis does indeed take about 2 hours. I thought hinting is the only thing you need to do for the vis... I'm curious what detail brushes do though that's probably too much of a newbish question to ask here

Urmel wrote:I'm not sure if I may have missed something very important in this map or whatever. I'm not really excited about it and don't think that playing on that map would be exordinarily funny. Sorry...

same here

Very cool map indeed. Very clean work, a lot of nice details that map the map worthwhile. Definetely cool for 2-4 player action!!

its a remake of fractal!

I new i saw this map before.

cortez wrote:its a remake of fractal!

I new i saw this map before.

It's not a remake of it, I just inspired myself from that style (Moribas in UT uses the same layout). It's different and just has a similar arrangement.

Actually, I thought more of Morbias.

The map shares same arena idea but still is very different.