PANDEMIC Episode 1 Chapter 2 Alpha

[Tynan]

Pandemic is about what happens to you after our society breaks down because of a deadly disease. It's told through your own journal, as a flashback. You are yourself in this game.

I've finished an alpha of the second chapter of the first episode.

Here she is:

http://www.planetunreal.com/specularity/pandemic_episode01_02-beta51.zip

Give me comments. If you want to partner with me on this project, and you have previous modding experience, email me at [email protected] .

 

[nagual678]

charlimit

 

[Ennui]

certainly looks pretty, dunno if it plays well or not.

cheers

 

[Death.Trap]

I've decided to kill myself, I'm serious this time!


It looks awesome =/

 

[batchetska]

yes looking truly amazing man

 

[Tynan]

Thanks. Now try it and give me feedback!

 

[Fender357]

Um.....fix the water http://img129.exs.cx/img129/4586/pandemic_episode01_02-beta510002.jpg

 

[pur3r4ge]

Looks like you're off to a really great start.

 

[Tynan]

Yeah I've been working on that water for a while. I can't find a fix.

And funny, it looks different on your vidcard than mine. Mine shows it all covered in purple blocks.

One of the reasons this isn't the final version.

 

[MrMan]

did you build the cubemaps..also my water tends to do that when i tie it to an entity or intersect it with a func_detail...

 

[chriscanadian]

keep trying, I recomend that you dont realease a map that has messed up stuff in it.

btw: very nice

 

[Tynan]

It has to be tied to a func_water_analog so that the water surface can move as it must.

 

[switch]

Very nice map I enjoyed playing it, took some screenshots along the way so as to be a proper beta tester

Firstly, the text was hard to read when the map first loaded, any way of keeping the screen black until the text is done?

First time I played it I used the valve straight away and kept killing the combine for a few minutes until I ran out of bullets and died
Can you have a sound play like a fog horn, if there is one, to signal that the water has gone all the way up?

The water wasnt that buggy for me, I have had the same problems in my map and cant get a fix.
http://www.bthornton.com/images/pandemic/pandemic_episode01_02-beta510000.jpg

Is if because there are different levels of water in your map as it says "There may be only one water level height in a PVS if the water is expensive." in the SDK documentation, I dont know what PVS is tho .

The table here flew out quite far after just touching it, maybe tone it down a bit if that is scripting going on there
http://www.bthornton.com/images/pandemic/pandemic_episode01_02-beta510003.jpg

Hard to see this, but in the room with the fire, it wasnt very clear where to go, I first went to the exit door and had a bash with my vrowbar but it didnt move, it wasnt until a few minutes later that I has a blast with my shotgun that it moved.
http://www.bthornton.com/images/pandemic/pandemic_episode01_02-beta510005.jpg

The water was fine everywhere else, apart from ducking in the part where it goes from generator rooms to a smaller enclosed place made me see through the map a bit;
http://www.bthornton.com/images/pandemic/pandemic_episode01_02-beta510009.jpg

Getting out of the water here isnt always easy, maybe lower the ground a tad. Also the ladders dismount ponts werent working so I had to jump off (same goes for the bottom) http://www.bthornton.com/images/pandemic/pandemic_episode01_02-beta510010.jpg

Health packs please! Could also use with a grenade placement incase you used up grenades earlier as they are a good way of getting the snipers without the crossbow.
http://www.bthornton.com/images/pandemic/pandemic_episode01_02-beta510012.jpg

Ducked behind here to get cover from fire, ended up stuck
http://www.bthornton.com/images/pandemic/pandemic_episode01_02-beta510013.jpg

Overall great work, cant wait for the next installments.

 

[Tynan]

That's an excellent report switch, thank you very much.

I'd already identified some of those issues watching my friends play (I don't let myself say anything while they're playing - it's hard when they wander for 5 minutes in the wrong direction).

I'll implement most of these.

 

[Tynan]

By the way, there are 5 grenades at the beginning of the sniper section, at the end of the blood trail leading away from the first dead guy.

 

[switch]

I'll implement most of these.

Cool, glad to see it going to use

If you need a fresh eye on something just give me a shout.

 

[Bling]

holy **** thats impressive, good job.

it looks like valve quality professional ownage.

O_O