[MAP]Seclusion

[DaneO'Roo]

Title : Seclusion
Release Date : 8/8/08
Authors : il Duce Primo, Massacre, Dano, DSalimander

Description : An abandoned Forerunner prison secluded from all life.

about:
This map is a small symetrical map with fast paced action. One base for each team with a forerunner construct between them. A huge crevice follows the one side going to into the inside structure of the ring.

Recommendation:
Map plays great with any size party up to 8 players.

Slayer- Great for duels, and free for all is a blast too.

CTF- Collecting power weapons is your best bet here.

Oddball- The crevice is your friend.

Assault- Amazing with 4-8 players. The most favored gametype for the map. Team cooperation is key in this chaos.

KOTH- Stay alive in the pits of doom.

Race- Fun for the focused player.


Acknowledgment:
il Duce Primo- Terrain modeler, populater, and some extra random things
Massacre- Structure modeling and guidence through the map
Dane/Dano- UV Mapping and textures
DSalimander- Shaders and other slave work
Donut- You may think you didn't do much but without you the map would never of got ingame
Lightning- Taking the map and holding it on your broken computer for a few months. :3
Ganon/ [CIA]- Hosting servers that made testing possible
Selentic- Hosting servers that made testing possible
All of the testers that have helped but are too many of you so... Thankyou! (And N00b for testing worst case rocket abuse scenarios.)



http://ilduceprimo.webs.com/seclusion_announcement.jpg
That is a little outdated.(cliffs have been changed)

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/4425/teaserka2.jpg

[DOWNLOAD] (http://files.filefront.com/Seclusionrar/;11419667;/fileinfo.html)

I'll get some pics from me personally later, using the bloom mod, looks REALLY NICE.

[Disaster]

I remember duce showing me this when he first made the bsp. Then he wouldn't let me test :sadface:

[Bodzilla]

kool

[DaneO'Roo]

Massacre made the awesome structures, don't forget >:U

[rossmum]

Beaut.

[Disaster]

Massacre made the awesome structures, don't forget >:U
I know. Duce was just showing me the bsp before he even had the idea of making it a map. He had just made it and was showing it off *sort of I guess*.
Nice structures mass :v:

[il Duce Primo]

I showed my face.

[Bodzilla]

You fuckign idiots, theres no bump maps for the base's. What the Fuck.

idiots. spoiled something that could of been a fuckload better with laziness.
Now all that fuckign detail dane put into those textures to give them depth and create the illusion of joins is for nothing because you fucked up and didnt do what you where sposed to have done.

What a waste.

[DaneO'Roo]

-_- how can some be working and others not, what the hell. All the greyscale bumps had near the exact same levels...

[SMASH]

I don't trust you... OMG ITS ANOTHER RICKROLL!!!

jk :)

[Bodzilla]

Fix the fucking textures and re-release it.

goddam halo maps tards! >_<

[Invader Veex]

Fix the fucking textures and re-release it.

goddam halo maps tards! >_<

I go to Halomaps more than here and I did this: http://img359.imageshack.us/img359/9125/ohaidc1.png

Anyways I agree bumps and a tad bit better shaders on structures would be nice.

[Bodzilla]

Thats the thing, Dane Made bumps for this map, he made it all right, and they fucked up when they implemented it. It's obvious from a 1 second observation that the bumps ARNT FUCKING WORKING.

[Mass]

rep me

[adumass]

Great looking map, I didn't like having to use the ar so much though.. I don't think I saw any bump maps at all or maybe I wasn't paying attention.

[Bodzilla]

there is some, like the snow, or some small parts in the middle structure or on the ground OUTSIDE the base.

Theres hardly any shadows or bumps anywhere so the entire map looks Flat.

[Evil_Monkey]

The easter egg that you put in there is quite funny(both sides), what would be funny is if they didn't know it was in.
Other than the I like the map, like others have said there could have been better/more bump maps. I see a bump maps on a few things.

[Pooky]

You're not getting me with a rickroll :mad:

kidding, for all you serious business tards

[Ki11a_FTW]

i c wut u did ther

[Sel]

Oh man, I remember testing this back in January. It's changed a lot since then, and it was all for the better.

Great job Duce/Mass/Dano/Dsal

[Advancebo]

Gameplay Pics:
http://www.modacity.net/forums/%5Bimg%5Dhttp://img516.imageshack.us/img516/2378/72322947tl4.jpg%5B/img%5Dhttp://www.modacity.net/forums/%5Bimg%5Dhttp://img516.imageshack.us/img516/2378/72322947tl4.jpg%5B/img%5Dhttp://img516.imageshack.us/img516/2378/72322947tl4.jpg
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn64/Hazard1337/haloce-20080808-193459.png
http://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z295/iron_clad_photo/this-1.jpg
http://www.modacity.net/forums/%5Bimg%5Dhttp://i188.photobucket.com/albums/z295/iron_clad_photo/this-1.jpg%5B/img%5D

[L0d3x]

Oh yeah those postgame carnage reports really show off the map...

[Advancebo]

yah it shows how much people can pwn in this map

[Evil_Monkey]

I still have to test this map with people but there are a lack of servers running this map so I can't really rate it on gameplay. The look of the map is better than most maps being released, there are a few things that could have been added/fixed to make it look a little better.

[Hazard1337]

Lol Advancebo, you posted mine up there.

The map plays pretty good in gameplay because everything is symetrical, but my internet sucks so when I am playing, it warps like hell all over the place. Not to mention it makes it so it takes five seconds to pick up a gun.

[Advancebo]

Lol Advancebo, you posted mine up there.

The map plays pretty good in gameplay because everything is symetrical, but my internet sucks so when I am playing, it warps like hell all over the place. Not to mention it makes it so it takes five seconds to pick up a gun.

thats because u was running your D server and playing on another server XD

[PopeAK49]

God dammit i need my freaking internet back so i can play this map with you guys. Nice work duce, dsal, mass, dane.

[Disaster]

God dammit i need my freaking internet back so i can play this map with you guys. Nice work duce, dsal, mass, dane.
How are you posting? :iiam:

[ultama121]

Played it too. It was good, but I felt as if the gameplay was a bit... small. I liked it, but it got kind of bland after a few rounds. The visuals are still good despite bump failure.

[Rook]

Your server is horrible with the only AR spawn fix it, I don't like getting nailed with the pistol you picked up at start while i'm halfway across map with the AR.


FIX your server, pistol/ar spawn and i'll come play again. BALANCE

[Reaper Man]

Awesome, but I can't download it, all ports on filefront being used :saddowns:

[Bastinka]

Added a mirror!

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Download Link: http://www.bastian-de-byl.de/Seclusion.rar
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[il Duce Primo]

No reason for any other host. It's been up on Halomaps.org for a bit now.
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=3969

[FireDragon04]

Purely Gorgeous! 'Nuff said!

[PopeAK49]

How are you posting? :iiam:

Because im using the computers at a cafe. Then again i could just jack my step dads laptop and use it here.

[legionaire45]

God Dammit Dane why did you include the fucking screenshots! Now they're on to the fact it's a rickroll map D: .

lulz, map looks good, imma play it now.

[StankBacon]

uploading to hiv server.

seems too small for ctf tho, mb koth or ts... i dunno.


( also, where are the easter eggs :( )

[Evil_Monkey]

( also, where are the easter eggs :( )
Search on top of you cliffs you will see a board and 2 floating candles.

[Bastinka]

Screenshot? :-3

[Evil_Monkey]

Screenshot? :-3As you wish.
http://img373.imageshack.us/img373/1626/haloce2008081312114221fc7.jpg
http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/4913/haloce2008081312115076xn3.jpg

[DaneO'Roo]

What the fuck? I didn't even know that was there.


o_O?

Also bacon, map is awesome for slayer imo. Team games aren't too great, but free for alls are pretty good, gets nice and chaotic. I just hide around the ramps and use them for cover.

[Sel]

Lol, duce showed me the mass one, I never saw the DS one though.

[il Duce Primo]

:XD:

[Disaster]

:XD:
o i c wat u did thar :XD:

[DaneO'Roo]

o i c wat u did thar :XD:


o i c wat u did thar D:


o i c wat u did thar :aaaaa:


^ o i c wat u did thar


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:goat:
o i c wat u did thar
nothing




Please just stop it.

[Malloy]

ha i love the way you can run up the light beams in this map, gives awsome advantage

[Rentafence]

Haha, Dane, I c wat u did thar
I'm a smart ass. +rep me

[Lateksi]

We need more people to play this map, it's very fun!

Also, B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L

[JunkfoodMan]

Its a great map, but you could've shown off the shaders with some dynamic lights. Right now everything looks flat =\

[PopeAK49]

i think you could have shown a source of were the lighting was coming from on the bases. I mean it looks like theres an invisible light glow on the bases with no sources of were its coming from.

[Bodzilla]

Its a great map, but you could've shown off the shaders with some dynamic lights. Right now everything looks flat =\
^

>:(

[il Duce Primo]

Bod, everything you have said makes me think you are blind. There are bump maps and there are dynamic lights.

Edit: meh, I made it look like I was attacking just Bod. Rip the map before you start making accusations.

[Ganon]

I remember pwning u all on the first build >:U still love the map, good work on all your parts

[SnaFuBAR]

wish i could find a server playing this map :|

[Disaster]

wish i could find a server playing this map :|
Sucks. None of the good maps released recently aren't played. All it is is Rpg_beta5, coldsnap, and snowgrove and I'm sick of those maps.

[StankBacon]

its on the hiv server, but noone goes in there.

[SnaFuBAR]

The map looks good, but... this has some of the worst gameplay. I was really surprised. More than half the time I was getting 3sk'd or grenaded when I spawn. It's just not any fun. I'm really disappointed.

[StankBacon]

yah the gameplay is pretty bad.

[Sel]

The map looks good, but... this has some of the worst gameplay. I was really surprised. More than half the time I was getting 3sk'd or grenaded when I spawn. It's just not any fun. I'm really disappointed.

I was in that game too, I agree it got really boring when everyone was just getting spawn raped. It's a good 2v2 slayer map, but does not really support more people than that.

[Pooky]

its on the hiv server, but noone goes in there.

I go in there whenever the planets align and I decide to play CE :raise:

[Sever]

The map looks good, but... this has some of the worst gameplay. I was really surprised. More than half the time I was getting 3sk'd or grenaded when I spawn. It's just not any fun. I'm really disappointed.I tried to talk to Il Duce about that ages ago, but he wouldn't listen. This map has no place for certain weapons and spawn setups. I didn't even bother playing online after I had seen the horrendous layout (and Dane's incredible art, but that's beside the point).

[jngrow]

Just ran through it, the map is pretty beautiful, but from what I hear it's not very fun..

[PlasbianX]

I tried to talk to Il Duce about that ages ago, but he wouldn't listen. This map has no place for certain weapons and spawn setups. I didn't even bother playing online after I had seen the horrendous layout (and Dane's incredible art, but that's beside the point).

QFT. Spawn killing is a major problem on the map

[DaneO'Roo]

I knew the map should have been scaled bigger. I always imagined it as a really big epic thing the size of gulch with a giant bowl in the middle.

[Heathen]

:O That would be rad.

Also, is their a downscaled bloodgulch variant?