tower defense map: Zday

[sevlag]

I'd figure I post it here since our SC2 mapping department here seems non-existent

What it is: Zday is a tower defense map that puts you in control of the terran as you fend off waves of various zerg units with "boss" waves in there to increase the pressure at given intervals. Zday started as nothing more than my game level design project and evolved from there. Certain units lack abilities for one reason or another (e.g. ghost's cloaking device is not present as the generators have all broken down or malfunctioned)

The Story: The supposed story to Zday is that you and the three other players control the remaining (or seemingly remaining) forces of a terran controlled outpost being invaded by the zerg. Your only means of escape is a lone Hercules transport that can make it so long as you keep the emergency beacon alive for the 25 minutes its gonna take just to get in sight of your outpost...the moment it stops transmitting, the evac will consider your base overrun and will leave you for dead.

Features:
Scoreboard (broken ATM, trying to get it to work right)
unit shop
ability to upgrade units atk and def
Boss Waves


Problems with the map:
*Scoreboard doesn't seem to want to display EVERYONE so it will seemingly "jump", trying to fix this
*final boss zerg wont actually come into base, will stand outside it attacking due to its range
*due to early screw ups marines use infested Gauss rifle (only thing closest to the original Gauss rifle, accidental overwrote the marine's GR with Raynor's sniper and only way to revert it is to start a new map)
*because people will most likely bitch: my computer isnt THE greatest, so map quality is low, if you wish to make an HD varient (by that i mean just take the map, publish it as ZDAY HD) then by all means contact me if you can run it SC2 on ultra and I'll give you an unlocked version if you're interested in helping in making said map more detailed

if anyone is interested in playing it feel free to do so or add me and help test when I'm doing customs (since i can never get all 4 testers in the same lobby together) I'm still working on it even though the beta tag has been shed off it...

I'll also try to post some screens of the map itself in abit, finishing up a new wave type and adding a new enemy wave

[n00b1n8R]

Oh boy, another tower defense!
Why is this genre of custom map so popular?

[Bodzilla]

because they're addictive because you just get sooooooooo close.... then loose.

also on the BW the original tarpit defense map me and my little bro litterally got that good at it that me and him could take the place of 6 players, and not only win it, but when we got to the final endgame that would spawn units constantly untill you died..... we beat that.

took us like half an hour before we realized that the level wasn't supposed to be beaten, and we where just super leet.

[n00b1n8R]

Tower defense is the Starcraft equivalent of hugesnap in halo.

[sevlag]

Tower defense is the Starcraft equivalent of hugesnap in halo.and hugeass are the varients in which you control a hero and level him up to make him stronger...

also with Zday you'll need at least another player to stay alive the entire time

new addition(s):

Frenzy wave: the zerg have been riled up and are coming en mass to try and destroy you

Aberration wave: self explanitory

a third wave type that is more lethal than all the boss waves combined

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I experimented with a TPS style trigger set, but i scrapped it sine players focused on a given unit and forgot to make more...might reintroduce it

EDIT:

some screens from the map, one is its triggers where it shows how the map works (spoilered due to size)

overview of scoreboard and settings triggers

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Keyes/Zday/maptriggers.png


spawning example

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Keyes/Zday/waveling.png


Loading screen (trying to figure out how to resize text)

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Keyes/Zday/sc2b-20110513-095109.png


in-game

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Keyes/Zday/sc2b-20110513-095206.png


what happens when you kill things

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Keyes/Zday/sc2b-20110513-095248.png


the aberrations

http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Keyes/Zday/sc2b-20110513-095408.png


beacon destroyed

http://www.majhost.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3036342

[n00b1n8R]

Oh it's not a static tower thing? Can you micro? That's a lot better if you can.

[sevlag]

Oh it's not a static tower thing? Can you micro? That's a lot better if you can.
yes and no, the thing you have to defend is static, but most your defenses are not

while you can just make marines its fun to use the other units in other ways

some defenses are static (the bunker and the perdition turret)

but yeah its a good TD map for microing

if anyone DOES have an idea for a map that isnt a DoTA clone or another TD map tell me and ill try to make it work

[Bodzilla]

DIRTY TANK DEFENSE.

GOGOGOOOGOGOGo

[sevlag]

DIRTY TANK DEFENSE.

GOGOGOOOGOGOGo
how exactly would it work?

also if anyone is able to model (since I'm terrible at it) there is a plugin for 3DS max that allows you to export models in the format used in SC2

[Bodzilla]

google dirty tank defense.

that shit is addictive and awesome as hell.

[n00b1n8R]

DIRTY TANK DEFENSE.

GOGOGOOOGOGOGo
you sick puppy

[sevlag]

seems its already done in star craft

edit:

was in original SC and i dunno if it will get me banned since the map contains pornographic content (unless i do softcore porn)

[sevlag]

UPDATE:

aberrations health nerf to keep players from being overrun
ab wave appears later to give players a chance to beat the wave

final boss had his health increased to twice its previous amount
frenzy wave fixed

[Cortexian]

google dirty tank defense.

that shit is addictive and awesome as hell.
Impressive.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6414/dirtytankdefense.jpg

Most impressive.

[Bodzilla]

LOL

[Dwood]

++rep;