[Map] Snowtorn Cove

[Arteen]

Map: Snowtorn Cove
Download:
Halomaps.org (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=2194)
arteen.modhalo.net (http://arteen.modhalo.net/snowtorn_cove.rar)
Mirror thanks to Nic (http://www.halomoddingsite.com/maps/snowtorn_cove.rar)
Mirror thanks to L33T (http://www.hackhalo.org/l33t/files/maps/snowtorn_cove.rar)
Mirror thanks to bacon (http://www.clanlulz.info/stuff/snowtorn_cove.rar)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v248/Arteen/zstc_052.jpg



Map: Snowtorn Cove
Author: Arteen and Schwinnz

Winter sets in the canyons near a wartorn cove.

Snowtorn Cove is the snow-themed variant of the Wartorn Cove series of maps. This map has numerous symmetric and asymmetric elements. Each side of the map is different. The red side features winding canyons through tunnels and over bridges. The blue side features a large, ice-covered bridge between wide cliffs. The center of the map features a frozen cove.

Changes from previous iterations of Wartorn Cove:
-The map is snow-themed, with ice, snow, frozen tunnels, and falling snow
-The cove is now frozen in ice, with patches of ice throughout the map
-The bridges and bases are remodeled to resemble structures in Assault on the Control Room, Sidewinder, and Ice Fields
-The exits to the teleporters are now placed in caves, raised above the ground to prevent easy access for campers; the caves have three exits: one to a raised platform in the center, one back behind the caves, and one exiting out towards the beach
-One snow Warthog at each base
-customized player biped
-modified weapon and scenery placement
~while in devmode, object_destroy 1-6 to remove barriers in front of tunnels
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Special Thanks:
~Bungie and Gearbox for Halo: Custom Edition
~Schwinnz for creating one of the greatest CE maps ever, along with giving me permission to make STC
~MastaCheefa for the original idea for the map, and for providing the bsp
~TheGhost and et_cg for some early help with the texturing
~Lightning, [gx]Shadow, and KiLLa for the Snow Warthog
~Tiamat for some of the tags from his ncyborg
~H2CE for the flag bases
~SunnySharma for the AR/Flag fix
~SteelixB for HEK Plus
~Jahrain and FireScythe for the bsp and bitmap tag converter
~CMT, Bacon, Rosco, and Phil for miscellaneous
~Wave of Lag for forcing me to learn UV unwrap
~All the numerous beta testers who took the time to test STC and give their feedback

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Center area

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Near each base

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At each base

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Blue side

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Red side

[Atty]

I had a server up. It was fun.

Good job Arteen :).

[Timo]

Awesome job Arteen, it's amazing. :)

[Rosco]

Great job Arteen!

It was pleasure testing for you :)

[[gx]Shadow]

The map is awesome, thanks for putting my snowhog in :D

[Elite Killa]

Awesome, Arteen! You rock! :)

[Arteen]

Thanks. :)

HaloMaps.org is now hosting the file (http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=3&fid=2194)

[Agamemnon]

Excuse me if I come off as offensive, but is there any real difference besides this map being recycled with a snow setting? Once again, not trying to start something here.

[Arteen]

Excuse me if I come off as offensive, but is there any real difference besides this map being recycled with a snow setting? Once again, not trying to start something here.
Frozen ice in the center with patches of ice around the map
Teleporter exits are now in raised caves to prevent camping
Snowhog
The base designs are slightly different; The distance between the flag room and the room above it is less, so players can safely jump down; The bases aren't open on the front, but on the sides; The ramps to the upper floor of the bases aren't in the front of the base, but on the sides, with one in a tunnel and the other on a ramp along the cliff
Altered weapon and scenery layouts
Some æsthetic changes do have some impact on the gameplay, like the Sidewinder-esque steps to the center area; the ice and ice patches; the larger amount of room on the Shade platform on the red side
More ladders
No red side flag-through-tunnel exploit; no more sliding down the tree by the red side bridge near the center
Unlike in WTC4, the RHogs work and the GHogs are absent from the map
Unlike in WTC4, the portals actually work
It's so pretty it can distract your enemies?

[Agamemnon]

Alright then. I'll download it and see for myself.

[Elite Killa]

What was the modified weapon that you mentioned in the Readme, Arteen?

[Arteen]

What was the modified weapon that you mentioned in the Readme, Arteen?
Parsing error?
"Changes from previous iterations of Wartorn Cove... modified weapon and scenery placement..."
The placement of the weapons and scenery has been changed from that of previous iterations of Wartorn Cove. The weapons themselves have not been modified. Sorry for any confusion.

[TheGhost]

This is awesome. I'm going to get into CE now, and I hope there's a server up. =)

[Elite Killa]

Parsing error?
"Changes from previous iterations of Wartorn Cove... modified weapon and scenery placement..."
The placement of the weapons and scenery has been changed from that of previous iterations of Wartorn Cove. The weapons themselves have not been modified. Sorry for any confusion.

Oh...

I guess I read it wrong.

And it's ok for the confusion.

the flood gun rocks

[tj117]

guess what i found...:rolleyes:

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4504/hamq4.th.jpg (http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hamq4.jpg)

Video of how to get to it is comeing soon if wanted. (not very good, concidering how fraps makes halo go REALLY slow)

[BobtheGreatII]

Barrior to easy to get by. Cool secret room. P.S. If thats the only thing you found you need to look around more.

[Arteen]

guess what i found...:rolleyes:

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4504/hamq4.th.jpg (http://img222.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hamq4.jpg)

Video of how to get to it is comeing soon if wanted. (not very good, concidering how fraps makes halo go REALLY slow)
Ooh, someone actually found it. =)


P.S. If thats the only thing you found you need to look around more.I wouldn't quite call the things in the secret room a secret. They are blocked off, but not hidden. The sign is actually hidden.


Barrior to easy to get by.
Which barrier?

[rossmum]

I get cut off from teh interwebs for 2 weeks and look what I miss. >_>

Awesome, though I clearly deserve mad props for telling you to use the shader fixes :p

[StankBacon]

it's so pretty it can distract your enemies?

LOL, thats true :)

[tj117]

Which barrier?

I think he is talking about the doors that block off the secret room thing...



PS i like the dancing snowman:D

[hamarskald]

Another big change over other versions of Wartorn Cove is that this one actually supports Race, and very well. The only other version that supports Race is the SVC version and that one doesn't do it as well.

An excellent version of Wartorn Cove and a great race map.

Hamar Skald

[Timo]

http://xs108.xs.to/xs108/06451/pano.jpg

[WhÎþLå§h ÐÆmØÑ]

Shot tags Timo...

[Timo]

But now it's all squashed :(

[WhÎþLå§h ÐÆmØÑ]

But you can click it, so it isn't squashed. It won't kill yah. ;)

[~ZMT~Trace]

PS i like the dancing snowman:D

me too, i call him snowy. he tells me to make (a) big laggy flood army(-y+ies)

[StankBacon]

i <3 my snowman.

:D

[Rosco]

Nice picture, Timo, I'm really impressed in how you present your pictures :)

[thehoodedsmack]

pa-pa-pa-panorama-do-danna-fo-fanna (banana?)

Love the pic, Timo.

[Timo]

Thanks guys :)

[Nic]

Oh man, you do have a talent for pana's dont you?

Anyways, i love playing this map, infact its my favorite map right now.

I love the wartorn cove series =]. Thanks for the great addition :leet:

OSHI: we dont have :leet:?
=[

[Bad Waffle]

Probably because it was always overused by noobs.

[Arteen]

http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/images/smilies/gbxleet.gif

[finalcuthalo]

im liking this better than wartorn cove 4

Don't bump no mater how much you want to get into the CMT beta.

[MasterChief2829]

Looks Awesome! Got my download. ;)

[dinonid]

Good map. =)

[Meatshield007]

I just saw this map. Downloading it now. Is this the one Dennis made the Christmas special on?

[Arteen]

Thanks!

I just saw this map. Downloading it now. Is this the one Dennis made the Christmas special on?
Yes it is, except the one I sent him for the special is slightly modified from this one.

[Meatshield007]

Ah. Fun. :o .... I can't find where I downloaded it to. B) *Redownloads*

[AiRgUItaR901]

Looks absolutely amazing! Downloading now and definitely going to play later!

[n00b1n8R]

it's an awesome map that plays like a bungie original.

the one thing that annoys me is that it seems that nobody plays it. i saw alot of players prior to new years, but it seems to have gone :(

is it because the whole Christmas thing is gone? wtf? it's summer in Australia and every ausy player i talk to likes it.
GTFO it or GTFO of the community (and put it back on the servers on your way out)

NOOB1N8R HAS SPOKEN.

[Pooky]

If you look, there are a lot of really great maps that get ignored. Immure2 and Portent generated about a week's worth of interest before people went back to Blood Gulch and coldsnap

[n00b1n8R]

If you look, there are a lot of really great maps that get ignored. Immure2 and Portent generated about a week's worth of interest before people went back to Blood Gulch and coldsnap

da.
daa.
DAAA!

i wish the general population actually had some taste.. IF YOU WANA PLAY GULCH, THEN GO PLAY PC, YOU DON'T NEED CE.

and the reason maps like cold snap and such become so popular is because lots of servers host them. if we could get some big servers to only play a certain list that many respected members of the community have agreed are good maps, it would improve the game quite abit. (and hopefully, some new people will start playing the game and won't be all "Z0MG HOOJ AZ IS TEH ROX0RZ!!!ELEVEN111!!!)

n00b out

[Varmint260]

I agree that there are many maps that just DON'T get the recognition that they deserve. This map is awesome, but there just aren't enough players for it. Oh well.

In any case, great job on this map! Maybe there's a server playing it currently. I can always dream. *Goes on HaloCE*

[Pooky]

da.
daa.
DAAA!

i wish the general population actually had some taste.. IF YOU WANA PLAY GULCH, THEN GO PLAY PC, YOU DON'T NEED CE.

and the reason maps like cold snap and such become so popular is because lots of servers host them. if we could get some big servers to only play a certain list that many respected members of the community have agreed are good maps, it would improve the game quite abit. (and hopefully, some new people will start playing the game and won't be all "Z0MG HOOJ AZ IS TEH ROX0RZ!!!ELEVEN111!!!)

n00b out

There's the halomaps.org 3 map server running now. I believe it's currently on Mystic Classic, cliffhanger and Seige. You could always suggest some maps for it to run http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?pg=61
there

[n00b1n8R]

yes, i know about the halomaps server (since that's my homepage and all). the trouble is that hardly anyone plays on it because they don't want to get the maps to play 1 server (lazy bastards).

but atleast dennis has taste..
n00b out

[Pooky]

<.<

I played on that server for 4 hours straight once and it was full the whole time

[n00b1n8R]

lol, mb when you play (i'm guessing your in America). but not a my normal gaming time (TBH the best time i find to play if your looking for lots of players is around 7am where i live...
actually, i think i'll go and play now! (or after breakfast)

n00b out

[Elite Killa]

Ok, this thread is getting really off topic. Either close this thread or get back on topic!

btw, I still love this map! :)

[n00b1n8R]

this map is best.

that good enough for you?

[THEdarkLord]

ya,ppl don't like it because their n00bs,
they h8 it only because the venture is gone,


d4mn those n00bs...

[~ZMT~Trace]

ya,ppl don't like it because their n00bs,
they h8 it only because the venture is gone,


d4mn those n00bs...

right....

this map is too under played :(