papercoffee wrote:You mean ... All Hallows’ Eve ...right?
Or "Samhain" to some of us. The festival of the dead, where we pay tribute to our ancestors.
But for our purposes, the modern Americanised version is more suitable.
Horror comes in many forms, and a map-pack can allow scope for all tastes.
It often works better in SP games, because you can make the player feel more alone.
We can pretty much cover every horror genre going.
Loathsome has even given us bats, if you want to make something gothic or vampire-like.
We have slow and fast moving zombies. Intelligent ones and stupid ones.
Biter-fish make excellent piranha, but they also get over-looked.
We have various alien species, as bots and pawns.
We have reactive decorations, and destructible brushes (thanks Kelly).
there are even mods that make the decorations come to life and hunt you (truly freaky and very paranoia inducing).
We literally now have more gore coming out of our ears, than we know what to do with !
There are mods like "SoulHarvest" where you score by collecting the floating ghost of your opponents (I love this mod as it stops camping, if you want to score.)
We have relics that can be used, like the vampire relic that will lend them-selves to horror.
The power of a relic can be contained in whatever mesh/pickup you want.
Don't be too generous with the weaponry or ammo, so you force people to get up-close and personal.
Even something as basic as starting everyone in an arena with nothing but the Dual-blades from NW3.
We have had the kick, sword and chainsaw in Chaos for a long time, but they never get much use. Even the Grappling hook and Chaos Flak cannon can be used as melee weapons.
These weapons are ideal if you have limited ammo, but need to destroy some of the scenery in order to get to another area.
Or come up against a monster, you fancy a punch-up with.
A map-pack allows the scope for anything you please, whereas all the horror mods out there are always game-types or spawners, so they vary little during play.
I find the swarm zombies great fun in CTF maps, but suit modern real-world or non-alien maps.
With Gopostals Mall-Zombies variation, you can place groups of them where you wish.
The Evil-Dead series happily hopped back and forth through time, giving the freedom to mix zombies, monsters, shotguns and chainsaws (we have all of that).
How about something Jurassic ? The awesome dinosaurs by "Asgard" hardly ever get to play.
There is an alien-mode egg mutator, that lets you seed a map with things that will hatch-out.
The fixed v105 Predator and Spinner pack is also most excellent for adding hatching crawling biting horrors.
There are even scorpions and snakes if you want them.
Ultimately, when you put them into other game-types, they are not the "point" of the game (unless you score kills), they are just there to scare you and make trouble. However certain abilities mean you can "use" them, like the vampire and equilibrium relics.
Or you can just keep them between you and your enemy for a distraction and to "take the flak".
Using portals, you can create something bigger on the inside than the outside. Maybe you want to create an Escher nightmare and have people shooting at shadows and reflections.
Does this sound like an evil enough plan ?
