1) I checked with Ferali before adding to this old thread. He said as it's my own thread and that it's specific to an ongoing project of mine, this wouldn't count as a necro-bump.
2) To bring it up to speed I'm re-posting the two posts I put in
Screenshots recently here. I'd delete them in that other thread if i knew how. There were actually 3 but one isn't so very necessary.
Overview:
I haven't made enough changes that this is inaccurate.
MH-FirstTry[SPG]/MH-2ndTry[EG] is a 16 room map, 2 levels with 8 rooms apiece, connected to a much lager 17th room where the bosses and the exit is. Each room has different monsters, minus the starting room which has a bunch of mega-healths, very few normal weapons to use on the map, and some form of variant redeemer.
The 1st level has two classes of Gasbags, one's called a Defendor. Brutes, Pupae/swapped them for Predators, Krall, Tentacles with unbelievable firepower, and mini-Warlords with a devestating attack. 2nd level is a bunch of the normal powerful creatures: Warlords, Queens, several kinds of Titans, and a bunch of the more normal sized easier to fight ones: Skaarj, Mercs, Slith, Flies, Mantas, etc.
1st level has creature factories with an unholy amount of production potential, 2nd level does not.
Boss room has 4 Mega-sized SkaarjAssassins with an attack so powerful you're barely in there the first few times before you're dead. Health amped up they can take several direct hits from the Ultima-Protos gun from NW2.
I've been trying to swap some monsters to make it a bit more challenging. The place I most often see this map online is on one of KillerBee's servers, which uses the NW2 package. The map is challenging but with that package fairly easy to beat. Though I don't use those weapons at home so much, I'm trying to make the map more challenging for someone who may be using those weapons.
Trick is not swapping too much and not putting in monsters that're too powerful.
Swapped the Predators for the Pupae as they're much faster and a lot more lethal. That and some basic weapons swaps because the ones that originally come with the default map just suck... at least for that kind of map setup.
Haven't messed with the bosses on the map because I don't wanna screw up the exit setup; not one of my strengths.
That's about where I'm at now... oh, and it has virtually no bot pathing. They don't stray much out of the first room.
Redeemers:
Given the size of the map I'm working on, distance between the start and the exit and all the monsters inbetween, it seemed necessary to have a powerful redeemer on the map that was other than the fairly crappy one that came from the original.
I had been going with my favorite, and am still sticking with it, the DeemerFireworks one:
I recently took one I picked up on another map I got a ways back.
Yeah, they're both not well skinned. I may not keep that second one, though.
It's called the UKBadBoy and it's either a rip-off on Ferali's Ultima-Protos or someone had a nearly identical idea. Granted, this version is a little more user friendly.
The Ultima-Protos takes about 5 seconds to charge, after you pull the trigger, before it fires. Might be a little less but that's close. The UKBadBoy doesn't have any charge time, it fires a projectile that explodes with the same effect as the Ultima-Protos.
It might be a little too powerful for my needs, though. At the moment it's resting at close to the end of the map, one room away from the teleport before the exit.
I'm attaching the UKBadBoy if anyone wants to take a look at it ·
http://www.mediafire.com/?nhys6dbke2h1jcu
EVILGRINS!
. Besides, you have the adventage (you edited more maps than me)
.... too difficult for me, laterz
