I know everyone has been anxiously awaiting custom maps for CW2…. so have I. I’ve seen some amazing maps during the beta program and I believe they only just hint at what is to come. I’m in the final days before the next release, so we are very close.
I’ve been hard at work on the approval system for maps and this time around I have a more community oriented system in mind. The new map approval system allows me to designate “map moderators” who will have access to maps as the community uploads them. These moderators get to vote on these maps and over the course of a day the map will be approved or rejected based (in part or in whole) on the votes of the map moderators.
Initially I will be accepting a limited number of map moderators. The system will be new and I’ll have to limit access to around 10 people or so. But, if the system works out over time, I should be able to expand to a larger collection of people.
To even be eligible for becoming a map moderator, you have to have a forum account. Everything is tied to your forum account. I will initially be looking for people who have had forum accounts for a while and have been active and productive in the community. Don’t send me mail or anything… I will be hand picking the initial set of moderators. Over time, I will be looking to the forums for more moderators. So if you think you might be interested down the road, become a forum member and build up a good record of participation.
My hope is that this system will provide a neat system for approving maps and provide for community participation in the approval process. Both, I think, would be good things.
So, just to give you another idea of what might be coming with custom maps, here’s a little screen shot (map courtesy of MadMag). You can see a custom background image, custom creeper colors, custom tiles, and creative use of fields to create that little helicopter that flies around.
How exciting!!!!!!!! 😀
ok,now i have my custom maps…how i can use them?someone can explayn step by step?
cool..
Ugh. I read the first sentence. I thought the editor was out.
Are those smart cars?
Yeah.
Oh my god… i came..
Well its not much longer now.
i hope it with in a week 🙂
Less. Look at the last sentence in the first paragraph! Only a few days!
That’s one tough, SOB map to beat, BTW. 🙂
Incoming patch detected! ETA, when its done!
Really CobraKill (Won’t let me change >:(
Will this mean that just cuase my map isn’t great but it’s easy they won’t put it up?
Absolutely not. We intend to accept the vast majority of community maps. See this as a guideline.
If a 10-yo old kid looks at the map, there should not be anything on the map that his mother will be unhappy about.
In some cases, the odd 4-letter word will be acceptable, but in general bad language and bad images will be the major cause for rejection.
AWESOME!!! now i have something to do in my free time! (which before now was mostly being bored…)
I doubt it will be required to be hard, or even great to be put up. However, I imagine it will be required to at least be appropriate (whatever that means) and not copied from someone else. I personally will be making a simple *up-fighting* map initially, just to see how it works, since that blog post with it an an example, yet none of them were found in the campaign. Not complaining ofc, but I really want to try one.
Yeah I am cobra Kil now.
I agree with you on the up fighting. I just now it will probably be betas that are mods like KEES and Kith. Just some people might be just bad about the maps.
im guessing that all maps submitted will be allowed except those who are not appropriate, and if u cant figure out what that means, it means that it cant have sexual stuff in it.
great, Ive bern waiting for all this time, and now Ill be in Hawaii for the next two weeks.
I wonder if the *helicopter* will drop *bombs* at certain locations. That would be simple to do I imagine.
The Smart cars and the crossbeam antenna foundation is actually custom tiles.
I’m ready for it now clicking the update button 3 times a day.
@Bigbass199&
Yeah I know what it means I am not stupid
(Still Cobrakill and now it won’t let me reply/quote)
Stupid Computer!
@Grunaid
I thought that but then it just started sounding bad, depending on who was a mod. (I have someone inmind)
Hey Virgil, my PC had a hard-drive failure and I lost all my memory, so I was wondering if there was any way to get creeper world 2 back without re-buying it? Please respond.
i was thinking “hey why dont we put beried items COVERED by the dirt so u cant see them” mabey that’ll be a good update
And once you have dug up the whole map you will have nowhere to anchor reactors and beacons, so you won’t be able to play.
Not a good idea. Come to the forums to propose and discuss various suggestions.
plus moving terrain could be used for water pumps
and some cool changing tiles
Maybe, today? 🙂
Random request (I know it’s short notice too)
Can the keyboard shortcuts for the systems/weapons always be there and not just on hover. I’m still so used to CW1 I keep picking the wrong things.
😀
hey how long do u think it will come out/
what about some moving ground ?
and custom music?
Contact support@knucklecracker.com and give them as much information about your purchase as you can. Then they may be able to reissue your key.
thanks i’ll do just that.
well umm plz reply to my comments above cuz i really wanna know!!
this pleases me
oh btw heres a good update a treasure tracker! easy u can turn it on and off to search for treasures!
im gonna think of other things and ill be checking the blog every day. so keep on replying and ill get to it
“I’m in the final days before the next release, so we are very close.”
Come on, it has been 5 days!
“Days”, as everyone (should) know(s), can mean an arbitrary number of days from 2 days, to infinity days. So technically, your complaint is invalid. However, “days” is usually used to refer to some amount of time between 2 days and maybe 7 days. So I suppose that always saying it will be released “when it’s done” is the best move, so people stop getting their hopes up, and dont start planning, getting disappointed, etc.
i can`t wait!!!
how long do we have to wait?
Till its done 😀
plz reply for the treasure tracker and the hidden treasure ideas cuz i want them to be an update!
🙂
Hey ???, you can go to the forum and post in the cw2 suggestions topic and you’ll probably get a reply. People don’t like it when they spam the DEV blog with suggestions.
Ok i understand that this can take a lot of work but how much longer will this take?
I don’t want another person to tell just to wait i would like Virgil to respond thx.
The wait… IS OVER!!!!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY
thx
the actual map used in the picture here is quite difficult. once you can get your foothold in quickly its actually quite easy. as long as you don’t screw up. so save often is my advice.