Custom Map #1319: FPS: Ported Over. By: qople

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Author: qople
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[Shatterstep]

Clever and enjoyable. Took me a sec to realize that I could only create 2 portals. Very handy.

[knightace]

I'm literally just 20 seconds into the map; but I have to stop before finishing it. I just have to.

I love it! That little "jump" animation going into the portal; my god. The modding going into this mode is becoming really something...so creative! Well done. I'm going to have a blast finishing this map, I'm sure.

Okay now that high expectations have been set; off to have fun. Lol.

[mzimmer74]

Fantastic map, but I did run into a bug. I was on the last little island and, as usual, was using the auto-fire. I was switching to a different weapon and accidentally switched to the portal gun. By a complete fluke I managed to put two portals right by each other on the edge of a cliff. Unfortunately one of them was at my feet and it teleported me to the other one. However, I wasn't "on" the portal but on the edge of it, meaning that my body was right over the edge of the cliff. Due to that I couldn't move away and could never put a portal underneath me. I basically got into a no-win situation since the last item to pick up needed me to be closer to it to activate it. It's definitely not worth a huge look into, but thought I'd bring it to your attention. Thanks for a really fun map, even with the bug!

[InwardChaos]

Yet another great FPS map.

I had to retry the map twice due to getting insta-killed when stepping through a portal I thought was safe, but it wasn't.
Teleporting through the stargates drops the player outside of the stargate, which in both of my reset cases, was into a pool of creeper that drained my life before I could re-activate the portal.
I think that either give the player a few seconds of invulnerability after using a stargate to escape these sorts of situations, or implement the "select a destination" mode for 2-gate networks, so that the player has a chance to see where they are going to end up, and can abort if the destination is unsafe.

Other than that, I enjoyed my 3 playthroughs of this map.

[Qople]

Fantastic map, but I did run into a bug. I was on the last little island and, as usual, was using the auto-fire. I was switching to a different weapon and accidentally switched to the portal gun. By a complete fluke I managed to put two portals right by each other on the edge of a cliff. Unfortunately one of them was at my feet and it teleported me to the other one. However, I wasn't "on" the portal but on the edge of it, meaning that my body was right over the edge of the cliff. Due to that I couldn't move away and could never put a portal underneath me. I basically got into a no-win situation since the last item to pick up needed me to be closer to it to activate it. It's definitely not worth a huge look into, but thought I'd bring it to your attention. Thanks for a really fun map, even with the bug!

I forgot to mention it in the map, now that I think of it, but I added a way to manually respawn in case something like that happens. Hold down the Custom1 key (same as entering first person mode) for 5 seconds.

[Snicker]

Good, Smart, Fun. Dont know why, but I got a  little excited when I saw the gate on the void. Maybe its better not to walk on it. :}

[Durikkan]

I had to retry the map twice due to getting insta-killed when stepping through a portal I thought was safe, but it wasn't.

I'm guessing part of that may be due to the stash portals.  I probably should have had some sort of visual difference for those, but I wasn't expecting them to be in a map like this.  I am tempted to do a revamp patch/map for them now for some other things that have come up, so I'll add that to the list of considerations.   

Fun map, and I do appreciate that the portals let you choose when there's multiple destinations, I was expecting some sort of round robin system.   My only minor nitpick with this system is me accidentally going into a portal when fighting creeper, but that's mostly just me not being careful of my surroundings.  I did also go back because of another comment here and try to take the portal into the void and saw you made that impossible. 

[AgRecluse]

Another fun FPS map  ;D And the porters works so well! That animation is fantastic!

[knightace]

Okay; initial hype aside now, I beat this thing once using each weapon solo. Habit of mine with these maps it seems. Here are my thoughts.

First; this portal system is amazing for FPS maps. It opens up interesting terrain options - even possibly having portals disabled/enabled, scripting some to appear, or additional portals with 'X' texture to signify you can't travel them but creeper/AC can? Lots of possibilities. I think this animation and style should see further use. I think others in this thread have suggested good ideas for improvement. I'll add one more; when 'transporting'; either allow mouseover to highlight the portal connections, or auto-highlight the in-use portals connections. This way if you didn't already know you aren't scouring the map to find available options matching the color you chose manually.

Next; maybe I'm missing some explanation or reasoning...I couldn't seem to drop the portals a number of places that I thought I would be able to. In my testing it seemed the area had to be clear of creeper but that wasn't the only reason. For example on my 3rd run; I boldly tried to rush dropping a portal in the walled off high-creeper zone (south-west corner). No matter how much I cleared (all the way back to the green portal) I could not get a portal to be created. Yes; I like to do janky things. :) I was able to clear creep and drop a portal just south of the starting area and come in the backside that way; so I'm not sure what its limitations were.

[D0m0nik]

Best FPS yet! Very replayable thanks to the portals, so many options which makes for an intersting game.

[Qople]

Next; maybe I'm missing some explanation or reasoning...I couldn't seem to drop the portals a number of places that I thought I would be able to. In my testing it seemed the area had to be clear of creeper but that wasn't the only reason. For example on my 3rd run; I boldly tried to rush dropping a portal in the walled off high-creeper zone (south-west corner). No matter how much I cleared (all the way back to the green portal) I could not get a portal to be created. Yes; I like to do janky things. :) I was able to clear creep and drop a portal just south of the starting area and come in the backside that way; so I'm not sure what its limitations were.

The rules for placing the portals are just no creeper and flat ground. Maybe that's what you were missing? I know the portals can normally be built on uneven ground, but requiring it to be flat prevents a lot of edge cases with traveling through them.

[mzimmer74]

Fantastic map, but I did run into a bug. I was on the last little island and, as usual, was using the auto-fire. I was switching to a different weapon and accidentally switched to the portal gun. By a complete fluke I managed to put two portals right by each other on the edge of a cliff. Unfortunately one of them was at my feet and it teleported me to the other one. However, I wasn't "on" the portal but on the edge of it, meaning that my body was right over the edge of the cliff. Due to that I couldn't move away and could never put a portal underneath me. I basically got into a no-win situation since the last item to pick up needed me to be closer to it to activate it. It's definitely not worth a huge look into, but thought I'd bring it to your attention. Thanks for a really fun map, even with the bug!

I forgot to mention it in the map, now that I think of it, but I added a way to manually respawn in case something like that happens. Hold down the Custom1 key (same as entering first person mode) for 5 seconds.

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

[MrWizard]

Absolutely fantastic!

[mechi]

I have no idea how to play this map. No description ingame or forum. Read about a portal gun in above bug report but I cannot scroll to said weapon nor select using keys. I can get a sound when standing on number 4 gate but nothing else. What am I supposed to do? (edit: sleepy)