Sniper's City

As stated in the title, this is in fact a snipers map, but with a little twist. The standard snipers maps (from what I can tell) are just a bunch of boring maps with ghosts in them that shoot at each other (not that it's not fun or anything, I thought it was just a bit lacking). I thought that was a bit boring, so I made this map! Although it's a bit unfinished, it has some pretty snazzy effects in it that the classic snipers maps don't. For one, it has a shop. I've only seen a few snipers maps with shops, and they were all boring. This shop has everything from map revealing to death traps.

The setting of the map is supposed to be in a city that was abandoned, found many years in the future, and then used as an arena to hold marksmen tournaments. Because of the city setting, I though it would only be appropriate to include buildings that you can enter, and exit. I found a snazzy way to do this, and you'll have to play my game to find out.

I also implemented a 1 player feature that allows you to start the game with no players, and instead play against an army of computer snipers that can shoot through buildings. I don't know why they can, but then can, so watch out. I have yet to see another snipers map with a one player feature.

Regarding testing: I tested this thing myself in the one player mode, so if there are heaps of bugs that are unveiled while multiple people are playing, feel free to make note of such things on here, as they are quite important to me.

This is also my first map evar, so expect it to be novice in it's workings. I hope you like it!

As a side note, this map says all over it "Made by awoo." For the record, this map isn't stolen; I'M awoo. I have nooooo idea why I named myself c(O.Oc) on here, and I'm still trying to get mineral funds for a name change.

Edit:

New map! Fixed bugs. Only known bug is that the spike trap must be bought twice for it to work... (I don't know how to fix this...)

Here are the screen shot HTTPs because I can't get them to work on this blasted website.

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Post has been edited 5 time(s), last time on Feb 22 2012, 1:21 am by c(O.Oc).

Screeeeeeenshots!

Sounds great...me want screenshotz!!!

I'm going to give this one a try this weekend sometime. I'll let you know what's up, wish I could find some others to LAN up to help you even further.

Edit: I like where this's going.
I'd suggest a timer on the cloak system, I felt like a total cheater once I was cloaked.
The item system is well made and simple.
I was curious what the barracks was for though in the lower left corner.

If you need a test of your newest version, I'll gladly test it out.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 19 2012, 8:42 pm by Caedo.

Thanks for the positive feedback. Regarding your question about the barracks: The barracks do two things. One, they allow the carriers something to release their interceptors on so that the doors can be set. Two, they check if a player is in-game so they can respawn. If you want to know how it's done then just open the map and look at Player 8's triggers. It's not protected.

Also about the cloaks, I made it so that you can cloak once (normally) per life, for about three seconds. This is mainly (along with the temporary invincibility on respawn) for preventing spawn killing and camping although you can use it for sneak attacks.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Feb 22 2012, 1:03 am by c(O.Oc).

With the screenies, it looks good
Very clean
Excellent if it's your first map

Theorized problems that I can see is that you used up a lot of space just for those buildings. It might be better to do a "pseudo" building terrain rather than go all out and take massive space.
A good example would be Hazard Zone (can anyone find me the map file??) The map is too big to attach =_='

NVM.. Uploaded it for you: http://www.staredit.net/files/2516/

Very interesting map. Mine is only 128 x 128 though, so I couldn't really put in a whole bunch of big buildings.

I actually didn't use all that much space for the buildings either. The big ones only occupy the top left corner of the map. The rest of the map is a bunch of buildings from the isometric brush. It's a rather large map too, so it's difficult to play with three people or less in the beginning. Once the players start buying units from the shop and building things with the SCV then it gets a lot better and the large map size really helps the map from getting too cluttered.