Cat and Mouse Highway!
Brought to you by: Cerorec
Map Style: Custom UMS
Category: Cat and Mouse
Size: 1,150 KB
Players: 7
Tileset: Badlands
Dimensions: 128x128
Latest Version: 2.5
Version Date: August 1, 2020
Player Forces: Players 1-6 are Mouse when Player 8 is Cat (optional). If there is no Player 8, the game randomizes one of the remaining Players 1-6 to be Cat. Player 7 is Neutral. A full house yields 6v1, 6 Mouse Players vs 1 Cat Player.
1.0 Version: 1.0
Release Date: June 2, 2018
First Version: A.1 (Alpha.1)
Release Date: September 4, 2017
(Updated post on August 2, 2020)
Map Description:
The War between Cats and Mice still continues...
Many battles have been fought: in Jungle, Winter, Desert, even in Space...
But now, the battle takes place near an 8-Lane Highway!!!
THE STORY:
Countless seasons have passed since the cats and mice first waged war. First it was Space, then it was Jungle, Winter, Ore Wars, Fireworld, Desert, City, Pylon, and many other places too many to name. Now, the times have changed. Fewer and fewer cats and mice battles are being fought, maybe because they are getting sick of fighting each other knowing that there are seemlingly endless amounts of them. Either way nowadays, some battles are fought, mainly in Jungle, but a new battleground has emerged! Partly because the cats and mice want a new map to settle their dispute. That is... the 8-Lane Highway! Or Freeway where ever you're from. This time, the Cats and Mice can use the advantage of the Highway to fight each other and perhaps... END THE WAR ONCE AND FOR ALL!
HOW TO PLAY (Short):
- This is just like you average CnM map, but with a twist: The Highway!
- The highway is where cars (Flying units, Neutral Player 7) come and go... and instantly kill anything in its path wtihout stopping!
- This includes all units from Mice, and all units from Cats! So be careful when crossing the highway!
- The highway splits the battleground into two play areas, Top and Bottom!
- If a Mouse dies at Top, the Mouse will be held captured at Top! Same with Bottom!
- So if a Mouse from Bottom wants to save a Mouse from Top, then the Mouse will have to either cross the highway, or buy 800 minerals to save everyone on one side, Top or Bottom! (which can be bought more)
- Because the highway instant kills anything, the Cats have 9 Lives! (9 Cats)
- And Cat Player starts out always with 2 Cats anytime! (1200 HP each)
- If the Cats lose all their lives and Cats, the Cat Player lose!
- But if the Cats catch all the Mice, the Mice Team lose!
- When a Cat catches a Mouse, the Cat Player will receive 1 Gas!
- The Gas is used to buy units from bottom!
- Or the Cat Player can convert 1 Gas into 100 Minerals! and vice versa!
- Cats have spells and upgrades! Which both cost minerals!
- Overtime, the Cat Player receives minerals.
- And there is feeding for Cats! You can see the whole feeding list in the Mission Objectives!
- On top of this, 10 kills for Cats = 20 minerals!
- So Mice, be careful how much you build!
- Also, there are bonuses in the game! Like saving gives you 100 minerals!
- And crystals may appear in the middle of the highway that gives 50-500 minerals! (Cats included)
- Be sure to use the Highway as an asset to winning! It may even turn the tides if one side is losing...
CREDITS (Also in Mission Briefing):
Car Crash Sound "Car Crash" (Edited by Cerorec): https://freesound.org/people/squareal/sounds/237375/ by squareal
Car Beep Sound "Car Hooter SFX.wav" (Edited by Cerorec): https://freesound.org/people/KamilNaidoo23/sounds/327417/ by KamilNaidoo23
Car Racing Sound "Drag Racing 2.wav" (Edited by Cerorec): https://freesound.org/people/squashy555/sounds/238835/ by squashy555
Killing Splat Sound "SZ_Squish_13.wav" (Edited by Cerorec, mixed into Car Crash Sound): https://freesound.org/people/PaulMorek/sounds/196724/ by PaulMorek
GTFO Sound "GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE! Sound Effect" (Ripped and Edited by Cerorec): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkMMTVsqOxc by 4chan Stuff
Starcraft Sound by: Blizzard
Special Thanks to verssuss for showing me how to make Choosers go-through! (V1.6 and up)
Other than that, Map Design and Triggers by: Yours, truly... CEROREC!
Previous Alpha and Beta versions in one Zip: http://www.mediafire.com/file/tk7110lr4zhv371/CnM+Highway+AlphaBeta.zip
Thanks to all my testers and players!
**All the text above is almost the exact same text I posted on SC Nibbits, which I uploaded the map already!**
Previous Versions (1.0 to 2.4EC): http://www.mediafire.com/file/xp9ivlfebmv44ph/CnM_Highway.7z/file
In addition to SC Nibbits, I uploaded the map already to Staredit.net!
which you can...
DOWNLOAD -> HERE
IN ADDITION! I'll attached the map to this post! So there are 3+ ways to download this map!
SCREENSHOTS AND MORE GAMEPLAY EXPLANATIONS:
DA GAME
TRIGGER SYSTEMS THIS MAP HAS:
This map has... (from V1.1 and up)
- Optional Cat System: Just like popular CnM maps like CnM Jungle edited by beBoy, this system randomizes a player to be Cat when there isn't a Player 8 Cat, and the rest Mice.
- Anti-Backstabbing System: This is where the game does something when a Mouse kills another Mouse. In early game (elapsed time of at most 399 game seconds), the backstabber Mouse gets banned instantly, all units converted to the backstabbee (included Mouse), and end game. In later game (at least 400 game seconds), the backstabber Mouse gets a 2nd Chance, and the backstabbee is spawned in the middle of the Highway invincible for some time. If the backstabber backstabs a Mouse again, the same scenario happens like the early game, banned, converted, and end game.
- Anti-Early Cat Leaving System: This prevents the game from ending early when a troll Cat Player leaves the game when the game starts. This is only active during the countdown timer stage where Cats and Mice have to choose an area. After this time, if the Cat Player leaves when the Cats are in the battle field, the game will end, leaving the Mice to win the game. So, what happens is that if a Cat Player leaves early, the game will randomize another player from Mice side to be Cat, removing all of the Mice units of that chosen player and created the Cats units. This will continue until there is 1 Player left.
- Stacking System for Mice: The Mice can stack! Which means they can "turn the lights out" and start "stacking" buildings on top of each other!
- Banning System: The Mice team can ban a Mouse! But it takes three Mouse to ban!
- Bonus Crystal System: Every now and then, a crystal (Khalis, Khaydarin, or Uraj) will appear randomly in the center of the Highway for bonus minerals. The Mouse Player will have to play frogger and CnM Crystal Wars to obtain bonus minerals from the crystal. The Cat Player can obtain bonuses from these crystals too, just by touching them! The Khalis gives 50 minerals to a Mouse, 25 to Cats, Khaydarin gives 200 to a Mouse, 100 to Cats, and 500 to a Mouse, 250 to Cats! As of V1.1. The reason why I added something like this to the game was because I wanted more interesting interactivity with the players and the Highway.
- Cat Feeding System: The Cats can get fed from certain units from Mice! The full feeding list can be found in the Mission Objectives... and here!
10 kills of any unit = 20 Min
Grand Cheese / Flying Cheese = 10 Min
Hard Cheese = 35 Min
Hardest Cheese = 70 Min
Space Cheese = 150 Min
Hard Mouse Hole = 20 Min
In Addition to this list, A Mouse feeds Cats 1 Gas, and 25 Minerals!
(However there are a limit to some of these. If the Cats go past the limit, the Cats won't be rewarded, but that will take very long and lots of killing pass normal...) - AFK/Observer Mode: (V2.5): Made this system much better now! You can go AFK/Observer Mode when you have 1 Mouse on the battlefield or captured! AFK/Observer Mode now activates on its own when you are afk to prevent you from getting pwnt by Cat! (mostly...) To activate/deactivate AFK/Observer Mode, take your Chooser (Dark Templar) to your Flying Cocoon at Banner Area.
- And Possibly More that I couldn't think of yet!
MY STORY:
After Blizzard's revival of the Starcraft Brood War game with their 1.18 patch release, I came back to Starcraft last year in 2017 and started re living the past and nostalgia. It was absolutely nostalgic and surreal that a company would go back to their 1998 game, work on remastering it, and revive the community. A large community, well not too large, came after, and Cat and Mouse became relevant again. People were gaming Cat and Mouse, and USWest and USEast became alive again, which died some time ago when virtually 0 people were on. This even caught the attention of beBoy, who also updated his CnM Jungle map in his forums, and me also, who was a big advocate and enthusiast of Cat and Mouse back in the day who played pretty much Cat and Mouse mostly in Starcraft, even today. So, sometime during Summer 2017 I started playing a bunch of rare and obscure Cat and Mouse maps, and many were actually unplayable and broken, which I ended up fixing. This lead me to "editing" and enhancing some Cat and Mouse Maps, and the biggest one was Cat and Mouse City by GuthixWarrior with my VX1.0, which can be found on SC Nibbits. I was a map maker before. In 2009 I created Cat and Mouse Winter Maze under the name Wizzmarine, which nobody knew that I, Cerorec who hosted it, created the game, until now. After Blizzard's release of Remastered, the great programming abilities that I've learned, the encouragement from other new 2017 CnM maps out there that were released like Lifebot's CnM Legends, and the great reception I had of my edits, I was extremely compelled to make another Cat and Mouse map from scratch, as it was fun to do and I wanted to make a new CnM Map for Remastered. Now, there were hundreds of Cat and Mouse versions out there believe it or not, and I didn't want to make another generic same ol CnM Map, but something a little different than the rest. One that came to my mind was, "How about Cat and Mouse in the Highway?" And so the project began in Late Summer of 2017, where it took me a month to finish (breaks included) and release version Alpha.1 on September 4, 2017. I quickly worked my way up to Beta couples days later up to Beta.8 in September 10, 2017, then I quit playing for awhile because School came in, more specifically I was back in University on September 1. Working on my map was really time consuming, brain consuming, so I wanted to take a break from that and focus my mind else where to like school, and it was not until after spring semester of 2018 I came back to Starcraft this summer 2018 and started working on my Beta.8, to Beta.9, 9b, 9c, 9d, and finally... V1.0 and V1.1. So there you have it, Cat and Mouse Highway, by me Cerorec.
CHANGE LOG:
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