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[Handepsilon]

Not sure if spooder would look at those maps and consider adding them but im sure some people from the discord would be interested

Stolen and I have given the verdict for the latest (or second latest) versions anyways.

[John Carver]

Updated Mechanized... again. This time i fixed one crutial script.

[John Carver]

And, most likely, it is the final version of Mechanized CHALLENGE, so, further changes will be made only if someone find bugs. Still, ill continue the work of this, but in form of a co-op, rather than challenge. Also ill try to actually make it lore friendly as much as possible. But some key fetures will remain, exept centurions and Yunru.
So, by the end, it will be two versions or this thing. And maybe ill make Outbreak more lore friednly too, by replacing units which are not exist by lore in the time period by thoose who actually exist.

Edited by John Carver, 25 October 2017 - 07:15 PM.

[John Carver]

Heres my new challenge. Ballistic challenge.

Set your oponents as Scorpion Cell at po. 3,4,5, optional color - lime. Disable naval combat.

I cant tell much about it, but that may be the top of my insanity of map making. Or not?

Spoiler

V3 - Tweaked units after 40-th minute, so they dont cause that much friendly fire at base.
Cleared path, added rocks, and all necesarry to block AI construction on the units path.

Attached Files

•  Ballistic Challenge v3.zip   112.37KB   202 downloads

Edited by John Carver, 31 October 2017 - 07:23 AM.

[NovaPlat]

I downloaded the Ballistic Challenge and tried to run it in spectator mode, and found something really, really interesting. 

 

Spoiler

I first set all AI difficulty to hard, and everything seems to work out just fine, but when the timer hits zero, guess what? The central AI built too many structures that they blocked the mineshaft, and those spawned units won't go anywhere. 

 

Then I set the enemy AI difficulty as easy, and found out the truly interesting thing: This is the first ever challenge that the challenger AI actually beat the enemies. And I saw a way to exploit the major "advantage" the enemy has.

[John Carver]

 Yeah, im guessing what youre talking about. I can put more fences or other stuff to block building there, and add more range to prevent this exploit.

Still, thanks

Im impressed.

Edited by John Carver, 31 October 2017 - 06:34 AM.

[John Carver]

Done, fixes made.

[Handepsilon]

Or you can add Base Blocker overlay or elevation

[NovaPlat]

Done, fixes made.

I have a question I wanted to ask you long before. In your Outbreak Challenge I see you using two soundtracks that did not appear in regular skirmish nor being published. How did you know their names? Also in your map all your triggers had the house "UnitedStates", while I could only set it to "Civilian" by default in my Final Alert 2. Did you... crack the mix protections or something? 

 

Btw, don't get me wrong - I have no desire to ask for a cracked mix by any means. I'm just curious how you did those things. 

Edited by NovaPlat, 01 November 2017 - 05:19 AM.

[yunru the gundealer]

you can rename the owners to UnitedStates by just double clicking the trigger owner and typing it in, as for the music stuff could be cracked mix or just asked around, i didn't even know there was custom music in the outbreak challenge, this is what i get for playing without sound

[Handepsilon]

He sets it up via Notepad. Maps are basically just ini file in different extension

[yunru the gundealer]

He sets it up via Notepad. Maps are basically just ini file in different extension

yeah, much better to just use notepad, the in-tool ini editor isn't useful at all i've found

though .maps are just .inis and .ini's are just .txt files but fancy, sounds like the start of a conspiracy theory

[NovaPlat]

I know that you can manually set house to anything, but why hassle if house "Civilian" can handle it all? I'm just curious about this "anomaly" and it looks to me that these lead to a cracked mix. 

[yunru the gundealer]

the MO challenge maps does the UnitedStates thing too, i think people just took after that, though heck if i know i only just got back into the game long after these fan maps started popping up

as for it being a "anomaly" i am sure its just a mix thing, i was just giving other ideas

[Handepsilon]

Because it sets to UnitedStates by default

 

Or America, for unedited FA2 (this may cause crashes)

 

The safest thing is probably to set it to Civilian, though

Edited by Handepsilon, 02 November 2017 - 04:38 AM.

[John Carver]

So, ive actually decided to release my beta cutsom covert mission. Instructions attached to txt file.

Also, dont mind the map render... just ignore it >.>

Have fun.

P.S - Some kind of theme for this line of events. As ill be making more later, one is Mechanized reverted to mission.

Attached Files

•  Mecha aftermath.zip   197.62KB   123 downloads

Edited by John Carver, 10 November 2017 - 05:21 PM.

[John Carver]

And ANOTHER challenge from me.

Players have the adwantage too, thats the first challenges of mine where players actually have something too. Instuctions included in txt file.

Attached Files

•  Clone Wars challenge.zip   58.59KB   142 downloads

Edited by John Carver, 11 November 2017 - 12:02 PM.

[Terminal Velocity]

 Doomsday.zip   253.49KB   305 downloads

Doomsday Challenge.

 

Yuri has captured the Sovied mining facility and started the development of nuclear weapons.He is using the stolen Topol-M launchers to deliver the payload.While the amount of enriched uranium in his possession is small, the situation may quickly go out of control if you don't act immediately.

 

Enemies: Epsilon HQ at locations 3,4,5.

 

Screeenshots:

Spoiler

 

ICBMs get stronger with every launch.

Destroying the Rocket Launchpads will award you with a few money crates.

Edited by Terminal Velocity, 26 February 2018 - 09:31 PM.

[Terminal Velocity]

And ANOTHER challenge from me.

Players have the advantage too, thats the first challenges of mine where players actually have something too. Instuctions included in txt file.

Also "adWantage" and bad "newa" in map briefing.

[John Carver]

Fixed.

Also, Doomsday have good thought behind it. Still, thru, thats not a replica of Ballistic, tho... as some people can assume.