Hi, I wanted to toy with something different so I reopened a repository I haven't touched for the past 2 years. It's another map by newin, the guy who did the Urban Terror's contrib map named metro I already ported to Unvanquished under the Terminus name. Pronounce the map name “areacube”.
The lighting of the Area³ map looks to me less polished than the lighting of the Terminus one (newin made Terminus after Area³), but the map is a very nice one!
The story of this map fits well the unvanquished universe: it's an human laboratory station that got infested after some studied alien form broke its containment on zone 12.
Let's imagine what's happened:
A new life form was brought back from beyond the shoulder of Orion, it looked like an harmless rhizomatous plant at first, but workers discovered to their cost that this foreign organic form was carnivorous and walls were tragically repainted with blood and mildew.
A special force was sent on the Area³ station with a mission to clean-up everything and prevent a spread. Well, that's what was told officially. In fact the company that was operating the station wants to recover its intellectual property and soldiers are just disposable forces that will be sacrificed if there is no hope to bring back the data.
The map was ported from UrbanTerror (it was a contrib map). The map source is lost so I did the port the binary way using the Esquirel tool. Surfaces were marked as buildable, alien and human bases were added to the layout, some textures were fixed, a slight colorgrade was done to adjust the lighting etc.
There is three things I can't fix:
there is 3 ways between alien base and human base but tyrant can only use two of them. It can be seen as part of gameplay though, like vents for small aliens in other maps;
there is a slight wallwalking bug that allows the dretch to walk a bit above some walls and see behind the skybox at some places;
humans with jetpack can see behind the skybox at some places.
Download: map-area3_0.4.pk3
Source repository: github.com/InterstellarOasis/map-area3_src.dpkdir
The map is already playable on my [url=unv://gg.illwieckz.net:27960]gg.illwieckz.net { le frag courtois }[/url] server.
Some screenshots: