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    This week we are going super new, but still old school. UptightDM is a frantic paced DM wad made by Shane and possibly some others. Death won't stop for long in this pack!
     
    Date: Saturday, March 8th, 2013
    Euro Session: 20:00 GMT (15:00 EST)
    USA Session:  20:00 EST (1:00 GMT)
    WAD: Uptightdmv8.wad
    Maps: 10 (map01-map05, map06-10)
    Mode: 12-player Deathmatch
    Fraglimit: 50
    Server: IDL - Chicago / [NL] Funcrusher
     
     
    See you there!

Alright, I told you last night I would run through these, so here I go.

#1 ARGH MONSTERS

#2

map01: Soulsphere: the roof of that is hanging in mid-air; connect to something. BUT I'm not sure the execution of the soulsphere is all that great; a slower lift would be better. The speed of the lift right now makes it almost pointless to have a lift in the first place.

I don't recommend having the secret blue armour door there; remove the door and make it a green armour perhaps, because a BA and SS combo in such proximity is a recipe for total ownage, and a little unbalanced. In that same area, above the green slime pool, you have a ceiling of all metal-lights. Remove most of them; find a new flat to compliment that light instead of plastering it over the whole sector. Going outside, that single lamp post by the shotgun; find a way to stick it IN the wall, so it doesn't obstruct movement while still looking nice. Throughout the map there is a little too much energy ammo, cut down on it big time. The woodmet on the outside is a bit misaligned. HOW THE HECK DO YOU GET THE BFG?@?@ I like that little exit gate; I would recommend replacing the plasma pack with the BA and make the gate close a tiny bit faster. That would be a good balance.

map02: Lower that sky ceiling 16 units. Also, another light floating in mid-air! I'm not sure what kinds of dmflags you want on these maps, but those hanging corpses might get in the way if you use old doom height vs actual height. this seems like a cool map, I like this palette, it matches the map well.

map03: Pretty slick, change the BA to GA though. You like floating lights!

Map04: Interesting map. Too many plasma cells, but I like the teleport trick for the bfg.

map05: This one is a little more plain, but still has a nice touch. A BA with a berserk/plasma pack/backkpack altogether? Rebalance that!

map06: BFG will wreck shit on this map. You have some misalignments with the gray wall, but otherwise it's okay. A little linear, but not a style of map we see too often. I like it.

map07: lol get that chainsaw out of the way. For people like me who always use "always change weapon" that would piss me off to no end. Rofl @ exit, nice. The slime pool should be lined with a horizontal metal, not vertical, looks kinda odd. Cool bfg placement/get strategy.

map08: A ssg where the shotgun in front of the shotgun in front of the silver door would be a good placement. Try breaking those ceiling metal lights and staggering say 4 around the roof instead of side by side. Also, 2 floors you have going out of the pool roof need rethinking.

map09: Leave this, this is cool

map10: these ashwall stairs could be shaped a little more naturally. Lol rape cave with a plasma rifle. This map is really plain compared to the others, a little flat along the walls and open. Might be fun to play though. The elevator should not have metal ceiling lights as the platform!

That's all for now. Overall these look like fun maps, hopefully we can run these on nitro!

So once upon a time I made this map for an NS mapping contest. Never got used. It's not very NS. But I decided to quickly polish it and leave it kicking around. It is completely playable both OS and NS, so take your pick. It's in Boom format. All credits are in a text lump in the wad.

Suggestions, critiques, etc, welcome. Rustking gave me some great advice, Ivan took a look at it too.

http://speedy.sh/mNwCN/sacrifice1d.wad

Obligatory Screenshot:

http://i.imgur.com/PoWkuiI.png

We will try our best to keep the legacy going. Oda nitro was part of what brought me to odamex.

Thanks for all the time and effort that both you guys put into this!

For those who were unaware, AX has been reborn.

The member list has been updated in the first post to the best of my knowledge, hopefully this clears up some stuff!

New recruits are welcome, talk to either Soul or myself in #odamex

release already? should be fun I'll be there

Well, it has been in production for a year or so! I say it's high time for a release!

This will be great.

I present to you the latest velocity CTF beta, containing 28 maps! Some of these are still in layout only shape, but all are indeed playable, and I am really looking for some feedback on the layouts!

Notably this beta contains changes to the first 12 maps as well. Most of those changes are minor, such as texture changes, but the biggest differences are seen in map11 (new gate for the one way tele) and an overhaul of map10.

Give it a run, and see what you like, don't like, etc, and post up some feedback.

Currently the maplist sits at: 01-22, 24-28, 32. Obviously the rest of the maps are coming in, albeit slowly. However, if you wish to donate or contribute to this pack in anyway (detailer, new layout, new maps, etc), just post or drop into #mechanixunion and talk to somebody there.

Last and not least, http://speedy.sh/6s8BN/veloXbeta2.zip

Hopefully it "sucks less" than before!

I first heard of it from another couple users in ST, Eric and Kirbonium. I gave those versions a try, wasn't really impressed, being truly spoiled by ST at the time.

I came back to here at the tail end of 5.4 and really started playing at 5.6. 5.7 so far was my favourite version, even though I was probably the only person using it. I had a really good mouse setting but it got overwritten with 0.6 and now it's completely fucked :)