KF-Motel - 90% COMPLETE (She's a commin')

[maul]

Currently sick as a dog. But the third floor is underway, started decorating last night. Will be finished in a day or two. Then all I have to do is create the fourth floor, optimize it to shit, and make sure the map plays smoother than it looks with some testing...but that will be an Alpha. Most likely out at the end of this week and unto the plate of eager testers.

[Antigod]

Looking good, lets hope it works out the way you planned it, we definately need more quality maps.

[guedes]

Indeed.
Keep the good work man it looks realy cool =D

[maul]

Updated some screenies to show off some of my moody lighting achieved with a combination of clever light placement and distance fog. Its being constructed with 2.5 in mind so there will be some dark sections of which will not really be all that visible in screenshots. The best word for this map is 'dim' since the entire level is a sort of half-light that will make you feel very uncomfortable.
I am working on expanding the level to a small underground storage section to make it a little bit bigger, probably around the same size in terms of places to wander around as one of the default maps.
The centrepiece of the map however is the Hotel, and you will be spending the majority of your time in this building.
I also wanted to add more of a horror element to it than most custom maps in terms of frightening scenes within the geometry, similar to that of Manor or WestLondon where we see things that are generally just scary to look at.
You will behold such horrors as the insanity of Katiana, trading pieces of the killed Specimens for weapons to fight them with...a soldier torched to hideous mutilation upstairs, most probably by his own hand to prevent the Specimens from getting him, and perhaps even the owner of the Hotel dangling from the roof by a Noose. Hanging himself to escape the chaos.
A bus has smashed into the back wall of the Hotel, cracking open a large section of the wall and allowing escape from the first floor.
The malfunctioning elevator only travels to the first and third floors...making it a strategic item is regards to your survival.
I may also be making use of the 'Key' feature that is coming with 2.5 to ensure that access to certain doors in only possible after a little exploration, making the map slightly expansive in terms of how risky the players are.
All in all I think that this is going to be a beauty, and after 2.5 is out this map will follow shortly, which means sadly i can't complete it until then. However I will continue to work on it and put the finishing touches on it once the update of the mod is completed.

[Seras Victoria]

Sounds great all
I should go to work on my map again but I can't open it without crying over all the lost work

[maul]

My map has died. It refuses to open for me. I will send for help from Alex and if he cannot fix it then there is no fucking way this map will ever see the light of day. It is almightily depressing to get a map 95% done only to have some error make it inaccessible.
I am going to sulk for a while now.

[zombieButcher]

maul said:

ha. Yeah I guess great minds think alike,

Not to be a dick or anything but saying Robot and 'great mind' in one sentence is just hilarious.

[[AM]Echo 419]

Awwe bot isn't stupid just foreign To a point in which his sentences look kinda wacky to us....I think robot's foreign. Arent you?

[RoBoT]

echo419 said:

Awwe bot isn't stupid just foreign To a point in which his sentences look kinda wacky to us....I think robot's foreign. Arent you?

yeah i guess so... *nod*

[[AM]Echo 419]

Hey man its cool your like my favorite forum member

[Abyx]

echo419 said:

I think robot's foreign. Arent you?

Nice of you to state that this forum is predominately American to the point of calling someone 'foreign'.

A better thing to say might have been 'I don't think Robot's first language is English.'

[Alex]

I got the impression we had a fair few germans and Brits.

[kyben]

His location says Outer Space. I find that foreign.
BTW, how is it out there?

[maul]

yeah this forum is NOT predominately . American, there is higher ratio of what would be called 'foriegners' in here than Americans or any other country in particular. We are a multicultural place...just like Australia lol.

But yeah, I always love reading anything by Robot. Its such a charming brand of English that you have
Should come up with a name for Robots own version of English - Ringlish? Robotolish?
Personally I commend anyone who can speak more than one language even badly (except my ex-girlfriend who can die and burn in hell rofl) seeing as how I can't seem to learn...

[[AM]Echo 419]

Hey! To me he is foreign. To you guys he is foreign unless you belong to the same culture as he does. If you got the impression that I thought this forum is AMERICANIZED then excuse me. Sorry for the inconvenience I have caused.