calculatedChaos Gaming

calculatedChaos is sponsoring the latest TF2maps.net contest. This is very exciting as it will give up exposure in the mapping community and give up an opportunity to promote our community in tandem with the contest.

We have committed to donate:

• Peggle Complete
• Plants Vs. Zombies

You can read more about the contest here: http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=7009

This thread serves a few purposes. In addition to helping me keep track of all the contest entries, it gives us a place to talk about the contest in general.

I will be updating this post as the contest goes on with all the links you need to learn about all the contest entries.

ctf_panamint (Panamint Springs)
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Mr. Hanz
Status: a16






ctf_premuda
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Eerieone
Status: a7





plr_calore (Petrusite or Tharsis or Calore)
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Frazer "midget31394" Grant
Status: Planning

plr_panic
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Ravidge
Status: a9



ctf_codebreaker (Relay)
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: StoneFrog
Status: Planning

ctf_veritas
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Magical Potato
Status: a1a



ctf_vector
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Eric "Icarus" Wong
Status: b1





plr_strawberry
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Randdalf
Status: a1



ctf_flassault
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: SuperNerd
Status: a1



plr_thunderhead
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Jazz
Status: a4




ctf_buzwagi
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: ghouly
Status: a2_s1



plr_arctic
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Altaco
Status: a5



ctf_HAARP
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Dr. Spud
Status: b1




ctf_substratum
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: ChickenHunter
Status: Planning

plr_isotope
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: HeaH
Status: a1



plr_solitude
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: pitto
Status: a4



plr_scoville
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Void
Status: a7a



ctf_snowdrift
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Jonah
Status: b1






ctf_facade
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Owlruler
Status: a4_s1



plr_backwoods
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Drexen
Status: a3




ctf_montezuma
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: andysss456
Status: a5



plr_rawhide
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Don
Status: Planning

plr_expedition
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: kirbysamus
Status: a2



plr_animus
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Fearlezz
Status: a7

plr_nightfall
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Psy
Status: a11c




ctf_company
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: supertoaster
Status: Planning

plr_mesa_verde
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: TheBladeRoden
Status: a1_s1



plr_inez
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: supertoaster
Status: 9a




plr_highwind
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: bob+M|M+
Status: a1a



plr_cornfield
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: DaBeatzProject
Status: a6



plr_deadrun
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Vigilante212
Status: a6a

plr_eureka (eureka dunes)
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Nineaxis
Status: a1

plr_ascent
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Jamini
Status: a14

plr_powerplay
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Grimes
Status: a5b

ctf_olympiad
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: purequaternion
Status: planning

ctf_passing
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: >8< | Spider
Status: a12

ctf_Bayou
TF2Maps.net | calculatedChaos
Author: Chaopsychochick
Status: a10

still contemplating this. guess I better figure it out sooner than later.

I suppose since there are alot of ctf maps and I'm working on orient and plr might be good. As long as it doesn't have that dumb end ramp.
If I do I gotta decide style.
I have my forklift model, would be good to stack a bunch of explosives and a dispenser on.
So possibly a warehouse area.

I could use any ideas you guys have, anything you'd like to see, whatever.

You should use your castle skills to make a map where the goal a race to defend/destroy the castle.

Maybe the blue team has to push a barricade up to the door from the inside and the red team has to push the wooden horse or battering ram to the outside of the door. If red team wins, the door/castle explodes and if the blue team wins reds cart explodes wherever it is. The castle door would be in the middle of the map and there would have to be side routes for either team to flank the other.

There is a lot of cool things you can do with castles which I know you are capable of. Moats and stuff would be cool and it would set you apart from the other generic PLR maps I have seen thus far.

Gah, typing this makes me think this would make an awesome payload map but that second cart inside the castle is annoying. I still haven't seen anything amazing in PLR. Also, crossing the tracks = fail since the carts can get stuck on each other.

Thanks for the ideas. A battering ram into different parts of the castle would be cool as a PL I think.

I'm not sure, I don't really care for pipeline and everytime I really think about PLR... MEH. Can't actually say it excites me to think about.

Maybe a castle ctf would be best. I think the ctf maps will probably be more fun/popular anyway.

maybe 2 stages, 3 starts to get hard to fit into setting as I want to keep it simple.

stage 1: blu starts at back of small village, cap middle of village, then caps drawbridge.
stage 2: drawbridge lowers, blu caps courtyard, then has to push through and cap throne room. Don't really know what else to put in between.

that's 2 stages and 4 caps. Fits into contest rules I believe since they've been modified.

Yeah, I think PLR maps are going to be terrible for a while. The whole race thing is dumb. If people started to develop ideas where you pushing the cart actually has a goal beyond the 'race' I think it would be more widely accepted but as it stands now it is pretty meh.

Maybe the contest maps will change my mind. I am certainly open to a PLR map being fun and exciting, I just havn't seen it yet.

Could you remove ctf_drift from the list? It's basically an old version of snowdrift, that means they're not separate entries.

Thank you. I kinda figured that.