calculatedChaos Gaming

My first attempt at hammer, a simpler, more symmetrical version of the well known melee checkers.

If you're going to play checkers all the time, at least play on a less buggy and updated one!

Background: Thousands of years ago in Egypt, two kings would compete in a game called checkers, instead of using plastic discs they used real people on a gigantic checkered battlefield over a pit of spikes. The first one to claim the oasis in the middle becomes the champion.
Fast forward to the present time the souls of the Egyptians demanded a final round of checkers, so they summoned 9 of the best warriors in the world to their dimension to compete in checkers for the very last time...






Changes from the original melee checkers:
-Changed alot of textures
-Added new skybox
-Moved all entities (spawns, health pills, etc.) into the center of their blocks
-Players now burst into flames when falling off the map, the heat below is really hot!
-Made the map a little smaller to make it symmetrical
-Lowered the cap point for easier reach and less clumsy deaths
-Removed the support beams under the map, kinda pointless when the map is floating in the sky
-Added team colors to each teams spawn blocks
-lengthened the bottom skybox
-Added spectator camera, no more looking under the map!

Changes from V2:
-Added flat collisions on the floors for easy movement, jumping is a breeze!

Changes from V3:
-Brought back the jump pads! After 30 seconds of playtime, the pads activate.

Changes from V4:
-The Medic's crossbow is no longer useable, hooray!
-Added a sound indicator for when the jump pads activate
-Added soundscapes
-lowered the jump pad message for less distraction

Changes from V5:
-Tweaked the trigger_hurt, players now use their critical death sound when touching it
-Widened the trigger_hurt to also hurt players below it if for some ungodly reason someone went passed the trigger_hurt and lived
-Widened the before-round invisible wall to stop soldiers and demos from rocket jumping closer to the other teams starting blocks
-Tweaked the disabled weapons list to now remove useless weapons like the sapper or wrangler

Changes from V6:
-added more spectator cameras on each side of the map
-moved the spectator cameras to show more of the map

Changes from V7:
-reduced the capture point time

Changes from V8:
-Tweaked the preround wall
-added sounds for the jump pads

Changes from V9:
-Repositioned the info_player_starts
-added NAVs and NPC clips for the HHH (I have no idea if it'll work, I don't know how to spawn him)

Changes from V10:
-forgot to add cubemaps
-tweaked the NPC clips


Egonny made the map, I only edited it. He gave me permission to do so.

Download: http://filesmelt.com/dl/melee_checkers_ancient_v10.bsp

VMF: http://filesmelt.com/dl/melee_checkers_ancient_v10.vmf
Materials needed: http://user1.zhost.tk/textures/149/flowsky09.zip

heh. funny. this map could have a billion different themes.

i have to ask egonny one thing though. did you intentionally make it easy to get caught on the sides of the checkerboard squares while jumping? If not I think it would be a lot less irritating to just player clip them to be the same level as their individual borders.

Take what I say with a grain of salt though, because i don't play the map often.

Beetle wrote:heh. funny. this map could have a billion different themes.

i have to ask egonny one thing though. did you intentionally make it easy to get caught on the sides of the checkerboard squares while jumping? If not I think it would be a lot less irritating to just player clip them to be the same level as their individual borders.

Take what I say with a grain of salt though, because i don't play the map often.

It is purely made to irritate people .

Egonny wrote:

Beetle wrote:heh. funny. this map could have a billion different themes.

i have to ask egonny one thing though. did you intentionally make it easy to get caught on the sides of the checkerboard squares while jumping? If not I think it would be a lot less irritating to just player clip them to be the same level as their individual borders.

Take what I say with a grain of salt though, because i don't play the map often.

It is purely made to irritate people .

ok, just checking.

no jump pads?

spleenter wrote:no jump pads?

I wanted it to have more emphasis on "Melee" but If I get enough requests I'll bring back the jump pads.

CC should have a melee checkers map-making competition...after ccdorm of course.

Beetle wrote:CC should have a melee checkers map-making competition...after ccdorm of course.

Yes, because 10 melee_checkers maps are exactly what the funserver needs.

Egonny wrote:

Beetle wrote:CC should have a melee checkers map-making competition...after ccdorm of course.

Yes, because 10 melee_checkers maps are exactly what the funserver needs.

yes, because hundreds of versions of the same artpass map are what TF2 needs...o wait

You're okay with people mucking around with your map Egonny?

In that case, I'll see what I can do with it.

I just realized.

You posted this in customMaps map submission.

This probably isn't going on the mainserver.

PhrozenFlame wrote:I just realized.

You posted this in customMaps map submission.

This probably isn't going on the mainserver.

You realized that, but you forgot to realize funserver=custom maps server.

the asylum wrote:You're okay with people mucking around with your map Egonny?

In that case, I'll see what I can do with it.

I wouldn't say it's egonny's map. He just updated it the most.

My memory could be sketchy because I think I suggested this map.

again, sketchy.

How bout a meleecheckers where you can only use the ant jar?

If anyone was wondering about my almost-week long disappearance, My account got disabled because some asshole tried to hijack my account but I got it back now, hopefully this won't happen again.

Cheers.