Spoiler alert!

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Man, people are playing this map like mad. A guy just messaged me on Youtube with a video showing what happens after Round 5. And yeah, that's ingame, lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLH4uRSCRM4

I'm glad people are enjoying the map.
Edited by MoooseGuy on Aug 26, 2012 at 10:41 PM

Yay, I'll see that soon
I'm on round 5, wave 3.

Yay,he fixed his problem!

Yeah, I just did ai_erase_all when the wave came, and its working fine now as far as I can see. I think it was the drones that caused it, since whenever I get hit by one halo exception's, so I skip any waves with them.

That's kind of weird.I get shot by Drones all the time while playing.

Pretty much all waves starting with Round 2 use drones. That means he's been skipping pretty much every wave...

Cheater alert!Cheater alert!

Really? I could've sworn I've only seen them in like 3 waves.
Anyways, using ai_erase_all doesn't kill everything. The phantoms that come in still drop more.

E:
I'm now on the hunter fun wave.
Time to see this "deathtroll" live.
E2:
Lol, I jumped down as the round started, the AI that dies is the arbiter.

Edited by haloextreme117 on Aug 27, 2012 at 12:19 AM

yeah bro, we freakin love this map :)

As the other developer I thought I'd go ahead and clear up and explain some of the issues you guys have been reporting.


Those of you have been reporting exceptions with the game please post here and let us know what you were doing in the map before it crashed. If there is enough people that report this issue we will look into it and fix it.



I did my absolute best to make the encounters to grow harder as the waves and rounds increased. About 1 AI was added to the mix every new wave. I'm glad the gameplay was good though :)



We had some problems with those to say the least, this was just about the best we could get them without breaking them again lol.



Which is why we suspended your lives for fun waves, if you don't like them call in the quarantine and get rid of them all with no live reduction.



There is 52 separate waves, but it doesn't end there, that 52'nd wave repeats forever.



While me and MoooseGuy agreed it was a good enough idea to keep in the map, we had significant troubles getting it to work properly. Sadly you will have to mash some keys in order to select the difficulty you want.



Interesting, I've never experienced that problem before, but I also think I have some of my graphical options turned off...



Initially, we thought it was a good idea for the power weapon to spawn before to help you out with the fun wave, but I see your point. And that health pack respawns after every couple of waves for you to go back and grab whenever you need it. You can get it via the random item orb too.



We actually took those tags directly from Lumoria Ep1. I'm not sure if you had the same problem there too, but any problems there will have transferred over here.



We probably should have, oh well...



I fealt needed to mix it up a little, add some spice, some extra flavor.



We're glad you enjoyed it. :)



As the creator of all of the encounters let me assure you that there is at least one drone for every wave after Round 2 except Round 3, Wave 4.

And good luck with the Round of Death, that wave was created to purposely end the game right there. You don't even want to know how many AI are placed.



Awesome, thank you very much.
Edited by Pepzee on Aug 27, 2012 at 12:45 AM

We did, lol. People just didn't read it.

Yeah I fixed the drones after Lumoria's first releases...

We displayed the one HUD-message telling people how to use it for 3 seconds in-between wave 1 and 2.

I meant making it more noticeable, as this probably the second time I've read it and I've tested this map way over 100 times.


Oh well, you win some and you loose most of them. If we do an update we'll make sure to grab them.
Edited by Pepzee on Aug 27, 2012 at 01:13 AM

It's hard to take into account every possible problem when testing it in a select crew. Nobody ever told us that the drones were exceptioning for them until Lone Warrior played the map. It's apparently an issue that only some people get lol.

Btw I think you guys should try to make a small SP mission in perhaps a similar delta halo style :o

Or how about a vehicular firefight? I once had plans for a similar firefight to this, except it was set on New Mombasa, and the panels could unlock stuff like Warthogs, tanks, etc. Unfortunately back then I didn't have a good BSP modeler yet D:

Due to time constrictions in my life, now and upcoming, I won't be able to make anything more of my own. However I will be helping people with their various projects.

Pepzee is right. You win some, you lose others. Its never possible to make things perfect for every person and circumstance out there. But hopefully we were able to make this a success for the larger portion of the playerbase.
Edited by MoooseGuy on Aug 27, 2012 at 01:29 AM

I am still not able to face my destiny.
Edited by ForgingFrog on Aug 27, 2012 at 02:16 AM

the rest of the panels are inside the building ... but you will die before you reach them because is off the limits lol... unless there's a way to walk inside without dying (without cheating )

It's really fun, but for the whole time I played it, not once have I seen a drone.

The Array is a lie.

I think you guys should make a single player level about the Headhunters.Succeed where I've failed.

Just get a cheap graphics card. The 520 is apparently better than the 9500GT, the card I'm using atm which achieves a common 60fps, rarely dropping.

http://www.dabs.com/products/evga-geforce-gt-520-810mhz-1gb-pci-express-hdmi-7TG0.html?q=520&src=16

Anyway, this map is awesome.

Almost got owned late in Round 1 against the two hunters though. I wasted a ton of ammo on their shields before realising that the shields actually functioned like shields as in Reach so I needed to shoot them in the back instead. Only issue with this is that they rarely charge. I had to jump about for a long time trying to get them to charge at me rather than shooting me with the irritating sounding guns/cannons.

Otherwise, this gets a 9/10. I might play again tomorrow and try to get to Round 3. I accidentally activated Quarantine in Round 2 forgetting that I had a teammate that isn't in shelter. So I lost my teammate and really did not want to play through Round 2 without the teammate that is likely extremely useful.

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Edited by Jaz on Aug 27, 2012 at 12:56 PM

Lol brah, you do know the teammate respawns after 20 seconds when killed...

He's not much good except for distractions.

After playing it I can say I think this is a revolutionary map. I've never seen this type of thing done before, and the only other map I've seen with infinite gameplay time was B40 firefight which was highly unpolished. This map is great.

Good work!

That "unpolished" map inspired the "revolutionary" panels thank you very much :-)
And its bull that it was "highly" unpolished lol. A few glitches due to the pre-existing BSP and then some, but not highly unpolished lmao :-)

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed firefight B40 and prior to the release of this map it was my favorite. But it didn't use many custom tags. it could've at least used a unique spartan for your partner and had different weapon tags.

I enjoyed many of the Firefight maps I've played in the past. Each had their cool features and styles. If it wasn't for my enjoyment of those maps, this would have never been made.

Appreciate the work people have done in the past.

I think he does appreciate the work people have done in the past. He's just noting that most firefight maps in the past are unpolished compared to modern standards and Firefight Descent.

I played the map and i realy enjoyed it. Nice bsp, nice encouteurs, nice tags, nice musics, awesome scripts ! Where do you get all your music ? :)

Thanks brah.
The music is all public domain that I found from around the web after many hours of scouring dark, dusty corners and crannies of the internetz. Thanks to Rerout, we got them compiled in a way that didn't exception the game after the first partition of the files.


Also guys, please support us for our future spin-off project and vote up!

http://www.moddb.com/mods/firefight-descent

Ho yeah i see thank you :) I will support you guys ! ;)

how many waves have the Round of Death D: i don't know it just say wave 1 and they never stop coming OMG D: lol

note:troll that scared me, I had the volume turned up and I thought that laughter was coming from outside my house hahahah XDDDD

Wow,I never made it past the 4th round.

So I finally found the health pack lol. I have to say it's rather poorly placed tbh. It's barely noticeable against the wall with that green light shining on it. Plus you have to jump to get it. Basically I only ever found it after knowing where it was by reading about it here.

Furthermore I have found a rather fool-proof tactic now. Just take an assault rifle and one scoped rifle, and camp at the turret. When a new wave starts just hide behind the cover and take out the drones. Then aim for the carbine infantry. After that most things can easily be taken out with the turret since enemies rarely ever charge you up there. If you ever get stuck on the map between fetching ammo, just camp in the green tunnels. Nothing can attack you in there which imo makes it too easy.

I also want to say that I don't find the spawn-point to be particularly well built or supplied. Most of my deaths were a result of being swarmed+spawn-killed in that low-cover structure after I had died a "legit" way. I think this could have been resolved by setting the spawn point further away from the action or enlarging the spawn structure, and providing at least one "safe" room where no enemies can enter or shoot you (however they could shoot you if you'd open its door for example).

The teammate is also a little underwhelming I find, he often gets stuck in the green tunnel and just isn't much more than a distraction. I personally prefer to have teammates that can do some real damage but spawn less often, as opposed to a frequently spawning teammate that just sprays his gun a bit.

Just some things to think about for future work. I still like the map of course, oh and nice credits billboard :-)
Edited by TM_updates on Aug 30, 2012 at 01:57 PM

Another fairly good tactic is to wait near the grav lift and throw a grenade like 1 second before enemies land on the lift.