--Temple of Flesh-- by SnowCrash (SnowCrash@Dartmouth.EDU)
Ok, here it is. I'm finally finished. I've spent 10 months doing this and that to it, and I finally like it. What is it? It's 256 polygons of carnage. It's been optimized for the aliens. The hallways and staircases and elevators have all been tweaked to get them to flood down every corridor toward YOU! So don't spend too much time admiring the architecture.
This was originally desgined as a net map, and went through all of it's initial testing as a net map. Tweaked, rearranged, prefected. I then began added aliens, more aliens, now less aliens, tweak the map to get them to move around, wow, they're too hard to kill! Less aliens! Ok this is better but I still get killed in less than 5 minutes on NORMAL!
This map is not hard because of the number of aliens. The number of aliens is actually relatively low. It's that they can move around the level so quickly, and converge on you so quickly. You'll think that there's a lot of them, but every time you've got aliens all around you, keep in mind that you have almost every single alien in the level attacking you. If you recognize this, you'll realize that they aren't many aliens in the level. The trick is to keep moving, so they are constantly chasing you. Standing still will get you killed. You won't see them coming at you in a line you can just mow down, they'll be coming at you from 360 degrees around you, even from above. Move or Die.
There is one area, which I call the Cathedral, where you can set your self up in a defensive position, and hold it until you run out of ammo. See if you can find it. You'll love wading through the corpses as you leave to get more ammo.
TECHNICAL NOTES
Don't play a net game of this map with the aliens on. Maybe if you've all got 7500's over an Ethernet network, but for our 3 Q630's and 1 Q610 on AppleTalk, the game basically died.
SEND ME REPLAYS!
I love replays, so send me yours! Every one! Even if you get creamed! Solo and Net I want them all! Send them all to SnowCrash@Dartmouth.EDU! Stop reading this and go and make some replays!
