Weekly Update

Yes thats right, im going to do a weekly update from now on because things are going so good :)

Alright heres the news in brief then i shall make a section on each

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///Deathcatch Weekly Update///
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New maps/Map ideas
- Dc!_ArenaFloor_v1
- Dc!_LevelsofDoom
- Dc!_Acencion
- Dc!_Junkyard

New Concepts/Game content ideas
- Man Cannons
- Portal Gun
- New phys_prop usage
- Barrel Dispensers
- Logo

Other stuff
- Banned from school network
- New website coming soon

Next Week
- Concepts Galore: Screenshots, concept art etc.

Where to Start? well maps i guess seeing as it is at the top...

Dc!_Arenafloor is a tornament match based along the story of deathcatch, which we havent quite decided yet, we just know it is a leauge in which players shoot barrels and crap into each other and hope they don't get killed themselves... the map is quite small, has 3 floors the ground level play field, the spectator stand/observation post and the spawn basement, as for screenshots ill save 'em for when it really matters, the play floor is made up of the DC logo and is square shaped with 6 >Secrettttts<>Secret< xD
(Map and Concept by Zzzyax for Dc!_Arenafloor)

enough about arenafloor, more news to get through.. Levels of doom is a map that bowl made for me, it is a small tower complex with cliffs either side and a river running beneath, this map has a sort of gothic complex to it, lots of floors and stairs and there is a beatiful spiked pillar going through the middle... however no >Secrets<>Secret<)

Dc!_Acencion is only a concept map at the moment, but it revolves around >Secrets<>Secrets< are fun :P)

Dc!_Junkyard isn't going so well, legionaire was supposed to make it but having so many props in hammer made his pc crash (Yeah... we are making a junkyard... :P) if you think about it junkyard would be a great map, we need a concept artist really because none of the team at the moment are really very artistic except when it comes to making the maps...

Okay... so by now you are probably wandering what the >Secrets< are... well... i really don't want to tell you... but they were Borrowed from halo 3, not stolen, they are a differant design we just liked the style of them... thats right! The Man Cannon! i figured out how to make man cannons in hammer, for those of you who don't know what the halo 3 man cannon is, you aren't a really good gamer then are you... but anyways they are in some way shape or form a device that propells a player across a map to a certain point, in Dc!_arenafloors case they propell them up from the bottom catacomb to the floor above, with a little puddle for safe landing ;) when you play arenafloor you will love the man cannons, except for the tiny little glitch i can't get rid of... i won't bore you though (who even reads this... lol)

Short on the portal gun, basically i'm going to ask the ExitE team if i can borrow their version of the portal gun for the mod because several people suggested it should be used in the mod due to lack of bullet shooting guns.

New phys_props are in use thanks to bowl, instead of just using the traditional barrels and explosive barrels we are now using more things like sawblades, bricks and even CARS in some cases, well the cars part was actually legionaires idea.. but you know..

Barrel dispensers are a new contraption i will be adding to some maps, basically... they dispense phys_props, mainly barrels, i was thinking of doing it for bricks too... the way it would work is you have a hatch in the ceiling or wall, you press a switch which opens that, that then triggers the movement for the dispenser to come out to player level and you pinch its props, somehow they should respawn but im not sure how to do that yet... this is still in the concept stage

Logo! yes, we have an official logo! after much scribbling in my Deathpad (Notepad for deathcatch stuff, duh...) i decided it will be just the letters D and C with an ! on the end and a barrel inbetween the two ends of the C (Pics next week :P)

In other news, i was banned from the school network for using mozilla firefox... which im using right now, i didn't actually ask what was wrong with using firefox, i like it... but for some reason it's against school policy or something so they banned me...

New Website coming soon! aha... and im not lying, the url should be something like www.deathcatch.quitepointless.com/net/org i don't know what domain i am going to buy but the max for a .com is £8 a year which is alright for me to fork out, as for a host, all the best things in life are free, most likely 110mb the site is in the design process at the moment and will be accompanied by a new qpp site with intergrated forums for both, sadly you will have to remake any forum accounts, but it will be worth it, also i might add the mod zone, tutorial zone etc etc, everything the old qpp had and more! :D

So, to summarize, all is well and well is all, lots of pics next week and stay tuned really.

Adios for now, Zzzyax