VCTF-DG-Arctika

by David R. Green
Unreal Tournament 2004 map #9

A thousand years after the third world war, the nuclear winter continued to snow its judgement onto mankind for his grievous sins.  Most of the earth's continents were destroyed and fell into the seas.  The chunks of land that remained suffered a harsh frozen climate, barely able to sustain humans.  The few survivors of the war battled over what land remained. Welcome to the new continent of Arctika...

In the Top-Five Downloads on FileFront in October 2006.

Description	Vehicle capture the flag in a realistic winter environment.
Design	A strong environmental goal with realistic terrain and plenty of atmosphere. Part of the design goal in this map was to create a lot of custom futuristic staticmeshes for the team bases to give them a fresh new look.
Features	- plenty of custom scripts, sounds, staticmeshes, and textures - many custom designed and developed staticmeshes - realistic high resolution terrain with multiple textures - custom in-house developed software was used in making the terrain - plenty of shader textures - custom scripted audio effects - emitter objects
Game Type	Vehicle Capture the Flag
Players	6 to 24 (recommend 12 to 24) (38 PlayerStarts available)
Map Specifications	Style large indoor/outdoor Dimensions 81,920 UUs subtraction (1.6 sq kms, 0.97 sq miles) 57,344 UUs terrain (1.1 sq kms, 0.68 sq miles) 53,248 UUs of play area (1.02 sq kms, 0.63 sq mile) Music yes Weather yes Custom meshes yes Custom music yes Custom scripts yes Custom sounds yes Custom textures yes
Notes	- All Unreal II textures and meshes in this map were converted by me. - Four software applications were used in the creation of this terrain including custom in-house developed software. - Low end PCs should turn off the Foliage option (terrain deco layers) and set their World Detail level to Normal or Low, for an increase in game framerate. - For extra game fun, be sure to try the following mutators with this map: Lightweight Vehicles and Stunt Vehicles.  And for a cool bot's-eye-view of the realistic environment, start a Spectate game, choose your favorite bot, then press F4 to see what they see. - Server admins may remove the screenshots and music file from the zip for a smaller server-push map file. Map Specifics: - 2 Flags (of course). - 2 Weapon Lockers inside each main Base, 1 at each outside Vehicle Pad. - 2 Health, 1 Shield and 1 SuperHealth at each Base. - Health, Shields, SuperHealths and SuperShields spread along the roads. - Custom SuperAdrenaline and MegaAdrenaline are on the map. - Painter and Redeemer are on the map. - Vehicle Loadout (per base): 5 Scorpions, 2 Hellbenders, 1 Goliath, 1 Raptor. - Plus as always a few easter eggs.
Bugs	- The main base doors can stick open under extremely rare circumstances. - Some people may consider the base hallways to be too narrow: they are 256UUs wide, three players can stand shoulder-to-shoulder next to the struts, and a Scorpion can actually drive around the base hallway.  About 40% of the players will spawn at the outside vehicle pad.  The flag is outside and the base hallways are strictly for exit only, so this should be a minimal issue.
Requirements	Unreal Tournament 2004 and the Epic ECE 1.1 free Bonus Pack
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	VCTF-DG-Arctika Map ID is 34190

Map Screenshots:

Map Overhead:
Flag-to-flag distance is about 35 seconds in a Scorpion across the central frozen lake.