Wild West El Rio beta 2 feedback thread

[El Dragon]

I've noticed something that may explain the occasional lower level names popping up in locations when above ground.

When underground you can hear and see gun flashes above. How thin is that layer between upper level and lower one. I'm guessing it's only a pixel thin

If possible lower the ceiling of the upper level a 'foot' (game equivilent) or so and that might solve the location issue and not give us sneaking underground an exact local of defenders before we get top side.

[Grateful Dead]

Thanks for this !


I appreciate winning this map ; It can be difficult so the reward is sweeter


first off---it would be impossible in a head to head match for the bandit to complete the entire set of objectives before the cowboy is able to blow up the boat.

but alas, with some luck, and some /kill command timing , I was able and it was very pleasing




would love to say what I think would make the map different ; the middle area, the mass of buildings, could be built up more somehow? it is easy to snipe across the map and can be easily "pinned down" by cowboy snipers . some more second story cover and windows will keeps everyone's head duckin'

your map is terrific as it is

[SangrelX]

yea - im thinking of a revamp on the town - phase out some buildings by making them just a detail and not a useable building because we dont need all of them that are there

i have not had time to work on it though been very busy....

ill get to it soon i hope

[Grateful Dead]

nah I think it would be better to just build ontop of what you already have... I like all the buildings --trust me ; they are used . and if there were more buildings , they will be used even more.

I understand your lack of time ; like I said this map is terrific as it is!

[SangrelX]

The problem with all the buildings and adding more is that they are causing bad FPS drops in some spots - I could not get hint brushes to work right to stop the Frame problems the only solution i could think of was to remove a lot of things just make them look like they are there but not be usable etc...

[gunte]

Hi infact the map is in the normal rotation and it really rocks. Honestly i really don't think about any problems with this map - just play and have fun. However it is more easy to just blow up the boat than to blow up door and bankbox and run with the gold...Thats make the map a little unbalanced which i see as the only (real problem) with this map. However still a great nice map to play

[Huche_de_Vent]

Like Gunte said, depending on teams, Bandits can win quickly by blowing boat... as was suggested earlier I believe, maybe making the boat destory a multi-step process? 2 TNT like bank, or maybe have to blow engine room open with a couple single tnt sticks/nades or something.

But I too have really enjoyed thi s map in rotation. If the Cowboys are strong and prevent a very quick boat kill, the match rarely ends within timelimit... good fights.

[Ringo]

Right , i finally had some time to play this map

comments time
( i played v2 so i don't know if its current .. however)

constructive comment :

1) the water , when using the "kb_waterinvis" get a bit more darkness around some area's .. its hard to tell its water or ground ... or use beach's or the hacienda fountain texture .. ( u can locate them inside the shader ...)

2) the sound .. i do recall its midday .. or my sound is lying ..

3) textures .. use the S feature so the textures will fix and CTRL Shift to select a surface

4) textures2 , im getting lost on the stuff looks similar .. ( editing the shaderlist.txt to add more shaders KFG etc might give u more to work with..)

5) great work ,... we need more mappers ..

[zivs]

Almost month around and no progress report on El Rio? SangrelX, are you still polishing up (or working at all) this map? Otherwise players start to get bored with the current release and mostly do nextmap vote if not immediately when the map loads, then on second round for sure ..

[El Dragon]

patience zivs, You weren't arround for some of the early map testing (one of our mappers was based in new orleans for the hurricane, (we though we lost him till he reappeared in cali for a temp relocation.)

I'm impressed at the initial level for the release of elrio and it's update. I think he's working on all the final stuff so that the next could be the final (unless we find a way to break it.)

[zivs]

I'm patient, just that I was wondering if SangrelX is still working on the map, that's all! And yeah can't disagree with you that the Rio map at it's current stage is more or less close to final stage

[Ringo]

patience zivs, You weren't arround for some of the early map testing (one of our mappers was based in new orleans for the hurricane, (we though we lost him till he reappeared in cali for a temp relocation.)

I'm impressed at the initial level for the release of elrio and it's update. I think he's working on all the final stuff so that the next could be the final (unless we find a way to break it.)

euhm... what has patience to do with zivs not beeing around the early map testing ?
i fail to see the link ..

[El Stupido]

patience zivs, You weren't arround for some of the early map testing (one of our mappers was based in new orleans for the hurricane, (we though we lost him till he reappeared in cali for a temp relocation.)

I'm impressed at the initial level for the release of elrio and it's update. I think he's working on all the final stuff so that the next could be the final (unless we find a way to break it.)

euhm... what has patience to do with zivs not beeing around the early map testing ?
i fail to see the link ..

I think when Dragon said "You weren't around for some of the early map testing" he is saying "if you think this is taking a long time, you should have seen how long it used to take"

I didn't take zivs question as impatience. I think he feels as I do; that Rio is a great map that just needs a few game-play tweaks so that people will play it more, rather than vote next map as we've been seeing.

[Ringo]

patience zivs, You weren't arround for some of the early map testing (one of our mappers was based in new orleans for the hurricane, (we though we lost him till he reappeared in cali for a temp relocation.)

I'm impressed at the initial level for the release of elrio and it's update. I think he's working on all the final stuff so that the next could be the final (unless we find a way to break it.)

euhm... what has patience to do with zivs not beeing around the early map testing ?
i fail to see the link ..

I think when Dragon said "You weren't around for some of the early map testing" he is saying "if you think this is taking a long time, you should have seen how long it used to take"

I didn't take zivs question as impatience. I think he feels as I do; that Rio is a great map that just needs a few game-play tweaks so that people will play it more, rather than vote next map as we've been seeing.

lol @ the long time

@ the nextmap vote its understandable that new maps in rotation get voted away .. 1 not everyone has them and 2) not everyone knows where to go .. and thats frustrating on a sunday ...
as i stated earlier .. a sunday ( or weekend rotation ) is more likely to get more people in the saddle .. and stated earlier aswell set up a beta server for testing purposes .. and put them on a new rotation .

[El Dragon]

so you 'vets' kill the vote, then show the new guys where to go?


How hard is that?