So I had the idea yesterday, and since i've already given up on the ZE contest I figured I might as well put the skills i learned into this map.
The Plan
So this hasn't really been done before AFAIK so its a venture into the dark.
I intend to make it so each round lasts around 8-9 minutes and forces the round to end around then by bringing the remaining survivors together.
I intend to bring as much from the book series into the map as possible, starting from the platforms and the cornucopia bloodbath, and climaxing with a Mutt driven finale. The feasts will also be included. This means the arena will be full of traps etc. to contend with, including fire, pitfalls, NPC's and not to mention the other players.
Since i'm designing this to be for the SG MG server theirs a lot of competitors, with I believe 46 launchpads right now.
Sadly progress will be slow as I haven't used Hammer SDK in a long while, but it will get there eventually.
As a teaser, here is the launchpad area for now. Theres no Cornucopia just yet as I intend to do that in Max. All the platforms raise up and have you wait 20 seconds before beginning. So make sure not to wander off, or you will be blown up :D
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