DM-Equilibrium
Map Info
	File Name dm-equilibrium.zip Author theBAMNman Gametype UT Deathmatch Date Added 02-14-2005 File Version 2.00 File Size 675 kb Player Count 2-6 Map Description An overhauled sewage treatment facility. This is my first released map, but I spent a lot of time on it, so try it before you scream in terror and run away at the thought of a newbie mapper doing a cliche theme. UPDATE: Updated version available. It has plenty of smaller fixes (no greening, nicer slime area, reworked ammo, optimization) that make it noticeably better but not worth a full re-release. Enjoy! Review Rating 6.5 User Rating 7 Overall Rating 6.5
Review
Reviewer AMmayhem Awe Score:  2.0/3 Date 09-05-2003 Build Score:  2.0/3 Review Schema Cast Score:  2.5/3 User Point:  0 Overall Score:  6.5/10 AWE: 2 Well, the architecture certainly isn't magnificent, but it does look fairly good. A lot of nice angles to keep things from being a boxy dullness. The groove in the ceiling for the lights that go to the flooded area below is a nice touch. Not much for curves in here though, but there are plenty of god angle work. Some of the ramps look cool with pipes going underneath them. Texturing is provided from the UTtechs for most of what you see, and they are used well. Although I think the author could have found a better ceiling texture instead of the brick used for the walls, but it still looks good, not that anyone looks at the ceiling in battle anyways. Trim work is terrific, and the wooden planks are fit evenly between its borders, none are chopped in half. Lighting is excellent too. Plenty of light sources, none overly lit, and a mix of light blue and yellow coloring. There aren't any flickering lights, red lights, dark areas, or anything else to keep the lighting from being even and a little boring. BUILD: 2 A lot of good, well placed sounds throughout the map, mostly trickling water, some wind, and mechanical hums for fans and such. Nothing too loud, or too big of a radius. Elevators look great, and they move quickly to keep the gameplay going. Did not see any BSP or HOM errors. CAST: 2.5 Gameplay is excellent for a half dozen or more, but would also make for great 1-on-1 or 2-on-2. Bots utilize every part of the map, and can get to all the items. Great z-axis opportunities as well. Item placement is good, but ammo seems a little spread out, could use ammo next to it's respective weapon, instead of around the corner and up the ramp. Flow is great, one small issue is the shield belt, it is in a deadend, but it's not a real long deadend, which does help make you be more carefull getting it. SCORE: 6.5 Hey The Bamn Man, I want my $1000 dollars. ;-) An excellent first map for the author. Download it now, it won't kill you.
Map Comments
paranoid 08-03-2003 09:25 AM MDT Rating: 6   Mixed feelings with this map. On the one hand it had fantastic gameplay (i could learn a thing or two from the authour in regards to Z-axis!) and the architecture is competent. Then on the other hand it had terrible lighting with greening all over the place, and overall way too bright, and a generic use of a theme and textures (this has been done to death already) But this is the authours first released map, and if this is a testament for whats to come, then we should be getting quite excited. 6.5 theBAMNman 02-16-2005 01:47 PM MST   Thanks for all these reviews so early, guys. I had no idea what to do with this map visually, as you can probably tell. I eventually gave up on the looks because I'd have to overhaul the map itself, so hopefully I can think ahead next time. EDIT: Thanks for the review AMmayhem! The deadend shieldbelt location shouldn't be too much hassle for +150 health ;) EDIT 2: SpitFire, the best tools for learning the editor are free time, UnrealWiki (wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/), and NC3/UP forums. The first one is the major ingredient. Just open it up and start messing around. I have about 20 small test maps I made back when just to see how to do this and that in the editor. Homeslice 08-03-2003 12:31 PM MDT Rating: 7   Great for a first release. Yeah, some spots (including the tunnels with water) looked a tad bright, but otherwise gameplay was good, and I dug the skybox too! Can't wait to see more from ya. jazzyb 08-03-2003 12:42 PM MDT Rating: 8   You owe me a $1000 bucks (lol). This is the only newbee map that is staying on my HD. Visually the map is ok however but where it stands out is in the z-axis, gameplay is fab as is the item placement which makes for a major melee area in which ever part of the map your in. The only flaw is the lighting which is a tad too bright but this has been mentioned before so i wont dwell on it. Overall a great effort and well worth a download, give it a try! Nahand 08-05-2003 07:44 AM MDT Rating: 6   A first release? But not the first map, surely... I first thought to myself not to download this map, considering the unexcitant screenshot BUT, as always, good comments make me curious to try. So i did. I must say, visuals apart, that this map is almost on par with some great maps that i keep (and i'm still considering should i keep it or not), gameplay-wise. Graphically, i didn't like it so much, as with DM-Nitro wich i eventually deleted (yes... shut your mouth in awe). It's a great effort, still, and you should only be compelled to do more AND better, especially with such great comments. **************** Apart from the map itself, i actually took my time and went on reading the README file. The JazzyB mapper note caught my attention and i got already all of his maps present at NaliCity. The screenshots alone were VERY abonatory on his work i will definitly be posting comments about EACH of them at NaliCity. **************** UPDATE: I'm glad the mapper choose new screenshots for showing his map here. At least they're more ilustrative about the map than the older one :) 2nd UPDATE: Did that guy HelmutWATHEVERname really played UT with OTHER custom-made maps??? Sounds a bit of a newb super startled with an average map to me... And Shao... "sounds good"? You rate it AFTER you played it... right? RamboSnakey 08-04-2003 10:47 AM MDT Rating: 9   why u ppl give low scores for a first release GOOD map? HelmutGonnaGetU 08-04-2003 02:45 PM MDT Rating: 10   Omg, when I saw this map, I was like omg. OMG!! I mean, WHATEVER. This is MY United States of Whatever. So like, when I looked up, and saw the moon, the only rating that came into my mind was 15. But then I realized the highest you could give was a 10. Still, it's a 16 in my heart. Or....did I say 15...Ah what the beep, I'll just add all the scores up...this map deserves a 602394! Enough about my extensive review on the graphics, now onto the gameplay. Gameplay: 10 Ok...Now onto...sound!! OMG!! THE ELEVATORS HAVE SOUND!! THAT DOESNT EVEN HAPPEN IN JEDI KNIGHT OUTCAST!! (if you turn your speakers off) SOUND - 10!!! Brightness: 10! I like seeing my enemies! But only to shoot the crap out of them. There should be a new evaluation category and this author merits a need for it. This category is: README TEXT FILE!! If you read the story of how Liandri bought Equilibrium....well...let me just say....it was like reading through a novel of a book by Margaret Atwood and burning it afterwards. The satisfaction comes from burning it. Not reading it. So the satisfaction of reading this excellent background is like buring a novel made by Margaret Atwood, not to be confused by that asian stand up comedian, Margaret Cho. And the title is funny too. Cuz now, he owes a couple people 1000 dollars. Now THAT's not funny for him. But, it's clever to entice the reader to read it. README TEXT FILE: ******* 10! ALL IN ALL!! WE SHOULD BE LOOKING FORWARD FOR MORE MAPS FROM HIM! I applaud this newbie and await for many great maps to come. Good Job BamnMan! AMmayhem 09-05-2003 04:14 PM MDT Rating: 6   I agree with Paranoid, kind of mixed feelings on this map. Doesn't seem to deserve a 6.5, but doesn't deserve anything lower. Oh well, it's still fun to play. misanthropictool 09-07-2003 01:07 PM MDT Rating: 6   Good map, I have to agree with paranoid and Mayhem though, it could use tweeking, as every map could... The interesting thing is I could almost smell the sewage while I was playing this map, it was great, that or I just crapped myself from excitement. o_o Razor 09-09-2003 09:26 AM MDT Rating: 7   The map is good overall but the lighting is a little boring and too bright , stunning gameplay though darkjaxx 09-12-2003 07:26 AM MDT Rating: 8   cuty, just 600 kb is this your FIRST map? no, I don't think so I'm making maps a time ago, and I'm still not better than that ~shadow~ 09-15-2003 02:29 PM MDT Rating: 7   nice map, little boring but the map is good Vertigo 12-06-2003 04:29 AM MST Rating: 6   hey BM cool map, good z-axis etc. but its a bit overscaled and has lots of greenish in the belt corridor. UArchitect 01-19-2004 06:59 PM MST Rating: 8   you owe me a million. redfist 02-15-2005 01:18 AM MST Rating: 3.5   I remeber this when it came out,and still dont see what you all see in it at all. And shoa I'll leave that to the others ,I rarely give a zero ,that why I took my wierd maps off now too.YOU guys don't know how to rate a level.and still I remember this map way back,never even had comment till it was in the list.and it's not a 7.5 no way,might be better than a 3.5 but I stand by what I put.I'ts just a big nothing map,boring big and blah. I will update EDIT,,,it aint good gameplay either. OK the big prob,the map is split into 2 sides (kinda) and each side looks the same ,same colors,same lights etc etc. But having the map layout sort of like interspiral ramps and not typical rooms it is very hard to find and know ware ones place is while playing.map does look pretty nice but there is no visual cues other than the weapons to have good strategy,wich just leads to visual spamming .map stays a 3.5 ................................................. ActroN 09-02-2004 09:00 PM MDT Rating: 7.5   Dont know who are you Redfist but this isnt a 3.5, u simply seem to be a really bad reviewer :P Shao 09-02-2004 09:08 PM MDT Rating: 7.5   lol he's gonna make all map with rating 0 ThaKillaTwinz 02-18-2005 12:45 AM MST Rating: 9   One of the best maps i've ever played. That's all i have to say about this one. [EDIT]: I still like the old one!! The new one is a little moodier but i'll still play the old one from time to time. XepptizZ 02-14-2005 02:04 PM MST Rating: 7.5   Redfist; I remeber this when it came out,and still dont see what you all see in it at all. And shoa I'll leave that to the others ,I rarely give a zero ,that why I took my wierd maps off now too.YOU guys don't know how to rate a level.and still I remember this map way back,never even had comment till it was in the list.and it's not a 7.5 no way,might be better than a 3.5 but I stand by what I put.I'ts just a big nothing map,boring big and blah. Me!!!:) Since when do visuals matter to you? It was all about gameplay wasn't it? And that's what this thing is made of. RayZidane 02-14-2005 10:05 PM MST Rating: 7   oh what a 3.5 , Sorry but this map is way much better AimBoY 02-15-2005 09:04 AM MST Rating: 7   is alright SpitFire66 02-16-2005 08:12 AM MST Rating: 7   ...Hey theBAMNman; if nothing else you should be proud of the so many positive words and scores on a first- release level...You were very wise and considerate to put so much time and effort before releasing your map to the public; I have not played the level against bot's yet, so I guess the 7 I gave you is more for your hard work and thoughtfulness as opposed to anything technical or level/flow - botpathing considerations... ...I guess I just like to encourage up and comers who seem to me have definate potential; this is purely selfish on my part in some ways perhaps - since I really havn't found the time to really learn the Editor myself - I just NEED my fix of fresh mapping goodness... ...Come on everybody admit it already; you are as hopelessly adddicted to this game as I am!!!...Do you think Hourences or DarthWeasel would give me at-home personal Unreal Editor tutorials if I flew them out to Oregon??L.O.L. - It's either that or I need to find one hell of an on-line tutorial!!!...Suggestions, help, and ANY useful tutorial links would be greatly appreciated!!!... (If your ammo count is kind of low, and your Regen-Relic seems too slow...Stuck in lava, some other mire??...Turn and laugh and just SpitFire)!!!...P Edit:I just realized that this is a second release, Double Doh!!!... ...How old is this map?...I'm too tired to edit my comment and score again...Night,Night!!... wigget 02-18-2005 05:31 AM MST Rating: 0.5   sighs newbies should read tutuorials 1st then map for meb 3 yrs and THEN release maps and not copy sh*8 heheh will release UT map soon (urgh UNRed is crapp, stik 2 Deuxex map softstuff)