MARATHON MAPS by Steve Weintraub
Pfhornication IV is a Marathon 2 re-write of Pfhornication II for M1, which you might be familiar with. I've kept it pretty much the same, but with the following enhancements:
- The lava pools are now water, and you can take a dip accordingly. I've added an underground water tunnel that leads to a good Rambo-style ambush spot. The main hall light switch is now in this tunnel for more strategic game-play, and I've added a switch to fill/drain the water.
- I've converted the walkway in the water room into a platform. Really ticks off other players when you drop it!
- A bunch of ambient sounds, some outdoor views. Nothing overdone.
What Claude says:
"A very nice port of a good M1 level. Water is used quite well here. If you've played Pfhorno before, you'll like this version. If you've never seen it, you're in for a treat."Download Pfhornication IV (190k)
Pfhornication Lives! is a Marathon 2 re-write of my M1 map of the same name. It's a pretty straight conversion, with the usual M2 ambient sound/lights/landscape enhancements. It's a tight level, so it should be good for 2-3 person network sessions.
What Claude says:
A port of a small M1 map. Tries to give a little of everything to the player-open areas, sniper ledges, narrow passageways... generally good flow.
Bucho Needs Women is a pretty direct M2 version of the M1 classic Mars Needs Women. I made this map because I was getting bored with the current original maps I'm working on, and nothing good is on the tube. Bucho, by the way, was the bad guy in the movie Desparado. 'Nuff said.
I've seen a few others Mars... transplants, but they seem to be overdone, reworked with a lot of extra passages and nonsense. My aim was to keep it as Bungie-pure as possible. Hence, there are absolutely no additional polys, and textures/lighting have been kept as consistent as possible. Here are the only differences:
- Most changes are in the "term room". The pattern buffer is still inactive, but I've made the comm terminal a transporter. The central recess in the room now has some lava in it, but running at full gallop will hardly hurt you; it makes a nice speed bump when running through the room.
- Replaced the "Skylight" plasma gun with a shotgun. Added a shotgun to one of the ledges in the middle room. Some of the weapons are poly-triggered.
- Some ambient sounds and scenery to liven the place up.
What Claude says:
A pretty straightforward port of Mars Needs Women. Nice job, overall... The only additions are small, to take advantage of some of the improvements of the M2 engine. The intention was to create an M2 version that stayed truer to the original than most of the existing ports, both in feel and in playability. In that, it is a success.
THE OBLIGATORY ANTI-FLAME ALERT. My maps were written in most incarnations of Pfhorte2 (up through a14) on a PowerMac. I won't guarantee their bulletproofness, but they haven't crashed for me. Hopefully when Forge is released we can all stop writing these things...
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Last Update: 7/1/96 |
