[MINI EXPANSION] Holiday Deathmatch 2013 (Week 1)

[Balrog]

And I was hoping I could do a special Wildcard this Saturday.

[ZeStopper]

What the hell, people? I pushed the deadline back and everything! I'm at least almost done with my map but I've yet to get even a progress report from anyone who's not Geno!

Progress Report-15% Done because

Christmas Tree-Obtained
Sabotall-Obtained


It's worth noting that FTX and Hinatedez-guy are kinda missing.

[LlamaHombre]

Well I mean I guess that's a start.

I'm trying to spark some behind-the-scenes stuff here, hopefully even if nothing gets done we can get you all something magical.

[Knux]

As much as I hate to admit it, I don't have any ideas for this. I started a map one month ago, and it didn't go anywhere good. I also got everything together for a Himalayas map from DuckTales, but the intense amount of white discouraged me.

Sorry Llama, I got nothing and I don't think I will have something on time, so take me off the list.  

[LlamaHombre]

I understand. We have some stuff from FTX though and we have a working build of the Christmas Carol weapons, so we're getting something at least.

I'll update the list later. Today is busy for me.

[Hinatediz]

I have to say this very less important message:

I cancel on the work of Grinch Flash Man, because i lost a bet with one familiar of me and now i had to enjoy the christmas with my family and friends...

I gently give the chance to another person to do it... yeah... now is open source.

by that, sorry for that and thanks... Merry X-mas

[Russel]

I submitted my updates to the weapons. Unfortunately nothing new this year, though.
My presents for you all might be a bit late this year, but hey at least I sent a card~
;D

[LlamaHombre]

I really can't thank you enough for sticking through with this, Lego.

Expect a little teaser tomorrow!

[FTX6004]

So can you upload the skins from last year, the link died.

[LlamaHombre]

You'll be getting an updated version of them anyways in three days.

Though I guess if the Saturday Wildcard is a thing I can't hold people away from their Holiday cheer.

Here's the 2012 pack as it was released last year.

[LlamaHombre]

I will be closing off submissions in 24 hours! If you're pushing to get your thing done by first release, please get it done asap!

[LlamaHombre]

I really am so sorry about this delay.  

I have everything together for once but there's just huge totals of technical difficulties that just didn't happen beforehand.

The instant things work, they're yours.

[Knux]

Yeah, I can't figure out for the life of me what was wrong. Everything seems to be in order, and the only thing our of place was a repeated scripts lump. Didn't work after fixing that, either. I think it has something to do with the weapons as when I replaced HDAY02 with the one I have, it didn't show up either.

The maps were changed to UDMF format and a lot of lumps for the map files aren't there. That's supposedly normal, I don't know. Never went out of in Hexen format.

[LlamaHombre]

Merry Christmas!
And the skins! (Replace your old holidayskins.pk3 !)

Total huge thanks to Lego for keeping my anxiety in check and saving this expansion!  

I'm sorry it's so late, but at least we can now begin our biweekly cycle!

This being said, here's a checklist for things that I personally would like to see from the expansion (that I will be backing) for the next few weeks.

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- Get everything on the list at the moment done
- Take potential new things
- Play with the weapons, test them for viability/balance
- Add decorative flare to support items / props to give them a more festive flavor
- More!! Most of which I'd like to keep a secret.

[Gummywormz]

Weapons:
All of the weapon bars are missing their top little slot that was done for 3b.
Please swap candy cane's colors. I don't care if it's accurate to the source it just looks incredibly ugly.
Speaking of candy cane...it does 60 damage. Not even gonna try to be witty about that.
Present surprise is currently mega ball that does 50+ damage as well...
On the other side of things, rubber duff's bounce height makes it impossible to hit anyone with it ever.
Finally, ghost shackle is so incredibly underpowered you can't even try to kill anyone with it.

Maps - General:
JESMUS...please just get rid of it.
All of them are giant squares. All of them. There is so little variation in the geometry it's just sad

HDAY01:
The scrolling textures are incredibly unfitting, especially the...thing by the rain flush.
The death water that doesn't look like death water has the wrong obituary.
And to top things off nicely, have some delicious texture bugs:

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Space waterfalls are the best waterfalls.

Agreed

Also they're misaligned.

HDAY02:
The layout is far too needlessly complex, especially in terms of height variation.
The textures are boring. It's really just too indoors.

HDAY03:
This is a rejected Obstacle Course map. It has all the signs: random arrows, and not sticking to any coherent theme. (Really, why is there burst water, a guts block, and a mini gutsmang in a cage...)
The water also has the wrong obituary.
It uses air man tiles as railings... that's really all I need to say.

HDAY04:
There are no Xmas weapons but maybe that's a good thing in their current state...
There's a rush coil after some platforming... for no reason what so ever. Really, I could not find any sane place to use it. It's useless anyways when you find out tornado hold is in the map as well.
Again, it's a large square. A really large open square. It's all corners.
Finally, a certain section of rocks by the bubble lead is slippery while every other part is not.