CTF FoT / FNB Hyper Frag

CTF FoT / FNB Hyper Frag

UT CTF - Large, 10-20 players. Space based battle cruiser! Released August 2005.

OMG, another FraGnBraG Starship map! This is a Terran Defence Force battle cruiser, one of the capital ships in the Earth Fleet. These beefed up warships were built during the Skaarj wars to counter the powerful enemy motherships. This one is cruising through hyperspace on it's way towards a red dwarf star system (having erm, just left a blue giant star system - that's it!)

While this is the same idea as in UT's HyperBlast map (where a ship is warping through space and there are fighters in tight formation) HyperFrag has nothing in common with the original UT map - for one thing, HyperFrag is ten times bigger and has nukes, cannons, domes, and big-a$$ engines!!

The first version of the map was CTF-FoT-HyperFrag, which is included in the Flags-Of-Time map-pack released by Swanky (Timewarp Crew) in Aug 2005.

CTF-FNB-HyperFrag was the second version of the map - released in Dec 2005 - to fix a serious bug with the path network. The second version is identical to the first except the path-network was completely redone from scratch.

When first released, HyperFrag was a bit hard on old computers when the player was outside in the upper LG area - although tbh I never had any problems with lag, and I had an old P4 at the time. On current hardware there are NO performance issues - it runs fast and smooth.

Special thanks to SabbathCat for the JRM custom meshes (especially the cool FNB-Rocket mesh I used in the bomb-bays), also thanks to XeppitzZ for the red plasma-beam FX, Bot-40 for the Smart Alt-path actor, to all the UP folks for testing and suggestions.

Finally, a big thanks to Swanky for including the map in the Flags-Of-Time mappack :)

Music is Philisophical Yellow by ixupi (Sub2.umx).

CTF FNB Orbital Nukes

UT CTF - Large, 10-20 players. Space based missile cruiser. August 2001, July 2004.

Decided this one could work as a CTF - as long as it was smaller than CTF-BigAndUgly :) LG outside, normal-G inside, this ship used the DM-OrbitalNukes layout for each base. Red was Skaarj, and blue, well, not skaarj! Nuke launchers and big domes were on either side of middle, which was mainly ramps and corridors.

The map turned into another giant! After a month I lost interest in it, only working on little bits over the next 3 years. The map was completely "re-skinned" using 2k4 textures during 2004, intended for release in the CTC Volume 2 map pack, but not completed at that time.

After that the map sat for months until it was resurrected as CTF-FoT-HyperFrag for the Flags-Of-Time map pack in 2005

DM Orbital Nukes

UT Deathmatch - Medium, 4 to 8 players. Space based missile cruiser. June-July 2001.

When I first started playing UT99, one of my fav stock-maps was HyperBlast! Naturally I wanted to make my own space ship. So I cobbled together some bits from "oddity", the pod from "space pods", and built a large dome - which was tricky to make due to bsp errors and high p/n counts.

This ship was a nuclear missile carrier, and so had nukes, space fighters, and big-a$$ engines! The map was never finished mainly because it wasn't really looking like the spacecraft i pictured.

I figured I'd leave it until some better ideas came along. It didn't sit for very long though, a CTF version was built within a month later.