CTF FNB Unreal Gateways

CTF FNB Unreal Gateways

UT CTF - Large, 8-12 players. Orbital Unreal space station. Released May 2013.

The original Shane Caudle "Gateway" level is from UNREAL and was not a part of the regular game. I remember (back in the day) at some point I loaded it into UED1 and my jaw fell off, lol ;)

Well, all this time later, early in the UT99.Org XMAS 2012 mapping contest I was experimenting with ideas and "gateways" was one of the maps I decided to fiddle with.

I ran over it quickly with a boatload of tech textures and mashed the thing into a CTF map to test the concept and try out some theme ideas but it didn't pan out - I ended up building DM-XC-EpicTown instead.

After some time passed I decided to complete this, as a tribute of sorts to Shane Caudle. As a CTF, the map isn't bad, but it's not super gameplay. A bit too "in your face" for my tastes and it has a few quirks. But it does work and gets a bit more interesting with teams of 5 or 6 masterful or adept BOTs. More than that and it can get really spammy. So this one is more of a "nice looking themic map" good for a few plays, I'd say :)

Many thanks to UT99.org and the makers of UTR XPickups; to Switch' and Johnny6 for the swJumpPad actor; to Bot40 for the SmartAlternatePath actor, to Pandemonium, Creavion (and my regular bunch) for textures; and of course to Shane Caudle for blowing my mind way back when ;)

Music is GateWays (of course).