DM CTC Deadly Worship

DM CTC Deadly Worship

UT Deathmatch / TDM - Medium/Large, 6 - 16 players. Gothic Cathedral and Medieval Castle Mixed in an Ancient Temple Arena. Released November 2004.

DeadlyWorship was my contribution to the CTC map-pack Vol.2, and was a development of DM-FNB-DeadlyWorshipLP, a map made for the ThunderStrike 400 poly contest Aug-Sep 2004. The idea was to make a map where no scene exceeded 400 polys. Well, I came close but my map was "BUSTED" since I went over in at least two spots. L.J.Paranoid, HortonsWho and Nix finished in the top spots. I did well though, because my map was very ambitious compared to the others and i almost pulled it off. Afterwards, I expanded the layout to support more players, and polished things up (the contest map was a bit of a rush job).

The maps took about 60-70 hours in total to make from the beginning. While the Belgian Castle and Romanesque Cathedral building fronts are straight out of architecture books, very few people noticed this.

A reviewer at NaliCity called it a Nali Castle, which I'll admit annoyed me a bit. Oh well, as per usual there were a lot of different reactions to this one, some negative, some positive, all the experts got a quip in, lol!. I like it like that - a lot of head scratching :D

The map was a bit hard on old machines when first released, due mainly to the Firefly FX. However, on current hardware there are no performance issues at all. This map also did very well as far as downloads go (quite a few thousand). I hope you find it a fun and interesting map :)

Special thanks to Thunderstrike for having the 400-poly contest. Needless to say, if not for the contest there would be no DeadlyWorship map. I would like to thank the Beta and Beta2 testers at UP. Also thanks to Steve Nabors (Slick Willy) for the FireFly script,

Music is Journey from the game Unreal: Return To NaPali.

DM TS Deadly Worship BETA

Images below show the near complete beta version of the 400-poly contest map.

DM TSBeta2

Images below show the prototype map DM-TSBeta2, prior to Deadly Worship theme work. Actually reminds me a bit of DM-Contact..