DM FNB TDC-2374

DM FNB TDC-2374

UT Deathmatch / Team DM - Medium, 4 - 8 players. Future Tech Egyptian Alien Gothic Temple Arena. Uses UTR XPickups. Released November 2011.

In Feb 2006, UT mapper and NaliCIty reviewer Nahand held a Theme Design contest at Unreal Playground. Open to all mappers, the idea was to take a DM layout (by Nahand) and then modify the map for any theme you liked. I asked Nahand if I could do a CTF instead and he said okay, as long as the bases matched the DM layout.

So the resulting map was a hybrid of some gothic forms and Egypt-Tech ideas, and released long after the contest was over. At the time I couldn't think of a map name so I called it "2374" - the year mentioned in the UT-99 intro city movie. The map is a temple of sorts, in some futuristic alien city, somewhere in the UT-99 universe.

This is a DM / TDM version of that TDC-2374 CTF map. The 2006 TDC contest layout was originally intended for Deathmatch maps, so in a weird way, here's the DM layout plus the middle from the CTF.

In addition to removing one base and replacing it with a new smaller section, I re-worked the bots and placements, added Xpickups, and tweaked and tested the hell out of it. All this took about 6 hours for the DM version.

The result is a pretty big FFA DM with lots of Z-axis and some variety in fighting areas. Good for 6 - 12 players. Note that there is also a speedy 3 control point DOM version that uses this same layout.

The music track is T.Y.R.A. for Team Vortex (NP-ty.umx) by Toxeen.