AS FoT Orions Curse Part-1

AS FoT Orions Curse Part-1

UT ASSAULT - Large, 4 objectives, 8 - 16 players. Future Tech Industrial Space Port Facility. Released August 2007.

Earth Outpost ORION STATION, 2473 AD (PART-1) MISSION: The station has been invaded and is held by a hostile force. You and some fellow dock-workers evaded capture during the invasion, and now your group must act as an advanced recon squad. Your mission is to breach the base and transmit an encrypted distress call to the Earth Fleet! To do this you must disable the station's security systems. This will be tough because the invaders now control the key areas. Once the distress call is transmitted, the Earth Fleet will come to the rescue of the besieged outpost!

This map was originally designed for the Unreal Playground Assault mapping contest held in Nov-Dec 2003. The contest was won by Lord Simeon who completed AS-UP-Manor, a very fun assault map. My contest map was AS-UP-OrionsCurse, a large linear assault map with several sections, but unfortunately increasing amounts of bugs and a lack of time conspired to kill the map so I had no choice but to bail on the contest. Afterwords, I split the bugger into 3 smaller maps (part-1, part-2, part-3) and proceeded to work on part-1. After I spent a month or two of reworking the maps I became tired of assault mapping and opted to put it down for a while so I could work on other projects.

Some months later I started up OC again to include in the CTC2 map pack. After a somewhat concentrated effort, AS-CTC-OrionsCursePart1 went to BETA at UTAssault.net, and the good amount of feeback changed the map. BETA-2 was completed at UTA but by that time the map was going to miss CTC-2 so I released DM-CTC-DeadlyWorship in the mappack instead. During mid-2005, I removed a section from the Part-3 map and used it as the basis of what became CTF-FNB-OrionsRevenge.

In late 2006, I resurrected the Part-1 and Part-2 maps for Forts-Of-Time (Fot4), but only managed to complete the Part-1 map for the mappack. Hopefully, AS-FoT-OrionsCursePart2 can be completed for a future FoT release. It is impossible to calculate exactly how long it took to deliver this map, not that it really matters. When first released, the map might have been a hard on old machines in some spots, but on current hardware, there are NO performance issues at all (off-line).

Special thanks go to Joe 'Professor' Hall for all his assistance developing the map (Bot-pathing, Scripting, debugging) Many thanks to the peeps at UTAssault.net and Unreal Playground for all the beta-testing and feedback. Many thanks to Milb and Swanky for their hard work on the FoT mappacks. For additional credits and information, please read the Readme file.

Music is Gala's Peak Action Remix by Tom_caT & FnB (gala112.umx) from the game Unreal.