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File Name: Miasma Desert Complex
Author: Jason Scott, Ryan Jones
Version Number: 1.0
Release Date: 6/6/2004
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Description of File:
Miasma Industries specializes in ore detection, extraction,
and refinement. They utilize specialized unmanned autonomous
refinement stations that they build and drop on systems all
over the galaxy. One such station that resides on the
desert planet of SRX-9152 lost power to its uplink beacon
and has been overtaken by native nomads. These nomads
started an Unreal Tournament type game ladder on the complex
and ran a moderately popular business for a few months. Word
of the nomad tournament traveled to the highest authorities
within Liandri Industries. Liandri, a chief rival to Miasma
in Ore location and refinement, saw an opportunity to gain
an even greater foothold on the ore market by buying rights
to the SRX-9152 Desert Complex and use it as an exclusive
location in the current season of Unreal Tournament. This
move would serve to create distrust in Miasma's ability to
oversee its business, and would extend the Unreal Tournament
to yet another, soon-to-be, popular location.
The Complex itself is a large extraction/refinement facility
that uses laser/electricity based machinery. The facility
is unmanned, however, has many corridors, elevators and
platforms for the players to navigate. The halls are tight,
the action is fast, and the games are hardcore, making for
an entertaining experience.
This location is somewhat unique due to the atmospheric
anomalies of planet SRX-9152. The planet has unusual
gravitational pull. From 0-40 feet from the surface there
is greater than normal earth gravity, then from 40-80 feet
there is normal earth gravity, and finally from 80-180 feet
there is lowered gravity. Anything above that will ascend
into orbit.
This gravity makes for a game experience the players will
have to get used to. It also makes for one very interesting
and deadly trap. The Miasma Desert Complex puts off a noxious
green gas as a by-product of the refinement process. This gas
is actually heavier than the air so it is released underneath
the complex which sits on stilts above. The valley around the
facility makes it nearly impossible for the gas to dissipate,
so anyone who makes the mistake of falling off of the complex
will be instantly vaporized by the highly dangerous gas below.
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The map has all of the following weapons/pickups:
Assault Rifle (for duals)
Bio Rifle
Shock Rifle
Plasma Rifle
Mini Gun
Flak Cannon
Rocket Launcher
Lightning Gun
Sniper Rifle
Redeemer
Health
Adrenaline
Mega Health
Mega Shield
Shield
Double Damage
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Ideal Player Load: 8-10
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You must have the UT 2004 2186 or newer patch
installed in order to run this map/mutator.
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Type of Map: DM
Custom Static Meshes: Yes (All of them)
Custom Textures: Yes (99%)
Custom Animations: No
Custom Sounds: No
Custom Music: Yes
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Side Notes:
This map has been completely created by Jason Scott
and Ryan Jones. It is a project that started as a
class assignment, and has grown into a fully immersive
environment for UT2K4. We hope everyone enjoys playing
the map as much as we enjoyed making it.
This map is free to distribute, but we ask that you
contact either of us asking for permission to place
the map on your server or to reuse any of the custom
content within any of our texture/static mesh/music
files.
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Bugs/Errors:
No real errors to speak of. The bots play the whole map,
including going to the sniper nest and redeemer location.
For best results with bots, play the map at at least
"Adept" bot skill level, and enable translocator usage as
it helps the bots to be smart and go for all of the
powerups that live in normally hard to reach locations.
Visit the site at www.ichibod.com/miasma/
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Thanks to:
Jason would like to thank:
My friends and bro Ryan for playtesting our map and giving
good feedback on what you like and what you don't like.
You're my personal focus group.
My girlfriend, Ana, for putting up with me, and
understanding that my frothing need to make levels
must be allowed to do its thing.
Ryan would like to thank:
My friends, who have offered countless words of encouragement
throughout this long creation process, and the people who
saw this level in its infancy and thought it was the greatest
thing ever made.
To Carrie who has encouraged me to work hard and become the
greatest at whatever I set my mind to.
w0rd.
Jason and Ryan would like to thank:
Everyone at 3dbuzz who provide great tutorials and VTM's
because without them, this map would not be possible.
Everyone at Indiana University-Fine Arts department for
letting us take on such a demanding, and insane project.
The boys/girls at Epic for continuing to make the finest
FPS games on the market and make us all think: "id who?"
All the Players who make the community what it is. You
make the forums rich with content, you make the maps fun,
and you are the reason we make maps.
Now stop reading and get killing!!
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All content within this download file is property of
Jason Scott and Ryan Jones -- all rights are reserved.
