RECON-ALPHA ================================================================================================ Title : Recon-Alpha Date : 14/3/98 Filename : recon.bsp Author : KNEEL Email Address : kneel@compuserve.com Description : Single player Quake2 Map. First go at Q2, so forgive me my basicness. Credits: : ID, of course. Angie, Zack & Kes. Wolfen-for questions answered and everyone connected with 'Ravages of Radiant'. Thanks also to Mr R Duffy for SUCH an excellent editor. Check out QERadiant now! ==================================================================================================== *Play Information* Single player :Oh yes. Cooperative :nope Deathmatch :not this time....trust me, it would have been a dog. Difficulty settings :Yes Nothing new folks............just ideas. *Construction* Base :New level from scratch Editor used :QERadiant 0.41. Known bugs :Not at the moment. Known faults :Oh yeah....doors are naff, textures are so so. Whole look a little blocky. You may experience slowdown at two points in the map..but not very bad. Plus points :It's new, it's fun to play.The pain room is rather spooky and the last section looks quite good. Build time :3-4 weeks. This includes learning the ins and outs of the editor. Compile machine :Pent 166 w/32megs. Qbsp time :5mins Qvis :12 hours Qrad :2 hours 14 mins *How to run* Unzip to \Quake2\baseq2\maps\ Start Quake 2 and at the console type: map recon ================================================================================================== Other stuff Look this is a first go and as such it suffers but all in all I think you're going to dig it. Please mail me with your comments. I am a writer by trade and am slowly working my way into this world. If you like this please look out for my next stuff: ECHOES for Quake......a mission pack that ties it all up!(ready in about a month) LUPUS4 for Q2.......just writing the basics for this but if all goes well it will be rather nice. Below is the story,plot, whatever. From now on all my maps will feature hefty accompanying tales, if you don't like this sort of thing then skip it.This one's a small one though. Er, keep a look out for my web site....under construction at the moment. Maps, fiction and scripts will be there for all to see. I work under the name KATALYSTIC Media, so watch out for that as well. Thanks folks....get in touch and enjoy the following... *A PLOT* The comm static fades to white and for a second, the briefest of seconds you're somewhere else.... ...Cloverdale High. Smell the grass, the tarmac, all melting in the summer heat. In the perfect summer's heat. You were ready to graduate, just a few short months and then the world waited for you. A career in merchant space flight, an engagement to Alice, a future of warmth and of white.Of lips and soft touching. It was Alice who saw the yellow flash as something ripped the atmosphere.It was Alice who shouted in awe as the black shape wheeled into a landing pattern and red lasers danced over the roof of that old familiar school and the moist green of the sports fields. It was Alice who laughed out loud at a childhood dream of contact becoming real before your eyes............... ............It was Alice who burned like a torch in the first barrage of searing flame. It is Alice who shall whisper in your dreams till the day you die. Stroggos now, the explosions. The whine of cybernetic appendages, the stench of the Strogg...urine,oil and seared flesh, the tracers and the sickening thud of pellet hitting flesh. Of stomach cradling metal and the thin trickle of your own red life falling upon empty canisters and the strewn corpses of beserkers...eyes crazed even in death. The Med ship. The Hospital. The medal. The trash can into which it was thrown. The re-assignment: What could happen out here in the void? Out here en-route to Lupus 2 and the scouting mission. 5 Hours ago now and you see the blip upon the screen. A ship, running.Dodging in and out of the asteroids. The commanders orders, the rockets, the hit. YEAH! THE HIT. "Down you go you mothers!" "Life signs?" "Two Tanks sir and a smaller entity, possibly a medic." "Any native lifeforms?" "Negative, just an astroid sir.Air thin but breathable." "Ok troops, this is it, prepare for ship to shore transport. Lets find out what those beasts were up to." And they went....leaving you behind in orbit, to monitor and wait and remember. 3 Hours; "Holy, ship...this is commander Jones. We've found what looks like a shielding device. Get a lock on this target and transort down a cutting........oh my god......." Weapons fire. Screams. Life signs....hundreds of life signs as the shielding device is blown SILENCE. So this is it. You punch in the auto orbit and make your way to the transport room. The weapons locker is bare. Just you and your blaster soldier. The transport flickers as you set the co-ordinates. In it's glare you catch your form.... Just you and your blaster...the way it should be. The way it always is. ======================================================================================================================================= *LEGAL GUFF* Copyright/permissions This level may be distributed freely around the internet providing this file is attached. Do not include this level on any formatt with the intention of making money from it unless previous and prior consent is given in writing. If it's not free don't do it Any breach WILL be followed up. Otherwise....have fun.