[vanshnookenraggen]

Crosstown Carnage

After clearing the aliens out of the West Coast of the USA, Duke heads back east to start the cleanup there. From the tops of skyscrapers, Duke will have to navigate the city's old subway system to find where the Battlelord has been hiding.

Crosstown Carnage contains two new alien types: the Freeze Trooper and the Expander Trooper. The Freeze Trooper fires freezer blasts at Duke. These pack a punch, but won't immediately kill you. The Expander Trooper fires blasts of microwaves which will fry Duke. Hit enough, and Duke expands until he explodes. Both may drop their respective ammo when they die.

Crosstown Carnage was conceived as a mini-episode. Instead of creating 3 or 4 maps, I built one large map where the player will seamlessly move from one map to the next. The pacing was inspired by games like Half-Life, but I wanted to keep the overall design and feel more like Duke 3D. Save often.

Multiplayer will only work in Co-op mode.

Installation

To play, unzip the map to your Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition directory, and run "crosstown_carnage.bat". Navigate the "New Game" menu, and find the new fifth episode "Crosstown Carnage". While the map itself can be loaded directly from the "User Maps" menu in Duke 3d, the additional aliens and correct music will not be present.

I had initially made this map with the song "Bullet Dam" by Lee Jackson from Duke Nukem World Tour. Due to copywrite, and file size, this has not been included. Should you want to play the map as intended, and you own a copy of DNWT, simply copy this file "E5L1_BulletDam.ogg" into your eDuke32/music directory. Then, open "CC_User.CON" and scroll down to line 458 and delete the section "pob.ogg //". Save, and the map should play with the correct music.

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[Paul B]

Nice map! Looking forward to trying it. I've added it to my site as well: https://www.dukemaps...sstown-carnage/

[stillTodd]

I'm enjoying the heck out of this map, using stock DukePlus, so no cons/neither of the new enemies. I happen to prefer the more challenging gameplay.

I've found one minor visual issue, will describe it later and not significant imho. I think it's just art related.

This is one fun romp. I love maps that are mini episodes; this one is full of cool stuff, unexpected ambushes, appropriately placed secrets, the works.

Highly recommended. Thank You!

[stillTodd]

Finished, I have a small number of notes if interested. I did have some alternate troopers that shot different projectiles later on in the map, but I'm guessing that's because the pals' actions were modded via con.

Anyone, this is a great map and challenging using DukePlus. 14 secrets (I've found 12 so far).

[vanshnookenraggen]

formerlyTodd, on 16 December 2024 - 05:56 PM, said:

Finished, I have a small number of notes if interested. I did have some alternate troopers that shot different projectiles later on in the map, but I'm guessing that's because the pals' actions were modded via con.

Anyone, this is a great map and challenging using DukePlus. 14 secrets (I've found 12 so far).

Thank you so much! Love to hear your notes. I did a lot of testing, but at some point you need a second pair of eyes.

[stillTodd]

vanshnookenraggen, on 16 December 2024 - 06:17 PM, said:

Thank you so much! Love to hear your notes. I did a lot of testing, but at some point you need a second pair of eyes.

Glad to. I'm going to revisit a couple of things, so it will be a couple of days while I deal with IRL crap. I did find all secrets but I had to use dnshowmap to figure out a couple.

One quick question: is there a jetpack in there anywhere? I didn't find one on my playthrough, but I thought that at least one secret was not jump-able (I'm good at solving jump puzzles).

Really really solid map. I enjoyed the style a lot.

[vanshnookenraggen]

formerlyTodd, on 16 December 2024 - 09:54 PM, said:

Glad to. I'm going to revisit a couple of things, so it will be a couple of days while I deal with IRL crap. I did find all secrets but I had to use dnshowmap to figure out a couple.

One quick question: is there a jetpack in there anywhere? I didn't find one on my playthrough, but I thought that at least one secret was not jump-able (I'm good at solving jump puzzles).

Really really solid map. I enjoyed the style a lot.

I intentionally left out the jetpack. I designed everything so that it wasn't needed (and having one may break the map in some spots). If it's the secret I'm thinking of, it's jumpable.

I also designed things so there are often multiple ways to navigate through the map (more so for speed runs). Though, admittedly, you don't get 100% that way.

[stillTodd]

vanshnookenraggen, on 17 December 2024 - 01:26 AM, said:

I intentionally left out the jetpack. I designed everything so that it wasn't needed (and having one may break the map in some spots). If it's the secret I'm thinking of, it's jumpable.

I also designed things so there are often multiple ways to navigate through the map (more so for speed runs). Though, admittedly, you don't get 100% that way.

That explains a couple of observations I think so far there are just a couple of graphics glitches, one actually helpful to find a secret (or maybe planned, but I'm thinking this is an eduke32 version thing that has to do with sprite placement), and one HOM.

What I'll do is try a couple of different versions of eduke32, compare to the one included in DukePlus, and see if there's commonality or not.

This plays like you had a small team of beta testers. Lots of kudos.

Very minor criticism is the way the map closes off at a couple of junctures; the player can't go back to pick up all of the secrets as a result. However those places cause some "oh crap" moments that are really fun.

[vanshnookenraggen]

formerlyTodd, on 17 December 2024 - 05:12 AM, said:

That explains a couple of observations I think so far there are just a couple of graphics glitches, one actually helpful to find a secret (or maybe planned, but I'm thinking this is an eduke32 version thing that has to do with sprite placement), and one HOM.

What I'll do is try a couple of different versions of eduke32, compare to the one included in DukePlus, and see if there's commonality or not.

I only tried this out in eDuke, so it might be a DukePlus thing? I've never used DukePlus. There were some issues in Polymer which caused me to make some design changes to the map (which I think run fine in Polymost)

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Very minor criticism is the way the map closes off at a couple of junctures; the player can't go back to pick up all of the secrets as a result. However those places cause some "oh crap" moments that are really fun.

This was very much intentional. Though, I made sure to allow you to get 100% in one playthrough if you know how.

[stillTodd]

vanshnookenraggen, on 17 December 2024 - 10:44 AM, said:

I only tried this out in eDuke, so it might be a DukePlus thing? I've never used DukePlus. There were some issues in Polymer which caused me to make some design changes to the map (which I think run fine in Polymost)

I'll narrow that down by running the same version of eduke32 that DukePlus uses but without DP. I run Polymost btw.

[stillTodd]

I just tested the eduke32 that comes with DukePlus.

There's a flickering switch sprite that appears when farther away & disappears when closer, when using the OpenGL renderer. This is for the first secret. That switch doesn't show up in the software renderer. I guessing this might be a known bug with the renderer. DP or non-DP, doesn't matter.

There's a HOM effect that may well be a tile problem with the duke3d.grp that I'm using. That said, this is the one that Allen published and made available on Mediafire. This is in either software or OpenGL and regardless of DP or non-DP.

Very small number of momentary, non-distracting, minor visual artifacts when using DP and the OpenGL renderer, and it might be caused by having visibility and FOV turned up a few notches.

I'll get deets to you via PM on the HOM.

[vanshnookenraggen]

I've updated the link with an update of the map. Special thanks to stillTodd for the great feedback.

Version Notes: 1.1. Made a number of small changes to remove clipping and other BUILD issues in Classic Mode. Yellow card has been moved so that players don't get stuck at the end of the map with no way to retrieve the card.

[stillTodd]

Hey gang, vanshnookenraggen is a professional mapper IRL. And I don't mean video game mapper. Check out his site.

I know it's fanboying, but you could charge for this work if that was a thing 'round here.

[vanshnookenraggen]

Well, thank you! I can honestly say that I wouldn't be a real life cartographer if I hadn't started playing with BUILD when I was... *checks notes*... middle school.

[ck3D]

MSDN review by Mikko: https://msdn.duke4.n...towncarnage.php

[stillTodd]

No disrespect at all to Mikko but I enjoyed the Battlelords Great review!